JetFred's Collections
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          Current science texts of choice
  • General biology - Biology 8th, Campbell & Reece
  • Environmental science - Environmental Science 12th, Miller
  • Ecology - Ecology 5th, Molles
  • Genetics - iGenetics: A Molecular Approach 2nd, Russell
  • Molecular evolution - Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution 2nd, Graur & Li
  • Species diversity - Five Kingdoms 3rd, Margulis & Schwartz and Zoology: An Inside View of Animals 3rd, Hyde
 
 		 
          Favorite field guides
  • Birds - Birds of the Carolinas, Potter et al.
  • Herps - Amphibians and Reptiles of the Carolinas and VA, Martof et al.
  • Mammals - Mammals of the Carolinas, VA, and MD, Webster et al.
  • Coast - Nature Guide to the Carolina Coast, Meyer
  • Insects - NWF Field Guide to Insects and Spiders of NA, Evans
  • Plants - Flora of the Carolinas, VA, and GA, and Surrounding Areas, Weakley
 
 
          Last 5 books that I've read (or reread)
  1. "Second Variety" + 20 more short stories, Philip K. Dick
  2. Fragile Things, Neil Gaiman
  3. M Is for Magic, Neil Gaiman
  4. InterWorld, Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves
  5. Palm Sunday, Kurt Vonnegut
 
 		 
          Top 5 books I've not yet read
  1. Armageddon in Retrospect, Kurt Vonnegut
  2. Dune, Frank Herbert
  3. The Silmarillion, J. R. R. Tolkien
  4. The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
  5. Nation, Terry Pratchett
 

Outline of my book collection
with some notable authors and topics

Arts and sciences
      Biology and nature
      Other sciences (math, physics, chemistry, environment)
      Science commentary
      Literature and writing
      Other humanities (psychology, sociology, philosophy, education)
Classic literature
      Alexandre Dumas
      Flannery O'Connor
      Edgar Allan Poe
      J. D. Salinger
      William Shakespeare
      Mark Twain...and much more
Fantasy and Science Fiction (minus the fluff I read as a teenager)
      Selected series (Dune, Incarnations of Immortality)
      Douglas Adams
      Philip K. Dick
      Terry Pratchett
      J. R. R. Tolkien
Fiction
      Neil Gaiman
      Kurt Vonnegut
Humor (excluding the comic strip collections)
      Lewis Grizzard
      Steve Martin
Movies and Television
      Disney animation
      Terry Gilliam
      Monty Python
      Star Trek
Religion
      Bibles
      Devotionals
      Christian commentary (C. S. Lewis)
      Reference (worship, prayer, Greek, Old and New Testament)
Miscellaneous
      Art
      Automobiles
      Business
      Personalities
      Reference and maps
      Travel
      Web authoring

Obsessing over pretty much everything since 1973
Copyright © 2008 J French (ggjetfred at yahoo dot com)