The Pod Bay Door - Books I've Read

Books I've Read Since the Mid 1990's

Bernstein, Richard. Out Of The Blue: The Story of September 11, 2001, From Jihad to Ground Zero. New York: Times Books, ©2002
Bryson, Bill. A Short History of Nearly Everything. New York: Broadway Books, 2003.
Bullard, Galen. Kubrick's Prophecy: A Guide to the Insights of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Starling Wavefront, 2003.
Clarke, Stephen. A Year in the Merde. New York: Bloomsbury, 2005.
Eggers, Dave. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. New York: Vintage Books, 2001
Einarson, John, and Randy Bachman. Randy Bachman: Takin' Care of Business. Toronto: McArthur & Company, 2000.
Elgin, Duane. Voluntary Simplicity. Rev ed. New York: Quill, 1993.
Franken, Al.
- Why Not Me. New York: Delacorte Press, 1999.
- Rush Limbaugh is a Big Far Idiot and Other Observations. New York: Delacorte Press, 1996.
- Oh, The Things I Know!. New York : Dutton, ©2002.
- Lies, and The Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair And Balanced Look At The Right. New York: Dutton, 2003.
- The Truth (With Jokes). New York: Dutton, 2005.
Fukuyama, Francis. Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
Gibson, William. Pattern Recognition. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, ©2003
Gleick, James. What Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Information Frontier. New York: Vintage Books, ©2002.
Hornby, Nick. High Fidelity. New York: Riverhead Books, 1995.
Kamp, David, and Steven Daly. The Rock Snob's Dictionary : An Essential Lexicon of Rockological Knowledge. New York: Broadway Books, 2005.
Lisac, Mark.
- The Klein Revolution. Edmonton, NeWest Press, 1995.
- Alberta Politics Uncovered. Edmonton: NeWest Press, 2004.
Maher, Bill.
- When You Ride Alone, You Ride With bin Laden. Beverly Hills : New Millennium Press, 2002.
- New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer. New York: Rodale, 2005.
Margolis, Jonathan. A Brief History of Tomorrow: The Future, Past, and Present. London: Bloomsbury, 2000
Miller, Dennis. I Rant, Therefore I Am. New York: Doubleday, 2000.
- Ranting Again. New York: Doubleday, 1998.
- The Rants. New York: Doubleday, 1996.
- The Rant Zone: an all-out blitz against soul-sucking jobs, twisted child stars, holistic loons, and people who eat their dogs. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.
Miller, James. Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999.
Moore, Michael.
- Downsize This. New York: Crown Publishers, 1996.
- Dude, Where's My Country? New York: Warner Books, ©2003.
- Stupid white men-- and other sorry excuses for the state of the nation! New York : ReganBooks, ©2001
Nhât Hanh, Thìch. Peace is Every Step. New York: Bantam Books, 1991.
Nimoy, Leonard. I Am Spock. New York: Hyperion, ©1995.
Norris, Kathleen.
- Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998.
- Dakota: A Spiritual Geography. New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1993.
Penny, Laura. Your Call Is Important To Us: The Truth About Bullshit. Toronto: McClelland and Stuart, 2005.
Postman, Neil. Amusing Ourselves to Death. New York: Penguin Books, 1986.
Prager, Dennis. Think a Second Time. New York: ReganBooks, ©1995, 1996.
- Happiness is a Serious Problem. New York: ReganBooks, ©1998.
Queenan, Joe.
- My Goodness: A Cynic's Short-lived Search for Sainthood. New York: Hyperion, 2000.
- Balsamic Dreams: A Short But Self-Important History of the Baby Boomer Generation. New York : Henry Holt & Co., 2001.
- Confessions of a cineplex heckler : celluloid tirades and escapades. New York : Hyperion, ©2000
- Queenan Country: a reluctant Anglophile's pilgrimage to the mother country. New York: Henry Holt, 2004.
- Red Lobster, White Trash and the Blue Lagoon: Joe Queenan's America. New York: Hyperion, 1998.
Rushin, Steve. Road Swing. New York: Doubleday, 1998.
Shales, Tom and James Andrew Miller. Live from New York: An Oral History of Saturday Night Live. Boston: Little Brown, 2002.
Sterling, Bruce. Tomorrow Now - Envisioning The Next Fifty Years. New York: Random House, 2002.
Stewart, Jon. Naked Pictures of Famous People. New York: Ron Weisbach Books, 1998.
Taft, Kevin. Shreliing the Public Interest: Ralph Klein and 25 Years of One-Party Government. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press and Parkland Institute, 1997.
Truss, Lynn. Talk to the Hand. New York: Gotham, 2005.
Vaidhyanathan, Siva. The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System. New York: Basic Books, 2004.
Vinge, Verner. A Deepness in the Sky. New York: Tor, 1999.

Wasserstein, Wendy. Sloth - The Seven Deadly Sins. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Wilson, Edward O. Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1998
Zaleski, Joseph, ed. The Best Spiritual Writing 1999. San Francisco: Harper, 1999.

Last updated on April 14, 2006