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
4 comments:
Thanks for posting this. I've added "Thank God for Evolution" to my own list. As a Theistic Evolutionist, I'm always looking for good arguments to use on my Creationist friends.
You should add "The God Delusion" also by Richard Dawkins. I'm reading it now and it pulls no punches about religion itself being evil.
The Dark Materials trilogy is good too. It's a good vs. evil story and guess who the evil is? That's right, the "Church".
I've considered adding God Delusion to my list, but Dawkins was here at KU not too long ago and from what people that have read it told me, he covered all the highlights in the talk so I don't feel that I need to buy the book.
And I'm well aware of the implications of the Dark Materials trilogy. With all the cooked up controversy surrounding the Golden Compass movie, it's hard not to be. I quite enjoyed the movie, which is why I want to read the books.
Though it's a bit late to offer suggestions, I'd like to make a plug for a really remarkable account of recent high-profile Church-State cases. God on Trial by Peter Irons is absolutely marvelous. Each chapter works basically by Irons (a rather big name in Civil Rights-Civil Liberties law) giving a summary of how the litigation turned out, and then both parties giving their own narrative of the experience. It's a fairly short read (~200 pages double-spaced) but one of the few books I've really devoured lately
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