Cafe Arcane

Book Library

Welcome to my reading library. Below you can view the books and I'm reading right now as well as planned reading for the future and books I've read in the past. I'm always looking for good, new reads so if you have recommendations, please feel free to drop me a line. If you see anything you like, you can click on it for my rating, review and a link to Amazon's online store.

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Future Reading (50):

• Miss Julie and The Stronger by August Strindberg
• Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
• The Killing Star by Charles Pellegrino
• Metropolitan by Walter Jon Williams
• The Bohr Maker by Linda Nagata
• All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
• The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot D
• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
• The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount by Italo Calvino
• A Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins
• La Bella Figura: A Field Guide to the Italian Mind by Beppe Severgnini
• Memories of the Future Vol. 1 by Wil Wheaton
• City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction by David Macaulay
• Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis
• The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot by Bart D Ehrman
• The Wal-Mart Effect by Charles Fishman
• Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson
• How to License Your Million Dollar Idea by Harvey Reese
• The Great Influenza by John M. Barry
• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
• The Basque History of the World by Mark Kurlansky
• The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins
• The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
• Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0 by Thomas L. Friedman
• The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman
• Misquoting Jesus by Bart D. Ehrman
• Sword of My Mouth by Jim Munroe, Shannon Gerald
• The Magicians: A Novel by Lev Grossman
• Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
• Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
• Socialnomics by Erik Qualman
• Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief by Bill Mason
• Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson
• After the Golden Age by Carrie Vaughn
• Blackwood’s Guide to Dangerous Fairies by Guillermo Del Toro, Christopher Golden
• The Adventures of Ibn Battuta by Ross E. Dunn
• From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg by John Naughton
• Up From Dragons: The Evolution of Human Intelligence by John Skoyles, Dorion Sagan
• The Math Book by Clifford A. Pickover
• The Physics Book by Clifford A. Pickover
• Knocking on Heaven’s Door by Lisa Randall
• Wearing the Cape by Marion G. Harmon
• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
• Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez
• The Violinist’s Thumb by Sam Kean
• Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
• Good Dog by Graham Chaffee

Past Reading (348):

• Mind the Gap, Vol. 1: Intimate Strangers by Jim McCann
• Fables: Werewolves of the Heartland by Bill Willingham
• The God Virus by Darrel W. Ray
• At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
• Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow
• Fables, Vol. 18: Cubs in Toyland by Bill Willingham
• Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas by John Scalzi
• The Onion Book of Known Knowledge by The Onion
• My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
• Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson
• The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
• How to Archer: The Ultimate Guide to Espionage and Style and Women and Also Cocktails Ever Written by Sterling Archer
• John Dies at the End by David Wong
• America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren’t by Stephen Colbert
• Ex Machina, Vol. 6: Power Down by Brian K. Vaughan
• For the Win by Cory Doctorow
• Ex Machina, Vol. 10: Term Limits by Brian K. Vaughan
• Ex Machina, Vol. 2: Tag by Brian K. Vaughan
• Ex Machina, Vol. 9: Ring out the Old by Brian K. Vaughan
• Ex Machina, Vol. 8: Dirty Tricks by Brian K. Vaughan
• The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean
• Ex Machina, Vol. 7: Ex Cathedra by Brian Vaughan
• Planetary Vol. 4, Spacetime Archaeology by Warren Ellis
• Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku
• Storm Front, Dresden Files, Book 1 by Jim Butcher
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
• The New York Five by Brian Wood
• The Sword, Vol. 2: Water by Luna Brothers
• The Sixth Gun, Volume 3 by Cullen Bunn
• How to Be Black by Baratunde Thurston
• The New York Four by Brian Wood
• Ex Machina, Vol. 1: The First Hundred Days by Brian K. Vaughan
• The Sword, Vol. 3: Earth by Luna Brothers
• The Sword, Vol. 4: Air by Luna Brothers
• Planetary Vol. 1, All Over the World and Other Stories by Warren Ellis
• Local by Brian Wood
• The Sword, Vol. 1: Fire by Luna Brothers
• The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
• The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum
• The Walking Dead: Compendium Two by Robert Kirkman
• We3 by Grant Morrison
• Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
• Year Zero by Rob Reid
• The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett
• An Urchin in the Storm by Stephen Jay Gould
• Fables, Vol. 17: Inherit the Wind by Bill Willingham
• Virga, Book 2: Queen of Candesce by Karl Schroeder
• DMZ Vol. 12: The Five Nations of New York by Brian Wood
• The Science of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Michael Hanlon
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer
• Fight Club: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk
• A Universe from Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss
• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
• Ex-Heroes by Peter Clines
• If Chins Could Kill by Bruce Campbell
• The Unwritten, Vol. 6: Tommy Taylor and the War of Words by Mike Carey
• Twelve by Twelve by William Powers
• DMZ Vol. 11: Free States Rising by Brian Wood
• Bike Snob: Systematically by Unknown
• Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee by Mark Pendergrast
• The Sixth Gun, Volume 2 by Cullen Bunn
• Wicked Plants by Amy Stewart
• Kick-Ass 2 by Mark Millar
• Google+ for Business by Chris Brogan
• The Six-Figure Second Income by David Lindahl
• 50 Girls 50, Vol. 1: Shakedown by Doug Murray
• Reamde: A Novel by Neal Stephenson
• Northlanders Vol. 6: Thor’s Daughter by Brian Wood
• The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley
• Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett
• Virga, Book 1: Sun of Suns by Karl Schroeder
• God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
• The Unwritten, Vol. 5: On to Genesis by Mike Carey
• Northlanders Vol. 7: The Icelandic Trilogy by Brian Wood
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
• Wanted by Mark Millar
• Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
• The Liar by Stephen Fry
• Bagombo Snuffbox by Kurt Vonnegut
• Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
• Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson
• Teaching Company: Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer’s Craft by Brooks Landon, PHD
• Fables, Vol. 16: Super Team by Bill Willingham
• The Ancestor’s Tale by Richard Dawkins
• Ex Machina, Vol. 5: Smoke, Smoke by Brian K. Vaughan
• Teaching Company: Peoples and Cultures of the World by Edward Fischer, PHD
• Ex Machina, Vol. 4: March to War by Brian K. Vaughan
• Ballad of the Whiskey Robber by Julian Rubinstein
• Teaching Company: Heroes, Heroines and the Wisdom of Myth by Georgia Nugent
• Teaching Company: Superstring Theory: The DNA of Reality by S. James Gates
• Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
• Soon I Will be Invincible by Austin Grossman
• A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 5) by George R.R. Martin
• Superman: Red Son by Mark Millar
• Zenith Phase 1 by Grant Morrison
• You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News by Cracked.com
• Ex Machina, Vol. 3: Fact v. Fiction by Brian K. Vaughan
• The Unwritten, Vol. 4: Leviathan by Mike Carey
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• Seaguy by Grant Morrison
• Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
• Kill Shakespeare, Vol.2 by Conor McCreery
• Supergods by Grant Morrison
• Cinderella: Fables Are Forever by Chris Roberson, Bill Willingham
• Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher
• Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu by Laurence Bergreen
• The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections by Neil Gaiman
• Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku
• The Lost City of Z by David Grann
• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
• Kill Shakespeare, Vol. 1 by Conor McCreery
• A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4) by George R.R. Martin
• Earth, A Visitor’s Guide to the Human Race by Jon Stewart
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Devil and Sherlock Holmes by David Grann
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• Northlanders, Vol. 5: Metal by Brian Wood
• Locke & Key, Vol. 1 – Welcome to Lovecraft by Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodriguez
• The Sixth Gun, Volume 1 by Cullen Bunn
• Freedom (TM) by Daniel Suarez
• Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
• DMZ Vol. 10: Collective Punishment by Brian Wood
• Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Bossypants by Tina Fey
• A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3) by George R.R. Martin
• The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You by Neil Gaiman
• Fables, Vol. 15: Rose Red by Bill Willingham
• The Unwritten, Vol. 3: Dead Man’s Knock by Mike Carey
• The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs
• DMZ Vol. 9: M.I.A. by Brian Wood
• The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
• Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere by Mike Carey
• John Constantine, Hellblazer – City of Demons by Si Spencer
• The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman
• Brody’s Ghost, Book 1 by Crilley Mark
• What If #2? by Robert Cowley
• Outwitting Squirrels by Bill Adler Jr.
• Just a Geek by Wil Wheaton
• Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
• The 4-Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss
• The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
• Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins, Jerry I. Porras
• Fables, Vol. 14: Witches by Bill Willingham
• Green Metropolis by David Owen
• The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll’s House by Neil Gaiman, Various
• The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country by Neil Gaiman
• Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction by John Austin
• Doctor Grordbort’s Contrapulatronic Dingus Directory by Greg Broadmore
• Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
• The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
• Scott Pilgrim, Vol 6: Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour by Bryan Lee O’Malley
• Scott Pilgrim, Vol 5: Scott Pilgrim vs The Universe by Bryan Lee O’Malley
• Scott Pilgrim, Vol 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together by Bryan Lee O’Malley
• Daemon by Daniel Suarez
• The Uplift Saga, Book 1 – Sundiver by David Brin
• Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 3: Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness by Bryan Lee O’Malley
• The Unwritten, Vol. 2: Inside Man by Mike Carey
• Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 2: Scott Pilgrim Versus The World by Bryan Lee O’Malley
• Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 1: Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O’Malley
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Palestine by Joe Sacco
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• Apocalypse Nerd by Peter Bagge
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
• Queen & Country: Declassified, Vol. 2 by Greg Rucka, Rick Burchett
• Queen & Country: Declassified, Vol. 3 by Antony Johnston, Christopher J. Mitten
• I Kill Giants by Joe Kelly
• Queen & Country: Declassified, Vol. 1 by Greg Rucka, Brian Hurtt
• Northlanders, Vol. 4: The Plague Widow by Brian Wood
• Queen & Country: The Definitive Edition, Vol. 3 by Greg Rucka
• The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Powers: The Definitive Collection, Vol. 3 by Brian Michael Bendis
• DMZ Vol. 8: Hearts and Minds by Brian Wood
• 100 Bullets Vol. 2: Split Second Chance by Brian Azzarello, Eduardo Risso, Grant Goleash, Clem Robins
• Beowulf (Bilingual Edition) by Seamus Heaney
• The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
• Casanova: Actor, Lover, Priest, Spy by Ian Kelly
• Direct Selling 101 by Neil Phillips, Dana Phillips
• Powers: The Definitive Collection, Vol. 2 by Brian Michael Bendis
• The Happiest Days of Our Lives by Wil Wheaton
• A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2) by George R.R. Martin
• Queen & Country: The Definitive Edition, Vol. 2 by Greg Rucka
• Animal Man, Book 3: Deus Ex Machina by Grant Morrison
• Animal Man, Book 2: Origin of the Species by Grant Morrison
• Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love by Chris Roberson
• Northlanders, Vol. 3: Blood in the Snow by Brian Wood
• Kick-Ass by Mark Millar
• Powers, Book 1: Who Killed Retro Girl? by Brian Michael Bendis
• 100 Bullets Vol. 1: First Shot, Last Call by Brian Azzarello
• Hellblazer: Pandemonium by Jamie Delano
• Northlanders, Vol. 2: The Cross & The Hammer by Brian Wood
• Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence
• Gravel, Vol. 1: Bloody Liars by Warren Ellis, Mike Wolfer
• No Hero by Warren Ellis, Juan Jose Ryp
• Animal Man, Book 1 by Grant Morrison
• Helen of Troy: The Story Behind the Most Beautiful Woman in the World by Bettany Hughes
• Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Edward Fitzgerald
• Queen & Country: The Definitive Edition, Vol. 1 by Greg Rucka
• Streets of Glory by Garth Ennis, Mike Wolfer
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• World War Hulk: Damage Control by Dwayne McDuffie, Greg Pak, Salva Espin, Rafa Sandoval
• Northlanders, Vol. 1: Sven The Returned by Brian Wood
• Kingdom Come by Mark Waid
• World War Hulk by Greg Pak, Peter David
• Project Superpowers – Vol 1 TPB by Jim Krueger, Alex Ross, Carlos Paul, Stephen Sadowski, Michael Turner
• World War Hulk – Warbound by Greg Pak
• Warren Ellis Crecy by Warren Ellis, Raulo Caceres
• Chronicles of Wormwood by Garth Ennis, Jacen Burrows
• Welcome To Hoxford by Ben Templesmith
• Blackgas by Warren Ellis, Max Fiumara
• Incredible Hulk: Planet Hulk by Greg Pak
• Black Summer by Warren Ellis, Juan Jose Ryp
• Incredible Hulk: Prelude to Planet Hulk by Daniel Way, Keu Cha
• Crossed (Graphic Novel) by Garth Ennis, Jacen Burrows
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
• Fables, Vol. 13: The Great Fables Crossover by Bill Willingham
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• Heidegger in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern
• Confucius in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern
• World War Z by Max Brooks
• The Unwritten, Vol. 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity by Mike Carey
• Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
• Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
• DMZ Vol. 7: War Powers by Brian Wood
• The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy Emmuska
• Fables, Vol. 12: The Dark Ages by Bill Willingham
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark J. Twain
• Hume in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
• Hegel in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern
• Beckett in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern
• Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern
• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
• Descartes in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern
• Aristotle in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern
• The Walking Dead: Compendium One by Robert Kirkman
• Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear
• Resurrection, Vol. 1 by Marc Guggenheim, Dave Dumeer, Douglas Dabbs
• Marley and Me by John Grogan
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• DMZ Vol. 6: Blood in the Game by Brian Wood
• Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
• Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
• Apocalypse How by Rob Kutner
• Fables, Vol. 11: War and Pieces by Bill Willingham
• The Essentials of Living Aboard a Boat by Mark Nicholas
• A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) by George R.R. Martin
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
• This Side of Paradise by Francis Scott Fitzgerald
• DMZ Vol. 5: The Hidden War by Brian Wood
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
• Fables, Vol. 10: The Good Prince by Bill Willingham
• The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
• The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Assault on Reason by Al Gore
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
• Watership Down by Richard Adams
• Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
• Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
• DMZ Vol. 4: Friendly Fire by Brian Wood
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert
• Riddled with Life by Marlene Zuk
• Ciao, America!: An Italian Discovers the U.S. by Beppe Severgnini
• Hellblazer, Vol. 7: Bloodlines by Garth Ennis
• DMZ Vol. 3: Public Works by Brian Wood
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
• Fables, Vol. 9: Sons of Empire by Bill Willingham
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• City by Clifford D. Simak
• Emma by Jane Austen
• Wicked by Gregory Maguire
• DMZ Vol. 2: Body of a Journalist by Brian Wood
• The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
• The Call of the Wild by Jack London
• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
• Fables, Vol. 8: Wolves by Bill Willingham
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
• DMZ Vol. 1: On the Ground by Brian Wood
• Fables, Vol. 7: Arabian Nights (and Days) by Bill Willingham
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Candide: Or Optimism by Voltaire
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• I, Claudius by Robert Graves
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• Introduction to Italian Poetry (Dual-Language) by Luciano Rebay (Editor)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Ancient Inventions by Peter James, Nick Thorpe
• Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile by Verlyn Klinkenborg
• The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
• Cascading Style Sheets: Definitive Guide, 2nd Ed by Eric A. Meyer
• The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla by David Childress
• Programming PHP by Rasmus Lerdorf, Kevin Tatroe
• The Know-It-All by A. J. Jacobs
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
• Fables, Vol. 6: Homelands by Bill Willingham
• Fables, Vol. 5: The Mean Seasons by Bill Willingham
• Hellblazer, Vol. 4.5: Rare Cuts by Jamie Delano
• Fables, Vol. 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers by Bill Willingham
• Dictionary of the Khazars (M) by Milorad Pavic
• Fables, Vol. 3: Storybook Love by Bill Willingham
• Fables, Vol. 2: Animal Farm by Bill Willingham
• Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham
• The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
• Hellblazer, Vol. 10: Damnation’s Flame by Garth Ennis
• Hellblazer, Vol. 9: Tainted Love by Garth Ennis
• Hellblazer, Vol. 2: The Devil You Know by Jaime Delano
• Hellblazer, Vol. 1: Original Sins by Jamie Delano
• The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake by Neil Gaiman
• Hellblazer, Vol. 8: Fear and Loathing by Garth Ennis
• The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaiman
• The Sandman, Vol. 8: Worlds End by Neil Gaiman
• The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives by Neil Gaiman
• Hellblazer, Vol. 4: The Family Man by Various
• The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaiman
• Hellblazer, Vol. 6: Dangerous Habits by Garth Ennis
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• Hellblazer, Vol. 3: The Fear Machine by Jamie Delano
• America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction by Jon Stewart
• Scott Pilgrim Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour by Bryan Lee O\’Malley
• Pinocchio: Vampire Slayer by Dustin Higgins, Van Jensen
• Red by Warren Ellis
• What If #1 by Robert Cowley
• Planetary Vol. 2, The Fourth Man by Warren Ellis
• Planetary Vol. 3, Leaving the 20th Century by Warren Ellis