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Rating is out of a possible five.

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Non-Fiction

Title	Author	Rating
The Persistence of Vision (collection)	John Varley
The Weapon Makers	A.E. Van Vogt	3
Neuromancer	William Gibson	4.5
The Sky People	S.M. Stirling	3.5
Little Brother	Cory Doctorow	4
The Martian Way	Isaac Asimov	4
The Worm Ouroboros	E.R. Eddison	5
Slaughterhouse-Five	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	4
The Müller-Fokker Effect	John Sladek	4
A Voyage to Arcturus	David Lindsay	5
The Noble Art of Leaf Chasing	Mitchell J. Rycus	4
Atlas Shrugged	Ayn Rand	5
The Creatures of Man	Howard L. Myers	3.5
The Murder of King Tut	James Patterson	3
The Multiplex Man	James P. Hogan	4
Inherit the Stars	James P. Hogan	3.5
The Sword of the Lady	S. M. Stirling	4
Orphans of the Sky	Robert Heinlein	4
Soldier, Ask Not	Gordon R. Dickson	2.5
Rub up: Musings of a Navy Corpsman	Mitchell J. Rycus	4
Harald	David Friedman	2.5
The Shadow of Saganami	David Weber	4
Confessions of a Crap Artist	Philip K. Dick	4.5
Babel 17	Samuel R. Delaney	4
Starliner	David Drake	3.5
Earthweb	Mark Stiegler	3.5
Sunrise Alley	Catheraine Asaro	3.5
An Acceptable Time	Madeleine L'Engle	2.5
The Nonsense Books	Edward Lear	4
Crown of Fire [3 of 3]	Kathy Tyers	4.5
Fusion Fire [2 of 3]	Kathy Tyers	4.5
The Infinite Sea [3 of 3]	Jeffrey A. Carver	3.5
Firebird [1 of 3]	Kathy Tyers	4.5
Strange Attractors [2 of 3]	Jeffrey A. Carver	3
Crawling Between Heaven and Earth	Sarah A. Hoyt	3.5
Neptune Crossing [1 of 3]	Jeffrey A. Carver	3.5
Darkness at Noon	Arthur Koestler	5
The Outlaw of Torn	Edgar Rice Burroughs	3.5
Lest Darkness Fall	L. Sprague deCamp	4
Three Hearts and Three Lions	Poul Anderson	4
The Golden Man	Philip K. Dick	4.5
Storm Over Warlock	Andre Norton	3.5
Black Seas of Infinity	H.P. Lovecraft	4.5
In the Courts of the Crimson Kings	S. M. Stirling	4
A Christmas Carol	Charles Dickens	5
The Christmas Mystery	Jostein Gaarder	4.5
The Phantom Tollbooth	Norton Juster	3.5
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader	C.S. Lewis	5
A Voyage to Arcturus	David Lindsay	5
Freezing Point	Karen Dionne	3.5
The Shadow of the Lion	Lackey, Flint, & Freer	3.5
Collected Plays	Charles Williams	4
First Lensman	E.E. "Doc" Smith	3.5
The Well at the World's End	William Morris	4
The Pilgrim's Regress	C.S. Lewis	5
Triplanetary	E.E. "Doc" Smith	3.5
A Plague of Demons	Keith Laumer	3.5
War In Heaven	Charles Williams	5
The Last Continent	Terry Pratchett	4
The Unforsaken Hiero	Sterling E. Lanier	3.5
Prince Caspian	C.S. Lewis	5
Crown of Slaves	David Weber & Eric Flint	4
Genellan: Planetfall	Scott Gier	3
Emerald Sea	John Ringo	3.5
Primary Inversion	Catherine Asaro	3.5
The Light Fantastic	Terry Pratchett	4
The Excalibur Alternative	David Weber	3.5
Born to Run	Mercedes Lackey & Larry Dixon	3.5
Fallen Angels	Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, & Michael Flynn	4
Doc Sidhe	Aaron Allston	3.5
A Logic Named Joe	Murray Leinster	4
Fatal Revenant	Stephen R. Donaldson	4.5
The Tyrant	Eric Flint & David Drake	4
Cross the Stars	David Drake	3.5
Future Imperfect	Keith Laumer, Jr.	3.5
Beowulf: Dual Language Edition	Howell D. Chickering, Jr.	5
The Course of Empire	Eric Flint & K.D. Wentworth	3.5
The Sunrise Lands	S.M. Stirling	4
The Far Side of the Stars	David Drake	3.5
Nova	Samuel R. Delaney	4
The Forlorn	Dave Freer	3.5
Freehold	Michael Z. Williamson	4
Wisdom of the Fox	Harry Turtledove	3.5
Time Travelers Strictly Cash	Spider Robinson	4
The Dance of Time [6 of 6] (at last!)	Eric Flint & David Drake	4.5
A Plague of Demons	Keith Laumer	3.5
Bridge to Terebithia	Katherine Paterson	5
Rollback	Robert J. Sawyer	4
This Sceptered Isle	Mercedes Lackey & Roberta Gellis	4
Changer of Worlds	David Weber (& Eric Flint)	3.5
Night of Light	Philip José Farmer	4
West of Honor	Jerry Pournelle	3
Wizardry Compiled	Rick Cook	3.5
Three Hearts and Three Lions	Poul Anderson	4.5
The Multiplex Man	James P. Hogan	3.5
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch	Philip K. Dick	4.5
Into the Looking Glass	John Ringo	4
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	James Joyce	5
Great Kings' War	Roland Green & John F. Carr	2.5
Sisters of Glass	D.W. St. John	4.5
Brave New World	Aldous Huxley
Wizard's Bane	Rick Cook	3.5
Sunset Alley	Catherine Asaro	3.5
1812: The Rivers of War	Eric Flint	4
Redliners	David Drake	4.5
There Will Be Dragons	John Ringo	4
That Hideous Strength	C.S. Lewis	5
Sentry Peak	Harry Turtledove	3.5
The Runes of Earth	Stephen R. Donaldson	4
On The Road	Jack Kerouac	4.5
Wolf Time	Lars Walker	4
Michaelmas	Algis Budrys	4
Black On Black	K.D. Wentworth	3.5
Stars Over Stars	K.D. Wentworth	3.5
The Two Faces of Tomorrow	James P. Hogan	2.5
All Hallow's Eve	Charles Williams	5
The Greater Trumps	Charles Williams	5
The Sea Hag	David Drake	3
The Honor of the Queen	David Weber	3.5
Mort	Terry Pratchett	3.5
On Basilisk Station	David Weber	3.5
Mutineer's Moon	David Weber	3.5
Crusade	David Weber & Steve White	4
The Hub: Dangerious Territory	James Schmitz	3
Boundary	Eric Flint & Ryk Spoor	4
Berserker Throne	Fred Saberhagen	3.5
Diamonds Are Forever	Eric Flint & Ryk Spoor	3
The Lion of Farside	John Dalmas	4
The Mountains of Mourning	Lois McMaster Bujold	3.5
Doc Sidhe	Aaron Allston	3.5
Beyond World's End	Mercedes Lackey & Rosemary Edghill	3.5
The Warslayer	Rosemary Edghill	3.5
Seas of Venus	David Drake	3
Interstellar Patrol	Christopher Anvil	3
Pandora's Legion	Christopher Anvil	3.5
The Five People You Meet in Hell	Rich Pablum	3
Resonance	Chris Dolley	4
Werehunter	Mercedes Lackey	3
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever	James Tiptree, Jr.	3.5
Orlando Furioso	Ariosto	5
Silverlock, incl the Silverlock Companion	John Myers Myers	5
Pattern Recognition	William Gibson	3.5
Prince Caspian [2 of 7]	C.S. Lewis	5
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe [1 of 7]	C.S. Lewis	5
Telzey and Trigger	James Schmitz	3
A Torrent of Faces	James Blish & Norman Knight	4
The Earthlords	Gordon R. Dickson	4
Iceworld	Hal Clement	4
Many Dimensions	Charles Williams	5
Born to Run	Mercedes Lackey + Larry Dixon	3
I Am Charlotte Jones	Tom Wolf
Telzey Amberdon	James Schmitz	3
The Dream Master (I re-read this one)	Roger Zelazny	4
Heroics for Beginners	John Moore	3
The War God's Own	David Weber	4
The Taking	Dean Koontz	4
March to the Sea	David Weber & John Ringo	4
Gust Front	John Ringo	3.5
The Lighter Side	Keith Laumer	3.5
Oath of Swords	David Weber	3.5
Paying the Piper	David Weber	3
Fire in the Mist	Holly Lisle	3.5
Forward the Mage	Eric Flint & Richard Roach	3
Digital Knight	Ryk Spoor	3
Star Soldiers	Andre Norton	3
Sympathy for the Devil	Holly Lisle	3.5
Fiddler Fair	Mercedes Lackey	3
Beyond	Theodore Sturgeon	4.5
Fallen Angels	Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, & Michael Flynn	3.5
Mission Compromised	Oliver North	3.5
The Crystal City [6 of 6]	Orson Scott Card	4
The Place of the Lion	Charles Williams	5
Agent of Byzantium	Harry Turtledove	4.5
March Upcountry	David Weber & John Ringo	3.5
The Dreaming Earth	John Brunner	4
The Stars My Destination	Alfred Bester	4.5
A Hymn Before Battle	John Ringo	3.5
Silverlock	John Myers Myers	5
Planets of Adventure	Murray Leinster	4
Time Traders	Andre Norton	3.5
Med Ship	Murray Leinster	4
The DaVinci Code	Dan Brown	3
The Shadow of the Lion	Lackey, Flint, & Freer	3.5
The Pilgrim's Progress - Part 2	John Bunyan	5
The Far Edge of Darkness	Linda Evans	3.5
The Pilgrim's Progress - Part 1	John Bunyan	5
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen	Baron Munchausen	5
Odyssey	Keith Laumer	4
The Sheep Look Up	John Brunner	4
The Classic Phillip José Farmer [anthology]	Phillip José Farmer	4
The Magic Labyrinth [4 of 4]	Phillip José Farmer	3.5
The Dark Design [3 of 4]	Phillip José Farmer	4
The Fabulous Riverboat [2 of 4]	Phillip José Farmer	4
To Your Scattered Bodies Go [1 of 4]	Phillip José Farmer	4.5
Sleipnir	Linda Evans	4

Title	Author	Rating
Glory Road	Robert Heinlein	4
The End of All Songs [3 of 3]	Michael Moorcock	4.5
The Hollow Lands [2 of 3]	Michael Moorcock	4.5
An Alien Heat [1 of 3]	Michael Moorcock	4.5
The Last Battle [7 of 7]	C.S. Lewis	5
The Magician's Nephew [6 of 7]	C.S. Lewis	5
The Horse and His Boy [5 of 7]	C.S. Lewis	5
The Silver Chair [4 of 7]	C.S. Lewis	5
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader [3 of 7]	C.S. Lewis	5
Prince Caspian [2 of 7]	C.S. Lewis	5
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe [1 of 7]	C.S. Lewis	5
The Sea Wolf	Jack London	4.5
The Man in the High Castle	Philip K. Dick	4
The Anarchistic Colossus	A.E. Van Vogt	3
The Ballad of Beta-2	Samuel R. Delaney	4
Chicken Poop for the Soul		3
1633	Eric Flint & David Weber	3.5
Bytes Akimbo - Cybersleuth	Charlie van Becelaere	5
Stories of India	Rudyard Kipling	5
Heartfire [5 of 6]	Orson Scott Card	4.5
Alvin Journeyman [4 of 6]	Orson Scott Card	4.5
Prentice Alvin [3 of 6]	Orson Scott Card	4.5
Red Prophet [2 of 6]	Orson Scott Card	4.5
Seventh Son [1 of 6]	Orson Scott Card	4
Return of the King [3 of 3]	J.R.R. Tolkein	5
The Tide of Victory [5 of 6]	Eric Flint & David Drake	4.5
The Two Towers [2 of 3]	J.R.R. Tolkein	5
Agent of Vega, and other stories	James Schmidt	3
Old Nathan	David Drake	3.5
Topper	Thorne Smith	4.5
Starlight	Hal Clement	3
Fortune's Stroke [4 of 6]	Eric Flint & David Drake	4
Retief!	Keith Laumer	4
The Philosophical Strangler	Eric Flint	3
Destiny's Shield [3 of 6]	Eric Flint & David Drake	4
In the Heart of Darkness [2 of 6]	Eric Flint & David Drake	4
An Oblique Approach [1 of 6]	Eric Flint & David Drake	4
Excalibur	Sanders Anne Laubenthal	4
1632	Eric Flint	4
Fallen Angels	Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, & Michael Flynn	3.5
Tales of Earthsea & the Other Wind	Ursula K. LeGuin	3
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams	3
GildenFire	Stephen R. Donaldson	3.5
White Gold Wielder [3 of 3]	Stephen R. Donaldson	4.5
The One Tree [2 of 3]	Stephen R. Donaldson	4
The Wounded Land [1 of 3]	Stephen R. Donaldson	4.5
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead	Tom Stoppard	3.5
The Power That Preserves [3 of 3]	Stephen R. Donaldson	4.5
The Illearth War [2 of 3]	Stephen R. Donaldson	4.5
Lord Foul's Bane [1 of 3]	Stephen R. Donaldson	4
A Swiftly Tilting Planet	Madeleine L'Engle	4
A Wind in the Door	Madeleine L'Engle	4
A Wrinkle in Time	Madeleine L'Engle	5
Eaters of the Dead	Michael Chricton	4
Beyond	Theodore Sturgeon	4
Neuromancer	William Gibson	4
Rainbow Six	Tom Clancy	4
Dying Inside	Robert Silverberg	5
The Best of John Sladek	John Sladek	4
Lord of Light	Roger Zelazny	4
Crown of Fire [3 of 3]	Kathy Tyers	4.5
Fusion Fire [2 of 3]	Kathy Tyers	4.5
Firebird[1 of 3]	Kathy Tyers	4.5
Bored of the Rings	the Harvard Lampoon	4
The Hobbit	J.R.R. Tolkein	5
The Eleventh Commandment	Jeffrey Archer	4
Beowulf: Dual Language Edition	Howell D. Chickering, Jr.	4
John Carter of Mars [11 of 11]	Edgar Rice Burroughs	2.5 / 3
Llana of Gathol [10 of 11]	Edgar Rice Burroughs	2.5
Synthetic Men of Mars [9 of 11]	Edgar Rice Burroughs	4
Swords of Mars [8 of 11]	Edgar Rice Burroughs	4
A Fighting Man of Mars [7 of 11]	Edgar Rice Burroughs	4
The Master Mind of Mars [6 of 11]	Edgar Rice Burroughs	4
The Chessmen of Mars [5 of 11]	Edgar Rice Burroughs	4
Thuvia, Maid of Mars [4 of 11]	Edgar Rice Burroughs	3
The Warlord of Mars [3 of 11]	Edgar Rice Burroughs	4
The Gods of Mars [2 of 11]	Edgar Rice Burroughs	4
A Princess of Mars [1 of 11]	Edgar Rice Burroughs	4
That Hideous Strength [3 of 3]	C.S. Lewis	5
Perelandra [2 of 3]	C.S. Lewis	5
Out of the Silent Planet [1 of 3]	C.S. Lewis	5
The Müller-Fokker Effect	John Sladek	4
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?	Philip K. Dick	4
This Day All Gods Die [5 of 5]	Stephen R. Donaldson	4
Chaos and Order [4 of 5]	Stephen R. Donaldson	4
A Dark and Hungry God Arises [3 of 5]	Stephen R. Donaldson	4
Forbidden Knowledge [2 of 5]	Stephen R. Donaldson	4
The Real Story [1 of 5]	Stephen R. Donaldson	4
Silverlock	John Myers Myers	5
Tales of Nevèrÿon	Samuel R. Delaney	0
Night of Light	Philip José Farmer	4
A Case of Conscience [4of 4]	James Blish	5
The Day After Judgment [3of 4]	James Blish	5
Black Easter [2 of 4]	James Blish	5
Doctor Mirabilis [1of 4]	James Blish	5
A Canticle for Leibowitz	Walter M. Miller, Jr.	5

Title	Author	Rating
Bushcraft	Richard Graves
An Adventure with Guerrillas	Ethelbirt Crouse	5
The Year of Living Biblically	A.J. Jacobs	4
Supporting Yourself as an Artist	Deborah Hoover
Zero Dollars, a Little Talent, and Thirty Days	Jennifer Laycock	4
The Lazlo Letters	Don Novello	5
Tonancour - Life in Grosse Pointe and Along the Shores of Lake St. Clair - Vol 1	Arthur M. Woodford
You Set My Spirit Free - Devotions from John of the Cross	David Hazard	4
Into the Region of Awe	David C. Downing	4
Crush It!	Gary Vaynerchuk	4
The Artist's Way (re-reading it)	Julie Cameron
Vikings - Fear and Faith	Paul Cavill	4.5
The Strenuous Life	Theodore Roosevelt	4
Musicophilia	Oliver Sacks	0.5
On Wine	Gerald Asher	4.5
The Great Beers of Belgium	Michael Jackson (no, not that one)	4
Flat and Curved Space-Times	George Ellis & Ruth Williams	4
Ted, White, and Blue	Ted Nugent	5
John Wesley: The Great Methodist	Sam Wellman	4
An Introduction to Old Norse	E.V. Gordon	4
Renew My Heart	John Wesley	5
The Book of Common Ignorance	John Lloyd, +	3.5
The Year of Living Biblically	A.J. Jacobs	<didn't read>
The Viking World	(I forget)	3.5
The Arthurian Companion	Kay Parker	4
The Age of Chivalry	National Geographic Books	4
Godless: the Church of Liberalism	Ann Coulter	4.5
Free Culture	Lawrence Lessig	4
Revising Fiction	David Madden	3.5
Past Watchful Dragons	Walter Hooper	4
The Unheavenly City - Revisited	Edward Banfield	5
The Road to Reality	K.P. Yohannon	3
John Wesley's (edited) Journals	(I forget)
How to Talk to a Liberal	Ann Coulter	4
Breaking the DaVinci Code	Darrell L. Bock, PhD	4
Systematic Theology - vol 1 The Living God	Thomas Oden
The DaVinci Code Fact or Fiction?	Hank Hanegraaff & Paul Maier	3.5
Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time	Marcus Borg	0.5
We Took To The Woods	Louise Dickinson Rich	5
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid	Douglas R. Hofstadter	2.5 (man, I remembered this as being way better than this.)
The Artist's Way (re-reading it)	Julia Cameron	4.5
Worlds in Collision	Immanuel Velikovsky	2.5
The Meaning of Relativity	Albert Einstein	4
The Case for Christ - Student Edition	Lee Strobel & Jane Vogel	5
A Day In Your Presence - Devotions from Francis of Assisi	David Hazard	3.5
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton	Edward Rice	4
The Artist's Way	Julia Cameron	4
The Joyful Christian	C.S. Lewis	5
The Study of Counterpoint	Johan Joseph Fux	3.5
The Iron Sun	Adrian Berry	4
You Set My Spirit Free - Devotions from John of the Cross	David Hazard	4
Non Campus Mentis	Prof. Anders Henriksson	4
Reasoning from the Scriptures with Jehovah's Witnesses	Ron Rhodes	4
The Abolition of Man	C.S. Lewis	5
On Wine	Gerald Asher	4
Laws of Form	G. Spencer-Brown	4.5
The Great Beers of Belgium	Michael Jackson (no, not that one)	3.5
The John Wesley Reader	Al Bryant	4
Talking With My Father: Jesus Teaches on Prayer	Ray Stedman	5
Hearts Afire: Prayers of Susannah, John, and Charles Wesley	Those Wesleys plus an editor	5
Prayer: Conversations with God	Rosalind Rinker	4
Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer	C. S. Lewis	5
Jimmy the Bartender's Guide to Life	James Kennedy	4
The Deceivers	Josh McDowell +	4
Resurrection	Hank Hanegraff	3
How the Irish Saved Civilization	Thomas Cahill	4
Tolkien : a Look Behind the Lord of the Rings	Lin Carter	3
Slouching Towards Gomorra	Robert H. Bork	3

Rating is out of a possible five.

Last Update: 30 August 10