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	#	cover	title	author	isbn	isbn13	asin	pages	rating	ratings	pub	(ed.)	rating	my rating	review	notes	recommender	comments	votes	count	started	read	added	purchased	owned	location	condition	format
checkbox	position	cover	title Serpentine (His Dark Materials, #3.6)	author Pullman, Philip	isbn 0241475244	isbn13 9780241475249	asin	num pages 67 pp	avg rating 3.84	num ratings 4,291	date pub Oct 15, 2020	date pub edition Oct 15, 2020	Martin's rating it was ok	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review None	notes Notes are private!	recommender none	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started not set	date read not set	date added Mar 09, 2021	date purchased	owned	purchase location	condition	format Hardcover	actions view
checkbox	position	cover	title The War of the Poor	author Vuillard, Éric	isbn	isbn13 2928377048853	asin	num pages 80 pp	avg rating 3.47	num ratings 456	date pub Jan 2019	date pub edition Jan 07, 2021	Martin's rating liked it	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review None	notes Notes are private!	recommender none	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started Mar 2021	date read Mar 2021	date added Mar 01, 2021	date purchased	owned	purchase location	condition	format Hardcover	actions view
checkbox	position	cover	title Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster	author Lochbaum, David *	isbn 1620970848	isbn13 9781620970843	asin	num pages 320 pp	avg rating 3.64	num ratings 449	date pub Nov 05, 2013	date pub edition Mar 03, 2015	Martin's rating liked it	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review None	notes Notes are private!	recommender none	comments 0	votes 1	# times read 1	date started Feb 28, 2021	date read Mar 06, 2021	date added Feb 28, 2021	date purchased	owned	purchase location	condition	format Paperback	actions view
checkbox	position	cover	title How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need	author Gates, Bill *	isbn 0241448301	isbn13 9780241448304	asin	num pages 272 pp	avg rating 4.19	num ratings 3,757	date pub Feb 16, 2021	date pub edition Feb 16, 2021	Martin's rating did not like it	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review Crap. "Bill Gates' book personifies the interests of capital, and thus its only real use to the reader is to expose the system as a whole." Full review ...more	notes Notes are private!	recommender none	comments 0	votes 7	# times read 1	date started Feb 20, 2021	date read Feb 23, 2021	date added Feb 20, 2021	date purchased	owned	purchase location	condition	format Hardcover	actions view (with text)
checkbox	position	cover	title William Godwin: A Political Life	author Thomas, Richard Gough	isbn 0745338356	isbn13 9780745338354	asin	num pages 224 pp	avg rating 3.86	num ratings 7	date pub unknown	date pub edition Mar 15, 2019	Martin's rating really liked it	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review None	notes Notes are private!	recommender none	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started Feb 13, 2021	date read Feb 16, 2021	date added Feb 13, 2021	date purchased	owned	purchase location	condition	format Paperback	actions view
checkbox	position	cover	title The Night at the Crossroads (Maigret #7)	author Simenon, Georges	isbn 0141393483	isbn13 9780141393483	asin	num pages 150 pp	avg rating 3.74	num ratings 1,780	date pub 1931	date pub edition Apr 03, 2014	Martin's rating really liked it	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review As much fun for the insights into French life between the wars as it is for the complicated plot. Classic stuff.	notes Notes are private!	recommender none	comments 0	votes 1	# times read 1	date started Feb 09, 2021	date read Feb 11, 2021	date added Feb 09, 2021	date purchased	owned	purchase location	condition	format Paperback	actions view (with text)
checkbox	position	cover	title A Fall of Moondust	author Clarke, Arthur C.	isbn 0575073179	isbn13 9780575073173	asin	num pages 224 pp	avg rating 3.89	num ratings 8,946	date pub Sep 01, 1961	date pub edition Mar 14, 2002	Martin's rating	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review None	notes Notes are private!	recommender none	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started not set	date read not set	date added Feb 08, 2021	date purchased	owned	purchase location	condition	format Paperback	actions view
checkbox	position	cover	title Trial by Fire: The Hundred Years War, Volume 2	author Sumption, Jonathan	isbn 0571207375	isbn13 9780571207374	asin	num pages 655 pp	avg rating 4.49	num ratings 218	date pub 1999	date pub edition Aug 18, 2001	Martin's rating liked it	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review None	notes Notes are private!	recommender none	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started Feb 08, 2021	date read Mar 08, 2021	date added Feb 08, 2021	date purchased	owned	purchase location	condition	format Paperback	actions view
checkbox	position	cover	title The Ministry for the Future	author Robinson, Kim Stanley	isbn 0316300136	isbn13 9780316300131	asin	num pages 563 pp	avg rating 3.96	num ratings 3,273	date pub Oct 06, 2020	date pub edition Oct 06, 2020	Martin's rating liked it	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review None	notes Notes are private!	recommender none	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started Feb 06, 2021	date read Feb 25, 2021	date added Feb 06, 2021	date purchased	owned	purchase location	condition	format Hardcover	actions view
checkbox	position	cover	title The New Wilderness	author Cook, Diane *	isbn 0062333135	isbn13 9780062333131	asin	num pages 416 pp	avg rating 3.77	num ratings 6,970	date pub Jul 30, 2020	date pub edition Aug 11, 2020	Martin's rating it was ok	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review None	notes Notes are private!	recommender none	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started Feb 2021	date read Feb 04, 2021	date added Feb 01, 2021	date purchased	owned	purchase location	condition	format Hardcover	actions view
checkbox	position	cover	title Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages: Social Change in England, c.1200-1520	author Dyer, Christopher	isbn 0521272157	isbn13 9780521272155	asin	num pages 337 pp	avg rating 4.07	num ratings 29	date pub Jan 01, 1989	date pub edition Jun 10, 1998	Martin's rating really liked it	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review None	notes Notes are private!	recommender none	comments 0	votes 1	# times read 1	date started Jan 31, 2021	date read Feb 08, 2021	date added Jan 31, 2021	date purchased	owned	purchase location	condition	format Paperback	actions view
checkbox	position	cover	title The Tobacconist	author Seethaler, Robert	isbn 1509806598	isbn13 9781509806591	asin	num pages 234 pp	avg rating 3.90	num ratings 9,089	date pub Aug 29, 2012	date pub edition Apr 06, 2017	Martin's rating liked it	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review None	notes Notes are private!	recommender none	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started Jan 28, 2021	date read Feb 2021	date added Jan 28, 2021	date purchased	owned	purchase location	condition	format Paperback	actions view
checkbox	position	cover	title The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery	author Falk, Seb	isbn 0241374251	isbn13 9780241374252	asin	num pages 416 pp	avg rating 3.84	num ratings 279	date pub Nov 17, 2020	date pub edition Sep 24, 2020	Martin's rating it was amazing	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review A cracking book - beautiful as well as astonishing. It places medieval European science in the context of wider interchanges of knowledge with the res ...more	notes Notes are private!	recommender none	comments 0	votes 1	# times read 1	date started Jan 23, 2021	date read Jan 31, 2021	date added Jan 23, 2021	date purchased	owned	purchase location	condition	format Hardcover	actions view (with text)
checkbox	position	cover	title Border Walls Gone Green: Nature and Anti-immigrant Politics in America	author Hultgren, John	isbn 0816694982	isbn13 9780816694983	asin	num pages 248 pp	avg rating 3.60	num ratings 5	date pub Oct 15, 2015	date pub edition Oct 15, 2015	Martin's rating liked it	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review None	notes Notes are private!	recommender none	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started Jan 21, 2021	date read Jan 24, 2021	date added Jan 21, 2021	date purchased	owned	purchase location	condition	format Paperback	actions view
checkbox	position	cover	title Still Water: The Deep Life of the Pond	author Lewis-Stempel, John *	isbn 1784162426	isbn13 9781784162429	asin	num pages 304 pp	avg rating 3.73	num ratings 164	date pub unknown	date pub edition Mar 05, 2020	Martin's rating did not like it	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review None	notes Notes are private!	recommender none	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started Jan 18, 2021	date read Jan 21, 2021	date added Jan 18, 2021	date purchased	owned	purchase location	condition	format Paperback	actions view
checkbox	position	cover	title The Rise of Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #4)	author Simmons, Dan	isbn 0575076402	isbn13 9780575076402	asin	num pages 804 pp	avg rating 4.17	num ratings 46,361	date pub 1997	date pub edition Dec 01, 2006	Martin's rating liked it	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review None	notes Notes are private!	recommender none	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started Jan 12, 2021	date read Jan 25, 2021	date added Jan 12, 2021	date purchased	owned	purchase location	condition	format Paperback	actions view
checkbox	position	cover	title A Marxist History of Capitalism	author Heller, Henry	isbn 1138495875	isbn13 9781138495876	asin	num pages 148 pp	avg rating 3.67	num ratings 6	date pub unknown	date pub edition Aug 07, 2018	Martin's rating it was ok	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review None	notes Notes are private!	recommender none	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started Jan 05, 2021	date read Jan 07, 2021	date added Jan 05, 2021	date purchased	owned	purchase location	condition	format Paperback	actions view
checkbox	position	cover	title Endymion (Hyperion Cantos #3)	author Simmons, Dan	isbn 0575076399	isbn13 9780575076396	asin	num pages 617 pp	avg rating 4.17	num ratings 48,770	date pub 1996	date pub edition Dec 01, 2006	Martin's rating it was amazing	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review None	notes Notes are private!	recommender none	comments 0	votes 1	# times read 1	date started Jan 04, 2021	date read Jan 12, 2021	date added Jan 04, 2021	date purchased	owned	purchase location	condition	format Paperback	actions view
checkbox	position	cover	title Amber Waves: The Extraordinary Biography of Wheat, from Wild Grass to World Megacrop	author Zabinski, Catherine	isbn 022655371X	isbn13 9780226553719	asin	num pages 216 pp	avg rating 3.31	num ratings 13	date pub unknown	date pub edition Apr 22, 2020	Martin's rating really liked it	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review I enjoyed this multi-million year history of wheat, from the evolution of the plant to the ways that human society have farmed and changed the crop ov ...more	notes Notes are private!	recommender none	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started Jan 02, 2021	date read Jan 05, 2021	date added Jan 02, 2021	date purchased	owned	purchase location	condition	format Hardcover	actions view (with text)
checkbox	position	cover	title Life in the Victorian Country House	author Horn, Pamela	isbn 0747807507	isbn13 9780747807506	asin	num pages 128 pp	avg rating 3.95	num ratings 21	date pub Sep 21, 2010	date pub edition Sep 21, 2010	Martin's rating liked it	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review None	notes Notes are private!	recommender none	comments 0	votes 1	# times read 1	date started Dec 31, 2020	date read Jan 02, 2021	date added Dec 31, 2020	date purchased	owned	purchase location	condition	format Paperback	actions view
checkbox	position	cover	title The Burning Question: We can't burn half the world's oil, coal and gas. So how do we quit?	author Berners-Lee, Mike	isbn 1781250456	isbn13 9781781250457	asin	num pages 256 pp	avg rating 4.25	num ratings 194	date pub Jan 01, 2013	date pub edition Apr 15, 2013	Martin's rating it was ok	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review None	notes Notes are private!	recommender none	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started Dec 29, 2020	date read Dec 31, 2020	date added Dec 29, 2020	date purchased	owned	purchase location	condition	format Paperback	actions view
checkbox	position	cover	title Pavane	author Roberts, Keith	isbn 1857989376	isbn13 9781857989373	asin	num pages 285 pp	avg rating 3.71	num ratings 3,076	date pub 1968	date pub edition Nov 09, 2000	Martin's rating it was amazing	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review None	notes Notes are private!	recommender none	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started Dec 25, 2020	date read Jan 03, 2021	date added Dec 25, 2020	date purchased	owned	purchase location	condition	format Paperback	actions view
checkbox	position	cover	title Through Two Doors at Once: The Elegant Experiment that Captures the Enigma of our Quantum Reality	author Ananthaswamy, Anil *	isbn 071565392X	isbn13 9780715653920	asin	num pages 304 pp	avg rating 4.23	num ratings 453	date pub unknown	date pub edition Jan 23, 2020	Martin's rating liked it	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review None	notes Notes are private!	recommender none	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started Dec 23, 2020	date read Dec 29, 2020	date added Dec 23, 2020	date purchased	owned	purchase location	condition	format Paperback	actions view
checkbox	position	cover	title Marx, Dead and Alive: Reading Capital in Precarious Times	author Merrifield, Andy	isbn 1583678794	isbn13 9781583678794	asin	num pages 192 pp	avg rating 3.25	num ratings 4	date pub unknown	date pub edition Nov 30, 2020	Martin's rating liked it	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review None	notes Notes are private!	recommender none	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started Dec 19, 2020	date read Dec 21, 2020	date added Dec 19, 2020	date purchased	owned	purchase location	condition	format Paperback	actions view
checkbox	position	cover	title Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)	author Willis, Connie	isbn 0575131098	isbn13 9780575131095	asin	num pages 587 pp	avg rating 4.02	num ratings 51,637	date pub Jun 05, 1992	date pub edition Nov 01, 2012	Martin's rating really liked it	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review Apocalyptic!	notes Notes are private!	recommender none	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started Dec 13, 2020	date read Dec 23, 2020	date added Dec 13, 2020	date purchased	owned	purchase location	condition	format Paperback	actions view (with text)
checkbox	position	cover	title Trial by Battle: The Hundred Years War, Volume 1	author Sumption, Jonathan	isbn 0812216555	isbn13 9780812216554	asin	num pages 672 pp	avg rating 4.38	num ratings 388	date pub Jan 01, 1990	date pub edition Sep 29, 1999	Martin's rating liked it	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review None	notes Notes are private!	recommender none	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started Dec 12, 2020	date read Dec 27, 2020	date added Dec 12, 2020	date purchased	owned	purchase location	condition	format Paperback	actions view
checkbox	position	cover	title A Whole Life	author Seethaler, Robert	isbn 1447283902	isbn13 9781447283904	asin	num pages 160 pp	avg rating 3.96	num ratings 11,895	date pub Jul 2014	date pub edition Oct 08, 2015	Martin's rating really liked it	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review None	notes Notes are private!	recommender none	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started Dec 12, 2020	date read Dec 13, 2020	date added Dec 12, 2020	date purchased	owned	purchase location	condition	format Paperback	actions view
checkbox	position	cover	title A Rebel's Guide to Alexandra Kollontai	author Davis, Emma	isbn 9781912926	isbn13	asin	num pages 59 pp	avg rating 4.00	num ratings 9	date pub unknown	date pub edition 2019	Martin's rating really liked it	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review Excellent introduction to this near forgotten revolutionary and a profound radical writer on the politics of sexual liberation .	notes Notes are private!	recommender none	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started Jul 09, 2019	date read Jul 09, 2019	date added Dec 12, 2020	date purchased	owned	purchase location	condition	format Paperback	actions view (with text)
checkbox	position	cover	title The Poverty of Power: Energy and the Economic Crisis	author Commoner, Barry	isbn 0553108565	isbn13 9780553108569	asin	num pages 297 pp	avg rating 3.38	num ratings 24	date pub 1976	date pub edition 1976	Martin's rating liked it	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review An interesting study of US energy during the 1970s energy crisis that blends thermodynamics and Marxist economics in developing a criticism of capital ...more	notes Notes are private!	recommender none	comments 0	votes 1	# times read 1	date started Dec 06, 2020	date read Dec 12, 2020	date added Dec 06, 2020	date purchased	owned	purchase location	condition	format Paperback	actions view (with text)
checkbox	position	cover	title The Canterbury Tales	author Chaucer, Geoffrey	isbn 0140424385	isbn13 9780140424386	asin	num pages 521 pp	avg rating 3.51	num ratings 194,160	date pub 1400	date pub edition Jan 30, 2003	Martin's rating really liked it	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review None	notes Notes are private!	recommender none	comments 0	votes 1	# times read 1	date started Nov 28, 2020	date read Dec 12, 2020	date added Nov 28, 2020	date purchased	owned	purchase location	condition	format Paperback	actions view

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