Books & Articles of Note Read in 2016
updated: 2017-06-21
- Subjects
- Computers:
- Erez Aiden & Jean Baptiste Michel 2013 _UnCharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture_ (275 pages; 302.231)
- Albert Laszlo Barabasi & Jennifer Frangos 2002, 2003, 2014 _Linked: How EveryThing Is Connected to EveryThing Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and EveryDay Life_ (300 pages; 1.5MB; 004.6)
- Katie Hafner & Mathew Lyon 1996, 1998 _Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet_ (300 pages; 004.67)
- other computer books
- Economics
- Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson 2012 _Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty_ (530 pages; 11.5MB; 330)
- Charles V. Bagli 2013 _Other People's Money: Inside the Housing Crisis and the Demise of the Greatest Real Estate Deal Ever Made_ (333.7715097471)
- Neil M. Barofsky 2012, 2013 _BailOut: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street_ (338.97302)
- Thomas Sowell 1981 _Ethnic America: An History_ (973.04)
- Thomas Sowell 2015 _Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective_ (336 pages; 1.7MB; 302.13)
- see separate page of econ books jgo has read
- Science:
- Nicholas J. Wade 2014 _A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History_ (281 pages; 2.041MB; 599.938)
- see separate pages
- History:
- Thomas S. Asbridge 2010 _The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land_ (800 pages; 17.922MB; 909.07)
- Geoffrey Ashe 1985 _The Discovery of King Arthur_ (Geoffrey of Monmouth's _Historia Regum Britanniae_; 213 pages; biography)
- Paul Michael Baepler 1999 _White Slaves, African Masters: An Anthology of American Barbary Captivity Narratives_ (324 pages; 305.567)
- Brian A. Catlos 2014 _Infidel Kings and UnHoly Warriors: Faith, Power, and Violence in the Age of Crusade and Jihad_ (400 pages; 3.4MB; 909.07)
- Charles S. Faddis 2010 _Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA_ (183 pages; 327.1273)
- Israel Finkelstein & Neil Asher Silberman 2006 _David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition_ (352 pages; 222.067)
- Frances Gies & Joseph Gies 1994, 2010 _Cathedral, Forge, and WaterWheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages_ (370 pages; 3.3MB; 609.309)
- Josephine Kamm 1967, 1968 _The Hebrew People: An History of the Jews_ (215 pages; 296)
- Simon Read 2015 _Winston Churchil Reporting: Adventures of a Young War Correspondent_ (329 pages; 10.7MB; 070.4333)
- Robert Spencer 2007 _Religion of Peace?: Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn't_ (210 pages; 261.27)
- Philip F. Riley, Frank A. Gerome, Robert L. Lembright, Henry A. Myers & Chong-Kun Yoon 1987, 1998 _The Global Experience: volume 1 Readings in World History to 1500_ (359 pages)
- see separate pages
- Career
- Marcus Buckingham & Donald O. Clifton 2001 _Now, Discover Your Strengths_ (255 pages; 658.409)
- see career books
- Screen-plays
- none yet
- see movie-making books
- Religion
- Dan Marshall 2013 _The New Jefferson Bible_ (137 pages)
- see earlier pages
- Fiction
- Cecelia Ahern 2009 _Thanks for the Memories_ (371 pages; large)
- Margaret Jean Anderson 1984 _The Mists of Time_ (#3; 179 pages)
- Ace Atkins 2012 _Robert B. Parker's Lullaby_ (Spenser #40)
- Stephen Baxter 2000 _Manifold: Time_ (Manifold #1; 440 pages)
- Stephen Baxter 2001 _Manifold: Space_ (Manifold #2; 452 pages)
- Raymond Benson 2011 _The Black Stiletto: The 1st Diary 1958_ (266 pages)
- Raymond Benson 2012 _The Black Stiletto: Black & White, The 2nd Diary 1959_ (312 pages)
- Raymond Benson 2013 _The Black Stiletto: Stars & Stripes, The 3rd Diary 1960_ (282 pages)
- Geraldine Brooks 2008 _People of the Book_ (475 pages)
- Don Brown 2005 _Treason_ (NavyJustice #1; 325 pages)
- Alison Bruce 2011 _The Calling_ (DCGoodHew #3; 346 pages)
- Jonathan Cahn 2012 _The Harbinger: The Ancient Mystery that Holds the Secret of America's Future_ (262 pages)
- David Callahan 1997 _State of the Union_ (370 pages)
- Leslie Charteris 1964 _Vendetta for the Saint_ (208 pages)
- Wesley Chu 2015 _Time Salvager_ (380 pages)
- Tom Clancy 2002 _Red Rabbit_ (JackRyan #2?; 610 pages)
- Tom Clancy 1988 _Cardinal of the Kremlin_ (JackRyan #3)
- Tom Clancy 1993 _Without Remorse_ (JohnClark #1/JackRyan #6; 990 pages)
- Tom Clancy 2002 _Executive Orders_ (JackRyan #8; 874 pages)
- Michael David Coogan & Mark S. Smith 1978, 2012 _Stories from Ancient Canaan_ (120 pages; 892.6)
- James Fennimore Cooper 1821 _The Spy_ (333 pages; hard)
- Dick Couch & George Galdorisi 2012 _Tom Clancy Presents Act of Valor_ (320 pages; 660KB)
- Michael Crichton 2004 _State of Fear_ (624 pages; 3.018MB)
- Michael Crichton 2006 _Next_ (425 pages)
- Neil Cross 2012 _Luther: The Calling_ (326 pages)
- Cory Doctorow 2003 _Down & Out in the Magic Kingdom_ (206 pages)
- Cory Doctorow 2009 _Makers_ (413 pages)
- Ben Elton 2014 _Time and Time Again_ (386 pages)
- Eric Flint & David Weber 2008 _1634: The Baltic War_ (1055 pages; paper-back)
- Newt Gingrich, Joe Desantis & Pete Earley 2015 _Duplicity_ (445 pages; 2.1MB)
- Tom Clancy & Mark Greaney 2014 _Support and Defend_ (Campus #1?/JackRyanii #6?/Dominic Caruso)
- Russell Hoban 1980 _Riddley Walker_ (220 pages)
- Stephen C. Hunter 1982 _The Second Saladin_ (377 pages)
- Stephen C. Hunter 2008 _Night of Thunder_ (470 pages)
- Patricia Kennealy-Morrison 1984 _The Copper Crown_ (329 pages; Keltiad #2)
- Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle & Michael Flynn 1991 _Fallen Angels_ (451 pages)
- Jason Matthews 2013 _Red Sparrow_ (773 pages; large)
- Robert B. Parker 1998, 1999 _Trouble in Paradise_ (Stone/Paradise #2; 304 pages)
- Brad Thor 2006_TakeDown_ (Scot Harvath #5; 450 pages)
- Brad Thor 2007 _The First Commandment_ (Scot Harvath #6; 452 pages)
- Harry Turtledove, Elizabeth Moon, Brad Linaweaver, S.M. Stirling, Lois Tilton, Jody Lynn Nye, et al. 1998 _Alternate Generals_ (314 pages)
- Patricia C. Wrede 1983 _Daughter of Witches_ (215 pages)
- Other
- Richard Arum & Josipa Roksa 2011 _Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses_ (378.198)
- David Bacon 2004 _The Children of NAFTA: Labor Wars on the USA/Mexico Border_ (348 pages; 331.1)
- Robert B. Baer & Dayna Baer 2011, 2014 _The Company We Keep: A Husband-and-Wife True-Life Spy Story_ (305 pages; 327.1273)
- John R. Bolton 2007 _Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending USA at the UN_ (486 pages; 341.2373)
- David E. Brown 2002 _Inventing Modern America: From the MicroWave to the Mouse_ (609.73)
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