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Books & Articles of Note Read in 2017


updated: 2017-09-01

Subjects
Computers:
Mark Ryan 2016 _Geometry for Dummies_ (376 pages; 516)
other computer books

Economics
Patrick Joseph Buchanan 1998 _The Great Betrayal: How American Sovereignty and "Social Justice" Are Being Sacrificed to the Gods of the Global Economy_ (380 pages; 337.73)
Edmund Burke 1872, 2003, 2009 _Reflections on the Revolution in France_/_Reflections on the French Revolution_ (292 pages; 944.04)
Ann Coulter 2015 _Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn the USA into a 3rd World 4377 Hole_ (392 pages; 325.73)
Francis Fukuyama 2011 _The Origins of Political Order: From PreHuman Times to the French Revolution_ (620 pages; 1.9MB; 320.9)
David Neumark 2000 _On the Job: Is Long-Term Employment a Thing of the Past?_ (516 pages)
see separate page of econ books jgo has read

Science:
Frances A. Carey 1987, 1992 _Organic Chemistry_ (1154 pages)
Tom Bethell 2005 _The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science_ (270 pages; 509.73)
see separate pages
 

History:
Rene Grousset & Naomi Walford 1939, 1952, 1970, 1977, 1991 _The Empire of the Steppes: An History of Central Asia_ (687 pages; 958)
William Ryan, Walter Pitman, William Haxby & Anastasia Sotiropoulos 1998 _Noah's Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event That Changed History_ (300 pages)
see separate pages
 

Career
see career books
 

Screen-plays/Movie-Making
none yet
Frank E. Beaver 1983 _On Film: An History of the Motion Picture_ (516 pages)
see movie-making books

Religion
Jonathan Cahn 2016 _The Book of Mysteries_ (365 pages; hard)
see earlier pages

Fiction
Kevin J. Anderson 2009 _Enemies & Allies: The Dark Knight Meets the Man of Steel_ (326 pagess)
Raymond Benson 2014 _The Black Stiletto: Secrets & Lies, the 4th Diary 1961_ (320 pages)
Raymond Benson 2017 _The Black Stiletto: Endings & Beginnings 1962_ (#5; 325 pages; hard)
John Birmingham 2004 _Weapons of Choice_ (AxisOfTime #1; 434 pages; hard)
John Birmingham 2005 _Designated Targets_ (AxisOfTime #2; 368 pages; hard)
Elizabeth Bonesteel 2016 _The Cold Between_ (CentralCorps #1; 518 pages; qpb)
Jessica Brody 2016 _The 13th Continuum_ (Continuum #1; 398 pages; hard)
Leslie Charteris 1939, 1991 _Follow the Saint_ (256 pages; hard)
Wesley Chu 2006 _Time Siege_ (430 pages; hard)
Tom Clancy _RainBow 6_ (JackRyan #9/JohnClark #2; 740 pages)
Tom Clancy 2000 _The Bear and the Dragon_ (JackRyan #10/JohnClark #3; 1494 pages)
Tom Clancy & Grant Blackwood 2010 _Dead or Alive_ (JackRyan #13/JackRyanii #2/JohnClark #3; 950 pages)
Tom Clancy & Mark Greaney 2012, 2013 _Threat Vector_ (JackRyan #15/JackRyanii #4; 973 pages; large)
Tom Clancy & Mark Greaney 2013 _Command Authority_ (JackRyan #16/JackRyanii #9?; 780 pages; large)
Michael Crichton 1976, 1992, 2006, 2009 _Eaters of the Dead: The Manuscript of ibn Fadlan, Relating His Experiences with the NorthMen in 922CE_/_The 13th Warrior_ (combining ibn Fadlan's journal with Beowulf)
Clive Cussler & Jack du Brul 2008, 2009 _Plague Ship_ (581 pages)
Julie Czerneda 2015 _This Gulf of Time and Stars_ (ClanChronicles #7/ReUnification #1; 450 pages; hard)
Eric Flint & Andrew Dennis 2016 _1635: A Parcel of Rogues_ (386 pages)
Eric Flint & Walter H. Hunt 2016 _1636: The Cardinal Virtues_ (500 pages; paper)
Cecil Scott Forester/Cecil Louis Troughton Smith 1948, 1950, 1978, 1998 _Mr. MidShipMan Hornblower_ (Hornblower #1; 310 pages; paper)
Cecil Scott Forester/Cecil Louis Troughton Smith 1950, 1998 _Lieutenant Hornblower_ (Hornblower #2; 312 pages; qpb)
Cecil Scott Forester/Cecil Louis Troughton Smith 1962, 1990 _Hornblower & the "HotSpur"_ (Hornblower #3; 394 pages; qpb)
Cecil Scott Forester/Cecil Louis Troughton Smith 1953, 1985 _Hornblower During the Crisis_ (Hornblower #4; 162 pages; qbp)
Cecil Scott Forester/Cecil Louis Troughton Smith 1950 _Randall and the River of Time_ (341 pages; hard)
Diana Gabaldon 1991, 2005 _OutLander_ (Outlander #1; 850 pages)
Robert Silverberg 1967 _The Time-Hoppers_ (182 pages)
Steve M. Stirling 2006 _The Sky People_ (LordsOfCreation #1; 301 pages)
David Weber 1999 _On Basilisk Station_ (Honor Harrington #1)
David Weber 1993 _The Honor of the Queen_ (Honor Harrington #2; 422 pages; paper)

Other
Samuel Arbesman 2013 _The Half-Life of "Facts": Why Everything We [Think We] Know Has an Expiration Date_ (253 pages; 2.2MB; 501)
Bill Bishop 2008 _The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart_ (384 pages; 305.8073)
Barbara A. Bissonnette 2013 _Asperger's Syndrome WorkPlace Survival Guide: A NeuroTypical's Secrets for Success_ (200 pages; 650.1087)
Patrick Joseph Buchanan 2006 _State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of the USA_ (320 pages; 491KB; 325.73)
Lewis Dartnell 2014 _The Knowledge: How to ReBuild Our World from Scratch_ (340 pages; 500)
P. David Gaubatz, Chris Gaubatz & Paul Sperry 2016 _Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret UnderWorld That's Conspiring to Islamize the USA_ (422 pages; 320.557)
Robert D. Kaplan 2017 _Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes USA's Role in the World_ (180 pages; 306.0973)
Robert Spencer 2005 _The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)_ (270 pages; 1.2MB; 297)
Mitchell Zuckoff & the Annex Security Team 2014 _13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi [from the POV of the security team there]_ (332 pages; 9.5MB; 363.32509612)


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