Nelson Minar Book Reviews

★★★★☆ Sins of our Fathers (The Expanse #9.5)

★★★☆☆ The Wok

★★★★☆ Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

★★★☆☆ Deepsix

★★★★☆ Piranesi

★★★★★ 1619 Project

★★☆☆☆ Lord of Light

★★★★☆ The Farewell Symphony (The Edmund Trilogy #3)

★★★★★ The Beautiful Room Is Empty (The Edmund Trilogy #2)

★★☆☆☆ Fine Structure

★★☆☆☆ The Clockwork Rocket (Orthogonal)

★★★☆☆ We are Bellingcat

★★★★☆ Diaspora

★★★★☆ A Scarlet Pansy

★★☆☆☆ Four Lost Cities A Secret History of the Urban Age

★★★★★ Swasarnt Nerf's Gay Guides for 1949

★★★☆☆ Leviathan Falls (The Expanse #9)

★★★★☆ The Galaxy and the Ground Within (Wayfarers #4)

★★★★☆ A Psalm for the Wild Built (Monk & Robot #1)

★★★☆☆ The Last Emperox (The Interdependency #3)

★★★☆☆ Sex and the Founding Fathers: The American Quest for a Relatable Past

★★★☆☆ The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

★★★☆☆ The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency #1)

★★★☆☆ Empire in Black and Gold (Shadows of the Apt #1)

★★★★☆ Rewiring America

★★★☆☆ I'll Never Be French

★★☆☆☆ Dune Messiah

★★★★☆ Who Fears Death

★★★★☆ Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future

★★★★★ A Deadly Education (Scholomance #1)

★★★★☆ The Engines of God (The Academy #1)

★★★☆☆ Brown Girl in the Ring

★★★☆☆ The Unspoken Name (The Serpent Gates #1)

★★★☆☆ The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency #2)

★★★★★ There Is No Antimemetics Division

★★★☆☆ Lion's Blood (Insh'Allah #1)

★★★★★ Chartres Cathedral

★★★☆☆ Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora

★★★★☆ The Complete Cook's Country TV Show Cookbook

★★★★☆ Shards of Earth (The Final Architects, #1)

☆☆☆☆☆ Shards of Earth (The Final Architects Trilogy, #1)

★★★★★ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

★☆☆☆☆ Space Opera (Space Opera, #1)

★★☆☆☆ They'd Rather Be Right

★★☆☆☆ Stranger in a Strange Land

★★★☆☆ The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

★★★☆☆ When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846

★★☆☆☆ Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

★★★★☆ While Justice Sleeps

★★★☆☆ Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

★★★★★ Project Hail Mary

★☆☆☆☆ The Absolute Book

★★★★☆ Tehanu (Earthsea Cycle, #4)

★★★★☆ The Farthest Shore (Earthsea Cycle, #3)

★★★★☆ The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

★★☆☆☆ Agent Running in the Field

★★☆☆☆ The Constant Gardener

★★★★☆ Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy #1)

★★★☆☆ Memoirs of a Spacewoman

★★☆☆☆ Diary of an AssCan (The Martian, #0.5)

★★★★★ Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A.

★★★★★ Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe

★★★☆☆ Artemis

★★★☆☆ The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party

★★★★☆ Akata Warrior (Akata Witch, #2)

★★★★☆ This Is How You Lose the Time War

★★★☆☆ The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States: A Speculative Novel

★★★★☆ A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

★★★★☆ Akata Witch (Akata Witch, #1)

★★★★★ Kindred

★★☆☆☆ Sword and Pen (The Great Library, #5)

★★★★☆ The Swimming-Pool Library

★★★☆☆ Wanderers

★★★☆☆ Moloka'i

★★★★☆ Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire

★★★★☆ W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America

★★☆☆☆ Gods of Jade and Shadow

★★★★☆ Masters Of Deceit: The Story Of Communism In America And How To Fight It

★★☆☆☆ Europe: A History

★★★☆☆ The Ancient Celts

★★★☆☆ The Perfect Heresy: The Revolutionary Life and Spectacular Death of the Medieval Cathars

★★★★★ Auberon (The Expanse, #8.5)

★★★★☆ Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past

★★★☆☆ Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

☆☆☆☆☆ Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)

★★★★☆ Station Eleven

★★★★☆ Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

★★★☆☆ Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)

★★★★☆ The Rise of Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #4)

★★★☆☆ Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

★★★★★ The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos #2)

☆☆☆☆☆ The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion

★★★★☆ Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

★★★★☆ The Winter of the Witch (Winternight Trilogy, #3)

★★★☆☆ Serpent in Paradise

★★★★☆ The Witness for the Dead (The Goblin Emperor, #2)

★★★☆☆ Exhalation

★★★★☆ Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard

★★★★☆ Seeing Voices

★★★★☆ Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)

★★★☆☆ The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World

★★☆☆☆ The Mad Man

★★★☆☆ Ancient Teotihuacan: Early Urbanism in Central Mexico

★★★★★ The Wake (The Sandman, #10)

★★★☆☆ Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

★★☆☆☆ Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)

★★☆☆☆ Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

★★★☆☆ Days Without End

★★★☆☆ How Long 'til Black Future Month?

★★★☆☆ Starfish (Rifters #1)

★★★★☆ The Goblin Emperor (The Goblin Emperor, #1)

★★★☆☆ Stormcrow (The Great Library, #0.5)

★★★☆☆ Tigers in the Cage (The Great Library, #0.1)

★★★☆☆ News of the World

★★★★☆ Smoke and Iron (The Great Library, #4)

★★★☆☆ Ash and Quill (The Great Library #3)

★★★☆☆ Paper and Fire (The Great Library, #2)

★☆☆☆☆ Three Parts Dead (Craft Sequence, #1)

★★★★☆ Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1)

★★★☆☆ The Night Masquerade (Binti, #3)

★★☆☆☆ Home (Binti, #2)

★★★☆☆ Binti (Binti, #1)

★★☆☆☆ Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)

★★★★☆ The Girl in the Tower (Winternight Trilogy, #2)

★★★☆☆ All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

★★★☆☆ All These Worlds (Bobiverse, #3)

★★★★☆ A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)

★★★☆☆ For We Are Many (Bobiverse, #2)

★★★★☆ We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)

★☆☆☆☆ S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome

★★☆☆☆ Austral

★★★☆☆ The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)

★★★★★ Wang's Carpets

★★★★☆ The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction

★★★☆☆ Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6)

★★★★☆ Strange Dogs (The Expanse, #6.5)

☆☆☆☆☆ The Vital Abyss (The Expanse, #5.5)

☆☆☆☆☆ The Grid

★☆☆☆☆ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

★★★★★ Children of Time (Children of Time #1)

☆☆☆☆☆ Babylon's Ashes (Expanse, #6)

★★★☆☆ Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)

★★★★☆ Nemesis Games (The Expanse, #5)

★★★★☆ Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)

★★★★☆ Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

☆☆☆☆☆ Cibola Burn (Expanse, #4)

★★★☆☆ Life in a Medieval Village

★★★☆☆ The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)

★☆☆☆☆ Ash: A Secret History (Book of Ash, #1-4)

★★★★☆ The Butcher of Anderson Station (The Expanse, #1.5)

★★★★☆ The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)

★★★☆☆ Norse Mythology

★★☆☆☆ The Churn (The Expanse, #3.5)

★★★☆☆ The Floor of Heaven: A True Tale of the Last Frontier & the Yukon Gold Rush

★★★☆☆ The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice

☆☆☆☆☆ A Complete Guide to Heraldry

☆☆☆☆☆ The Floor of Heaven

★★★☆☆ Abaddon's Gate (The Expanse, #3)

★★★★★ Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy

☆☆☆☆☆ Abaddon's Gate (Expanse, #3)

★★★☆☆ Gods of Risk (The Expanse, #2.5)

★★★☆☆ Drive (The Expanse, #2.6)

★★★☆☆ A Brief History of Time

★★★★☆ Caliban's War (Expanse, #2)

★★☆☆☆ Lovecraft Country

★★☆☆☆ Shards of Honor (Vorkosigan Saga #1)

★★☆☆☆ 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed

★★☆☆☆ Great North Road

★★★★★ The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)

★★☆☆☆ Stories of Your Life and Others

★★☆☆☆ 44 Scotland Street (44 Scotland Street, #1)

★★★★☆ The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)

★★★★☆ The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)

★★☆☆☆ The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)

☆☆☆☆☆ Daemon (Daemon, #1)

★★★★☆ Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)

★★★☆☆ The Spider's War (The Dagger and the Coin, #5)

★★☆☆☆ The Widow's House (The Dagger and the Coin, #4)

★★★★☆ The Tyrant's Law (The Dagger and the Coin, #3)

★★☆☆☆ The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)

★★★★☆ The King's Blood (The Dagger and the Coin, #2)

★★★☆☆ Promethea (Promethea, #3)

★★☆☆☆ The House of Pride and Other Tales of Hawaii

★★☆☆☆ Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii

★★★★☆ The Dragon's Path (The Dagger and the Coin, #1)

★★☆☆☆ China: A History

★★☆☆☆ Forbidden Fruit: Luscious and Exciting story and More Forbidden Fruit

★★★★★ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

★★★☆☆ His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)

★★☆☆☆ The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)

★★★☆☆ Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69

★☆☆☆☆ Cryptonomicon

★★★★☆ Fahrenheit 451

★★★☆☆ Flowers for Algernon

★★★★☆ Frankenstein

★★★★☆ Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

★★★★★ Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

★★★☆☆ Slaughterhouse-Five

★★☆☆☆ The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, #1-3)

★★★★☆ The Elric Saga Part I (Elric Saga, #1-3)

★★☆☆☆ The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)

★★★★☆ The Handmaid's Tale

★★★☆☆ The Left Hand of Darkness (Hainish Cycle, #4)

★★★★☆ The Martian Chronicles

★★☆☆☆ The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

★★☆☆☆ The Silmarillion

★★★☆☆ The Sword of Shannara Trilogy (Shannara, #1-3)

★★★★☆ The War of the Worlds

★★★★☆ The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past #1)

★★★★☆ Nine Lives

★★☆☆☆ Avogadro Corp (Singularity #1)

★★★☆☆ The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)

★★☆☆☆ Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War

★★★★☆ The Martian

★★★☆☆ Aurora

★★★★☆ Bitter Seeds (The Milkweed Triptych, #1)

★★★☆☆ Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles

★★☆☆☆ Laud Humphreys: Prophet of Homosexuality and Sociology

★★★★☆ Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places

★★☆☆☆ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)

★★☆☆☆ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)

★★☆☆☆ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)

★★★☆☆ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)

★★☆☆☆ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)

★★★☆☆ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)

★★★☆☆ City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi

★★★☆☆ In Bed with Gore Vidal

★★☆☆☆ Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

★★★★☆ The Crucible of Time

★☆☆☆☆ India: A History

★★★☆☆ Axiomatic

★★★☆☆ Permutation City (Subjective Cosmology #2)

★★★☆☆ South Sea Tales

★★★☆☆ The Book of Drugs: A Memoir

★★★★☆ Smiley's People (George Smiley #7; Karla Trilogy #3)

★★☆☆☆ Judas Unchained (Commonwealth Saga, #2)

★★★☆☆ Childhood's End

★★★☆☆ City

★★☆☆☆ The Stars My Destination

★★☆☆☆ Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

★☆☆☆☆ A Stranger in Olondria

★★★★☆ I Am Pilgrim

★★★☆☆ Imago (Xenogenesis, #3)

★★★☆☆ Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)

★★★★☆ Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)

★★★☆☆ Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1)

★★★★☆ The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

★★☆☆☆ The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andrée and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration

★★☆☆☆ Throne of the Crescent Moon (The Crescent Moon Kingdoms, #1)

★☆☆☆☆ A Corpse in the Koryo (Inspector O, #1)

★★★★☆ Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal

★★☆☆☆ The Werewolf of Paris

★☆☆☆☆ Wolf Hall

★★★★☆ Tricks

★★☆☆☆ American Bar: The Artistry of Mixing Drinks

★★★☆☆ Digital Money: The New Era of Internet Commerce

★★☆☆☆ Fiasco

★★☆☆☆ Frisk

★★★☆☆ Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

★★★☆☆ Hugh Johnson's Modern Encyclopedia of Wine

★★★☆☆ Islands in the Net

★★☆☆☆ Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex

★★☆☆☆ Remaking History and Other Stories

★★☆☆☆ Strange Pilgrims

★★☆☆☆ Sundiver (The Uplift Saga, #1)

★★☆☆☆ Tales of Nevèrÿon (Return to Nevèrÿon, #1)

★★☆☆☆ The Design of Everyday Things

★★☆☆☆ The Drowned World

★★★☆☆ The Oxford Companion to Wine

★★★☆☆ The Songlines

★★★☆☆ The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

★★☆☆☆ The Wild Shore (Three Californias Triptych, #1)

★★☆☆☆ Vacuum Flowers

★★★☆☆ The Emperor's Soul

★★★★☆ Orfeo

★★★☆☆ Shaman

★★☆☆☆ Incandescence

★★★★☆ Oceanic

★★★☆☆ The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

★★★★☆ A House in Bali

★★★☆☆ In Cold Blood

★★★★☆ Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)

★★★☆☆ Atlas of Men: A guide for somatotyping the adult male at all ages

★★★★★ East of Eden

★☆☆☆☆ Chrome

★★★★☆ Dust (Silo, #3)

★★★☆☆ Data Points: Visualization That Means Something

★★☆☆☆ Excession (Culture, #5)

★★★☆☆ Shift (Shift, #1-3; Silo, #2)

★★☆☆☆ The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn, #1)

★★★☆☆ Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

★★★★☆ High-Rise

★★★☆☆ The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

★★★☆☆ Vaka Moana, Voyages of the Ancestors: The Discovery and Settlement of the Pacific

★★★★☆ Death in Venice

★★★★☆ Giovanni's Room

★★★☆☆ Hollywood Babylon (Hollywood Babylon, #1)

★★★☆☆ The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies

★★★★☆ The Road

★★★★☆ Ghostman (Jack White, #1)

★★★★★ Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1)

★★☆☆☆ American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

★★★☆☆ The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters

★★★★☆ Hawaii

★★★★☆ Hawaii the Big Island Revealed: The Ultimate Guidebook

★★☆☆☆ Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1)

★★★☆☆ Codex Seraphinianus. Ein Orbis Pictus des Universums der Phantasie.

★★☆☆☆ Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas

★★☆☆☆ Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

★★★★☆ Butt Book

★★★☆☆ Clotilde's Edible Adventures in Paris

★★★★☆ Cocktail: The Drinks Bible for the 21st Century

★★☆☆☆ Daemon

★★★☆☆ Dough: Simple Contemporary Breads

★★★★☆ Eleven Madison Park: The Cookbook

★★★☆☆ Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza

★★☆☆☆ Getting Started with D3

★★★☆☆ Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress: Learn to Play the Most Complex Video Game Ever Made

★★★★☆ Habibi

★★★☆☆ How to Lie with Maps

★★★☆☆ I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59

★★★☆☆ Imbibe!: From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to "Professor" Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar

★★★☆☆ Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas

★★★★☆ Nightwatch: A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe

★★★★☆ Observer's Handbook 2013

★★★☆☆ Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System

★★★☆☆ Surfing the Internet

★★★☆☆ The Backyard Astronomer's Guide

★★★☆☆ The Best of Sexology: Kinky and Kooky Excerpts from America's First Sex Magazine

★★★★☆ The Homesick Texan Cookbook

★★☆☆☆ The Onion Presents a Book of Jean's Own!: All New Wit, Wisdom, and Wackiness from the Onion's Beloved Humor Columnist

★★☆☆☆ The Yiddish Policemen's Union

★★★☆☆ Turn Left at Orion: Hundreds of Night Sky Objects to See in a Home Telescope - And How to Find Them

★★☆☆☆ Vurt

★★★★★ 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

★★★★☆ 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

★★★★★ 1984

★★★★☆ 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

★★★★☆ A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)

★★★☆☆ A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)

★★★☆☆ A Clockwork Orange

★★★☆☆ A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)

★★★☆☆ A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

★★★☆☆ A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)

★★★★★ A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

★★★★☆ A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)

★★☆☆☆ A Maze of Death

★★★★☆ A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

★★★★☆ A Scanner Darkly

★★★☆☆ A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)

★★★★☆ A Streetcar Named Desire

★★★★★ Against My Better Judgment: An Intimate Memoir of an Eminent Gay Psychologist

★★☆☆☆ America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction

★★☆☆☆ American Gods (American Gods, #1)

★★★★☆ Animal Farm

★★★★★ Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C

★★★☆☆ Autopornography: A Memoir of Life in the Lust Lane

★★★★☆ Blankets

★★★★☆ Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)

★★★★☆ Brave New World

★★★★☆ Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

★★★☆☆ Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi

★★★☆☆ Catch-22

★★★☆☆ Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)

★★★★☆ Chaos: Making a New Science

★★★☆☆ Cloud Atlas

★★★☆☆ Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

★★★★★ Crash

★★★★★ Dhalgren

★★★★☆ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

★★★★☆ Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1)

★★☆☆☆ Eden

★★★★☆ Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1)

★★★★☆ Envisioning Information

★★★☆☆ Factotum

★★☆☆☆ Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who are Bringing Down the Internet

★★★☆☆ Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

★★★☆☆ Firestarter

★★★★☆ Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas

★★★☆☆ Foundation (Foundation, #1)

★★★★☆ Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940

★★★★☆ Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease

★★★★☆ Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)

★★★★★ Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

★★★★★ Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

★★★☆☆ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)

★★★★★ His Master's Voice

★★☆☆☆ Hominids (Neanderthal Parallax, #1)

★★★★★ How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

★★★☆☆ Howl and Other Poems

★★★★☆ I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

★★★★☆ Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

★★★★☆ Joseph and the Old Man

★★★☆☆ Junky

★★★☆☆ Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean

★★★☆☆ Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs

★★★☆☆ Lonely City (Transmetropolitan, #5)

★★★☆☆ Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove #1)

★★★★★ Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

★★★☆☆ Lord of the Flies

★★★☆☆ Lost Girls (Lost Girls, #1-3)

★★☆☆☆ Lucifer's Hammer

★★★☆☆ Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)

★★★☆☆ Me Talk Pretty One Day

★★★★☆ Mind Grenades: Manifestos From The Future

★★★☆☆ Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology

★★★☆☆ Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)

★★★★☆ My Secret Life: An Erotic Diary of Victorian London

★★★★☆ Naked Lunch

★★★★★ Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

★★★☆☆ No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden

★★★★☆ Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

★★★☆☆ Of Mice and Men

★★★★☆ On the Road

★★★★☆ Palimpsest

★★★☆☆ Predator: The Remote-Control Air War over Iraq and Afghanistan: A Pilot's Story

★★★★★ Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, #1)

★★★☆☆ Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea

★★☆☆☆ Rainbows End

★★☆☆☆ Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)

★★★★★ Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

★★★★☆ Snow Crash

★★★☆☆ Solaris

★★★☆☆ Starship Troopers

★★☆☆☆ Streets of Laredo (Lonesome Dove #2)

★★★★☆ Structured Computer Organization

★★★★☆ Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)

★★★☆☆ The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1)

★★★☆☆ The Catcher in the Rye

★★★★☆ The Dead Zone

★★★☆☆ The Demolished Man

★★★☆☆ The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War

★★★★★ The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle, #6)

★★★☆☆ The Ecology Of Computation

★★★★☆ The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

★★★☆☆ The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

★★★☆☆ The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)

★★★☆☆ The Grapes of Wrath

★★★☆☆ The Great Gatsby

★★★☆☆ The Gripping Hand (Moties, #2)

★★★☆☆ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)

★★★☆☆ The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

★★★☆☆ The Hollow Hills (Arthurian Saga, #2)

★★★★☆ The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)

★★★☆☆ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)

★★★☆☆ The Long Ships

★★★☆☆ The Lost Language of Cranes

★★☆☆☆ The Man in the High Castle

★★★★☆ The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)

★★★★☆ The Mote in God's Eye (Moties, #1)

★★★☆☆ The Orphan Master's Son

★★☆☆☆ The Postman

★★★★☆ The Stand

★★☆☆☆ The Steel Remains (A Land Fit for Heroes, #1)

★★★★★ The Stranger

★★★★☆ The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

★★★☆☆ The Thief's Journal

★★★☆☆ The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

★★★★☆ The Time Machine

★★★☆☆ The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch

★★★★☆ The Walking Dead Compendium One

★★★☆☆ The Wind from Nowhere

★★★★☆ The World Atlas of Wine

★★★☆☆ Time Out of Joint

★★★★☆ Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street

★★★☆☆ True Names... and Other Dangers

★★☆☆☆ V for Vendetta

★★★☆☆ VALIS

★★★★★ Watchmen

★★★★☆ Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

★★★☆☆ Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)

★★★★☆ World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

★★☆☆☆ Y: The Last Man, Vol. 8: Kimono Dragons