February 08
Pompeii (Robert Harris)
Imperium (Robert Harris)
The Ghost (Robert Harris)
The Trial of Socrates (I.F. Stone)
Un aventure d'Astérix le Gaulois (Goscinny et Uderzo)
Barbarians (Terry Jones)
The Great Transformation (Karen Armstrong)
Maigret et le fantôme (Georges Simenon, full edition)
January 08
Le Revolver de Maigret (George Simenon)
The Ancient Economy (Moses Finley)
God and Empire: Jesus against Rome, then and now (John Dominic Crossan)
Claudius the God (Robert Graves)
La Folle de Maigret (George Simenon)
Ad Infinitum: a Biography of Latin (Nicholas Ostler)
December 07
Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (John Dominic Crossan)
Jesus: Uncovering the Life, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religous Revolutionary (Marcus J. Borg)
The Meaning of Stoicism (Ludwig Edelstein)
The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant (John Dominic Crossan)
I, Claudius (Robert Graves)
Maigret à Vichy (George Simenon)
La chute (Albert Camus)
A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium, sections 1, 2 and 4 (Paul Veyne, editor)
November 07
Caligula (Albert Camus)
La peste (Albert Camus)
Napoleon (easy-read student text)
La mort n'oublie personne (Didier Daeninckx)
Résurrection de Sherlock Holmes (A. Conan Doyle)
Aimer quand même (Jean De La Brète) - student edition
Sept Petites Croix Dans un Carnet (Simenon) - avec P
October 07
Le comte de Monte-Cristo (tome 2) (Alexandre Dumas)
Maigret tend un piege (Georges Simenon, student edition)
The Roman Way (Edith Hamilton)
Roman Literature (Michael Grant)
Outlines of Classical Literature (H. J. Rose)
September 07
The Shell Game (Steve Alten)
Le voleur de Maigret (Georges Simenon)
Maigret et le fantôme (Georges Simenon, student edition)
Le comte de Monte-Cristo (tome 1) (Alexandre Dumas)
August 07
César (Pagnol)
Le Chien des Baskerville (Doyle, Fr. translation)
July 07
On ne badine pas avec l'amour (Alfred de Mussset)
Les Trois Mousquetaires (Alexandre Dumas)
Le voyageur sans bagage & Le bal des voleurs (Jean Anouilh)
L'avare (Moliere)
Street French: How to speak and understand French slang (David Burke)
Fanny (Pagnol)
Erasme: Grandeur et decadence d'une idee (Stefan Zweig)
June 07
La Pipe de Maigret, Maigret se fache (Simenon)
Le Petit Saint (Simenon)
Mon Oncle et Mon Cure (Jean de la Brete)
Marius (Pagnol)
May 07
Douze Contes de Maupassant (student edition)
Les Aventures de Sherlock Holmes (Doyle, Fr. translation)
La tulipe noire (Dumas, student edition)
Maigret et la vieille femme (Simenon)
Quatre-vingt-treize (Hugo, student edition)
April 07
Tartarin de Tarascon (Daudet, student edition)
Deutsche Welt (Foltin, German readings for students)
Graded German Reader (Crossgrove & Crossgrove)
Zieh Leine, Charle Brown (Peanuts in German)
Quatre-vingt-treize (Hugo, abridged children's edition)
L'Homme qui reguardait passer les trains (Simenon)
Maigret tend un piege (Simenon, simple-French edition)
March 07
German Short Stories (Penguin, bi-lingual)
Regain (Pagnol)
Maigret à New York (Simenon)
Les Marchands du Gloire (Pagnol)
Topaze (Pagnol)
La Femme du Boulanger (Pagnol)
French - Feb 07
La Cantatrice chauve and La Leçon (Ionesco)
French Short Stories 1 (Penguin, bi-lingual)
Le petit Nicolas (René Goscinny and Jean-Jacques Sempé)
L'alouette (Anouilh)
En attendant Godot (Beckett)
(finished February 2007)
French- Jan 07
Rhinoceros (Ionesco)
Contes Francaise (ed. Wallace Fowlie, bi-lingual)
La Folle de Chaillot (Giraudoux)
Huis clos (Sartre)
L'Increvable Charlie Brown; Tu n'en reviendras pas, Charlie Brown (Schulz)
Le Sacrifice du Nouvel An (adaptation from Lou Sin)
Lettre à mon juge (Simenon)
(finished January 2007)
French- Dec 06
Candide (Voltaire)
L'etranger (Camus)
La France et les Francais (text - Brodin and Ernst)
Initiation à la culture Francaise (text - Parker and Grigaut)
Un dossier perdu (easy text - Renard)
Le petit prince (Saint-Exupery)
Le bourgeois gentilhomme (play - Moliere)
Peanuts à vendre, Reviens Snoopy, Hardi! Peanuts (Schulz)
Le malentendu (play - Camus)
(finished December 2006)
Georges Simenon
Tournants Dangereaux (4 contes) (French)
Maigret et le tueur (Le Meutre d'un etudiant) (French)
Les Mémoires de Maigret (French)
Les gens d'en face (French)
La Marie du port (French)
La cage de verre (French)
Trois chambres à Manhattan (French)
Il y a des noisetiers (French)
La Patience de Maigret (French)
Maigret et la grande perche (French)
M. Gallet decede (French)
Maigret et les vieillards (French)
Justice
Maigret Goes to School
Maigret and the Reluctant Witness
Maigret Has Scruples
Maigret's Mistake
Sept Petites Croix Dans un Carnet (French)
Maigret in Vichy
Maigret in Montmartre
Maigret at the Crossroads
Simenon biography by Pierre Assouline (also skimmed several author biographies)
(finished October-December 2006)
George Monbiot
Heat: How To Stop the Planet Burning
(finished October 2006)
John Brunner
A Plague of Pythons
Pohlstars
(finished September 2006)
John Steinbeck
East of Eden
(finished 5 July 2006)
Ross MacDonald (Ken Millar)
The Galton Case
The Moving Target
The Doomsters
(finished May-June 2006)
Ursula K. LeGuin
The Left Hand of Darkness
(finished May 2006)
Frederick Pohl
Starburst
Homegoing
The Merchant's War
The Space Merchants
(finished May 2006)
James Tiptree, Jr. (pseudonym of Alice Sheldon)
Ten Thousand Miles From Home (stories)
Up the Walls of the World
Brightness Falls from the Air
(finished April 2006)
Raymond Chandler
The Simple Art of Murder (stories)
Smart-aleck Kill (stories)
Trouble Is My Business (stories)
The Little Sister
The Long Good-bye
(finished March 2006)
Dennis Potter
The Singing Detective
(finished March 18, 2006)
Dashiell Hammett
The Maltese Falcon
The Thin Man
(finished March 14, 2006)
Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth
Wolfbane
(finished March 9, 2006)
Peter Tertzakian
A Thousand Barrels A Second
(finished February 2006)
Graham Greene
The Captain and the Enemy
The Third Man
This Gun for Hire
The Heart of the Matter
England Made Me
(finished Feb-Mar, 2006)
Donald B. Kraybill
The Riddle of Amish Culture
(finished January 9, 2006)
Carole Angier
Jean Rhys
(finished January 8, 2006)
Graham Greene
The Human Factor
The Ministry of Fear
A Burnt-Out Case
Our Man From Havana
Stamboul Train
(finished Dec-Jan, 2005-6)
Kate Wilhelm
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
(finished December 5, 2005)
Clifford D. Simak
Way Station
(finished December 4, 2005)
G.K. Chesterton
The Innocence of Father Brown
(finished November 28, 2005)
Yvonne Baskin
Under Ground: How Creatures of Mud and Dirt Shape Our World
(finished November 26, 2005)
Shirley Sargent
Galen Clark: Yosemite Guardian
(finished November 8, 2005)
Stephen Whitney
The Sierra Nevada: A Sierra Club Naturalist Guide
(finished October 30, 2005)
Elizabeth Stone O'Neill
Mountain Sage: The Life Story of Carl Sharsmith, Yosemite's Famous Ranger/Naturalist
(finished October 28, 2005)
Philip K. Dick
The Simulacra
Solar Lottery
The Man Who Japed
Dr. Futurity
The Simulacra
The Game Players of Titan
The Crack in Space
(finished Oct 1 - 31, 2005)
Galactic Pot-Healer
Our Friends from Frolix 8
The Penultimate Truth
The Zap Gun
(finished Sept 1 - 30, 2005)
John Brunner
The Long Result
(finished August 20, 2005)
Graham Greene
Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party
The Honorary Consul
The Confidential Agent
(finished May - June, 2005)
George Eliot
Adam Bede
The Mill on the Floss
(finished Mar - July , 2005)
Eric Ambler
Journey into Fear
Judgment on Deltchev
Passage of Arms
Uncommon Danger (Background to Danger)
State of Siege
Epitaph for a Spy
The Care of Time
Dr. Frigo
The Siege of the Villa Lipp
A Kind of Anger
The Care of Time
The Intercom Conspiracy
Dirty Story
The Light of Day
(finished Feb - Apr 2005)
Bob Gibbons
How Flowers Work: A Guide to Plant Biology
(finished Jan 24, 2005)
Carol Olwell
Gardening from the Heart: Why Gardeners Garden
(finished Jan 23, 2005)
Thomas Hardy
Under the Greenwood Tree
(read aloud with P, finished Jan 4, 2005)
Julian Darley
High Noon for Natural Gas: The New Energy Crisis
(finished November 18, 2004)
Carol Steinfeld
Liquid Gold: The Lore and Logic of Using Urine to Grow Plants
homepage
Report on a Liquid Gold Class
(amazon)
(finished July 2004)
George Eliot
Silas Marner
(read aloud with P, finished winter, 2004)
Kim Stanley Robinson
Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars (classic science fiction trilology about the settlement of Mars; environmental themes)
(finished 2004)
Stanislaw Lem
The Futurological Congress (science fiction satire, all too true!)
Stanislaw Lem and The Future of Illusion (review/essay)
(amazon)
(finished July 2004)
E. Cordwainer Smith
Norstrilia (science fiction)
(amazon)
(finished July 2004)
Betty Jean Craige
Eugene Odum: Ecosystem Ecologist and Environmentalist
Biography.
"A Tribute to Eugene Odum " by Betty Jean Craige
(short online biography of Odum)
(amazon)
(finished May 23, 2004)
Edward Hyams
English Cottage Gardens
(amazon)
Edward Solomon Hyams 1910-1975 (short biographical sketch)
(finished May 22, 2004)
Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
(amazon)
(finished May 4, 2004)
Richard Heinberg
The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies
Order direct (recommended)
(amazon)
(finished April 2004)
Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World
Order direct (recommended)
(amazon)
(finished August 2004)
Ivan Bunin
Shadowed Paths
Short stories.
(read most aloud with P 2003-4)
Ivan Turgenev
A Hunter's Sketches, First Love and other tales
Short stories.
(read aloud with P 2003-4?)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
(read aloud with P 2003?)
Leo Tolstoy
What Men Live By, War and Peace
(read aloud with P 2003?)
Robin Chotzinoff
People with Dirty Hands: the Passion for Gardening
(amazon)
(finished April 2004)
Peter Chan
Better Vegetable Gardens the Chinese Way: Peter Chan's Raised-Bed System
(amazon)
(finished April 2004)
Howard Odum
Environment, Power, and Society
(amazon)
Appreciation of Odum by John Todd
(finished March 2004)
David Holmgren
Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability
(amazon)
(finished 2004)
Eugene Pleasants Odum
Ecology: A Bridge Between Science and Society
(amazon)
(finished 2004)
Ecological Vignettes: Ecological Approaches to Dealing With Human Predicaments
(amazon)
(finished 2004)