Books read in the year 2002 (not necessarily complete)

January 2002

Danger in Deep Space Carey Rockwell
Dragon Steven Brust
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Tom Stoppard (reread)
Sabriel Garth Nix
The Fellowship of the Ring J.R.R. Tolkien (reread)
Only Child H.M. Hoover
A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf
What Great Chefs Know That You Don't Harlequin
The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli (reread)
Sharpe's Trafalgar Bernard Cornwell

February 2002

The Troubadours Robert Briffault
The Beard of Avon Amy Freed
The Good Fare and Cheer of Old England Joan Parry Dutton
Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway Dave Barry
A Medieval Family Joseph and Frances Gies
The Journey to the East Hermann Hesse
Beyond Thirty Edgar Rice Burroughs
Time: A Traveler's Guide Clifford A. Pickover
Against a Dark Background Iain M. Banks
Tao Te Ching Lao Tzu (trans. D.C. Lau)
Lirael Garth Nix
The Case of the Murdered Players Robert Newman

March 2002

Two Shakespearean Actors Richard Nelson
200% of Nothing A.K. Dewdney
Herland Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Lady Tasting Tea David Salsburg
On the Geneology of Morals Friedrich Nietszche
The Mystery of the Quantum World Euan Squires
In Code Sarah Flannery
Travesties Tom Stoppard (reread)
The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
Bluff Your Way in Wine Harry Eyres
The Edge of the Sword Charles de Gaulle
The Admiral's Daughter Francesca Shaw

April 2002

Good Night Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) Ann-Marie MacDonald
My Lady Gamester Cara King (draft ms)
The Naked Ape Desmond Morris
The Divine Proportion H.E. Huntley
The Courtship of Sea Creatures Jean-Pierre Otte
The Great Arc John Keay
Kiln People David Brin
The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr
The Rise of Universities Charles Homer Haskins
The Year 1000 Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger
The Roman Civilization A.F. Giles
Seventeen Steps to 221B James Edward Holroyd (ed.)
Detection by Gaslight Douglas G. Greene (ed.)

May 2002

I Hate Hamlet Paul Rudnick
Rats, Lice, and History Hans Zinsser
Double Star Robert Heinlein
Bobos in Paradise David Brooks
Sappho: A New Translation Mary Barnard
Mirandolina Carlo Goldoni
Tied Up in Tinsel Ngaio Marsh

June 2002

The Love of Books (Philobiblon) Richard de Bury (trans. E.C. Thomas)
The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes Raymond Smullyan (partial reread)
The Princess Diaries Meg Cabot
The Man Who Was Thursday G.K. Chesterton
Mirror Dance Lois McMaster Bujold
The Book of Numbers John H. Conway and Richard K. Guy
The Manuale Scholarium Robert Francis Seybolt (trans.)
Satan, Cantor, and Infinity Raymond Smullyan

July 2002

Princess in the Spotlight Meg Cabot
So It Is (If You Think So) Luigi Pirandello
The Colossal Book of Mathematics Martin Gardner
Memory Lois McMaster Bujold
Komarr Lois McMaster Bujold
Medieval Cities Howard Saalman
A Civil Campaign Lois McMaster Bujold
The Death and Life of Great American Cities Jane Jacobs
Common Sense Thomas Paine
Neuromancer William Gibson
Diplomatic Immunity Lois McMaster Bujold
The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen
Martian Rainbow Robert L. Forward

August 2002

Federal Philadelphia: the Athens of the West Beatrice B. Garvan
The Personal Estates of Early Farmers and Tradesmen of Colonial New Jersey 1670-1750 Harry B. Weiss
Towards a New Architecture Le Corbusier
The Man in the High Castle Philip K. Dick
Moving the Mountain Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Falling Free Lois McMaster Bujold
Wine, Women and Song John Addington Symonds
The Theory of Everything Stephen W. Hawking
The Hittites O.R. Gurney
Princess in Love Meg Cabot
Faking It Jennifer Crusie
The Graphic Work of Alphonse Mucha Jiri Mucha and Marina Henderson
Feersum Endjinn Iain M. Banks

September 2002

The Decipherment of Linear B John Chadwick
The Monkey's Wrench Primo Levi
Meditations Marcus Aurelius
Snobbery: the American Version Joseph Epstein
The Turing Omnibus A.K. Dewdney
Yes, We Have No Neutrons A.K. Dewdney
The Jupiter Myth Lindsey Davis
Project Orion George Dyson

October 2002

The Little Foxes Lillian Hellman
The Golem Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch
To the King's Taste Lorna J. Sass
Gallows Thief Bernard Cornwell
Sallets, Humbles and Shrewsbery Cakes Ruth Anne Beebe
Dark Lord of Derkholm Diana Wynne Jones
The Demolished Man Alfred Bester
Year of the Griffin Diana Wynne Jones
All American Girl Meg Cabot
Deep Secret Diana Wynne Jones
The Blank Slate Steven Pinker
The Seasons of America Past Eric Sloane
Aunt Maria Diana Wynne Jones

November 2002

Serious Money Caryl Churchill
Archer's Goon Diana Wynne Jones
What It Means to be 98% Chimpanzee: Apes, People, and Their Genes Jonathan Marks
Hexwood Diana Wynne Jones
War of Honor David Weber
A Princess of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs (reread)
Star Guard Andre Norton (reread)

December 2002

The Gods of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs (reread)
The Lives of Christopher Chant Diana Wynne Jones
Hammerfall C.J. Cherryh
The Mystery of the Roman Ransom Henry Winterfeld (reread)
The Magicians of Caprona Diana Wynne Jones
Time Travel in Einstein's Universe J. Richard Gott
I Can Fix That Susie Tompkins
The Rules Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider
The Silver-Plated Age Tom B. Jones
Imagined Worlds Freeman Dyson
Stupid White Men Michael Moore
Private Yankee Doodle Joseph Plumb Martin

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