Book Shelf: 2008 Shelf of Ennui
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
This web page lists the books that we wanted to
read, but didn’t. We got bored, or just didn’t care enough. In some cases,
we were distracted by something else that came along. If you think we
should try again, send an e-mail to books@hopkinsandcompany.com.
We just might try, try again.
|
Title |
Author(s) |
How Long It Took to
Get Bored |
Click on Picture to
Purchase at amazon.com |
|
The Blue Way: How to Profit by
Investing in a Better World |
Adamson,
Daniel de Faro |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in January 2008 |
|
|
Garden Spells |
Allen,
Sarah Addison |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in September 2007 |
|
|
Mere Anarchy |
Allen,
Woody |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in October 2007 |
|
|
Nerds: Who They Are and Why We
Need Them |
Anderegg,
David |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in February 2008 |
|
|
The Last Flight of the Scarlet
Macaw |
Barcott,
Bruce |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in March 2008 |
|
|
Dave Barry’s History of the
Millennium (So Far) |
Barry,
Dave |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in September 2007 |
|
|
Flying to America: 45 More
Stories |
Barthelme,
Donald |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in December 2007 |
|
|
What Made jack welch JACK WELCH |
Baum,
Stephen H. |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in September 2007 |
|
|
Rocketeers: How a Visionary
Band of Business Leaders, Engineers, and Pilots Is Boldly Privatizing Space |
Belfiore,
Michael |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in September 2007 |
|
|
City of Thieves |
Benioff,
David |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in April 2008 |
|
|
Reconciliation: Islam,
Democracy, and the West |
Bhutto,
Benazir |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in April 2008 |
|
|
Buried |
Billingham,
Mark |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in August 2007 |
|
|
Creative Ideas for Household
Storage |
Blackburn,
Graham |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in April 2008 |
|
|
Home Made in the Kitchen |
Bluestein,
Barry and Kevin Morrissey |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in April 2008 |
|
|
Now and Forever |
Bradbury,
Ray |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in August 2007 |
|
|
Here If You Need Me |
Braestrup,
Kate |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in September 2007 |
|
|
Healthy Homes in a Toxic World |
Breecher,
Maury M. and Shirley Linde |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in April 2008 |
|
|
Up High in the Trees |
Brinkman,
Kiara |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in August 2007 |
|
|
The Diana Chronicles |
Brown,
Tina |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in July 2007 |
|
|
The Second Civil War: How
Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America |
Brownstein,
Ronald |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in January 2008 |
|
|
Mobilizing Minds: Creating Wealth from Talent in the 21st Century |
Bryan,
Lowell |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in March 2007 |
|
|
Shakespeare: The World as Stage |
Bryson,
Bill |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in December 2007 |
|
|
The Opposite of Love |
Buxbaum,
Julie |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in April 2008 |
|
|
A Remarkable Mother |
Carter,
Jimmy |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in April 2008 |
|
|
Beyond the White House: Waging
Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope |
Carter,
Jimmy |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in November 2007 |
|
|
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of
Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism |
Chang,
Ha-Joon |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in March 2008 |
|
|
The Elements of Organic
Gardening |
Charles,
Prince of Wales |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in January 2008 |
|
|
Blue Skies, No Fences |
Cheney,
Lynne |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in November 2007 |
|
|
The Bestiary |
Christopher,
Nicholas |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in August 2007 |
|
|
Diary of a Bad Year |
Coetzee,
J.M. |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in January 2008 |
|
|
Alice: Alice Roosevelt
Longworth, American Princess and |
Cordery,
Stacy A. |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in September 2007 |
|
|
Discover Your Inner Economist |
Cowan,
|
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in August 2007 |
|
|
The Konkans |
D’Souza,
Tony |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in April 2008 |
|
|
The Welch Girl |
Davies,
Peter Ho |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in December 2007 |
|
|
Write It When I’m Gone |
DeFrank,
Thomas |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in January 2008 |
|
|
Classics for Pleasure |
Dirda,
Michael |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in November 2007 |
|
|
Dead Certain: The Presidency of
George W. Bush |
Draper,
Robert |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in September 2007 |
|
|
The Blue Star |
Earley,
Tony |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in March 2008 |
|
|
The Lost World of James
Smithson |
Ewing,
Heather |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in September 2007 |
|
|
Cathedral of the Sea |
Falcones,
Ildefonso |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in May 2008 |
|
|
The Terror Dream: Fear and
Fantasy in Post-9/11 |
Faludi,
Susan |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in September 2007 |
|
|
Engleby |
Faulks,
Sebastian |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in January 2008 |
|
|
This Republic of Suffering |
Faust,
Drew Gilpin |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in February 2008 |
|
|
Keeping the World Away |
Forster,
Margaret |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in August 2007 |
|
|
The Immortalists: Charles
Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever |
Friedman,
David M. |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in September 2007 |
|
|
Comeback: Conservatism That Can
Win Again |
Frum,
David |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in January 2008 |
|
|
Heroic Conservatism: Why
Republicans Need to Embrace America's Ideals (And Why They Deserve to Fail If
They Don't) |
Gerson,
Michael |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in January 2008 |
|
|
All the Sad Young Literary Men |
Gessen,
Keith |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in May 2008 |
|
|
Churchill and the Jews |
Gilbert,
Martin |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in November 2007 |
|
|
Kyra |
Gillligan,
Carol |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in February 2008 |
|
|
Soon I Will Be Invincible |
Grossman,
Austin |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in August 2007 |
|
|
American Transcendental |
Gura,
Philip F. |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in February 2008 |
|
|
Sunstroke and Other Stories |
Hadley,
Tessa |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in August 2007 |
|
|
The Master Bedroom |
Hadley,
Tessa |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in August 2007 |
|
|
Can't Remember What I Forgot:
The Good News from the Front Lines of Memory Research |
Halpern,
Sue |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in June 2008 |
|
|
The Suicide of Reason: Radical
Islam's Threat to the West |
Harris,
Lee |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in January 2008 |
|
|
The Finder |
Harrison,
Colin |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in May 2008 |
|
|
The |
Harvey,
Michael |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in August 2007 |
|
|
I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A
Modern War Story |
Hastings,
Michael |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in May 2008 |
|
|
I Don’t Believe in Atheists |
Hedges,
Chris |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in March 2008 |
|
|
Reporting Iraq: An Oral History
of the War by the Journalists Who Covered It |
Hoyt,
Michael and John Palettella |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in December 2007 |
|
|
Tree of Smoke |
Johnson,
Denis |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in September 2007 |
|
|
Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest
Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense |
Johnston,
David Cay |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in February 2008 |
|
|
Travels with Herodotus |
Kapuscinski,
Ryszard |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in August 2007 |
|
|
Arguing the Just War in Islam |
Kelsay,
John |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in January 2008 |
|
|
Day |
Kennedy,
A.L. |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in February 2008 |
|
|
Please
Don't Remain Calm: Provocations and Commentaries |
Kinsley,
Michael |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in April 2008 |
|
|
Making War to Keep Peace |
Kirkpatrick,
Jeane J. |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in August 2007 |
|
|
Ike: An American Hero |
Korda,
Michael |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in September 2007 |
|
|
Mr. Jefferson’s Women |
Kukla,
Jon |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in November 2007 |
|
|
A Magnificent Catastrophe: The
Tumultuous Election of 1800, |
Larson,
Edward J. |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in October 2007 |
|
|
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles:
Adventures in the World of Chinese Food |
Lee,
Jennifer 8. |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in March 2008 |
|
|
Lavinia |
LeGuin,
Ursula K. |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in May 2008 |
|
|
The Three Signs of a Miserable
Job |
Lencioni,
Patrick M. |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in August 2007 |
|
|
God's
Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 |
Lewis,
David Levering |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in February 2008 |
|
|
The Stillborn God: Religion,
Politics, and the Modern West |
Lilla,
Mark |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in October 2007 |
|
|
The Headhunters |
Lovesey,
Peter |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in April 2008 |
|
|
Agent Zigzag: A True Story of
Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal |
MacIntyre,
Ben |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in January 2008 |
|
|
Them |
McCall,
Nathan |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in January 2008 |
|
|
The Teapot Dome Scandal |
McCartney,
Laton |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in March 2008 |
|
|
The Breakthrough Company |
McFarland,
Keith |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in February 2008 |
|
|
House Lust: America’s Obsession
With Our Homes |
McGinn,
Daniel F. |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in February 2008 |
|
|
The Delivery Man |
McGinniss,
Jr., Joe |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in February 2008 |
|
|
Trauma |
McGrath,
Patrick |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in May 2008 |
|
|
God and Gold: Britain, America,
and the Making of the Modern World |
Mead,
Walter Russell |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in January 2008 |
|
|
The Elephant and the Dragon |
Meredith,
Robyn |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in September 2007 |
|
|
Breakfast with Buddha |
Merullo,
Roland |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in January 2008 |
|
|
How To Be A Middle-Aged Babe |
Miller,
Marilyn Suzanne |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in December 2007 |
|
|
Dangerous Laughter |
Millhauser,
Steven |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in February 2008 |
|
|
Still Summer |
Mitchard,
Jacquelyn |
Added to Shelf of Possibility in
September 2007 |
|
|
Dangerous Admissions |
O’Connor,
Jane |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in August 2007 |
|
|
Influencer: The Power to Change
Anything |
Patterson,
Kerry |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in November 2007 |
|
|
Consumption |
Patterson,
Kevin |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in October 2007 |
|
|
Nixonland: The Rise of a
President and the Fracturing of America |
Perlstein,
Rick |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in June 2008 |
|
|
Franklin and Lucy: President
Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the Other Remarkable Women in His Life |
Persico,
Joseph E. |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in May 2008 |
|
|
Fair Game: My Life As a Spy |
Plame,
Valerie |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in December 2007 |
|
|
The Wild Trees: A Story of
Passion and Daring |
Preston,
Richard |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in December 2007 |
|
|
American Crescent: A Muslim
Cleric on the Power of His Faith, the Struggle Against Prejudice, and the
Future of Islam and America |
Qazwani,
Hassan |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in January 2008 |
|
|
Arsenals of Folly: Nuclear
Weapons in the Cold War |
Rhodes,
Richard |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in September 2007 |
|
|
The Mayor’s Tongue |
Rich,
Nathaniel |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in May 2008 |
|
|
God’s Harvard: A |
Rosin,
Hanna |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in September 2007 |
|
|
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to
the Twentieth Century |
Ross,
Alex |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in January 2008 |
|
|
Superclass: The Global Power
Elite and the World They are Making |
Rothkopf,
David J. |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in April 2008 |
|
|
Bad Monkeys |
Ruff,
Matt |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in September 2007 |
|
|
Last Harvest: How a Cornfield
Became New Daleville |
Rybczynski,
Witold |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in August 2007 |
|
|
Harry, Revised |
Sarvas,
Mark |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in May 2008 |
|
|
The Braindead Megaphone |
Saunders,
George |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in September 2007 |
|
|
Gomorrah |
Saviano,
Roberto |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in December 2007 |
|
|
Come to Think of It: Notes on
the Turn of the Millennium |
Schorr,
Daniel |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in January 2008 |
|
|
The Craftsman |
Sennett,
Richard |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in May 2008 |
|
|
Resistance |
Sheers,
Owen |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in March 2008 |
|
|
The Forgotten Man: A New
History of the Great Depression |
Shlaes,
Amity |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in August 2007 |
|
|
Warm Springs: Traces of a
Childhood at FDR’s Polio Haven |
Shreve,
Susan Richards |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in June 2007 |
|
|
Your Inner Fish: a Journey Into
the 3.5 Billion-Year History of the Human Body |
Shubin,
Neil |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in March 2008 |
|
|
The Septembers of |
Sofer,
Dalia |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in August 2007 |
|
|
Willing |
Spencer,
Scott |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in March 2008 |
|
|
by George |
Stace,
Wesley |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in September 2007 |
|
|
The Three Trillion Dollar War:
The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict |
Stiglitz,
Joseph E. and Linda J. Bilmes |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in May 2008 |
|
|
Henry Kissinger and the
American Century |
Suri,
Jeremi |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in August 2007 |
|
|
Tomorrow |
Swift,
Graham |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in September 2007 |
|
|
The Broken Shore |
Temple,
Peter |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in August 2007 |
|
|
The Elephanta Suite |
Theroux,
Paul |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in August 2007 |
|
|
Cleopatra’s Nose: 39 Varieties
of Desire |
Thurman,
Judith |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in February 2008 |
|
|
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make
History |
Ulrich,
Laurel Thatcher |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in October 2007 |
|
|
Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel
the Car of the Future |
Vaitheeswaran,
Vijay V. |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in December 2007 |
|
|
An Ordinary Spy |
Weisberg,
Joseph |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in January 2008 |
|
|
The Political Brain |
Westen,
Drew |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in September 2007 |
|
|
Head and Heart: American
Christianities |
Wills,
Garry |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in September 2007 |
|
|
The Stone Gods |
Winterson,
Jeanette |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in April 2008 |
|
|
The Spare Wife |
Witchel,
Alex |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in March 2008 |
|
|
A Global Life: My Journey Among
Rich and Poor, from Wall Street to the World Bank |
Wolfensohn,
James D. |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in September 2007 |
|
|
The Ten-Year Nap |
Wolitzer,
Meg |
Added to Shelf of Possibility
in May 2008 |
|
|
Roam
the virtual bookshelves at Hopkins & Company. Follow these links to roam
our other book shelves: The Big Shelf: All
Books Read or Considered Each
page contains links to allow you to purchase these or other items directly
from amazon.com. Hopkins
& Company receives a small payment from amazon.com when you purchase
items through these links. |
|
|
|
Browse at amazon.com |
|
|
|
|