Saturday, March 27, 2010

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 ShapardJames 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

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