Introduction
New Books
Literature 2008
Novels
Short Stories
Poetry
Drama
Media
Non-Fiction 2008
Psychology
Technology
Mathematics
Science
History
Art
Philosophy
Trains
Birds
Drawing
Introduction
New Books
Literature 2008
Novels
Short Stories
Poetry
Drama
Media
Non-Fiction 2008
Psychology
Technology
Mathematics
Science
History
Art
Philosophy
Trains
Birds
Drawing
General Comments
The following table lists all of the books (both fiction and non-fiction) that I have purchased in 2008. The goal will be to cut back on my new purchases and focus on the books that I already possess.
The yellow background on the cells in the right-most column indicate books that I have bought and read this year. The green background in the Type column indicates a non-fiction book that I have bought and read this year.
Date Bought
Jan 14/08 Douglas Coupland The Gum Thief Novel Jan 28/08 Dante Divine Comedy Poetry Milton Paradise Lost Poetry Apr 29/08 Jan 26/08 David Sawyer McFarland Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual Technology Mar 18/08 Sherry Kinkoph Gunter Dreamweaver CS3 and Flash CS3 Professional Technology Mar 17/08 David Karlins Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 How-Tos Technology Mar 13/08 Feb 08/08 Lyndall Gordon Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life History Mar 11/08 Mary Swan The Boys in the Trees Novel Mar 14/08 Mar 22/08 Marcus du Sautoy Symmetry Mathematics May 18/08 Donal O'Shea The Poincare Conjecture Mathematics Ivar Ekeland The Best of All Possible Worlds Mathematics Joseph Silk The Infinite Cosmos Science Jonah Lehrer Proust was a Neuroscientist Science Apr 25/08 John Truby The Anatomy of a Story Literature Robertson Davies Selected Works on the Pleasures of Reading Literature Jon McGregor If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things Novel Jun 14/08 Mar 26/08 Tyler Trafford The Story of Blue Eye Novel Tyler Trafford Alexander's Way Novel Mar 28/08 Absolqasem Ferdowsi Shahnameh (The Persian Book of Kings) Novel Rumi The Masnavi (Book One) Poetry Rumi The Masnavi (Book Two) Poetry Annemarie Schimmel Rumi's World Literature Howard Eves Foundations and Fundamental Concepts of Mathematics. Third Edition. Mathematics Ian Stewart Concepts of Modern Mathematics Mathematics Apr 3/08 Galbraith, Goodman, Jacobs, Kierens, Martin Luther King The Lost Massey Lectures Essays Georgina Howell Daughter of the Desert History Andy Merrifield The Wisdom of Donkeys Novel Apr 09/08 Apr 9/08 Jonathan Rabin Bad Land Novel Apr 17/08 Apr 11/08 Sarah Robbins & Mark Bell Second Life for Dummies Technology Sean Percival Second Life In-World Travel Guide Technology Jiang Rong Wolf Totem Novel Apr 24/08 May 16/08 Virgil The Aeneid Poetry Ralph L. Wahlstrom The Tao of Writing Philosophy May 18/08 Gil Adamson The Outlander Novel Nov 28/08 Chip Kidd The Cheese Monkeys Novel Jane Urquhart The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories Short Stories Mark Z. Danielewski House of Leaves Novel Manil Suri The Age of Shiva Novel Jun 09/08 Ron Wood And God Created Manyberries Short Stories May 22/08 Jun 3/08 David Mumford Indra's Pearls Mathematics Jun 5/08 Shauna Singh Baldwin What the Body Remembers Novel Ronald Wright A Scientific Romance Novel Jun 17/08 Jun 13/08 David Joyner Adventures in Group Theory Mathematics Greg Mortenson Three Cups of Tea Biography Randy Pausch The Last Lecture Psychology Jun 18/08 Bryan Peterson Understanding Exposure Photography Jun 21/08 Michael Crichton State of Fear (used) Novel Jul 06/08 Karl Schuessler School on Wheels (used) History Via Rail Canada Rails Across Canada (used) History Peter Bowers Two Divisions to Bluewater (used) History Monica Ali Brick Lane (used) Novel: Bangladesh Jun 30/08 Radd Icenoggle Birds in Place Birds David Kundtz Moments in Between Psychology Jul 17/08 Jonathan Rosen The Life of the Skies Birds P. D. Skaar Montana Bird Distribution Birds Ted Floyd Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds Birds Chuck Robbins Great Places Montana Travel Jul 01/08 Stan Tekiela Birds of Montana Field Guide Birds James Fenimore Cooper The Last of the Mohicans Novel Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities Novel Dec 26/08 Honore de Balzac Lost Illusions Novel Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays and Poems Literature Upton Sinclair The Jungle Novel O. Henry Selected Stories of O. Henry Literature Sinclair Lewis Main Street Novel Voltaire Candide Novel Sinclair Lewis Babbitt Novel Jul 20/08 Paul Stephen Lubicz Body Conditioning for Men Fitness Lou Marinoff The Middle Way Psychology Jul 09/08 Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises/A Farewell to Arms/For Whom the Bell Tolls/The Old Man and the Sea Novel Jul 24-Aug 25/08 Jul 11/08 Sid Marty The Black Grizzley of Whiskey Creek History Sep 06/08 Joyce Carol Oates The Falls Novel Dec 19/08 Isabel Allende Daughter of Fortune Novel Jodi Picoult The Tenth Circle Novel Aug 29/08 I. S. MacLaren (Ed.) Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park History Liz Bryan Country Roads of Alberta: Exploring the Routes LessTravelled History Cinda Chavich High Plains: The Joy of Alberta Cuisine. Revised Edition History Vernon R. Wishart What Lies Behind the Picture? History Steven Pinker The Stuff of Thought Psychology Stuart A. Kauffman Reinventing the Sacred Science Andrew Hodges One to Nine: The Inner Life of Numbers Mathematics Adele Schlombs Hiroshige Art Jacqueline Baker The Horseman's Graves Novel Sep 09/08 Miriam Toews The Flying Troutmans Novel Nov 21/08 Sep 26/08 Alisa Smith & J. B. MacKinnon The 100 Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating. Science William Marsden Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (And Doesn't Seem to Care) History Margaret Atwood Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth. CBC Massey Lectures Literature M. Wylie Blanchett The Curve of Time History Dec 28/08 Margaret Craven I Heard the Owl Call My Name Novel Sep 28/08 Liz Bryan Exploring the Interior Country Roads of British Columbia History Jim Gilbert & Karin Clark Learning By Designing: Pacific Northwest Coast Native Indian Art Art George G. Szpiro Poincare's Prize Mathematics Maryanne Wolf Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain Science Dec 08/08 Oct 01/08 David Wroblewski The Story of Edgar Sawtelle Novel Carl W. Haywood Sometimes Only Horses to Eat History John Palfrey & Urs Gasser Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives Technology Dec 23/08 Oct 02/08 Clifford A. Pickover Archimedes to Hawking Science Frank Wilczek The Lightness of Being Science Adrien Banner The Calculus Lifesaver Mathematics David Quammen Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species. The Illustrated Edition Science Jonathan Zittrain The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It Technology Douglas H. Erwin Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago Science Clay Shirky Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations Technology Gregory Berns Iconoclast Psychology C. Stanley Ogilvy & John T. Anderson Excursions in Number Theory Mathematics Prey Michael Crichton Novel Oct 21/08 Oct 14/08 John Ralston Saul A Fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada History Nov 9/08 Joseph Boyden Through Black Spruce Novel Nov 16/08 Richard B. Wright October Novel Lawrence Hill The Book of Negroes Novel Junot Diaz The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Diaz Novel Oct 15/08 Nick Eyles & Andrew Miall Canada Rocks. The Geologic Journey Science Ronald Louis Bonewitz Rock and Gem Science Robert Kull Solitude: Seeking Wisdom in Extremes Psychology Dec 11/08 Oct 20/08 David Hackett Fischer Champlain's Dream History Seymour Schulich Get Smarter Psychology Heritage Tree Foundation of Canada Heritage Trees of Alberta Science Marian White & Robin White Wild Alberta at the Crossroads Science Nov 22/08 Joel Best Stat-spotting: A Field Guide to Identifying Dubious Data Mathematics Dec 24/08 Ron Mussieux & Marilyn Nelson Geological Wonders in Alberta Science Margaret Griffiths Morning Light Psychology Rudy Wiebe Big Bear History Joseph Boyden Three Day Road Novel Dec 22/08 John W. Moffat Reinventing Gravity Science
The following table provides a running total of the number of books bought this year. This table was first created on July 15, 2008. I am a bit startled to see that I have bought 72 books so far this year. Of these, I have read 18. It doesn't take a genius to realize that my reach exceeds my grasp.
Bought |
YTD |
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Literature |
Non-Fiction |
Literature |
Non-Fiction |
|
| January | 3 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
| February | 1 |
3 |
4 |
|
| March | 10 |
7 |
13 |
11 |
| April | 3 |
4 |
16 |
15 |
| May | 7 |
1 |
23 |
16 |
| June | 3 |
14 |
26 |
30 |
| July | 13 |
3 |
39 |
33 |
| August | 1 |
8 |
40 |
41 |
| September | 1 |
9 |
41 |
50 |
| October | 6 |
19 |
47 |
69 |
| November | 1 |
4 |
48 |
73 |
| December | 1 |
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Books of All Kinds:
A Personal Record of Reading in 2008
New Books