We like to play games from time to time. I list here ones I recommend and a
few notes to help you select ones that might suit your tastes.
The
book ordering links are provided in association with Amazon.com Books. A great online
bookstore. Buying the book here sends me pennies; I list the links not for the money but
because this is such a super example of web commerce. (Well, truth be told,
I did this back in 1997 when it really was amazing. These days it is pretty pass�.
Ah well, so it goes.)
For the web search bots, here's a list of the book which are reviewed on this page, via the Amazon iframe:
- Bright Lights Big City by Jay Mcinerney
- Permanent Midnight: A Memoir by Jerry Stahl
- The Story of Junk: A Novel by Linda Yablonsky
- A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
- The Liars' Club by Mary Karr
- Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
- Confessions of a Dangerous Mind by Chuck Barris
- Consciousness: An Introduction by Susan Blackmore
- Party of One by Anneli Rufus
- The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons by Lawrence
Lessig
- Freakonomics by Steven Levitt
- Making Miracles Happen by Gregory Smith
- Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus by John Gray
- The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
- What Were They Thinking by Jeffrey Pfeffer
- Engineering Your Start Up by James Baird, et al.
- Gridlock Economy by Michael Heller
- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
- Jennifer Government by Max Barry
- Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
- My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
- The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Mama Makes Up Her Mind by Bailey White
- The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall
- Moo by Jane Smiley
- Assasination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
- Far Tortuga by Peter Matthiessen
- Gardening with a Wild Heart by Judith Larner Lowry
- Inspector Imanishi Investigates by Seicho Matsumoto
- Finding Fish by Antwone Fisher
- The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood by Kien Nguyen
- Red Azalea by Anchee Min
- Makes Me Wanna Holler by Nathan McCall
- Cry of the Kalahari by Cordelia Dykes Owens
- To Destroy You Is No Loss by JoAn Criddle
- Mother Tongue by Demetria Martinez
- Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
- On Writing by Stephen King
- Running the Amazon by Joe Kane
- Shooting the Boh by Tracy Johnston
- On The Road by Jack Kerouac
- The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
- Yak Butter & Black Tea by Wade Brackenbury
- The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
- West With the Night by Beryl Markham
- The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
- The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thad Carhart
- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
- The Bird Artist by Howard Norman
- Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
- Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
- Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
- Stonewall's Gold by Robert Mrazek
- A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Butler
- Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
- This House of Sky by Ivan Doig
- The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
- World Without End by Ken Follett
- One Dry Season by Caroline Alexander
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Cashing In On The American Dream by Paul Terhorst
- Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin
- A Random Walk Down Wallstreet by Burton Malkiel
- Portfolio Selection: Efficient Diversification by Harry
Markowitz
- The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley
- Fortune's Formula by William Poundstone
- The Intelligent Asset Allocator by William Bernstein
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
- Stormy Weather by Carl Hiaasen
- The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
- Prize Stories 2001: The O. Henry Awards
- The Panama Hat Trail by Tom Miller
- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
- Writing Dialogue by Tom Chiarella
- Beat Until Stiff by Claire Johnson
- The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
- Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
- Thank You For Smoking by Christopher Buckley
- Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
- Confessions of a Record Producer by Moses Avalon
- Diamond by Matthew Hart
- The Price of Loyalty by Ron Suskind
- Lost Mountain by Erik Reece
- Super Carrier by George Wilson
- Into The Buzzsaw
- The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
- Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis