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The Book Queue
I recently mentioned that I'm working my way through a backlog of book purchases. This is actually somewhat unusual for me. I've always had a long list of books I wanted to read, but I usually only had a few unread books waiting on my shelf. But lately, I've been building up a large library of books I haven't read. Sitting on my shelf right now:

• Conquerors' Legacy by Timothy Zahn
• Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
• Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
• Diaspora by Greg Egan
• The City and the Stars by Arthur C Clarke
• Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War by Robert Coram
• How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
• Game Boys: Professional Videogaming's Rise from the Basement to the Big Time by Michael Kane
• Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization by John Robb
• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter

Don't you just love how non-fiction almost always has a long, descriptive subhead? The only one that doesn't in this list is How We Decide, and that's perhaps because Lehrer chose a self-explanatory title. The others have fluffy titles that need some sort of explanation. Except Boyd. That's a biography of a guy named John Boyd. But I suppose he's more exciting when you know that he's a "Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War". Then again, GEB has a subhead that's more mysterious than the title. So I'm just babbling now and should probably stop (and then read these books). Interestingly, I thought I had more books to put on this list, but I've made relatively good progress the last few months...

This post is part of the Kaedrin Weblog. It's been categorized under Arts & Letters and was originally published in May 2010.

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