John Brinckerhoff Clements

2007-09: Strange Angel, George Pendle -- a great biography of Jack Parsons, whom I'd never heard of either.
2007-08: Five Skies, Ron Carlson -- a lovely book.
2007-08: The Road, Cormac McCarthy -- very quick, very compelling, VERY depressing.
2007-05: Freedom Evolves, Daniel Dennett -- fantastic, but then I think I agreed already.
2007-05: Assembling California, John McPhee -- I'm still trying to read enough geology to impress Anika.
2007-04: Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain -- a super fast read, very entertaining and pretty superficial.
2006-07: Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir, Lauren Slater
2006-06: Gardening with a Wild Heart: Restoring California's Native Landscapes at Home , Judith Larner Lowry
2006-06: Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Backyards, Sara Stein
2005-10: Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From The Beaten Track: The Letters Of Richard P. Feynman, edited by Michelle Feynman
2005-09: Introduction to Water in California, David Carle -- fascinating!
2005-09: Bicycle: the History, David Herlihy
2005-07: The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis
2005-06: Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth -- transporting, but not in the normal sense
2005-06: Freakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner -- very entertaining but short and superficial
2005-06: The Big House, George Howe Colt
2005-05: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
2005-04: Empire Falls, Richard Russo
2005-03: Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
2005-01: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Gregory Maguire -- very moving
2005-01: Traveling Mercies, Annie Lamott -- inspirational
2005-01: A Beautiful Mind, Sylvia Nasar
2004-12: Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson (read approx. 19 times this week)
2004-11: Consciousness Explained, Daniel Dennett
2004-09: No Way to Treat a First Lady, Christopher Buckley
2004-08: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
2004-08: The Life of Pi, Yann Martel
2004-06: The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices, Michael Brower & Warren Leon
2004-05: <i>The Metaphysical Club</i>, Louis Menand
2004-04: <i>Straight Man</i>, Richard Russo