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Member: jlelliott

CollectionsYour library (677), Currently reading (1), All collections (677)

Reviews38 reviews

TagsFiction (380), Novel (322), 20th Century (290), American (262), Nonfiction (212), 21st Century (159), British (143), 1001 (134), Science (102), 19th Century (93) — see all tags

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GroupsGeeks who love the Classics, Graduate Students, Hogwarts Express, Non-Fiction Readers

Favorite authorsJane Austen, Andrea Barrett, Albert Camus, Charles Darwin, Fyodor Dostoevsky, William Golding, Frank Herbert, John Steinbeck, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresAvol's Bookstore, Frugal Muse West, Half Price Books - Whitney Way

About meI am a scientist who spends entirely too much time reading books when I should be reading journal articles.

Currently Reading:
Morality and Contemporary Warfare by James Turner Johnson
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
A Crack in the Edge of the World by Simon Winchester

Recently Read:
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke 11.15.2009
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust 11.12.2009
Once Upon a Time in the North by Philip Pullman 11.08.2009
Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman 11.08.2009
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald 11.06.2009
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain 11.02.2009
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice 10.25.2009
The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks 10.16.2009
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster 10.13.2009
Sisters in War by Christina Asquith 10.09.2009
Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution by Lisa Jardine 10.06.2009
Time of the Twins by Margaret Weis 10.06.2009
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation by M.T. Anderson 09.26.2009
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa 09.24.2009
The Great Arab Conquests by Hugh Kennedy 09.19.2009
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desi 09.16.2009
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy 09.07.2009
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells 09.06.2009
The Locust and the Bird by Hanan Al-Shaykh 09.05.2009
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 09.03.2009
Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert 08.31.2009
Where the Wild Things Were by William Stolzenburg 08.28.2009
A Good and Happy Child by Justin Evans 08.16.2009
In The Woods by Tana French 08.15.2009
An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan by Jason Elliot 08.12.2009
The Island of the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks 08.04.2009
Marriage, a History by Stephanie Coontz 08.01.2009
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos 08.01.2009
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow 07.21.2009
The Evolution of God by Robert Wright 07.21.2009
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry 07.08.2009
King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hoschschild 07.02.2009
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 06.26.2009
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby 06.22.2009
Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy 06.14.2009
Myth-Nomers and Im-Pervections by Robert Asprin 06.07.2009
M.Y.T.H Inc. Link by Robert Asprin 06.06.2009
Little Myth Marker by Robert Asprin 06.06.2009
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells 06.05.2009
Hit or Myth by Robert Asprin 06.05.2009
Myth Directions by Robert Asprin 06.04.2009
Silas Marner by George Eliot 06.02.2009
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 05.25.2009
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama 05.10.2009
World War Z by Max Brooks 05.03.2009
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama 04.29.2009
The Ambassadors by Henry James 04.22.2009
Collected Stories of Roald Dahl 04.14.2009
A Hundred and One Days by Asne Seierstad 04.03.2009
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski 04.02.2009
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty 03.27.2009
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro 03.26.2009
The Green Suit by Dwight Allen 03.22.2009
Time, Love, Memory - A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior by Jonathan Weiner 03.21.2009
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor 03.18.2009
The Devils by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 03.17.2009
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow 03.03.2009
The Host by Stephanie Meyer 03.01.2009
Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid 02.25.2009
Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho 02.23.2009
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco 02.21.2009
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson 02.10.2009
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Moshin Hamid 02.07.2009
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 02.07.2009
Indian Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Sue Hamilton 01.09.2009
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 01.07.2009
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 01.04.2009
The End of Faith by Sam Harris 01.02.2009
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 12.29.2008
Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn 12.28.2008
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov 12.27.2008
The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling 12.19.2008
Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen 12.19.2008
Religion and Magic in Ancient Egypt by Rosalie David 12.18.2008
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk 12.07.2008
The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond 12.06.2008
The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips 12.01.2008
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev 11.26.2008
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah 11.22.2008
interpreter of maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri 11.20.2008
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 11.18.2008
Museum of Human Beings by Colin Sargent 11.14.2008
In the Land of Invisible Women by Quanta Ahmed 11.14.2008
The Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong 11.11.2008
The Books of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau 11.08.2008
Arabian Nights and Days by Naguib Mahfouz 10.23.2008
Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov 10.18.2008
Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris 10.12.2008
Servants of the Map by Andrea Barrett 10.12.2008
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood 10.09.2008
Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe 09.30.2008
A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar 09.22.2008
The Log from the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck 09.20.2008
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie 09.14.2008
The Road by Cormac McCarthy 09.02.2008
god is not Great by Christopher Hitchens 09.01.2008
Common Sense by Thomas Paine 08.28.2008
Life of Pi by Yann Martel 08.27.2008
Penguin Island by Anatole France 08.24.2008
Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer 08.23.2008
Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer 08.21.2008
New Moon by Stephanie Meyer 08.19.2008
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer 08.16.2008
Temptations of the West by Pankaj Mishra 08.11.2008
Ethan Frome and Summer by Edith Wharton 08.03.2008
Moby Dick by Herman Melville 08.01.2008
The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie 07.16.2008
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 07.11.2008
Winter's Tales by Isak Dinesen 07.08.2008
Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau 07.03.2008
Midaq Alley, The Thief and the Dogs, and Miramar by Naguib Mahfouz 06.27.2008
The Lost Tomb by Kent Weeks 06.20.2008
The Northern Lights by Lucy Jago 06.17.2008
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 06.15.2008
My Father's Paradise - A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq by Ariel Sabar 06.12.2008
The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rusdie
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life by Nick Lane

Currently Abandoned
Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order by George Johnson

About my libraryHaving early overflowed its bookshelves, my little library is encroaching upon the rest of our house. This database is composed of books I currently own, unless otherwise marked (as borrowed, for example).

Just for fun statistics:
I have currently read about 91% of the books in my library.
I have read 13% of the 1001 books (12% of the new list).

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LocationMadison, Wisconsin

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Member sinceJan 31, 2007

Currently readingA Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 (P.S.) by Simon Winchester