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There are two big problems with the world: too many books, and not enough time to read them. Here is a list of books I'd like to read at some point (it helps me keep track at the bookstore). Bolded books are currently on the shelf but haven't been read, the rest are books I'd like to read at some point.

Architecture, Art, and Engineering

• Built, Roma Agrawal
• The Architecture of Happiness, Alain de Botton
• Triumph of the City, Edward Glaeser
• To Engineer Is Human, Henry Petroski
• The Perfectionists, Simon Winchester
• The Works: Anatomy of a City, Kate Ascher
• Raw Concrete, Barnabas Calder
• Architecture, Barnabas Calder
• The Existential Pleasure of Engineering, Samuel Florman
• What are you Looking At, Will Gompertz
• Structures, JE Gordon
• How to Enjoy Architecture, Charles Holland
• Palaces for the People, Eric Klinenberg
• The Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler
• The 99% Invisible City, Roman Mars
• A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised), Virginia Savage McAlester
• The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman

Astronomy

• Failure is Not an Option, Gene Kranz
• Pale Blue Dot, Carl Sagan
• Extreme Cosmos, Bryan Gaensler
• Astrobiology, Kevin Plaxco and Michael Gross
• The History of Human Space Flight, Ted Spitzmiller

Biomechanics

• Exploring Biomechanics, R McNeill Alexander
• Functional Design in Fishes, R McNeill Alexander
• Animal Mechanics, R McNeill Alexander
• Engineering Animals, Alan McFadzean and Mark Denny
• Fish Biomechanics, Robert Shadwick
• Life in Moving Fluids, Steven Vogel
• Cats' Paws and Catapults, Steven Vogel

Chemistry

• Periodic Tales, Hugh Aldersley-Williams
• On Chemistry, Isaac Asimov
• Nose Dive, Harold McGee
• Chemistry, Peter Atkins
• Physical Chemistry, Peter Atkins
• H2O, Peter Ball
• A History of Chemistry, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
• The Chemical Tree, William Brock
• The Norton History of Chemistry, William Brock
• Napoleon's Buttons, Jay Burreson and Penny Le Couteur
• Superheavy, Kit Chapman
• The Joy of Chemistry, Cathy Cobb and Monty Fetterolf
• The Elements, PA Cox
• The Chemical Element, Andrew Ede
• The Elements of Murder, John Emsley
• Vanity, Vitality, and Virility, John Emsley
• The History and Use of Our Earth's Chemical Elements, Robert Krebs
• Liquid Rules, Mark Miodownik
• It's a Gas, Mark Miodownik

Comic Books

• The Ten-Cent Plague, David Hajdu
• Marvel Comics, Sean Howe
• The Secret History of Wonder Woman, Jill Lepore
• Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book, Jordan Raphael
• Do The Gods Wear Capes?, Ben Saunders
• Man of Two Worlds, Julius Schwartz

Ethics

• Worst Case Bioethics, George Annas
• Ethics, Simon Blackburn
• Medical Ethics, Tony Hope
• When a Doctor Hates a Patient, Enid Rhodes Peschel and Richard Peschel
• Bedside manners, Edward Shorter
• The Life You Can Save, Peter Singer

Evolution

• Intelligent Thought, John Brockman
• Climbing Mount Improbable, Richard Dawkins
• The Genetic Book of the Dead, Richard Dawkins
• Full House, Stephen Jay Gould
• Defending Evolution in the Classroom, Brian Alters
• Beginnings, Isaac Asimov
• Diseases and Human Evolution, Ethne Barnes
• Darwinian Myths, Edward Caudill
• Science on Trial, Douglas Futuyma
• The Not-So-Intelligent Designer, Abby Hafer
• Abusing Science, Philip Kitcher
• Life Ascending, Nick Lane
• Human Errors, Nathan Lents
• Evolution, Donald R. Prothero
• Weird Life, David Toomey
• Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements, Matt Wilkinson

Feminism

• Hood Feminism, Mikki Kendall
• Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism, Kristen R. Ghodsee
• Reproductive Justice, Loretta Ross and Rickie Solinger

Fiction

• The Great Fair, Sholom Aleichem
• The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, Mike Ashley
• To Jerusalem and Back, Saul Bellow
• The Dean's Chamber, Saul Bellow
• A Model World, Michael Chabon
• Casino Royale, Ian FLeming
• Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
• Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
• Sherlock Holmes vs Cthulhu, Lois Gresh
• Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
• Setting Free the Bears, John Irving
• Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
• Arrowsmith, Sinclair Lewis
• The Manifestations of Sherlock Holmes, James Lovegrove
• The Fixer, Bernard Malamud
• Idiots First, Bernard Malamud
• Judas, Amos Oz
• The Children of Cthulhu, John Pelan and Benjamin Adams
• In the Beginning, Chaim Potok
• The Book of Lights, Chaim Potok
• Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
• Shadows over Baker Street, Michael Reaves and John Pelan
• The Ghost Writer, Philip Roth
• Zuckerman Unbound, Philip Roth
• Portnoy's Compliant, Philip Roth
• American Pastoral, Philip Roth
• The Anatomy Lesson, Philip Roth
• The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
• The Collected Stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer
• The Spinoza of Market Street, Isaac Bashevis Singer
• The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Vincent Starrett
• Cannery Row, Jon Steinbeck
• The Diaries of Adam and Eve, Mark Twain
• Mitla Pass, Leon Uris
• Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut
• Jailbird, Kurt Vonnegut
• Orlando, Virginia Woolf
• The Hope, Herman Wouk
• Herzog, Saul Bellow
• Big Guns, Steven Israel
• Four Past Midnight, Stephen King
• Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
• The Golem of Brooklyn, Adam Mansbach
• The Pagan Rabbi, Cynthia Ozick
• Pygmy, Chuck Palahniuk
• The Chosen People, Chaim Potok
• I Married a Communist, Philip Roth
• The Human Stain, Philip Roth
• The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
• Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
• The Golem and the Jinni, Helen Wecker

Food

• The Manga Guide to Japanese Food, Hiroshi Nagashima
• The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan
• Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
• Animal, Vegetable, Junk, Mark Bittman
• Strong Sweet and Bitter, Cara Devine
• Lobster, Mark Kurlansky
• The Book of Jewish Food, Claudia Roden
• Consider the Fork, Bee Wilson

Geology and Geography

• 101 American Geo-Sites You've Gotta See, Albert Dickas
• Subpar Parks, Amber Share
• The Geologic Story of the Great Plains, Donald Trimble
• Paleontology, David Bainbridge
• Photographing California Vol. 1, Gary Crabbe
• 101 Fossil Sites You've Gotta See, Albert Dickas
• Face of North America, Peter Farb
• California's Amazing Geology, Donald Prothero
• The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks, Donald R. Prothero
• Photographing California Vol. 2, Jeffrey Sullivan

History (USA)

• Rise of the Warrior Cop, Radley Balko
• Profiles in Ignorance, Andy Borowitz
• I'm A Stranger Here Myself, Bill Bryson
• Evicted, Matthew Desmond
• Loaded, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
• End of the Myth, Greg Grandin
• America, America, Greg Grandin
• The Making of Asian America, Erika Lee
• A Disability History of the United States, Kim E. Nielsen
• An African American and Latinx History of the United States, Paul Ortiz
• Dirty Work, Eyal Press
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes
• A True History of the United States, Daniel Sjursen
• How the States Got Their Shapes, Mark Stein
• The Untold History of the United States, Oliver Stone
• The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen
• A Black Women's History of the United States, Daina Ramey Berry
• Killing Hope, William Blum
• Poverty, by America, Matthew Desmond
• The Autobiography of Medgar Evers, Myrlie Evers-Williams
• El Norte, Carrie Gibson
• Empire's Workshop, Greg Grandin
• Dallas, Patricia Evridge Hill
• American Empire, A.G. Hopkins
• Operation Paperclip, Annie Jacobsen
• The Pentagon's Brain, Annie Jacobsen
• The Plot to Control the World, Dan Kovalik
• No More War, Dan Kovalik
• The Food of a Younger Land, Mark Kurlansky
• A Problem from Hell, Samantha Power
• Washington Bullets, Vijay Prashad
• The Absolutely Indispensable Man, Kal Raustiala
• Beneath the United States, Lars Schoultz
• Base Nation, David Vine
• United States of War, David Vine
• The CIA: An Imperial History, Hugh Wilford
• Medgar Evers, Michael Vinson Williams

History (Middle East)

• The Hundred Years' War on Palestine, Rashid Khalidi
• In the Land of Israel
• The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Ilan Pappe
• Doomed to Succeed, Dennis Ross
• The Iron Wall, Avi Shlaim
• Can We Talk About Israel, Daniel Sokatch
• The Prime Ministers, Yehudah Avner
• Scars of War, Wounds of Peace, Shlomo Ben-Ami
• Rise and Kill First, Ronen Bergman
• Israel, Martin Gilbert
• My Life, Golda Meir
• Israel's Secret Wars, Benny Morris
• Power, Faith, and Fantasy, Michael Oren
• Six Days of War, Michael Oren
• A Tale of Love and Darkness, Amos Oz
• Simon Wiesenthal, Tom Segev
• 1967, Tom Segev
• Israel, Anita Shapira
• The Cold War and The Middle East, Avi Shlaim
• Our Exodus, MM Silver
• Israelophobia, Jake Wallis Simons
• War of Return, Einat Wilf
• Sephardic and Mizrachi Jewry, Zion Zohar

History (World)

• Destiny Disrupted, Tamim Ansary
• In a Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson
• Unfinished Empire, John Darwin
• An Insider's Guide to the UN, Linda Fasulo
• Prisoners of Geography, Tim Marshall
• Japan: Its History and Culture, W Scott Morton and J Kenneth Olenik
• Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson
• Southeast Asia’s Cold War, Cheng Guan Ang
• A Traveller's History of Southeast Asia, JM Barwise and NJ White
• Remaking the Modern World 1900 - 2015, C A Bayly
• The Jakarta Method, Vincent Bevins
• Three Tigers, One Mountain, Michael Booth
• The Almost Nearly Perfect People, Michael Booth
• Modern South Asia, Sugata Bose
• A History of Southeast Asia, Arthur Cotterell
• Vanished Kingdoms, Norman Davies
• An Atlas of Extinct Countries, Gideon Defoe
• Atlas of Improbable Places, Travis Elborough
• Atlas of Vanishing Places, Travis Elborough
• Atlas of Forgotten Places, Travis Elborough
• Atlas of Unexpected Places, Travis Elborough
• Atlas of Untamed Places, Chris Fitch
• Empire's Crossroads, Carrie Gibson
• Insurgent Empire, Priyamvada Gopal
• India after Gandhi, Ramachandra Guha
• A Concise History of the Caribbean, B. W. Higman
• A Political History of the World, Jonathan Holslag
• China, John Keay
• India, John Keay
• The Great Partition, Yasmin Khan
• A History of India, Hermann Kulke
• A Basque History of the World, Mark Kurlansky
• Paper, Mark Kurlansky
• Nonviolence, Mark Kurlansky
• All the Countries We've Ever Invaded, Stuart Laycock
• If This Is A Man, Primo Levi
• Atlas of Unidentified Flying Objects, Andy McGrillen
• This Way Up, Map Men
• A History of Japan, Mason and Caiger
• The Fortunes of Africa, Martin Meredith
• How to Lie with Maps, Mark Monmonier
• The Atlas of Unusual Languages, Zoran Nikolic
• The Atlas of Microstates, Zoran Nikolic
• Atlas of Unusual Borders, Zoran Nikolic
• Southeast Asia, Milton Osbourne
• The Emergence of Southeast Asia, Norman Owen
• The Poorer Nations, Vijay Prashad
• Blood and Silk, Michael Vatikiotis
• Sealand, Dylan Taylor-Lennan
• Revolusi, David Van Reybrouck
• Brilliant Maps, Ian Wright
• 1971, Anam Zakaria

Humor

• Without Feathers + Getting Even + Side Effects, Woody Allen
• Dave Barry's Guide to Life, Dave Barry
• Last Words, George Carlin
• The Essential Lenny Bruce, John Cohen
• The Memoirs of Schlock Homes, Robert L Fish
• The Official MD Handbook, Anne Eva Ricks
• The Incredible Schlock Homes, Robert L Fish

Judaism

• Constantine's Sword, James Carroll
• Jewish Comedy, Jeremy Dauber
• Jews, God, and History, Max Dimont
• The Jews in America, Max Dimont
• Does the World Need the Jews, Daniel Gordis
• Blacks and Jews in America, Terrence Johnson and Jacques Berlinerblau
• Why the Jews, Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin
• Woke Antisemitism, David Bernstein
• Antisemitism in America, Leonard Dinnerstein
• Jewish Pride, Ben Freeman
• Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945, Saul Friedlander
• A History of Judaism, Martin
• The Wondering Jew, Micah Goodman
• Here All Along, Sarah Hurwitz
• As a Jew, Sarah Hurwitz
• A History of the Jews, Paul Johnson
• Let There Be Laughter, Michael Krasny
• The Wrong Kind of Jew, Hen Mazzig
• Anti-Judaism, David Nirenberg
• Ally, Michael Oren
• Radical Then, Radical Now, Jonathan Sacks
• The Great Partnership, Jonathan Sacks
• American Judaism, Jonathan Sarna
• The Seventh Million, Tom Segev
• A Provocative People, Sherwin Wine
• Judaism Beyond God, Sherwin Wine
• Sepharic and Mizrahi Jewry, Zion Zohar

Linguistics

• The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker

Marine Biology

• The Living Sea, Jacques-Yves Cousteau
• Sharks Don't Sink, Jasmin Graham
• The Rise of Fishes, John Long
• Discovering Fossil Fishes, John Maisey
• The Encyclopedia of Aquatic Life, Andrew Campbell and Keith Edward Banister
• The Underworld, Susan Casey
• Octopus and Squid, Jacques-Yves Cousteau
• The Search for the Giant Squid, Richard Ellis
• Oceans of Kansas, Michael Everhart
• Dangerous Marine Animals, Bruce Halstead
• Mapping the Deep, Robert Kunzig
• Poisonous, Venomous, and Electric Marine Organisms of the Atlantic Coast, Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean, Matthew Landau
• Fish, PB Moyle
• The Ocean of Life, Callum Roberts
• Learning from the Octopus, Rafe Sagarin
• The Ocean in 80 Fish, Helen Scales
• Eye of the Shoal, Helen Scales
• Spark from the Deep, William Turkel
• Sealife, Geoffrey Waller, Marc Dando, and Michael Burchett
• Kraken, Wendy Williams
• Octopus, James Wood, Jennifer Mather, and Roland Anderson

Medicine

• A Short History of Medicine, Erwin Ackerknecht
• The Human Body, Isaac Asimov
• Science for Life, Brian Clegg
• Tales of Adventure and Medical Life, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• What's Gotten Into You, Dan Levitt
• Dead Men Do Tell Tales, William Maples
• The Mysteries Within, Sherwin Nuland
• The Medical Detectives, Berton Roueche
• Awakenings, Oliver Sacks
• And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts
• Finally, I'm a Doctor, Neil Shulman
• Bad Medicine, Christopher Wanjek
• Life at the Extremes, Frances Ashcroft
• The Spark of Life, Frances Ashcroft
• Beyond the Zonules of Zinn, David Bainbridge
• Murderous Medicine, Naomi Baumslag
• Why Aren't We Dead Yet?, Idan Ben-Barak
• Strange Medicine, Nathan Belofsky
• Evolution Gone Wrong, Alex Bezzerides
• Xeno, DKC Cooper
• Anomalies and curiousities of Medicine, George Gould and Walter Pyle
• Everything is Tuberculosis, John Green
• If Our Bodies Could Talk, James Hamblin
• Rigor Mortis, Richard Harris
• Blood and Guts, Richard Hollingham
• Human Errors, Nathan Lent
• The Nazi Doctors, Robert Jay Lifton
• Happy Accidents, Morton Meyers
• Undue Risk, Jonathan D. Moreno
• The Gene, Siddhartha Mukherjee
• The Uncertain Art, Sherwin Nuland
• The Soul of Medicine, Sherwin Nuland
• Drugs Without the Hot Air, David Nutt
• Vaccinated, Paul A. Offit
• This Book May Save Your Life, Karan Rajan
• This is Vital Information, Karan Rajan
• The Unseen Body, Jonathan Reisman
• Anatomical Oddities, Alice Roberts
• Corpse, Jessica Snyder Sachs
• A Brief History of Bad Medicine, Ian Schott
• The Undead, Dick Teresi
• Under the Knife, Arnold van de Laar
• How We Live and Why We Die, Lewis Wolpert
• Earthly Materials, Cutter Wood

Microbiology

• A Field Guide to Bacteria, Betsey Dexter Dyer
• Patient Zero, Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen
• Bacteria, Sebastian G.B. Amyes
• Infectious Disease, Benjamin Bolker
• The Art of Being a Parasite, Claude Combes
• People, Parasites, and Plowshares, Dickson Despommier
• Parasites, Rosemary Drisdelle
• The Wild Life of Our Bodies, Rob Dunn
• Evolution of Infectious Disease, Paul Ewald
• Tapeworms, Lice, and Prions, David Grove

Music and Movies

• The Last Action Heroes, Nick de Semlyen
• Brothers, Alex Van Halen
• A Field Guide to Post-Punk and New Wave, Steve Wide
• Wild and Crazy Guys, Nick de Semlyen

Nature

• Every Living Thing, Robb Dunn
• Never Home Alone, Rob Dunn
• No Turning Back, Richard Ellis
• Fuzz, Mary Roach
• Mycophilia, Eugenia Bone
• National Parks, Alfred Runte

Philosophy

• Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar, Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein
• Existentialism, Thomas Flynn
• An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy, Roger Scruton
• Philosophy for Life, Mel Thompson
• Walden, Henry David Thoreau
• Causing Death and Saving Lives, Jonathan Glover
• Logic, Graham Priest
• The Problems of Philosophy, Bertrand Russell

Philosophy of Science

• Science and Common Sense, James Conant
• Popper Selections, Karl Popper and David Miller
• Readings in the Philosophy of Science, Baruch Brody and Richard Grady
• Conjectures and Refutations, Karl Popper

Physics + Math

• The Man of Numbers, Keith Devlin
• Ten Patterns that Explain the Universe, Brian Clegg
• Brief Answers to the Big Questions, Stephen Hawking
• The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics, James Kakalios
• Mathematics of Life, Ian Stewart

Psychology

• Daring Greatly, Brene Brown
• Braving the Wilderness, Brene Brown
• The Sociology Book, DK Publishing
• Meditation and Mindfulness, Andy Puddicombe
• On Killing, Dave Grossman
• Less Than Human, David Livingstone Smith
• Whistling Vivaldi, Claude Steele
• The Lucifer Effect, Philip Zimbardo

Race and Gender

• He/She/They, Schuyler Bailar
• Tears We Cannot Stop, Eric Michael Dyson
• Read This to Get Smarter, Blair Imani
• To Protect and Serve, Norm Stamper
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X
• Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?, Mumia Abu-Jamal
• How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?, Moustafa Bayoumi
• I'm Still Here, Austin Channing Brown
• Stay Woke, Tehama Lopez Bunyasi
• Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Speaking of Race, Celeste Headlee
• Mindful of Race, Ruth King
• White Metropolis, Michael Phillips
• America's Original Sin, Jim Wallis
• Paved A Way, Collin Yarbrough

Science Fiction

• The Salmon of Doubt, Douglas Adams
• Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
• The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett
• Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
• The Machineries of Joy, Ray Bradbury
• Wandering Stars, Jack Dann
• Warlock Holmes, GS Denning
• The Penultimate Truth, Philip K Dick
• Confessions of a Crap Artist, Philip K Dick
• Greatest Hits, Harlan Ellison
• The Affair of the Mysterious Letter, Alexis Hall
• The Black Cloud, Fred Hoyle
• Greylorn, Keith Laumer
• Nine by Laumer, Keith Laumer
• Timetracks, Keith Laumer
• Dangerous Vegetables, Keith Laumer
• It's a Mad Mad Mad Galaxy, Keith Laumer
• The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi
• Redshirts, John Scalzi
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Science of Superheroes and Space Warriors
• Fantastic Voyages, Judith Boss
• Martians Go Home, Fredric Brown
• From These Ashes, Fredric Brown
• Martians and Madness, Fredric Brown
• God's Junk Drawer, Peter Clines
• More Wandering Stars, Jack Dann
• The Best of L. Sprague de Camp, L. Sprauge de Camp
• The Wheels of If and Other Science Fiction, L. Sprauge de Camp
• Tales from Gavagan's Bar, L. Sprauge de Camp
• The Eye of the Sibyl and Other Classic Stories, Philip K. Dick
• Second Variety and Other Classic Stories, Phillip K. Dick
• We Can Remember It for you Wholesale and Other Classic Stories, Philip K. Dick
• Paycheck and Other Classic Stories, Philip K. Dick
• The Minority Report and Other Classic Stories, Philip K. Dick
• Bad Moon Rising, Thomas Disch
• One Hundred and Two H-Bombs, Thomas Disch
• Alien Pregnant by Elvis, Esther Friesner
• The Chameleon Corps: And Other Shape Changers, Ron Goulart
• Cosmic Laughter: Science Fiction for the Fun of It, Joe Haldeman
• The Menace from Earth, Robert Heinlein
• The Past Through Tomorrow, Robert Heinlein
• Methuselah's Children, Robert Heinlein
• Starship Troopers, Robert Heinlein
• The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, Robert Heinlein
• The Green Hills of Earth, Robert Heinlein
• Combat Monsters, Henry Herz
• Nine Hundred Grandmothers, R A Lafferty
• The Cyberiad, Stanislaw Lem
• The Big Bad Book of Kaiju, Jonathan Mayberry and Henry Herz
• Phasers of the Mind, Mike Resnick
• Men Martians and Machines, Eric Frank Russell
• The Great Explosion, Eric Frank Russell
• Agent to the Stars, John Scalzi
• The Android's Dream, John Scalzi
• Dimensions of Miracles, Robert Scheckley
• Mindswap, Robert Scheckley
• Untouched by Human Hands, Robert Scheckley
• Citizen in Space, Robert Scheckley
• Pilgrimage to Earth, Robert Scheckley
• Notions: Unlimited, Robert Scheckley
• Store of Infinity, Robert Scheckley
• Shards of Space, Robert Scheckley
• The People Trap and other Pitfalls, Snares, Devices and Delusions, as Well as Two Sniggles and a Contrivance, Robert Scheckley
• Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?, Robert Scheckley
• The Robot Who Looked Like Me, Robert Scheckley
• Uncanny Tales, Robert Scheckley
• Kaiju Rising, NX Sharps and Tim Marquitz
• Kaiju Rising II, NX Sharps and Alana Abbott
• Illuminatus!, Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
• The Worlds of Clifford Simak, Clifford Simak
• Roderick, John Sladek
• Roderick at Random, John Sladek
• The Steam-Driven Boy and other Strangers, John Sladek
• Keep the Giraffe Burning, John Sladek
• The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut
• Mammoth Book of Kaiju, Sean Wallace
• Fire Watch, Connie Willis
• Impossible Things, Connie Willis
• Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy, Robert Anton Wilson
• Underground Airlines, Ben Winters
• The Last Policeman, Ben Winters
• Countdown City, Ben Winters
• World of Trouble, Ben Winters

Science History

• The Science Book, DK Publishing
• The Mad Science Book, Reto Schneider
• The Great Equations, Robert Crease
• Drunken Goldfish and Other Irrelevant Scientific Research, William Roland Hartston
• Horizons, James Poskett
• Beyond Measure, James Vincent

Science Writing

• Disturbing the Universe, Freeman Dyson
• Ideas and Opinions, Albert Einstein
• The Meaning of It All, Richard Feynman
• The Night is Large, Martin Gardner
• The Sacred Beetle, Martin Gardner
• The Panda's Thumb, Stephen Jay Gould
• The Fragile Species, Lewis Thomas
• A Long Line of Cells, Lewis Thomas
• On the Beauty of Science, Herbert Hauptman
• Physics and Philosophy, Werner Heisenberg
• Blood Evidence, Henry Lee
• Right Hand Left Hand, Chris McManus
• It's Not Rocket Science, Ben Miller
• I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier, Max Perutz
• Grunt, Mary Roach
• The Unnatural Nature of Science, Lewis Wolpert

Skepticism

• Science Under Siege, Kendrick Frazier
• Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens
• Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Richard Hofstadter
• Pseudoscience, Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen
• Voodoo Science, Robert Park
• Beyond UFOs, Jeffrey Bennett
• Conspiracies Declassified, Brian Dunning
• The Hundreth Monkey and other Paradigms of the Paranormal, Kendrick Frazier
• How We Know What Isn't So, Thomas Gilovch
• Denying Science, John Grant
• Denying Holocaust, Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman
• Tracking the Man Beasts, Joe Nickell
• Unintelligent Design, Mark Perakh
• How to Think About Weird Things, Theodore Schick
• Unpersuadables, Will Storr

The Southwest (and Western US)

• New Mexico: A History
• Fighting Sprawl and City Hall, Michael Logan
• Legends of the American Desert, Alex Shoumatoff
• Untold New Mexico, Jason Silverman
• Lonely Planet Southwest USA, Amy Balfour
• Scenic Driving Oregon, Tom Barr
• Fodor's Essential Southwest, Fodor
• Scenic Driving Arizona, Stewart Green
• Scenic Driving Colorado, Stewart Green
• Scenic Driving California's Pacific Coast, Stewart Green
• Scenic Driving Utah, Christy Karras
• New Mexico Journey Guide, Jon Kramer
• Day Trips from Albuquerque, Nicky Leach
• National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Southwestern States, National Audubon Society
• Hiking New Mexico, Laurence Parent
• Scenic Driving New Mexico, Laurence Parent
• The Rough Guide to Southwest USA, Rough Guides
• Wandering in the Clear Light of New Mexico, David Ryan
• Scenic Driving Montana, S.A. Snyder

Urology, Sex, and the Pelvis

• Eve, Cat Bohannon
• Sex on Earth, Jules Howard
• A Woman's Guide to Her Pelvic Floor, Jennifer Anger + Karyn Eilber + Victoria Scott
• The Evolution of Desire, David Buss
• Vagina Obscura, Rachel Gross
• Buzz, Hallie Lieberman
• Sex, Joann Rodgers
• A Headache in the Pelvis, David Wise and Rodney Anderson