He's a real Nowhere Man,
Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
Making all his nowhere plans
For nobody.
(From "Nowhere Man"
by The Beatles)

John Katzenbach - "The Traveller"

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Paolo Coelho - "The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream" (1993)

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Robin Cook

• Fever
• Mindbend
• Abduction
• Seizure

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Umberto Eco - "The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana" (2005)

html, illustrated, 12 mb (!)

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Nancy Friday - "Men In Love"

An extraordinary, explicitly masculine journey, Men In Love develops a startlingly honest portrayal of what it means to be a man in contemporary America. Here are the unexpurgated dreams, fantasies and fetishes that excite and obsess men today. In creating this historic study, Nancy Friday listened -- without disapproval, apology or censorship -- to the candid responses of thousands of men aged fourteen through sixty. She gave them a legitimate arena where they could share their "secret gardens" -- the hidden and forbidden but nonetheless real and true. Much more than a litany of erotica, this unique volume doesn't tell us how men should love. It tells us how men do love -- a stunning insight into the desires that dwell within men's psyches... and their hearts.

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John Connolly

• Bad Men
• Every Dead Thing
• Nocturnes
• The Black Angel
• The Book of Lost Things
• The Killing Kindby John Connolly
• The Unquiet
• The White Road

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John LeCarre

• A Perfect Spy
• A Small Town In Germany
• Single Single
• Smiley's People
• The Little Drummer Girl
• The Constant Gardener
• The Honourable Schoolboy
• The Looking Glass War
• The Secret Pilgrim
• The Tailor of Panama
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

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Sophie Kinsella - Undomestic Goddess (2005)

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Robin Cook

converted all books from 'lit' into more convenient (imho) 'html' format.

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Martin Cruz Smith - "Stalin's Ghost" (2006)

Gorky Park's Detective Arkady Renko returns to his Moscow base in Martin Cruz Smith's latest entry in the internationally bestselling series about Russian crimes, broken hearts, and the mysteries of the soul.

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Jeffery Deaver - "TWISTED" (2003)

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Fyodor Dostoevsky - "CRIME AND PUNISHMENT"

Mired in poverty, the student Raskolnikov nevertheless thinks well of himself. Of his pawnbroker he takes a different view, and in deciding to do away with her he sets in motion his own tragic downfall. Dostoyevsky's penetrating novel of an intellectual whose moral compass goes haywire, and the detective who hunts him down for his terrible crime, is a stunning psychological portrait, a thriller and a profound meditation on guilt and retribution.

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Jonathan Kellerman

• Flesh and Blood (2001)
• Obsession (2007)

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Kenneth Blanchard, Spencer Johnson - "The One Minute Manager"

Blanchard's celebrated collection of management stories that reveal the truths behind every good manager.

“All managers and executives can easily use The One Min­ute Manager to build a more efficient organization. Those who have tried it, like it.”

—ROY ANDERSON,
Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer,
Lockheed Corp.

“Our whole management has profited from reading The One Minute Manager.”

—MICHAEL D. ROSE, President
& Chief Executive Officer,
Holiday Inn, Inc.

“I gave copies to my boss, my subordinates, other refinery managers, and even to my wife, our close friends and our clergy. It has that kind of broad appeal and it’s that good!”

—ROBERT W. DAVIS, President
Chevron Chemical Company

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Umberto Eco

• The Name of the Rose (1980)
• Foucault's Pendulum (1988)
• The Island of the Day Before (1994)

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George Carlin - "Napalm & Silly Putty" (2001)

Politically incorrect comic and Grammy winner Carlin has shown no signs of burnout during a four-decade career arc as solo stand-up, TV writer and sitcom actor (That Girl; The George Carlin Show), with 18 hit recordings and 10 solo HBO specials, plus film roles (Dogma; The Prince of Tides). Living in L.A. and Vegas, he continues to take his act to stages across the country. Four years ago, Carlin's huge fan following kept his Brain Droppings on the New York Times bestseller list for 40 weeks, so it's no surprise he's back for another round of acrid and oblique observations on modern mores. He covers a wide range of issues from rape and religion to the homeless: "There's no war on homelessness... it's because there's no money in it." And any topic is fair game: abortion, airport security, cars, funerals, language, organ donors, sports, technology, TV and war. On the latter, he says, "Men, insecure about the size of their penises, choose to kill one another." Over 100 scintillating short pieces are interrupted by loony lists and hundreds of clever one-liners. The fragmented format and colloquial style of writing suggest that much of this laugh-out-loud book is drawn directly from Carlin's stage act. Several satires here ("A day in the life of Henry VIII," a nine-page interview with Jesus, an avant-garde play program) indicate a different direction Carlin might consider for future books.

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