The Look of Architecture by Witold Rybczynski. Oxford University Press, New York, 2001. ISBN 0-19-513443-5.
A poetic rumination on style in architecture.
Vision in the Desert by Jack L. August, Jr. Texas Christian University Press, Fort Worth, 1999. ISBN 0-87565-191-7.
The story of Carl Hayden and hydropolitics in the American southwest.
The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2004. ISBN 0-375-41288-3.
A continuation of the explanation for everything that was started in The Elegant Universe.
Faithful by Stewart O'Nan and Stephen King. Scribner, New York, 2004. ISBN 0-7432-6752-4.
For Red Sox Nation 2004 could have been the year, and it was.
Blink by Malcom Gladwell. Little, Brown & Co., New York, 2005. ISBN 0-316-17262-4.
A short book about unconscious cognition.
Running Scared by John L. Smith. Four Walls Eight Windows, New York, 2001. ISBN 1-56858-190-4.
This sensationalized account of casino mogul Steve Wynn's rise to fame in Las Vegas attempts to raise questions about the legitimacy of his empire.
Deception Point by by Dan Brown. Pocket Books, London, 2001. ISBN 0-671-02738-7.
This early version of the type of suspense filled thriller created by the author of The DaVinci code, has unconvincing characters playing out a pretty good story.
The Inner Circle by T. Coraghessen Boyle. Penguin Books, New York, 2004. ISBN 0-14-30.3586.X
This is a fascinating historical fiction about Alfred (the sex researcher) Kinsey's coterie of confidantes, by a man that can flat tell a story - maybe better than anyone else writing today.
State of Fear by Michael Crichton. Harper Collins, London, 2003. ISBN 0 00 718160 4.
This fiction based polemic on (and by the way a really good yarn) about the ramifications of the theory of global warming, was much criticized despite it's scientific footnote references.
No Man's Land by G.M. Ford. Harper Collins, New York, 2005. ISBN 0-06-055482-7.
A slick, fast tale of a desperate man taking desperate measures.
Invention by Design by Henry Petrosky. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1996. ISBN 0-67446369-4.
This is an account of the forces that informed the engineering design of such diverse items as the paper clip, the pencil, the zipper, the aluminum can, the facsimile, airplane control systems, water control systems, bridges and buildings.
Five Potatoes by Williston Lamar. Xlibris Corporation, USA, 2005. ISBN 1 4134 8922 2.
One man's humorous observations of the foibles of the human condition.