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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. Wildwood by Colin Melroy 
6. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot 
7. Dinosaur in a Haystack - Stephen Jay Gould 
8. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (re-read) - Milan Kundera 
9. The Physics Book - Clifford A. Pickover 
10. Burn this Book - various authors, edited by Toni Morrison 
11. Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman 
12. Science Ink - Carl Zimmer 
13. Blood and Bone - Poems by Physicians 
14. The Believing Brain - Michael Shermer 
15. Six Degrees - The Science of a Connected Age 
16. The Best of the Best American Science Writing 
17. The Best American Science Writing - 2010 
18. Chemistry for Changing Times - John W. Hill 
19. Lucky Fish - Nezhukumatathil
20. Miracle Fruit - Nezhukumatathil
21. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkein 
22. Firehouse - David Halberstam 
23. The Illustrated History of Surgery - Sir Roy Calne 
24. The Zombie Autopsies: Secret Notebooks from the Apocalypse -Steven Schlozman
25. Vintage Didion - Joan Didion 
26. Microcosm: E-Coli and the New Science of Life - Carl Zimmer 
27. Practice of Creative Writing - Heather Sellers 
28. Girl Trouble - Holly Goddard Jones 
29. Love and Other Collisions - Joseph Mills 
30. Sending Christmas Cards - Joseph Mills 
31. Somewhere During the Spin Cycle - Joseph Mills 
32. Life-Span Development - John Santrock 
33. Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns - Andrea Gibson 
34. The Unfolding of Language - Guy Deutscher 
35. My Lost City: Essays - F. Scott Fitzgerald 
36. The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion 
37. In Search of Memory - Eric Kandel
38. The Human Brain Book - Rita Carter 
39. Night at the Circus - Angela Carter
40. House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski 
41. Wild Thorns - Sahar Khalifeh
42. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera 
43. Consider the Lobster - David Foster Wallace 
44. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 
45. An Anthropologist on Mars - Oliver Sacks 
46. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf 
47. Major Works - Ludwig Wittgenstein 
48. In Search of Lost Time Volume One: Swann’s Way - Marcel Proust 
49. Pablo Neruda - Selected Poems 
50. Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White 
51. Sociobiology: The New Synthesis - Edward O. Wilson 
52. Forever Young - Bob Dylan
53. Of Love and Other Demons - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 
54. Good-bye to All That - Robert Graves 
55. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Storeis - Raymond Carver
56. The Future of Life - Edward O. Wilson 
57. White Nights and Other Stories - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
58. Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Truman Capote 
59. The Ethics of Ambiguity - Simone De Beauvoir 
60. The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break - Steven Sherrill
61. Magnolia (screenplay) - Paul Thomas Anderson
62. Short Short Stories - Dave Eggers
63. Now in November - Josephine Winslow Johnson
64. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo 
65. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen - Tadeusz Borowski
66. Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann
67. Flash Fiction Forward- Robert Shapard, James Thomas
68. Ballistic - Billy Collins 
69. The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams - Tennessee Williams 
70.  A House of Pomegranates - Oscar Wilde 
71. Biophillia - Edward O. Wilson
72.  The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & other stories - Charles Bukowski 
73. Adverbs - Daniel Handler 
74. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
75. Tinkers - Paul Harding 
76. Horoscopes for the Dead - Billy Collins
77. Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine
78. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - David Sedaris
79. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison 
80. Rhythms of Life: The Biological Clocks that Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing - Russel G. Foster 
81. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams  
82.  The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass 
83. Still Life With Woodpecker - Tom Robbins
84. Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space - Carl Sagan 
85. Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut 
86.  The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
87. The Beautiful and the Dammed - F. Scott Fitzgerald 
88. God in Search of Man - Abraham Joshua Heschel 
89. The Rose Tattoo - Tennessee Williams 
90. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
91. Invitation to a Beheading - Vladimir Nabokov 
92. The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers - Michael Newton
93.  Killer Diller - Clyde Edgerton 
94.  Heir to the Glimmering World - Cynthia Ozick
95.  Of Mice and Men - John Steinback (re-read) 
96. Letters from the Earth - Mark Twain 
97. The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
98.  Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk - David Sedaris
99. The Meowmorphosis - Franz Kafka and Coleridge Cook 
100.  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