Personal

Below are listed my forays into the realms of music and literature. 

Piano

• Chopin - Nocturne Op. 32, No 1

• Rachmaninoff - Prelude Op. 32, No. 5

• Chopin - Etude Op. 10, No. 1

• J.S. Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565

• Rachmaninoff - Prelude No 6, Op 23

• John Adams - Phrygian Gates

• Bach - Goldberg Variations

• Chopin - Nocturne Op 48, No 1

• Shostakovich - Prelude and Fugue No 16 Op 87

• Rachmaninoff - Prelude No. 8 in G minor

• Liszt - Ballade No. 2

• J S Bach - Partita 1 BWV 825

• Maurice Ravel - Sonatine (all movements)

• Rachmaninoff - Prelude Op 23 No 2

• Rachmaninoff - Etude-Tableaux Op 33 No 8

• Chopin - Etude Op 10 No 8

• Beethoven - Sonata Op 27 No 1

• Rachmaninoff - Etude-Tableaux Op 39 No 2

• Rachmaninoff - Prelude Op 32 No 10

• Chopin - Etude Op 10 No 4

• Chopin - Ballade Op 23 (Incomplete)

• Bach - Toccata and Fugue in E minor, BWV 914

• Bach - Goldberg Variation No. 10

• Beethoven - Rondo in G major Op. 51, No.2

• Ludwig von Beethoven - Sonata No. 3 Op.2 (I, II, III, IV)

• Ferenc Liszt - Trois Etudes de Concert III. Un Sospiro

• Rachmaninoff - Etude-Tableaux Number 8 Opus 39

• Mozart - Sonata KV332 (all movements)

• J.S.Bach - Prelude and Fugue Number 21 in B-flat Major

• Haydn - Sonata Number 37 in D Major - Allegro con brio

• Edvard Grieg - Summer Evening (Sommeraften)

• Rachmaninoff - Etude-Tableaux Number 5 in E-flat Minor

• Beethoven - Sonata Number 3 Opus 31 - Allegro

• Chopin - Etude in E Major, Op. 10, No. 3

• Chopin - Etude No. 1 in F Minor from "Three New Etudes"

• Rachmaninoff - "Fantasy" Suit No. 1, Op. 5 (for two pianos, part two)

• Muczynski - "Toccata" for the piano, Op. 15

• Chopin - "Etude in C Minor, Revolutionary" Op. 10, No. 12

• Johannes Brahms - "Intermezzo" from Acht Kavierstucke, Op. 76

• Claude Debussy - "The girl with the flaxen hair"

• Claude Debussy - "Minstrels"

• Claude Debussy - Image 1 "Reflets dans l'eau"

• Claude Debussy - "What the West wind has seen"

• Yan Dusek - Sonata "Le Retour a Paris" 1st movement Op. 70

• Grieg - Notturno, No. 33

• Joseph Haydn - Sonata No. 32

• Kent Kennan - Preludes for Piano, No. 3

• Chopin - Etude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 25, No. 7

• Schubert - Impromptu, No 2, Op. 90

• Bach - Little Preludes No. 2 and 3

• Chopin - Preludes No. 5 and 6

• Beethoven - Sonata No. 9

Books

• Jan 14, 2025 - Prelude to Dune trilogy (Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson)

• Dec 25, 2024 - The Book of Why (Dana Mackenzie and Judea Pearl)

• Dec 22, 2024 - Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (Yanis Varoufakis)

• Dec 16, 2024 - Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)

• Nov 28, 2024 - Myths, Muses and Mortals: The Way of Life in Ancient Greece (William D. Furley)

• Oct 27, 2024 - Debt: The First 5000 Years (David Graeber)

• Oct 26, 2024 - Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution (Cat Bohannon)

• Oct 20, 2024 - Thing Explainer (Randall Munroe)

• Oct 01, 2024 - Why the West Rules—For Now (Ian Morris)

• Aug 17, 2024 - The Dawn of Everything (David Graeber, David Wengrow)

• Feb 13, 2024 - Orbital (Samantha Harvey)

• Jan 29, 2024 - I have no mouth & I must scream (short stories) (Harlan Ellison)

• Jan 07, 2024 - Player Piano (Kurt Vonnegut)

• Jan 01, 2024 - Why I am Not a Christian and Other Essays (Bertrand Russell)

• Dec 27, 2023 - Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays (George Orwell)

• Dec 15, 2023 - The Philosophy Book, Big Ideas Simply Explained (Will Buckingham et al)

• Sep 23, 2023 - Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals (Oliver Burkeman)

• Aug 28, 2023 - The WEIRDest People in the World (Joseph Henrich)

• May 25, 2023 - Utopia for Realists (Rutger Bregman)

• May 03, 2023 - Heretic (Ayaan Hirsi Ali)

• Apr 20, 2023 - What If (Randall Munroe)

• Mar 26, 2023 - Major Operation (James White)

• Mar 12, 2023 - Star Surgeon (James White)

• Mar 04, 2023 - Hospital Station (James White)

• Feb 15, 2023 - Robots of Dawn (Isaac Asimov)

• Jan 25, 2023 - The Caves of Steel (Isaac Asimov)

• Jan 20, 2023 - Born to Run (Christopher McDougall)

• Jan 17, 2023 - Ringworld (Larry Niven)

• Dec 30, 2022 - Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut)

• Aug 27, 2022 - Туманность Андромеды (Иван Ефремов)

• Aug 16, 2022 - Пикник на обочине (Аркадий Стругацкий, Борис Стругацкий)

• Aug 02, 2022 - Гиперболоид инженера Гарина (Алексей Николаевич Толстой)

• Jun 26, 2022 - Линия Грез (Сергей Лукьяненко)

• May 07, 2022 - More Than Human (Theodore Sturgeon)

• Mar 05, 2022 - The Big Book of Science Fiction (Jeff & Ann Vandermeer)

• Jan 10, 2022 - Dune: Navigators of Dune (Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson)

• Jan 01, 2022 - Dune: Mentats of Dune (Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson)

• Dec 27, 2021 - Dune: Sisterhood of Dune (Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson)

• Dec 19, 2021 - Dune: The Battle of Corrin (Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson)

• Dec 01, 2021 - Dune: The Machine Crusade (Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson)

• Nov 16, 2021 - Dune: The Butlerian Jihad (Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson)

• Sep 12, 2021 - The Lost Planet (Vaughn Heppner)

• Aug 19, 2021 - The Lost Patrol (Vaughn Heppner)

• Aug 05, 2021 - The Lost Colony (Vaughn Heppner)

• Jul 11, 2021 - The Lost Destroyer (Vaughn Heppner)

• Jun 02, 2021 - The Lost Command (Vaughn Heppner)

• May 13, 2021 - The Lost Starship (Vaughn Heppner)

• May 01, 2021 - Poor Folk (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

• Apr 24, 2021 - The Demon-Haunted World (Ann Druyan and Carl Sagan)

• Mar 16, 2021 - Death's End (Liu Cixin)

• Mar 05, 2021 - The Dark Forest (Liu Cixin)

• Feb 14, 2021 - The Three-Body Problem (Liu Cixin)

• Jan 18, 2021 - Prisoners of Geography (Tim Marshall)

• Dec 28, 2020 - Salt, A World History (Mark Kurlansky)

• Nov 18, 2020 - The Dispossessed (Ursula Le Guin)

• Nov 09, 2020 - Homo Deus, A Brief History of Tomorrow (Yuval Noah Harari)

• Oct 02, 2020 - Seveneves (Neal Stephenson)

• Sep 07, 2020 - Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Thomas Piketty)

• Aug 22, 2020 - The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution (Gregory Zuckerman)

• Aug 15, 2020 - The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Malcolm Gladwell)

• Aug 06, 2020 - Anathem (Neal Stephenson)

• Jul 16, 2020 - Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much (Eldar Shafir and Sendhil Mullainathan)

• Jun 20, 2020 - Skin in the Game (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)

• Apr 21, 2020 - Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone (Eric Klinenberg)

• Apr 07, 2020 - Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots (Deborah Feldman)

• Dec 24, 2019 - Caribbean (James A. Michener)

• Oct 18, 2019 - Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think (Brian Wansink)

• Sep 24, 2019 - A Concise History of Spain (W.D. Phillips & C.R. Phillips)

• Aug 18, 2019 - Captain's Daughter and other short stories (A. S. Pushkin)

• Apr 29, 2019 - Quirkology, the curious science of everyday lives (Richard Wiseman)

• Apr 11, 2019 - Your Brain at Work (David Rock)

• Jan 26, 2019 - Stories of Your Life and Others (Ted Chiang)

• Jul 29, 2018 - Everybody Lies (Seth Stephens-Davidowitz)

• Jun 09, 2018 - The Stranger (Albert Camus)

• Jun 01, 2018 - Gulag Archipelago (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)

• May 11, 2018 - The Power (Naomi Alderman)

• Apr 07, 2018 - Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Steven Pinker)

• Mar 11, 2018 - Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler)

• Jan 07, 2018 - The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)

• Dec 12, 2017 - Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)

• Sep 30, 2017 - What Happened (Hillary Clinton)

• Aug 15, 2017 - The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Steven Pinker)

• Jul 19, 2017 - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari)

• Jun 24, 2017 - Born a Crime (Trevor Noah)

• May 02, 2017 - Hillbilly Elegy (J. D. Vance)

• Apr 22, 2017 - Khrushchev Remembers (Edward Crankshaw)

• Feb 12, 2017 - A People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn)

• Jan 15, 2017 - The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)

• Oct 15, 2016 - Without You There Is No Us (Suki Kim)

• Sep 10, 2016 - The Diamond Age (Neal Stephenson)

• Sep 06, 2016 - Andromeda Strain (Michael Crichton)

• Aug 11, 2016 - Journey to the Center of the Earth (Jules Verne)

• Aug 09, 2016 - Startide Rising (David Brin)

• Jul 13, 2016 - A Fire Upon the Deep (Vernor Vinge)

• Jun 22, 2016 - End of Eternity (Isaac Asimov)

• Jun 10, 2016 - A wrinkle in time (Madeleine L'Engle)

• Jun 03, 2016 - Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut)

• Mar 13, 2016 - Everything Is Obvious: *Once You Know the Answer (Duncan J. Watts)

• Feb 16, 2016 - Sex at Dawn (Cacilda Jethá & Christopher Ryan)

• Dec 21, 2015 - Contact (Carl Sagan)

• Dec 06, 2015 - Food in History (Reay Tannahill)

• Oct 23, 2015 - The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (Stephen King)

• Sep 30, 2015 - The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah (Stephen King)

• Sep 15, 2015 - The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla (Stephen King)

• Sep 03, 2015 - The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass (Stephen King)

• Aug 22, 2015 - The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands (Stephen King)

• Aug 14, 2015 - The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three (Stephen King)

• Aug 05, 2015 - The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger (Stephen King)

• Jul 07, 2015 - White Nights (F.M. Dostoyevski)

• Mar 30, 2015 - Russia, a 1,000-year Chronicle of the Wild East (Martin Sixsmith)

• Jan 05, 2015 - Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)

• Oct 15, 2014 - Time Enough for Love (Robert A. Heinlein)

• Aug 25, 2014 - Red Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)

• Aug 14, 2014 - Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)

• Aug 01, 2014 - The Day of the Triffids (John Wyndham)

• Jun 20, 2014 - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne)

• Jun 10, 2014 - О нежности (Надежда Тэффи)

• Jun 03, 2014 - The Stars My Destination (Alfred Bester)

• May 29, 2014 - The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula Le Guin)

• May 07, 2014 - The Mote in God's Eye (Larry Niven)

• Apr 06, 2014 - Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson)

• Mar 11, 2014 - Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut)

• Jan 10, 2014 - The Martian Chronicles (Ray Bradbury)

• Dec 29, 2013 - The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells)

• Dec 23, 2013 - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (Robert A. HeinLein)

• Dec 8, 2013 - Childhood's End (Arthur C Clarke)

• Dec 3, 2013 - Rendezous with Rama (Arthur C Clarke)

• Nov 30, 2013 - Fall of Hyperion (Dan Simmons)

• Nov 14, 2013 - Hyperion (Dan Simmons)

• Oct 23, 2013 - Ringworld (Larry Niven)

• Aug 24, 2013 - 2001: A Space Odyssey (Arthur C. Clarke)

• Jul 24, 2013 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)

• Jun 06, 2013 - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick)

• May 20, 2013 - Tale of Genji (abridged) (translated by Royall Tyler) (Murasaki Shikibu)

• Apr 20, 2013 - The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)

• Jan 17, 2013 - Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Patrick Süskind)

• Dec 30, 2012 - Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)

• Dec 22, 2012 - The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

• Dec 17, 2012 - A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)

• Nov 10, 2012 - Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)

• Sep 22, 2012 - Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)

• Aug 31, 2012 - A PhD Is Not Enough: A Guide To Survival In Science (Peter J. Feibelman)

• Aug 10, 2012 - The Foundation Trilogy (Issac Asimov)

• Jun 23, 2012 - Anna Karenina (F.M. Dostoyevski)

• Mar 01, 2012 - The Sandman (full series) (Neil Gaiman)

• Dec 22, 2011 - The Gap Into Power: A Dark and Hungry God Arises (Stephen R. Donaldson)

• Nov 16, 2011 - The Game-players of Titan (Philip K. Dick)

• Oct 20, 2011 - House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)

• Jun 09, 2011 - Neuromancer (William Gibson)

• Apr 16, 2011 - The God Delusion (Richard Dawkins)

• Oct 31, 2010 - How To Lie With Statistics (Darrell Huff)

• Oct 20, 2010 - The Gods Themselves (Isaac Asimov)

• Sep 29, 2010 - Hotel (Arthur Hailey)

• Aug 30, 2010 - Nemesis (Isaac Asimov)

• Jul 26, 2010 - Father Gorio (Russian translation) (Honore de Balzac)

• Feb 21, 2010 - Otherland: Sea of Silver Light (Tad Williams)

• Jan 04, 2010 - Otherland: Mountain of Black Glass (Tad Williams)

• Dec 07, 2009 - Otherland: River of Blue Fire (Tad Williams)

• Nov 07, 2009 - Otherland: City of Golden Shadows (Tad Williams)

• Feb 27, 2009 - Economics Explained (Robert Heilbroner, Lester Thurow)

• Aug 18, 2008 - Essentials of Philosophy (James Mannion)

• Aug 01, 2008 - Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (14 chapters) (Douglas R. Hofstadter)

• May 19, 2008 - America's Global Influence: Opposing Viewpoints (David M. Haugen, Susan Musser (editors))

• Jan 28, 2008 - Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality - Solving the Quantum Mysteries (John Gribbin)

• Jan 11, 2008 - Dune, House Atreides (Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson)

• Dec 26, 2007 - Mort (Terry Pratchett)

• Sep 03, 2007 - Unknown Quantity - A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra (John Derbyshire)

• Aug 09, 2007 - The Trial and Death of Socrates (Plato)

• Jul 26, 2007 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (J. K. Rowling)

• Jul 18, 2007 - A History of Musical Thought (Donald N Ferguson)

• May 03, 2007 - Chaos: Making a New Science (James Gleick)

• Apr 27, 2007 - Piano - The Making of a Steinway Concert Grand (James Barron)

• Feb 02, 2007 - Nine Tomorrows (Isaac Asimov)

• Nov 12, 2006 - The End of Faith (Sam Harris)

• Jul 16, 2006 - A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking)

• Jul 03, 2006 - Universe on a T-Shirt (Dan Falk)

• Jun 10, 2006 - The Golden Ratio (Mario Livio)

• Dec 24, 2005 - Bean Trees (Barbara Kingsolver)

• Nov 23, 2005 - A World Out Of Time (Larry Niven)

• Sep 09, 2005 - Flatland, A Romance of Many Dimensions (Edwin A. Abbott)

• Aug 31, 2005 - Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince (J.K. Rowling)

• Aug 07, 2005 - The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)

• Jul 29, 2005 - The Dosadi Experiment (Frank Herbert)

• Jul 20, 2005 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (J.K. Rowling)

• Jul 12, 2005 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (J.K. Rowling)

• Jul 06, 2005 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (J.K. Rowling)

• Jul 03, 2005 - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (J.K. Rowling)

• Jun 19, 2005 - Man's World, Woman's Place (Elizabeth Janeway)

• May 30, 2005 - Foundation and Earth (Isaac Asimov)

• May 22, 2005 - The White Plague (Frank Herbert)

• May 17, 2005 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (J.K. Rowling)

• Dec 03, 2004 - The cartoon history of the Universe I & II (Larry Gonick)

• Nov 14, 2004 - Children of the Mind (Orson Scott Card)

• Nov 05, 2004 - Xenocide (Orson Scott Card)

• Oct 23, 2004 - The Speaker for the Dead (Orson Scott Card)

• Oct 15, 2004 - Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)

• Oct 11, 2004 - Earth Descended (Fred Saberhagen)

• Sep 01, 2004 - Alaska (James A. Michener)

• Jul 01, 2004 - Creatures of Light and Darkness (Roger Zelazny)

• Jun 30, 2004 - Chapterhouse: Dune (Frank Herbert)

• Jun 21, 2004 - Heretics of Dune (Frank Herbert)

• Jun 13, 2004 - God Emperor of Dune (Frank Herbert)

• Jun 06, 2004 - Children of Dune (Frank Herbert)

• May 29, 2004 - Dune Messiah (Frank Herbert)

• May 25, 2004 - Dune (Frank Herbert)

• May 18, 2004 - Crime and Punishment (F.M.Dostoyevski)

• Apr 30, 2004 - Jack of Shadows (Roger Zelazny)

• Apr 24, 2004 - Lord of Light (Roger Zelazny)

• Apr 16, 2004 - Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy (Robert Jourdain)

• Mar 27, 2004 - Inferno (Lary Niven, Jerry Pournelle)

• Mar 21, 2004 - The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories (Isaac Asimov)

• Mar 17, 2004 - Poland (James A. Michener)

• Feb 13, 2004 - Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein)

• Feb 02, 2004 - No Exit (Jean-Paul)

• Jan 31, 2004 - Medea (Euripides)

• Jan 28, 2004 - The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)

• Jan 22, 2004 - Foundation's Edge (Isaac Asimov)

• Jan 14, 2004 - Foe from the Mind (A.S.Griboyedov)

• Jan 04, 2004 - Merrick (Anne Rice)

• Jan 01, 2004 - Vittorio the Vampire (Anne Rice)

• Dec 27, 2003 - Pandora (Anne Rice)

• Dec 24, 2003 - The Evenings near Dekanka (N.V.Gogol)

• Dec 14, 2003 - Idiot (F.M.Dostoyevski)

• Nov 21, 2003 - Brothers Karamazov (F.M.Dostoyevski)

• Oct 17, 2003 - Salome (Oscar Wilde)

• Oct 17, 2003 - The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)

• Sep 29, 2003 - The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)

• Aug 18, 2003 - Notes from the Underground (F.M.Dostoyevski)

• Jul 04, 2003 - The Way To Freedom (Dalai Lama)

• May 10, 2003 - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou)

• Apr 14, 2003 - Second Foundation (Isaac Asimov)

• Apr 06, 2003 - Foundation and Empire (Isaac Asimov)

• Mar 28, 2003 - Foundation (Issac Asimov)

• Mar 21, 2003 - I, Robot (Isaac Asimov)

• Mar 09, 2003 - Demon Seed (Dean Koontz)

• Feb 23, 2003 - Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice)

• Nov 30, 2002 - Homeland (R.A.Salvatore)

• Nov 22, 2002 - The Black Cauldron (Lloyd Alexander)

• Nov 17, 2002 - The Castle of Llyr (Lloyd Alexander)

• Nov 10, 2002 - The Book of Three (Lloyd Alexander)

• Oct 27, 2002 - Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas)

• Oct 03, 2002 - Revelations (Douglas E. Winter)

• Sep 21, 2002 - Ishmael (Daniel Quinn)

• Jul 30, 2002 - The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (J.R.R.Tolkien)

• May 19, 2002 - Legion of the Damned (William C. Dietz)

• May 11, 2002 - Ordinary People (Judith Guest)

• Apr 07, 2002 - The Call of the Wild (Jack London)

• Mar 10, 2002 - 1984 (George Orwell)

• Feb 03, 2002 - Locked in Time (Lois Duncan)

• Jan 31, 2002 - The Keeper of the Isis Light (Monica Hughes)

• Jan 26, 2002 - Dracula (Bram Stoker)

• Jan 09, 2002 - Keeping the Moon (Sarah Dessen)