Italicized books are science-related!
To Read
2012:
The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios - Yann Martel (just the novella - not the short stories.)
Incognito - David Eagleman
Small Avalanches and Other Stories -Joyce Carol Oates
Flannery - Brad Gooch
Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns - Andrea Gibson
Lucky Fish - Aimee Nezhukumatathil
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
What Have You Lost -Various, complied by Naomi Shihab Nye
Sending Christmas Cards to Huck and Hamlet -Joseph Mills
Nine Horses - Billy Collins
Miracle Fruit - Aimee Nez
Practice of Creative Writing - Heather Sellers
Life-Span Development - John Santrock
Exploring Reality: The Intertwining of Science and Religion - John Polkinghorne
Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg
Tell me - Kim Addonizio
Turtle Island - Gary Snyder
Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone - J.K. Rowling
Evidence: Poems - Mary Oliver
- Wildwood by Colin Melroy
- Intensive Care: A Doctor’s Journal - John F. Murray
- The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
- Eating Animals - Jonathan Safran Foer
- How to Build a Dinosaur: New Science of Reverse Evolution - Jack Horner, James Gorman
- Walden - Henry David Thoreau (re-read)
- The Truro Bear and Other Adventures - Mary Oliver
- Love is a Dog from Hell - Charles Bukowski
- The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate -Jacqueline Kelly
- The Periodic Table - Primo Levi
- The Book of Imaginary Beings - Jorge Luis Borges
- Metaphorical God: Poems - Kimberly Johnson
- The Back Country - Gary Snyder
- The Fact of a Doorframe - Adrienne Rich
- Winter’s Bone - Daniel Woodrell
- Picnic, Lightning - Billy Collins
- Jesus Christ and Mythology - Rudolph Bultmann
- Dinosaur in a Haystack - Stephen Jay Gould*
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being (re-read) - Milan Kundera*
- But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz - Geoff Dyer*
- The Physics Book - Clifford A. Pickover
- Burn this Book - various authors, edited by Toni Morrison
- Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman*
- Science Ink - Carl Zimmer
- Blood and Bone - Poems by Physicians*
- The Believing Brain - Michael Shermer*
- The Best of the Best American Science Writing (Various Authors)*
- The Best American Science Writing - 2010 (Various Authors)*
- The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkein*
- Farm Anatomy - Julia Rothman
- Firehouse - David Halberstam
- The Illustrated History of Surgery - Sir Roy Calne*
- The Zombie Autopsies: Secret Notebooks from the Apocalypse -Steven Schlozman
- Vintage Didion - Joan Didion
- Microcosm: E-Coli and the New Science of Life - Carl Zimmer
- Girl Trouble - Holly Goddard Jones*
- The Unfolding of Language - Guy Deutscher
- My Lost City: Essays - F. Scott Fitzgerald*
- In Search of Memory - Eric Kandel*
- The Human Brain Book - Rita Carter
- Night at the Circus - Angela Carter
- House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski*
- Wild Thorns - Sahar Khalifeh
- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera
- Consider the Lobster - David Foster Wallace
- The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
- An Anthropologist on Mars - Oliver Sacks*
- To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf*
- Major Works - Ludwig Wittgenstein
- In Search of Lost Time Volume One: Swann’s Way - Marcel Proust*
- Pablo Neruda - Selected Poems*
- Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White*
- Sociobiology: The New Synthesis - Edward O. Wilson
- Forever Young - Bob Dylan
- Of Love and Other Demons - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Good-bye to All That - Robert Graves
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Storeis - Raymond Carver
- The Future of Life - Edward O. Wilson
- White Nights and Other Stories - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Truman Capote
- The Ethics of Ambiguity - Simone De Beauvoir
- The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break - Steven Sherrill
- Magnolia (screenplay) - Paul Thomas Anderson
- Short Short Stories - Dave Eggers
- Now in November - Josephine Winslow Johnson
- Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
- This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen - Tadeusz Borowski
- Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann
- Flash Fiction Forward- Robert Shapard, James Thomas
- Ballistic - Billy Collins
- The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams - Tennessee Williams
- A House of Pomegranates - Oscar Wilde
- Biophillia - Edward O. Wilson
- The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & other stories - Charles Bukowski
- Adverbs - Daniel Handler
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
- Tinkers - Paul Harding
- Horoscopes for the Dead - Billy Collins
- Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine
- Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - David Sedaris
- Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
- Rhythms of Life: The Biological Clocks that Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing - Russel G. Foster
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
- The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
- Still Life With Woodpecker - Tom Robbins
- Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space - Carl Sagan
- Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut
- The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
- The Beautiful and the Dammed - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- God in Search of Man - Abraham Joshua Heschel
- The Rose Tattoo - Tennessee Williams
- Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
- Invitation to a Beheading - Vladimir Nabokov
- The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers - Michael Newton
- Killer Diller - Clyde Edgerton
- Heir to the Glimmering World - Cynthia Ozick
- Of Mice and Men - John Steinback (re-read)
- Letters from the Earth - Mark Twain
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
- Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk - David Sedaris
- The Meowmorphosis - Franz Kafka and Coleridge Cook
- Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak by Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser
2011:
Nine Stories - J.D. Salinger
Monkey: Journey to the West - Wu Cheng’en
Tao Te Ching - Laozi (re-read)
The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Invention of Hugo Cabret - Brian Selznick
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
Lady Windermere’s Fan - Oscar Wilde
Mark Twain’s translation of Struwwelpeter
From the Kingdom of Memory - Elie Wiesel
The Narrow Road to the Interior - Matsuo Basho
Woman in the Dunes - Kobo Abe
Hello Sadness - Francoise Sagan
Dora - Sigmund Freud
Candide, Or Optimism - Francois-Marie Arouet De Voltaire
Langston Huges - James Emanuel
Notes From Underground - Fyodor Doestoevsky
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas- Frederick Douglas
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut (re-read)
Standardized Minds - Peter Stacks
Mules and Men - Zora Neale Hurston
Soul On Ice - Eldridge Cleaver
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian - Kurt Vonnegut*
Endgame - Samuel Beckett
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison*
Bud, Not Buddy - Christopher Paul Curtis*
Sailing Alone Around the Room - Billy Collins*
The Wasteland and Other Poems - T.S. Eliot
Phantoms in the Brain - V.S. Ramachandran
The Lover - Marguerite Duras*
The Doors of Perception - Alduous Huxley*
How We Decide - Jonah Lehrer*
Eight Mortal Ladies Possessed: Stories - Tennessee Williams*
Mind, Life, and the Universe: Conversations with Great Scientists of Our Time*
The Tao Of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff
A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness V.S. Ramachandran
The Dynamics of Faith - Paul Tillich
The Crack Up - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wise Blood - Flannery O’connor
Tender Buttons - Gertrude Stein
Summer and Smoke - Tennessee Williams
Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Don’t Shoot the Dog - Karen Pryor
Winter Trees - Sylvia Plath
Just KIds - Patti Smith
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 - Beverly Cleary
The Human Skeleton -Benjamin N. Schuman
Social Psychology - Robert A. Baron and others
Biopsychology -Pinel
Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about our Everyday Perceptions- Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde
Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity - Howard Gardner
An Inconvenient Truth - Al Gore
Conversations with Flannery O’Connor - Rosemary Magee (editor)
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats - T.S. Eliot
The Alligators - John Updike
Human Memory -Gabriel Radvansky