House of Sand and Fog (Andre Dubus III, 1999)

History of Lycoming College and Its Predecessor Institutions (Charles Scott Williams, 1959)

Labyrinths of Reason (William Poundstone, 1988)

Previously on the list:

Expecting Adam (Martha Beck, 1999)

American Pastoral (Philip Roth, 1997)

Biggest Secrets (William Poundstone, 1994)

Legends, Lies and Cherished Myths of World History (Richard Shenkman, 1993)

        A very weak book.  

Gambler's Rose (G.W. Hawkes, 2000)

        Great.

Alexander Hamilton, American (Richard Brookhiser, 1999)

        A good read.

Why Not Me?: The Inside Story of the Making and the Unmaking of the Franken Presidency (Al Franken, 1999)

        The first half was great: Skip the second half.

Fair Play: What Your Child Can Teach You About Economics, Values and the Meaning of Life (Steven Landsburg, 1997)

Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics, P.J. O'Rourke (1998)

P.J. O'Rourke is my favorite conservative political humorist.  (Al Franken is my favorite liberal political humorist.)  He is sort of hard on the economics profession at times, but this book of essays about the economies of various countries is very funny.

This is a book about the interrelations of various discoveries and inventions.  I found it to be super interesting, but as the title advertises, there is a lot of jumping around.

Africa: A Biography of the Continent, John Reader (1998)

Place Without a Postcard, Midnight Oil (1981)

Hallowed Ground, The Violent Femmes (1983)

This is a great album.  I've had it for years on tape, but just picked it up on cd recently.
 

Avoid this album.
 

I am not really into jazz much, but Liz and I had listened to "A" one too many times on the Barenaked Ladies Maybe You Should Drive album, so we bought this.  And we like it.