The Seven-Day Book Cover Challenge: The Honorable Mentions

This is a list of other good books that I was considering for the seven days.

Like I told Don Bugg, it was hard to choose just seven.

Most of these books, like Dumas' The Three Musketeers, are really old, but some, like Craig's Missing, Presumed Dead, are relatively new. Some, like White's North American Indian Footwear, are surprisingly still in print, and others, like the 1974 EMS catalog, are long gone. Most of these titles can be found online. Besides Amazon, you can check Goodreads and ThriftBooks. Project Gutenberg is a good source for the classics, such as The Count of Monte Cristo. And it's always a delight to discover any of these books in a real brick-and-mortar bookstore.

There is no significance to the order in which the books appear in this list. Seriously, the order does not matter.

I left off a lot of really good books. I don't know why; that's just the way my brain works. Don't ask me for their titles. If I could remember their titles, they would be on the list. Duh.

There is a quartet of books that doesn't even need to be mentioned: the holy books, the sacred texts, which guide my life. They are superior to any book list I could ever compile.

After that long preface, here's the list of Honorable Mentions.

The Art of Electronics, by Horowitz and Hill
The Complete Walker, by Colin Fletcher
Craft Manual of North American Indian Footwear, by George White
Outdoor Survival Skills, by Larry Dean Olson
The 1974 Eastern Mountain Sports catalog
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, by Bill Watterson
Betty Crocker's Cookbook, New and Revised Edition (1979)
The original Harry Potter series, all seven books, by J. K. Rowling
The Chronicles of Narnia, by C. S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Prydain, by Lloyd Alexander
Missing, Presumed Dead, by Craig Depew
The Princess Bride, by William Goldman. The book is great; the movie is even greater
The Scarlet Pimpernel, by Baroness Orczy
(also about France, before and after the Revolution:

• The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas
• A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
• Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo
• The Count of Monte Cristo, also by Alexandre Dumas)

Three programming classics:

• The C Programming Language, by Kernighan and Ritchie
• Who's Afraid of C++, by Steve Heller - that title is obsolete, but his later C++ books are just as good
• Common Lisp: The Language, by Guy Steele