Index to short lists of books - bobg

These short lists will eventually be lists of best exemplars of whatever category they're in. At the moment, the only thing one should have confidence in is that the books on the short list were read by someone who recommended them as belonging to that category. 'Short' is a flexible term, I warn you. I intend for it to mean a dozen or two, but there may well be more. Clicking on a section header will bring you back to the index. If you have additions (or deletions) please e-mail me at bobg@radix.net.

Happy reading,
Robert Grumbine


Index to the Short Lists



For Kids
Aiken, Joan.              The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Alexander, Lloyd          Prydain series
Carroll, Lewis            Alice in Wonderland 
Carroll, Lewis            Through the Looking Glass
Cooper, Susan             The Dark is Rising, etc
Corbett, Scott            The Lemonade Trick, etc. 
Eddison, E.R.             The Worm Ouroboros
Kendall, Carol            The Gammage Cup.
L'Engle, Madeleine        Wrinkle in Time
Lewis, C.S.               The Narnia books
Lovett, Margaret          The great and terrible quest.
MacDonald, George         The Princess and Curdie, etc
McKenzie, Ellen Kindt     Taash and the Jesters
Norton, (first name?)     The Borrowers

Humor
Adams, Douglas            Dirk Gently books
Anthony, Piers            Xanth series
Barry, Dave               Bad Habits
Barry, Dave               Greatest Hits
Bryson, Bill              The Lost Continent
Cahill, Tim               A wolverine is eating my leg
Coren, Alan               Speeches of President Amin
Culbertson, Eli           Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying
Cuppy, Will               How to Attract a Wombat
Cuppy, Will               How to become extinct
Davies, Robertson         Tempest Tost
Edgerton, Clyde           Walking Across Egypt
Freeberg, Stan            It Only hurts when I laugh
Gardner, Craig Shaw       Ballad of Wuntvor Trilogy
Gardner, Craig Shaw       Cineverse Cycle
Gardner, Craig Shaw       Ebenezum Trilogy
Gorey, Edward             AMPHIGOREY
Gorey, Edward             AMPHIGOREY ALSO
Gorey, Edward             AMPHIGOREY TOO
Griffith, Bill            Are we having fun yet
Heller, Joseph            God Knows
Hite, Molly               Class Porn
Holt, Tom                 Expecting Someone Taller
Portis, Charles           Dog of the South
Sharpe, Tom               Wilt
Toole, John Kennedy       A confederacy of Dunces
Tyler, Anne               Searching for Caleb
Wilde, Oscar              The Importance of being Ernest


Humorous mysteries
Anderson, James           The Affair of the Blood-stained Tea Cosy
Block, Lawrence           Bernie Rhodenbarr (detective)
Borthwick, J. S.          Sarah Deane (detective)
Brett, Simon              Charles Paris (detective)
Brown, Rita Mae           Rest In Pieces 
Brown, Rita Mae           Wish You Were Here 
Crispin, Edmund           Gervase Fen (detective)
Debin, David              Nice Guys Finish Dead  
Dickson, Carter           Sir Henry Merrivale (detective)
Fish, Robert L            Death Cuts the Deck
Friedman, Kinky           Elvis, Jesus and Coca-cola
Hall, Parnell             Stanley Hastings (detective)
Hess, Joan                Claire Malloy (detective)
Hess, Joan                Maggody series (Arly Hanks (detective))
Kaminsky, Stuart          Toby Peters series
MacLeod, Charlotte        Kelling and Bittersohn (detectives)
MacLeod, Charlotte        Peter Shandy (detective)
McBain, Ed                Downtown   
McDonald, Gregory         various
Perry, Thomas             Island
Perry, Thomas             Metzger's Dog
Peters, Elizabeth         Amelia Peabody (detective)
Piesman, Marissa          Nina Fischman (detective)
Sanders, Lawrence         McNally (detective)
Sayers, Dorothy L.        Murder Must Advertise
Taylor, Phoebe Atwood     Asey Mayo series
Thomas, Leslie            Dangerous Davies, The Last Detective 
Tilton, Alice (pseudonym of Taylor, Phoebe Atwood)
Watson, Colin             Flaxborough Chronicles
Westlake, Donald          Dortmunder 'gang' series
Westlake, Donald          Trust me on this

Books on what books to read
Pearlman, Mickey         What to Read
Raabe, Tom               Biblioholism: The Literary Addiction
Fadiman, C.              The Lifetime Reading Plan
Hinkley, Karen and Barbara American Best Sellers: A Readers Guide to Popular Fiction  
Parsons, Nicholas        The Book of Literary Lists
Weber, J. Sherwood, ed.  Good Reading: A Guide for Serious Readers
Raphael, Frederic, & Kenneth McLeish  The List of Books=
Ward, Philip             A Lifetimes's Reading: The World's 500 Greatest Books
Gilbar, Steven           The Book Book
Gilbar, Steven           Good Books: A Book Lover's Companion
Book-of-the-Month Club   The Well-Stocked Bookcase: Sixty Enduring Novels by Americans Published Between 1926-1986


Some Fantasies and more Fantasy-oriented SF
Adams, Douglas             Hitchhiker series
Anderson, Poul             The Broken Sword
Anthony, Piers             Xanth series
Beagle, Peter              The Folk of the Air
Bisson, Terry              Talking Man
Bradley, Marion Z.         Darkover series
Bradley, Marion Zimmer     Mists of Avalon
Bull, Emma                 Finder
Bull, Emma                 War for the Oaks
Card, Orson Scott          Alvin Maker series
Card, Orson Scott          Ender series
Card, Orson Scott          Songmaster
Carroll, Jonathan          The Land of Laughs, Bones of the Moon
Charnas, Suzy M.           Walk to the End of the World & The Vampire ??
Cooper, Susan              The Dark Is Rising series (Over Sea Under Stone, The Dark Is Rising, Greenwich, The Grey King, Silver On The Tree)
Crowley, John              Little, Big
De Camp, L. Sprague & Fletcher Pratt      - Complete Incompleat Enchanter
Dean, Pamela               Tam Lin
Delaney                    4 novels set in Neveryon 
Donaldson, Stephen         The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
Duane, Diane               Wizardry series
Dunsany, Lord              The King of Elfland's Daughter
Eddings, David             The Belgariad
Eddison, E.R.              The Worm Ouroubouros
Ford, John M               The Dragon Waiting
Garcia Marquez, G.         One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gardner                    Grendel
Goldman, William           The Princess Bride
Goldstein, Lisa            Red Magician
Goldstein, Lisa            Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon
Hambly, Barbara	
Hazel, Paul                Yearwood
Henderson, Zenna           The People: No Different Flesh.  
Jones, Diana Wynne         Archer's Goon, Time City, others
Kushner, Ellen             Swordspoint
Kushner, Ellen             Thomas the Rhymer
Lackey, Mercedes             
Le Guin, Ursula            Dispossessed, etc.  
Le Guin, Ursula            Earthsea tetralogy, 
Le Guin, Ursula            Left Hand of Darkness, The
Lee, Tanith                Night's Master, Death's Master
Lee, Tanith                Red as Blood
Lieber, Fritz              Fafrd and Gray Mouser books
Linklater, Eric            The Wind on the Moon
MacAvay, Roberta           The Black Dragon, Twisting The Rope, others
MacAvoy, R.A.              A Trio for Lute (Damiano-trilogy)
McCaffrey, Anne            Dragonriders of Pern series
McKinley, Robin            Deerskin
McKinley, Robin            The Blue Sword, Hero & Crown, Beauty.
Miller & Lee               Conflict of Honors, Agent of Change, Carpe Diem 
Moon, Elizabeth            Paksenarrion trilogy
Morrow, James              Only Begotten Daughter
Pangborn                   Davy
Pearce, Philippa           Tom's Midnight Garden
Powers, Tim                Last Call
Powers, Tim                The Stress of her Regard, The Anubis Gates
Pratchett & Gaimen         Good Omens
Pratchett, Terry           Discworld books, e.g.  The Colour of Magic 
Pratchett, Terry and Neil Gaiman    Good Omens
Rivkin, J.F.               Silverglass, Witch of Rhostshyl (& one more)
Roberson, Jennifer         early books of the Song of Homana or Songs of the Cheysuli (?)
Shea, Michael              Nifft the Lean
Sherman, Delia             The Porcelin Dove
Shetterly, Will            Elsewhere
Shetterly, Will            Nevernever
Swanwick, Michael          The Iron Dragon's Daughter
Tepper, Sheri              Beauty
Tepper, Sheri              Grass
Tepper, Sheri              Raising the Stones
Tolkein, J.R.R.            Lord of the Rings
Undset                     Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy
Vance, Jack                The Dying Earth-books
White, T.H.                Once & Future King
Williams, Tad              Memory, Sorrow and Thorn-trilogy
Willis, Connie             short stories
Wolfe, Gene	               Book of the New Sun series
Wolfe, Gene                Soldier of the Mist, Soldier of Arete
Wrede, Patricia            re-telling of the fairy tale Snow White & Rose Red
Yolen, Jane                Sister Light, Sister Dark
Yolen, Jane                The One Armed Queen (in progress?) (trio)
Yolen, Jane                White Jenna
Zelazny, Roger             Amber series


Some Dystopian stories
Atwood, Margaret     The Handmaid's Tale
Bradbury, Ray        Fahrenheit 451
Bradbury, Ray        The Pedestrian (short story)
Brunner, John        Stand on Zanzibar
Brunner, John        The Sheep Look Up
Burgess, Anthony     A Clockwork Orange
Disch, Thomas M.     Camp Concentration
Heinlein, Robert     Revolt in 2100
Huxley, Aldous       Ape and Essence
Huxley, Aldous       Brave New World
Huxley, Aldous       Island
Levin, Ira           This Perfect Day
Lieber, Fritz        Perfect People
Lucas, George (screenplay) Bova, Ben (novel)    THX-1138
Orwell, George       1984
Schulman, J. Neil    The Rainbow Cadenza
Wells, H. G.         The Time Machine
Zamyatin, Yevgeny    We 



Science versus non-
Basri, Saul A.            A deductive theory of Space-Time
Bauer, Henry H.           Scientific Literacy and the Myth of the Scientific Method
Bhaskar, Roy              A realist theory of science
Broughton, Richard        Parapsychology: The controversial Science
Cartwright, Nancy         How the laws of physics lie
Chalmers, Alan            Science and its fabrication
Chalmers, Alan            What is this thing called Science
                          Explaining Science : A Cognitive Approach
Feyerabend, Paul          Against Method
Feyerabend, Paul          Farewell to Reason
Frazier, Ken              Paranormal Borderlands of Science
Futuyma, Douglas J.       Science on Trial: The Case for Evolution
Gardner, Martin           Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
Giere, Ronald             Explaining Science
Hansel, C. E. M.          ESP, a Scientific Evaluation
Harding, Sandra           The Science Question in Feminism
Harding, Sandra           Whose Science? Whose Knowledge
Kuhn, Thomas              Structure of Scientific Revolution
Kurtz, Paul (ed)          A skeptics' guidebook to parapsychology
Lakatos, Imre             Proofs and Refutations
Laudan, Larry             Science and Relativism
Lewin, Rober              Bones of Contention
Marks, David and Richard Kammann   The Psychology of the Psychic"
Newton-Smith, W. H.       The Rationality of Science
Nye, Andrea               Words of Power: A Feminist Reading in the History of Logic
Suppe, Fred               The Semantic Conception of theories and scientific realism
Young, Davis              Christianity and the Age of the Earth


Science for the interested layman
Dawkins, Richard          Selfish Gene
Dawkins, Richard          Extended Phenotype
Dawkins, Richard          Blind Watchmaker
Ferris, T.                Coming of Age in the Milky Way
Weber, Robert (ed.)       A Random Walk in Science
Weber, Robert (ed.)       More Random Walks in Science
Gribben, John             In Search of Schrodinger's Cat
Kuhn, Thomas              Structure of Scientific Revolution
Rucker, Rudy              Mind Tools
Baker, Robert A. (ed.)    A Stress Analysis of a strapless evening gown
McPhee, John              Basin and Range
McPhee, John              In Suspect Terrane
McPhee, John              Rising from the Plains
McPhee, John              The control of nature

Polar Books
Armstrong, Sir Alexander  A Personal Narrative of the Discovery of the North-West Passage:   With Numerous Incidents of Travel and Adventure During Nearly Five Years Continuous Service in the Arctic Regions While in Search of the Expedition Under Sir John Franklin
Barr, William             Overland to Starvation Cove: With the Inuit in Search of Franklin
Beattie, Owen             Frozen in Time
Beechey, Frederick W.     Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Bering's Strait, to Cooperate with the Polar Expeditions 
Benton, Pierre            The Arctic Grail
Briggs, Jean L.           Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family
Burnford, Shiela          One Woman's Arctic
Goetzmann, William H. and Kay Sloan  Looking Far North: The Harriman Expedition to Alaska 1899
Haines, John Meade        The Stars, The Snow, The Fire: Twenty-Five Years in the Northern Wilderness
Hakluyt, Richard          The Principal Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries of the  English Nation 
Hund(s?)ford, Roland      Shackleton
Hunt(s?)ford, Roland      The Last Place on Earth
Hunt, William R.          Stef: A Biography of Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Canadian Arctic Explorer
James, Thomas             Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James
Kizzia, Tom               Wake of the Unseen Object:  Among the Native Cultures of Bush Alaska
Lonsdale, Hugh Cecil Lowther  A Victorian Earl in the Arctic: The Travels and Collections of the Fifth Earl of Lonsdale 1888-89
Lopez, Barry              Arctic Dreams
Lopez, Barry H.           Crossing Open Ground
M'Clintock, Leopold       The Voyage of the Arctic Fox in the Arctic Sea
Malaurie, Jean            The Last Kings of Thule: With the Polar Eskimos, as They Face Their Destiny
McPhee, John A.           Coming Into the Country
Mowat, Farley             Arctic Trilogy (Tundra, The Polar Passion, ?)
Mowat, Farley             Ordeal by Ice
Nansen, Fridtjof          Farthest North
Nelson, Richard K.        Hunters of the Northern Forest: Designs for Survival Among the Alaskan 
Nelson, Richard K.        Shadow of the Hunter: Stories of Eskimo Life
Norman, Howard            Northern Tales: Traditional Stores of Eskimo and Indian Peoples
Osborn, Sherard           Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal
Parry, Sir William Edward  Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific: Performed in the Years 1819-20 in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Griper
de Poncins, Gontran       Kabloona
Rasky, Frank              The North Pole or Bust
Richardson, Sir John      Arctic Ordeal: The Journal of John Richardson, Surgeon-Naturalist With Franklin 1820-1822
Rundall, T.               Narratives of the Voyages Toward the North-West
Shackleton, Ernest        South
Stafansson, Vilhjalmur    The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions
                          The Book of the Eskimo
Van Kirk, Sylvia          Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur-Trade Society


Some Science Fiction
Asimov, Isaac             Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation    Isaac Asimov
Clarke, Arthur C.         Childhood's End 
Bradbury, Ray             The Martian Chronicles
Heinlein, Robert A        Stranger in a Strange Land
Brunner, John             Stand on Zanzibar
Verne, Jules              20,000 Leagues under the Sea
Anderson, Poul            Tau Zero 
Asimov, Isaac             I Robot  
Bester, Alfred            The Demolished Man  
Blish, James              Cities in Flight (Collective title for 4 books, Earthman Come Home is the strongest individual)
Bova, Ben (ed.)           SF Hall of Fame volume IIb  
Bradbury, Ray             Fahrenheit 451 
Brin, David               Startide Rising, The Uplift War
Cherrhy, C. J.            The Faded Sun 
Clarke, Arthur C.         Rendezvous With Rama  
Del Rey, Lester           Nerves 
Ellison, Harlan (ed)      Dangerous Visions, Again Dangerous Visions 
Gunn, James               The Listeners 
Haldeman, Joe             All My sins Remembered  
Herbert, Frank            Dune  
Huxley                    Brave New World  
L'Engle, Madeleine        A Wrinkle in Time  
Miller, Walter M. Jr.     A Canticle for Liebowitz 
Orwell, George            1984  
Pohl, Frederick and Cyril Kornbluth  The Space Merchants   
Serling, Rod              The Twilight Zone (anthology)
Zelazny, Roger            Lord of Light 


Population Biology
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I promised to summarize the suggestions I received for undergraduate texts
for a population biology course. Below is a list of those books that were
suggested.

Ron Etter
etter@umbsky.cc.umb.edu

Ayala, F.J. 1982.  Population and Evolutionary Genetics.  The Benjamin
Cummings, CA.

Begon, M. and Mortimer, M.  1992.  Population Ecology.  Blackwell,
Oxford.

Cockburn, A.  1991 Introduction to Evolutionary Ecology, Blackwell
Press.

Crow, J.F. 1986. Basic concepts in population, quantitative, and
evolutionary genetics.  W.H. Freeman and Co., NY

Elseth, G.D. and K.D. Baumgardner  1981.  Population Biology.  D. Van
Nostrand, New York.

Emlen, J.M.  1984.  Population Biology - The coevolution of Population
Dynamics and Behavior.  Macmillan, NY

Emmel, T.C.  1976.  Population Biology.  Harper & Row, NY.

Futuyma, D.  Evolutionary Biology

Hartl, D.L. 1988. A Primer of population genetics, 2 ed. Sinauer Assoc.,
Sunderland, MA

Hedrick  1984  Population Biology, Jones and Bartlett, MA

Hedrick. P.W.  1985.  Genetics of Populations.  Jones and Bartlett, MA.

Maynard Smith, J.  1990 Evolutionary Genetics.  Oxford

Pianka, E.R.  1994.  Evolutionary Ecology. Harper Collins, NY.

Roughgarden, J. 1979 Theory of Population Genetics and Evolutionary
Ecology" (MacMillan)

Solbrig, O.T. and D.J. Solbrig.  1979.  Introduction to Population Biology
and Evolution.  Addison-Wesley, MA.

Wilson & Bossert  1971  A Primer of Population Biology. Sinauer Assoc.,
Sunderland, MA


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