Arrrgh!!!

#12 on the Editor's list was "Rats: Observations on the History and Habit of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants," by Robert Sullivan. Perhaps he should have named it "All you never wanted to know about Rats." I doubt I'd read this book, but I was interested to see that the Amazon editors felt that it rated number 12 on their list.

#14 on that list is "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation," by Lynne Truss. This is one of the books I have. My mother gave it to me for Christmas, and it sounds like something I would enjoy.

#15 is "Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare," by Stephen Greenblatt.

#19's review interested me, but I'm not sure that I'd read the book: "The Nutshell Studies of Unexplored Death," by Corrine May Botz. The author photographed 18 dioramas of mysterious cases created by Frances Glesser Lee, who established the Department of Legal Medicine at Harvard in 1936.

#23 is "The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker," edited by Robert Mankoff. This book has 656 pages showing 2004 of the published cartoons from the magazine. It comes with two CDs that hold 68,647 cartoons, all that have been published, plus a search function which allows you to look for cartoons by artist or year of publication. Sounds pretty nifty to me.

#24 is a book I need: "The Etiquette of Illness: What to Say When You Can't Find The Words," by Susan P. Halpern

#26 is "His Excellency: George Washington," by Joseph P. Ellis.

#29 is "Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War (Abarat)," by Clive Barker. This is the second of a four book series. I suspect that one of my nieces might enjoy this.

#36 is "The Radioactive Boy Scout: The True Story of a Boy and His Backyard Nuclear Reactor," by Ken Silverstein.

#44 is "Darkly Dreaming Dexter: A Novel," by Jeff Lindsay The review describes this as a story about a highly respected lab technician specializing in blood spatter who is also a sociopathic serial killer and the good guy in the book.

On the customer's list, #11 is John Grisham's "The Last Juror."

#12 is "The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill," by Ron Suskind

#22 is "Ten Big Ones," a Stephanie Plum Novel, by Janet Evanovich, the second book on the list that I own.

#24 is "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: a Novel," by Susanna Clarke. This is a debut novel set in England in 1808, featuring magic.

#31 "Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation," by Cokie Roberts.

#33 "R is for Ricochet," by Sue Grafton. I think I'm about three or four books behind on this series. Time to catch up.

#35 "Trace," by Pat Cornwell. This is a new entry in the Kay Sarpetta Mysteries.

#39 "3rd Degree," by James Patterson and Andrew Gross is the third book in the "Women's Murder Club" series. I don't normally care for James Patterson's books, but I might give this series a try.

And, #41 is "The Narrows," by Michael Connelly.

You can see that I have quirkie tastes. I like history, odd subjects, magic, and mysteries. I prefer fiction, but I read interesting non-fiction. I don't care for politics, for the most part, although there are at least two books on politics on my list.

There are several types of stores where I couldn't work, and hope to bring home a paycheck. Book stores would be at the top of the list.