Scotts Short List
Number DateRead Title Author Rate
262 7/10/02 Chronliths, The Wilson, Robert Charles 8.25
261 6/24/02 Galveston Stewart, Sean 8.00
260 6/18/02 Revelation Space Reynolds, Alastair 9.25
259 6/12/02 Darwin's Radio Bear, Greg 7.00
258 5/12/02 Time Ships, The Baxter, Stephen 9.00
257 5/2/02 Shards of a Broken Crown (Volume IV of the Serpentwar Saga) Feist, Raymond E. 6.50
256 4/1/02 Algernon, Flowers For Keyes, Daniel 8.50
255 3/25/02 Year's Best SF 5 (All New Amazing Stories) Hartwell, David G. (Ed.) 8.75
254 3/7/02 Nineteen Eighty-Four Orwell, George 9.25
253 2/28/02 Rage of a Demon King (Volume III of the Serpentwar Saga) Feist, Raymond E. 6.50
252 2/21/02 Rise of a Merchant Prince (Book Two of the Serpentwar Saga) Feist, Raymond E. 6.75
251 2/14/02 Shadow of a Dark Queen (Book One of the Serpentwar Saga) Feist, Raymond E. 7.00
250 1/18/02 Brave New World Huxley, Aldous 8.50
249 1/3/02 Ape and Essence: A Novel Huxley, Aldous 6.50
248 11/30/01 He, She and It Piercy, Marge 6.75
247 11/19/01 Communitas Goodman, Percival and Paul 6.00
246 11/12/01 Jazz Morrison, Toni 8.75
245 11/5/01 Harry Potter and Goblet of Fire Rowling, J.K. 9.00
244 10/28/01 Cambridge Phillips, Caryl 7.50
243 10/26/01 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Rowling, J.K. 8.75
242 10/21/01 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Rowling, J.K. 8.75
241 10/19/01 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Rowling, J.K. 9.00
239 10/14/01 War for the Oaks Bull, Emma 9.00
240 10/14/01 Two Girls, Fat and Thin Gaitskill, Mary 5.25
238 10/1/01 Year's Best SF 6 (All New Astonishing Stories) Hartwell, David G. (Ed.) 8.75
237 10/1/01 Giovanni's Room Baldwin, James 8.25
236 9/24/01 Tale of Two Cites, A Dickens, Charles 7.75
235 9/9/01 Wars of the Roses, The (through the lives of five men and women of the fifteenth century) Seward, Desmond 8.00
234 9/6/01 Great Australian Urban Myths: Revised Edition (The Cane Toad High) Seal, Graham 4.00
233 9/2/01 Balsamic Dreams: A Short but Self-Important History of the Baby Boomer Generation Queenan, Joe 8.50
230 8/20/01 Hinge Factor, The Durschmied, Erik 5.00
229 8/18/01 Perdido Street Station Mieville, China 9.25
228 8/15/01 Inversions Banks, Iain M. 7.25
231 8/12/01 Complete Book of Long-Distance Cycling, The Burke, Edmund R. (Ph.D.) and Ed Pavelka 9.50
232 7/28/01 American Gods, A Novel Gaiman, Neil 8.50
227 7/3/01 Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon Queenan, Joe 8.50
226 6/10/01 Skyroad, The MacLeod, Ken 7.75
225 6/2/01 Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West Maguire, Gregory 8.00
224 5/26/01 Hundred Years War (The): The English in France 1337-1453 Seward, Desmond 8.50
223 5/18/01 Souls in the Great Machine McMullen, Sean 8.00
221 5/11/01 Cryptonomicon Stephenson, Neal 9.25
222 5/1/01 Distributed Applications with Visual Interdev 6.0: for Exam 70-152 Microsoft 1.00
220 4/24/01 Moonseed (Biohazard, Moonseed) Baxter, Stephen 6.25
219 4/8/01 Storm of Swords, A Martin, George R.R. 7.75
218 4/1/01 Body Bazaar: the Market for Human Tissue in the Biotechnology Age Andrews, Lori and Dorothy Nelkin 6.00
217 3/26/01 Stone Canal, The MacLeod, Ken 7.00
216 3/17/01 Celestial Matters Garfinkle, Richard 8.25
213 3/12/01 Eternal Footman, The Morrow, James 8.00
214 2/14/01 Only Begotten Daughter Morrow, James 8.50
212 2/1/01 Necroscope: Invaders Lumley, Brian 5.00
215 1/14/01 Clash of Kings, A Martin, Geroge R.R. 8.00
210 1/1/01 Dune: House Atreides Herbert, Brian and Kevin J. Anderson 1.50
209 12/1/00 It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life Armstrong, Lance (w/Sally Jenkins) 8.00
208 8/20/00 Cassini Division, The MacLeod, Ken 8.50
205 8/5/00 Tangle Box, The Brooks, Terry 6.00
206 8/1/00 Final Truth: the Autobiography of a Serial Killer Gaskins, Donald & Wilton Earle 8.00
207 5/15/00 Snowcrash Stephenson, Neal 8.50
204 3/22/00 Deepness in the Sky, A Vinge, Vernor 7.50
203 3/1/00 Archangel Harris, Robert 7.50
202 2/1/00 Stardust Gaiman, Neil 8.00
201 1/3/00 River of Blue Fire: Otherland Volume Two Williams, Tad 7.50
200 12/19/99 Bag of Bones King, Stephen 8.00
199 12/1/99 Death in Yellowstone: Accidents & Foolhardiness in the First National Park Whittlesey, Lee H. 8.50
198 11/18/99 Game of Thrones, A Martin, George R.R. 8.50
197 11/1/99 Darwinia Wilson, Robert Charles 8.50
196 10/1/99 Feersum Endjinn Banks, Iain M. 7.50
195 9/1/99 Necroscope: the Lost Years Lumley, Brian 7.00
194 8/1/99 Cthulu 2000: A Lovecraftian Anthology Turner, Jim (ed.) 7.00
193 7/1/99 To Your Scattered Bodies Go: Book 1 of Riverworld Farmer, Philip Jose' 7.50
192 6/1/99 Glensheen's Daughter: The Marjorie Congdon Story Darby Hendry, Sharon 8.00
191 5/31/99 Excession Banks, Iain M. 8.50
190 5/22/99 Fire Upon the Deep, A (Hugo Award) Vinge, Vernor 9.00
189 5/15/99 Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions… Cringely, Robert X. 8.50
188 5/8/99 Shadows of the Empire (Star Wars) Perry, Steve 5.50
187 5/1/99 Instance of the Fingerpost, An Pears, Iain 9.50
186 4/11/99 Chronicles of the Celts Zaczek, Iain 8.00
185 4/2/99 Memoirs of a Geisha Golden, Arthur 8.00
184 2/2/99 Biggest Elvis Kluge, P.F. 8.50
183 12/14/98 This is the Way the World Ends Morrow, James 7.00
182 12/1/98 Neverwhere Gaiman, Neil 8.50
181 10/14/98 Autobiography of My Mother, The Kincaid, Jamaica 4.00
180 9/19/98 Cider House Rules, The Irving, John 8.50
179 9/7/98 Mistress of the Empire Wurts, Janny & Raymond Feist 7.00
177 8/16/98 Servant of the Empire Wurts, Janny & Raymond Feist 8.00
176 8/9/98 Daughter of the Empire Wurts, Janny & Raymond Feist 7.50
175 7/30/98 Reliquary Preston, Douglas & Lincoln Child 5.00
174 7/27/98 Legacy of Heorot, The Niven, Larry & Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes 7.50
173 7/20/98 Children of the Mind Card, Orson Scott 5.50
178 7/16/98 Visual Basic 5 Certification Exam Guide (bootcamp) Merzick, Dan & Scot Hillier 8.00
172 7/13/98 Angel of Darkness, The Carr, Caleb 8.50
171 5/26/98 Xenocide Card, Orson Scott 6.00
170 4/26/98 Wizard and Glass: The Dark Tower IV King, Stephen 7.50
166 4/11/98 Endymion Simmons, Dan 8.00
167 4/4/98 Out of the Silent Planet Lewis, C.S. 8.00
165 3/2/98 The Stars My Destination Bester, Alfred 7.00
164 2/13/98 The Night in Question Wolff, Tobias 5.00
163 2/3/98 Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance Sutin, Jack and Rochelle (Ed. Lawrence Sutin) 9.00
168 2/1/98 Otherland Williams, Tad 8.00
162 1/17/98 Blameless in Abaddon Morrow, James 7.00
161 12/24/97 The Postman Brin, David 4.00
169 12/1/97 HTML: The Definitive Guide Musciano, Chuck & Bill Kennedy 5.00
160 10/25/97 The Dilbert Future: Thriving on Stupidity in the 21st Century Adams, Scott 8.00
156 9/13/97 Hyperion Cantos (Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion) Simmons, Dan 7.50
155 7/8/97 Desparation King, Stephen 7.00
154 7/4/97 Geek Love Dunn, Katherine 8.00
153 7/1/97 Morbid Taste for Bones, A Peters, Ellis 7.00
146 6/6/97 Starship Troopers Heinlein, Robert A. 7.00
147 5/15/97 Deathbird Stories Ellison, Harlan 7.00
152 4/12/97 Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition Yates, Frances A. 8.00
151 4/5/97 Book of Lies, The Crowley, Aleister 5.00
149 3/29/97 Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Blake, William 5.00
150 3/29/97 Doctor Faustus (& The History of the Damnable Life & Deserved Death of Dr. John Faustus) Marlowe, Christopher 8.00
148 3/22/97 Psychology & Alchemy Jung, CG (tran. by RFC Hull) 6.00
145 3/15/97 Mystical Qabalah, The Fortune, Dion 8.00
140 3/5/97 Belgarath the Sorcerer Eddings, David & Leigh 7.00
141 2/25/97 Foreigner Cherryh, C.J. 8.00
142 2/22/97 Scivias Hildegard of Bingen 7.00
144 2/15/97 Theogony Hesiod 7.00
143 2/15/97 Timaeus and Critias Plato 7.00
139 1/27/97 Shadow's End Tepper, Sheri S. 7.00
138 1/25/97 In the Lake of the Woods O'Brien, Tim 9.00
137 1/22/97 Beowulf's Children Niven, Larry, Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes 7.00
136 1/18/97 Sustaining the Illusion: An Empirical Study of Adult Bulletin Boards in St. Paul/Mpls Dunker, Marcia L. (unpublished MALS thesis, Hamline University) 5.00
135 12/29/96 Dilbert Principle, The: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Mgmt Fads, etc. Adams, Scott 8.00
134 12/28/96 Bean Trees, The Kingsolver, Barbara 8.00
133 12/15/96 Eternal Champion, The Moorcock, Michael 7.00
132 12/6/96 Germany's New Right Heilbrunn, Jacob 7.00
131 12/6/96 Defense in an Age of Hope Perry, William J. 8.00
126 12/4/96 Can We Still Afford to Be a Nation of Immigrants? Kennedy, David M. 7.00
130 12/4/96 West Unique, Not Universal, The Huntington, Samuel P. 6.00
125 12/4/96 America: Who Stole the Dream Barlett, Donald L. & James B. Steele 6.00
128 12/4/96 Immigration Wars, The Laws, Bart 7.00
129 12/4/96 New Economics of Immigration, The Borjas, George J. 7.00
127 12/4/96 Ethnic Myth, The: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in America Steinberg, Stephen 8.00
124 11/21/96 Race Rebels: Culture, Politics and the Black Working Class Kelley, Robin D.G. 8.00
123 11/18/96 Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, The: And Other Clinical Tales Sacks, Oliver 8.00
122 11/14/96 Regulators, The Bachman, Richard (penname for Stephen King) 7.00
121 10/28/96 Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 Cohen, Lizabeth 7.00
120 10/25/96 Elements of Style, from Parks, Suzan-Lori 7.00
119 10/25/96 Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture & Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 Sanchez, George J. 7.00
118 10/25/96 America Play, The Parks, Suzan-Lori 8.00
117 10/20/96 Earth Brin, David 7.00
116 10/13/96 Genetic Soldier Turner, George 5.00
115 10/9/96 Out of This Furnace Bell, Thomas 7.00
114 10/2/96 Strangers from a Different Shore Takaki, Ronald 8.00
113 10/1/96 Whoever Fights Monsters Ressler, Robert H. and Tom Shachtman 8.00
112 9/30/96 Fugitive From the Cubicle Police: A Dilbert Book Adams, Scott 9.00
111 9/21/96 Treason Card, Orson Scott 7.00
110 9/19/96 Erin's Daughters in America Diner, Hasia R. 7.00
109 9/14/96 Lost World, The Crichton, Michael 8.00
108 9/13/96 Transplanted, The: A History of Immigrants in Urban America Bodnar, John 7.00
107 8/22/96 Relic, The Preston, Douglas adn Lincoln Child 7.00
106 8/22/96 New Complete Joy of Homebrewing, The Papazian, Charlie 8.00
105 8/21/96 Six Messiahs, The Frost, Mark 2.00
104 8/15/96 Home Brewmaking: The Complete Beginner's Guidebook Moore, William 7.00
103 8/12/96 Chaos and Order: The Gap Into Madness Donaldson, Stephen R. 8.00
102 8/1/96 Mindhunter Douglas, John and Mark Olshaker 8.00
101 7/30/96 Dark and Hungry God Arises, A: The Gap Into Power Donaldson, Stephen R. 8.00
100 7/22/96 Forbidden Knowledge: The Gap Into Vision Donaldson, Stephen R. 7.00
99 7/15/96 Aristoi Williams, Walter Jo 7.00
98 6/20/96 Things They Carried, The O'Brien, Tim 9.00
97 6/16/96 SeinLanguage Seinfeld, Jerry 6.00
96 6/16/96 Divine Comedy, The: Purgatorio Dante Allegheri (tran. by John D. Sinclair) 7.00
95 6/13/96 Good Omens Gaiman, Neil and Terry Pratchett 7.00
94 6/8/96 Heritage Universe, The (Summertide, Divergence, Transcendence) Sheffield, Charles 7.00
93 5/21/96 Sundiver Brin, David 6.00
92 5/18/96 Earthclan: Startide Rising and The Uplift War Brin, David 8.00
91 4/30/96 Aeneid, The Virgil (trans. by W.F. Jackson Knight) 8.00
90 4/15/96 Doomsday Book Willis, Connie 9.00
89 3/8/96 Divine Comedy, The: Inferno Dante Allegheri (tran. by John D. Sinclair) 8.00
88 3/1/96 Odyssey, The Homer (trans. by Robert Fitzgerald) 8.00
87 2/23/96 Job Unknown (Moses?) 6.00
86 2/19/96 Emergency! Browmn, Mark, M.D. 7.00
85 2/12/96 Zap Gun, The Dick, Philip K. 7.00
84 2/9/96 Odyssey, The Homer (trans. by Robert Fitzgerald) 8.00
83 1/30/96 Book of Iod, The (The Eater of Souls & Other Tales) Price, Robert M. (editor) (Henry Kuttner) 6.00
82 1/29/96 Tales of the White Wolf Kramer, Edward E. & Richard Gilliam, Editors (Moorcock, Michael) 6.00
81 1/19/96 War for the Oaks Bull, Emma 8.00
80 12/18/95 Towing Jehovah Morrow, James 8.00
79 12/16/95 Man in the High Castle, The Dick, Philip K. 8.00
78 12/15/95 Mysteries of the Worm Price, Robert M. (editor) (Bloch, Robert) 6.00
77 12/1/95 Hastur Cycle, The Price, Robert M. (editor) 6.00
76 11/1/95 Grand Inquisitor, The Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 9.00
75 10/21/95 Middle Ages, The Bishop, Morris 9.00
74 10/14/95 Bloodwars Lumley, Brian 6.00
73 10/10/95 Diamond Age, The Stephenson, Neal 7.00
72 9/29/95 Creation of Feminist Consciousness, The Lerner, Gerda 7.00
71 9/28/95 Three Stigmata of Palmer Aldrich, The Dick, Philip K. 7.00
70 9/7/95 Debt of Honor Clancy, Tom 6.00
69 8/19/95 Chronicles of Corum, The Moorcock, Michael 8.00
68 8/16/95 Swords Trilogy, The (King, Queen, Knight) Moorcock, Michael 9.00
67 8/12/95 Alienist, The Carr, Caleb 8.00
66 7/24/95 Popcorn Report, The: The Future of Your Co., World, Life Popcorn, Faith 1.00
65 7/20/95 Creating A New Civilization: The Politics of the Third Wave Toffler, Alvin and Heidi (forward by Newt Gingrich) 7.00
64 7/17/95 Left Hand of Darkness, The LeGuin, Ursula K. 7.00
63 7/15/95 Hot Zone, The Preston, Richard 8.00
62 7/13/95 Ubik Dick, Philip K. 8.00
61 7/10/95 Brave New World Huxley, Aldous 7.00
60 7/5/95 Shipping News, The Proulx, E. Annie 10.00
59 7/3/95 We Zamyatin, Yevgeny 7.00
58 6/29/95 Communist Manifesto, The Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels 6.00
57 6/26/95 Utopia More, Sir Saint Thomas 9.00
56 6/22/95 Republic, The Plato 8.00
55 6/9/95 Ring of Swords Arnason, Eleanor 8.00
54 6/5/95 Finder Bull, Emma 7.00
53 5/11/95 Prose Reader, The: Essays for Thinking, Reading & Writing Flachmann, Michael and Kim 6.00
52 5/7/95 Congo Crichton, Michael 7.00
51 5/4/95 Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace Williams, Joseph M. 8.00
50 5/3/95 Tales of the Dervishes: Teaching Stories of the Sufi Masters Shah, Idries 5.00
49 4/22/95 Bone Dance Bull, Emma 7.00
48 4/19/95 Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Chang, Jung 9.00
47 4/9/95 Pendragon Lawhead, Stephen R. 7.00
46 4/1/95 Writing for Business Wilbers, Stephen 7.00
45 3/10/95 Vampires Steakley, John 2.00
44 2/28/95 Arthur Lawhead, Stephen R. 7.00
43 1/27/95 Merlin Lawhead, Stephen R. 7.00
42 1/20/95 Taliesen Lawhead, Stephen R. 7.00
41 1/14/95 Grails: The Quest of the Dawn Gillam, Richard (ed.), et. al. 7.00
40 12/21/94 Druids Llywelyn, Morgan 8.00
39 12/2/94 Consider Phlebas Banks, Iain M. 8.00
38 11/19/94 Reenchantment of Art, The Gablik, Suzi 6.00
37 11/12/94 October 70 (magazine) Various 6.00
36 11/12/94 America Baudrillard, Jean 2.00
35 10/26/94 Sum of All Fears, The Clancy, Tom 7.00
34 10/18/94 Ficciones Borges, Jorge Luis 8.00
33 10/16/94 Without Remorse Clancy, Tom 7.00
32 10/14/94 Sexual Personae Paglia, Camille 3.00
31 10/7/94 Quantum Reality Herbert, Nick 7.00
30 10/4/94 Last Aerie, The Lumley, Brian 5.00
29 10/1/94 Christian & Oriental Philosophy of Art Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. 6.00
28 9/26/94 Anno-Dracula Newman, Kim 4.00
27 9/24/94 Multimind: A New Way of Looking at Human Behavior Ornstein, Robert 5.00
26 9/22/94 List of 7, The Frost, Mark 9.00
25 9/16/94 Ways of Seeing Berger, John 8.00
24 8/31/94 Snow White, Blood Red Datlow, Ellen & Terri Windling, Editors 4.00
23 8/15/94 Worldwar: In the Balance Turtledove, Harry 2.00
22 7/27/94 Golden, The Shepard, Lucius 2.00
21 7/25/94 Faerie Tale Feist, Raymond E. 5.00
20 7/23/94 Real Story, The Donaldson, Stephen R. 3.00
19 7/11/94 Darkness at Sethanon, A Feist, Raymond E. 8.00
18 7/9/94 Silverthorn Feist, Raymond E. 8.00
17 7/7/94 Magician: Master Feist, Raymond E. 8.00
16 7/5/94 Magician: Apprentice Feist, Raymond E. 8.00
15 7/3/94 Armor Steakley, John 10.00
14 6/24/94 Speaker for the Dead Card, Orson Scott 7.00
13 6/19/94 Ender's Game Card, Orson Scott 8.00
12 6/16/94 Use of Weapons Banks, Iain M. 9.00
11 6/12/94 Against a Dark Background Banks, Iain M. 8.00
10 6/4/94 Nightmares and Dreamscapes King, Stephen 3.00
9 5/30/94 Hobbit, The Tolkein, J.R.R. 8.00
8 5/21/94 Breakfast of Champions Vonnegut, Kurt 7.00
7 5/6/94 Escape From Management Hell Gilbreath, Robert D. 7.00
6 3/20/94 Elementals, The Llywelyn, Morgan 6.00
5 3/16/94 Shudder Again Ed. by Michelle Slung (various authors) 3.00
4 3/9/94 Gripping Hand, The Niven, Larry and Jerry Pournelle 7.00
3 3/5/94 Talismans of Shannara, The Brooks, Terry 3.00
2 3/1/94 Forlorn Hope, The Drake, David 1.00
1 2/25/94 Mote in God's Eye, The Niven, Larry and Jerry Pournelle 8.00