Dave's book reviews:
Not all of these have reviews written, some get bogged down mid-write when I lose notes or interest, and some will never get done. Entries with have reviews; the links to a page with the publishing data and some short comments on many books; links to a page of science books;  links to pirate books; indicates a text file of the book, and not a review. The order is more or less as I read them.

Revised Dec 2010

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The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. - Mark Twain (maybe)

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•  The Reshaping of Everyday Life, 1790-1840. 1989. Jack Larkin (not done)
•  Flintlock and Tomahawk: New England in King Philip's War. 1958. Douglas Edward Leach (not done)
•   Moll Flanders. 1722. Daniel Defoe
•   Parliament of Whores. 1991. PJ O'Rourke.
•  Playing Indian. 1998. Philip Joseph Deloria
  
•   Puritan Village. The formation of a New England Town. 1963. Sumner Chilton Powell.
•   So Dreadfull a Judgment. Puritan Responses to King Philip's War, 1676-1677. 1978. Richard Slotkin & James Folsom, editors
•  As Various As Their Land: The Everyday Lives of Eighteenth-Century Americans. 1993. Stephanie Grauman Wolf (not done)
•  The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity. 1998. Jill Lepore 
•   The Crater. or Vulcan's Peak.1847. James Fenimore Cooper
•   Once-Told Tales of Worcester County.1985. Albert B. Southwick
•   A Concise History of the Spanish Civil War.1974. Gabriel Jackson
•   Daniel Defoe. The Life and Strange, Surprising Adventures.1998. Richard West
•   Lords of the Horizon.1998. Jason Goodwin
•   A Sea of Words. A Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O'Brian's Seafaring Tales. Second edition. 1997. Dean King, with John B. Hattendorf and J.Worth Estes O'Brian page
  
•  The Grim Reaper's Book of Days. A Cautionary Record of Famous, Infamous and Unconventional Exits. 1992. Ed Morrow 
•  Roxana. Daniel Defoe 
•   A Sand County Almanac, with Essays on Conservation from Round River. 1948, 1966. Aldo Leopold
•  Partners of the Tide. 1905. Joseph Crosby Lincoln (not done)
•   Cape Cod Stories. or The "Old Home House". 1907. Joseph Crosby Lincoln
•   High Albania.1909. Edith Durham
•   The Prolific Pencil. A biography of Joseph Crosby Lincoln, Litt.D. 1980. Percy Fielitz Rex, edited by Fredrika A. Burrows, with a descriptive bibliography of first editions edited by Stephen W. Sullwold -- this links to my Joseph C. Lincoln page
  
•   Shrub. The short but happy political life of George W. Bush. 2000. Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose
•   Cape Cod Folks. 1881. Sarah Pratt McLean (Greene)
•   Elijah Cobb, 1768-1848. A Cape Cod Skipper. 1925. Elijah Cobb, with a foreword by Ralph D. Paine
•   The Story of a Bad Boy. 1869. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
•   Queer Judson. 1925. Joseph C. Lincoln
•   Rugged Water. 1924. Joseph C. Lincoln
•   Extricating Obadiah. 1917. Joseph C. Lincoln
•   Joseph C. Lincoln. An Appreciation by Hamlin Garland. 1921 (The whole thing, except for the pictures.)
•   The Christian Pirate. 1911. Ben and Bob (Benjamin Clark Warren and Robert Lincoln Parkinson )
•   Nason's Massachusetts Gazetteer. 1890. Elias Nason and George J. Varney (The whole 724-page book.)
•   Joe Lincoln of Cape Cod. 1949. James Westaway McCue
•   The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop. 1902. Hamlin Garland
•   Patrick O'Brian. [A life revealed]. 2000. Dean King O'Brian page
•   Desolation Island. 1978. Patrick O'Brian
•   Harbors and High Seas. An Atlas and Geographical Guide to the Aubrey-Maturin Novels of Patrick O'Brian. 1996, 1999. Dean King, with John B. Hattendorf O'Brian page
•   Bird-Life. A Guide to the Study of Our Common Birds.1922. Frank M. Chapman
•   The Voyage of the Matthew. John Cabot and the Discovery of North America. 1997. Peter Firstbrook
•  An Account of the Captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, Now or Late of Kachecky, in New-England. 1760. Elizabeth Hanson, with Samuel Bownas 
•   The Skipper of the Cynthia B.1921. Charles Pendexter Durell
•  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 1979. Douglas Adams 
•  Cape Cod. 1865, 1987. Henry David Thoreau, introduction by Paul Theroux 
•   St. Urbain's Horseman. 1966, 1967, 1971. Mordecai Richler
•  Blair's Attic. 1929. Joseph C. Lincoln 
•  The Braintree Mission. A fictional narrative of London and Boston, 1770-1771. 1957. Nicholas E. Wycoff 
•   Pilgrim Trails. A Plymouth-to-Provincetown Sketchbook. 1921. Frances Lester Warner, with drawings by E. Scott White
• Harry Potter I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII. J. K. Rowling - no reviews, but they are fun.
•  The Magician's Nephew. C. S. Lewis 
•   Rights of Man. 1791, 1792. Thomas Paine
•  Washington. The Indispensable Man. 1969, 1973, 1974. James Thomas Flexner 
•   Presto! OCR Pro 4.0. 1999. NewSoft (software)
•   A Quaker Girl of Nantucket. 1890. Mary Catherine Lee
•  Cap'n Jonah's Fortune. 1933. James A. Cooper 
•  A Patriot Lad of Old Cape Cod. 1927. Russell Gordon Cooper 
•   Captain Kidd and the War against the Pirates. 1986. Robert C. Ritchie
•  A Son of the Sea. 1939. Sara Ware Basset 
•   Sand 'N' Bushes. 1899. Maria Louise Pool
•   Cap'n Bailey and the Widder Dyer. 1930. Charles W. Burton
•   Of the Russe Commonwealth. 1591. Giles Fletcher (begun)
•   Oystering from New York to Boston. 1974. John M. Hochiss
•  Unwilling Pirate. 1951. West Lathrop 
•  Georgina of the Rainbows. 1916. Annie Fellows Johnston 
•  Under Its Generous Dome. The Collections and Programs of the American Antiquarian Society. 1992. staff 
•   Louisburg. from its foundation to its fall. 1713-1758. 1918, 1979. John Stewart McLennan
•   Memorials for Children of Change. The art of early New England stonecarving. 1974. Dickran Tashjian and Ann Tashjian
•   Cape Cod Rhymes. 1869. T. N. Stone, M.D. Poems and comment.
•  Biology. 2nd edition. 1982. Karen Arms and Pamela S. Camp. 
•  New England Farmer. containing essays, original and selected, relating to agriculture and domestic ecomomy; with engravings, and the prices of country produce. Volume 8, 1830. Thomas G. Fessenden .comments selections 
•   Autobiography of a New England Farm House. 1888. NH Chamberlain.
• How to Overthrow the Government. 2000. Arianna Huffington (begun)
•   The Connecticut River. New England's Historic Waterway. 1983. Edmund Delaney.
•   The Encyclopedia of North American Trees. 2002. Sam Benvie.
•   The Harbourmaster. 1931. William McFee.
•   Disaster Illustrated. 200 Years of American Misfortune. 1976. Woody Gelman and Barbara Jackson.
•   Grand Canyon. A Visitor's Companion. 1998. George Wuerthner.
•   New England and the Sea. 1972. Albion, Baker, Labaree, Brewington. not done
•   Cod. A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World. 1998. Mark Kerlansky.
•   Wake of the Coasters. 1970. John F Leavitt.
•   Nauset on Cape Cod. A History of Eastham. 1968. Alice A. Lowe.
•   Indian Cape Cod Before the Mayflower. 1980. Howard S. Russell.
•   Flood-Tide. 1901. Sarah P. McLean Greene.
•   The History of Cape Cod. 1860, 1862. Frederick Freeman.
•  Master and Commander. 1970. Patrick O'Brian.
• A Comprehensive History, Ecclesiastical and Civil, of Eastham, Wellfleet and Orleans, county of Barnstable, Mass. from 1644-1844. 1844, Enoch Pratt. (complete text)
  
•  Kent Knowles: Quahaug.  . Joseph C. Lincoln
•  The New Hope.  . Joseph C. Lincoln and Freeman Lincoln.
•  Merchant Prince of Boston. Colonel T. H. Perkins, 1764-1854. 1971. Carl Seaburg and Stanley Paterson
•  The Mutinous Wind. 1951. Elizabeth Reynard
•  The Far Side of the World. 1984. Patrick O'Brian
•  Main-Travelled Roads. 1891, 1962. Hamlin Garland
•  Pudd'nhead Wilson. 1893. Mark Twain
•  In the Heart of the Sea. 2000. Nathaniel Philbrick
•  Sacred Legacy. 2000. Edward S. Curtis, Christopher Cardozo, Joseph D. Horse Capture
•   A Head for Poisoning. 1999. Simon Beaufort
•  The America Horseshoe Crab. 2003. editors Carl N. Shuster, jr., Robert B. Barlow, H. Jane Brockmann
•   Lichens of North America. 2001.  Irwin M. Brodo, Sylvia Duran Sharnoff, Stephen Sharnoff. with selected drawings by Susan Laurie-Bourque.
  
•  Rebound. 1934. Freeman Lincoln
• Innocents Abroad. Mark Twain
•  The Voyage of the Narwhal. 1998. Andrea Barrett
•  Four Masted Schooners of the East Coast. 1975. Paul C. Morris
• The First Salute. 1988. Barbara Tuchman
•  The Romantic Story of the Mayflower Pilgrims. And its place in the life of to-day. 1911. Albert C. Addison Pilgrim fates 
  
•  The Romantic Story of the Puritan Fathers. And their founding of New Boston. 1912. Albert C. Addison
•  A Charmed Life. 1955. Mary McCarthy. (A description of the townsfolk in New Leeds /Wellfleet)
•  Memories of a Catholic Girlhood. 1957. Mary McCarthy
•   Provincetown Profiles. and Others on Cape Cod. 1958. Frank Crotty. (several chapters are here)
•  August 1914. 1971. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
•  Midnights. A Year with the Wellfleet Police. 1982. Alec Wilkinson
•  The Endurance. Shackelton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition. 1999. Caroline Alexander
• Life and Death of the Salt Marsh. 1969. John and Mildred Teal
  
•   The Pirates Laffite. 2005. William C. Davis
  
•   To Lie with Lions. 1995. Dorothy Dennett.
•   The Trees of North Park. 2006. Wawecus Road Elementary School
  
•   With a Passion for Brush and Palette. Giddings H. Ballou and his Cape Cod portraits. 2003. Ellen St. Sure
•   Wooden Ships and Iron Men. The maritime art of Thomas Hoyne. 2005. Reese Palley and Marilyn Arnold Palley
•  Sons of the Conquerors. The rise of the Turkic world. 2005. Hugh Pope
•  Wonderful Life. The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History. 1989. Stephen Jay Gould.
•   The Shoulders of Atlas. 1908. Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
•   Silence and other stories. 1898. Mary E. Wilkins
•  A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. 2001. Dave Eggers.
•  Wildest Alaska. Journeys of Great Peril in Lituya Bay. 2001. Philip L. Fradkin. (not done)
•  John Adams. 2001. David McCullough (not done)
•  The Structures of Everyday Life. The limits of the possible. Civilization & capitalism 15th-18th century, Volume 1. 1979. Fernand Braudel, translated by Sian Reynolds (not done)
•  Burr. A novel. 1973. Gore Vidal
•  Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies. 1957, 1958. C.S. Forester (not done)
  
•  Seasons on Harris. A year in Scotland's Outer Hebrides. 2006. David Yeadon.
  
•  Boon Island. 1956. Kenneth Roberts.
•  Ramage's Diamond. 2001. Dudley Pope (not done)
  
•  Osman's Dream. The history of the Ottoman Empire. 2006. Caroline Finkel
•   The Wreck of the Batavia. 2005. Simon Leys.
•  The Late Mrs. Fonsell. 1972. Velda Johnston
•  Pinnock's Improved Edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome. 1854. Wm. C. Taylor (not done)
  
•   Guns, Germs, and Steel. The fates of human societies.1999. Jared Diamond (not done)
  
•  Political Changes in Massachusetts, 1824-1848. 1925, reprinted 1968. Arthur B. Darling (not done)
•   Namibia. Insight Guide. 2000
  
•  The Blue Flower. 1902. Henry Van Dyke
•  Darwin's Dangerous Idea. 1995. Daniel C. Dennett (not done)
•   The Natural History of Nonsense. 1946. Bergen Evans   1.2 Mb PDF 
  
•  Days Off and Other Digressions. 1907. Henry Van Dyke. Remarks on Gulls .
  
•  Kidnapped. 2004 abridged edition. Robert Louis Stevenson
•  Early American Mills. 1973. Martha & Murray Zimiles
• Providence Island, 1630-1641. The other Puritan colony. 1993. Karen Ordahl Kupperman
•  George Washington's Mount Vernon. 2001. Mount Vernon Ladies' Association
•  The Bird of Light.. 1991. John Hay
  
•  The Survival of the Bark Canoe. 1975. John McFee
•  Mayflower. Nathaniel Philbrick
• Cap'n Eri. 1904. Joseph C. Lincoln
• The Woman-Haters. 1908. Joseph C. Lincoln
• If you haven't got time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over. 1991. Jeffery J. Mayer
  
•  Cap'n Warren's Wards. 1911. Joseph C. Lincoln
•  In the Devil's Snare. The Salem witchcraft crisis of 1692. 2002. Mary Beth Norton
•  Meetinghouse Bay. 1940. Henry W. Patterson (not done)
  
•  The Sailing-Ship. 1963. Romola & R.C. Anderson (not done)
  
•  Washington's Crossing. 2004. David Hackett Fischer
•  East of America. A selection of Cape Cod poems ... 1969. John V. Hinshaw, editor
  
•  Bones of the Moon. 1987. Jonathan Carroll
•  Alchemy, Medicine, Religion in the China of A.D. 320.  1966. J.R. Ware, translator
•  The Cat Who Walks Through Walls. 1985. Robert A. Heinlein
•  Union 1812. The Americans who fought the second war of independence. 2006. A.J. Langguth
•  American Legend. The real-life adventures of David Crockett. 2005. Buddy Levy
•  Hogfather. Terry Pratchett. 1999
•  Mort. Terry Pratchett. 1987
  
•  Going Postal. Terry Pratchett. 2004
  
• Six frigates : the epic history of the founding of the U.S. Navy . 2006. Ian W. Toll.
• The God Delusion. Richard Dawkins. 2006
• Freethinkers. A history of American secularism. 2004. Susan Jacoby
•   In Tasmania. Nicholas Shakespeare. 2006
• The Writings of Thomas Paine
•  Batavia's Graveyard. Mike Dash, 2002.
  
•  Ascending Peculiarity. Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey.  2001. Karen Wilkin
•   Royce's Sailing Illustrated. 7th revised edition. Patrick M. Royce. 1976
•  The Battle for Christmas. Stephen Nissenbaum. 1996
•  A Voyage to the Arctic in the Whaler Aurora. David Lindsay Moore. 1911
•  The Way to the Salt Marsh. A John Hay Reader. Christopher Merrill, editor. 1998
•  John Quincy Adams. Lynn Hudson Parsons. 1998
•  His Dark Materials. Philip Pullman
•  Guards! Guards! Terry Pratchett. 1989
  
•  Scotland. A Year of the Land. Ian Digby. 1983.
•  Captain Cook. Voyager Between Worlds. John Gascoigne. 2007
•  The Jamestown Project. Karen Ordahl Kupperman. 2007
•  The Guns of the South. Harry Turtledove. 1992
•  A People's History of the United States, 1492 - Present. Howard Zinn.1980, 2003
  
• The Crucible. Arthur Miller. 1954
• The Master of Ballantrae. Robert Louis Stevenson. 1889
• A Prayer for Owen Meany. John Irving. 1989
• Night Soldiers. Alan Furst. 1988, 2002
•  Dark Star. Alan Furst. 1991
•  The Polish Officer. Alan Furst. 1995
•  The World at Night. Alan Furst, 1996
  
•  Blood of Victory. Alan Furst. 2002
•  Red Gold. Alan Furst. 1999
  
•  The Sea Fox the adventures of Cape Cod's most colorful rumrunner. Scott Corbett, with Capt. Manuel Zora. 1956
•  Evolution of the Wooden Ship. Basil Greenhill
• The Overcoat. And other tales of good and evil. Nicolai Gogol. translated by David Magarshack. 1957
  
• Kilo Class. Patrick Robinson, 1998
•  Leviathan: the history of whaling in America. Eric Jay Dolan. 2007
  
•  The Treasure of the San José.Death at sea in the War of the Spanish Succession. Carla Rahn Philips 2007.
•  The Rule of Four. Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason, 2004
  
•  Folklore & the Sea. Horace Beck, 1973
•  Revolutionary Characters. What made the founders different. Gordon S. Wood, 2006
• The unnatural history of the sea. Callum Roberts. 2007
  
• Consider the Lobster. And other essays. David Foster Wallace. 2006
•  The Big House. George Howe Colt. 2003
•  Patriot Pirates. The privateer war for freedom and fortune in the American Revolution. Robert H. Patton. 2008
• The Fractal Geometry of Nature. Benoit B. Mandelbrot.1983
• Storm and Conquest. The clash of empires in the eastern seas, 1809. Stephen Taylor. 2007
•  The Mauritius Command. Patrick O'Brian. 1977
•  The Pirate Queen: Queen Elizabeth I, Her Pirate Adventurers, and the Dawn of Empire. Susan Ronald. 2007
  
• Ahab's Wife. or the Star-Gazer. Sena Jeeter Naslund. 1999
• Lie Down with Lions. Ken Follett. 1986
  
• Mill. David McCauley. 1989
  
• A Romance of Barnstable. Mary Matthews Bray. 1909
•  The Africans. A triple heritage. Ali A. Mazrui
•  The Lost Cities of Africa. Basil Davidson
  
•  The Rise of Silas Lapham. William Dean Howells
•  Surely You Jest, Mr. Feynman. Richard Feynman
  
• Young Man of Cape Cod. James Westaway McCue. 1950
•  Africa Since 1800, 2d edition. Roland Oliver and Anthony Altmore. 1972
  
•  Dead Reckoning. The Dunedin Star Disaster. Jeff Dawson. 2005
  
•  A Land as Good as It Gets. Jamestown and the Birth of America. James Horn. 2005
•  Ice Bound: A Doctor’s Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole. Jerri Neilsen
•  The pirates' pact : the secret alliances between history's most notorious buccaneers and colonial America. Douglas R.Burgess Jr. 2008
  
•  John James Auduban. The Making of an American. Richard Rhodes. 2004
  
•  Locked in the Cabinet. Robert B. Reich. 1998
•   Biology the Easy Way, 3rd edition. Gabrielle I Edwards. 2000
  
•  The Rise of Roscoe Paine. Joseph C. Lincoln. 1912
•  Mary-'Gusta. Joseph C. Lincoln. 1916
•  A Diary in America, with remarks on its institutions. Capt. Frederick Marryat. 1839. Sydney W Jackman, editor, 1962
•  That Old Cape Magic. Richard Russo. 2009
  
•  The Lost Continent. Bill Bryson. 1989
  
•  N by E. Rockwell Kent. 1930
  
•  The House on Nauset Marsh. Wyman Richardson. 1955
  
•  Gloriana's Torch. Patricia Finney. 2003
•  Essential Cell Biology, 3rd ed. Alberts, Bray, Hopkin, Johnson, Lewis, Raff, Roberts, Walter. 2010
  
•  Mader's Understanding Human Anatomy & Physiology, 6th ed. Susannah Nelson Longenbaker. 2008
•  Gunboat Diplomacy in the Wilson Era. The US Navy in Haiti, 1915-1916. David Healy. 1976
•  The Hammer of Eden. Ken Follett. 1998
  
•  The Sound and the Fury. William Faulkner. 1929
  
•  Madame Bovary. Gustave Flaubert. 1857. translation by Charlotte Wooley Underwood, 1949
  
•  Jack, Knave and Fool. Bruce Alexander. 1998
  
•  A kingdom strange : the brief and tragic history of the lost colony of Roanoke. James Horn. 2010
  
•  Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them. Al Franken. 2003
•  'There Goes Flukes." William H Tripp. 1938
•  GENViewer 1.23. Mudcreek. genealogy software. 2007 build
• Neuromancer. William Gibson. 1984
• Good Omens. Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. 1990
• Making Money. Terry Pratchett. 2007
  

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