Book List
Like most things on my website, this is for me. If you can find some sort
of benefit from it, congratulations. This list is in reverse-chronological
order of completion (most recently read books first).. The further back, the
less complete the list is.
- Adventures of a Church Historian by Leonard J. Arrington
- August 2005. I first read Arrington's The Mormon Experience in
high school when I was writing a lengthy paper on the Missouri Mormon War of
1838. The thing I like about his writing is that you can't easily tell
whether or not he's Mormon; he tries very hard to be fair. Adventures
of a Church Historian relates Leonard Arrington's experiences as a Mormon
historian, particularly during the period when he was the Church Historian
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is a fascinating
book.
- Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince Book 6. by J. K. Rowling
- July 2005. As with the other Harry Potter books, it's great for
reading all day and forgetting about everything else.
- The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens
- July 2005. The Pickwick Papers was Dickens' first book and was
published as a serial. It's a rambling but very entertaining story about Mr.
Pickwick and his friends. Mr. Pickwick is a noble gentleman with a very
serious self-image. Dickens relates this personality by using flowery
language to describe even the most mundane events. The Pickwick Papers
is best read as a serial, a couple of chapters at a time, but it is very
funny.
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Apr 2005.
- The BFG by Roald Dahl
- Apr 2005.
- The Witches by Roald Dahl
- Apr 2005.
- Decaci Pavlove ulice by Ferenc Molnar
- Apr 2005.
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Apr 2005.
- Candide by Voltaire
- Mar 2005.
- Temples to Dot the Earth by Richard O. Cowan
- Feb 2005.
- Glimpses of Lehi's Jerusalem edited by John W. Welch, David Rolph
Seely, and Jo Ann H. Seely
- Jan 2005.
- Matilda by Roald Dahl
- Jan 2005.
- Dave Barry is Not Taking This Sitting Down by Dave Barry
- Jan 2005.
- The Princess Bride by William Goldman
- Dec 2004.
- Letters From a Nut by Ted L. Nancy
- Dec 2004.
- The Bad Beginning A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1. by
Lemony Snicket
- Dec 2004.
- Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States by
Dave Barry
- Dec 2004.
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by David
McDuff)
- Dec 2004.
- The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
- Dec 2004.
- Three Against Hitler by Rudi Wobbe and Jerry Borrowman
- Dec 2004.
- The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlam
- Nov 2004.
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- Nov 2004.
- Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses by Richard Lloyd
Anderson
- Oct 2004.
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (translated by Robin
Buss)
- Oct 2004.
- AI: The Tumultuous History of the Search for Artificial Intelligence
by Daniel Crevier
- Sep 2004.
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- Jul 2004.
- Mathematics: The Science of Patterns by Keith Devlin
- Apr 2004.
- Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World
by Bruce Schneier
- Mar 2004.
- Dave Barry's Bad Habits by Dave Barry
- Jan 2004.
- The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
- Dec 2003.
- Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
- Dec 2003.
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Book 5. by J. K.
Rowling
- Dec 2003.
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Book 4. by J. K. Rowling
- Dec 2003.
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Book 3. by J. K.
Rowling
- Dec 2003.
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Book 2. by J. K.
Rowling
- Dec 2003.
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Book 1. by J. K.
Rowling
- Dec 2003.