Home page for Jeffrey Joens

                                     B O O K S

04/2020 F Lolita/Vladimer Nabokov

           NF Labyrinth Of Ice/Buddy Levy

03/2020 F We Need To Talk About Kevin/Lionel Shriver

           NF The Body/Bill Bryson

02/2020 F Wonder Boys/Michael Chabon

           NF Catch and Kill/Ronan Farrow

01/2020 F The Sheltering Sky/Paul Bowles

           NF What Is Real?/Adam Becker

12/2019 F Stoner/John Williams

           NF Dreaming the Beatles/Rob Sheffield

11/2019 F Old School/Tobias Wolff

           NF American Carnage/Tim Alberta

10/2019 F The Women's Room/Marilyn French

           NF Stories From Rwanda/Philip Gourevitch

09/2019 F Arrowsmith/Sinclair Lewis

           NF The Signal And the Noise/Nate Silver

08/2019 F The Heart of the Matter/Graham Greene

          NF Barbarians At the Gate/Bryan Burrough + John Helyar

07/2019 F Spoon River Anthology/Edgar Lee Masters

           NF I Hate Myself And Want to Die/Tom Reynolds

06/2019 F Tristram Shandy/Laurence Sterne

           NF Strange Beauty/George Johnson

05/2019 F Cat's Cradle/Kurt Vonnegut

           NF SPQR/Mary Beard

04/2019 F The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie/Muriel Sparks

           NF Atomic Adventures/James Mahaffey

03/2019 F A Journal of the Plague Years/Daniel Defoe

           NF Being Nixon/Evan Thomas

02/2019 F The Best of H P Lovecraft/H P Lovecraft

           NF Stuff Matters/Mark Miodownik

01/2019 F The World According to Garp/John Irving

           NF Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos/Dennis Overbye

12/2018 F Beijing Coma/Ma Jian

           NF The Sleepwalkers/Christopher Clark

11/2018 F Ravelstein/Saul Bellow

           NF The Closing of the American Mind/Allan Bloom

10/2018 F Stranger In a Strange Land/Robert Heinlein

           NF At Home In the World/Joyce Maynard

09/2018 F Dance, Dance, Dance/Haruki Murakami

           NF The German War/Nicholas Stargardt

08/2018 F The Caine Mutiny/Herman Wouk

           NF When Einstein Walked With Godel/Jim Holt

07/2018 F  Stories of Your Life and Others/Ted Chiang

           NF Sticky Fingers/Joe Hagan

06/2018 F  The Fifth Child/Doris Lessing

           NF Pandora's Lab/Paul Offit

05/2018 F  Catch 22/Joseph Heller

           NF Playing With Fire/Lawrence O'Donnell

04/2018 F  Heart of Darkness/Joseph Conrad

           NF A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again/David Foster Wallace

03/2018 F Darkness At Noon/Arthur Koestler

           NF The Show That Never Ends/David Weigel

02/2018 F  To the Lighthouse/Virginia Wolfe

           NF Charles Dickens/Jane Smiley

01/2018  F  Elmer Gantry/Sinclair Lewis

           NF How the Right Lost Its Mind/Charles Sykes

12/2017  F  The End of the Affair/Graham Greene

           NF Tubes/Andrew Blum

11/2017  F  The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter/Carson McCullers

           NF Command and Control/Eric Schlosser

10/2017  F Deep Water/Patricia Highsmith

           NF  Meditations/Marcus Aurelius

09/2017  F Collected Fictions/Jorge Luis Borges

           NF  Ball Four/Jim Bouton

08/2017  F  Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist/Russell McCormmach

           NF  The Exile/Cathy Scott-Clark + Adrian Levy

07/2017  F  Chemistry/Weike Wang

           NF  Letterman/Jason Zinoman

06/2017  F  The Constant Gardener/John le Carre

           NF  Lost In the Meritocracy/Walter Kirn

05/2017  F  Bleak House/Charles Dickens

           NF  The Brethren/Bob Woodward + Scott Armstrong

04/2017  F  Lucky Jim/Kingsley Amis

           NF  Weapons of Math Destruction/Cathy O'Neil

03/2017  F  Hour of the Star/Clarice Lispector

           NF  Seven Brief Lessons on Physics/Carlo Rovelli

02/2017  F  The Yiddish Policeman's Union/Michael Chabon

           NF  Atheism: A Very Short Introduction/Julian Baggini

01/2017  F  The Good Soldier/Ford Madox Ford

           NF  The Age of Caesar/Plutarch (t. Pamela Mensch)

12/2016  F The Plague/Albert Camus

           NF  The Moronic Inferno/Martin Amis

11/2016  F  Moby Dick/Herman Melville

           NF  The Making of the Atomic Bomb/Richard Rhodes

10/2016  F  The Defense/Vladimir Nabokov

           NF  Higher Superstition/Paul Gross + Norman Levitt

09/2016  F  Miss Lonelyhearts/Nathanael West

           NF  A Mathematician's Apology/G H Hardy

08/2016  F  1984/George Orwell

           NF Hiroshima/John Hersey

07/2016  F  The Remains Of the Day/Kazuo Ishigura

           NF  The Last Place On Earth/Roland Huntford

06/2016  F  No Longer Human/Osamu Dazai

           NF  The World of Physical Chemistry/Keith Laidler

05/2016  F  Candide/Voltaire

           NF  A Short History of Nearly Everything/Bill Bryson

                  M U S I C  

09 Pandemonium Shadow Show/Nilsson

08/2020 The Asch Recordings/Woody Guthrie

07/2020 Rocket to Russia/Ramones

06/2020 Columbia/Big Star

05/2020 Live Raisin' Hell/Elvin Bishop

04/2020 Singles/Can

03/2020 Discipline/King Crimson

02/2020 Young Team/Mogwai

01/2020 Crime of the Century/Super-tramp

12/2019 Straight Out the Jungle/Jun-gle Brothers

11/2019 Faithless Street/Whiskeytown

10/2019 Tea For the Tillerman/Cat Stevens

09/2019 Politico/Mexican Institute of Sound

08/2019 ...in a Chamber/Wire Train

07/2019 Live At Max's Kansas City/The Heartbreakers

06/2019 As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls/Pat Metheny

05/2019 Variations On a Theme/David Thomas

04/2019 Tinted Windows/Tinted Windows

03/2019 Live At Leeds/The Who

02/2019 Freedom of Choice/Devo

01/2019 Songs For Judy/Neil Young

12/2018 Green Naugahyde/Primus

11/2018 Cruel Sister/Pentangle

10/2018 Hand of Kindness/Richard Thompson

09/2018 Live At Carnegie Hall/David Brubeck Quartet

08/2018 Dirty Shirt Rock and Roll/Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

07/2018 Live at the Old Quarter/ Townes Van Zandt

06/2018 Before and After Science/ Brian Eno

05/2018 Strange Man Changed Man/ Bram Tchaikovsky

04/2018 No Joy-Sonic Boom/No Joy-Sonic Boom

03/2018 Live At Oberlin College/Miss-issippi John Hurt

02/2018 Vienna/Ultravox

01/2018 Ecolocations: River/Andrew Bird

12/2017 Of Natural History/Sleepy-time Gorilla Museum

11/2017 Anthology of American Folk Music/(ed Harry Smith)

10/2017 American Dream/LCD Sound-system

09/2017 Shake Hands With Shorty/N. Mississippi All-Stars

08/2017 pH7/Peter Hammill

07/2017 16 Tunes/Flamin' Groovies

06/2017 Beware of the Dog!/Hound Dog Taylor

05/2017 154/Wire

04/2017 Lolita Nation/Game Theory

03/2017 Lark's Tongue in Aspic/King Crimson

02/2017 Uncorked/Al Stewart

01/2017 Live In Tasmania/John Fahey

12/2016 Bu-Ikikaesu/Maximum the Hormone

11/2016 Teens of Denial/Car Seat Headrest

10/2016 On the Beach/Neil Young

09/2016 Purple Onion/Les Claypool

08/2016 Space Ritual/Hawkwind

07/2016 Born to Laugh At Tornados/ Was (Not Was)

06/2016 An Evening of Contemporary Sitar Music/Spacemen 3

05/2016 Modern Lovers/Modern Lovers