* denotes books I've yet to acquire

Some foodstuffs:
 **Michel Suas's Advanced Food and Pastry
 *Crust and Crumb
  La Brea Bread Book
 *Paula Figioni's How Baking Works
 *John Thorne's Outlaw Cook
  Shirley Corriher's Cookwise
 *Shirley Corriher's Bakewise
 *MFK Fisher's Gastronomic Me
 *Jim Harrison's Just Before Dark
  Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma
 *Harold McGee's The Curious Cook
 *Mort Rosemblum's Olives (don't buy for me; I'll get at library)
 *Victor-Antoine D'Avila-Latourrette's Twelve Months of Monastery Soups (perhaps find out how vegetarian it is, first?)

and cookbooks:
 *Debbie Madison's Suppers
  Edward Espe Brown's Tassajara Bread Book
 *Rick Bayless's
 *Dona Thomas's
 *Michel Suas's Advanced Bread and Pastry

Some nonfiction: 
 *200% of nothing: QA93 .D49 1993 Moffitt
 *Innumeracy: QA93 .P38 1988 Moffitt
 *Simple Tools: R31 .B78  Biosci
 *Gandhi's Hind Swaraj
 *David Grodon Wilson's Bicycle Science
 *Marcus Borg's The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith
 *some sort of "O-Chem for Dummies"
 *Semantic Antics: How and Why Words Change Meaning, Sol Steinmetz
 *Tom Vanderbilt's Traffic
 *John McWhorter's The Power of Babel
  Self Made Tapestry
 *Eric Berne's Games People Play (Luber)
  Reb Anderson's Being Upright
 *Zen and Art in Archery
  Instructions to the Chef (13th, not 20th Cent.)
 *Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mtn
 *Mary O'brein's Making Better Environmental Decisions (Meg)
 *something by Jonathon Kozol (Angela)
 *Desmond Morris's The Nature Of Happiness, Bodytalk: The Meaning of Human Gestures
 *Rider's california
 *Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom
 *John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society
 *Torstein Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class
 *Jon Bogle's Battle for the Soul of Capitalism
 *David Gautier's Morals by Agreement
 *The Tipping Point
 *Grout, Donald Jay - A history of western music (Bill Ganz, on alternative tempers)
 *Underground History of American Education
  Pursuit of Loneliness (Wealth Addiction)
 *Some Ayn Rand: perhaps Atlas Shrug
 *Carroll, Sean: The Making of the Fittest
 *Pope Leo's Encyclical on Labor
  Michael S. Rose's books about the Catholic church:
   *Ugly as Sin, about bad church architecture
   *Good bye good men, about the sad state of Catholic seminaries
   *Priest, with stories of ten priests

 *Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming
 *Mike Keane's Dictionary of Strategy and Tactics
  Calculus - Larson and Hostetler third edition
 *Ben Schott's "Food and Drink Miscellany"  
 *The Rules of Evidence
  an appropriate legal writing and reasoning book
 *Math and the Imagination (Is that the best thing out there?)

Some fiction:
 *Michael Mott's "The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton"
  A prayer for owen meaney (Jill)
  The Postman
 *Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers
  The Life of Pi
  Edith Wharton's Age of Innocence 
 *Shakespeare's King Lear
  Marquez's 100 Days of Solitude
  Rainier Rilke's Book of Hours
 *Stanislaw Lem's The Cyberiad 
  The Little Prince
  Michener's The Source (Chris Thorman)
 *Look Homeward, Angel (Chris Thorman)
 *Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex (Nina, Alex J)
 *Michael Cunningham's The Hours
 *Flannery O'Connor's... stuff

Some social/ political/ philosophical books:
  Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus
 *Paul Feyerabend's Against Method
  Kant's Groundwork...
 *Garrison Keillor's Why I am a Democrat
 *Hillaire Belloc
 *Santayana

Some Music
 *Oxford Book of Tudor Anthems
 *Oxford Book of Carols (up to four copies)

Some children's books 
 *The Day the Duchess Baked a Cake

Some how-to books:
  The Purpose Driven Life (Allen)
  Steve Colgate's
     Fundamentals of Sailing, Crusing and Racing
    *On Sailing (not the "basic" one), and/ or
  Conliffe's Easy on the Helm
 *Oceanography and Seamanship, by William G. Van Dorn
 *Dave Perry's Winning in One Designs, or 
   *Soren Krause's _Paul Elvstrom Explains the Racing Rules of Sailing : 2005-2008 Rules_
 *Fred Reiss' Surf.com
  Collin Adams' The Knot Book
 *Nigel Sheperd's Complete Guide to Rope Techniques (low priority)

Some quick, fun reads (to fall asleep to... )
  *Christopher Moore's A Dirty Job, Breakfast of Champions, Lamb
  *Tom Robbin's Another Roadside Attraction
  *Carl Hiaasen's Skinny Dip, Skin Tight.
   Time Traveler's Wife
  *Nick Hornsby's How to be Good, About a Boy, A Long Way Down
  *McLarty's Memory of Running
  *any Vonnegut but CC and SL5

Some books that don't quite fit elsewhere
 *Powers of Ten
 *Paddle to the Sea
 *Seabird
 *A nice big English 1700-today poetry anthology
  The Ocean Almanac
 *Ken Light and Melanie Light's _Coal Hollow_