Books I Read 2024

The Last Dangerous Visions edited by Harlan Ellison ****

Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx by Stefan Kanfer ****

Knife by Salman Rushdie ****

Killer of the Flower Moon by David Grann ****

Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker ***

The Glass Box by J.Michael Straczynski ***

The Authority Book One by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch ***

If It Bleeds by Stephen King ***

The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis **1/2

Star Trek by James Blish ***

Star Trek 2 by James Blish ***

Star Trek 3 by James Blish ***

Star Trek 4 by James Blish *** 

Star Trek 5 by James Blish ***
Star Trek 6 by James Blish ***

Star Trek 7 by James Blish ***

Star Trek 8 by James Blish *** 

Star Trek 9 by James Blish ***
Star Trek 10 by James Blish ***

Star Trek 11 by James Blish ***

Star Trek 12 by James Blish with J.A. Lawrence *** 

The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson ***1/2

Born Standing Up - A Comic's Life by Steve Martin ****

The Devil & Sherlock Holmes by David Grann*** 

The Boys by Ron Howard & Clint Howard ****

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life by Eric Idle ****

The Human Target: Volume One by Tom King and Greg Smallwood ****

The Human Target: Volume Two by Tom King and Greg Smallwood ****

Challenger by Adam Higgbotham *****

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir ****

The Wrong Stuff by John Strausbaugh ***1/2

Falling by T.J. Newman **1/2

On Call by Anthony Fauci, MD ***

Slow Horses by Mick Herron ***1/2

Starter Villain by John Scalzi ***1/2

Fuzz by Mary Roach ***

Rorschach by Tom King, Jorge Fornés and Dave Stewart ***

War by Bob Woodward ***

Dead Lions by Mick Herron ***1/2

Huge by Brent Butt ***

Real Tigers by Mick Herron ****

Iron Mike: My Life Behind the Bench by Mike Keenan with Scott Morrison ***

The Situation Room by George Stephanopoulos with Lisa Dickey ***

Spook Street by Mick Herron *** 1/2

Books I Read 2023

The Sandman - Book One by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III and Kelley Jones ****
The Sandman - Book Two by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, Kelley Jones, Mike Dringenberg, and Colleen Doran ****

The Sandman - Book Three by Neil Gaiman, Jill Thompson, Bryan Talbot, P. Craig Russell and Vince Locke ****

The Sandman - Book Four by Neil Gaiman, Marc Hempel, Michael Zulli. Jon J Muth and Charles Vess *****

Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino ****

The Affinities by Robert Charles Wilson ***1/2

Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard ***

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi ***

The Enterprise NCC-1701 and the Model Maker by N. Datin McDonald and Richard C. Datin Jr. ***

Tales From Development Hell: The Greatest Movies Never Made by David Hughes ***

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The High Country by John Jackson Miller ***1/2

Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson ****

Later by Stephen King ***1/2

Death by Neil Gaiman ***

Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom by Carl Bernstein ***

Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child by Frank Miller, Rafael Grampá with Jordie Bellaire ***

Sinkable: Obsession, The Deep Sea, and the Shipwreck of the Titanic by Daniel Stone ***

Star Trek: Harm's Way by David Mack **

Red Notice by Bill Browder ***

Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast by John Vaillant ****

Phasers on Stun! How the Making (and Remaking) of Star Trek Changed the World by Ryan Britt ***

Batman & Robin: Batman Reborn by Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely and Philip Tan ***1/2

Batman & Robin: Batman & Robin Must Die! by Grant Morrison, Frank Frazer Irving and David Finch ***

Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham ****

All About Me! by Mel Brooks ***1/2

Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow by Tom King, Bilquis Evelu and Matheus Lopes ***1/2

Abbey Road by David Hepworth ***

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow **

Holly by Stephen King ***1/2

Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson ****

North Korea Journal by Michael Palin ***1/2

The Defector by Chris Hadfield ***

Making It So by Patrick Stewart ***1/2

My Effin’ Life by Geddy Lee ****

The Spice Must Flow: The Story of Dune, From Cult Novels to Visionary Sci-Fi Movies by Ryan Britt ***1/2

Books I Read 2021

A Promised Land by Barack Obama ****

Won't Get Fooled Again: The Who From Lifehouse to Quadrophenia by Ritchie Unterberger ***

Finder by Suzanne Palmer **

The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi ****

The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi ****

The Last Emperox by John Scalzi ****

Be Kind, Be Calm, Be Safe by Dr. Bonnie Henry & Lynne Henry ***

The Making of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey by Piers Bizony *****

Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline ***

A Long Time Ago In A Cutting Room Far, Far Away.... by Paul Hirsch ***1/2

Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga *****

Nightflyers by George R. R. Martin ***1/2

Pink Floyd: Pigs Might Fly by Mark Blake ****

Manhunter by Archie Goodwin and Walter Simonson ****

To Hell and Back: The Last Train From Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino *****

Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland *****

Together We Will Go by J. Michael Straczynski ****

A Very Stable Genius - Donald J. Trump's Testing of America by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonning ****

I Alone Can Fix It - Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year by Carol Leonning and Philip Rucker ****

Secrets of the Force - The Complete Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Wars by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman ****

Landslide by Michael Wolff ***1/2

Radicalized by Cory Doctorow ****

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino ****

Billy Summers by Stephen King ****

The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher ***

Devolution by Max Brooks ****

Star Trek: Designing the Final Frontier -- How Midcentury Modernism Shaped Our View of the Future by Dan Chavkin and Brian McGuire ****

A Monstrous Commotion: The Mysteries of Loch Ness by Gareth Williams ***

Peril by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa ***

Star Trek: A Celebration by Ben Robinson and Ian Spelling ***

The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King ****

Star Trek: The Motion Picture by Gene Roddenberry ***

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension by Earl Mac Rauch *****

Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League et al - A Compendium of Evils by Earl Mac Rauch **

Saturn Run by John Sanford and Ctein ***

The Resistance: Uprising *** by J. Michael Straczynksi, C.P. Smith, Snakebite, Cortex and Lee Loughbridge ***

Books I Read in 2020

The Natural Light Portrait Book by Scott Kelby *** 

Vivian Maier: A Photographer's Life and Afterlife by Pamela Bannos ***1/2 

The Secrets to Creating Amazing Photos by Marc Silber *** 

Understanding Composition Field Guide by Bryan Peterson ***1/2 

The Institute by Stephen King *** 

Nobody Does It Better: The Complete Uncensored Unauthorized Oral History of James Bond by Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross **** 

The Age of Anxiety by Pete Townshend *** 

London Under by Peter Ackroyd ** 

The Ox: The Authorized Biography of The Who's John Entwistle by Paul Rees **** 

Medallion Status by John Hodgman *** 

Anatomy of a Song by Marc Myers *** 

The Plots Against Hitler by Danny Orbach *** 

The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton *** 

The Andromeda Evolution by Daniel H. Wilson ***1/2 

Trumpocalypse by David Frum *** 

Star Trek: Seekers 1: Second Nature by David Mack *** 

Song of a Nation by Robert Harris ***1/2 

The Room Where It Happened by John Bolton *** 

American Heiress by Jeffrey Toobin ***1/2 

The Nazi Titanic by Robert P. Watson **1/2 

These Are the Voyages: Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek in the 1970s - Volume Two 1975-1977 by Marc Cushman **** 

These Are the Voyages: Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek in the 1970s - Volume Three 1978-1980 by Marc Cushman **** 

Head On by John Scalzi *** 

Beaming Up and Getting Off by Walter Koenig *** 

Too Much and Never Enough by Mary L. Trump, Ph.D. 

The Show Runner by Cy Chermak *** 

Siege by Michael Wolff *** 

Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Inside the Art and Visual Effects by Jeff Bond and Gene Kozicki *****

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte *** 

The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon *** 

Anything You Can Imagine: Peter Jackson and the Making of Middle-Earth by Ian Nathan *** 

The Beatles Lyrics by Hunter Davis *** 

Rage by Bob Woodward **** 

Disloyal by Michel Cohen **1/2 

The Making of the October Crisis by D'Arcy Jenish **** 

The Resistance Vol. 1 by J.Michael Straczynski, Mike Deodato Jr., Frank Martin and Lee Loughridge *** 

Doomsday Clock by Geoff Johns, Gary Frank and Brad Anderson ***** 

The Great Influenza by John M. Barry **** 

Star Trek: The Unsettling Stars by Alan Dean Foster *** 

Star Trek: More Beautiful Than Death by David Mack ** 

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown **1/2 

Scotty by Ken Dryden *** 

I Am C-3PO by Anthony Daniels ***1/2

Books I Read in 2019

Age of Myth by Michael J. Sullivan ****
Star Trek: New Visions - Volume Eight by John Byrne ***
These are the Voyages: Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek in the 1970s - Volume One 1970-1975 by Marc Cushman ****
Secrets From the Vinyl Cafe by Stuart McLean *****
Understanding Exposure by Bryan Peterson ***1/2
Professor at Large -- The Cornell Years by John Cleese ***
Erebus by Michael Palin ****
The Landscape Photography Book by Scott Kelby ***1/2
American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race by Douglas Brinkley ***
Shoot for the Moon by James Donovan ***1/2
Becoming Superman by J. Michael Straczynski *****
Star Trek: The Entropy Effect by Vonda N. McIntyre ***
Star Trek: Ex Machina by Christopher L. Bennett ***1/2
Star Trek: The Official Guide to the Animated Series by Aaron Harvey and Rich Schepis ***1/2
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe ****
Star Trek: The USS Enterprise NCC-1701 and 1701-A Illustrated Handbook edited by Ben Robinson ****
Promise and Peril: Justin Trudeau in Power by Aaron Wherry ***
Nuking the Moon by Vince Houghton ***
1922 by Stephen King ***

Books I Read in 2018

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari *****
Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari *****
The Edge of Reason by Melinda Snodgrass ***
The Edge of Ruin by Melinda Snodgrass ***
The Edge of Dawn by Melinda Snodgrass **
Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic by Daivd Frum ***
Star Trek: New Visions Volume 6 by John Byrne ***
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff ***1/2
Artemis by Andy Weir ****
The Great Derangement by Matt Taibbi **
DC Universe Secret Origins by A Whole Bunch of Legends *****
Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe ***1/2
Dunkirk by Joshua Levine **
Darkest Hour by Anthony McCarten ***
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline *****
Sleeping Giant by Sylvain Neuvel ***
Waking Gods by Sylvain Neuvel ***
Willful Child by Steven Erickson ***
Welcome Home: Travels in Small-Town Canada by Stuart McLean ***
Vinyl Cafe Diaries by Stuart McLean ****
Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece by Michael Benson *****
Apollo 8 by Jeffrey Kluger ***
The Never-Ending Present: The Story of Gord Downie and The Tragically Hip by Michael Barclay ****
The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean ***
The Outsider by Stephen King ***1/2
Growing Pains: The Future of Democracy (and Work) by Gwynne Dyer ****
The People's Police by Norman Spinrad ***
The Race Underground by Doug Most **
Fantasyland by Kurt Anderson **
The Dinosaur Lords by Victor Milán ***1/2
The Dinosaur Knights by Victor Milán ***1/2
The Dinosaur Princess by Victor Milán ***
Advancing Your Photography by Marc Silber ***
The Wrong Stars by Tim Pratt ***
A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison by Nat Segaloff *****
The Crash Detectives by Christine Negroni ***
Star Trek: New Visions Volume 7 by John Byrne ***
Star Trek: Lost Scenes by David Tilotta and Curt McAloney *****
The Berlin Project by Gregory Benford ***
Unhinged by Omarosa Manigault Newman ***
So Say We All: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Battlestar Galactica by Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross ****
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman ***
Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward ***
Irontown Blues by John Varley *****
Batman: The Dark Knight: The Master Race by Frank Miller, Brian Azzarello, Andy Kubert, Klaus Janson, Brad Anderson and Alex Sinclair ****
Let the Good Times Roll by Kenney Jones ***
Hockey Fight in Canada by David Shoalts ***
A Matter of Confidence: The Inside Story of the Political Battle for BC by Rob Shaw and Richard Zussman ***1/2
Thanks a Lot, Mr. Kibblewhite: My Story by Roger Daltrey ****
Elevation by Stephen King ***1/2
The Great Quake by Henry Fountain ***
Star Trek Cats by Jenny Parks ***
The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan by Rick Perlstein ***
Fury from the Tomb by S.A. Sidor **

Books I Read 2017

The 37th Parallel by Ben Mezrich **
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah ****
Star Trek: The Classic UK Comics -- The Complete Series Volume Two 1970-1972 edited by Dean Mullaney ***1/2
Testimony by Robbie Robertson *****
Cutter's Wars: The Ramal Extraction by Steve Perry ***
Cutter's Wars: The Vastalimi Gambit by Steve Perry **1/2
Cutter's Wars: The Tejano Conflict by Steve Perry **
So, Anyway by John Cleese *****
The Dinosaur Lords by Victor Milán ***1/2
Company Town by Madeline Ashby ****
I Am Brian Wilson by Brian Wilson with Ben Greenman ****
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer ***
The West End Horror by Nicholas Meyer ***
Stories from the Vinyl Cafe by Stuart McLean ***
Home from the Vinyl Cafe by Stuart McLean ****
Vinyl Cafe Unplugged by Stuart McLean ****
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly **
Shadow Ops: Control Point by Myke Cole **
Beatles vs. Stones by John McMillian ****
Wonder Woman: Earth One: Volume One by Grant Morrison, Yanick Paquette and Nathan Fairbairn ***
Drake by Peter McLean ***1/2
Dominion by Peter McLean ***1/2
Damnation by Peter McLean ***1/2
The Last of the President's Men by Bob Woodward **1/2
Area 51 by Annie Jacobsen ***1/2
Starslayer by Mike Grell ****
Einstein by Walter Isaacson ****
Staking Claims to a Continent by James Laxer ***
Teen Titans: Earth One: Volume Two by Jeff Lemire, Andy Macdonald, Brad Anderson and Allen Passalaqua ***
Fighting God by David Silverman ***
The Death of Caesar by Barr Strauss ***
Star Trek: New Visions Volume 5 by John Byrne ****
Year Zero: A History of 1945 by Ian Buruma ***
Crossing the Line by Derek Sanderson with Kevin Shea ***
Bolt and Keel: The Wild Adventures of Two Rescued Cats by Kayleen VanderRee and Danielle Gumbley ****
Star Trek: The Classic UK Comics -- The Complete Series Volume Three 1972-1979 edited by Dean Mullaney ***1/2
Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King ***1/2
Gwendy's Button Box by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar ***1/2
Impulse by Dave Bara ***
Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film by Alexandra Zapruder ***1/2
Christmas at the Vinyl Cafe by Stuart McLean *****

Books I Read in 2016

Wolfhound Century by Peter Higgins ***1/2
Truth and Fear by Peter Higgins ***1/2
Radiant State by Peter Higgins ***1/2
The Fifth Heart by Dan Simmons ****
The President's Shadow by Brad Meltzer ***
Tambora by Gillen D'Arcy Wood **
Voices in the Ocean by Susan Casey ****
Don't Tell the Newfoundlanders by Greg Malone ***1/2
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu ***1/2
Star Trek: New Visions: Volume 3 by John Byrne ***
Sidekick Volume 2 by J. Michael Straczynski, Tom Mandrake and HiFi ***1/2
The Lost Fleet: Dauntless by Jack Campbell ***1/2
The Lost Fleet: Fearless by Jack Campbell ***1/2
The Lost Fleet: Courageous by Jack Campbell ***1/2
The Lost Fleet: Valiant by Jack Campbell ***1/2
The Lost Fleet: Relentless by Jack Campbell ***1/2
The Lost Fleet: Victorious by Jack Campbell ***1/2
Island on Fire by Alexandra Witze and Jeff Kanipe ***
To Boldly Go: Rare Photos From the TOS Soundstage by Gerald Gurian ***
Seeds of Earth by Michael Cobley ***
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens by Steve Olson ***1/2
Star Trek: The Classic UK Comics -- The Complete Series Volume One 1969-1970 edited by Dean Mullaney ***1/2
Losing the Signal by Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff ***1/2
Robogenesis by Daniel H. Wilson *1/2
Meet Me in Atlantis by Mark Adams ***1/2
Ghost Country by Patrick Lee ***1/2
Deep Sky by Patrick Lee ***
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty ***
Windswept by Adam Rakunas ****
Like a Boss by Adam Rakunas ***
Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship With a Remarkable Man by William Shatner ***1/2
The End of All Things by John Scalzi ***1/2
Defenders by Wil McIntosh *1/2
Batman: Earth One: Volume Two by Geoff Johns, Gary Frank, Jon Sibal and Brad Anderson ****
Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie ***1/2
Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie ***1/2
The Fifty-Year Mission: The First 25 Years by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman ****
The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman ****
Into the Black by Rowland White ***1/2
The Autobiography of James T. Kirk by David A. Goodman ****
Joyland by Stephen King **1/2
A Universe From Nothing by Lawrence Kraus ***
Caliban's War by James S. A. Corey ***1/2
Hunter's Run by George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois and Daniel Abraham **
Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King ***1/2
Finders Keepers by Stephen King ***1/2
End of Watch by Stephen King ***1/2
Highest Duty by Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger III with Jeffrey Zaslow ***
Unaccountable: Truth and Lies on Parliament Hill by Kevin Page **1/2
So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson ***1/2
Not Dead Yet by Phil Collins ***1/2
Dread Empire's Fall: The Praxis by Walter John Williams ***
The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin ****
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs by Lisa Randall ***
Star Trek: New Visions: Volume 4 by John Byrne ***
Revival by Stephen King ****

Books I Read in 2015

The Twilight Zone - Volume Two: The Way In by J.Michael Straczynski ***
The Twilight Zone - Volume Three: The Way Back by J.Michael Straczynski ***
Terminator Salvation: The Final Battle Volume One by J.Michael Straczynski and Pete Woods **
Batman: Earth One by Geoff Jones and Gary Frank ****
The Abominable by Dan Simmons ****
Terminator Salvation: The Final Battle Volume Two by J.Michael Straczynski and Pete Woods **;
The Quantuum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi ***1/2
The Edge of Reason by Melinda Snodgrass *** 1/2
Harlan Ellison's The City on the Edge of Forever by Harlan Ellison, Juan Ortiz, Scott Tipton, David Tipton and J.K.Woodward ****
Cat Sense by John Bradshaw ***1/2
Ten Grand Volume 2 by J.Michael Straczynski, C.P. Smith and Mathew Dow Smith ***
Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson ***
Star Trek: The Newspaper Strips: The Complete Comics 1979-1981 by Thomas Wartenkin, Sharman DiVono and Ron Harris ***
Star Trek: The Newspaper Strips: The Complete Comics 1981-1983 by Sharman DiVono, Ron Harris, Thomas Wartenkin, Larry Niven, Padaric Shigetani, Martin Pasko, Gerry Conway, Bob Myers, Ernie Colon and Dick Kulpa **1/2
Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey ***
Tecumseh and Brock: The War of 1812 by James Laxer ***1/2
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King ***
Dead Wake by Erik Larson ****
Empire of Dust by Jacey Bedford **
Star Trek: Creating the Enterprise by Paul Olsen **
The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It by John W. Dean ***
Return to Tomorrow: The Filming of Star Trek: The Motion Picture by Preston Neal Jones ****
Puget Sound Whales For Sale: The Fight to End Orca Hunting by Sandra Pollard ***1/2
Star Trek: New Visions Volume 2 by John Byrne ***1/2
Dark Lightning by John Varley ***1/2
We Don't Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy by Caseen Gaines ***
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson ****
Burning Paradise by Robert Charles Wilson ****
Lock In by John Scalzi ***1/2
The Longer I'm Prime Minister by Paul Wells ***1/2
The Martian by Andy Weir ***1/2
The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu ***1/2
Party of One by Michael Harris ***1/2
V-S Day by Allen Steele ***1/2
Teen Titans: Earth One: Volume One by Jeff Lemire, Terry Dodson, Rachel Dodson, Cam Smith and Brad Anderson ***
Space Chronicles by Neil DeGrasse Tyson **
Destroyermen: Into the Storm by Taylor Anderson ***
Destroyermen: Crusade by Taylor Anderson ***
Destroyermen: Maelstrom by Taylor Anderson ***
Destroyermen: Distant Thunders by Taylor Anderson ***
Destroyermen: Rising Tides by Taylor Anderson ***
Destroyermen: Firestorm by Taylor Anderson ***
Destroyermen: Iron Gray Sea by Taylor Anderson ***
Destroyermen: Storm Surge by Taylor Anderson ***
Destroyermen: Deadly Shores by Taylor Anderson ***
Superman - Earth One: Volume Three by J. Michael Stracynski, Ardian Syhf, Sandra Hope and Barbara Ciardo ***
Trumbo by Bruce Cook ***1/2
Don't Panic: ISIS, Terror and Today's Middle East by Gwynne Dyer ***
Hockey Night Fever by Stephen Cole ***
The Humbug Murders by L. J. Oliver **
Fiddlehead by Cherie Priest **1/2

Books I Read 2014

In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson***1/2
The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson ****
Among the Truthers by Jonathan Kay **
Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis ***
Ten Grand Volume 1 by J.Michael Straczynski, Ben Templesmtih and C.P. Smith ***1/2
Sidekick Volume 1 by J. Michael Straczynski, Tom Mandrake and HiFi ***1/2
Superman: Earth One Volume Two by J.Michael Straczynski and Shane Davis *** 1/2
The Adventures of Apocalypse Al by J. Michael Straczynski, Sid Kotian and Bill Farmer ***
Protectors Inc by J. Michael Straczynski, Gordon Purcell, Andrew Pepoy and Michael Atiyeh ***
Between Man and Beast by Monte Reel ***
The Fifth Assassin by Brad Meltzer ***
The Lost Whale by Michael Parfitt and Suzanne Chisholm *****
The Human Division by John Scalzi ****
Existence by David Brin ***
These Are The Voyages Volume 2 by Marc Cushman *****
Moonfire by Norman Mailer *****
Cockpit Confidential by Patrick Smith ***
The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History by William K. Klingman and Nicholas P. Klingman ***
The Point Man by Steve Englehart ***
The Further Adventures of an Idiot Abroad by Karl Pilkington ***1/2
Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour by David Bianculli ***1/2
The Twilight Zone Volume One: The Way Out by J.Michael Straczynski ***
Before Watchmen: The Nite Owl/Dr. Manhattan by J.Michael Straczynski, Adam Hughes, Andy Kubert, Joe Kubert, Bill Sienkiewicz and Eduardo Risso ***1/2
Nation Maker: Sir John A. MacDonald: His Life, Our Times by Richard Gwyn ****
Canada in the Great Power Game 1914-2014 by Gwynne Dyer *****
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser ****
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie ****
Ice Storm: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Vancouver Canucks Team Ever by Bruce Dowbiggin ***
The Morning After: The 1995 Quebec Referendum and the Day that Almost Was by Chantel Hébert with Jean Lapierre ***
God, No! by Penn Jillette *1/2
Star Trek: New Visions by John Byrne ***
The Star Wars by J.W. Rinzler, Mike Mayhew, Rain Beredo, Michael Heisler, Nick Runge and George Lucas ****
Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story by Robyn Doolittle *** 1/2
The Lost Fleet: Dauntless by Jack Cambell ***1/2
Supervolcano: Eruption by Harry Turtledove ***
These Are The Voyages Volume 3 by Marc Cushman *****

Books I Read in 2013

Slow Apocalypse by John Varley ****
Supergods by Grant Morrison **1/2
The Inner Circle by Brad Meltzer ***
The Inexplicables by Cherie Priest ***
Redshirts by John Scalzi ***1/2
Vortex by Robert Charles Wilson ***
Paddle by Jasper Winn ****
Escape From Hell by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle *1/2
Without Warning by John Birmingham ***
The Wind Through The Keyhole by Stephen King ***1/2
Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age by Arthur Herman ***1/2
Life Itself by Roger Ebert *****
Empire State by Adam Christopher **1/2
The Map of Time by Fekix J. Palma ****
This Crazy Time by Tzeporah Berman ***
Saving Cascadia by John J. Nance *1/2
Blockade Billy by Stephen King ***
Superman Earth One - Volume One by J. Michael Straczynski and Shane Davis ***
Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre ***
Emperor: Time's Tapestry Book One by Stephen Baxter ***
Conqueror: Time's Tapestry Book Two by Stephen Baxter ***
Navigator: Time's Tapestry Book Three by Stephen Baxter ***
Weaver: Time's Tapestry Book Four by Stephen Baxter ****
Searching for the Finmen by Norman Rogers ***1/2
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson **
Death at SeaWorld by David Kirby ****
Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris by Ian Kershaw ****
Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis by Ian Kershaw ****
Strap Hanger by Taras Grescoe ****
Kayak Across the Atlantic by Pete Bray ***
The Casandra Project by Jack McDevitt and Mike Resnick **
These are the Voyages - Volume 1 by Marc Cushman *****
Orr: My Story by Bobby Orr ***
Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie ****

Books I Read in 2012

2012 by Whitley Streiber *
Beyond 2012 - The Omega Point by Whitley Strieber *
An Idiot Abroad by Karl Pilkingon ***
The World of Karl Pilkington by Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington ***
Karlology by Karl Pilkington ***
Happyslapped by a Jellyfish by Karl Pilkington ***
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson ****1/2
Empire of the Beetle by Andrew Nikiforuk ***
All the Lives He Led by Frederik Pohl ***
Fearless by Joe Glickman ***
How I Killed Pluto...and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown ***
Kill the Dead by Richard Kadrey ***
Notes From a Big Country by Bill Bryson ***1/2
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson *****
101 Things You Thought You Knew About the Titanic...But Didn't by Tim Maltin ***
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson ***1/2
11/22/63 by Stephen King ****
Star Trek: Vanguard: Harbinger by David Mack ***
Star Trek: Vanguard: Summon the Thunder by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore ***
Star Trek: Vanguard: Reap the Whirlwind by David Mack ***
Star Trek: Vanguard: Open Secrets by Dayton Ward ***
Star Trek: Vanguard: Precipice by David Mack ***
Star Trek: Vanguard: Declassified by Dayton Ward, Kevin Dilmore, Marco Palmieri and David Mack ***
Star Trek: Vanguard: What Judgements Come by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore ***
Star Trek: Vanguard: Storming Heaven by David Mack ***
Twenty Thirty by Albert Brooks ***
Evel by Leigh Montville ****
Tough Guy by Bob Probert and Kirstie McLellan Day ***
Moby-Duck by Donovan Hahn ****
Queen: The Definitive Biography by Laura Jackson **
Ganymede by Cherie Priest ***1/2
Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson ****
Cold a Long Time by John Leake ***
Flashback by Dan Simmons ***
Cascadia's Fault by Jerry Thompson ****
Day of Infamy by Walter Lord ***1/2
The Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan ***
The Fall by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan ***
The Night Eternal by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan ***
The Million Dollar Policeman by John Swartzwelder ***
Turn Right At Machu Picchu by Mark Adams ***
Sex on the Moon by Ben Mezrich **
Heaven's Shadow by David S. Goyer and Michael Cassutt ***1/2
Fools Rule: Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change by William Marsden ****
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann ***1/2
Falling to Earth by Al Worden ***
Freddie Mercury: The Definitive Biography by Lesley-Ann Jones ****
Chung Kuo 01: The Son Of Heaven by David Wingrove ***
Chung Kuo 02: Daylight on Iron Mountain by David Wingrove ***
Into the Silence by Wade Davis *****
Flood by Stephen Baxter ***
Ark by Stephen Baxter ***
Who I Am by Pete Townshend***
Encounters From a Kayak by Nigel Foster ****
That Is All by John Hodgman ****

Books I Read in 2011

Under the Dome by Stephen King ****
Drood by Dan Simmons *****
Black Hills by Dan Simmons ****1/2
Confessions of a Wave Warrior by Eric Soares ***
The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant *****
Storms of My Grandchildren by James Hansen ***1/2
The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White ****
The Making of the President 1964 by Theodore H. White ****
The Making of the President 1968 by Theodore H. White ****
The Making of the President 1972 by Theodore H. White ****
Triplanetary by E.E. "Doc" Smith ***
Solo by Vicki McAuley ****
Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey ****
Hitchens vs. Blair: Be It Resolved that Regligion is a Force for Good in the World edited by Rudyard Griffiths ****
Harperland: The Politics of Control by Lawrence Martin ****
The Fifty Foot Detective by John Swartzwelder ***
The Wave by Susan Casey ****
The Devil's Teeth by Susan Casey ****
Freedom(tm) by Daniel Suarez ****
Fordlandia by Greg Grandin ****
Starman: The Truth Behind the Legend of Yuri Gagarin by Jamie Doran and Piers Bizony ***1/2
The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada by Marci McDonald ****
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson ***1/2
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick ***1/2
The Final Theorem by Arthur C. Clarke and Frederik Pohl **1/2
Monster Hunter: Vendetta by Larry Correia ***
The Tiger by John Vaillant *****
The Fat Paddler by Sean Smith ***
Marshall McLuhan by Douglas Coupland ****
Crawling from the Wreckage by Gwynne Dyer *****
Just When You Thought It Was Safe: A Jaws Companion by Patrick Jankiewicz ***
The Jaws Log by Carl Gottlieb ***1/2
Paddle to the Amazon by Don Starkell ***1/2
Paddle to the Arctic by Don Starkell ***
Kabloona in the Yellow Kayak by Victoria Jason ****
From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming ***
Dreadnought by Cherie Priest ***
Paul MacCartney - A Life by Peter Ames Carlin ***
The Greatest Game by Todd Denault **1/2
Blood Rites by Jim Butcher ***
Zero History by William Gibson ***
A Dip in The Ocean by Sarah Outen ***
Atlantic by Simon Winchester ***
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos by Brian Greene ***
Spook by Mary Roach **1/2
Stiff by Mary Roach ****
Packing for Mars by Mary Roach ****
Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi ***
Blackout by Connie Willis ****
All Clear by Connie Willis ****

Books I Read in 2010

Keeping Our Cool: Canada in a Warming World by Andrew Weaver ****
The Road by Cormac McCarthy ***
More Information Than You Require by John Hodgman *****
Have a Nice Doomsday: Why Millions of Americans are Looking Forward to the End of the World by Nicholas Guyatt ***1/2
Watermind by M.M.Buckner **1/2
Stepping Stones of Ungava and Labrador by Nigel Foster ****
Space Vulture by Gary K. Wolf and John J. Myers ****
The Conviction of Richard Nixon by James Reston, Jr. ***1/2
Frost/Nixon by Sir David Frost ***
Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea **** by Carl Zimmer
Diamonds Are Forever by Ian Fleming ****
Hunter S. Thompson by Jay Cowan *****
My Life as Prime Minister by Jean Chrétien ***
Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever by John Scalzi ****
The Invaders by James Rosin ***
Days of Infamy by Harry Turtledove ***1/2
End of the Beginning by Harry Turtledove ***1/2
John A: The Man Who Made Us by Richard Gwyn ****
Critical Mass by Whitley Streiber ***
Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine *****
God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens ****
Weapons of Choice by John Birmingham ****
Designated Targets by John Birmingham ****
Final Impact by John Birmingham ****
Not One Drop by Riki Ott ***
Rocket Men by Craig Nelson ****
Facing Ali by Stephen Brunt ***1/2
Magnificent Desolation by Buzz Aldrin ***
The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins ***
Carbon Shift: How Peak Oil and the Climate Change Crisis Will Change Canada edited by Thomas Homer-Dixon ***
Julian Comstock by Robert Charles Wilson *****
Scar Night by Alan Campbell ***1/2
Iron Angel by Alan Campbell***
God of Clocks by Alan Campbell***
Rowboat in a Hurricane by Julie Angus ***1/2
Citizen of the World: The Life of Pierrre Eliott Trudeau Volume One 1919-1968 by John English ****
Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierrre Eliott Trudeau Volume One 1968-2000 by John English ****
Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer *****
The Selling of the President by Joe McGinniss ***
The Greatest Show On Earth by Richard Dawkins ****
The End of Faith by Sam Harris ***
Monster Hunter International by Larry Correia ***
The View From the Bridge by Nicholas Meyer ***1/2
The Age of Persuasion by Terry O'Reilly and Mike Tennant ***1/2
The Breach by Patrick Lee **1/2
Without a Paddle by Warren Richey ****
The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History by John Ortved ***
Gretzky's Tears by Stephen Brunt *****
Playing With Fire by Theo Fleury ****
On Celtic Tides by Chris Duff ****
Rowed Trip by Colin Angus and Julie Angus ***1/2;
Southern Exposure by Chris Duff ****
Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi ****

Books I Watched in 2009

Duma Key by Stephen King ****1/2
Double Wonderful by John Swartzwelder ****
The Terror by Dan Simmons *****
How I Conquered Your Planet by John Swartzwelder ***
Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War by Michael J. Neufeld *****
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks ****
Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming ***
Wild Cards: Inside Straight edited by George R. R. Martin ***
Spook Country by William Gibson **1/2
Stupid to the Last Drop by William Marsden *****
Recursion by Tony Ballantyne *1/2
Tar Sands by Andrew Nikiforuk *****
The Upside of Down by Thomas Homer-Dixon ****
One Jump Ahead by Mark L. Van Name ***
Nixonland by Rick Perlstein *****
The War Within by Bob Woodward ****
Bring on the Apocalypse: Essays on Self-Destruction by George Monbiot *****
What Really Sank the Titanic by Jennifer Hooper McCarty and Tim Foecke ***
Dead Men Scare Me Stupid by John Swartzwelder **1/2
The Mirrored Heavens by David J. Williams ***1/2
The Ten-¢ent Plague by David Hajdu ***1/2
Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirkey *****
Climate Wars by Gwynne Dyer *****
Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson by William McKeen ****
Strip Tease by Carl Hiaasen ****
Paingod and Other Delusions by Harlan Ellison ****
Kayaking the Inside Passage by Robert H. Miller ****
Old Man's War by John Scalzi ****
The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi ***1/2
The Last Colony by John Scalzi ****
Zoë's Tale by John Scalzi ****
Was Superman a Spy? by Brian Cronin ***
Moonraker by Ian Fleming ****
The Exploding Detective by John Swartzwelder ****
Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks ****
Rolling Thunder by John Varley ****
Crossing the Ditch by James Castrission ****
Titanic's Last Secrets by Brad Matsen ***1/2
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess *****
Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher ***1/2
Ancient Gonzo Wisdom: Interviews with Hunter S. Thompson edited by Anita Thompson ****
The Boys on The Bus by Timothy Crouse ****
The Greatest Sc-Fi Movies Never Made by David Hughes ***1/2
Earth vs. Everybody by John Swartzwelder ***1.2
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris ****
A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut ****
Hammered by Elizabeth Bear ***1/2
Scardown by Elizabeth Bear ***1/2
Worldwired by Elizabeth Bear ***1/2
Dark Summit by Nick Heil ***1/2
Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson ****
Blindsight by Peter Watts ***1/2
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell ***1/2
Superclass by David Rothkopf **
The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman *****
The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland ****

Books I read in 2008

Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks ****
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming ****
A Time Odyssey Book One: Time's Eye by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter ***1/2
A Time Odyssey Book Two: Sunstorm by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter ****
A Time Odyssey Book Three: Firstborn by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter****
The Android's Dream by John Scalzi ****1/2
Fatal Tide by David Leach ****
American Armageddon by Craig Unger ****
Death Masks by Jim Butcher ** 1/2
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman *****
Beyond the Horizon by Colin Angus *** 1/2
Legend by David Lynn Goleman **1/2
Summer Knight by Jim Butcher ***1/2
Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard ***1/2
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson ****
Grave Peril by Jim Butcher ***
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill *****
Freefall by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens ***
Fool Moon by Jim Butcher ***1/2
Blaze by Richard Bachman (Stephen King) ***1/2
Spin by Robert Charles Wilson ****
Axis by Robert Charles Wilson ****
Amazon Extreme by Colin Angus ***
Lisey's Story by Stephen King ****
Storm Front by Jim Butcher ***1/2
This New Ocean by William E. Burrows ****
The Regulators by Richard Bachman (Stephen King) ****
Desperation by Stephen King ****
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie Wars by Max Brooks *****
Saint Vidicon to the Rescue by Christopher Stasheff *
Red Lightning by John Varley ****
Lost in Mongolia by Colin Angus ***
The Tommyknockers by Stephen King ***
Event by David Lynn Golemon **1/2
Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend by Stephen Davis *****
From a Buick 8 by Stephen King ****
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman ****
Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson by Jann Wenner and Corey Seymour *****
Live from Cape Canaveral by Jay Barbree **1/2
I Am America (And So Can You) by Stephen Colbert ***1/2
Insomnia by Stephen King ****
Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast *****
Blind Lake by Robert Charles Wilson ****

Books I Read in 2007

Space Race by Deborah Cadbury ***1/2
The Assault on Reason by Al Gore ****
The Joke's Over: Bruised Memories, Gonzo, Hunter s. Thompson and Me by Ralph Steadman ****1/2
Sixty Days and Counting by Kim Stanley Robinson *** 1/2
Fifty Degrees Below by Kim Stanley Robinson ****
Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson *** 1/2
State of Denial by Bob Woodward *****
Nixon in China by Margaret MacMillan ***
Holding the Bully's Coat: Canada and the US Empire by Linda McQuaig ****
Marley and Me by John Grogan *****
The Making of Star Wars by J.W. Rinzler *****
Cell by Stephen King ***1/2
The Truth (With Jokes) by Al Franken ***1/2
Mammoth by John Varley ***1/2
Heat by George Monbiot *****
Harry Potter and the Mindharp of Sharu by J.K. Rowling ****
1491 by Charles G. Mann ***1/2
Who Let the Dogs In by Molly Ivins ***1/2
The Mess They Made by Gwynne Dyer ****
Outrageous Fortune by Tim Scott ***
Salt by Mark Kurlansky **
The Zenith Angle by Bruce Sterling ***
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson ****
JPod by Douglas Coupland *****
Field Notes From a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert ****
The Third Chimpanzee, by Jared Diamond ***.