| My Recommended Reads! Always a work in progress... Always more to come! |
| Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your History Textbook Got Wrong by James Loewen, New Press, 1994 |
| Ross Poldark by Winston Graham, Doubleday, 1977 Originally published in 1945 as The Renegade [First in the excellent series of novels based in Cornwall, England, beginning 1783] |
| Trek Navigator: The Ultimate Guide to the Entire Trek Saga by Mark A. Altman and , Edward Gross, Little Brown, 1998 |
| The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation by Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky, Villard, 1998 |
| Mike Nelson's Mind Over Matters by Michael J. Nelson [of MST3K fame!] HarperEntertainment, 2002 [This is "squeal-with-laughter, clutch-your- belly, pitch-over-in-your-chair, with-tears- rolling-down-your-face funny!] |
| Selected Stories by P.G. Wodehouse, Introduction by John W. Aldridge Modern Library, 1958 [All Jeeves and Wooster, all the time!...Actually I can recommend ANY Jeeves and Wooster books/stories by Wodehouse!] |
| Clutters Last Stand by Don Aslett, Writer's Digest Books, 1984 |
| The Physics of Star Trek by Lawrence Krauss, Basic Books, 1995 [Some COOL stuff!] |
| The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester, HarperCollins, 1998 |
| Never to be Forgotten: A Young Girl's Holocaust Memoir by Beatrice Muchman, KTAV Publishing, 1997 |
| Uppity Women of Medieval Times by Vicky Leon, Conari Press, 1997 |
| The Nitpicker's Guide for Classic Trekkers by Phil Farrand, Dell, 1994 [Fun!] |
| The Salzburg Connection by Helen MacInnes, Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1968 [A classic of espionage fiction and the book that introduced me to the genre.] |
| Into the Mummy's Tomb Short stories [fiction and non] having to do with Egypt and mummies! Some authors include: Doyle, Rice, Lovecraft, Christie, and most especially...Elizabeth Peters! Berkley, 2001 |
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| The Patient's Eyes: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes by David Pirie, Minotaur Books, 2002 |
| Mr. Blandings Builds His Dreamhouse by Eric Hodgins, Simon & Schuster, 1946 [This item is out of print, but may be available at your local library. It's even funnier than the movie!] |
| Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper Case Closed by Patricia Cornwell, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2002 [Her writing sometimes gets a little off-track but this is such an interesting, if not disturbing, book. You really want to believe she's got it right.] |
| Ditto: Mike Nelson's Movie Megacheese [HarperEntertainment, 2000] and Mike Nelson's Death Rat [HarperEntertainment, 2003] |
| Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel by Richard H. Minear, New Press, 1999 |