* denotes reading an electronic copy (on phone/PSP/etc)

January
1. Drew Curtis – It’s Not News, It’s FARK: How Mass Media Tries To Pass Off Crap As News
2. Neal Stephenson – Snow Crash (reread because it’s awesome. the grandfather of cyberpunk. must-read for amateur futurists)
3. Max Brooks – World War Z (AWESOME. Best writing I’ve read in a long while)

February
4. Henry Petroski – The Book on the Bookshelf (must-read for a book-o-phile-person)
5. Terry Pratchett – The Colour of Magic (Decent. Typical older-scifi level of quality. Guilty pleasure material )
6. Alfred Bester – The Stars My Destination (I don’t know! Either “decent” or “AWESOME”, I haven’t decided yet.)
7. Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451 (can you believe I haven’t read this before? was great)
*8. Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven and Michael Flynn – Fallen Angels (started reading this last year on my PSP, finally finished. Great book for scifi fans – lots of allusions)

March
9. Joe Haldeman – The Forever War (interesting take on future society; similar style to Heinlein’s Starship Troopers)
*10. Eric Flint – 1632 (great sort-of alternate history. i’ll finish the series)
*11. Eric Flint – 1633 (ditto)
*12. John Ringo – A Hymn Before Battle
13. Terry Pratchett – The Light Fantastic (about the same as the other Pratchett book)

April
14. Tad Williams – City of Golden Shadow (wow, only one book in April, but it’s huge and good. First book of the Otherland series; good cyberpunk)

May
15. Wil McCarthy – Hacking Matter (great non-fiction about quantum dots and programmable matter)

June
16. Iain M. Banks – Look to Windward (reread, reminds me I need to pick up the rest of his Culture novels)

July
17. George Orwell – Animal Farm (short and amazing, there is no reason for anyone not to read this. i am stunned)
18. Timothy Zahn – Star Wars: Outbound Flight (once again I remember why Zahn is my favorite Star Wars author)
19. Michael Scott – The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel (great YA fantasy. i’ll definitely read the rest of the series)
*20. Keith Laumer – Future Imperfect (collection of dystopian short stories. pretty interesting, all in all)
*21. John Ringo – Gust Front (Sequel to A Hymn Before Battle. Good series about alien invasion of earth)

August
22. Iain Banks – The Wasp Factory (Banks’ first novel. Pretty disturbing at parts, but very good)
23. Nick Sagan – Idlewild (bits and pieces of cyberpunk, post-apocolypse, and psychological thriller. good stuff)
24. J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (rereading so i can finally finish the series… stopped in book 5 several years ago)
25. J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (ditto)
26. J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkhaban (ditto)
27. J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (ditto)
28. J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (ditto)

September
29. J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (ditto)
30. J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Ok, wow, let me just say that this is possibly the best series of books I have ever read.)
31. Douglas Adams – The Salmon of Doubt (Posthumous collection of Adams’s writing, some of it previously unpublished. Good stuff. Last part is an unfinished Dirk Gently novel, so I skipped it and will read it after I’ve read the other Dirk Gently works)
*32. Lewis Carroll – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (curiouser and curiouser…)

October
33. Terry Pratchett – Sourcery (yay more Discworld!)
*34. Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray
*35. William Shakespeare – As You Like It

November
36. Vernor Vinge – Rainbows End (my first Vinge book – excellent near-future speculative fiction. great writing.)
37. Philip Plait – Death from the Skies! (good summary of all the ways outer space could kill us. fun read.)

December
38. Max Brooks – The Zombie Survival Guide (the sort-of prequel to WWZ [up there at the top], though this isn’t a novel. it actually is a zombie survival guide. protip: avoid cars, but dirt bikes work in a pinch)