I don’t really write book reviews any more, for a number of reasons. Reviews of speculative fiction books are in bold.

• Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis
• Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
• The Visionary State by Erik Davis, with photographs by Michael Rauner
• Fragile Things, by Neil Gaiman
• Wayfarer’s Dawn, by Nate Llerandi
• Fortunate Son, by Walter Mosley
• Black Hole, by Charles Burns
• The Game, by Neil Strauss
• Europe Central, by William T Vollmann
• Eating the Flowers of Paradise, by Kevin Rushby
• What the Dormouse Said, by John Markoff
• Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman
• The Traveler, by John Twelve Hawks
• A History of the World in 6 Glasses, by Tom Standage
• On Bullshit, by Harry G. Frankfurt
• The Long Emergency, by James Howard Kunstler
• Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, by Lester Bangs
• The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown
• Led Zeppelin IV, by Erik Davis
• DisneyWar, by James B. Stewart
• The Ancestor’s Tale, by Richard Dawkins
• Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
• Eyeing the Flash, by Peter Fenton
• He’s Just Not That Into You, by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo
• The Opposite of Fate, by Amy Tan
• The Darling, by Russell Banks
• The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, Volume 3), by Neal Stephenson
• The River at the Center of the World, by Simon Winchester
• Things Worth Fighting For, by Michael Kelly
• Eastern Standard Tribe, by Cory Doctorow
• The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Volume 2), by Neal Stephenson
• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Volume 1), by Neal Stephenson
• Under the Banner of Heaven, by Jon Krakauer
• Falling Out of Cars, by Jeff Noon
• Over the Edge of the World, by Laurence Bergreen
• Sandman: Endless Nights, by Neil Gaiman
• A Forest of Stars, by Kevin J. Anderson
• Open Source E-mail Security, by Richard Blum
• Maximum Linux Security, by Anonymous (with revisions by John Ray)
• Linux Routers: A Primer For Network Administrators, by Tony Mancill
• The Hacker Ethic, by Pekka Himanen
• The Practice of System and Network Administration, by Thomas A. Limoncelli and Christine Hogan