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"Men occasionally stumble over the truth but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." (a Churchill dictum)
— Robert Littell, The Company

I feel a special sense of gratitude to the graphic artists who create book covers.

The great thing about a distinctive cover on a book I've read is that a single glance can bring vividly back into my consciousness the entire richness of the story it wraps itself around. When I look at this page, I'm immersed in storytelling, reminded of the wealth that reading has added to my life, left wondering whether any of my most favorite authors have written anything new recently.


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365 Views of Mt. Fuji by Todd Shimoda About the Author by John Colapinto Absolute Friends by John le Carré Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler After Dark by Haruki Murakami After the Quake by Haruki Murakami All Tomorrow's Parties by William Gibson Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned by Walter Mosley Ambient Findability by Peter Morville The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem Anathem by Neal Stephenson Another Day of Life by Ryszard Kapuściński The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander As She Climbed Across The Table by Jonathan Lethem The Ash Garden by Dennis Bock ASP in a Nutshell by A Keyton Weissinger Assasination Vacation by Sarah Vowell The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer The Athenian Murders by José Carlos Somoza Atticus by Ron Hansen Background to Danger by Eric Ambler Bangkok 8 by John Burdett Banker to the Poor by Muhammad Yunus Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala Beautiful Evidence by Edward R. Tufte Beautiful Ghosts by Eliot Pattison Bel Canto by Ann Patchett The Big Killing by Robert Wilson Big Machine by Victor LaValle The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell Blue Light by Walter Mosley Blues for the Buffalo by Manuel Ramos Book of JavaScript by thau! Booked to Die by John Dunning Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan Brain Rules by John Medina Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking with Leonard Mlodinow Bright-sided by Barbara Ehrenreich The Broken Shore by Peter Temple Brown-on-Brown by Manuel Ramos By the Light of My Father's Smile by Alice Walker The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh The Caliph's House by Tahir Shah The Cartoon Guide to Physics by Larry Gonick & Art Huffman Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Cause for Alarm by Eric Ambler Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile China Road by Rob Gifford The Cider House Rules by John Irving The Circle of Reason by Amitav Ghosh Citzen Vince by Jess Walter Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier The Company of Strangers by Robert Wilson The Constant Gardener by John le Carré Core CSS by Keith Schengili-Robers Coyotes by Ted Conover Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough & Michael Braungart Crashing Through by Robert Kurson James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami The Dancer Upstairs by Nicholas Shakespeare Dangerous Love by Ben Okri A Dangerous Road by Kris Nelscott Database Design for Mere Mortals by Michael J. Hernandez Death of a Red Heroine by Qui Xiaolong December 6 by Martin Cruz Smith Design and Form by Johannes Itten Design for Community by Derek M. Powazek Designing Web Navigation by James Kalbach Designing with Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman Destination Mecca by Sayed Idries Shah Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson Digging to America by Anne Tyler The Disappearing Body by David Grand The Discrete Charm of Charlie Monk by David Ambrose Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee Philip K. Dick Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug The Door to Bitterness by Martin Limón Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow Down River by John Hart The Draining Lake by Arnaldur Indriðason Driving Mr. Albert by Michael Paterniti Dynamics in Document Design by Karen A. Schriver Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer E=mc²: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation by David Bodanis Easter Island by Jennifer Vanderbes Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta The Echo Maker by Richard Powers The Effect of Living Backwards by Heidi Julavits Eifelheim by Michael Flynn The Elements of Typographic Style, Second Edition by Robert Bringhurst The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat by Ryszard Kapuściński Empire Falls by Richard Russo Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer Everything is Illuminated (film) by Liev Schreiber The Exile by William Kotzwinkle Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer Falling Man by Don DeLillo The Famished Road by Ben Okri Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates by Tom Robbins A fine line by Hartmut Esslinger First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman Flight by Sherman Alexie Flint by Paul Eddy Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Four Souls by Louise Erdrich Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner Futureland by Walter Mosley Gain by Richard Powers Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers Generosity by Richard Powers The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson Girl in Landscape by Jonathan Lethem The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers Gone Fishin' by Walter Mosley Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett The Google Story by David A. Vise and Mark Malseed Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith The Great Derangement by Matt Taibbi Graphic Design for the Electronic Age by Jan V. White Great Plains by Ian Frazier The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins Griftopia by Matt Taibbi Groundswell by Li and Bernoff Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett Hanta Yo by Ruth Beebe Hill and Chunksa Yuha Hardboiled & Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World The Hdden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto The Hidden War by Artyom Borovik The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova The History of Love by Nicole Krauss The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Homer & Langley by E. L. Doctorow How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff How to See by George Nelson How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer How Would You Move Mount Fuji? by William Poundstone HTML & XHTML: The definitive Guide by Chuck Musciano, Bill Kennedy HTML for the World Wide Web by Elizabeth Castro Hubble's Universe: A Portrait of Our Cosmos by Simon Goodwin The Human Experiment by Jane Poynter The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy Hunting the Wild Pineapple by Thea Astley Idoru by William Gibson Imperium by Ryszard Kapuściński In the Wake by Per Petterson In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan Information Anxiety 2 by Richard Saul Wurman Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon Instruments of Darkness by Robert Wilson Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead The Invention of Air by Steven Johnson Ishmael by Daniel Quinn Islamic Patterns by Keith Critchlow Jade Lady Burning by Martin Limón The Art of Japanese Joinery by Kiyoshi Seike Jar City by Arnaldur Indriðason Jarhead by Anthony Swofford JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry JPod by Douglas Coupland Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami Kingdom of Shadows by Alan Furst Kitchen Botany by Garima Fairfax The Known World by Edward P. Jones Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat L.A. Requiem by Robert Crais Labyrinths of Reason by William Poundstone Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler Land of the Blind by Jess Walter The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich Layout by Allen Hurlburt Leading Change by John P. Kotter Legends by Robert Littell Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris Like Life by Lorrie Moore Linked: The New Science of Networks Little Scarlet by Walter Mosley Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie Made to Stick by Chip Heath & Dan Heath The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosley The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick Man Walks Into A Room by Nicole Krauss The Man Who Ate the 747 by Ben Sherwood The Man Who Turned into Himself by David Ambrose A Man without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich Material World by Peter Menzel The Medici Effect by Frans Johansson Meetings with Remarkable Men by G.I. Gurdjieff Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden The Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry Mission Al Jazeera by Josh Rushing The Mission Song by John le Carré Modoc by Ralph Helfer The Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munro Moony's Road to Hell by Manuel Ramos Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk The Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun Negotiations by Leigh Thompson Nemesis by Jo Nesbø Neuromancer by William Gibson The New H. N. I. C. by Todd Boyd Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich Night Soldiers by Alan Furst No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami Objectified. A Film by Gary Hustwit Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan On the Rez by Ian Frazier On the Road by Jack Kerouac Operation Wandering Soul by Richard Powers Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen Out Stealing Horse by Per Petterson Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich The Painter of Battles by Arturo Pérez-Reverte Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan Passage by Connie Willis A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler Pattern Recognition by William Gibson Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut Plowing the Dark by Richard Powers The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Polar Star by Martin Cruz Smith Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow Princess Naughty and the Voodoo Cadillac by Fred Willard Prisoner's Dilemma by Richard Powers Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver The Psychology of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman The Queen of the South by Arturo Pérez-Reverte The Quiet Girl by Peter Høeg Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington Rain Fall by Barry Eisler Ratking by Michael Dibdin A Reader's Manifesto by B.R. Meyers Reality Check by Guy Kawasaki A Red Death by Walter Mosley The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell The Righteous Porkchop by Nicolette Hahn Niman RL's Dream by Walter Mosley Roofwalker by Susan Power Sams Teach Yourself Active Server Pages 3.0 in 21 days by Scott Mitchell and James Atkinson Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 minutes by Ben Forta Seeker by Jack McDevitt The Septic System Owner's Manual by Kahn, Allen, and Jones Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuściński Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuściński Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx Shoji - How to Design, Build, and Install Japanese Screens by Jay van Arsdale A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse Signal to Noise by Eric S. Nylund Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indriðason Silent Joe by T. Jefferson Parker Single & Single by John le Carré Singularity by Bill DeSmedt Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Six Easy Pieces by Walter Mosley The Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison A Small Death in Lisbon by Robert Wilson Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution by Howard Rheingold Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson Snowleg by Nicholas Shakespeare The Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuściński Songs of the Gorilla Nation by Dawn Prince-Hughes South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami Spinners by Anthony McCarten Spook Country by William Gibson The Springboard by Stephen Denning Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carré Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert The Sufis by Idries Shah The Sugar Mother by Elizabeth Jolley Switch by Chip Heath & Dan Heath Switching to the Mac by David Pogue, Pogue Press The Tattoo Murder Case by Akimitsu Takagi Tell No One by Harlan Coben The Ten Faces of Innovation by Tom Kelley Terror and Liberalism by Paul Berman There's a Hair in My Dirt! by Gary Larson The Thing About Life is that One Day You'll Be Dead by David Shields Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier This Shape We're In by Jonathan Lethem Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin Three Farmers on their way to a Dance by Richard Powers The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell Too Much Coffee Man's Guide for the Perplexed by Shannon Wheeler Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuściński Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson Tribes by Seth Gordon Turning by Tim Winton Two Leaps Across a Chasm by Nikolai Aleksandrov Two O'Clock, Eastern Wartime by John Dunning Ubik by Philip K. Dick Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri Unbowed by Wangari Maathai Underworld by Don Delillo The Unheard by Josh Swiller The United States of Europe by T.R. Reid User Interface Design for Programmers by Joel Spolsky Usable Forms for the Web by Jon Stephens, Andy Beaumont, Jon James, and Chris Ullman Vbscript in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference by Paul Lomax, Matt Childs, and Ron Petrusha The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte Visual Explanations by Edward R. Tufte Voices by Arnaldur Indriðason Vurt by Jeff Noon The wall of the sky, the wall of the eye by Jonathan Lethem The Way of Chuang Tzu by Thomas Merton The Way of Zen by Alan Watts Web Design in a Nutshell, 2nd Ed. by Jennifer Niederst West with the Night by Beryl Markham What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell What is the What by Dave Eggers What Next: A Memoir toward World Peace by Walter Mosley When the Levees Broke by Spike Lee Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson The White Bone by Barbara Gowdy White Butterfly by Walter Mosley The White Nile by Alan Moorehead A Whole New Mind by Daniel H. Pink The Whole Shebang by Timothy Ferris Why Not? by Barry Nalebuff & Ian Ayres Wiki Web Collaboration by Ebersbach, Glaser, and Heigi Wikinomics by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami The Wild Trees by Richard Preston The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe The Workbench Book by Scott Landis Workin' on the Chain Gang by Walter Mosley Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig Zen Flesh, Zen Bones by Paul Reps The Zero by Jess Walter Zodiac by Neal Stephenson

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