Virtual Bookshelf…

Glancing at someone’s bookshelf can give you insight into the person. Not too sure what this selection says about me, but here is a virtual bookshelf of some books I’ve enjoyed and would recommend for one reason or another.

Note: This is woefully out of date!

Most Recently Added




Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking @amazon.ca



Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think @amazon.ca
by Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling
Non-fiction



Einstein: His Life and Universe @amazon.ca
by Walter Isaacson
Non-fiction



Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There @amazon.ca



Death's End @amazon.ca
by Cixin Liu, Ken Liu (Translator)
Fiction



The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge @amazon.ca

The Virtual Bookshelf




99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style @amazon.ca



Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment @amazon.ca
by W. Richard Stevens & Stephen A. Rago
Reference



The Adventurist: My Life in Dangerous Places @amazon.ca
by Robert Young Pelton
Non-fiction



The Afghan Campaign: A Novel @amazon.ca
by Steven Pressfield
Fiction



Alas, Babylon @amazon.ca
by Pat Frank
Fiction



American Gods: A Novel @amazon.ca
by Neil Gaiman
Fiction



Anansi Boys @amazon.ca
by Neil Gaiman
Fiction



And No Birds Sang @amazon.ca
by Farley Mowat
Non-fiction



Angelmaker @amazon.ca
by Nick Harkaway
Fiction



Around the World in 57 1/2 Gigs @amazon.ca
by Dave Bidini
Non-fiction



An Artist of the Floating World @amazon.ca
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Fiction



The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World @amazon.ca



An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything @amazon.ca



At Home: A Short History of Private Life @amazon.ca



The Authenticity Hoax: Why the



Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish @amazon.ca
by Morgan Llywelyn
Fiction



Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny @amazon.ca



Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West @amazon.ca



Bloodchild and Other Stories @amazon.ca
by Octavia E. Butler
Fiction



The Blue Fox: A Novel @amazon.ca
by Sjón, Victoria Cribb (Translator)
Fiction



Blueprints of the Afterlife @amazon.ca
by Ryan Boudinot
Fiction



Brave New World @amazon.ca
by Aldous Huxley
Fiction



Breakfast of Champions: A Novel @amazon.ca
by Kurt Vonnegut
Fiction



The Buried Giant @amazon.ca
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Fiction



The Burn @amazon.ca
by James Kelman
Fiction



Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur @amazon.ca



A Canticle for Leibowitz @amazon.ca
by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Fiction



The City & The City @amazon.ca
by China Miéville
Fiction



Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents @amazon.ca



Cloudstreet : A Novel @amazon.ca
by Tim Winton
Fiction



The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography @amazon.ca



Coercion: Why We Listen to What
by Douglas Rushkoff
Non-fiction



The Coffee Trader: A Novel @amazon.ca
by David Liss
Fiction



The Collected Stories of Richard Yates @amazon.ca



Complete Short Stories @amazon.ca
by Graham Greene
Fiction



The Crying of Lot 49 @amazon.ca
by Thomas Pynchon
Fiction



Dance Dance Dance @amazon.ca
by Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum (Translator)
Fiction



The Dark Forest @amazon.ca
by Cixin Liu, Joel Martinsen (Translator)
Fiction



Datura @amazon.ca
by Leena Krohn, J. Robert Tupasela (Translator), Anna Volmari (Translator)
Fiction



The Dead Mountaineer's Inn: One More Last Rite for the Detective Genre @amazon.ca
by Boris & Arkady Strugatsky, Josh Billings (Translator)
Fiction



Death's End @amazon.ca
by Cixin Liu, Ken Liu (Translator)
Fiction



Decline and Fall @amazon.ca
by Evelyn Waugh
Fiction



Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why @amazon.ca
by Laurence Gonzales
Non-fiction



Demian @amazon.ca
by Hermann Hesse
Fiction



The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs @amazon.ca



The Design of Everyday Things @amazon.ca
by Donald A. Norman
Non-fiction



The Dew Breaker @amazon.ca
by Edwidge Danticat
Fiction



The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer @amazon.ca



Dirt Music : A Novel @amazon.ca
by Tim Winton
Fiction



Dispatches @amazon.ca
by Michael Herr
Non-fiction



The Dispossessed: A Novel @amazon.ca
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Fiction



The Dog Stars @amazon.ca
by Peter Heller
Fiction



Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood @amazon.ca



Dyed In The Green @amazon.ca
by George Mercer
Fiction



Earth Abides @amazon.ca
by George R. Stewart
Fiction



Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs @amazon.ca



Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains @amazon.ca



Einstein: His Life and Universe @amazon.ca
by Walter Isaacson
Non-fiction



Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future @amazon.ca



Embassytown @amazon.ca
by China Miéville
Fiction



Empire of the Sun @amazon.ca
by J. G. Ballard
Fiction



Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter @amazon.ca



The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon @amazon.ca



The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge @amazon.ca



Facial Justice @amazon.ca
by L P Hartley
Fiction



Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays @amazon.ca



Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think @amazon.ca
by Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling
Non-fiction



The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe @amazon.ca



Fishing the Sloe-Black River: Stories @amazon.ca



Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said @amazon.ca
by Philip K. Dick
Fiction



The Forever War @amazon.ca
by Joe Haldeman
Fiction



Foucault's Pendulum @amazon.ca
by Umberto Eco
Fiction



Fountain of Age: Stories @amazon.ca
by Nancy Kress
Fiction



Galápagos @amazon.ca
by Kurt Vonnegut
Fiction



The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft @amazon.ca



Gene Mapper @amazon.ca
by Taiyo Fujii, Jim Hubbert (Translator)
Fiction



Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters @amazon.ca



The Gone-Away World @amazon.ca
by Nick Harkaway
Fiction



Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch @amazon.ca



Great Myths of the Brain @amazon.ca
by Christian Jarrett
Non-fiction



The Gun @amazon.ca
by C. J. Chivers
Non-fiction



Gutshot Straight: A Novel @amazon.ca
by Lou Berney
Fiction



Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel @amazon.ca



A History of the World in 6 Glasses @amazon.ca
by Tom Standage
Non-fiction



How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery @amazon.ca



The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks @amazon.ca
by Rebecca Skloot
Non-fiction



Imperial Governor: The Great Novel of Boudicca's Revolt @amazon.ca



In Cold Blood @amazon.ca
by Truman Capote
Non-fiction



In Pursuit of Elegance: Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing @amazon.ca



In the Country of Last Things @amazon.ca
by Paul Auster
Fiction



The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood @amazon.ca



The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution @amazon.ca



The International @amazon.ca
by Glenn Patterson
Fiction



Into the Wild @amazon.ca
by Jon Krakauer
Non-fiction



Introduction to Algorithms @amazon.ca
by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, & Clifford Stein
Reference



Island: The Complete Stories @amazon.ca
by Alistair MacLeod
Fiction



The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars @amazon.ca



Kafka on the Shore @amazon.ca
by Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel (Translator)
Fiction



Killed: Great Journalism Too Hot To Print @amazon.ca
by David Wallis (Editor)
Non-fiction



Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw @amazon.ca



King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa @amazon.ca



Kokoro @amazon.ca
by Natsume Sōseki, Meredith McKinney (Translator)
Fiction



The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language @amazon.ca



The Last Days of the Incas @amazon.ca
by Kim MacQuarrie
Non-fiction



The Last Resort: A Memoir of Mischief and Mayhem on a Family Farm in Africa @amazon.ca



The Last Season @amazon.ca
by Eric Blehm
Non-fiction



The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All @amazon.ca



Letters to a Young Contrarian (Art of Mentoring) @amazon.ca
by Christopher Hitchens
Non-fiction



The Long Tomorrow @amazon.ca
by Leigh Brackett
Fiction



Looking for Jake: Stories @amazon.ca
by China Miéville
Fiction



Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way @amazon.ca



The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon @amazon.ca



Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II @amazon.ca



The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan @amazon.ca



The Martian @amazon.ca
by Andy Weir
Fiction



McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland @amazon.ca



Mindscan @amazon.ca
by Robert J. Sawyer
Fiction



The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress @amazon.ca
by Robert A. Heinlein
Fiction



Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa @amazon.ca
by Peter Godwin
Non-fiction



My Friend the Mercenary @amazon.ca
by James Brabazon
Non-fiction



Neuromancer @amazon.ca
by William Gibson
Fiction



No Great Mischief: A Novel @amazon.ca
by Alistair MacLeod
Fiction



No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State @amazon.ca



Norse Mythology @amazon.ca
by Neil Gaiman
Fiction



Norwegian Wood @amazon.ca
by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin (Translator)
Fiction



The Not Yet @amazon.ca
by Moira Crone
Fiction



Ockham's Razor @amazon.ca
by Wade Rowland
Non-fiction



Omon Ra @amazon.ca
by Victor Pelevin
Fiction



Other Voices, Other Rooms @amazon.ca
by Truman Capote
Fiction



Our Man in Havana @amazon.ca
by Graham Greene
Fiction



Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void @amazon.ca



Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha @amazon.ca
by Roddy Doyle
Fiction



The Palace Thief: Stories @amazon.ca
by Ethan Canin
Fiction



The Pint Man: A Novel @amazon.ca
by Steve Rushin
Fiction



A Planet for Rent @amazon.ca
by Yoss, David Frye (Translator)
Fiction



Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing @amazon.ca
by Barry Schwartz & Kenneth Sharpe
Non-fiction



Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions @amazon.ca



Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking @amazon.ca



Railsea @amazon.ca
by China Miéville
Fiction



Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, And Dying In The National Parks @amazon.ca



Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories @amazon.ca
by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Jay Rubin (Translator), Haruki Murakami (Introduction)
Fiction



Ready Player One: A Novel @amazon.ca
by Ernest Cline
Fiction



Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity @amazon.ca
by Carlo Rovelli, Simon Carnell (Translator), Erica Segre (Translator)
Non-fiction



The Relic Master: A Novel @amazon.ca
by Christopher Buckley
Fiction



Reputations @amazon.ca
by Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Anne McLean (Translator)
Fiction



The Riders @amazon.ca
by Tim Winton
Fiction



Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut @amazon.ca



Road Work: Among Tyrants, Heroes, Rogues, and Beasts @amazon.ca



Roadside Picnic @amazon.ca
by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky, Olena Bormashenko (Translator)
Fiction



Salt: A World History @amazon.ca
by Mark Kurlansky
Non-fiction



Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan @amazon.ca



Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind @amazon.ca
by Yuval Noah Harari
Non-fiction



Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto @amazon.ca



The Shadow of the Wind @amazon.ca
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Fiction



Short Cuts: Selected Stories @amazon.ca
by Raymond Carver
Fiction



Siddhartha @amazon.ca
by Hermann Hesse
Fiction



The Sirens of Titan: A Novel @amazon.ca
by Kurt Vonnegut
Fiction



The Sisters Brothers @amazon.ca
by Patrick deWitt
Fiction



Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival @amazon.ca



Spanish Fly @amazon.ca
by Will Ferguson
Fiction



Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall @amazon.ca



Station Eleven @amazon.ca
by Emily St. John Mandel
Fiction



Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers @amazon.ca



Stories of Your Life and Others @amazon.ca



The Story of My Teeth @amazon.ca
by Valeria Luiselli, Christina MacSweeney (Translator)
Fiction



Stranger in a Strange Land @amazon.ca
by Robert A. Heinlein
Fiction



SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance @amazon.ca



That Eye, The Sky : A Novel @amazon.ca
by Tim Winton
Fiction



The Thing Around Your Neck @amazon.ca
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Fiction



Thinking, Fast and Slow @amazon.ca
by Daniel Kahneman
Non-fiction



This Perfect Day: A Novel @amazon.ca
by Ira Levin
Fiction



The Three-Body Problem @amazon.ca
by Cixin Liu, Ken Liu (Translator)
Fiction



Time Out of Joint @amazon.ca
by Philip K. Dick
Fiction



Time Travel: A History @amazon.ca
by James Gleick
Non-fiction



A Tribe Apart: A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence @amazon.ca



The Turning: Stories @amazon.ca
by Tim Winton
Fiction



Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates @amazon.ca



UNIX Network Programming, Volume 2: Interprocess Communications @amazon.ca



Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There @amazon.ca



The Wandering Earth @amazon.ca
by Cixin Liu
Fiction



War Fever @amazon.ca
by J. G. Ballard
Fiction



The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth @amazon.ca



We @amazon.ca
by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Fiction



When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa @amazon.ca



The Whiskey Rebels: A Novel @amazon.ca
by Davis Liss
Fiction



The Whispering Muse: A Novel @amazon.ca
by Sjón, Victoria Cribb (Translator)
Fiction



White Lightning @amazon.ca
by Justin Cartwright
Fiction



The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It @amazon.ca



World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement @amazon.ca



World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War @amazon.ca



WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us @amazon.ca



Year Zero: A Novel @amazon.ca
by Rob Reid
Fiction

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