The point of this is simply to prevent me from buying the same books again and again,…
Books: That I have read in no particular order. I am tried of going to a bookstore and buying books from the stacks that I have already read. Unfortunately, >90% of the books I have read have been from a library, so this is a mere fraction I can remember
** Denotes top quintile.
†† Denotes bottom quintile
?? Denotes probably read
Books to Buy
Steve Alten – Resurrection
Dale Brown – Dreamland: Whiplash (2009),
Hiaasen – Nature Girl (2006)
Arthur C Clarke – The Light of Other Days (2000)
Douglas Adams
1. The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (1979)
2. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980)
3. Life, the Universe and Everything (1982)
4. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (1984)
5. Mostly Harmless (1992)
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Dante Alighieri
Inferno
Steve Alten
Domain
Goliath
Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Aristotle
The Politics
Louis Armstrong
Satchmo
Jane Austin
Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Pride and Prejudice (1813)
David Baldacci
Split Second
Absolute Power (1996)
Total Control (1996)
Karna Small Bodman
Gambit
Dale Brown
Patrick McLanahan Series
Flight of the Old Dog (1987) **
The Tin Man (1998) ??
Battle Born (1999) ??
Warrior Class (2001)
Wings of Fire (2002)
Air Battle Force (2003)
Plan of Attack (2004)
Strike Force (2007)
Shadow Command (2008)
Rogue Forces (2009)
Executive Intent (2010)
Act of War Series
Act of War
Edge of Battle (2006)
Independent Series
Silver Tower (1988)
Chains of Command (1993)
Dreamland
Dreamland (2001)
Nerve Center (2002)
Razor’s Edge (2002)
Piranha (2003)??
Strike Zone (2004)
Armageddon (2004)
Satan’s Tail (2005)
End Game (2006)
Retribution (2007)
Revolution (October 28, 2008)
Black Wolf (2010)
Raven Strike (2011)
Dan Brown
Digital Fortress, 1998
Angels & Demons, 2000
Deception Point, 2001
The Da Vinci Code, 2003
The Lost Symbol, 2009
Lewis Carroll
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Jimmy Carter
An Hour Before Daylight
Lee Child
Killing Floor (1997)
Die Trying (1998)
Tripwire (1999)
Running Blind (2000)
Echo Burning (2001)??
Without Fail (2002)??
Persuader (2003)**
The Enemy (2004)
One Shot (2005)
The Hard Way (2006)
Bad Luck and Trouble (2007)
Nothing To Lose (2008)
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
Lincoln Child
Utopia (2002) **
Death Match (2004) **
Deep Storm (2007)
Terminal Freeze (2009)
Arthur C Clarke
Childhood’s End (1953)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
2010: Odyssey Two (1982)
3001: The Final Odyssey (1997)
Tom Clancy
Red Storm Rising (1986)
Jack Ryan/John Clark Universe
Without Remorse (1993)
Patriot Games (1987)
Red Rabbit (2002)
The Hunt for Red October (1984)
The Cardinal of the Kremlin (1988)
Clear and Present Danger (1989)
The Sum of All Fears (1991)
Debt of Honor (1994)
Executive Orders (1996)
Rainbow Six (1998)
The Bear and the Dragon (2000)
The Teeth of the Tiger (2003)
Op-Center Universe
Op-Center
Mirror Image
Games of State??
Acts of War
Balance of Power
NetForce Universe
NetForce (1998)
Power Plays Series
Politika (1997)
??likely more??
Eoin Colfer
And, Another Thing, . . .
Robin Cook
Year of the Intern (1972)
Coma (1977)
Sphinx (1979)
Brain (1981)
Fever (1982)
Godplayer (1983)
Mindbend (1985)
Outbreak (1987)
Mortal Fear (1988)
Mutation (1989)
Harmful Intent (1990)
Vital Signs (1991)
Blindsight (1992)
Terminal (1993)
Fatal Cure (1994)
Acceptable Risk (1994)
Contagion (1995)
Chromosome 6 (1997)
Invasion (1997)
Toxin (1998)
Vector (1999)
Abduction (2000)
Shock (2001)
Seizure (2003)
Marker (2005)
Crisis (2006)??
Critical (2007)
Foreign Body (2008)
Richard Connell
The Most Dangerous Game
John Connelly
The Book of Lost Things
Michael Connelly
Harry Bosch series
7. A Darkness More Than Night (2001)**
8. City Of Bones (2002)
9. Lost Light (2003)
10. The Narrows (2004) **
11. The Closers (2005)
#. 9 Dragons
Other novels
The Poet (1996)
Blood Work (1998)
Void Moon (2000)
The Scarecrow (2009)???
Patricia Cornwell
Blow Fly (2003)
Trace (2004)??
Book of the Dead (2007)
James Fenimore Cooper
The Last of the Mohicans††
Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage
Michael Crichton
1969 The Andromeda Strain
1972 The Terminal Man
1975 The Great Train Robbery
1976 Eaters of the Dead
1980 Congo
1987 Sphere
1990 Jurassic Park
1992 Rising Sun
1994 Disclosure
1995 The Lost World
1996 Airframe
1999 Timeline
2002 Prey
2004 State of Fear
2006 Next
2009 Pirate Latitudes
Micro
Clive Cussler
Pacific Vortex (1983) Dirk Pitt Novel
Mediterranean Caper (1973)
Iceberg (1975)
Raise the Titanic (1976)
Vixen 03 (1978)
Night Probe (1981)
Deep Six (1984)
Cyclops (1986)
Treasure (1988)
Dragon (1990)
Sahara (1992)
Inca Gold (1994)
Shockwave (1996)
Flood Tide (1997)
Atlantis Found (1999)
Valhalla Rising (2001)
Trojan Odyssey (2003)
Black Wind (2004)
Treasure of Khan (2006)
Arctic Drift (2008)
Crescent Dawn
Poseidon’s Arrow
Sea Hunters (1996) Non-Fiction
The Sea Hunters II (2002)
Serpent (1999) NUMA Files
Blue Gold (2000)
Fire Ice (2002)
White Death (2003)
Lost City (2004)
Polar Shift (2005)
The Navigator (2007)
Medusa (2009)
The Silent Sea (2010)
Devil’s Gate (2011)
The Storm
Zero Hour (2013)
Golden Buddha (2003) Oregon Files
Sacred Stone (2004)
Dark Watch (2005)
Skeleton Coast (2006)
Plague Ship (2008)
Corsair (2009)
The Jungle
The Chase (2007) Isaac Bell Series**
Wrecker (2009)
The Spy
The Race
The Thief (2012)
The Strker (2013)
Spartan Gold (2009 )Fargo Adeventures
Lost Empire
The Kingdom
The Tombs
Jeffery Deaver
Speaking In Tongues (2000)
Garden Of Beasts (2004)
John Pellam
3. Hell’s Kitchen (2001)
Lincoln Rhyme
1. The Bone Collector (1997)
2. The Coffin Dancer (1998)
3. The Empty Chair (2000)
4. The Stone Monkey (2002)
5. The Vanished Man (2003) **
6. The Twelfth Card (2005)
7. The Cold Moon (2006)
8. The Broken Window (2008)
Kathryn Dance
2. The Sleeping Doll (2007)
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
A Christmas Carol
David Copperfield
A Tale of Two Cities
Great Expectations
Tess Gerritsen
Life Support
The Mephisto Club
Harvest
John Gilstrap
Nathan’s Run**
W.E.B. Griffin
Badge of Honor Series
Book III, The Victim (1991)??
Book IV, The Witness (1992)??
Book V, The Assassin (1993)??
Book VI, The Murderers (1994)
Book VIII, Final Justice (2003)
Honor Bound Series
Book I, Honor Bound (1993)
Book II, Blood and Honor (1996)
The Presidential Agent Series
Book II, The Hostage (2006)
Book IV, The Shooters (2008)
Book V, Black Ops (2009)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
Carl Hiaasen
Tourist Season (1986)
Double Whammy (1987)
Skin Tight (1989)
Native Tongue (1991)
Strip Tease (1993)
Stormy Weather (1995)
Lucky You (1997)
Naked Came the Manatee (1998)
Sick Puppy (2000)
Basket Case (2002)
Skinny Dip (2004)
Hobbes
Leviathan
Homer
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Stephen Hunter
The 47th Ssmirai
George Jones
I Lived to Tell It All
Jonathan Kellerman
Bones (2008)
?? Likely 4-5 others
The Web (1996)
Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)††
C. S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)
Prince Caspian (1951)
Robert Ludlum
The Scarlatti Inheritance (1971)
The Bourne Identity (1980)
The Aquitaine Progression (1984)
The Bourne Supremacy (1986)
The Icarus Agenda (1988)
The Bourne Ultimatum (1990)
The Scorpio Illusion (1993)
The Apocalypse Watch (1995)
The Matarese Countdown (1997)
The Prometheus Deception (2000)
The Sigma Protocol ??
Machiavelli
Selected Political Writings
Clinton McKinzie
The Edge of Justice
Glen Meade
Snow Wolfe
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
John Milton
Paradise Lost
Sharon Moalem
Survival Of the Sickest
Jim Norton
Happy Endings
I Hate your Guts
John Kennedy O’Toole
A Confederacy of Dunces
George Orwell
Animal Farm (1945)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
James Patterson
Alex Cross
1. Along Came a Spider (1993)
2. Kiss the Girls (1995)
3. Jack & Jill (1996)
4. Cat and Mouse (1997)
5. Pop Goes the Weasel (1999)
6. Roses are Red (2000)
7. Violets Are Blue (2001)
8. Four Blind Mice (2002)
9. The Big Bad Wolf (2003)
12. Cross (2006)
13. Double Cross (2007)
Maximum Ride
1. Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
Michael Bennett
1. Step on a Crack (2007)
Women’s Murder Club
1. 1st to Die (2001)
2. 2nd Chance (2002)
3. 3rd Degree (2004)???
5. The 5th Horseman (2006)
6. The 6th Target (2007)
Edgar Allan Poe
The complete stories
Douglas Preston
The Codex (2004)
Tyrannosaur Canyon (2005)
Blasphemy (2008) **amazing!
Impact (2010)
Douglas Preston & Lee Child
Relic (1995)**
Reliquary (1997)
The Cabinet of Curiosities (2002)
Still Life with Crows (2003)
Diogenes Trilogy
Brimstone (2004)
Dance of Death (2005)
The Book of the Dead (2006)
The Wheel of Darkness (2007)
Cemetery Dance (2009)
Fever Dream (2010)
Gideon’s Sword
Cold Vengeance
Gideon’s Corpse
Two Graves
Other novels
Mount Dragon (1996)
Riptide (1998)**
Thunderhead (1999)
The Ice Limit (2000)
Richard Preston
The Cobra Event
The Hot Zone
The Demon in the Freezer
Paul Pressler
A Hill on Which to Die††
Mary Roach
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003)
James Rollins
Subterranean (1999)
Excavation (2000)
Amazonia (2002)**
Ice Hunt (2003)??
Alter of Eden
SIGMA Force series
1. Sandstorm (2004)
2. Map of Bones (2005)
3. Black Order (2006)??
4. Judas Strain (2007)
5. The Last Oracle (2008)
6. The Doomsday Key (2009)
#. The Devil Colony
Rousseau
The Basic Political Writing
J K Rowlings
Harry Potty 1-7
John Sanford
The Prey Series
Shadow Prey
Silent Prey
Mortal Prey
Naked Prey
Hidden Prey
Broken Prey
Invisible Prey
Phantom Prey
Wicked Prey
Storm Prey
Virgil Flowers
Dark of the Moon
Bad Blood??
The Kidd Series
The Fool’s Run??
The Devil’s Code
The Hanged Man’s Song
Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Game series
Ender’s Game (1985)
Xenocide (1991)
The Shadow saga
Ender’s Shadow (1999)
William Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth
Hamlet
King Lear
Othello
Henry IV
Henry V
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
Upton Sinclair
The Jungle
Sophocles
Oedipus the King
Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island
Bram Stoker
Dracula
Jonathon Swift
Gulliver’s Travels
Robert Tanenbaum
Hoax
Fury
Henry David Thoreau
Walden
J. R. R. Tolkien
1937 The Hobbit
1954 The Fellowship of the Ring
1954 The Two Towers:
1955 The Return of the King
1977 The Silmarillion
Kilgore Trout/ Philip José Farmer
Venus on the Half-Shell
Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Booker T Washington
Up from Slavery
Stephen White
Privileged Information (1991)
The Program (2001)
Dead Time
Stephen Woodworth
With Red Hands
Richard Wright
Native sun †† – The worst book I have ever read.
Unknown Author
Beowulf