UPDATE – Sadly I’ve stopped maintaining any database of books. Or favourite books. Someday I hope to link more to Goodreads. These are OLD notes.

Some day I’ll enter all the books I know I’ve read into software – something like Goodreads.

Books have far greater importance to me than movies, TV or music.

If books were people, they would have gravitas: substance, dignity, depth & seriousness.

Gravitas is a quality much missed in this throw-away world.

A few of my older favourites:

• Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
• Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
• Terrorist – John Updike
• Wake – Robert Sawyer
• In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
• Dogbert’s Top Secret Management Handbook
• A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
• Lost on Planet China by J. Maarten Troost
• Lost in the Yellowstone
• Ghost Trail to the Eastern Star
• Twilight Saga – 4 books
• Snow Crash
• Lankhmar Book 1: Swords And Deviltry
• Ender’s Game
• His Dark Materials Trilogy (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass)
• Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
• Fleshmarket Alley – Ian Rankin
• The Crazyladies of Pearl Street: A Memoir
• The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir

To see many, many more open a PDF of my longer OLD books (large PDF).