The Slush Pile
I was talking to theferrett last night at a party about my book slush pile. Now, I don't typically buy books so I don't have a literal pile of books lying around (well, just a very small one), but I do have a large text file full of books that I mean to get around to. This makes it easy for me to add said books to my library hold list whenever I want, and if the day comes when I don't recognize something on the list I can just as easily delete it.
I've even recently reorganized it slightly so it's almost in a comprehensible order. Here it is, with annotations in italics. Some of these have been on here more than a decade, and probably I could cull quite a few more things, but why?
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Pekar I've been trying to read more Harvey Pekar this year, with some success.
I have a small section of books that are coming out soon.
Jimmy's Bastards v.2 (out September 2018)
Robert Galbraith - Lethal White - v.4 (out September 2018)
I just added this yesterday, so it's not categorized yet.
John Hersey - Algiers Hotel Incident
I read lots of baseball books, but I have to be in the right mood. These often get saved for the off-season.
The Bronx Zoo
Mike Shropshire - Seasons in Hell
THE ART OF FIELDING
American Jews and America's Game: Voices of a Growing Legacy in Baseball - Larry Ruttman
Wait Til next Year- Doris Kearns Goodwin
Bob Gibson - Pitch by Pitch
Robert K. Adair - The Physics of Baseball
The Baseball Codes-Beanballs, Sign Stealing and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America’s Pastime by Jason Turbow.
Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager - Bissinger
Baseball in the Depression
The Shift: The Next Evolution in Baseball Thinking
Bujold - Dreamweaver's Dilemma A Bujold short story I haven't been able to find on paper yet
Butler - Parable of the Sower / Talent
Thoreau - Walking
Bunch of history books here
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
The History of the World in Six Glasses
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
Rescuing Prometheus: Four Monumental Projects That Changed the Modern World
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Marilyn Stoksrad - Art History
Antonia Fraser - Cromwell Bio
Less categorized
Omar El Akkad - American War
Sing Unburied Sing
Isaac Babel - Red Cavalry
Note Books of Captain Georges - Renoir
Irwin Shaw - the Young Lions
Greil Marcus - Stranded, Dead Elvis
Jane Mayer - Dark Money
The Berlin Stories
The Worst Journey in the World
The End of Night
How to Stop Time - Matt Haig
Some poetry
Dudley Randall - the Black Poets
Comics
Kieron Gillen - Three
second sequel to "The Dark Knight"
Walt Simonson Thor
Si Lewen - The Parade
Random section
Books - Moss Roberts translation of Romance of 3 Kingdoms
John Reed - Insurgent Mexico
Joan Turner Beifuss in At The River I Stand
William Henry Hudson - Far Away and Long Ago
timothy snyder On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Hugh Howey - Wool
Jason Hough - The Darwin Elevator
Should just list Ben Winters and call it a day
The Last Policeman
The Ministry of the Utmost Happiness
Tropic of Kansas
Asimov's Shakespeare
Shadrach in the Furnace - Silverberg
Houllebecq - The Elementary Particles
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
Authors for this tactic, which now is mostly a "huh, I want to add one more book
Author List
Charles Dickens
James Ellroy
Lionel Shriver
Tom Robbins - next: Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
Bill Bryson -
Cormac McCarthy -
Studs Terkel
Ernest Hemingway
Kurt Vonnegut
Haruki Murakami
Margaret Atwood
Harvey Pekar
John Steinbeck
Stephen King
Jhumpa Lahiri
Lois McMaster Bujold
More random stuff
Evicted, Matthew Desmond
And the Band Played On
Walden
Super Freakonomics
Sinclair Lewis’s “It Can’t Happen Here
2084: The End of the World
Jane Jacobs - Dark Age Ahead
the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
Naomi Novik - pick it back up I'm waiting for the series to end...
The Irony of Vietnam: The System Worked (A Brookings Classic)
AB Guthrie - The Big Sky
Bellevue - Oshinsky
The Geek Feminist Revolution
,
david France - How to Survive a Plague
Glass House Brian Alexander
Some times I'm too lazy to write down the title, and I just link the article I found it in.
http://www.npr.org/2016/11/10/500419641/things-from-the-flood-is-gorgeously-creepy-and-strangely-human
Donna Tart (Kelly) Kelly is the person who recommend it. I don't write that down nearly enough.
2016 Economist When I read the Economist, their book reviews were gold.
Charles Koch - The Science of Success, Good Profit
JD Vance - Hillbilly Elegy
Sonny Liew - The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye
Margo Jefferson - Negroland
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Maceline Loridan-Ivens - But You Did Not Come Back
Gary Younge - Another Day in the Death of America
Edward Dusinberre - Beethoven for a Later Age
Ted Gioia - How to Listen to Jazz
Tom Wainwright - Narconomics
Gary Taubes - The Case Against Sugar
The Attention Merchants - Tim Wu
Nir Baram - Good People
A SQUARE MEAL: A Culinary History of the Great Depression - By Jane Ziegelman and Andrew Coe
The Paranoid Style in American Politics
Economics in One Lesson, by Henry Hazlitt
Robert Moor - On Trails
Charlotte Wood - The Natural Way of Things
Peter Singer - Ethics in the Real World
Tim Harford - Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives
Stacia Kane's Downside Ghosts
Alena Gradeon - The Word Exchange
Rosa Brooks - How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything
Perfidia
Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football
Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon
House of Leaves
Harlot's ghost
The Good Earth
Gravity's Rainbow
Confedarcy of Dunces
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad.
Peter Doran - Breaking Rockefeller
Darkness at Noon
Marshall McLuhan - Understanding Media
Neil Postman - The Disappearance of Childhood
Rick Lyman - Watching Movies: The Biggest Names in Cinema Talk about the Films that Matter Most
Edward Wilson-Lee - Shakespeare in Swahililand
The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J Evans
George Orwell - Catalonia, Wigan Pier
No Picnic on Mount Kenya - Felice Benuzzi
The Pulse v.3: Fear (comic)
Joe Hill
Elena Ferrante
http://www.paulgraham.com/know.html
Stuffocation
The Invisibles (business book)
Molly Crabapple - Drawing Blood
How Bad Do You Want It? Matt Fitzgerald
Nate Jackson - Slow Getting Up
Anthony Bourdain - Medium Raw, The Nasty Bits
Ari Shavit - My Promised Land
Mao's On Guerilla Warfare
Maria Konnikova - The Confidence Game
The Plot Against America
Stephen Fry's book on poetry - "An Ode Less Traveled"
The Well Built City Trilogy by his colleague Jeffery Ford Clearly copied right out of a long forgotten review
Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands
Common Sense
Forgive Me I Meant To Do It - Gail Carson Levine'
Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
John Dos Passos - USA Trilogy
The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
Pohl - Gateway
Carter Beats the Devil
The Devil's Dictionary
THE YOUNG GIRL'S HANDBOOK OF GOOD MANNERS FOR USE IN EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS By Pierre Louÿs Totally bart_calendar's fault
Michael Cunningham - A Wild Swan and Other Tales
Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence
Work
Steve McConnell - Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Development Schedules
Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister - Peopleware
Rothman & Derby - Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management
"Getting to yes..." Roger Fisher, William Ury, Bruce Patton
The Design of Everyday Things
Other Non-Fiction
1491 - Charles C. Mann
Countrymen - Bo Lidegaard
Drunk Tank Pink
http://www.bigboxswindle.com/
Final Salute
The Art of Audit - Roel Janssen
Jerry Kaplan - Humans Need Not Apply
History
Mary Beard - SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Christine Corton - London Fog: A Biography
In the Shadow of the Sword
Adam Rogers - Proof (booze)
Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace.
America, Empire of Liberty: A New History of the United States
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD
Mark Twain's Autobiography: 1910-2010
The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History - botticini, Eckstein,
Nicholas Rankin - Ian Fleming's Commandos
Unauthorized biography of the potato
Bernard Cornwell - Waterloo: The History of 4 days, 3 armies and 3 battles
Mary Beard - What the Eye Hears: A History of tap Dancing
Andrea Wulf - The Invention of Nature: Alexander Humboldt
rise & fall of the roman empire
rise & fall of the 3rd reich; berlin diary
Kids
Lauren Ipsum
Zombie Baseball Beatdown, by Paolo Bacigalupi
Music
Hitless Wonder: A Life in Minor-League Rock and Roll, by Joe Oestreich
Our Band Can Be yOur Life
360 Sound: The Columbia Records Story
Who Censored Roger Rabbit?
http://www.amazon.com/The-Complete-Calvin-Hobbes-v/dp/0740748475
Comics
The Unwritten
BPRD, Hellboy in Hell, Ex Machina, Finder, Fables, Saga of the Swamp Thing, the Boys, HellBlazer
Saga
Katharine Kerr - The Silver Mage
The songs of distant earth - arthur c clarke
Hands - John Napier
Dylan - Chronicles, v.1
Paper Lion
Lives of the Great Composers
Steve martin - An Object of Beauty
Adam Ross - Mr. Peanut
Klosterman: Eating the Dinosaur, Downtown Owl, IV
The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters
The Last Ringbearer
Random autheros I haven't read mof that I meant to get to
Authors:
Dostoyevsky - Brothers Karamazov
Jane Austen
Leo Tolsoy - Death of II
David Gerrold
Herman_Wouk
Michael Lewis
James Salter
Will Trevor
I've even recently reorganized it slightly so it's almost in a comprehensible order. Here it is, with annotations in italics. Some of these have been on here more than a decade, and probably I could cull quite a few more things, but why?
--------------------------------------------------
Pekar I've been trying to read more Harvey Pekar this year, with some success.
I have a small section of books that are coming out soon.
Jimmy's Bastards v.2 (out September 2018)
Robert Galbraith - Lethal White - v.4 (out September 2018)
I just added this yesterday, so it's not categorized yet.
John Hersey - Algiers Hotel Incident
I read lots of baseball books, but I have to be in the right mood. These often get saved for the off-season.
The Bronx Zoo
Mike Shropshire - Seasons in Hell
THE ART OF FIELDING
American Jews and America's Game: Voices of a Growing Legacy in Baseball - Larry Ruttman
Wait Til next Year- Doris Kearns Goodwin
Bob Gibson - Pitch by Pitch
Robert K. Adair - The Physics of Baseball
The Baseball Codes-Beanballs, Sign Stealing and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America’s Pastime by Jason Turbow.
Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager - Bissinger
Baseball in the Depression
The Shift: The Next Evolution in Baseball Thinking
Bujold - Dreamweaver's Dilemma A Bujold short story I haven't been able to find on paper yet
Butler - Parable of the Sower / Talent
Thoreau - Walking
Bunch of history books here
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
The History of the World in Six Glasses
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
Rescuing Prometheus: Four Monumental Projects That Changed the Modern World
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Marilyn Stoksrad - Art History
Antonia Fraser - Cromwell Bio
Less categorized
Omar El Akkad - American War
Sing Unburied Sing
Isaac Babel - Red Cavalry
Note Books of Captain Georges - Renoir
Irwin Shaw - the Young Lions
Greil Marcus - Stranded, Dead Elvis
Jane Mayer - Dark Money
The Berlin Stories
The Worst Journey in the World
The End of Night
How to Stop Time - Matt Haig
Some poetry
Dudley Randall - the Black Poets
Comics
Kieron Gillen - Three
second sequel to "The Dark Knight"
Walt Simonson Thor
Si Lewen - The Parade
Random section
Books - Moss Roberts translation of Romance of 3 Kingdoms
John Reed - Insurgent Mexico
Joan Turner Beifuss in At The River I Stand
William Henry Hudson - Far Away and Long Ago
timothy snyder On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Hugh Howey - Wool
Jason Hough - The Darwin Elevator
Should just list Ben Winters and call it a day
The Last Policeman
The Ministry of the Utmost Happiness
Tropic of Kansas
Asimov's Shakespeare
Shadrach in the Furnace - Silverberg
Houllebecq - The Elementary Particles
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
Authors for this tactic, which now is mostly a "huh, I want to add one more book
Author List
Charles Dickens
James Ellroy
Lionel Shriver
Tom Robbins - next: Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
Bill Bryson -
Cormac McCarthy -
Studs Terkel
Ernest Hemingway
Kurt Vonnegut
Haruki Murakami
Margaret Atwood
Harvey Pekar
John Steinbeck
Stephen King
Jhumpa Lahiri
Lois McMaster Bujold
More random stuff
Evicted, Matthew Desmond
And the Band Played On
Walden
Super Freakonomics
Sinclair Lewis’s “It Can’t Happen Here
2084: The End of the World
Jane Jacobs - Dark Age Ahead
the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
Naomi Novik - pick it back up I'm waiting for the series to end...
The Irony of Vietnam: The System Worked (A Brookings Classic)
AB Guthrie - The Big Sky
Bellevue - Oshinsky
The Geek Feminist Revolution
,
david France - How to Survive a Plague
Glass House Brian Alexander
Some times I'm too lazy to write down the title, and I just link the article I found it in.
http://www.npr.org/2016/11/10/500419641/things-from-the-flood-is-gorgeously-creepy-and-strangely-human
Donna Tart (Kelly) Kelly is the person who recommend it. I don't write that down nearly enough.
2016 Economist When I read the Economist, their book reviews were gold.
Charles Koch - The Science of Success, Good Profit
JD Vance - Hillbilly Elegy
Sonny Liew - The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye
Margo Jefferson - Negroland
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Maceline Loridan-Ivens - But You Did Not Come Back
Gary Younge - Another Day in the Death of America
Edward Dusinberre - Beethoven for a Later Age
Ted Gioia - How to Listen to Jazz
Tom Wainwright - Narconomics
Gary Taubes - The Case Against Sugar
The Attention Merchants - Tim Wu
Nir Baram - Good People
A SQUARE MEAL: A Culinary History of the Great Depression - By Jane Ziegelman and Andrew Coe
The Paranoid Style in American Politics
Economics in One Lesson, by Henry Hazlitt
Robert Moor - On Trails
Charlotte Wood - The Natural Way of Things
Peter Singer - Ethics in the Real World
Tim Harford - Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives
Stacia Kane's Downside Ghosts
Alena Gradeon - The Word Exchange
Rosa Brooks - How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything
Perfidia
Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football
Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon
House of Leaves
Harlot's ghost
The Good Earth
Gravity's Rainbow
Confedarcy of Dunces
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad.
Peter Doran - Breaking Rockefeller
Darkness at Noon
Marshall McLuhan - Understanding Media
Neil Postman - The Disappearance of Childhood
Rick Lyman - Watching Movies: The Biggest Names in Cinema Talk about the Films that Matter Most
Edward Wilson-Lee - Shakespeare in Swahililand
The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J Evans
George Orwell - Catalonia, Wigan Pier
No Picnic on Mount Kenya - Felice Benuzzi
The Pulse v.3: Fear (comic)
Joe Hill
Elena Ferrante
http://www.paulgraham.com/know.html
Stuffocation
The Invisibles (business book)
Molly Crabapple - Drawing Blood
How Bad Do You Want It? Matt Fitzgerald
Nate Jackson - Slow Getting Up
Anthony Bourdain - Medium Raw, The Nasty Bits
Ari Shavit - My Promised Land
Mao's On Guerilla Warfare
Maria Konnikova - The Confidence Game
The Plot Against America
Stephen Fry's book on poetry - "An Ode Less Traveled"
The Well Built City Trilogy by his colleague Jeffery Ford Clearly copied right out of a long forgotten review
Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands
Common Sense
Forgive Me I Meant To Do It - Gail Carson Levine'
Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
John Dos Passos - USA Trilogy
The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
Pohl - Gateway
Carter Beats the Devil
The Devil's Dictionary
THE YOUNG GIRL'S HANDBOOK OF GOOD MANNERS FOR USE IN EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS By Pierre Louÿs Totally bart_calendar's fault
Michael Cunningham - A Wild Swan and Other Tales
Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence
Work
Steve McConnell - Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Development Schedules
Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister - Peopleware
Rothman & Derby - Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management
"Getting to yes..." Roger Fisher, William Ury, Bruce Patton
The Design of Everyday Things
Other Non-Fiction
1491 - Charles C. Mann
Countrymen - Bo Lidegaard
Drunk Tank Pink
http://www.bigboxswindle.com/
Final Salute
The Art of Audit - Roel Janssen
Jerry Kaplan - Humans Need Not Apply
History
Mary Beard - SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Christine Corton - London Fog: A Biography
In the Shadow of the Sword
Adam Rogers - Proof (booze)
Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace.
America, Empire of Liberty: A New History of the United States
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD
Mark Twain's Autobiography: 1910-2010
The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History - botticini, Eckstein,
Nicholas Rankin - Ian Fleming's Commandos
Unauthorized biography of the potato
Bernard Cornwell - Waterloo: The History of 4 days, 3 armies and 3 battles
Mary Beard - What the Eye Hears: A History of tap Dancing
Andrea Wulf - The Invention of Nature: Alexander Humboldt
rise & fall of the roman empire
rise & fall of the 3rd reich; berlin diary
Kids
Lauren Ipsum
Zombie Baseball Beatdown, by Paolo Bacigalupi
Music
Hitless Wonder: A Life in Minor-League Rock and Roll, by Joe Oestreich
Our Band Can Be yOur Life
360 Sound: The Columbia Records Story
Who Censored Roger Rabbit?
http://www.amazon.com/The-Complete-Calvin-Hobbes-v/dp/0740748475
Comics
The Unwritten
BPRD, Hellboy in Hell, Ex Machina, Finder, Fables, Saga of the Swamp Thing, the Boys, HellBlazer
Saga
Katharine Kerr - The Silver Mage
The songs of distant earth - arthur c clarke
Hands - John Napier
Dylan - Chronicles, v.1
Paper Lion
Lives of the Great Composers
Steve martin - An Object of Beauty
Adam Ross - Mr. Peanut
Klosterman: Eating the Dinosaur, Downtown Owl, IV
The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters
The Last Ringbearer
Random autheros I haven't read mof that I meant to get to
Authors:
Dostoyevsky - Brothers Karamazov
Jane Austen
Leo Tolsoy - Death of II
David Gerrold
Herman_Wouk
Michael Lewis
James Salter
Will Trevor