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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.

In Collection	To Be Obtained
Architecture, Art, and Engineering
Built, Roma Agrawal The Architecture of Happiness, Alain de Botton Architecture, Nicole Bridge The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman To Engineer Is Human, Henry Petroski	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
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

• On Chemistry, Isaac Asimov
• Nose Dive, Harold McGee
• Chemistry, Peter Atkins
• Physical Chemistry, Peter Atkins
• The periodic kingdom, 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
• Infinite Life, Jules Howard
• Death on Earth, Jules Howard
• 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
• Don't Breed on Me, Madeline Waugh Quasebarth
• Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism, Kristen R. Ghodsee
• Reproductive Justice, Loretta Ross and Rickie Solinger

Fiction

• The Great Fair, Sholom Aleichem
• Twenty-One Stories, S.Y. Agnon
• 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
• 101 Reykjavik, Hallgrimur Helgason
• Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
• Setting Free the Bears, John Irving
• The Finkler Question, Howard Jacobson
• Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
• Independent People, Halldor Laxness
• If Not Now, When? Primo Levi
• Arrowsmith, Sinclair Lewis
• The Manifestations of Sherlock Holmes, James Lovegrove
• LoveStar, Andri Snaer Magnason
• The Fixer, Bernard Malamud
• Idiots First, Bernard Malamud
• The Complete Stories, Bernard Malamud
• Judas, Amos Oz
• The Children of Cthulhu, John Pelan and Benjamin Adams
• In the Beginning, Chaim Potok
• The Chosen, 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
• I Married a Communist, Philip Roth
• Goodbye Columbus, Philip Roth
• The Human Stain
• 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
• The Sellout, Paul Beatty
• Herzog, Saul Bellow
• Big Guns, Steven Israel
• Four Past Midnight, Stephen King
• Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
• The Golem of Brooklyn, Adam Mansbach
• A Tale of Love and Darkness, Amos Oz
• The Pagan Rabbi, Cynthia Ozick
• The Puttermesser Papers, Cynthia Ozick
• Pygmy, Chuck Palahniuk
• My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
• The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
• Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon
• Operation Shylock, Philip Roth
• The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
• Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountain, Joachim Schmidt
• Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut
• Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
• The Golem and the Jinni, Helen Wecker
• The Mouse That Roared, Leonard Wibberley

Food

• Tabemasho, Let's Eat! Gil Asakawa
• The Manga Guide to Japanese Food, Hiroshi Nagashima
• The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan
• Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
• Molecular Gastronomy, Herve This
• Animal, Vegetable, Junk, Mark Bittman
• The Cocktail Cabinet, Zoe Burgess
• Strong Sweet and Bitter, Cara Devine
• The Science of Cooking, DK Publishing
• Lobster, Mark Kurlansky
• The Book of Jewish Food, Claudia Roden
• Wafu Cooking, Sonoko Sakai
• Consider the Fork, Bee Wilson

Geology and Geography

• 101 American Geo-Sites You've Gotta See, Albert Dickas
• Face of North America, Peter Farb
• 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
• California's Amazing Geology, Donald Prothero
• The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks, Donald R. Prothero
• Photographing California Vol. 2, Jeffrey Sullivan
• Salt Lakes, Caroline Tracey

History (USA)

• Rise of the Warrior Cop, Radley Balko
• Killing Hope, William Blum
• Profiles in Ignorance, Andy Borowitz
• I'm A Stranger Here Myself, Bill Bryson
• Evicted, Matthew Desmond
• Loaded, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
• The Bookshop, Evan Friss
• Empire's Workshop, Greg Grandin
• End of the Myth, Greg Grandin
• America, America, Greg Grandin
• The Sorrows of Empire, Chalmers Johnson
• The Making of Asian America, Erika Lee
• We Had a Little Real Estate Problem, Kliph Neseteroff
• 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
• The Untold History of the United States, Oliver Stone
• Strangers from a Different Shore, Ronald Takaki
• The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen
• A Black Women's History of the United States, Daina Ramey Berry
• The Savage Wars of Peace, Max Boot
• Poverty, by America, Matthew Desmond
• The Autobiography of Medgar Evers, Myrlie Evers-Williams
• El Norte, Carrie Gibson
• Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann
• 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
• Planet Money, Alex Mayyasi
• 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
• America's Kingdom, Robert Vitalis
• Unfamiliar Fishes, Sarah Vowell
• Legacy of Ashes, Tim Weiner
• The CIA: An Imperial History, Hugh Wilford
• Medgar Evers, Michael Vinson Williams

History (Middle East)

• Rise and Kill First, Ronen Bergman
• Tsukiji, Theodore Bestor
• Like Dreamers, Yossi Klein Halevi
• Letters to my Palestinian Neighbor, Yossi Klein Halevi
• The Seventh Day, Henry Near
• Six Days of War, Michael Oren
• In the Land of Israel, Amos Oz
• Doomed to Succeed, Dennis Ross
• Start-Up Nation, Dan Senor and Saul Singer
• 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
• Israel, Martin Gilbert
• The Hidden Hand, Warren Kinsella
• Israel Alone, Bernard-Henri Levy
• My Life, Golda Meir
• Israel's Secret Wars, Benny Morris
• Power, Faith, and Fantasy, Michael Oren
• 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
• It Was Never About Territory, Yehuda Yemini
• Sephardic and Mizrachi Jewry, Zion Zohar

History (World)

• Visit Sunny Chernobyl, Andrew Blackwell
• The Almost Nearly Perfect People, Michael Booth
• In a Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson
• Unfinished Empire, John Darwin
• An Insider's Guide to the UN, Linda Fasulo
• The POwer of Babel, John MacWhorter
• Prisoners of Geography, Tim Marshall
• The Power of Geography, Tim Marshall
• Japan: Its History and Culture, W Scott Morton and J Kenneth Olenik
• Empires of the Word, Nicholas Ostler
• A Brief History of the Caribbean, Jan Rogozinski
• Mapmatics, Paulina Rowinska
• The Shadow of the Great Game, Narendra Singh Sarila
• Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson
• Southeast Asia's Cold War, Cheng Guan Ang
• A Traveller's History of Southeast Asia, JM Barwise and NJ White
• The Blood Telegram, Gary Bass
• 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
• The Gulf States, David Commins
• A History of the Muslim World, Michael Cook
• A History of Southeast Asia, Arthur Cotterell
• Vanished Kingdoms, Norman Davies
• The Geography Book, DK Publishing
• Atlas of Untamed Places, Chris Fitch
• The Center of the World, Allen James Fromherz
• 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
• A History of the Arab Peoples, Albert Hourani
• China, John Keay
• India, John Keay
• The Great Partition, Yasmin Khan
• A History of India, Hermann Kulke
• Paper, Mark Kurlansky
• Nonviolence, Mark Kurlansky
• All the Countries We've Ever Invaded, Stuart Laycock
• If This Is A Man, Primo Levi
• Arabs, Tim Mackintosh-Smith
• Atlas of Unidentified Flying Objects, Andy McGrillen
• This Way Up, Map Men
• A History of Japan, Mason and Caiger
• A History of the Middle East, Peter Mansfield and Nicolas Pelham
• The Fortunes of Africa, Martin Meredith
• How to Lie with Maps, Mark Monmonier
• The Cauldron, Simon Sebag Montefiore
• 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 Arabs, Eugene Rogan
• Blood and Silk, Michael Vatikiotis
• Sealand, Dylan Taylor-Lennan
• Revolusi, David Van Reybrouck
• Brilliant Maps, Ian Wright
• 1971, Anam Zakaria

Humor

• 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
• Jews, God, and History, Max Dimont
• The Jews in America, Max Dimont
• Does the World Need the Jews, Daniel Gordis
• As a Jew, Sarah Hurwitz
• Blacks and Jews in America, Terrence Johnson and Jacques Berlinerblau
• Anti-Judaism, David Nirenberg
• Why the Jews, Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin
• Anti-SSemite and Jew, Jean Paul Sartre
• A History of the Jews in New Mexico, Henry Tobias
• Israel on Trial, Roy Altman
• Unlearning Jewish Anxiety, Caryn Aviv
• 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
• Catch-67, Micah Goodman
• The Final Solution to the Jewish Question, Dara Horn
• Here All Along, Sarah Hurwitz
• A History of the Jews, Paul Johnson
• Let There Be Laughter, Michael Krasny
• A History of Zionism, Walter Laqueur
• The Wrong Kind of Jew, Hen Mazzig
• Ally, Michael Oren
• Radical Then, Radical Now, Jonathan Sacks
• The Great Partnership, Jonathan Sacks
• American Judaism, Jonathan Sarna
• The Seventh Million, Tom Segev
• The Zionist Ideas, Gil Troy
• To Resist the Academic Intifada, Gil Troy
• The Jews and the Left, Batya Ungar-Sargon
• Yiddish, Miriam Weinstein
• A Provocative People, Sherwin Wine
• Judaism Beyond God, Sherwin Wine

Marine Biology

• The Living Sea, Jacques-Yves Cousteau
• The Search for the Giant Squid, Richard Ellis
• 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
• 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
• Flush, Bryn Nelson
• 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
• How the Mountains Grew, John Dvorak
• The Death and Life of the Great Lakes, Dan Egan
• No Turning Back, Richard Ellis
• Wild New World, Dan Flores
• Nature's Last Dance, Natalie Kyriacou
• On Time and Water, Andri Snaer Magnason
• National Parks, Alfred Runte
• Feathered Marvels, Dominic Sherony
• Living on the Wind, Scott Weidensaul
• Find More Birds, Heather Wolf
• Mycophilia, Eugenia Bone
• Hidden Creatures, Dino Martins

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
• Enshittification, Cory Doctorow
• 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

• 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
• The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, 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
• Daymares, Fredric Brown
• Martians Go Home, Fredric Brown
• The Best of Fredric Brown, Fredric Brown
• Wandering Stars, Jack Dann
• Tales from Gavagan's Bar, L. Sprauge de Camp
• The Wheels of If and Other Science Fiction, L. Sprauge de Camp
• The Best of L. Sprague de Camp, L. Sprauge de Camp
• Warlock Holmes, GS Denning
• The Penultimate Truth, Philip K Dick
• One Hundred and Two H-Bombs, Thomas Disch
• Bad Moon Rising, Thomas Disch
• Camp Concentration, Thomas Disch
• Axiomatic, Greg Egan
• The Constant Rabbit, Jasper Fforde
• Shades of Grey, Jasper Fforde
• Before Superman, Joshua Glenn
• The Chameleon Corps, Ron Goulart
• A Whiff of Madness, Ron Goulart
• Suicide Inc, Ron Goulart
• Gadget Man, Ron Goulart
• Hellquad, Ron Goulart
• The Tin Angel, Ron Goulart
• Broke Down Engine, Ron Goulart
• Hail Hibbler, Ron Goulart
• Cosmic Laughter: Science Fiction for the Fun of It, Joe Haldeman
• The Affair of the Mysterious Letter, Alexis Hall
• The Menace from Earth, Robert Heinlein
• Methuselah's Children, Robert Heinlein
• The Past Through Tomorrow, Robert Heinlein
• Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
• The Green Hills of Earth, Robert Heinlein
• Starship Troopers, Robert Heinlein
• Daikaiju, Robert Hood and Robin Pen
• The Black Cloud, Fred Hoyle
• The Monitors, Keith Laumer
• Alien Minds, Keith Laumer
• Greylorn, Keith Laumer
• Nine by Laumer, Keith Laumer
• Timetracks, Keith Laumer
• Dangerous Vegetables, Keith Laumer
• The Undefeated, Keith Laumer
• Catastrophe Planet, Keith Laumer
• Memoirs Found in a Bathtub, Stanislaw Lem
• The Cyberiad, Stanislaw Lem
• The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula LeGuin
• The Birthday of the World, Ursula LeGuin
• The Dark Forest, Cixin Liu
• Death's End, Cixin Liu
• Illuminations, Alan Moore
• Men Martians and Machines, Eric Frank Russell
• The Great Explosion, Eric Frank Russell
• Agent to the Stars, John Scalzi
• Starter Villain, John Scalzi
• The Android's Dream, John Scalzi
• Illuminatus! The Eye in the Pyramid, Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
• Illuminatus! Leviathan, Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
• Illuminatus! The Golden Apple, Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
• Pilgrimage to Earth, Robert Sheckley
• Untouched by Human Hands, Robert Sheckley
• Citizen in Space, Robert Sheckley
• Notions: Unlimited, Robert Sheckley
• Store of Infinity, Robert Sheckley
• Shards of Space, Robert Sheckley
• The People Trap and other Pitfalls, Robert Sheckley
• Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?, Robert Sheckley
• The Best of Clifford Simak, Clifford Simak
• The Worlds of Clifford Simak, Clifford Simak
• The Complete Roderick, John Sladek
• Maps, John Sladek
• Bugs, John Sladek
• Keep the Giraffe Burning, John Sladek
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
• More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon
• Ambulance Ship, James White
• Code Blue Emergency, James White
• Star Healer, James White
• The Road to Roswell, Connie Willis
• Fire Watch, COnnie Willis
• Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits, David Wong
• The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham
• The Kraken Wakes, John Wyndham
• Forever After, Roger Zelazny
• Roadmarks, Roger Zelazny
• Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories, Terry Bisson
• From These Ashes, Fredric Brown
• Martians and Madness, Fredric Brown
• Jewish Futures, Michael Burstein
• The Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler
• God's Junk Drawer, Peter Clines
• More Wandering Stars, Jack Dann
• 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
• The Essential Ellison: a 35-Year Retrospective, Harlan Ellison
• The Essential Ellison: a 50-Year Retrospective Revised & Expanded, Harlan Ellison
• Dangerous Visions, Harlan Ellison
• Again Dangerous Visions, Harlan Ellison
• The Last Dangerous Visions, Harlan Ellison
• A Boy and His Dog, Harlan Ellison
• The Glass Teat, Harlan Ellison
• Harlan Ellison's Watching, Harlan Ellison
• Bill, the Galactic Hero, Harry Harrison
• Make Room! Make Room!, Harry Harrison
• The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, Robert Heinlein
• Combat Monsters, Henry Herz
• The Collected Short Fiction, RA Lafferty
• The Best of R. A. Lafferty, RA Lafferty
• Nine Hundred Grandmothers, R A Lafferty
• The Big Show, Keith Laumer
• Five Fates, Keith Laumer
• The Truth and Other Stories, Stanislaw Lem
• Other Covenants, Andrea Lobel and Mark Shainblum
• The Big Bad Book of Kaiju, Jonathan Mayberry and Henry Herz
• Phasers of the Mind, Mike Resnick
• Dimensions of Miracles, Robert Sheckley
• Mindswap, Robert Sheckley
• The Robot Who Looked Like Me, Robert Sheckley
• Uncanny Tales, Robert Sheckley
• Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming, Robert Sheckley and Roger Zelazny
• If at Faust You Don't Succeed, Robert Sheckley and Roger Zelazny
• A Farce to Be Reckoned With, Robert Sheckley and Roger Zelazny
• Kaiju Rising, NX Sharps and Tim Marquitz
• Kaiju Rising II, NX Sharps and Alana Abbott
• The Steam-Driven Boy and other Strangers, John Sladek
• Without Sorcery, Theodore Sturgeon
• E Pluribus Unicorn, Theodore Sturgeon
• Unholy Land, Lavie Tidhar
• The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut
• Mammoth Book of Kaiju, Sean Wallace
• Beginning Operations, James White
• Alien Emergencies, James White
• General Practice, James White
• Tales of Sector General, James White
• Impossible Things, Connie Willis
• Schrodinger'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
• Nontrivial Trivia, John Elledge
• 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
• 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
• Unproven, Unlikely, and Firmly Believed, Tom Phillips and John Elledge
• How to Think About Weird Things, Theodore Schick
• Unpersuadables, Will Storr

The Southwest (and Western US)

• New Mexico: A History
• Hip to the Trip, Peter Dedek
• Ribbons of Green, John FLeck and Robert Berrens
• Native Roads, Fran Kosik
• New Mexico Journey Guide, John Kramer and Julie Martinez
• Fighting Sprawl and City Hall, Michael Logan
• Hiking New Mexico, Laurence Parent
• Scenic Driving New Mexico, Laurence Parent
• 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
• Day Trips from Albuquerque, Nicky Leach
• National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Southwestern States, National Audubon Society
• The Rough Guide to Southwest USA, Rough Guides
• Scenic Driving Montana, S.A. Snyder

Urology, Sex, and the Pelvis

• A Woman's Guide to Her Pelvic Floor, Jennifer Anger + Karyn Eilber + Victoria Scott
• The Evolution of Desire, David Buss
• Vagina Obscura, Rachel Gross
• Poking the Squid, Perrin Roosevelt Ireland
• Buzz, Hallie Lieberman
• Sex, Joann Rodgers
• A Headache in the Pelvis, David Wise and Rodney Anderson