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These are books I own that are neither fantasy nor science fiction. Due to the fact that I'm pretty single-minded, this list is badly outnumbered.
This list is sorted by genre first, then by author.
Count: 281
| Author | Title | Rating | Genre | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agar, Jon | Turing and the Universal Machine | Biography | ? | |
| Blundell, Nigel & Farrington, Karen | England* | Coffee Table | ? | |
| Brabbs, Derry | Abbeys & Monasteries* | Coffee Table | ? | |
| Byatt, Andrew et al | Blue Planet* | Coffee Table | ? | |
| Connor, J.E. | Abandoned Stations on London's Underground* | Coffee Table | ? | |
| Cotta Vaz, Mark | Industrial Light and Magic: Into the Digital Realm | Coffee Table | ? | |
| Feil, Charles | Maine: A View From Above | Coffee Table | ? | |
| Fisher, Adrian & Gerster, Georg | Art of the Maze* | Coffee Table | ? | |
| Fisher, Jude | Fellowship of the Ring Visual Companion* | Coffee Table | ? | |
| Goldsworthy, Andy | Collaboration with Nature | Coffee Table | ? | |
| Goldsworthy, Andy | Time* | Coffee Table | ? | |
| Huey, George et al | Chaco: A Cultural Legacy | Coffee Table | ? | |
| King, Stephen & Fitzgerald, F-Stop | Nightmares in the Sky | Coffee Table | ? | |
| Kurti, Jeff | Since the World Began | Coffee Table | ? | |
| Lister, Florence & Wilson, Lynn | Windows of the Past: Ruins of the Colorado Plateau | Coffee Table | ? | |
| MacDonald, George | Evolution of Coinage* | Coffee Table | ? | |
| McKean, Dave | Particle Tarot* | Coffee Table | ? | |
| McNeill, George | Mysterious Places* | Coffee Table | ? | |
| Mitford, Deborah (Duchess of Devonshire) | Gardens at Chatsworth* | Coffee Table | ? | |
| Murfin, James | Eastern National Parks | Coffee Table | ? | |
| Nicholas, Jeff et al | Islands in the Sky: Scenes from the Colorado Plateau | Coffee Table | ? | |
| Nyiri, Alan | Acadia National Park | Coffee Table | ? | |
| Pepper, J.H. | Encyclopaedia of Science | Coffee Table | ? | |
| Place, Chuck | Ancient Walls: Indian Ruins of the Southwest | Coffee Table | ? | |
| Roberts, Bruce & Jones, Ray | Northern Lighthouses | Coffee Table | ? | |
| Russell, Gary | Art of The Fellowship of the Ring | Coffee Table | ? | |
| Shorto, Sylvia & Macdonald-Smith, Ian | Bermuda | Coffee Table | ? | |
| Sibley, Brian | Lord of the Rings Movie Guide* | Coffee Table | ? | |
| Struthers, Jane | Britain's Coastlines from the Air* | Coffee Table | ? | |
| Struthers, Jane & Hawkes, Jason | Britain from the Air* | Coffee Table | ? | |
| Struthers, Jane & Hawkes, Jason | Britain's History from the Air* | Coffee Table | ? | |
| Taylor, Gordon & Cooper, Guy | Gardens of Obsession* | Coffee Table | ? | |
| Taylor, Patrick | One Hundred English Gardens* | Coffee Table | ? | |
| Turpin, Richard & Hunt, Roger | Villages of England* | Coffee Table | ? | |
| Williams, Archibald | How It Works* | Coffee Table | ? | |
| Wuerthner, George | Maine Coast | Coffee Table | ? | |
| Ainsworth, William Harrison | Lancashire Witches | Fiction | ? | |
| Blixen, Karen | Out of Africa | Fiction | ? | |
| Card, Orson Scott | Saints | Fiction | ? | |
| Clancy, Tom | Hunt for Red October | 8 | Fiction | ? |
| Clancy, Tom | Patriot Games | 8 | Fiction | ? |
| Crichton, Michael | Congo | 7 | Fiction | ? |
| Crichton, Michael | Eaters of the Dead | 5 | Fiction | ? |
| Crichton, Michael | Rising Sun | 7 | Fiction | ? |
| Crichton, Michael | Jurassic Park [1] | 7 | Fiction | ? |
| Crichton, Michael | Lost World [2] | 7 | Fiction | ? |
| Eco, Umberto | Foucault's Pendulum | 9 | Fiction | ? |
| Eddings, David | High Hunt | Fiction | ? | |
| Elton, Ben | Popcorn | 5 | Fiction | ? |
| Elton, Ben | Stark | Fiction | ? | |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | Great Gatsby | 7 | Fiction | ? |
| Flagg, Fannie | Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café | 6 | Fiction | ? |
| Forsyth, Frederick | Day of the Jackal | 5 | Fiction | ? |
| Forsyth, Frederick | Fourth Protocol | 8 | Fiction | ? |
| Fry, Stephen | Hippopotamus | 8 | Fiction | ? |
| Fry, Stephen | Liar | 7 | Fiction | ? |
| Grady, James | Six Days of the Condor | 5 | Fiction | ? |
| Grisham, John | Pelican Brief | 5 | Fiction | ? |
| Harris, Thomas | Black Sunday | 6 | Fiction | ? |
| Harris, Thomas | Red Dragon [1] | 8 | Fiction | ? |
| Harris, Thomas | Silence of the Lambs [2] | 7 | Fiction | ? |
| Harris, Thomas | Hannibal [3] | 8 | Fiction | ? |
| Holland, Isabelle | Man Without a Face | 7 | Fiction | ? |
| Hurston, Zora Neale | Their Eyes Were Watching God | Fiction | ? | |
| Le Carre, John | Spy Who Came In From the Cold | 5 | Fiction | ? |
| Peters, Ellis | Pilgrim of Hate* | 7 | Fiction | ? |
| Preston, Douglas & Child, Lincoln | Relic | 5 | Fiction | ? |
| Puzo, Mario | Godfather | Fiction | ? | |
| Rice, Anne | Interview with the Vampire [Vampires 1] | 7 | Fiction | ? |
| Rice, Anne | Vampire Lestat [Vampires 2] | 8 | Fiction | ? |
| Rice, Anne | Queen of the Damned [Vampires 3] | 7 | Fiction | ? |
| Rice, Anne | Tale of the Body Thief [Vampires 4] | 2 | Fiction | ? |
| Rice, Anne | Memnoch the Devil [Vampires 5] | Fiction | ? | |
| Sayle, Alexei | Dog Catcher | 9 | Fiction | ? |
| Shaw, Howard | Keepers of the Obelisk | 5 | Fiction | ? |
| Stephenson, Neal & George, Frederick | Interface* | Fiction | ? | |
| Turow, Scott | Presumed Innocent | 9 | Fiction | ? |
| Walters, Minette | Acid Row | Fiction | ? | |
| Wharton, Edith | Buccaneers* | 7 | Fiction | ? |
| Wodehouse, P.G. | Jeeves Omnibus I* | Fiction | ? | |
| Wodehouse, P.G. | Love Among the Chickens | 6 | Fiction | ? |
| Eco, Umberto | Name of the Rose | 8 | Fiction (Historical) | ? |
| Hambly, Barbara | Free Man of Color [January 1] | 6 | Fiction (Historical) | ? |
| Scott, Sir Walter | Ivanhoe | 8 | Fiction (Historical) | ? |
| Gaiman, Neil | Sandman Dustcovers* | Graphic Novel | ? | |
| Gaiman, Neil | Doll's House* [Sandman 2] | Graphic Novel | ? | |
| Bates, Brian | Real Middle-Earth: Magic & Mystery in the Dark Ages* | 3 | History | ? |
| Bierlein, J.F. | Parallel Myths | History | ? | |
| Clayton, Peter | Chronicle of the Pharaohs | History | ? | |
| Green, John Richard | Short History of the English People* | History | ? | |
| James, Peter & Thorpe, Nick | Ancient Inventions | History | ? | |
| La Dolce Vita | Chocolate | History | ? | |
| Lewis, Carenza et al | Time Team's Timechester: A Companion to Archaeology* | History | ? | |
| Livy | Early History of Rome | History | ? | |
| Price, Alfred | Spitfire Story | History | ? | |
| Rohl, David | Pharaohs and Kings: A Biblical Quest | History | ? | |
| Schama, Simon | At the Edge of the World?: 3000BC - 1603 [History of Britain, Volume I] | History | ? | |
| Schama, Simon | British Wars: 1603 - 1776* [History of Britain, Volume II] | History | ? | |
| Schama, Simon | Fate of Empire: 1776-2000* [History of Britain, Volume III] | History | ? | |
| Thorpe, Lewis | Bayeux Tapestry and the Norman Invasion* | History | ? | |
| Thucydides | History of the Peloponnesian War | History | ? | |
| Card, Orson Scott | Homebody | 7 | Horror | ? |
| Card, Orson Scott | Lost Boys | 7 | Horror | ? |
| Card, Orson Scott | Treasure Box | 5 | Horror | ? |
| Gaiman, Neil et al | Weerde* [Weerde 1] | Horror | ? | |
| Adams, Douglas & Lloyd, John | Deeper Meaning of Liff* | Humor | ? | |
| Adams, Scott | Always Postpone Meetings with Time-Wasting Morons | Humor | ? | |
| Adams, Scott | Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel | 8 | Humor | ? |
| Adams, Scott | Dilbert Future | Humor | ? | |
| Adams, Scott | Dilbert Principle | Humor | ? | |
| Barry, Dave | Dave Barry's Bad Habits | Humor | ? | |
| Beard, Henry & Barrett, Ron | Way Things Really Work | Humor | ? | |
| Bryson, Bill | African Diary* | Humor | ? | |
| Bryson, Bill | Neither Here Nor There* | 8 | Humor | ? |
| Bryson, Bill | Notes from a Big Country* | Humor | ? | |
| Bryson, Bill | Notes from a Small Island | 9 | Humor | ? |
| Bryson, Bill | Walk in the Woods* | 9 | Humor | ? |
| Burton, Tim | Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories* | Humor | ? | |
| Milligan, Spike | Bible (Old Testament) According to Spike Milligan* | Humor | ? | |
| Milligan, Spike | Silly Verse for Kids* | Humor | ? | |
| Oblong, Angus | Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children | 9 | Humor | ? |
| Seddon, Peter | Law's Strangest Cases* | Humor | ? | |
| Sellar, W.C. & Yeatman, R.J. | 1066 and All That* | 9 | Humor | ? |
| Sellar, W.C. & Yeatman, R.J. | Garden Rubbish* | 7 | Humor | ? |
| Sellar, W.C. & Yeatman, R.J. | Horse Nonsense* | Humor | ? | |
| Shepherd, Chuck | America's Least Competent Criminals | Humor | ? | |
| Thurber, James | Vintage Thurber Volume I* | Humor | ? | |
| Thurber, James | Vintage Thurber Volume II* | Humor | ? | |
| Watterson, Bill | Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons | Humor | ? | |
| Xenophobe's Guides | Xenophobe's Guide to the Americans* | Humor | ? | |
| Xenophobe's Guides | Xenophobe's Guide to the English* | Humor | ? | |
| Willis, Jeanne & Ross, Tony | Dr Xargle's Book of Earth Mobiles | Humor/Children's | ? | |
| Blyton, Enid | Secret Seven* | Juvenile | ? | |
| Betro, Maria Carmela | Hieroglyphics | Language | ? | |
| Bryson, Bill | Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way* | 9 | Language | ? |
| Bryson, Bill | Troublesome Words* | Language | ? | |
| Collier, Mark & Manley, Bill | How to Read Egyptian* | Language | ? | |
| Parkinson, Richard | Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment* | Language | ? | |
| Pyles, Thomas & Algeo, John | Origins & Development of the English Language | Language | ? | |
| Robinson, Andrew | Story of Writing* | Language | ? | |
| Aeschylus | Oresteia | Literature | ? | |
| Andersen, Hans Christian | Fairy Tales* | Literature | ? | |
| Austen, Jane | Emma | 6 | Literature | ? |
| Austen, Jane | Northanger Abbey | 6 | Literature | ? |
| Austen, Jane | Persuasion | 8 | Literature | ? |
| Austen, Jane | Pride and Prejudice | 9 | Literature | ? |
| Austen, Jane | Sense and Sensibility | 5 | Literature | ? |
| Boccaccio, Giovanni | Decameron | Literature | ? | |
| Brontë, Charlotte | Wuthering Heights | 7 | Literature | ? |
| Camus, Albert | Stranger | Literature | ? | |
| Chaucer | Canterbury Tales* | Literature | ? | |
| Chaucer, Geoffrey | Canterbury Tales | Literature | ? | |
| Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur | Complete Works | Literature | ? | |
| Dante | Inferno | Literature | ? | |
| de Cervantes, Miguel | Don Quixote | Literature | ? | |
| de Laclos, Choderlos | Les Liaisons Dangereuses | 6 | Literature | ? |
| Dickens, Charles | Our Mutual Friend | 8 | Literature | ? |
| Dickens, Charles | Tale of Two Cities | 8 | Literature | ? |
| Dostoevsky, Fyodor | Crime and Punishment | Literature | ? | |
| du Maurier, Daphne | Rebecca | 8 | Literature | ? |
| Dumas, Alexandre | Man in the Iron Mask | Literature | ? | |
| Dumas, Alexandre | Three Musketeers | Literature | ? | |
| Euripides | Four Tragedies | Literature | ? | |
| Euripides | Ten Plays | Literature | ? | |
| Euripides | Three Tragedies | Literature | ? | |
| Flaubert, Gustave | Madame Bovary | Literature | ? | |
| Hampton, Christopher | Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Screenplay) | Literature | ? | |
| Homer | Iliad | Literature | ? | |
| Homer | Odyssey | Literature | ? | |
| Milton, John | Paradise Lost | Literature | ? | |
| Poe, Edgar Allan | Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe* | Literature | ? | |
| Rostand, Edmond | Cyrano de Bergerac | Literature | ? | |
| Shakespeare, William | Complete Works | Literature | ? | |
| Sophocles | Three Tragedies | Literature | ? | |
| Steinbeck, John | Travels with Charley | Literature | ? | |
| Stoppard, Tom | Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | Literature | ? | |
| Tolstoy, Leo | War and Peace | Literature | ? | |
| Unknown | Arabian Nights* | Literature | ? | |
| Virgil | Aeneid | Literature | ? | |
| Walden and Other Writings | Thoreau, Henry David | Literature | ? | |
| Wharton, Edith | Age of Innocence | 7 | Literature | ? |
| Feynman, Richard | Character of Physical Law* | Math/Science | ? | |
| Hawking, Stephen | On the Shoulders of Giants* | Math/Science | ? | |
| Rees, Martin | Our Cosmic Habitat* | Math/Science | ? | |
| Challoner, Jack | Brain* | Mind/Brain | ? | |
| Dennett, Daniel | Consciousness Explained* | Mind/Brain | ? | |
| Howard, Pierce | Owner's Manual for the Brain | Mind/Brain | ? | |
| Sacks, Oliver | Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat | 9 | Mind/Brain | ? |
| Dexter, Colin | Fourth Inspector Moore Omnibus | 6 | Mystery | ? |
| Dexter, Colin | Last Bus to Woodstock | 6 | Mystery | ? |
| James, P.D. | Shroud for a Nightingale | 4 | Mystery | ? |
| Peters, Ellis | Potter's Field [Cadfael 17] | 7 | Mystery | ? |
| Walters, Minette | Breaker | 7 | Mystery | ? |
| Walters, Minette | Dark Room | 8 | Mystery | ? |
| Walters, Minette | Echo | 7 | Mystery | ? |
| Walters, Minette | Ice House | 9 | Mystery | ? |
| Walters, Minette | Scold's Bridle | 7 | Mystery | ? |
| Walters, Minette | Sculptress | 7 | Mystery | ? |
| Walters, Minette | Shape of Snakes* | 7 | Mystery | ? |
| Bryson, Bill | Made in America* | 8 | Nonfiction | ? |
| Clarke, Arthur C. | Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!* | Nonfiction | ? | |
| Cook, William | Complete Peter Cook | Nonfiction | ? | |
| Douglas, John | Mindhunter | Nonfiction | ? | |
| Douglas, John | Obsession | Nonfiction | ? | |
| Games, Alexander | Essential Spike Milligan* | Nonfiction | ? | |
| Huff, Darrell | How to Lie with Statistics* | Nonfiction | ? | |
| Pumfrey, Stephen | Latitude and the Magnetic Earth* | Nonfiction | ? | |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | Tree and Leaf* | Nonfiction | ? | |
| Aristotle | Ethics | Philosophy | ? | |
| Aristotle | Politics | Philosophy | ? | |
| Bach, Richard | Bridge Across Forever | Philosophy | ? | |
| Cahn, Steven | Classics of Western Philosophy | Philosophy | ? | |
| Descartes, Rene | Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy | Philosophy | ? | |
| Freud, Sigmund | Civilization and its Discontents | Philosophy | ? | |
| Hobbes, Thomas | Leviathan | Philosophy | ? | |
| Locke, John | Second Treatise of Government | Philosophy | ? | |
| Machiavelli, Niccolo | Prince and the Discourses | Philosophy | ? | |
| Marsilius of Padua | Defensor Pacis | Philosophy | ? | |
| Pirsig, Robert | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | 9 | Philosophy | ? |
| Plato | Protagoras and Meno | Philosophy | ? | |
| Plato | Republic | Philosophy | ? | |
| Plato | Symposium | Philosophy | ? | |
| Russell, Bertrand | Scientific Outlook* | Philosophy | ? | |
| Kiersey, David | Please Understand Me II | Psychology | ? | |
| Shermer, Michael | Why People Believe Weird Things | 7 | Psychology | ? |
| Tannen, Deborah | That's Not What I Meant! | Psychology | ? | |
| Tannen, Deborah | You Just Don't Understand | Psychology | ? | |
| Ayture-Scheele, Zulal | Great Origami Book | Reference | ? | |
| Barlowe, Wayne | Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials | Reference | ? | |
| Barlowe, Wayne | Barlowe's Guide to Fantasy | Reference | ? | |
| Buisson, Dominique | Art of Japanese Paper | Reference | ? | |
| Carpenter, Humphrey | Letters of JRR Tolkien | Reference | ? | |
| Day, David | Tolkien: The Illustrated Encyclopedia | Reference | ? | |
| Eyewitness Visual Dictionaries | Visual Dictionary of Buildings | Reference | ? | |
| Feldman, David | Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise? | Reference | ? | |
| Fonstad, Karen Wynn | Atlas of Middle-Earth | Reference | ? | |
| Foster, Robert | Complete Guide to Middle-Earth | Reference | ? | |
| Foster, Robert | Guide to Middle Earth | Reference | ? | |
| Funk, Charles | Heavens to Betsy! | Reference | ? | |
| Funk, Charles | Hog on Ice | Reference | ? | |
| Grotta, Daniel | Tolkien: Architect of Middle-Earth | Reference | ? | |
| Kocher, Paul | Master of Middle-Earth: The Achievement of JRR Tolkien* | Reference | ? | |
| Lerdorf, Rasmus | PHP Pocket Reference | Reference | ? | |
| March, Robert M. | Reading the Japanese Mind | Reference | ? | |
| McNelly, Willis | Dune Encyclopedia | Reference | ? | |
| Niederst, Jennifer | HTML Pocket Reference | Reference | ? | |
| Noel, Ruth | Languages of Tolkien's Middle-Earth | Reference | ? | |
| Tolkien, Christopher | Unfinished Tales | Reference | ? | |
| Tolkien, Christopher | Book of Lost Tales, Part 1 [History of Middle-Earth, Vol 1] | Reference | ? | |
| Tolkien, Christopher | Book of Lost Tales, Part 2 [History of Middle-Earth, Vol 2] | Reference | ? | |
| Tolkien, Christopher | Shaping of Middle-Earth [History of Middle-Earth, Vol 4] | Reference | ? | |
| Tolkien, Christopher | War of the Ring [History of Middle-Earth, Vol 8] | Reference | ? | |
| Tolkien, Christopher | Sauron Defeated* [History of Middle-Earth, Vol 9] | Reference | ? | |
| Toy, Sidney | Castles: Their Construction and History | Reference | ? | |
| Asimov, Isaac | In the Beginning: Science Faces God in the Book of Genesis* | Science/Math | ? | |
| Busbey, Arthur et al. | Rocks & Fossils | Science/Math | ? | |
| Darwin, Charles | Origin of Species | Science/Math | ? | |
| Dawkins, Richard | Blind Watchmaker* | Science/Math | ? | |
| Dawkins, Richard | Climbing Mount Improbable | Science/Math | ? | |
| Dawkins, Richard | Selfish Gene* | Science/Math | ? | |
| Feynman, Richard | Pleasure of Finding Things Out | Science/Math | ? | |
| Feynman, Richard | Six Easy Pieces* [Lectures 1] | Science/Math | ? | |
| Feynman, Richard | Six Not-So-Easy Pieces* [Lectures 2] | Science/Math | ? | |
| Gribbin, John | Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality | Science/Math | ? | |
| Gutsch, William A. | 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About the Universe | Science/Math | ? | |
| Hawking, Stephen | Brief History of Time | 9 | Science/Math | ? |
| Henbest, Nigel & Marten, Michael | New Astronomy | Science/Math | ? | |
| Hofstadter, Douglas | Godel, Escher, Bach | Science/Math | ? | |
| Hutton, Nicholas | Evidence of Evolution | Science/Math | ? | |
| Jones, Steve | Descent of Men* | 8 | Science/Math | ? |
| Pasachoff, Jay | Astronomy: From the Earth to the Universe | Science/Math | ? | |
| Peltier, Leslie | Binocular Stargazer | Science/Math | ? | |
| Penrose, Roger | Emperor's New Mind* | Science/Math | ? | |
| Rothstein, Edward | Emblems of Mind | Science/Math | ? | |
| Sagan, Carl | Cosmos | Science/Math | ? | |
| Sagan, Carl | Dragons of Eden | Science/Math | ? | |
| Schneider, Michael | Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science | Science/Math | ? | |
| White, Michael | Leonardo: The First Scientist | Science/Math | ? | |
| Davidson, Martin | Visitor's Guide to A History of Britain* | Travel | ? | |
| Harding, Maria | Weather to Travel: Traveller's Guide to the World's Weather* | Travel | ? | |
| Tea Council | Best Tea Places | Travel | ? |
* Ours, not just mine.
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