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| The Abolitionists | Merton L. Dillon | 1974; 298 pages | 8 | Buy it! |
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| Alec: How to be an artist | Eddie Campbell | 2001; 128 pages | 6 | Buy it! |
| All Too Human | George Stephanopoulos | 1999; 456 pages | 7 | Buy it! |
| American Rhapsody | Joe Eszterhas | 2000; 432 pages | 3 | Buy it! |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell | 1945; 144 pages | 9 | Buy it! |
| Ask the Dust | John Fante | 1939; 165 pages | 6 | Buy it! |
| The Berlin Stories | Christopher Isherwood | 1935; 207 pages | 8 | Buy it! |
| Better Than Sex | Hunter S. Thompson | 1994; 272 pages | 5 | Buy it! |
| Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News | Bernard Goldberg | 2003; 238 pages | 6 | Buy it! |
| Blackout | Matt Ward | 2001; 328 pages | 6 | Buy it! |
| The Blog of War | 2006; 291 pages | 8 | Buy it! | |
| The Blowtop | Alvin Schwartz | 2001; 240 pages | 6 | Buy it! |
| Bordersnakes | James Crumley | 1996; 320 pages | 6 | Buy it! |
| Boss | Mike Royko | 1971; 215 pages | 8 | Buy it! |
| Copyright for Filmmakers | Keith Aoki | 2006; 76 pages | 6 | Buy it! |
| Cannabis Britannica | James H. Mills | 2003; 239 pages | 7 | Buy it! |
| Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday | John Steinbeck | 1945; 196 pages | 7 | Buy it! |
| A Canticle for Leibowitz | Walter M. Miller, Jr. | 1959; 368 pages | 10 | Buy it! |
| The Cartoon History of the Universe | Larry Gonick | 1997; 368 pages | 8 | Buy it! |
| The Cyberiad | Stanislaw Lem | 1974; 312 pages | 8 | Buy it! |
| The Desert Peach | Donna Barr | 1987; 234 pages | 7 | Buy it! |
| Doonesbury | G. B. Trudeau | 1975; 336 pages | 5 | Buy it! |
| Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 1972 | Hunter S. Thompson | 1973; 512 pages | 7 | Buy it! |
| Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Hunter S. Thompson | 1971; 224 pages | 9 | Buy it! |
| Fevre Dream | George R. R. Martin | 1982; 461 pages | 8 | Buy it! |
| Fit to Print: A.M. Rosenthal and His Times | 1988; 486 pages | 6 | Buy it! | |
| The Futurological Congress | Stanislaw Lem | 1974; 149 pages | 8 | Buy it! |
| The Gay Militants | Donn Teal | 1971; 355 pages | 8 | Buy it! |
| Generation of Swine | Hunter S. Thompson | 1989; 336 pages | 5 | Buy it! |
| The Gods Themselves | Isaac Asimov | 1972; 288 pages | 7 | Buy it! |
| Going Rogue: An American Life | 2009; 413 pages | 7 | Buy it! | |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1925; 180 pages | 6 | Buy it! |
| The Great Illusion: An Informal History of Prohibition | Herbert Asbury | 1950; 330 pages | 7 | Buy it! |
| The Great Shark Hunt | Hunter S. Thompson | 1979; 624 pages | 6 | Buy it! |
| Hell’s Angels | Hunter S. Thompson | 1967; 288 pages | 7 | Buy it! |
| The Heretic | Jason K. Chapman | 2000; 212 pages | 5 | Buy it! |
| The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | 1984; 832 pages | 7 | Buy it! |
| Hitler’s Last Courier | Armin D. Lehmann | 2001; 536 pages | 5 | Buy it! |
| Idiots, Imbeciles, and Morons | John Karrer | 2000; 556 pages | 8 | Buy it! |
| Fighting for the American Dream | Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher | 2009; 180 pages | 6 | Buy it! |
| Advice to Sarah Palin From the Know-It-Alls | 2010; 147 pages | 6 | Buy it! | |
| Superman: Last Son of Krypton | Elliot S! Maggin | 1978; 238 pages | 6 | Buy it! |
| The Legend of the Nightriders | 2005; 296 pages | 6 | Buy it! | |
| The Complete Lewis Carroll | Lewis Carroll | 1865; 384 pages | 7 | Buy it! |
| Mike Royko: A Life in Print | F. Richard Ciccone | 2001; 480 pages | 5 | Buy it! |
| The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings | J. R. R. Tolkien | 1955; 1,680 pages | 9 | Buy it! |
| Losing America | Senator Robert C. Byrd | 2004; 320 pages | 4 | Buy it! |
| M. Butterfly | David Henry Hwang | 1988; 100 pages | 8 | Buy it! |
| Memoirs Found in a Bathtub | Stanislaw Lem | 1973; 200 pages | 9 | Buy it! |
| Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | 1937; 107 pages | 8 | Buy it! |
| Mike Royko’s Opinions | Mike Royko | 1983; 320 pages | 6 | Buy it! |
| Mistress of Mistresses | E.R. Eddison | 1935; 393 pages | 6 | Buy it! |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 1961; 288 pages | 10 | Buy it! |
| Moonshadow | 1985; 464 pages | 6 | Buy it! | |
| Never Come Morning | Nelson Algren | 1942; 336 pages | 8 | Buy it! |
| New Grub Street | George Gissing | 1891; 576 pages | 8 | Buy it! |
| Ain’t Nobody’s Business If You Do | Peter McWilliams | 1993; 692 pages | 8 | Buy it! |
| This Is Not An Assault | David T. Hardy | 2001; 392 pages | 7 | Buy it! |
| Oddville! and Land of Nod | Jay Stephens | 2000; 88 pages | 7 | Buy it! |
| The Palace Guard | Dan Rather | 1974; | 6 | Buy it! |
| Peter Pan | J. M. Barrie | 1911; 176 pages | 8 | Buy it! |
| Possession: A Romance | A.S. Byatt | 1990; 555 pages | 7 | Buy it! |
| The Powers That Be | David Halberstam | 1979; 771 pages | 5 | Buy it! |
| Priming the Pump: How TRS-80 Enthusiasts Helped Spark the PC Revolution | 2007; 348 pages | 9 | Buy it! | |
| The Prince | Niccolò Machiavelli | 1532; 298 kilobytes | 5 | Buy it! |
| A Princess of Mars | Edgar Rice Burroughs | 1917; 148 pages | 6 | Buy it! |
| The Queen’s Gambit | Walter Tevis | 1983; 243 pages | 9 | Buy it! |
| The Civil War in Popular Culture | Jim Cullen | 1995; 254 pages | 6 | Buy it! |
| Sartoris | William Faulkner | 1929; 380 pages | 6 | Buy it! |
| The Second Sex | Simone de Beauvoir | 1952; 800 pages | 8 | Buy it! |
| The Siege of Harlem | Warren Miller | 1964; 143 pages | 6 | Buy it! |
| Songs of the Doomed | Hunter S. Thompson | 1990; 384 pages | 5 | Buy it! |
| The Star Diaries | Stanislaw Lem | 1976; 288 pages | 6 | Buy it! |
| Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy | John Fund | 2008; 241 pages | 8 | Buy it! |
| Taking Heat | 2005; 381 pages | 7 | Buy it! | |
| Throw Them All Out | 2011; 224 pages | 8 | Buy it! | |
| Tortilla Flat | John Steinbeck | 1935; 174 pages | 6 | Buy it! |
| Understanding Comics | Scott McCloud | 1993; 215 pages | 5 | Buy it! |
| An Unlikely Prophet | Alvin Schwartz | 1997; 242 pages | 7 | Buy it! |
| Up the Walls of the World | James Tiptree, Jr. | 1978; 311 pages | 9 | Buy it! |
| Washington Goes to War | David Brinkley | 1988; 288 pages | 6 | Buy it! |
| The Way the Future Was | Frederik Pohl | 1979; 318 pages | 7 | Buy it! |
| Why I Hate Saturn | Kyle Baker | 1990; 204 pages | 7 | Buy it! |
| The Works of Oscar Wilde | Oscar Wilde | 1989; 1,216 pages | 6 | Buy it! |
| The World of Mike Royko | Doug Moe | 1999; 115 pages | 6 | Buy it! |
| The World of Pooh | A. A. Milne | 1926; 314 pages | 5 | Buy it! |
| The Worm Ouroboros | E.R. Eddison | 1922; 445 pages | 5 | Buy it! |
More review lists
- The Mimsy Top Twenty
- Of all the books I’ve reviewed, these are the ones I most recommend taking a look at. They’re lighthearted, serious, deep, scathing, and adventurous, not necessarily in the expected ways.
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- All postings and recent links from Jerry Stratton’s Mimsy Were the Borogoves.
- All Mimsy movie reviews
- These are all of the DVDs I’ve reviewed, in alphabetical order.
- Top Twenty DVDs
- The best DVDs I’ve reviewed in order. These DVDs combine great movies with great features.