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By the Numbers
- The numbers in () next to each title indicates a score on a scale
of 1 to 10 for the book. If there is an "r" next to the score, it means
that this is a "retroactive" review. When I first set up this reviews
page back in 1994, I went back through my collection and typed up capsule
reviews of all the books I've read, and I made estimates
of how well I liked each book. Since my memory isn't perfect, these
reviews are typically brief and the scoring a little less accurate.
Fiction
- Adams, Douglas
- Series: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (8 r)
- Series: Dirk Gently (6 r)
- Allen, Roger McBride
- Series: The Corellian Trilogy (7)
- Anderson, Kevin
- Series: The Jedi Academy Trilogy (5)
- Anderson, Poul
- The Winter of the World (5)
- The Boat of a Million Years (8)
- Anthony, Piers
- Series: Apprentice Adept (6 r)
- Series: Bio of a Space Tyrant (6 r)
- Series: Incarnations of Immortality (6 r)
- Series: Xanth (6 r)
- Asimov, Isaac
- Series: Foundation (7 r)
- Nemesis (3 r)
- Series: The Robot Novels (8)
- Aspirin, Robert
- Series: Thieves' World (with Lynn Abbey) (5 r)
- Banks, Iain
- Use of Weapons (7)
- The Wasp Factory (8)
- Barnes, Steven
- Series: Dream Park (with Larry Niven) (7 r)
- The Legacy of Heorot (with Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven) (7 r)
- Bear, Greg
- Series: Songs of Earth and Power (9)
- Queen of Angels (6)
- Series: Eon, Eternity (6 r)
- Series: The Forge of God, The Anvil of Stars (6 r)
- Blood Music (6 r)
- Hegira (5 r)
- Moving Mars (7)
- Heads (7)
- Darwin's Radio (7)
- Benford, Gregory
- Series: The Galactic Center (6)
- Timescape (6)
- Artifact (8)
- Bester, Alfred
- The Demolished Man (7)
- The Stars My Destination (8)
- Blish, James
- The Devil's Day (7)
- A Case of Conscience (7)
- Cities in Flight (8)
- Brin, David
- Series: The New Uplift Trilogy (7)
- Series: The Uplift Series (7 r)
- Earth (7)
- The Postman (6)
- Glory Season (6)
- Brooks, Terry
- Series: Shannara (5 r)
- Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (7)
- Brust, Steven
- Series: The Khaavren Romances (9)
- Series: Vlad Taltos (9 r)
- Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grill (5 r)
- Agyar (8)
- To Reign in Hell (6)
- The Gypsy (with Megan Lindholm) (6)
- Freedom and Necessity (with Emma Bull) (6)
- Bujold, Lois McMaster
- The Vor Game (7 r)
- Bull, Emma
- Finder (8)
- Card, Orson Scott
- Series: Homecoming (8)
- Series: Ender Wiggin (9)
- The Worthing Saga (5)
- The Lost Boys (7)
- Wyrms (4 r)
- Homebody (7)
- Chalker, Jack
- Series: The Rings of the Master (4 r)
- Cherryh, C. J.
- Downbelow Station (4)
- Series: Cyteen (6)
- Fortress in the Eye of Time (5)
- Clancy, Tom
- The Hunt for Red October (8 r)
- Red Storm Rising (6 r)
- Clear and Present Danger (7)
- Cardinal of the Kremlin (7)
- The Sum of All Fears (7)
- Without Remorse (6)
- Debt of Honor (7)
- Mirror Image (4)
- Executive Orders (6)
- Clarke, Arthur C.
- Cradle (2)
- Childhood's End (7)
- Rendevous with Rama (7)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (9)
- 2010 (8)
- The Deep Range (7)
- Cook, Glen
- Series: The Black Company (9 r)
- Series: The Dread Empire (6 r)
- Red Iron Nights (5 r)
- Cook, Robin
- Mutation (3)
- Coupland, Douglas
- Polaroids from the Dead (6)
- Microserfs (9)
- Crichton, Michael
- The Andromeda Strain (7 r)
- A Case of Need (6)
- Congo (5)
- Sphere (4)
- The Terminal Man (4)
- Jurassic Park (8)
- Rising Sun (7)
- Disclosure (10)
- The Lost World (8)
- Airframe (8)
- Timeline (7)
- deCamp, L. Sprague
- The Incompleat Enchanter (3 r)
- Delaney, Samuel
- Babel-17 (7)
- deLint, Charles
- The Little Country (7)
- Dick, Philip
- The Man in the High Castle (7)
- Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (7)
- Donaldson, Stephen R.
- Series: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever (10)
- Series: The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (10)
- Series: Mordant's Need (8 r)
- Daughter of Regals and Other Tales (4 r)
- Series: The Gap (7)
- Eco, Umberto
- Foucault's Pendulum (6 r)
- The Name of the Rose (7 r)
- The Island of the Day Before (6)
- Eddings, David
- Series: The Belgariad (5 r)
- Series: The Mallorean (3 r)
- Egan, Greg
- Permutation City (7)
- Feist, Raymond
- Series: The Riftwar Saga (6 r)
- Forward, Robert
- Dragon's Egg (8)
- Foster, Alan Dean
- Splinter of the Mind's Eye (8 r)
- Into the Out Of (6)
- Freisner, Esther
- Split Heirs (with Lawrence Watt-Evans) (2 r)
- Friedman, C. S.
- Series: "The Coldfire Trilogy" (7)
- Gibson, William
- Series: "Cyberpunk" (5 r)
- The Difference Engine (with Bruce Sterling) (6 r)
- Greeley, Andrew
- The Final Planet (1 r)
- Grimwood, Ken
- Replay (9)
- Into the Deep (6)
- Grisham, John
- A Time to Kill (7 r)
- The Firm (7 r)
- The Pelican Brief (7 r)
- The Client (5)
- The Runaway Jury (7)
- The Street Lawyer (7)
- The Rainmaker (7)
- Halperin, James
- The Truth Machine (8)
- The First Immortal (8)
- Hambly, Barbara
- Series: The Darwath Trilogy (6 r)
- Star Trek: Crossroad (6)
- Star Wars: Children of the Jedi (3)
- Harrison, Harry
- Series: The Stainless Steel Rat (6 r)
- The Turing Option (with Marvin Minsky) (8)
- Hawke, Simon
- Series: The Time Wars (6 r)
- Series: Psychodrome (6 r)
- Heinlein, Robert
- The Past Through Tomorrow (8 r)
- Stranger in the Strange Land (6 r)
- The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (3 r)
- Friday (3 r)
- Job: A Comedy of Justice (5 r)
- Starship Troopers (6 r)
- Herbert, Frank
- Series: The Dune Chronicles (7 r)
- The White Plague (7 r)
- Hinz, Christopher
- Liege Killer (6 r)
- Hogan, James
- Series: The Giants Trilogy (8)
- Hubbard, L. Ron
- Mission Earth: The Invader's Plan (3 r)
- Jordan, Robert
- Special note here about "Wheel of Time"
- Kay, Guy Gavriel
- Tigana (8 r)
- A Song for Arbonne (7 r)
- Series: The Fionavar Tapestry (7 r)
- The Lions of Al-Rassan (9)
- Kerr, Katharine
- Series: Deverry (5 r)
- King, Stephen
- The Stand (9 r)
- The Tommyknockers (7 r)
- It (9 r)
- The Talisman (with Peter Straub) (5 r)
- Eyes of the Dragon (8 r)
- Insomnia (6)
- Kress, Nancy
- Beggars in Spain (8)
- Beggars and Choosers (6)
- Brainrose (7)
- Kube-McDowell, Michael
- Series: Star Wars: The Black Fleet Crisis (7)
- Kurtz, Katherine
- Series: The Chronicles of the Deryni (7 r)
- Series: The Legends of Camber of Culdi (6 r)
- Series: The Histories of King Kelson (5 r)
- Laumer, Keith
- Dinosaur Beach (4)
- A Plague of Demons (7)
- LeGuin, Ursula
- Series: Earthsea (6 r)
- The Dispossessed (6 r)
- The Left Hand of Darkness (7 r)
- The Lathe of Heaven (8)
- Leiber, Fritz
- Series: Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser (4 r)
- Lewis, C. S.
- Series: The Chronicles of Narnia (6 r)
- Lindholm, Megan
- The Gypsy (with Steven Brust) (6)
- Long, Jeff
- The Descent (8)
- Ludlum, Robert
- The Bourne Supremacy (4 r)
- The Bourne Ultimatum (3 r)
- May, Julian
- Series: Intervention (8)
- Series: The Galactic Milieu (7)
- McCaffrey, Anne
- Series: Dragonriders of Pern (6 r)
- McCammon, Robert
- Swan Song (4)
- McIntyre, Vonda
- Star Trek: The Entropy Effect (7 r)
- Star Wars: The Crystal Star (4)
- McKillip, Patricia
- Fool's Run (6)
- Miller, Rand
- Myst: The Book of Atrus (with Robyn Miller and David Wingrove) (9)
- Myst: The Book of T'iana (with David Wingrove) (7)
- Myst: The Book of D'Ni (with David Wingrove) (7)
- Minsky, Marvin
- The Turing Option (with Harry Harrison) (8)
- Moorcock, Michael
- Series: Books of Corum (6 r)
- Series: Elric (6 r)
- Niven, Larry
- Series: Dream Park (with Steven Barnes) (7 r)
- The Mote in God's Eye (with Jerry Pournelle) (7 r)
- Footfall (with Jerry Pournelle) (8 r)
- Lucifer's Hammer (with Jerry Pournelle) (7 r)
- The Legacy of Heorot (with Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes) (7 r)
- The Man-Kzin Wars (with Poul Anderson and Dean Ing) (3 r)
- Beowulf's Children (with Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes) (7)
- Oberndorf, Charles
- Sheltered Lives (6)
- Pournelle, Jerry
- The Mote in God's Eye (with Larry Niven) (7 r)
- Footfall (with Larry Niven) (8 r)
- Lucifer's Hammer (with Larry Niven) (7 r)
- The Legacy of Heorot (with Larry Niven and Steven Barnes) (7 r)
- Powers, Tim
- The Anubis Gates (5)
- Pratchett, Terry
- Series: Discworld (6 r)
- Quindlen, Anna
- One True Thing (9)
- Object Lessions (6)
- Rawn, Melanie
- Series: Dragon Prince (6)
- Series: Dragon Star (6)
- Rice, Anne
- Series: The Vampire Chronicles (7 r)
- The Feast of All Saints (5 r)
- Roberson, Jennifer
- Series: Chronicles of the Cheysuli (6)
- Series: The Sword-Dancer Trilogy (6)
- Rosenberg, Joel
- Series: Guardians of the Flame (8)
- Rowley, Christopher
- The War for Eternity (7)
- Saberhagen, Fred
- Series: Berserker (5 r)
- Series: The Books of Swords (7 r)
- Series: The Books of Lost Swords (5 r)
- Sagan, Carl
- Contact (9 r)
- Scarborough, Elizabeth
- The Healer's War (7 r)
- Sheffield, Charles
- The Web Between the Worlds (6)
- Silverberg, Robert
- Dying Inside (7)
- Series: The Majipoor Trilogy (6 r)
- Downward to the Earth (7)
- Simak, Clifford
- Way Station (6)
- City (5)
- Simmons, Dan
- Series: Hyperion (9)
- The Song of Kali (5 r)
- Phases of Gravity (7)
- Carrion Comfort (7 r)
- Summer of Night (7)
- The Hollow Man (7)
- Fires of Eden (5)
- Stackpole, Michael
- Series: X-Wing (8)
- Stasheff, Christopher
- Series: The Warlock Series (strong>(4 r)
- Steakley, John
- Armor (7 r)
- Vampire$ (8)
- Stegner, Wallace
- Angle of Repose (7)
- Stephenson, Neal
- Snow Crash (7)
- Sterling, Bruce
- The Difference Engine (with William Gibson) (6 r)
- Tepper, Sheri
- Grass (7)
- Raising the Stones (8)
- Tolkien, J. R. R.
- The Hobbit (10)
- Series: The Lord of the Rings (10)
- The Silmarillion (6)
- Turow, Scott
- The Burden of Proof (6 r)
- Pleading Guilty (5 r)
- Turtledove, Harry
- Series: Worldwar (7)
- The Guns of the South (8)
- Series: The Videssos Cycle (8)
- Series: The Tale of Krispos (8)
- Tyers, Kathy
- The Truce at Bakura (8)
- Varley, John
- Series: The Gean Trilogy (4 r)
- Vinge, Vernor
- A Fire Upon the Deep (8)
- Watt-Evans, Lawrence
- Series: Ethshar (7)
- Series: The Lords of Dus (6 r)
- Split Heirs (with Esther Friesner) (2 r)
- Weis, Margaret
- Series: The Death Gate Cycle (with Tracy Hickman) (6)
- Williams, Tad
- Series: Memory, Sorrow and Thorn (8)
- Willis, Connie
- Doomsday Book (3)
- Wolfe, Gene
- Series: The Book of the New Sun (5 r)
- Free Live Free (1 r)
- Wolverton, Dave
- The Courtship of Princess Leia (8)
- Zahn, Timothy
- Series: The Star Wars Three-Book Cycle (8)
- Zelazny, Roger
- Series: The Chronicles of Amber (6 r)
- Lord of Light (6)
- Doorways in the Sand (7)
- Creatures of Light and Darkness (4)
Non-fiction
- Adams, Douglas
- Last Chance to See
- Adams, Scott
- The Dilbert Principle
- Anuff, Joey
- Dumb Money (with Gary Wolf)
- Attenborough, David
- Life on Earth
- Barrow, John
- The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (with Frank Tipler)
- Barry, Dave
- Bad Habits and many other books
- Bates, Marilyn
- Please Understand Me (with David Keirsey)
- Berry, Adrian
- The Next 500 Years
- Bouton, Jim
- Ball Four
- Bryson, Bill
- Notes from a Small Island
- Burnett, Mark
- Survivor
- Burrows, William
- Exploring Space
- Carey, John
- Eyewitness to History
- Carlton, Jim
- Apple: The Inside Story of Intrigue, Egomania and Business Blunders
- Carville, James
- We're Right, They're Wrong!
- Comins, Neil
- What if the Moon Didn't Exist?"
- Crichton, Michael
- Travels
- Currie, Elliot
- Confronting Crime
- Darden, Christopher
- In Contempt
- Degeneres, Ellen
- My Point ... And I Do Have One
- Diamond, Jared
- Guns, Germs and Steel
- Dyson, Freeman
- Infinite in All Directions
- Ebert, Roger
- Roger Ebert's Home Movie Companion
- I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie
- Ebert's Bigger Little Movie Glossary
- Fallows, James
- Breaking the News
- Faludi, Susan
- Backlash
- Feinstein, John
- Play Ball
- Feynman, Richard
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
- What Do You Care What Other People Think?
- Franken, Al
- Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot
- Why Not Me?
- Friedman, Robert
- Red Mafiya
- Friedman, Thomas
- From Beirut to Jerusalem
- Frohnmayer, John
- Leaving Town Alive
- Gallant, Roy
- (The National Geographic Picture Atlas of) Our Universe
- Gladwell, Malcolm
- The Tipping Point
- Gleick, James
- Chaos
- Goldsmith, Donald
- Einstein's Biggest Blunder?
- Gould, Stephen
- Bully for Brontosaurus
- Gregory, Jane
- Science in Public: Communication, Culture and Credibility
- Greider, William
- Who Will Tell the People
- Gribbin, John
- Cosmic Coincidences
- Griffin, John Howard
- Black Like Me
- Groden, Robert J.
- High Treason (with Harrison Edward Livingstone)
- Gross, Martin
- A Call for Revolution
- Gutman, Dan
- It Ain't Cheatin' If You Don't Get Caught
- Hacker, Andrew
- Two Nations: Black and White; Separate, Hostile, Unequal
- Haley, Alex
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- Harr, Jonathan
- A Civil Action
- Hernandez, Keith (and Mike Bryan)
- Pure Baseball
- Hertsgaard, Mark
- On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency
- Howard, Philip
- The Death of Common Sense
- Jacoby, Russell
- The Bell Curve Debate (with Naomi Glauberman)
- Katzenstein, Gary
- Funny Business: An Outsider's Year in Japan
- Keirsey, David
- Please Understand Me (with Marilyn Bates)
- Kinsley, Michael
- Big Babies
- Krauss, Lawrence
- The Physics of Star Trek
- Kurtz, Howard
- Hot Air
- Media Circus
- Levine, Ken
- It's Gone! ... No, Wait a Minute ...
- Lewis, Michael
- Trail Fever
- Livingstone, Harrison E.
- High Treason (with Robert J. Groden)
- Luciano, Ron
- The Umpire Strikes Back
- Strike Two
- Maher, Bill
- Does Anybody Have a Problem With That?
- Malkiel, Burton
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street
- Mayle, Peter
- A Year in Provence
- Toujours Provence
- Acquired Tastes
- Merrill, Durwood
- You're Out, and You're Ugly, Too!
- Miller, Dennis
- The Rants
- Ranting Again
- Mollenkamp, Carrick
- The People vs. Big Tobacco (with Adam Levy, Joseph Menn and Jeffrey Rothfeder
- Morgan, Joe
- A Life in Baseball
- Morrison, Toni
- Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power
- O'Rourke, P. J.
- Eat the Rich
- Overbye, Dennis
- Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos
- Ostrovsky, Viktor
- By Way of Deception (with Claire Hoy)
- Pagels, Heinz
- The Cosmic Code
- Pascarelli, Peter
- The Toughest Job in Baseball
- Patterson, Walter
- Nuclear Power
- Paulos, John Allen
- Innumeracy
- Beyond Numeracy
- Once Upon a Number
- Penrose, Roger
- The Emperor's New Mind
- Philander, S. George
- Is the Temperature Rising?
- Phillips, Kevin
- Boiling Point
- Preston, Richard
- The Hot Zone
- Puckett, Kirby
- I Love This Game!
- Quindlen, Anna
- Thinking Out Loud
- Reid, Robert
- Year One
- Richburg, Keith
- Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa
- Rock, Chris
- Rock This!
- Rooney, Andy
- A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney and other books
- Rothman, Tony
- Science a la Mode
- Sacks, Peter
- Generation X Goes to College
- Sagan, Carl
- The Dragons of Eden
- The Demon-Haunted World
- UFO's: A Scientific Debate (with Thornton Page)
- Savage, David
- Turning Right: The Making of the Rehnquist Supreme Court
- Seinfeld, Jerry
- SeinLanguage
- Shatner, William
- Star Trek Memories
- Star Trek Movie Memories
- Shearer, Harry
- Man Bites Town
- Shermer, Michael
- Why People Believe Weird Things
- Shlain, Bruce
- Baseball Inside Out
- Stauber, John (with Sheldon Rampton)
- Toxic Sludge is Good for You
- Sterling, Bruce
- The Hacker Crackdown
- Stoll, Cliff
- The Cuckoo's Egg
- Sullivan, Andrew
- Virtually Normal
- Tannen, Deborah
- You Just Don't Understand
- Tuchman, Barbara
- A Distant Mirror
- Turow, Scott
- One L
- Wickenden, Dorothy
- The New Republic Reader (editor)
- Will, George
- Men At Work
- Wolf, Naomi
- The Beauty Myth
- Woodward, Bob
- The Agenda
- The Commanders
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