incunabular illumination: raisin bread universe

great

A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
Beowulf - Seamus Heaney, Translator
Brunelleschi's Dome - Ross King
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Cosmicomics - Italo Calvino
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues - Tom Robbins
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
Harry Potter (series) - J.K. Rowling
How Green Was My Valley - Richard LLewellyn
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
John Adams - David McCullough
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal - Christopher Moore
Neuromancer - William Gibson
On Writing - Stephen King
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin
Shibumi - Trevanian
Skinny Legs and All - Tom Robbins
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
Supplemento al Dizionario Italiano - Bruno Munari
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
The Heaven Tree Trilogy - Edith Pargeter
The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell
The Hotel New Hampshire - John Irving
The Magicians - Lev Grossman
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
The White Company and Sir Nigel - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Trinity - Leon Uris

good

Bacchus & Me - Jay McInerney
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays - Stephen Hawking
Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
Dune - Frank Herbert
Emil and the Detectives - Erick Kästner
His Dark Materials series - Philip Pullman
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked - Catherine Orenstein
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugines
Redwall - Brian Jacques
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
The Best of Dr. Thorndyke Detective Stories - R. Austin Freeman
The Fionavar Tapestry (trilogy) - Guy Gavriel Kay
The Frog King - Adam Davies
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Inflationary Universe - Alan Guth
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
Watchmen - Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons

notes and scribbles

Will recommends Parker Novels by Richard Stark Natalie sez:
All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr

A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction, by Terry Pratchett

Fifteen Dogs, by Andre Alexis

Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike 3) by Robert Galbraith

Somerville Reads 2015: The Martian by Andy Weir
I've got to check this one out: The Library Beyond the Book,
by Jeffrey T. Schnapp
Mike. B recommends The Mother Tongue - English and How it Got that Way, by Bill Bryson.
Lexicon, by Max Barry Recommended by Raych Krueger
Somerville Reads book for 2013: The Art Forger, by B.A. Shapiro
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson recommended by Kendra
The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit, by JJ Lee looks interesting!
-New Finnish Grammar, by Diego Marani recommended by Simon Quicke
-Low & Slow: Master the Art of Barbecue in 5 Easy Lessons, by Gary Wivott recommended to me. Mmmm...
-At Home, by Bill Bryson recommended by rbobbydray
-ii gets its 10,000th hit on Christmas! Merry Christmas everyone.
-Building a Better Data Repository blog post by Cameron Neylon. Its about shared data for scientists, but thats what the web started out as. Scale up for libraries/public?
-Bill Gouveia's column in The Sun Chronicle: Library more than building and books
- The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey recommended to me.
- The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers and The Dog Stars by Peter Heller, recommended to me by Mitch.