BOOKS I WANT TO READ


FICTION


MYSTERY

Barry, Dave - Big Trouble
MacDonald, Ross - The Galton Case
Neely, Barbara - Blanche series 
McCall-Smith - The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
Deaver - The devil's teardrop
Aubert, Brigitte - Death from the Woods
Akunin, Boris - The Winter Queen

FANTASY/SF

Goodkind - Faith of the Fallen
Friedman, C.S. - Coldfire trilogy (have first)
Wolfe, Gene - Strange Travelers; On Blue's Waters (Short Sun Series)
Shea, Robert, et al. - Illuminatus trilogy
Silverberg, Robert - Legends: short novels by the masters of modern fantasy
Lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness and other tales
Heinlein - The door into summer
Niven, Larry - Inferno
Forward, Robert L. - Dragon's Egg
Beauseigneur, James - The Christ Clone trilogy
Whyte, Jack - The Skystone (Camulod Chronicles series)
Stewart, Mary - The Crystal Cave (The Merlin Trilogy)
Billingsley, Franny - The Folk Keeper
Banks, Iain - Use of Weapons
Pinto, Ricardo - The Chosen
DeLint, Charles - Forests of the Heart
Steakley, John - Armor
Lee, Adam - The Dark Shore
Miller, Ron - Bradamant: The iron tempest
Boylan, James - The Planets
Moorcock, Michael - The Final Programme
Wilson, Robert Charles - The Chronoliths
McKinley, Robin - The Blue Sword

MISC

Trapido - Traveling Hornplayer
King, Stephen - Hearts in Atlantis
McCourt, Frank - Angela's Ashes
Nabakov - Lolita
Morrison, Toni - Beloved
Updike, John - Rabbit series (I have "Run" and "At Rest")
Wolfe, Tom - The electric kool-aid acid test
Katzenbach - Hart's war
Homes, A.M. - Music for torching
Rushdie, Salmon - Haroun and the sea of stories
Fuller - The cliff-dwellers
O'Brien, Flann - The best of myles
Fraser, George MacDonald - Flashman series
Ellis, Bret Easton - American Psycho
Haywood, Eliza - The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless
Ray, Janisse - Ecology of a cracker childhood
Lardner, Ring - You Know Me Al
Anshaw, Carol - Aquamarine, Seven Lives
Stephenson, Neal - The Big U
Clavell, James - Shogun
Woodrell, Daniel - Tomato Red
de Bernieres, Louis - Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Koontz, Dean - False Memory
Powers, Richard - Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance; Galatea 2.2 
Peck, Richard - Fair Weather (Chicago's columbian expo)
Santmyer - ....And ladies of the club
Steinbeck - Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Pearson, Allison - I don't know how she does it
Weiner, Jennifer - Good in Bed
Harris - Southpaw
Waters - Affinity
Reage - The Story of O
Snicket, Lemony - Series of Unfortunate Events
Algren, Nelson - Chicago: City on the Make

NONFICTION

Biology/natural history/science:

McNeill, JR - Something new under the sun:  an environmental history of the twentieth century world
Greenwood, Pippa et al. - American Horticultural Society Pests and Diseases
Kunstler, James Howard - The Geography of Nowhere
Wilson, Edward O. - Biophilia
Gould, Stephen Jay - I Have Landed: The end of a beginning in natural history
Watts, May - Reading the Landscape of America
Maddox, Brenda - Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
Burke - Connections; The knowledge web
Russell - Anatomy of a Rose

Chicago & other cities:

Vergara, Camilo Jose - Unexpected Chicagoland
Young, David - Chicago Transit: An Illustrated History
Rothman, Hal - Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the 21st Century
Solzman, David - The Chicago River: An Illustrated History

Other:

Holmes, Richard - series of biographies on Coleridge
Angier - Woman: An intimate geography
EJ Graff - What is marriage for?
Shaff/Blount - If you only knew how much I smell you: True portraits of dogs
Safer, Joanne - Beyond Motherhood
Brunvand - Too good to be true: the colossal book of urban legends
Murphy, Virginia Reed - Across the plains in the Donner party
Gleick - Faster: the acceleration of just about everything
Petzold - Code: The hidden language...
Burkett, Elinor - The Baby Boon
Shapiro Barash, Susan - The New Wife: The evolving role of the american wife
Zoya - Zoya's Story: An Afghan woman's struggle for freedom