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Abhinav Agarwal's Bookshelf

Week of February 22, 2010

 

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Books shown above:

1. Imperial Reckoning by Caroline Elkins
2. Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos
3. Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It by Gina Kolata
4. The One Percent Doctrine by Ron Suskind
5. The Long Tail by Chris Anderson
6. Bitter Chocolate by Pinki Virani
7. Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
8. The Bhagavad Gita commentary by Sri Aurobindo Roy
9. Everyone Loves a Good Drought by P. Sainath
10. The Principal Upanishads edited by S. Radhakrishnan
11. The Bhagavad Gita edited by S. Radhakrishnan
12. The Upanishads edited by Eknath Easwaran

Christopher Corey's Bookshelf

Week of June 15, 2009

 

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Books shown above:

1. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
2. Capitalism & Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus
3. The Origin of Species & The Decent of Man by Charles Darwin
4. Being & Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
5. Thus Spake Zarathustra, The Anti-Christ, & Twilight of The Idols by  Friedrich Nietzsche
6. The Plague by Albert Camus
7. Stages on Life's Way by Soren Kiekegaard
8. The phenomenology of Spirit by G.W.F. Hegel

Emily Bullock's Bookshelf

Week of April 6, 2009

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Books shown above:

• The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• Eats, Shoots and Leaves
• Mason & Dixon
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
• More Tales of the City
• The Married Man
• The Devil's Feather
• Sidetracked
• We Need to Talk About Kevin
• In Cold Ink
• The Gum Thief
• Stuart
• Bird by Bird
• The Cellist of Sarajevo
• The Separate Principle

Ginger Burton's Bookshelf

Week of May 28, 2008

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Books shown above:

• The Books of Blood by Clive Barker
• Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler
• From A Buick 8 by Stephen King
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Klay by Michael Chabon
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Digital Fortess by Dan Brown
• Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon
• I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
• The Big Bad Wolf by James Patterson
• The October Country by Ray Bradbury
• The Little Friend by Donna Tart

Heather Hayman's Bookshelf

Week of May 28, 2008

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Books shown above:

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner
• Body of Lies by David Ignatius
• OIL! by Upton Sinclair
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
• A Traveller in Italy by H.V. Morton
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
• An Island Away by Daniel Putkowski
• Turning Angel by Greg Iles
• Winter in Madrid by C.J. Sansom
• The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
• The Golden Tulip by Rosalind Laker
• Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
• The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
• American Tabloid by James Ellroy
• What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman
• The Snake Stone by Jason Goodwin
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Mae Sander's Bookshelf

Week of April 28, 2008


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Books shown above:

• The Cuisine of Hungary
• A Taste of the Past: the Daily Life and Cooking of a 19th-Century Hungarian Jewish Homemaker
• The Eastern European Cookbook
• The Czechoslovak Cookbook
• Gundel's Hungarian Cookbook
• Jewish Cooking in America
• Jewish Home Cookbook
• The First Jewish-American Cookbook
• Apricots on the Nile
• Cocina Judia: Memoria y Tradicion
• A Lexicon of Jewish Cooking
• Eat and Be Satisfied: A Social History of Jewish Food
• In Memory's Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezin
• The Book of Jewish Food
• A Drizzle of Honey: The Lives and Recipes of Spain's Secret Jews
• Food & Judaism
• The Food of Israel
• The Unprejudiced Palate
• Joy of Cooking
• Classic Southwest Cooking
• River Roads Recipes
• The New Orleans Cookbook
• The Bialy Eaters
• Six Thousand Years of Bread

Shannon Roudebush's Bookshelf

Week of March 31, 2008


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Books shown above:

• Leftovers
• The Handmaid's Tale
• A Great and Terrible Beauty
• Snow Falling on Cedars
• Then We Came to the End
• The Legacy of Luna
• Cocktails for Three
• The Gatecrasher
• Undead and Unpopular
• The Way the Crow Flies
• A Prayer for Owen Meany
• 101 Things You Should do Before Going to Heaven
• The Good Earth
• Anna Karenina
• The Monsters of Templeton
• Escaping into the Open
• My French Whore
• The Omnivore's Dilemma
• World Without End
• Redeeming Love
• The Secret Life of Bees
• Stargirl
• Catching Genius
• The Rest of Her Life
• Little Pink Slips
• Love Walked In
• The Department of Lost & Found
• Mother

Kristin Hannah's Bookshelf

Week of March 7, 2008

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 Books shown above:

• Black House
• Fortune’s Rocks
• The Prince of Tides
• Plainsong
• Our Lady of the Forest
• The Stand
• The Witching Hour (two copies!)
• The Poisonwood Bible
• A Thin Dark Line
• Fiona Range
• The Shadow of the Wind
• Twilight
• The General in His Labyrinth
• House of Sand and Fog
• The Shining
• The Woods
• Second Nature
• Cold Mountain
• Sense and Sensibility
• Dark Rivers of the Heart
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• American Pastoral
• Peachtree Road
• The Road
• Coldheart Canyon
• Bastard Out of Carolina

Jessa Crispin's Bookshelf

Week of February 25, 2008

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Books shown above:

• The Inferno of Dante Alighieri
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• The Annotated Hunting of the Snark
• The Norse Myths
• Beowulf: A Dual Language Edition
• Outfoxing Fear: Folktales From Around the World
• The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen
• The Iliad
• The Odyssey
• Russian Fairy Tales
• The White Goddess
• Metamorpheses
• The Tibetan Book of the Dead
• The Coyote Road
• The Golden Bough
• The Red Fairy Book
• The Green Fairy Book
• Irish Fairy Tales
• Grimm's Fairy Tales
• Penguin Epics Boxed Set
• The Inferno of Dante
• Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
• Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook Translated from the Sanskrit

Joel Bass' Bookshelf

Week of February 11, 2008

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    Books shown above:

• Introspections: American Poets on One of Their Own Poems
• Infinite Jest
• White Teeth
• Emergence
• The Bloody Chamber
• The Story of English
• How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
• Cloud Atlas
• Hungry Hollow: The Story of a Natural Place
• The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
• Libra
• Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
• The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self & Soul
• Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
• Middlesex
• The King of Attolia
• The Human Voice: How This Extraordinary Instrument Reveals Essential Clues About Who We Are

John Lawton's Bookshelf

Week of January 14, 2008

   

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    Books shown above:

• Idoru
• All Tomorrow's Parties
• Pattern Recognition
• Spook Country
• Neuromancer
• Count Zero
• Burning Chrome
• The Difference Engine
• Essential Blogging
• Drown
• Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
• Retribution

Ben Lukoff's Bookshelf

Week of December 17, 2007

   

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    Books shown above:

• Once in Golconda
• The Young Detective's Handbook
• Mr. Bean's Diary
• Philosophy of Natural Science
• Philosophy of Language
• The American Language
• The American Language, Supplement 1
• The American Language, Supplement 2
• Experience
• Varieties of American English
• The Acoustic Analysis of Speech
• The Glory of Their Times
• A History of the English Language
• Pig-Tail Days in Old Seattle
• The Elements of Murder
• The Complete Essays of Mark Twain
• The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: An Age Like This, 1920-1940
• The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: My Country Right or Left
• The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I Please, 1943-1945
• The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In Front of Your Nose, 1945-1950
• Krazy & Ignatz 1927-1928: Love Letters in Ancient Brick
• Krazy & Ignatz 1925-1926: There is a Heppy Land Furfur A-waay
• Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
• The National Bank of Commerce of Seattle, 1889-1969
• Language in the USA

Andrea Johnson's Bookshelf

Week of December 3, 2007

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    Books shown above:

• Maia
• Jack of Kinrowan
• XXXHolic
• Fullmetal Alchemist
• Tsubasa
• Mother Night
• Welcome to the Monkey House
• Cat's Cradle
• Slaughterhouse Five
• Red Storm Rising
• Atlas Shrugged
• The Romance of Tristan and Isuelt
• Robots and Empire
• Star Trek: Log Seven
• Shardik
• Foundation's Edge
• The Puppetmasters
• Time for the Stars
• In Alien Flesh
• Second Foundation
• Friday
• The Martian Chronicles

Bob Lock's Bookshelf

Week of November 19, 2007

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    Books shown above:

• Selling Out
• Fat
• Stranger in a Strange Land
• The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime
• Light
• Nova Swing
• Bone Song
• Wintersmith
• Brother Odd
• Science of the Discworld 2
• Night Watch
• Soul Music
• Interesting Times
• The Truth
• Men at Arms
• Flames of Herakleitos
• The Lonely Dead
• Wolves Eat Dogs
• Broken Angels
• Woken Furies
• Black Wind: A Dirt Pitt Novel
• Holy Fire
• Gridlinked
• The Line of Polity
• Cowl
• Prador Moon
• The Voyage of the Sable Keech
• Polity Agent
• The Skinner

Daphne Durham's Bookshelf

Week of November 5, 2007



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Books shown above:

• Tokyo Year Zero
• Daywatch
• New England White: A Novel
• Think Big and Kick Ass in Business and Life
• A Golden Age
• Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
• Life Class: A Novel
• Matrimony: A Novel
• Exit Ghost
• The Air We Breathe: A Novel
• The Zero
• Getting to Innovation: How Asking the Right Questions Generates the Great Ideas Your Company Needs
• Origin: A Novel
• Basic Black: The Essential Guide for Getting Ahead at Work (and Life)
• Shadow Man
• How to Talk to a Widower
• The Face of Death
• About Alice
• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
• I am Legend
• In the Woods
• The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
• Caught Stealing: A Novel
• Six Bad Things: A Novel
• A Dangerous Man: A Novel
• The Death and Life of Bobby Z
• Decorativa



Tom Nissley's Bookshelf

Week of October 22, 2007


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Books shown above:

• The Roaring Nineties
• Rock Springs
• Sacre Blues
• Saturday
• The Secret Lives of Citizens
• The Secret Parts of Fortune
• Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
• Selected Stories
• Shame
• Seven Plays
• Rhinoceros
• The Shadow Boxer
• The Shell Collector
• Shooting the Stars
• A Short History of Reconstruction
• Julian of Norwich: Showings
• Shroud
• The Signifying Monkey
• Silence
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Sixty Stories
• A Man Without a Country
• The Slave
• The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South
• The Sink
• Slaves in the Family