[I've been reading]

Jessica Abel

Soundtrack

Amir Aczel

Chance : a guide to gambling, love, the stock market and just about anything else

Scott Adams

Casual Day Has Gone Too Far

Anne Adams

Clean It, Fix It, Find It

James Agee

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Tim Allen

Don’t Stand Too Close to a Naked Man

Isabel Allende

Daughter of Fortune

Reinhold Aman

Opus Maledictorum: A Book of Bad Words

M.T. Anderson

Feed

Janet Anderson

The Last Treasure

David Angell

The Elements of E-mail Style

Joey Anuff, ed.

Suck: Worst-Case Scenarios in Media, Culture, Advertising and the Internet

David Attenborough

Amazing Rare Things

Michael Baden

Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner

Nicholson Baker

A Box of Matches
Vox

J.G. Ballard

The Drowned World
Terminal Beach

Abby Bardi

The Book of Fred

Linda Barnes

Hardware

Donald Barthelme

The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine

Steve Bass

PC Annoyances

Lois Battle

The Florabama Ladies' Auxiliary & Sewing Circle

David Bayles

Art and Fear

Greg Bear

Darwin’s Radio
Darwin’s Children
Vitals
Moving Mars
The Forge of God
Blood Music
Anvil of Stars
Slant
Beyond Heaven’s River
Queen of Angels

Alison Bechdel

Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out For
Dykes And Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life-FormsTo Watch Out For
Split-Level Dykes to Watch Out For

Larry Beinhart

The Librarian

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Corruption

Joel Best

Damned Lies and Statistics
More Damned Lies and Statistics

Steve Biddulph

The Secret Life of Men

Holley Bishop

Robbing the Bees

Judith Blackstone

Zen for Beginners

Clark Blaise

Time Lord

Rebecca Blood

The Weblog Handbook

Alex Boese

Museum of Hoaxes
Hippo Eats Dwarf

Jan Bondeson

The Great Pretenders

Herman Charles Bosman

Mafeking Road

Helen Boyd

My Husband Betty

Jennifer Boylan

She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders

T. C. Boyle

The Road to Wellville

Ray Bradbury

R is for Rocket
The Cat’s Pajamas

Ray Bradbury, ed.

The Circus of Dr Lao and Other Improbable Stories

Rick Bragg

All Over But the Shoutin'

Richard Brautigan

An Unfortunate Woman
Sombrero Fallout

Eric Brende

Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology

Fred Brock

Retire on Less Than You Think

Dan Brown

The Da Vinci Code
Angels & Demons
Digital Fortress
Deception Point

Tom Brown

Tom Brown’s Field Guide to Wilderness Survival

Chester Brown

I Never Liked You

Bill Bryson

In A Sunburned Country
Made in America
I’m a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
A Walk in the Woods
A Short History of Nearly Everything
I’m a Stranger Here Myself

Claire Burch

Tales of Young Urban Squatters

Charles Burns

Black Hole

Stephen Bury

The Cobweb

Howard Buten

Through the Glass Wall: Journeys Into the Closed-Off Worlds of the Autistic

Octavia Butler

Clay’s Ark

Mary Cable

Black Odyssey

Ian Caldwell

The Rule of Four

Tara Calishain

Web Search Garage

John Callahan

Will the Real John Callahan Please Stand Up?

Eddie Campbell

After the Snooter

Norman Cantor

In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made

Janette Caputo

The Assertive Librarian

Josephine Carr

The Dewey Decimal System of Love

Caleb Carr

Killing Time

Michael Cart, ed.

In the Stacks: Short Stories about Libraries and Librarians

James Carville

Had Enough?: A Handbook for Fighting Back

Paul Chadwick

The Complete Concrete

Georges Charpak

Debunked! ESP, Telekinesis, and Other Pseudoscience

David Chelsea

David Chelsea in Love

Joe Chiappetta

Silly Daddy

Noam Chomsky

The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many

Tom Clancy

ruthless.com

Dan Clowes

Like A Velvet Glove Cast in Iron

J.M. Coetzee

Disgrace
Elizabeth Costello

William Sloane Coffin

The Heart is a Little to the Left

Tom Cole

Hell West and Crooked

Jonathan Cole

Still Lives: Narratives of Spinal Cord Injury

Arthur Cole

The Charming Idioms of New England

Dark Star Collective

Quiet Rumors: An Anarcha-Feminist Reader

Paul Collins

Sixpence House

Beach Conger

Bag Balm and Duct Tape

Michael Connelly

Chasing the Dime
The Narrows
Lost Light
Trunk Music
The Lincoln Lawyer

Susan Conner

Science’s Most Wanted

Ted Conover

Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America’s Hoboes

David Cordingly

Women Sailors & Sailors' Women

Patricia Cornwell

The Last Precinct
Unnatural Exposure
Cruel & Unusual
From Potter’s Field
All That Remains
Blow Fly

Mark Costello

Bag Men

Henry Coutts

Library Jokes and Jottings

George Covington

Access by Design

Lynne Cox

Swimming to Antarctica

Thompson Craig

Robert Crais

LA Requiem

Michael Crichton

A Case of Need
Timeline
The Lost World
Prey

Joanne Cripps

Quiet Journey: Understanding the Rights of Deaf Children

Howard Cruse

Stuck Rubber Baby

Amy Dacyczyn

The Complete Tightwad Gazette

Andrea Dean

Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency

Jeffrey Deaver

The Stone Monkey

JM DeMatteis

Brooklyn Dreams

Christopher DeNoon

Posters of the WPA

Robert Desowitz

New Guinea Tapeworms & Jewish Grandmothers

Philip K. Dick

Ubik
Dr Bloodmoney
Galactic Pot-Healer

Cory Doctorow

Eastern Standard Tribe

Scott Douglas

Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian

Gail Dubrow

Sento at Sixth and Main

David james Duncan

The Brothers K

John Dunning

Booked to Die
The Bookman’s Wake
The Bookman’s Promise
The Sign of the Book
The Bookman’s Last Fling

Timothy Egan

The Worst Hard Time

Dave Eggers, Ed.

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004

Barbara Ehrenreich

Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness
Nickle and Dimed

Gretel Ehrlich

This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland

Carol Eron

The Virus that Ate Cannibals

Samantha Ettus, Ed.

The Experts' Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do

Jeffrey Eugenides

Middlesex

Mark Evanier

Mad Art : A Visual Celebration of the Art of Mad Magazine and the Idiots Who Create It

Linda Fairstein

Likely to Die

Jon Fasman

The Geographer’s Library

Bob Fingerman

Beg the Question

Ken Follett

Code to Zero

Don Foster

Author Unknown

Thomas Frank

One Market Under God

Al Franken

Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them

Jonathan Franzen

How to Be Alone
The Corrections
Strong Motion

Kenny Fries

Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out

David Frost

David Frost’s Book of the World’s Worst Decisions

Neil Gaiman

American Gods

Nancy Gallagher

Breeding Better Vermonters: The Eugenics Program in the Green Mountain State

Atul Gawande

Complications
Better

Peter Gellatly, Ed.

Sex Magazines in the Library Collection

Tess Gerritsen

Gravity
Bloodstream
Harvest
The Sinnner
Vanish

Eric Gertler

Prying Eyes

William Gibson

Burning Chrome
Difference Engine
Virtual Light
All Tomorrow’s Parties
Pattern Recognition

Steven Gilbar

The Open Door: When Writers First Learned to Read

Penn Gillette

Sock

Malcolm Gladwell

Blink

William Goldman

Marathon Man

Michael Gorman

Our Singular Strengths: Meditations for Librarians

Eric Graeber

Magic and Madness in the Library

Sue Grafton

Q is for Quarry, P is for Peril, O is for Outlaw

Temple Grandin

Thinking in Pictures
Animals in Translation

David Greenberger

No More Shaves

John Grisham

The Chamber
The Testament
The Summons
King of Torts

Lev Grossman

Codex

Barbara Haber

From Hardtack to Homefries: An Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals

Mark Haddon

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Joe Haldeman

Forever Peace
Forever Free

Edward Hallowell

Driven to Distraction

Sue Halpern

Four Wings and a Prayer

John Maxwell Hamilton

Casanova Was a Book Lover

Gary Handman

Bibliotoons

Daniel Harris

Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic

Lee Harrisberger

Engineersmanship, A Philosophy of Design

John Harwood

The Ghost Writer

George Hayduke

Get Even: The complete book of dirty tricks

Bill Henderson

Minutes of the Lead Pencil Club

Edward Herman

The Myth Of The Liberal Media

Carl Hiaasen

Tourist Season

Pekka Himanen

Hacker Ethic

Karen Hirsch

Mind Riot

Alfred Hitchcock, ed.

Stories Not for the Nervous

Barbara Hodgson

In the Arms of Morpheus

Nina Hoffman

A Stir of Bones

Nick Hornby

High Fidelity
Fever Pitch

Dylan Horrocks

Hicksville

Simon Houpt

Museum of the Missing: A History of Art Theft

Susan Howatch

Ultimate Prizes

Sue Hubbell

A Book of Bees

Peter Høeg

Tales of the Night

Greg Iles

The Footprints of God
Dead Sleep
Sleep No More
Turning Angel
Blood Memory
24 Hours

Jay Ingram

The Science of Everyday Life

Shirley Jackson

Raising Demons

Jane Jacobs

A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska: The Story of Hannah Breece

Benjamin Jacobs

The Dentist of Auschwitz

Peter Jenkins

A Walk Across America

Gwyneth Jones

Life

Gerard Jones

Men Of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book

Andrea Juno

Dangerous Drawings

Jane Juska

A Round-Heeled Woman

Lloyd Kahn, et al

The Septic System Owners Manual

Robert Kaplan

The Nothing That Is

Miriam Kaufman et al.

The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability

Pagan Kennedy

Platforms: A Microwaved Cultural Chronicle of the 1970s

Sue Kidd

The Secret Life of Bees

Ellen Klages

The Green Glass Sea

Gina Kolata

Flu

Dean Koontz

Dragon Tears

Elizabeth Kostova

The Historian

John Krakauer

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

Ken Kroll

Enabling Romance: A Guide to Love, Sex and Relationships for the Disabled

Joe Kubert

Yossel : April 19, 1943 : a story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Mark Kurlansky

A Chosen Few: The Resurrection of European Jewry
The Basque History of the World

Allen Kurzweil

A Case of Curiosities

Stephen Kuusisto

Planet of the Blind: A Memoir

Robert Lacey

The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium

Harry Lang

A Phone of Our Own: The Deaf Insurrection Against Ma Bell

William Langewiesche

The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime

J William Langston

The Case of the Frozen Addicts

Chris Larsgaard

The Heir Hunter

Erik Larson

Devil in the White City

Kathryn Lasky

The Librarian Who Measured the Earth

John le Carre

The Constant Gardener

William Lebovich

Design for Dignity: Studies in Accessibility

Cynthia Leibrock

Beautiful Barrier Free

Stanislaw Lem

Solaris

Armand Leroi

Mutants : On Genetic Variety and the Human Body

John Lescroart

The Hunt Club
The Hearing
The Suspect
The Second Chair
A Certain Justice
The Vig
Hard Evidence
The 13th Juror

Primo Levi

The Periodic Table
The Drowned and the Saved

Steven Levitt

Freakonomics

Richard Lewis

The Flame Tree

Thomas Limoncelli

Time Management for System Administrators

Eugene Linden

The Parrot’s Lament: And Other True Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligence, and Ingenuity

Charles Long

How to Survive Without a Salary

John Long

The Dayhiker’s Handbook

Paul Longmore, ed.

The New Disability History : American perspectives

Andrea Lopez

When Raccoons Fall Through your Ceiling

Patrick Lynch

Omega

Carolyn Mackler

The earth, my butt, and other big round things

Matt Madden

Odds Off

Slate Magazine

The Explainer

Dale Maharidge

And Their Children After Them

Thomas Mann

Sudden & Awful: American Epitaphs and the Finger of God

Charles Mann

1491

Phillip Margolin

The Associate

Leo Marks

Between Silk and Cyanide

Daniel Mason

The Piano Tuner

Archer Mayor

Open Season
Borderlines
Scent of Evil

Bill McAdoo

Pre-Civil War Black Nationalism

Wendy McCarthy

Sex Education and the Intellectually Handicapped

John McCormack

A Friend of the Flock: Tales of a Country Veterinarian

Carson McCullers

The Member of the Wedding

Aaron McGruder

A Right to Be Hostile

John McPhee

The Ransom of Russian Art

Brad Meltzer

The Book of Fate

editors of Mental Floss

What’s the Difference?

James Meyers

Eggplants, Elevators, Etc.

Ben Mezrich

Bringing Down the House : The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions

China Mievelle

Perdido Street Station

Steven Millhauser

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
The King in the Tree

Christian Millman, ed.

Yankee Magazine’s Living Well on a Shoestring

Yukio Mishima

Patriotism

Elizabeth Moon

The Speed of Dark

Lorrie Moore

Who Will Run the Frog Hospital

Mark Moran

Weird US

David Morrell

Brotherhood of the Rose & The Fraternity of the Stone
The Covenant of the Flame

Peter Morville

Ambient Findability

Farley Mowat

The Boat Who Wouldn’t Float

Jim Mullen

It Takes a Village Idiot

Ted Murin

Birdwatching in Vermont

Pat Murphy

The Wild Girls

Mark Murphy

House of Java I & II

Josh Neufeld

A Few Perfect Hours

Nicholas Nicholson

Object of Virtue

Audrey Niffenegger

Time Traveler’s Wife

Sharyn November, ed.

Firebirds
Firebirds Rising

Eric Nylund

Signal to Noise

Flannery O'Connor

Everything that Rises Must Converge

Joyce Carol Oates

Big Mouth and Ugly Girl
We Were the Mulvaneys

Danielle Ofri

Incidental Findings

Iona & Peter Opie

I Saw Esau

Ted Orland

The View From The Studio Door

Susan Orleans

The Orchid Thief

Julie Orringer

How to Breathe Underwater

Vrest Orton

The Unique Inauguration of Calvin Coolidge

Frank Owen

Clubland

Cynthia Ozick

The Messiah of Stockholm

Chuck Palahniuk

Lullaby
Choke
Diary
Stranger Than Fiction

Breece DJ Pancake

The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake

Victor Papanek

How Things Don’t Work

James Patterson

Pop Goes the Weasel

Richard North Patterson

Protect and Defend

Edmund Lester Pearson

The Librarian at Play

Arturo Perez-Reverte

The Club Dumas
The Flanders Panel
The Queen of the South
The Seville Communion
The Nautical Chart

Henry Petroski

The Book on the Book Shelf
Remaking the World : Adventures in Engineering
Small Things Considered
Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering
To Engineer is Human

Daniel Pinkwater

Uncle Boris in the Yukon

Joshua Piven et al

Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Dating and Sex

Emily Pohl-Weary

A Girl Like Sugar

Michael Pollan

The Botany of Desire

Roy Porter

Blood and guts : a short history of medicine

William Poundstone

How Would You Move Mount Fuji

Richard Powers

The Gold Bug Variations

Douglas Preston

The Codex

Annie Proulx

What’ll You Take For It?

David Quammen, ed.

The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2000

Alissa Quart

Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers

Hope Stanley Quinn

Downsized but Not Defeated: The Family Guide to Living on Less

David Rakoff

Fraud

Ted Rall

Attitude 2: The New Subversive Alternative Cartoonists

Cheryl Reed

Unveiled: The Hidden Lives of Nuns

David Rees

My New Filing Technique is Unstoppable

Ed Regis

Who Got Einstein’s Office?

Christopher Reich

The First Billion

Kathy Reichs

Fatal Voyage
Death du Jour
Cross Bones

Anne Rice

The Mummy

John Richardson

In the Little World - A True Story of Dwarfs, Love, and Trouble

Mary Roach

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Alex Robinson

Box Office Poison

Marilynne Robinson

Housekeeping

Margot Rosenberg

The Care and Feeding of Books Old and New

Berton Roueche

The Incurable Wound

JK Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Matt Ruff

Sewer, Gas & Electric

Sara Ryan

Empress of the World
The Rules for Hearts

Tina S.

Living at the Edge of the World: How I Survived in the Tunnels of Grand Central Station

Joe Sacco

Palestine
Notes from a Defeatist

Louis Sachar

Holes
Small Steps

Oliver Sacks

Uncle Tungsten

Jonathan Safran Foer

Everything is Illuminated

John Sandford

The Devil’s Code

Jose Saramago

Blindness

Joel Schalit

The Anti-Capitalism Reader

Susan Schaller

A Man Without Words

Nancy Rica Schiff

Odd Jobs: Portraits of Unusual Occupations

Bernhard Schlink

The Reader

Eric Schlosser

Fast Food Nation
Reefer Madness

Lisa Scottoline

Courting Trouble
Killer Smile

Alice Sebold

The Lovely Bones

Robert Seidenberg

Women Who Marry Houses: Panic and Protest in Agoraphobia

Asne Seierstad

The Bookseller of Kabul

Susan Senator

Making Peace with Autism

Roger Shattuck

The Forbidden Experiment: The story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron

Jason Shiga

Bookhunter

Ken Silverstein

The Radioactive Boy Scout

Simon Singh

The Code Book

Mark Sloan

Wild, Weird, and Wonderful : The American circus 1901-1927

Alexander McCall Smith

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Tears of the Giraffe
Morality for Beautiful Girls
The Kalahari Typing School for Men
The Full Cupboard of Life
Portuguese Irregular Verbs
The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs
In The Company of Cheerful Ladies
The Sunday Philosophy Club

Erica Smith

The Girlfrenzy Millenial

Sarah Harrison Smith

The Fact Checker’s Bible

Jeff Smith

Bone

Lemony Snicket

The Bad Beginning

Ahdaf Soueif

The Map of Love

Jerry Spinelli

Library Card

Paul Spinrad

The RE/search Guide to Bodily Fluids

Tom Standage

The Turk

Neil Steinberg

Complete & Utter Failure: A Celebration of Also-Rans, Runners-Up, Never-Weres and Total Flops

Jeffrey Steingarten

The Man Who Ate Everything

Jim Steinmeyer

Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear

Neal Stephenson

Quicksilver

Bruce Sterling

A Good Old-Fashioned Future
Holy Fire
Distraction
The Zenith Angle

Jay Stevens

Storming Heaven

Jerusha Stewart

The Single Girl’s Manifesta: Living in a Stupendously Superior Single State of Mind

Jon Stewart

Naked Pictures of Famous People

S. M. Stirling

Islands in the Sea of Time
Conquistador
Dies the Fire

James Sturm

The Golem’s Mighty Swing

Robert Sullivan

Rats

James Surowiecki

The Wisdom of Crowds

Caroline Sutton

How Do They Do That?

Wladyslaw Szpilman

The Pianist

Kim Taylor

Bowery Girl

Richard Taylor

Taylor Made -- The Best of Bee Talk

Edward Tenner

Why Things Bite Back: technology and the revenge of unintended consequences

Irv Thomas

Derelict Days

Craig Thompson

Blankets: An Illustrated Novel

Robert Thorson

Exploring Stone Walls: A Field Guide To Stone Walls

Juliet Torrez

The Sofa Surfin Handbook

Linus Torvalds

Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary

Sue Townshend

The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4
Adrian Mole, The Cappucino Years

Scott Turow

Reversible Errors

Douglas Ubelaker

Bones

Paco Underhill

The Call of the Mall

Andrew Vachss

Hard Looks

Siva Vaidhyanathan

The Anarchist in the Library

Alan Van Dine

Uncommon Structures, Unconventional Builders

Peggy Vincent

Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife

Neeraja Viswanathan

The Street Law Handbook

Betty Vogel

A Librarian is to Read

Robert Wachter

Internal Bleeding : The Truth Behind America’s Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes

David Wallechinsky

The Book of Lists: The 90s Edition

Ralph Warner

Get a Life: You Don’t Need a Million to Retire Well

Robert Weber

More Random Walks in Science

Gavin Weightman

The Frozen Water Trade

Joe Weisberg

10th Grade

Alan Weisman

The World Without Us

Cameron West

First Person Plural: My Life as a Multiple

Jessamyn West

The State of Stony Lonesome
The Reading Public
Secret Look: Poems
The Life I Really Lived

Harvey Wheeler

Fail Safe

Eli Wiesel

Night

John Noble Wilford

The Mapmakers

Doug Wilhelm

The Revealers

Donna Williams

Nobody Nowhere

Connie Willis

Doomsday Book
Impossible Things
Fire Watch
Passage
Future Imperfect
Lincoln’s Dreams

Gahan Wilson

Still Weird

Simon Winchester

The Meaning of Everything

Ann Wiseman

Making Things: The Hand Book of Creative Discovery

Marly Youmans

Ingledove

Howard Zinn

The Future of History

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