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Joel’s Picks

Fiction	Non-fiction
Adams, Douglas The More Than Complete Hitchhiker’s Guide	Barnes, Kim In the Wilderness: Coming of Age In Unknown Country
	Diamond, Jared Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Adams, Richard Watership Down	Fries, U. E. From Copenhagen To Okanogan
Atwood, Margaret The Blind Assassin	Goodall, Jane In the Shadow of Man
Bach, Richard Curious Lives:  Adventures From the Ferret Chronicles	Hickam, Homer, Jr. Rocket Boys
	Kimmel, Haven She Got Up Off the Couch
Boyle, T. C. The Road To Wellville	Loewen, James W. Lies My Teacher Told Me:  Everything Your American History Book Got Wrong
Bukowski, Charles Post Office	McCourt, Frank Teacher Man
	McMahon, John Almost a Lifetime
Carr, Caleb The Angel of Darkness Killing Time	Orwell, George Homage To Catalonia
Dostoevsky, Fyodor The Brother's Karamazov
Edwards, Kim Memory Keeper’s Daughter	Reisner, Mark Cadillac Desert
Frey, James A Million Little Pieces	Roach, Mary Stiff:  The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Galloway, Steven Finnie Walsh	Robertson, Dougal Survive the Savage Sea
Glidden, Helene The Light on the Island
Gruen, Sara Water for Elephants
Haddon, Mark The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-Time	Russell, Peter The Awakening Earth—The Global Brain
Harvard Lampoon, Beard, Henry N., and Kenny, Douglas C. Bored of the Rings	Schlosser, Eric Fast Food Nation.  The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Hawks, John Twelve The Traveler	Sykes, Bryan The Seven Daughters of Eve—The Science That Reveals Oour Genetic Ancestry
Herbert, Brian and Anderson, Kevin J. House Atreides	Weir, Alison The Children of Henry VIII
Herbert, Frank Dune Messiah Children of Dune God Emperor of Dune Heretics of Dune Chapterhouse Dune
Keneally, Thomas Schindler’s List
Kotzwinkle, William The Bear Went Over the Mountain
Lamb, Wally I Know This Much Is True She's Come Undone
Martel, Yann Life of Pi
Moore, Christopher A Dirty Job Island of the Sequined Love Nun Fluke:  Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
Murdock, Dorris Storm of the Soul
Palliser, Charles Quincunx
Puzo, Mario The Godfather
Rand, Ayn Atlas Shrugged
Roberts, Nora Northern Lights
Sandford, John The Night Crew
Sandlin, Tim Social Blunders
Scott-Stokes, Henry The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima
Steel, Danielle The Ghost
Tan, Amy The Hundred Secret Senses
Tanner, Mike Acting the Giddy Goat
Welch, James Fools Crow

Reviews by Joel on books picked by either Jane or Tracey.
Fiction	Non-fiction
	Stoll, Cliff The Cuckoo’s Egg:  Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

Joel of Book Reader's Traverse

Here's Joel at rest, contemplating one of his many reads. He is fast at work, reviewing as many of them as he can for Book Reader's Traverse. He started out life as Joel III. Esq., reading cereal box ingredient lists back before that was considered sexy and hip. Constantly surrounded by young, chic grocery baggers, he has an immense ego.

Joel III. Esq. lives in Washington State and makes a living fixing things. He complains that he makes just enough money to afford his chantilly lace beekeeper outfit collection, which he claims he uses to attract other beekeepers. There may be pictures of these on the Net somewhere if what Joel contends is true, but no one has reported actually seeing these outfits besides Joel himself.

Joel reads about anything in print as long as it is in English. No offense to others, he says, he just reports that he does not have enough time to be bilingual. He contends he tried to be a writer, but accidentally ate his own chocolate fingers one day. But he loves to read, and loved to discuss books with the old book club from which Book Reader's Traverse sprang. Unfortunately, because of his participation in this group, he began thinking there were only five people in the world who read anymore; so he says when the group inevitably disbanded, he started into a downward spiral of melancholy, which eventually led to him scratching his rear and mumbling to himself about books while walking the streets. That is why he was delighted to become involved in this great web site for book readers, where he can read and review to his heart's content.