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In the spririt of MovieCollection - private collections willingly loaned (pardon the audacity in creating this, perhaps another format would help I do not know) ---- EastLibrary ! :) ---- Other Book Collections, possibly for loan, listed Elsewhere: *EvilSouthiesGoodBooks *STanBookNotes <i>(I would update this page with the full list of books I own, but I'm kind of not at Mudd to check.)</i> *[[ChrisErickson]]'s books are on [[ChrisErickson/Collections | this]] page. ---- AdamSkalenakis (Linde 144, SuiteVengeance) Books very in condition from good to very bad, but all are readable) *Eddings, David - The Redemption of Athalus *Rand, Ayn - Atlas Shrugged* *Machiavelli - The Prince *Foucalt, Michel - Madness and Civilization *Chrichton, Michael - Sphere *Craven, Wes - Fountain Society *Faulkner - As I Lay Dying *Hesse - Siddhartha *Dunn, Katherine - Geek Love *King, Stephen - Skeleton Crew (I put it on the frosh reading list)* *Adams, Douglas - The Salmon Of Doubt *Crichton, Michael - Eaters of the Dead *Kesey, Ken - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest* *Bradbury, Ray - From the Dust Returned *Heinlen, Robert - Starship Troopers *Adams, Douglas - The COMPLETE Hitchhikers Guide* *King, Stephen - IT *Asimov, Isaac - The Gods Themselves *Gibson, William - Neuromancer *Gibson, William - Count Zero *Stephenson, Neal - Cryptonomicon *Stephenson, Neal - Snow Crash* *Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness *Harris, Thomas - Silence of the Lambs *Harris, Thomas - Red Dragon *Stoppard, Tom - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead* *Dick, Phillip - Eye in the Sky* *Rand, Ayn - Anthem* *Shaffer, Peter - Equus *Adams, Douglas - Long, Dark, Tea Time of the Soul* *Burgess - Clockwork Orange *Fitzgerald, F Scott - The Great Gatsby *Dante - Inferno *Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein *Eddings, David - Belgarath the Sorcerer* *Heaney, Seamus (trans)- Beowulf *Bradbury, Ray - Martian Chronicles *Dostoevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment *Harris, Thomas - Black Sunday *Anthony, Patricia - God's Fires *Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World *Wells, H G - The War of the Worlds *O'Connor, Flannery - The Violent Bear It Away *Koontz, Dean - Phantoms * - Grendel* (* - Highly Reccomended) ---- AdamField's collection (of books I brought to Mudd with me, no way I'm listing all the books I own. This means all these are favorites, though many others not listed are favorites as well... oh, and East 175): Science Fiction: *Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card *Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card *Xenocide by Orson Scott Card *Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card *Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card *Pastwatch: the Redemption of Christopher Columbus by Orson Scott Card *The Adolescence of P-1 by Thomas J. Ryan *Zodiac by Neal Stephenson *Headcrash by Bruce Bethke *Spinneret by Timothy Zahn *The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov *Hyperion by Dan Simmons *The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons *Endymion by Dan Simmons Fantasy: *The Princess Bride by William Goldman *Assassins Apprentice by Robin Hobb *Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb *Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb *Storm Front by Jim Butcher *Fool Moon by Jim Butcher *Grave Peril by Jim Butcher *Summer Knight by Jim Butcher *Death Masks by Jim Butcher *The Neverending Story by Michael Ende Other fiction: *Dave Barry In Cyberspace *Dave Barry Slept Here *Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need *Ishmael by Daniel Quinn *The Wild Numbers by Philibert Schogt Nonfiction: *The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker *Words and Rules by Steven Pinker *How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker *The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker *Hackers by Steven Levy ----- '''Off-campus collections below this line''' ----- KatieLewis: * KLBooksAtHome * KLMathLibrarySubj KLMathLibraryAlph ------- Dude, this is a good idea. I'm always trying to get people to read my books. JessicaFisher's list of books for loan: Book books: * Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey * Kushiel's Chosen by Jacqueline Carey * Kushiel's Avatar by Jacqueline Carey * Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling * Stalking Darkness by Lynn Flewelling * Traitor's Moon by Lynn Flewelling * The Bone Doll's Twin by Lynn Flewelling ('donated to EastLibrary') * The Dark is Rising Sequence (all of it) by Susan Cooper * Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede * Searching for Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede * Shadows Over Lyra by Patricia C. Wrede * Sorcery and Cecilia by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer * The Seven Towers by Patricia C. Wrede * Caught in Crystal by Patricia C. Wrede * Snow White and Rose Red by Patricia C. Wrede * Briar Rose by Jane Yolen * Jack of Kinrowan by Charles DeLint * Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb * The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley * Assassin Fantastic! (short story collection, includes stuff by Lynn Flewelling, Tanya Huff, Fiona Patton, and more * Harry Potter -- books 1 through 5 * Spindle's End by Robin McKinley * The Fire's Stone by Tanya Huff Book books that I don't have at the moment but I might sometime soon: * The Last Herald-Mage trilogy by Mercedes Lackey * the Young Wizards series by Diane Duane Reference books: * the New Nelson Kanji Dictionary * Oxford Starter Japanese/English Dictionary * Essential Kanji Comic books (manga, US trade paperbacks, graphic novels -- please note that I'll kill you if you ruin these, so I reserve the right to ''not'' lend these to you if I don't trust you): * the first three Nightwing trade paperbacks * the first three books of Inu Yasha (in English) * the first two books of Evangelion (in English) * book 11 of Ranma 1/2 (in English) * a ginormous variety of manga ''in Japanese'' I also have a good sized collection of Japanese music magazines and anime artbooks. ---- MicahSmukler's books: Fiction: * Flatland, by Edwin A. Abbott * The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (all 5 books bound together), Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (bound together; on loan to AvaniGadani), by Douglas Adams * The Winds of Change, by Isaac Asimov (short stories) * The Folk of the Air, by Peter S. Beagle * Songs of Earth and Power, by Greg Bear * The House with the Clock in its Walls, by John Bellairs (the original source of the Ace of Nitwits) * The Dark Side of the Earth, by Alfred Bester * Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card (on loan to ClayHambrick) * So You Want To Be A Wizard, The Book of Night With Moon, by Diane Duane * Foucault's Pendulum, by Umberto Eco * Stardust, by Neil Gaiman * Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett * Soul of the Fire, by Terry Goodkind * The Menace from Earth, by Robert A. Heinlein (short stories) * Catch-22, by Joseph Heller * Expecting Someone Taller, by Tom Holt * Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assasin, Assassin's Quest, by Robin Hobb * The Eight Days of Luke, The Lives of Christopher Chant, The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones * A Path of Daggers, by Robert Jordan * The Wizard of Earthsea and The Dispossessed, by Ursula LeGuin * The Arabian Nights, trans. Husain Haddawy * Celtic Fairy Tales, coll. Joseph Jacobs * Lizard Music, Borgel, and The Magic Moscow, by Daniel Pinkwater * Maskerade, Wyrd Sisters, Reaper Man, Lords and Ladies, Feet of Clay, Small Gods, Soul Music by Terry Pratchett * The Nine Tailors, by Dorothy Sayers * The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book, Happy Birthday to You, The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss * The complete works of Shakespeare (Riverside edition) * Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash (on loan to LoriThomas, apparently), by Neil Stephenson. * The Lord of the Rings (possibly ''sans'' Fellowship), The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, and The Book of Lost Tales (both parts), by J.R.R. Tolkien * All 3.5 books of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, and the first three books of Otherland, by Tad Williams * The Illuminatus! Trilogy, by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea * The Schroedinger's Cat Trilogy, by Robert Anton Wilson Nonfiction: * Goedel, Escher, Bach, by Douglas Hofstadter (on loan to BrianRoney) * Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare, by some random guy who just won't go away * The World of Mathematics (four-volume bound set of articles) * Palindromes and Anagrams, by Howard Bergerson * Night, by Elie Wiesel * Magic Squares and Cubes, by W. S. Andrews * The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody, by Will Cuppy * A WWII-era book of mathematical tables (includes a fairly comprehensive integral table and some other useful stuff) * Charlie Dancey's Encyclopedia of Ball Juggling, by some other random guy * Charlie Dancey's Compendium of Club Juggling, by the same other random guy * Symphonies Nos. 8 and 9, Ludwig van Beethoven (score) * Symphony No. 4, Gustav Mahler (score) * The Firebird (original 1910 version), Igor Stravinsky (score) * The Catch Book, ed. Paul Hillier (complicated rounds from the 1600s) Poetry: * A collection of Stephen Crane poems * The Penguin Book of Limericks Textbooks: * The Gallian abstract algebra book (the one for the song) * The Dummit+Foote abstract algebra book (the one for the current incarnation of the class) (on loan to DanCicio) * Baby Rudin * Baby DoCarmo * Big DoCarmo * A Short Course in General Relativity, by Foster and Nightingale * Vector Calculus, by Colley? (the one from Oberlin that always gets used, but an older edition) * Representations and Characters of Groups, by James and Liebeck * Linear Algebra, by Lax (text for big linear) * Elements of Algebraic Topology, by Munkres * A point-set topology book by Mendelson? (the one from Dover that ProfessorSu wanted people who were learning topology over the summer to buy) * The discrete book * A number theory book (apparently the same one the Pomona number theory class uses?) * An NSA publication about number theory for cryptography * etc. ---- ArielBarton's books (all books listed available for loan): Fiction: *Flatland by Edwin A. Abott and Sphereland by Dionys Burger *Barrayar by Lois <nowiki>McMaster</nowiki> Bujold *Komarr *A Civil Campaign *Diplomatic Immunity *Falcon by Emma Bull *Bone Dance *The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs *Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll *Cyteen: The Betrayal by C. J. Cherryh *Cyteen: The Rebirth *Cyteen: The Vindication *The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper *Neuromancer by William Gibson *Archer's Goon by Diana Wynne Jones *A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Leguin *The Tombs of Atuan *The Farthest Shore *Tehanu *An Acceptable Time by Madeleine L'Engle *The Riddle-Master of Hed by Patricia A. <nowiki>McKillip</nowiki> *Heir of Sea and Fire *Harpist in the Wind *Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. Montgomery *Zodiac by Neil Stephenson *The Hobbit by J. R. R Tolkien *The Fellowship of the Ring *The Two Towers, currently on loan to SeemaPatel *The Return of the King *The Silmarillion *The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump by Harry Turtledove *Mairelon the Magician by Patricia C. Wrede Nonfiction: *Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th ed. *Crocheting in Plain English *Unit Origami by Tomoko Fuse *The Complete Book Of Origami by Robert J. Lang *Origami Inside-Out by John Montroll *Origami Sea Life by Lang and Montroll *Origami^3 (origami/math papers), edited by Thomas Hull *The Colossal book of Mathematics by Martin Gardner *Mathematical Magic Show *Coming of Age in the Milky Way by Timothy Ferris *QED by Richard Feynman *The Feynman Lectures on Physics Two boxes of books which I have used for classes in the past but am too lazy to list at this time. ---- DanCicio's books *1984 by George Orwell *An Altogether New Book of Top Ten Lists *America's Dumbest Criminals *Armor by John Steakley *Brain Droppings by George Carlin *Brave New World by Aldous Huxley *Choosing a Dog: Your Guide to Picking the Perfect Breed by Nancy Baer and Steve Duno *Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (borrowed from a friend from home) *Dirty Jokes and Beer: Stories of the Unrefined by Drew Carey *Driven to Distraction by Edward M. Hallowell *Guitar for Dummies *Hannibal by Thomas Harris *The Huge Book of Hell by Matt Groening *Hyperion by Dan Simmons *The Rants by Dennis Miller *Red Dragon by Thomas Harris *Ringworld by Larry Niven *Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris *Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson *Sphere by Michael Crichton Ender (all by Orson Scott Card) *Ender's Game *Speaker for the Dead *Xenocide *Children of the Mind *Ender's Shadow *Shadow of the Hegemon *Shadow Puppets Calvin and Hobbes (all by Bill Watterson) *The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes *The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book *The Days Are Just Packed *The Indispensible Calvin and Hobbes *It's a Magical World *The Revenge of the Baby Sat *Scientific Progress Goes Boink *There's Treasure Everywhere Dilbert (all by Scott Adams) *Dilbert Gives You the Business *The Dilbert Principle *Dilbert: A Treasury of Sunday Strips *Journey to Cubeville *Random Acts of Management Get Fuzzy (all by Darby Conley) *The Dog Is Not a Toy (House Rule #4) *Fuzzy Logic *The Get Fuzzy Experience Games *Bridge for Dummies *Great Short Games of the Chess Masters by Fred Reinfeld *Secrets of Pawn Endings by John Nunn *Winning Chess Strategies by Yassir Seirawan *Winning Chess Tactics by Yassir Seirawan I have a handful of textbooks, too, but I don't care enough to list them right now. ---- EdMiller's Books Books for entertainment, alpha by author. If a book has no author listed, then its author is the same as that of the book immediately above. *But What of Earth? by Piers Anthony *The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov *Foundation's Edge *Robots and Empire *The Naked Sun *The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi *Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury *Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card *Prentice Alvin *Songmaster *Ender's Game *The Memory of Earth *The Call of Earth *The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler *The Cardinal of the Kremlin by Tom Clancy *Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad *The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton *Great Cases of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle *Dragonslayer by Wayland Drew (on loan to Victoria Krafft) *Magician: Apprentice by Raymond E. Feist *Magician: Master *Prince of the Blood *Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett *My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George *On the Far Side of the Mountain *Red Dragon by Thomas Harris *The Silence of the Lambs *Hannibal *The Number of the Beast by Robert Anson Heinlein *Expanded Universe *Stranger in a Strange Land *The Moon is a Harsh Mistress *Catch-22 by Joseph Heller *James Herriot's Dog Stories by James Herriot *The Outsiders by S.E.Hinton *The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan *The Great Hunt *The Dragon Reborn *The Shadow Rising *The Fires of Heaven *Lord of Chaos *A Crown of Swords *The Path of Daggers *Winter's Heart *One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey *Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes *Saint Camber by Katherine Kurtz *The Harrowing of Gwynnedd *The Bishop's Heir *The King's Justice *The Adept: The Templar Treasure *Tales of the Knights Templar (multiple authors) *The Call of the Wild by Jack London *Phases by Elizabeth Moon *Sheepfarmer's Daugher *Divided Allegiance *Oath of Gold *Liar's Oath *Surrender None: The Legacy of Gird *Hunting Party *Sporting Chance *Winning Colors *Once a Hero *Change of Command *Against the Odds *Red Dwarf by Grant Niven *The Magic Touch by Jody Lynn Nye *The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett *Lords and Ladies *Small Gods *Men at Arms *The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman *The Golden Key by Melanie Rawn *Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls *The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice *The Queen of the Damned *The Tale of the Body Thief *Memnoch the Devil *Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling *Contact by Carl Sagan *The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson *The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams *Stone of Farewell *To Green Angel Tower: Part I *To Green Angel Tower: Part II *If at Faust You Don't Succeed by Roger Zelazny and Robert Sheckley That's enough. I'm not going to bother listing the nonfiction/philosophy/actual useful stuff.
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