About a Boy Nick Hornby

The Road Cormac McCarthy

Why Sinatra Matters Pete Hammil

Augustine: A Very Short Introduction Henry Chadwick

Dead Reign T.A. Pratt

The Civilization of the Middle Ages Norman F. Cantor

The Soul of Latin America: The Cultural and Political Tradition Howard J. Wiarda

Modern European History, 1871-2000 David Welch

The 42nd Parallel, 1919, The Big Money John Dos Passos

Worst Song, Played on Ugliest Guitar Chris Onstad

The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found Mary Beard

Anansi Boys Neil Gaiman

American Colonies: The Settling of North America Alan Taylor

Empires at War: The French and Indian War and the Struggle for North America, 1754-1763 William M. Fowler, Jr.

Africans: The History of a Continent John Iliffe

History of Africa Kevin Shillington

Anyone who stumbles across this post can read a free book by following that link.  Additionally, anyone who wants to can register at the site and vote for the book; once a month the top five rated books are read by HarperCollins editors themselves.  This is no guarantee of publication, but I thought it’s worth a shot.  So, the book has been set free; read or not, as you choose.

Oishinbo A la Carte: Ramen & Gyoza Tetsu Kariya & Akira Hanasaki

High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed Michael Kodas

One Ring Circus: Dispatches from the World of Boxing Katherine Dunn

Shot in the Heart Mikal Gilmore

First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History Colin G. Calloway

A History of Rome Marcel Le Glay et al

Roman Warfare Adrian Goldsworthy

Audran also had a brain modification plug-in that allowed him to assume the persona of Nero Wolfe.  Perhaps when they develop the technology I’ll get the moddy that plugs in Audran plugging in Wolfe.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection ed. Gardner Dozois

Kitchen Confidential Anthony Bourdain

The Souls of Black Folk W. E. B. Du Bois

Ancient Greece Sarah Pomeroy et al.

To Make Our World Anew, Vol. II: A History of African Americans from 1880 ed. Robin D. G. Kelley & Earl Lewis

Invisible Man Ralph Ellison

Poison Sleep by T.A. Pratt

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

Tick-Tock by Dean Koontz

To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans to 1880 ed. Robin D.G. Kelley and Earl Lewis

Race And Revolution by Gary B. Nash

Watchmen Allan Moore & Dave Gibbons

Topics in Contemporary Mathematics Ignacio Bello et al

Shadow Divers Robert Kurson

The Assassins Joyce Carol Oates

The Darkest Evening of the Year Dean Koontz

The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin’s Secret Service Andrew Meier

The Fortress of Solitude Jonathan Lethem

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume III Edward Gibbon

Broken Angels Richard K Morgan

Western Civilization: Volume II: Since 1500 Jackson J Spielvogel

Oil on the Brain: Petroleum’s Long, Strange Trip to your Tank by Lisa Margonnelli

Death’s Acre: Inside the Legendary ‘Body Farm’ by Bill Bass & John Jefferson

The Long Valley by John Steinbeck

Million Dollar Baby by F.X. O’Toole

Mala Noche by Walt Curtis

Gulag: a History by Anne Applebaum

After Leaving Mr. McKenzie, Jean Rhys

Good Morning, Midnight, Jean Rhys

Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys

As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised As a Girl, John Colapinto

Western Civilization: Volume 1: to 1715, Jackson J. Spielvogel

Goodbye Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War, William Manchester

Flat Earth: The History of an Infamous Idea, Christine Garwood

In other news, Happy New Year to yiz.