This isn't really a "wish list"; it's a list of books that I would
like to read someday or that have been recommended to me or that I want to
remember to look into again. The books in bold are the half dozen that I'm most
interested in actually purchasing at the moment. Feel free to send other
suggestions....
- The Age of Spiritual Machines; Ray Kurzweil; amazon;
nonfiction
- Amy and Isabelle; Elizabeth Strout; amazon;
literature & fiction
- Beggers & Choosers; Nancy Kress; amazon;
science fiction
- Bellwether; Connie Willis; amazon;
science fiction & fantasy; via Trina
- The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason and Byron's Daughter;
Benjamin Woolley; amazon;
biography; via UK Times
- The Club Dumas; Arturo Pérez-Reverte; amazon;
literature & fiction
- Dinner at Deviant's Palace; Tim Powers; amazon;
science fiction; out of print
- The District Governor's Daughters; Camilla Collett; amazon;
literature & fiction; via 500 Great Books by Women
- Does Jane Compute?:Preserving Our Daughters' Place in the Cyber
Revolution; Roberta Furger; amazon;
nonfiction
- The Essence of the Thing; Madeleine St. John, amazon;
literature & fiction
- Ex Utero, Laurie Foos; amazon;
literature & fiction; via Bibliafiles
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- The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership; Sally Helgesen; amazon;
nonfiction
- For the Relief of Unbearable Urges; Nathan Englander; amazon;
short stories
- The Futures of Women: Scenarios for the 21st Century; Pamela
McCorduck, Nancy Ramsey; amazon;
nonfiction
- Goethe's Faust; Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe; amazon;
literature & fiction
- Gravity's Rainbow; Thomas Pynchon; amazon;
literature & fiction
- How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry; Edward Hirsch; amazon;
nonfiction
- Letters of a Nation: A Collection of Extraordinary American Letters;
Andrew Carroll (ed.); amazon;
history
- Listen Up: Voices of the Next Feminist Generation; Barbara Findlen;
amazon;
feminism
- Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction; Jonathan Culler; amazon;
nonfiction
- Megawatts and Megatons: A Turning Point in the Nuclear Age?;
Richard Garwin & Georges Charpak; amazon;
nonfiction, via SA
- The Metaphysical Touch; Sylvia Brownrigg; amazon;
literature & fiction; via LIM
- Natural Law in Judaism; David Novak; amazon;
non-fiction
- Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption;
Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau; amazon;
science and technology
- The Rainbow; D.H. Lawrence; amazon;
literature & fiction
- The River Midnight; Lilian Nattel; amazon;
literature & fiction
- Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books; Lynne Sharon Schwartz; amazon;
biography/memoir
- The Sabbathday River; Jean Hanff Korelitz; amazon;
literature & fiction
- Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness;
Roger Penrose; amazon;
nonfiction
- The Vagina Monologues; Eve Ensler, Gloria Steinem; amazon;
nonfiction
- The Way We Never Were; Stephanie Coontz; via Bibliafiles [6/01]
- Zeros + Ones: Digital Women + the New Technoculture; Sadie Plant;
amazon;
nonfiction
Authors that I should try something by:
- Maya Angelou
- Mercedes Lackey
- Melanie Rawn