Wednesday, January 30, 2008

My reading list

Since the topic came up of what's on my reading list, I figured I'd make a post to keep track of such things. I'll try to keep this updated.

Currently Reading:

  • The City & The City by China Mieville
  • Already read:

  • Science of Diskworld III: Darwin's Watch by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen
  • Finding Darwin's God by Ken Miller
  • The Neptune Files by Tom Standage
  • Parallax: A Race to Measure the Cosmos by Alan Hirshfeld
  • Myth of a Christian Nation by Gregory Boyd
  • Misquoting Jesus by Bart Ehrman
  • Who Will Rise Up by Brother Jed Smock
  • God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
  • Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel
  • DNA by W. Craig Reed
  • Death From the Skies! by Phil Plait
  • Breaking the Spell by Daniel C. Dennet
  • Your Inner Fish by Niel Shubin
  • Galileo's Daugher by Dava Sobel
  • Perfect Rigor by Masha Gessen
  • Only a Theory by Ken Miller
  • You Will Be Forced To Become Rich by FINIFID
  • Eerie Silence by Paul Davies
  • A Tear at the Edge of Creation by Marcelo Gleiser
  • Denialism by Michael Specter
  • The Sun's Heartbeat by Bob Berman
  • Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman
  • Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins
  • The Gender Knot by Allan Johnson
  • Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
  • Relics of Eden: The Powerful Evidence of Evolution in Human DNA by Daniel Fairbanks
  • Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
  • Einstein's Jury by Jeffery Crelinstein
  • Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless by Greta Christina
  • Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman & Ralph Leighton
  • At The Queen's Command by Michael Stackpole
  • Teaching Outside the Box by LouAnne Johnson
  • The Purity Myth by Jessica Valenti
  • Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne
  • I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett
  • Manners and Mischief: Gender, Power, and Etiquette in Japan by Laura Miller & Jan Bardsley
  • Snuff by Terry Pratchett
  • Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
  • Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
  • Redshirts by John Scalzi
  • Among Others by Jo Walton
  • Still on List:

  • When School Reform Goes Wrong by Nel Noddings
  • Not in Our Classrooms by Eugenie Scott and Glgenn Branch
  • Humanism for Parents by Sean Curley
  • Evolution vs. Creationism by Eugenie Scott
  • Misquoting Truth by Timothy Jones
  • Thank God for Evolution! by Michael Dowd
  • Edward Tufte's books on Data Visualization: Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Envisioning Information, and/or Visual Explanations: Quantities, Evidence, and Narrative.

    Abandoned:

  • Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind by Richard Fortey