Book Reviews

I have been in the process of writing reviews for books that I have read.  They are by no means complete, but are intended to summarize of the principles (or plot) of the books in case I forget (note that for fiction this constitutes a spoiler).  The complete book is reviewed, principles explained, and, for fiction, the entire plot is summarized.  At the end of the review various tidbits have been collected either on writing style or specific principles that could not be included in the review and may, in fact, be the most useful parts...

Fiction

• The Book of Three  (Lloyd Alexander)
• The Black Cauldron  (Lloyd Alexander)
• The Castle of Llyr  (Lloyd Alexander)
• Taran Wanderer  (Lloyd Alexander)
• The High King  (Lloyd Alexander)
• Sir Apropos of Nothing (Peter David)
• The Virginian (Owen Wister)
• The Haunted House:  More Samurai Tales of the Tokugawa (James de Benneville)
• Aristoi (Walter Jon Williams)
• The Riddle-Master of Hed (Patricia McKillip)
• Heir of Sea and Fire (Patricia McKillip)
• Harpist in the Wind (Patricia McKillip)
• The Princess Bride:  S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure, abridged by William Goldman (William Goldman)
• The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
• Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
• Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
• The Fantasies of Harlan Ellison (Harlan Ellison)
• Nebula Awards 33 (Introductions by Connie Willis)
• The Illustrated Man (Ray Bradbury)
• The Martian Chronicles (Ray Bradbury)
• The Princess and the Goblin (George MacDonald)
• The Innocence of Father Brown (G. K. Chesterton)
• Tales From Earthsea (Ursula Le Guin)
• Blind Justice (Bruce Alexander)
• The Reivers  (William Faulkner)
• The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
• Death Comes for the Archbishop  (Willa Cather)
• The Wood Beyond the World  (William Morris)
• The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
• The Good Earth (Pearl Buck)

Investments

• Rich Dad, Poor Dad  (Robert Kiyosaki)
• Buffettology (Mary Buffet and David Clark)
  
• The Intelligent Investor  (Benjamin Graham)
• Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits (Philip Fisher)
• Value Investing: From Graham to Buffet and Beyond (Bruce Greenwald, Judd Kahn, Paul Sonkin, Michael van Biema)
• The Undercover Economist (Tim Harford)
  

Corporate

• The HP Way  (David Packard)
• The Effective Executive  (Peter Drucker)
• What Should I Do With My Life?  (Po Bronson)
• Good to Great  (Jim Collins)
• Writing Efficient Programs (Jon Bentley)

Christian

• Inside Out (Larry Crabb)
  
• Wild at Heart (John Eldredge)
• How Now Shall We Live? (Charles Colson and Nancy Pearcey)
• The Discipline of Grace (Jerry Bridges)
• I Kissed Dating Goodbye (Josh Harris)
• Finding God (Larry Crabb)
• Disappointment with God (Philip Yancey)
• Churches that Make a Difference (Sider, Olson, Unruh)
• Mere Christianity  (C.S. Lewis)
• The Search to Belong (Joseph Myers)
• Captivating (John and Stasi Eldridge)
• Every Man's Marriage (Stephen Arterburn and Fred Stoeker)
• Every Woman's Marriage (Shannon and Greg Ethridge)
• God Is the Gospel  (John Piper)
• Growing Healthy Asian American Churches  (Peter Cha, Steve Kang, Helen Lee)
• I Give You Authority  (Charles Kraft)
• Nine Marks of a Healthy Church  (Mark Dever)
• When People are Big and God is Small (Edward Welch)
• Daws:  A Man Who Trusted God (Betty Lee Skinner)

Other

• Polite Fictions (Nancy Sakamoto and Reiko Naotsuka)
• Amusing Ourselves to Death (Neil Postman)
• The Prince (Niccolò Machiavelli)
• Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus (John Gray, Ph. D.)
• Guns, Germs, and Steel (Jared Diamond)
• The Print (Ansel Adams)
• A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking)
• Aku-Aku:  The Secret of Easter Island (Thor Heyerdahl)
• Totto-chan:  The Little Girl in the Window (Tetsuko Kuroyanagi)
  
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert Pirsig)
• The Discarded Image (C.S. Lewis)
• The Republic (Plato)
• Intelligent Music Teaching  (Robert Duke)
• The Tragedy of American Compassion (Marvin Olasky)