(as if lists can read):

• Pipe: the Art and Lore of a Great Tradition, by Robin Crole
• An Optimist’s Tour of the Future: One Curious Man Sets Out to Answer “What’s Next?”, by Mark Stevenson
• A Death in the Family, by James Agee
• The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul, by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett
• The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible, by A. J. Jacobs
• Leaving Eden, by Anne D. LeClaire
• A Wonderment of Mountains, the Great Smokies, by Carson Brewer
• The Varieties of Religious Experiences, by William James
• The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene
• The Gift of Fear and Other Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence, by Gavin de Becker
• The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier, by Bruce Sterling
• Belkin Wireless Cable/DSL Gateway Router firmware “upgrade”