San Jose Library Books checked out - smc - last updated 12/2006
[SJLibrary.org keeps a digital record of the books I take out, so I just cut and paste 
them into here so I can remember what I've read, in case anyone was wondering.]

[January 2007]
A death in Vienna / Frank Tallis
Tough choices : a memoir / Carly Fiorina
Killing yourself to live : 85% of a true story / Chuck Klosterman
The world is flat : a brief history of the twenty-first century / Thomas L. Friedman
In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences / Truman Capote
Paradise : [a novel] / Koji Suzuki ; translated by Tyran Grillo
Mappa mundi / by Justina Robson
Old man's war / John Scalzi

[November 2006]
When the Mississippi ran backwards : empire, intrigue, murder, and the New Madrid earthquakes / Jay Feldman
Titan / Ben Bova
Someone comes to town, someone leaves town / Cory Doctorow
The engineer reconditioned / Neal Asher
The traveler : a novel / John Twelve Hawks
American green : the obsessive quest for the perfect lawn / Ted Steinberg
Leadville : the struggle to revive an American town / Gillian Klucas
Saint Morrissey : a portrait of this charming man by an alarming fan / Mark Simpson

[September 2006]
Working fire : the making of an accidental fireman / Zac Unger
A death in Belmont / Sebastian Junger
My FBI : bringing down the Mafia, investigating Bill Clinton, and fighting the War on Terror / Louis J. Freeh with Howard Means.
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything / Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Throwim way leg : tree-kangaroos, possums, and penis gourds--on the track of unknown mammals in wildest New Guinea / Tim Flannery.
Teasing secrets from the dead : my investigations at America's most infamous crime scenes / Emily Craig ; foreword by Kathy Reichs.
A scanner darkly / Philip K. Dick
The narrows / Alexander C. Irvine

[July 2006]
My life in and out of the rough : the truth behind all that bull**** you think you know about me / John Daly with Glen Waggoner
Hershey : Milton S. Hershey's extraordinary life of wealth, empire, and utopian dreams / Michael D'Antonio
In the company of cheerful ladies / Alexander McCall Smith
The house of Cthulhu / Brian Lumley
Ghost ship : the mysterious true story of the Mary Celeste and her missing crew / Brian Hicks
Confidence : how winning streaks and losing streaks begin and end / Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Pornified : how pornography is transforming our lives, our relationships, and our families / Pamela Paul
Visionary in residence : stories / Bruce Sterling

[May 2006]
Lunar Park / Bret Easton Ellis
The Italian secretary : a further adventure of Sherlock Holmes / Caleb Carr
Assassination vacation / Sarah Vowell
Mystery of the Nile : the epic story of the first descent of the world's deadliest river / Richard Bangs and Pasquale Scaturro
A perfect red : empire, espionage, and the quest for the color of desire / Amy Butler Greenfield
Astro turf : the private life of rocket science / M.G. Lord
The friar and the cipher : Roger Bacon and the unsolved mystery of the most unusual manuscript in the world / Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone
The hot kid / Elmore Leonard.

[April 2006]
8 missed books, woops.

[February 2006]
Devils on the deep blue sea : the dreams, schemes, and showdowns that built America's cruise ship empires / Kristoffer A. Garin
The whole equation : a history of Hollywood / David Thomson
Gil's All Fright Diner / A. Lee Martinez
Gaudeamus / John Barnes
The rescue artist : a true story of art, thieves, and the hunt for a missing masterpiece / Edward Dolnick
Knightfall : Knight Ridder and how the erosion of newspaper journalism is putting democracy at risk / Davis Merritt
Raising hell : the reign, ruin, and redemption of Run-D.M.C. and Jam Master Jay / Ronin Ro
Confessions of a tax collector : one man's tour of duty inside the IRS / Richard Yancey

[December 2006]
8 missed books, woops.

[November 2005]
The adventure of English : the biography of a language / Melvyn Bragg
Another bullshit night in Suck City : a memoir / Nick Flynn
Created in darkness by troubled Americans : the best of McSweeney's, humor category / edited by Dave Eggers ... [et al.] ; with introductions by Harry Magnan and Dave Eggers
The greedy bastard diary : a comic tour of America / Eric Idle
San Francisco is burning : the untold story of the 1906 earthquake and fires / Dennis Smith
At the tomb of the inflatable pig : travels through Paraguay / John Gimlette
Jump in! : even if you don't know how to swim / Mark Burnett
Big bosoms and square jaws : the biography of Russ Meyer, king of the sex film / Jimmy McDonough

[September 2005]
Going nucular : language, politics, and culture in confrontational times / Geoffrey Nunberg
Hunting Eric Rudolph / Henry Schuster with Charles Stone
The Turkish gambit : a novel / Boris Akunin ; translated by Andrew Bromfield
Just a geek / Wil Wheaton ; with a foreword by Neil Gaiman
What the dormouse said : how the sixties counterculture shaped the personal computer industry / John Markoff
Ball of fire : the tumultuous life and comic art of Lucille Ball / Stefan Kanfer
Off-ramp : adventures and heartache in the American elsewhere / Hank Stuever
Valverde's gold : in search of the last great Inca treasure / Mark Honigsbaum

[July 2005]
Light / M. John Harrison
The Orientalist : solving the mystery of a strange and a dangerous life / Tom Reiss
Strapless : John Singer Sargent and the fall of Madame X / Deborah Davis
Men of tomorrow : geeks, gangsters, and the birth of the comic book / Gerard Jones
Beating back the devil : on the front lines with the disease detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service / Maryn McKenna
Explorers house : National Geographic and the world it made / Robert M. Poole
The big show : high times and dirty dealings backstage at the Academy Awards / Steve Pond ; photographs by Art Streiber

[June 2005]
Road work : among tyrants, heroes, rogues, and beasts / Mark Bowden
All the rave: the rise and fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster / Joseph Menn
Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation / Lynne Truss
The smartest guys in the room : the amazing rise and scandalous fall of Enron / Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
Hard revolution : a novel / George Pelecanos
Spy handler : memoir of a KGB officer : the true story of the man who recruited Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames / Victor Cherkashin with Gregory Feifer
Japan unbound : a volatile nation's quest for pride and purpose / John Nathan

[May 2005]
The meaning of everything : the story of the Oxford English dictionary / Simon Winchester
Can't find my way home : America in the great stoned age, 1945-2000 / Martin Torgoff
Do elephants jump? / David Feldman ; illustrated by Kassie Schwan
Perfect circle : a novel / Sean Stewart
Wodehouse : a life / Robert McCrum
Detective Inspector Huss / Helene Tursten ; [translated by Steven T. Murray]
Idlewild / Nick Sagan

[April 2005]
Edenborn / Nick Sagan
Stealing history : tomb raiders, smugglers, and the looting of the ancient world / Roger Atwood
Devil in the mountain : a search for the origin of the Andes / Simon Lam
Positively fifth street : murderers, cheaters, and Binion's World Series of Poker / James McManus
Seriously funny : the rebel comedians of the 1950s and 1960s / Gerald Nachman
Gasping for airtime : two years in the trenches of Saturday Night Live / Jay Mohr
Blockbuster : how Hollywood learned to stop worrying and love the summer / Tom Shone
To have and to hold : an intimate history of collectors and collecting / Philipp Blom

[March 2005]
The road to Mars : a post-modem novel / Eric Idle
Clandestine / James Ellroy
There and back again / Sean Astin with Joe Layde
Under the banner of heaven : a story of violent faith / Jon Krakauer
Illegal tender : gold, greed, and the mystery of the lost 1933 double eagle / David Tripp
The heart of the world : a journey to the last secret place / Ian Baker ; introduction by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

[Non-library books, March 2005]
Drawing Blood / Poppy Z Brite
A Wild Sheep Chase / Haruki Murakami

[February 2005]
Perdido Street Station / China Miéville
Crime stories and other writings / Dashiell Hammett
Live from New York : an uncensored history of Saturday night live / Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller
Mainlines, blood feasts, and bad taste : a Lester Bangs reader / edited by John Morthland
Our band could be your life : scenes from the American Indie underground, 1981-1991 / Michael Azerrad
The northern lights : the true story of the man who unlocked the secrets of the Aurora borealis / Lucy Jago
Dame Edna Everage and the rise of Western civilization : backstage with Barry Humphries / John Lahr
The season; a candid look at Broadway / William Goldman

[February 2005]
The real thing : truth and power at the Coca-Cola Company / Constance L. Hays
Hokkaido popsicle : a novel / Isaac Adamson
Krakatoa : the day the world exploded, August 27, 1883 / Simon Winchester
There must be a pony in here somewhere : the AOL Time Warner debacle and the quest for a digital future / Kara Swisher with Lisa Dickey
Code name Ginger : the story behind Segway and Dean Kamen's quest to invent a new world / Steve Kemper
The Bobby Gold stories / Anthony Bourdain

[January 2005]	
Eastern standard tribe / Cory Doctorow
Shutter Island / Dennis Lehane.
One fine day in the middle of the night / Christopher Brookmyre
Frek and the elixir / Rudy Rucker
Wired : a romance / Gary Wolf
Candyfreak : a journey through the chocolate underbelly of America / Steve Almond
Down and dirty pictures : Miramax, Sundance, and the rise of independent film / Peter Biskind
I bought Andy Warhol / Richard Polsky