Italicized books are science-related!

To Read 
2012: 

1. The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios - Yann Martel (just the novella - not the short stories.) 
2. Incognito - David Eagleman 
3. Small Avalanches and Other Stories -Joyce Carol Oates 
4. Flannery - Brad Gooch 
5. Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns - Andrea Gibson 
6. Lucky Fish - Aimee Nezhukumatathil
7. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot 
8. The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion 
9. What Have You Lost -Various, complied by Naomi Shihab Nye 
10. Sending Christmas Cards to Huck and Hamlet -Joseph Mills 
11. Nine Horses - Billy Collins 
12. Miracle Fruit - Aimee Nez
13. Practice of Creative Writing - Heather Sellers 
14. Life-Span Development - John Santrock 
15. Exploring Reality: The Intertwining of Science and Religion - John Polkinghorne 
16. Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg 
17. Tell me - Kim Addonizio
18. Turtle Island - Gary Snyder 
19. Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone - J.K. Rowling
20. Evidence: Poems - Mary Oliver
21. Wildwood by Colin Melroy 
22. Intensive Care: A Doctor’s Journal - John F. Murray  
23. The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
24. Eating Animals - Jonathan Safran Foer
25. How to Build a Dinosaur: New Science of Reverse Evolution - Jack Horner, James Gorman  
26. Walden - Henry David Thoreau (re-read) 
27. The Truro Bear and Other Adventures - Mary Oliver 
28. Love is a Dog from Hell - Charles Bukowski
29. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate -Jacqueline Kelly
30. The Periodic Table - Primo Levi 
31. The Book of Imaginary Beings - Jorge Luis Borges 
32. Metaphorical God: Poems - Kimberly Johnson
33. The Back Country - Gary Snyder 
34. The Fact of a Doorframe - Adrienne Rich 
35. Winter’s Bone - Daniel Woodrell 
36. Picnic, Lightning - Billy Collins 
37. Jesus Christ and Mythology - Rudolph Bultmann 
38. Dinosaur in a Haystack - Stephen Jay Gould*
39. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (re-read) - Milan Kundera* 
40. But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz - Geoff Dyer* 
41. The Physics Book - Clifford A. Pickover 
42. Burn this Book - various authors, edited by Toni Morrison 
43. Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman*
44. Science Ink - Carl Zimmer 
45. Blood and Bone - Poems by Physicians* 
46. The Believing Brain - Michael Shermer* 
47. The Best of the Best American Science Writing (Various Authors)*
48. The Best American Science Writing - 2010 (Various Authors)*
49. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkein* 
50. Farm Anatomy - Julia Rothman
51. Firehouse - David Halberstam 
52. The Illustrated History of Surgery - Sir Roy Calne*
53. The Zombie Autopsies: Secret Notebooks from the Apocalypse -Steven Schlozman
54. Vintage Didion - Joan Didion 
55. Microcosm: E-Coli and the New Science of Life - Carl Zimmer 
56. Girl Trouble - Holly Goddard Jones*
57. The Unfolding of Language - Guy Deutscher 
58. My Lost City: Essays - F. Scott Fitzgerald*
59. In Search of Memory - Eric Kandel*
60. The Human Brain Book - Rita Carter 
61. Night at the Circus - Angela Carter
62. House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski*
63. Wild Thorns - Sahar Khalifeh
64. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera
65. Consider the Lobster - David Foster Wallace 
66. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 
67. An Anthropologist on Mars - Oliver Sacks*
68. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf*
69. Major Works - Ludwig Wittgenstein 
70. In Search of Lost Time Volume One: Swann’s Way - Marcel Proust*
71. Pablo Neruda - Selected Poems*
72. Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White*
73. Sociobiology: The New Synthesis - Edward O. Wilson 
74. Forever Young - Bob Dylan
75. Of Love and Other Demons - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 
76. Good-bye to All That - Robert Graves 
77. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Storeis - Raymond Carver
78. The Future of Life - Edward O. Wilson 
79. White Nights and Other Stories - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
80. Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Truman Capote 
81. The Ethics of Ambiguity - Simone De Beauvoir 
82. The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break - Steven Sherrill
83. Magnolia (screenplay) - Paul Thomas Anderson
84. Short Short Stories - Dave Eggers
85. Now in November - Josephine Winslow Johnson
86. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo 
87. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen - Tadeusz Borowski
88. Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann
89. Flash Fiction Forward- Robert Shapard, James Thomas
90. Ballistic - Billy Collins 
91. The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams - Tennessee Williams 
92.  A House of Pomegranates - Oscar Wilde 
93. Biophillia - Edward O. Wilson
94.  The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & other stories - Charles Bukowski 
95. Adverbs - Daniel Handler 
96. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
97. Tinkers - Paul Harding 
98. Horoscopes for the Dead - Billy Collins
99. Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine
100. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - David Sedaris
101. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison 
102. Rhythms of Life: The Biological Clocks that Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing - Russel G. Foster 
103. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams  
104.  The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass 
105. Still Life With Woodpecker - Tom Robbins
106. Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space - Carl Sagan 
107. Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut 
108.  The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
109. The Beautiful and the Dammed - F. Scott Fitzgerald 
110. God in Search of Man - Abraham Joshua Heschel 
111. The Rose Tattoo - Tennessee Williams 
112. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
113. Invitation to a Beheading - Vladimir Nabokov 
114. The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers - Michael Newton
115.  Killer Diller - Clyde Edgerton 
116.  Heir to the Glimmering World - Cynthia Ozick
117.  Of Mice and Men - John Steinback (re-read) 
118. Letters from the Earth - Mark Twain 
119. The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
120.  Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk - David Sedaris
121. The Meowmorphosis - Franz Kafka and Coleridge Cook 
122.  Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak by Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser
     
     
     2011: 

1. Nine Stories - J.D. Salinger 
2. Monkey: Journey to the West - Wu Cheng’en
3. Tao Te Ching - Laozi (re-read)
4. The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams 
5. The Road - Cormac McCarthy 
6. The Invention of Hugo Cabret - Brian Selznick
7. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
8. Lady Windermere’s Fan - Oscar Wilde
9. Mark Twain’s translation of Struwwelpeter
10. From the Kingdom of Memory - Elie Wiesel 
11. The Narrow Road to the Interior - Matsuo Basho
12. Woman in the Dunes - Kobo Abe
13. Hello Sadness - Francoise Sagan
14. Dora - Sigmund Freud
15. Candide, Or Optimism - Francois-Marie Arouet De Voltaire
16. Langston Huges - James Emanuel
17. Notes From Underground - Fyodor Doestoevsky 
18. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas- Frederick Douglas
19. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut (re-read)
20. Standardized Minds - Peter Stacks
21. Mules and Men - Zora Neale Hurston 
22. Soul On Ice - Eldridge Cleaver 
23. God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian - Kurt Vonnegut*
24. Endgame - Samuel Beckett
25. The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison*
26. Bud, Not Buddy - Christopher Paul Curtis*
27. Sailing Alone Around the Room - Billy Collins*
28. The Wasteland and Other Poems - T.S. Eliot
29. Phantoms in the Brain - V.S. Ramachandran 
30. The Lover - Marguerite Duras* 
31. The Doors of Perception - Alduous Huxley*
32. How We Decide - Jonah Lehrer*
33. Eight Mortal Ladies Possessed: Stories - Tennessee Williams* 
34. Mind, Life, and the Universe: Conversations with Great Scientists of Our Time*
35. The Tao Of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff
36. A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness   V.S. Ramachandran 
37. The Dynamics of Faith - Paul Tillich 
38. The Crack Up - F. Scott Fitzgerald
39. Wise Blood - Flannery O’connor
40. Tender Buttons - Gertrude Stein 
41. Summer and Smoke - Tennessee Williams 
42. Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 
43. Don’t Shoot the Dog - Karen Pryor 
44. Winter Trees - Sylvia Plath 
45. Just KIds - Patti Smith 
46. Ramona Quimby, Age 8 - Beverly Cleary 
47. The Human Skeleton -Benjamin N. Schuman 
48. Social Psychology - Robert A. Baron and others 
49. Biopsychology -Pinel 
50. Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about our Everyday Perceptions- Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde
51. Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity - Howard Gardner 
52. An Inconvenient Truth - Al Gore
53. Conversations with Flannery O’Connor - Rosemary Magee (editor) 
54. Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats - T.S. Eliot 
55. The Alligators - John Updike
56. Human Memory -Gabriel Radvansky