Howard Seltman's Reading List
Current Reading
Recommendations
Future Reading
Current Reading
- Sharing Space by Cady Coleman
- Endurance: My Year in Space by Scott Kelly
Recommendations
- Pretty good: Nuts and Bolts by Roma Agrawal
- Weird by compelling: Gretel and the Great War by Adam Ehrlich Sachs
- Historical novel about the wife of Jesus: The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
- A great novel: Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
- A good reak: Homesteading Space by David Hitt
- Tremendously detailed: The Story of Space Station Mir by David M. Harland
- Terrific Ming Dynasty Saga: Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See
- Pretty good Irish immigrant novel: Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
- It's unclear what he learned: Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
- Pretty good: Blanch Among the Talented Tenth by Barbara Neely
- Great details but unevenly written: Skylab by David Shayler
- Good novel about a housekeeper/detective: Blanche on the Lam by Barbara Neely
- Terrific short ISS novel: Orbital by Samantha Harvey
- Great Medieval history / travel book: A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages by Anthony Bale
- Terrific: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
- Good 1920's Indian detective novel: Murder Under a Red Moon by Harini Nagendra
- Good immigrant/sports story: Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
- Interesting: Wayfinding by M.R. O'Connor
- Very good: Letters from Mir by Jerry M. Linenger
- Very good: Women's Work by E.J.W. Barber
- Questioning much of human origin stories: The Invisible Sex by J.M. Adovasio, Olga Soffer and Jake Page
- Very good, but strong British focus: The Story of Silk by John Feltwell
- Excellent: Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages with Special Reference to the Aegean by E.J.W. Barber
- A large part is about stuff not econmically viable: Silk A History in Three Metamorphoses by Aarathi Prasad
- Comprehensive: Homegrown Flax and Cotton by Cindy Conner
- Nice little overview: The Weavers by Leonard Everett Fisher
- Dated but good: God Speed the Night by Dorothy Salisbury Davis and Jerome Ross
- Dated but good with many funny similies: The Big Sleep by Rayomond Chandler
- Very good Korean immigrant story: The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim
- Good material with a breezy writing style: A City on Mars by Kelly and Zach Wienersmith
- Nicely written: The Lost Flock by Jane Cooper
- Technical with some interesting parts: The Valkyries' Loom by Michèle Hayeur Smith
- Well written and interesting: The Fabric of Civilization by Virginia Postrel
- Good, but dated: A Case of Need by Michael Crichton
- Good, but hard to keep all of the characters straight: The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
- Very Good: August Blue byu Deborah Levy
- Nicely written but too rosy about future technology: The Human Age by Diane Ackerman
- A good read, but nothing great: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
- A challenging read: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (in German)
- Overhyped mix of good plot, non-clarity and woo-woo-ness: Overstory by Richard Powers
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
2024
- Very good magical realism: Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck
- Excellent short stories: Holler, Child by Latoya Watkins
- Light and fun on-the-spectrum murder mystery: The Maid by Nita Prose
- Very good book about 19th century Sami: The End of Drum Time by Hanna Pylväinen
- Engaging post-WWII book from Czechoslovakia: Harlequin's Millions by Bohumil Hrabal
- Very good: Oh, William by Elizabeth Strout
- Not so good time travel story: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel
- Pretty good hockey novel: The Winners by Fredrik Backman
- Very interesting: Limonov by Emmanuel Carrère
- Great Venice police novel: Trace Elements by Donna Leon
- Good pandemic novel, but not her best writing: Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
- Terrific: The Design and Engineering of Curiosity by Emily Lackdawalla
- Very good Venice police novel: So Shall You Reap: by Donna Leon
- Good Gen-X novel: All This Could Be Very Different by Sarah Thankam Matthews
- Perfect novel about Cyprus: The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
- Good and very good short stories: Emerald City Stories by Jennifer Egan
- Very illuminating family history: Mott Street by Ava Chin
- Nice little book: The Viking Missions to Mars by John Hamilton
- Excellent inside view of NASA and especially the Sojurner rover: Managing Martians by Donna Shirley
- Lots of errors and unclear writing, but some good interview material: The Search for Life on Mars by Elizabeth Howell and Nicholas Booth
- Terrific: All the light we cannot see by Anthony Doerr
- Very good: Weavers, scribes and kings: a new history of the ancient Near East by Amanda H. Podany
- Easy read, but a bit dated: Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
- Complex, engaging story of the 1960's: Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
- Very good: The League of Frightened Gentlemen by Rex Stout
- Uneven, often very indirect: Everything you know about Indians is wrong by Paul Chatt Smith
- Very good long short stories: First Love and other stories by Ivan Turgenev
- Excellent: Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout
- A bit spotty, but many good stories: Objects of Desire by Clare Sestanovich
- Very interesting: 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline
- Interesting but ruined by anti-gay rhetoric: The Brownstone House of Nero Wolfe by Ken Darby
- Not as good as it pretends to be: Weather by Jenny Offill
- Indian incarceration, George Floyd and ghosts: The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
- Great Ghanian saga:æ Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- Very good: Down the River into the Sea by Walter Mosley
- Very interesting: This was Toscanini by Samuel Antek
- Excellent: Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Fun: The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
- Powerful essays about being Black in America: Black Joy by Tracy M. Lewis-Giggetts
- Great plot development: Glass Houses by Louise Penny
- Interesting: What Language Is by John H. McWhorter
- Very well written and compelling: The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht
- So much fun: Nero Wolfe Primer by Rex Stout
2023
- Not much new for me: Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Written with a horrible affectation, there are twice as many words as needed: Mr. Beethoven by Paul Griffiths
- Very creative and weird, with nods to George Saunders: Pool Party Trap Loop by Ben Segal
- Interesting legal cases by a former US attorney: Just Pursuit by Laura Coates
- Inane to profound essay collection: The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders
- Mixed strories of Palestine imagined in 2048: Palestine +100 Edited by Basma Ghalayim
- CivilWarland in Bad Decline by George Saunders
- Dated, but interesting: Around the World in 72 Days by Nellie Bly
- Canadian First Nations story with some good plot elements: Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
- Another good Gamache mystery: Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny
- Good plot-driven novel: The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
- Interesting info but too much speculation: The Goodness Paradox by Richard Wrangham
- Great magical realism: Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn
- A Calling for Charlie Barnes by Joshua Ferris
- Too much invented detail about people and too little detail about the language: Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution that Made China Modern by Jing Tsu
- Good overview of the space program: Apollo's Legacy by Roger D. Launius
- Selections from his reading list doesn't quite work: The Search for Roots An Anthology by Primo Levi
- Very good Omani novel: Bitter Oranges by Jokha Alharthi
- Very well written story about Turkish immigrants to the UK: Honor by Elif Shafak
- Very good story of a murdered prostitute in Istanbul: 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak
- Interesting story of a collecting expedition mixed with inane philosophy: The Log From the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck
- Well written story of a return to a hometown but with an unsatisfying resoluion: Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
- Very good: Rosalind Franklin the Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox
- Compelling: The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro
- OK summer fluff: Copy Cap Murder by Jenn McKinlay
- OK summer fluff: Tell Me Lies by Jennifer Crusie
- Very good and varied short stories: Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories by Blume Lempel
- Some interesting history, but the main conceit does not work: Sourdough Culture by Eric Pallant
- Too ponderous to finish: Middlemarch by George Eliot
- More history than travelogue: The Rhine by Ben Coates
- Great explanations of short stories: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
- Good: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
- VG book about the development of food and drug laws in the US: The Poison Squad by Deborah Blum
- Erdrich always delivers a great story: The Round House by Louise Erdrich
- Tremendous detail from Julius Caesar through Domitian: The Twelve Caesers by Suoetonius (translated by Alexander Thomson)
- Terrific Chinese/American novel: Swimming Back to Trout River by Lind Rui Feng
- Cambodian-America stores, some very good: Afterparies: Stories by Anthony Veasna So
- Powerful mix of history and fantasy: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- Not recommended: Why Fish Don't Exist by Lulu Miller
- Very well written old murder mystery: Strong Poison by Dorothy Sayers
- Terrific murder mystery: A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny
- VG story of Zanzibaran who moves to London: Gravel Heart by Abdulrazak Gurnah
- VG travelogue and recipes: On the Noodle Road by Jen Lin-Liu
- Meh:The English Major by Jim Harrison
- Silly fluff: Where's My Jetpack by Daniel H. Wilson
- OK 1940's murder mystery: The Dancing Druids by Gladys Mitchell
- Good novel of genes and happiness: Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers
- Good sci fi / fantasy: Rocannon's World by Ursula LeGuin
- A slow start, but then fun: The Liar's Dictionary by Eley Williams
- Terrific tale of many centuries: Cloud Cukoo Land by Anthony Doerr
2022
- OK memoir: Once I Was You by Maria Hinojosa
- Creative and very good: Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
- Excellent immigration story: What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad
- Very good: Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy
- Superb: Bewilderment by Richard Powers
- Too convoluted: Must I Go by Yiyun Li
- Good graphic novel: A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in New York
- Several very good ones: The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories by Danielle Evans
- Very good: Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
- Commencement speech: What Now? by Ann Patchett
- VG short stories and a novella: The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
- Good and excellent scifi short stories: How Long Til' Black Future Month? by N. K. Jemisin
- Interesting, but sometimes obtuse: The World of Odysseus by M. I. Finley
- Interesting historical fiction: Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge
- Well written tale of academic madness: Hex by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight
- Good tale of the near future: Tell the Machine Goodnight by Katie Williams
- Interesting novel about racism: The Tempest Tales by Walter Mosley
- Engaging, but somewhat unsatisfying: All the Devils are Here by Louise Penny
- Mix of OK and good stories: Blood on the Tracks edited by Martin Edwards
- Fun: The Liar in the Library by Simon Brett
- Worth reading: Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Interesting mix of history and imagined details: The Engineer's Wife by Tracey Enerson Wood
- Still readable 150 years later: 20000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
- Very good fantasy with a bit too much battle description: The Way of the Kings by Brandon Sanderson
- Very good stories about Black English women: Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
- Fast fun read: Project Hail Mary by Andy Wier
- Interesting stories: Found Treasures: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers
- Good short stories: A Lucky Man by James Brinkley
- Disjointedness annoying intially, but eventually effective: Apeirogon by Colum McCann
- Hungarian anti-intellectual befriend intellectual: The Door by Magda Szabó
- Terrific strory of Burmese tourists: Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan
- Good story of disabled kids: Good Kings Bad Kings by Susan Nussbaum
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemmingway
- classic 50's scifi: Have Space Suit - Will Travel by R. A. Heinlein
- Very interesting story of a plane crash survivor:Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
- Excellent AI story: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Amazing descripitions and photos of a few: Stepping-stones: a Journey Through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne by Christine Desdemaines-Hugon
- Powerful story: The Book Smuggler: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis by David E. Fishman
- Excellent, but more memoir than novel: Homeland Elegies: A Novel by Ayad Akhtar
- A perfect book: Five Little Pigs: A Hercule Poirot Novel by Agatha Christie
- Excellent tale of love in the face of a hard society: If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
- Good YA First Nations fantasy novel: The Barren Grounds by David Robertson
- Eye opening: Sitting pretty: The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig
- Very engaging Japanese story told from two points of view: A Tale for Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
- Mixed: The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
- Fun story of an 11 year old traveling alone from Ceylon to England: The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
- Interesting but overly verbose: The Secret Life of Groceries by Benjamin Lorr
- Weird and pretty good: The Legend of Taylor Rapids by Warren Gerd
- Real page turner: Camino Winds by John Grisham
- Excellent: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
- Very good: American Spy by Lauren Wilkenson
- A difficult must-read: Flares of Memory edited by Anita Brostoff
2021
- Beautifully writted immigrant story: Afterlife by Julia Alvarez
- Great story between the Olives: The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout
- Narcisistic and meh: Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum
- Terrific: Olive, Avain by Elizabeth Strout
- emo novel about a bisexual Palestinian American: You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat
- good Pittsburgh novel: Three-Fifths by John Vercher
- Meh: Too Much Is Never Enough: How my Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L Trump
- Good Venice detective story: Earthly Remains by Donna Leon
- Very interesting (but two examples of bad math): The Secret Life of Flies by Erica McAlister
- Light, but fun: The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine
- Excellent novel of a first generation American: A particular kind of black man by Tope Folarin
- Well written non-fiction: The remedy : Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the quest to cure tuberculosis by Goetz, Thomas
- Very good "blapallation" novel: The Birds of Opulence by Crystal Wilkinson
- Religious biography: In the footsteps of the prophet: lessons from the life of Mohammad by Tariq Ramadan
- Interesting and ambiguous and in a first/second person voice: The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
- very good story of WWII Hong Kong: The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee
- very good short stories about scientists: Archangel by Andrea Barrett
- The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro
- Took a while to get into: Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan
- Very interesting: Flu by Gina Kolata
- Fun and funny mystery from 1920s England: A Quiet Life in the Country by T E Kinsey
- Great Korean historical fiction: The Island of the Sea Women by Lisa See
- Fun: Camino Island by John Grisham
- Good novel of a black and a white family in the 1890s: Golden Poppies by Laila Ibrahim
- Very good historical novel: The Muralist by B. A. Shapiro
- Interesting and enjoyable: 50 Years at Gombe by Jane Goodall
- Interesting, but racist and with many errors: For All the Tea in China by Sarah Rose
- Very interesting story of Chinese immigration to America: On Gold Mountain by Lisa See
- Great Poirot mystery: The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie
- Not what the title implies: The Souls of Yellow Folks by Wesley Yang
- Superb: The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
- Interesting, but a bit too "cheeky": Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine by Barry Strauss
- Fun and varied: American Food Writing edited by Molly McNeill
- Engaging novel: Little Gods by Meng Jin
- Mixed bag: The Patch by John McPhee
- Very good novel about Sikh sisters: The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters : a Novel by Balli Kaur Jaswal
- Some science errors and too much detail, but important work (just need to read the last two chapters): Merchants of Doubt : How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes
- Very well done: Masterpieces of Tutankhamun by DavideP Silverman
- Very intersting book of Dr. Livingston from the African perspectiv: Out of Darkness Shining Light by Petina Gappah
- Must read about the death penalty: Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- Many interesting interviews with the elderly: Coming of Age by Studs Terkel
- Excellent (but sad) "fourth person" novel of modern Nigeria: An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma
- Nigeria in the 1950s: No Longer At Ease by Chinua Achebe
- Well written (but missing info on crop origins): First Pennsylvanians: The Archaeology of Native Americans in Pennsylvania by Kurt Carr
- A real page turner, but with one unconvincing final plot twist: Conviction by Denise Mina
- Very good Nigerian story of early contact: Arrow of God by Chuna Achebe
- Facinating: Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
- VG Native American story: There there by Tommy Orange
- Great Nigerian anthropological study up to first contact with the British: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- Engaging novel with many characters in Kamchatka: Disappearing Earth by Julia Phllips
- Not worth reading: Let Me Not Be Mad by A K Benjamin
- A musician negotiating occupation in Palestine: Children of the Stone by Sandy Tolan
- Interesting Civil War letters: Voices from the Attic by Carleton Young
- Not a great novel, but an interesting anthropologic study: The Cossacks by Leo Tostoy
- Pretty good in parts; requires too much background knowledge in other parts: Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray by Sabine Hossenfelder
- Suberb creative non-fiction: Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
- Very good; not what it seems at first: Year of the Ginkgo by Sharon Dillworth
- Poorly edited and uneven with some very good parts: Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs by Lisa Randall
- Superbly written family saga: Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
- Funny, erudite, but with non-pertinent digressions on his favorite topic of Saga: Losing It by William Ian Miller
- Pretty good: The Lost Queen of Crocker County by Elizabeth Leiknes
- Quick review in YA form: The Romans and their Empire by Trevor Cairns
- Another good Venetian crime novel: Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon
- Weird, but good: Freshwater by Emezi Akwaeke
- Very Interesting: The Roman Engineers by L.A. an J.A. Hamey
- Meh: Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill
- Fun: A Sea of Troubles by Donna Leon
- Very good: (The New Annotated) Frankestein by Mary Shelley
- Dense, but powerful and important for everyone to read: Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon
(Retirement)
- Interesting Korean historical fiction: The Court Dancer by Kyung-Sook Shin
- Dream sequences and stream-of consciousness are not my favorite, but still a pretty good quick read: Autumn by Ali Smith
- Too ghastly crime novel with difficult period slang: Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
- Great story of women in Afghanistan: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- Fun and quirky: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- Creative scifi trilogy: The Three Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and Death's End by Liu Cixin
- A bit slow: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
- A bit slow: The mysterious affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
- Fun tales of food and immigrants: Broccoli and other tales of food and love by Lara Vapnyar
- Good, not great: A visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- a real page turner: The Icarus Agenda by Robert Ludlum
- good novel about a diplomat: Madagascar by Stephen Holgate
- very good: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
- OK WWII spy novel: Transcription by Kate Atkinson
- Not nearly as good as the Martian: Artemis by by Andy Weir
- Wonderful tale of another time and place: Kim by Rudyard Kipling
- Subtly hilarious tale of an Ag University: Moo by Jane Smiley
- Badly writted: Time Capsules, a Cultural History by William E. Jarvis
- Over the top spy novel: The Moscow Deception by Karen Robards
- Widely varied short stories: What it Means When a Man Falls From the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah
- Translated post-modern Chinese is not so great: Slow boat to China by Jinshu Huang
- Wilderness adventure with just OK writing: Alone on the Shield by Kirk Landers
- Exciting with a few weak plot points: The Whistler by John Grisham
- Good, disturbing: The Secret History by Donna Tart
- Well written novel: Look at Me by Jennifer Egan
- Autobiography of early commercial flight: Fate is the Hunter by Ernest K Gann
- The Sultan and the Queen: the Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam by Jerry Brotton
- The Rooster Bar by John Grisham
- Great combo of poetry, tech, and autobiography: Skyfaring: a journey with a pilot by Mark Vanhoenacker
- Too much vagueness: Caribbean Rim by Randy Wayne White
- Great period piece of the depression: Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
- Dry humor: Espresso Tales by Alexander McCall-Smith
- Unique, well-paced, well-written: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- A little slow in the middle, but quite a good family saga: The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich
- Good historical fiction: Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
- Unusal, but excellent: Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
- Too poorly written to read: The Vanderbilt era: profiles of a gilded age by Louis Auchincloss
- Well done: Mosque by David Macaulay
- OK Scifi from 1957: The Man who Pulled Down the Sky by John Barnes
- Interesting novel about a nuclear meltdown in New England from a teen's POV: Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands by Chris Bohjalian
- Some too dark, but all good: K is for Killer, L is for Lawless, M is for Malice, N is for Noose, O is for Outlaw, P is for Peril, Q is for Quarry, R is for Richochet, S is for Silence, T is for Trespass, U is for Undertow, V is for Vengeance, W is for Wasted, X, Y is for Yesterday (Summer 2017)
- All good: D is for Deadbeat, E is for Evidence by Sue Grafton, F is for Fugative, G is for Gumshoe, H for Homicide, I is for Innocent, J is for Judgment
- Every teen or 20-something should read this book about learning from your mistakes and being humble: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chri Hadfield
- Good light reading: D is for Deadbeat by Sue Grafton
- So so: Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
- Great read: The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
- Powerful novel of four generations of Palestinians: Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa
- Interesting, but not well written: Red China Blues by Jan Wong
- Beautiful writing and a compelling story: Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
- So-so futuristic sub story: Polaris by Todd Tucker
- Not quite as good as some others: Gray Mountain by John Grisham
- Good explanations of Statistics and Pathology: The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- The Pelican Brief by John Grisham
- Sphynx by Robin Cook
- At Paradise Gate: A Novel by Jane Smiley
- Very short stories with lots of drugs, sex, and grit: A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
- The Summons by John Grisham
- Very exciting: The Aeneid by Virgil
- Some interesting parts: Mars One: Humanity's Next Great Adventure: Inside the First Human Settlement on Mars edited by Norbert Kraft, James R Kass, and Raye Kass
- Very informative and interesting look at animal cognition: Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by F.B.M. Waal
- Wonderful historical fiction: The Architect's Apprentice by Elif Shafak
- A little less linear than I might like (because it covers 1000 years) but really interesting: SPQR by Mary Beard
- Fairly good novel about brothers in the restaurant business: Bread and Butter by Michelle Wildgen
- Eye-opening epistolary non-fiction about WWII: Love and War by Howard Jones
- Fascinating: The Incarnations by Susan Barker
- Great writing and totally depressing: A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul.
- Two Novellas, An Incident at Krechetovka Station and Matryona's Place by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Short Stories: Ford County by John Grisham
- Ishiguro never fails to impress: An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Well written (esp. 1st and 3rd) and gripping: Youth, Heart of Darkness, and End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad
- Fascinating stories: Habits of Change -- An Oral History of American Nuns by Carole Garibaldi Rogers
- A teenager works in a black-owned funeral home in Baltimore: Nine Years Under by Sheri Booker
- American socialist icon in his own words: Eugene V. Debs Speaks edited by Eugene V. Debs
- Essentially disparate essays assembled as an autobiography: The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
- Many thought-provoking themes: Once an Eagle by Anton Myrer
- Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen: Mary Norris
- Fun story with great technical details: The Martian by Andy Weir
- Death and Mayhem: The Icelandic Sagas
- The Bingo Palace by Louise Erdrich
- Powerful story: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- Dr. No, You Only Live Twice, and Man with The Golden Gun by Ian Fleming
- Strange (?translation poor), but interesting: Good Morning Comrades by Ondjaki
- This collection of book reviews barely makes a consistent whole. Try something else by this author: Confronting the Classics by Mary Beard
- Superbly written tour of the history of calculus (with lots of math): Calculus Gallery by William Dunham
- Interesting history of Statistics (with no math) and its personalities: The Lady Tasting Tea by by David Salsburg
- Well written murder mysteries: A is for Alibi, B is for Burgler by Sue Grafton
- A fascinating story of a Jewish women in Palestine between WWII and the formation of the state of Israel: When Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant
- Tough to read because it is so depressing: Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
- Every hundred pages something interesting and totally new happends: Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
- Very good: The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett
- Nice overview of 2500 years: A Little History of Philosophy by Nigel Warburton
- Superb in every way: Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
- Very uneven: Shakespeare's Kitchen by Lore Segal
- A few weak parts, but well worth reading: The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe by Michael D. Gordin
- Not his best: Invasion by Robin Cook
- Typical, fun Cook: Cell by Robin Cook
- Disjoined, but good: To The Ends Of The Earth: The Selected Travels Of Paul Theroux by Paul Thereaux
- Intresting combo of personal and natural history: Love, Life and Elephants by Dame Daphne Sheldrick
- Another good Doc Ford novel: Night Moves by Randy Wayne White
- Good SF: The Martian Race by Gregory Benford
- Another good read: The Trustee with the Toolbox by Nevil Shute
- Interesting, but boring parts and other weaknesses: The Goths by PJ Heather
- Very good travel story: A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube by Patrick Leigh Fermor and Jan Morris
- Very good novel: A town name Alice by Nevil Shute
- Some interesting parts, but basically unreadable: Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought by Douglas Hofstadter
- Some good parts: The Secrets of Alchemy by Lawrence M. Principe
- Good WWII novel: Pied Piper by Nevil Shute
- Some good jokes: Jewish Humor: What the Best Jewish Jokes Say About the Jews by Joseph Telushkin
- Not as good as expected: Vinyl Cafe Notebooks by Stuart McLean
- Very good "extended" autobiography: The View From Castle Rock by Alice Munro
- Annoying male writing female first person: Gone by Randy Wayne White
- Great true story: The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code by Margalit Fox
- Great short stories: Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by Z.Z. Packer
- Just OK: A Tear at the Edge of Creation by Marcelo Gleiser
- Good unsual writing style: The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
- Erudite and interesting: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
- Well written tail of first solo sail around the world (1895-1898): Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum
- This classic is worth reading: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Great: The Keep by Jennifer Egan
- Only a few are funny: 50 Funniest American Writers chosen by Andy Borowitz
- Jungle Thriller: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
- Very interesting: Island by Aldous Huxley
- Exciting: The Black Swan by Rafael Sabatini
- Bad: The Half-life of Facts by Samuel Arbesman
- Erudite, but ulitmately unsatisfying: Phi, A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul by Giulio Tononi
- Unlikely thriller is just OK: Viral: A novel by James Lilliefors.
- An OK novel about fundamentalism: We Sinners by Hanna Pylvainen.
- Powerful and excellent: The Cellist of Sarjevo by Steven Galloway
- Very funny: Lunatics by Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel
- Several intersting stories among typical Shattner vanity: Star Trek Memories by William Shatner
- Very good non-fiction: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
- Fun: Caveat Emptor by Ruth Downie
- Slow: Steel City Jews by Barbara Burstin
- Some of these short stories are good: For the Relief of Unbearable Urges by Nathan Englander
- Unusual in a good way: Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
- Typical, fun Robin Cook: Marker
- Fascinating historical fiction: As a Driven Leaf by Milton Steinberg
- Excellent: The space between us: a novel by Thrity Umrigar.
- Good read of dysfunctional higher education: Straight Man by Richard Russo
- Very readable and interesting: Revelations: visions, prophecy, and politics in the book of Revelation by Elaine Pagels
- Not worth reading: In Pursuit of the Unknown (17 equations that changed the world) by Ian Stuart
- Interesting non-linear account of the Trail of Tears: Pushing the bear: a novel of the Trail of Tears by Diane Glancy
- Fascinating and disturbing area of history I knew nothing about: Ties that bind: the story of an Afro-Cherokee family in slavery and freedom by Tyla Miles
- Excellent non-fiction: The lemon tree: an Arab, a Jew, and the heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan
- Meh: The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A. J. Jacobs
- Some very interesting parts (plus many too-loosely connected digressions and a poor attempt at a relating chapters to spacesuit layers): Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo by Nicholas de de Monchaux
- Essays, many excellent: Best Science and Nature Writing 2011 (ed. Mary Roach)
- Good: A history of tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka
- Pretty interesting (but old): The Medical Detectives by Berton Roueche
- Great historical novel: Pompeii by Robert Harris
- Hillarious: Strawberry Fields (Two Caravans) by Marina Lewycka
- Good: McKays Bees by Thomas MacMahon
- Fun with interesting insights into the CIA: Intelligence by Susan Hassler
- Great view of religion in India: Nine Lives by William Dalrymple
- Good: The Silk Road: Two thousand years in the heart of Asia by Frances Wood
- Sphere by Michael Crichton
- Great view of post-WW2 Ethiopia: Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
- Walkin' the Dog by Walter Mosley
- Too dry: Into the Black: JPL and the American Space Program, 1976-2004 by Peter J. Westwick
- A very good inside look at "space tourism": My Dream of Stars by Anousheh Ansari and Homer Hickem
- A must read (but not for the writing): The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
- Very entertaining: Lost City of Z by David Grann
- A slog, but interesting: Josephus, the essential writings: a condensation of Jewish antiquities and The Jewish wars by Paul L Maier
- Very good: Silas Marner by George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (¤)
- Good, but incredibly melanchologenic: Olive Kittridge by Elizabeth Strout
- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (¤)
- Excellent popular history: The Poison King by Adrienne Mayor
- Unseen Diversity: The World of Bacteria by Betsey Dexter Dyer (¤)
- Pretty good: The Immense Journey by Loren Eiseley
- Crime story with not-so-great writing: The Odds by Kathleen George
- Some of the arguments seem based on blind faith to capitalism, but there's a lot of interesting stuff here: Dead aid: why aid is not working and how there is a better way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo
- Interesting, but not well translated: Fordlandia: A Novel by Eduardo Sguiglia
- Pretty strange: Hindoo (sic) Holiday by J.R. Ackerley
- Good: Exit Music by Ian Rankin
- Good, except for too many with the devil: The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol Translated by R Pevear and L Volokhonsky
- No ghostwriter, and quite well written: Carrying the Fire; An Astronaut's Journey by Michael Collins
- Excellent Nigerian short stories: The thing around your neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Great plot: Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
- Anywhen by James Blish
- Very good and very diverse: The Boat by Nam Le
- Good SF: The Postman by David Brin
- Terra Incognita: A Novel of the Roman Empire by Ruth Downie
- The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday by Alexander McCall Smith
- Illegal Action by Stella Rimington
- Unfocussed: The Classics by Mary Beard
- Best in series: The Careful Use of Compliments by Alexander McCall Smith
- Good: Secret Asset by Stella Rimington
- The Pluto Files by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- By ex-head of MI5: At Risk by Stella Rimington
- The Right Attitude to Rain by Alexander McCall Smith
- Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith
- Fun: The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith
- What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain
- An immigrant's tale (first chapters are weak): The Promised Land by Mary Antin
- The Age of Shiva by Manil Suri
- Exciting spy novel: Robert Ludlum's Arctic Event by James Cobb
- Good: Towelhead by Alicia Erian
- Very good: Four Souls by Lousie Erdrich
- Doesn't work as a coherent whole: Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
- Seeing by Jose Saramage
- Blindness by Jose Saramago
- Very funny: Foreskin's Lament by Shalom Auslander
- A little uneven, but hilarious in parts: Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
- The sorrows of an American by Siri Hustvedt
- A few boring parts, but very good: The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
- Great: Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Not very good: Biting the Wax Tadpole by Elizabeth Little
- Good Saudi detective novel: Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris
- Rachel in the World by Jane Bernstein
- Well written, interesting and moving: Loving Rachel by Jane Bernstein
- Great: The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
- Didn't like: Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner
- Excellent: The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Fun medical mystery: Lifelines by CJ Lyons
- Very good: Free food for millionaires by Min Jin Lee
- Good: Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
- Very interesting (with some crazy ideas mixed in): Treading Lightly: The Hidden Wisdom of the World's Oldest People by Karl-Erik Sveiby and Tex Skuthorpe
- Unusual and engaging: Cloud atlas: a novel by David Mitchell
- Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- Weird: Zigzag through the bitter-orange trees by Ersi Sotiropoulos
- Did not engage me: Other Colors by Orhan Pamuk
- Great: The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
- Very engaging: Next by Michael Crichton
- Placed my family history: Cash for Your Trash: Scrap Recycling in America by Carl Zimring
- Great stories: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Really interesting: Lise Meitner: A life in Science by Ruth L. Sime
- Fun: Highland Laddie Gone by Sharyn McCrumb
- Must read: The Center Cannot Not Hold by Elyn Saks
- Strange but worthwile: Three Apples Fell From Heaven by Micheline Aharonian Marcom
- Excellent: The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
- Really good: Animal, vegetable, miracle: a year of food life by Barbara Kingsolver
- Pretty good: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
- Nice blend of science and people: Faust in Copenhagen; A Struggle for the Soul of Physics by Gino Searè
- Interesting, but self-contradictory: How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman
- Little Chapel on the River by Gwendolyn Bounds
- 500 pages of fascinating info and pictures, well worth the $50: Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape by Brian Hayes
- SETI 2020: A Roadmap for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by Ekers, Cullers, Billingham & Scheffer
- Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin
- Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
- Xala by Ousmane Sembène
- Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin
- Medicus: A Novel of the Roman Empire by Ruth Downie
- No! I only made it through two chapters: God Game or others by Andrew Greeley
- Best American Essays, 2005 edited by Atwan and Orlean Note: read more by Cathleen Schine
- Awkward writing: The mathematician's mind: the psychology of invention in the mathematical field by Jacques Hadamard
- Doc Ford with a bit more violence: The Thousand Islands by Randy Wayne White
- Doc Ford again, but different: The Man Who Invented Florida by Randy Wayne White
- Very well written and interesting: The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery by Wendy Moore
- First in the series: Sanibel Flats by Randy Wayne White
- Flawed, but fasinating Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington more
- Also: Dark Light by Randy Wayne White
- Fun mystery: Captiva by Randy Wayne White
- Spotty: Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light by Mort Rosenblum
- Peculiar/good: Benito Cereno and Bartleby the Scrivber by Herman Melville
- Excellent: Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett
- Not so interesting: A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway (¤)
- Somewhat mixed: Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee
- Interesting, some out-of-date science: On Food and Cooking: The Science & Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee
- Good: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Marc Haddon
- Hoch in den Alpen by Heinrich Wolff
- No good: At First There Was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson
- Good story; only fair writing: Challenger Park by Stephen Harrigan
- Fun 1938 murder mystery: Four of Hearts by Ellery Queen
- Das Geheimnis Im Elbtunnel by Heinrich Wolff
- Excellent: The Mermaid's Chair by Sue Monk Kidd ¤
- Great sequel: The Language of Threads by Gail Tsukiyama
- Nice: The Revolution of Peter the Great by James Cracraft
- Innsbrucker Skiabenteuer by Heinrich Wolff
- Mixed; too many soldiers: Character is Destiny by John McCain ¤
- Well written mix of science, engineering and some politics: Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet by Steve Squyres
- Excellent: Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama
- The Control of Nature by John McPhee
- Cool overall idea; I learned a lot: The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgramage to the Dawn of Time by Richard Dawkins
- Great: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini ¤
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro ¤
- Highly recommended: Brick Lane by Monica Ali
- Some wonderful writing; some spotty science: An Alchemy of Mind by Diane Ackerman
- Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books By Azar Nafisi ¤
- Not very good and shockingly sexist: Cosmic Company: the Search for Life in the Universe by Seth Shostak and Alex Barnett
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie ¤
- The Majesty of the Law: Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice by Sandra Day O'Connor ¤
- Best I've read recently: Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett
- 44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith
- The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill by Mark Bittner
- Saving Cascadia by John J. Nance ¤
- Dreams of My Father by Barack Obama
- The Big Four (Hercule Poirot) by Agatha Christie ¤
- Terrific: One True Thing by Anna Quinlan
- Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi ¤
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens ¤
- The American Dream: Stories from the Heart of our Nation by Dan Rather ¤
- Buying a Fishing Rod for my Grandfather by Xingjian Gao
- A Continent for the Taking: The Trajedy and Hope of Africa by Howard French
- The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs by Alexander McCall Smith
- Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie ¤
- Must read: Complications by Atul Gawande
- Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom ¤
- Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
- Some weak areas, but a "must read":What Evolution Is by Ernst Mayr
- Another sea, another shore: Persian stories of migration translated and edited by Shouleh Vatanabadi and Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami
- Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flag ¤
- Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books By Azar Nafisi ¤
- The Clocks by Agatha Christie ¤
- Just OK: Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
- Disappointing: Cogito, Ergo Sum: The Life of Rene Descartes by Richard Watson
- When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro (¤)
- The African Reader: Independent Africa by Wilfred Cartey and Martin Kilson (1970)
- King Lear by William Shakespeare (¤)
- Michaelmas by Algis Budrys
- The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich (¤)
- The Pooh Perplex: A Student Casebook By Frederick Crews
- Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain (¤)
- Opening Skinner's Box by Lauren Slater
- The Secret of Life by Paul J. McAuley
- Magical Thinking: True Stories by Augusten Burroughs (¤)
- Best American Science Writing 2000 edited By James Gleick
- Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
- Breaking the Mayan Code by Michael Coe
- Catch Me If You Can by Frank W. Abagnale, Jr. (¤)
- South Sea Tales by Jack London (¤)
- Mars: Uncovering the Secrets of the Red Planet by Paul Raeburn
- All Fun: # 1 Ladies Detective Agency Series
- Very Interesting: Desert Queen, The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia By Janet Wallach
- Needn't have been book length: What Does a Martian Looks Like by Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart
- The Last Lone Inventor by Evan I. Schwartz
- Have Space Suit, Will Travel by Robert Heinlein
- Couldn't finish it: The Honors Class: Hilbert's Problems and Their Solvers. by Benjamin H. Yandell
- Engrossing novel: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
- Excellent bio: Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox
- The Worlds of Robert Heinlein by Robert Heinlein
- Fun old story: Rocketship Galileo by Robert Heinlein
- Enough for a good essay: Home: a short history of an idea by Witold Rybczynski
- Hard to put down novel: Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
- Great: What Good Are Bugs by Gilbert Waldbauer
- One of the few book of which I skipped 100 pages: Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
- Powerful, well written: A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
- Leap of faith - Memoirs of an Unexpected Life by Queen Noor
- Excellent novel: An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
- Excellent: Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge by Jill Fredston
- Fun, quick read: Someone is Killing the Great Chef's of Europe by Nan Lyons
- Naked in Baghdad by Anne Garrels
- Molly Ivens Can't Say That, Can She? by Molly Ivens
- Tran-sister Radio by Chris Bohjalian
- Life at the Bottom edited by Gregory Armstrong
- Peculiar mix of technology and humanities: Appropriate Technology by Barrett Hazeltine & Christopher Bull
- Not as biased as I expected: Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
- Gory and biased, but fascinating: Uhuru by Robert Ruark (1962)
- Additional info compliments original book: James D. Watson's The Double Helix (Norton Critical Edition) edited by Gunther Stent
- To 'Joy My Freedom by Tera Hunter
- From Slavery to Freedom by J. H. Franklin
- Working Cures by S. M. Fett
- Fascinating: Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
- Terrific novel: The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman
- The Fever Trail by Mark Honigsbaum
- The Annotated Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott / Ian Stuart
- The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World By Jenny Uglow
- Star-Crossed Orbits: Inside the U.S.-Russian Space Alliance by James E. Oberg
- Full house: the spread of excellence from Plato to Darwin By Stephen Jay Gould
- In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul
- Spotty: How the Other Half Thinks: Adventures in Mathematical Reasoning by Sherman K. Stein
- Nicely written (but the "automata" idea doesn't really work) Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins
- Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Orphans of the Living: Stories of Americans in Foster Care by Jennifer Toth
- Lost Children of Wilder by Nina Bernstein
- Amazing mixture of history, philosophy and biography: The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand
- Some gems: The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2002 by Natalie Angier (Editor)
- Fascinating: Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts by Andrew Robinson
- Survival in Auschwitz (If This Be a Man) by Primo Levi (Also, The Reawakening and it's movie, The Truce.)
- Life stories centered around particular elements: The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
- Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian
- Too much carnage, not enough culture for my tastes: Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power by Victor Davis Hanson
- Only fair; binding theme is weak: The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-eye View of the World by Michael Pollan
- Some good parts; some axe to grind: Deep Time by Gregory Benford
- Sounds good, but not recommended: Labyrinth: A Search for the Hidden Meaning of Science by Peter Pesic
- Sounds good, but not recommended: A Tribble's Guide to Space by Alan Tribble
- Finding Order in Nature: The Naturalist Tradition from Linnaeus to E. O. Wilson by Paul Lawrence Farber
- Failure is Not at Option by Gene Kranz
- The Quark and the Jaguar by Murray Gell-Mann
- The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B DuBois
- Everything I Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum
- The Mathematical Experience by P. Davis R. Hersh
- Diversity of Life and The Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson
- How to Solve It by George Polya
- The Nature and Growth of Modern Mathematics by Edna Kramer
- Comet, The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark and Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium by Carl Sagan
- Niels Bohr: The Man and His Times by Abraham Pais
- Anything by John McPhee, especially Survival of the Bark Canoe.
- Anything by Stephen J. Gould, e.g. Wonderful Life.
- David Quammen: Song of the Dodo, Flight of the Iguana
- Read anything by Diane Ackerman, e.g. Whales by Moonlight, Five Senses
- Really great: The autobiographies of Malcolm X and Mohandas K Ghandi
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