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David Macaulay: Castle (1977, Houghton Mifflin)
Castle by David Macaulay
Text and detailed drawings follow the planning and construction of a "typical" castle and adjoining town in thirteenth-century Wales.
reconbot rated The Win Without Pitching Manifesto: 3 stars
reconbot rated Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter: 2 stars

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, #1)
Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at …
reconbot rated Half Way Home: 3 stars
reconbot rated Kafka on the Shore: 4 stars
reconbot rated Slaughterhouse-five, Or, The Children's Crusade: 5 stars

Slaughterhouse-five, Or, The Children's Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five, also known as The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is a science fiction infused anti-war novel by Kurt …
reconbot rated Welcome to the monkey house: 4 stars

Welcome to the monkey house by Kurt Vonnegut
A collection of twenty-five short works by the American author written between 1950 and 1968 and originally printed in a …
reconbot rated The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress: 4 stars

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
It is the late 21st Century and the Moon has been colonized -- as a giant, open, prison. Every aspect …

Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
When a catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb, it triggers a feverish race against the inevitable. An …

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
1Q84 (いちきゅうはちよん, Ichi-Kyū-Hachi-Yon, stylized in the Japanese cover as "ichi-kew-hachi-yon") is a novel written by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, first …
reconbot rated Cryptonomicon, tome 2 : 4 stars
reconbot rated The Diamond Age: 4 stars

The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson (A Bantam spectra book)
The story of an engineer who creates a device to raise a girl capable of thinking for herself reveals what …

Reamde by Neal Stephenson
Reamde is a technothriller novel by Neal Stephenson, published in 2011. The story, set in the present day, centers on …

Neal Stephenson: The Big U (2001, Perennial)
The Big U by Neal Stephenson
The New York Times Book Review called Neal Stephenson's most recent novel "electrifying" and "hilarious"...but if you want to know …



