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Books To Read

Open Season (2002), C.J. Box. Currently-Reading 2022-10-04.

The Language God Talks (2010), Herman Wouk. Currently-Reading 2022-10-03.

The Story Of Russia (2022), Orlando Figes. Currently-Reading 2022-09-30.

Two Heads (2022), Uta Frith. To-Read 2022-08-22.

The Dawn Of Everything (2021), David Graeber, David Wengrow. To-Read 2022-05-02.

Asimov On Numbers (1977), Isaac Asimov. Read 2022-01-15.

Bad Actors (2022), Mick Herron. To-Read.

The Possessed (2010), Elif Batuman. To-Read.

Path Lit By Lightning (2022), David Maraniss. To-Read.

Wrong And Dangerous (2012), Garrett Epps. To-Read.

Our Man In Havana (1958), Graham Greene. To-Read.

How The Immune System Works (1999), Lauren Sompayrac. Read 2021-09-17.

The Cosmic Revolutionary's Handbook (2020), Luke A. Barnes. To-Read 2021-01-19.

This Is Your Brain on Music (2006), Daniel J. Levitin. Read 2010-01-18.

The Round House (2012), Louise Erdrich. To-Read.

The Dragon Reborn (1991), Robert Jordan. To-Read.

A New History Of Life (2014), Joe Kirschvink. To-Read.

A Little History Of Science (2012), W.F. Bynum. To-Read.

The Orphan Master's Son (2012), Adam Johnson. To-Read.

Benjamin Franklin (2003), Walter Isaacson. To-Read.

Napoleon (1962), Herbert Butterfield. To-Read.

The Physics Of Superheroes (2010), James Kakalios. Read 2022-01-13.

Faraday, Maxwell, And The Electromagnetic Field (2014), Nancy Forbes, Basil Mahon. Read 2019-08-12.

The Big Picture (2016), Sean Carroll. Read 2018-11-07.

Nature and the Greeks and Science and Humanism (2014), Erwin Schrödinger. Read 2017-12-13.

The Common Sense of Science (1969), Jacob Bronowski. Read 2017-04-17.

A New World Begins (2019), Jeremy Popkin. Read 2020-10-25.

Calculus Made Easy (1998), Silvanus P. Thompson, Martin Gardner. Read 2020-01-11.

A Tale For The Time Being (2013), Ruth Ozeki. To-Read.

A Promised Land (2020), Barack Obama. To-Read.

The Stone Sky (2017), N.K. Jemisin. To-Read.

Say You're One Of Them (2009), Uwen Akpan. To-Read.

Summer Of The Big Bachi (2004), Naomi Hirahara. To-Read.

One For The Money (2003), Janet Evanovich. To-Read.

Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction (2021), Mark Maslin. To-Read.

On Tyranny (2017), Timothy Snyder. Read 2019-08-22.

The Future Is History (2017), Masha Gessen. Read 2018-08-31.

The Joy Of X (2013), Steven Strogatz. To-Read 2022-07-31.

Women Talking (2019), Miriam Toews. To-Read.

Lucky Per (2019), Pontoppidan Henrik. Read 2022-09-27.

Out On A Limb: Selected Writing, 1989–2021 (2022), Andrew Sullivan. To-Read 2022-07-19.

Calculus In Five Hours (2017), Dennis Jarecke. To-Read 2022-07-17.

Asimov's Chronology Of Science And Discovery (1994), Isaac Asimov. Read 2022-01-03.

The Complete Harvard Classics (1950), Numerous Authors. Read 2020-10-01.

Haben Sie Hitler Gesehen? (2012), Walter Kempowski. Read 2019-10-25.

Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality (2008), Pauline W. Chen. To-Read.

On the Shoulders of Giants: A Shandean Postscript (1993), Robert K. Merton. To-Read.

Bloodwork (1998), Michael Connelly. To-Read.

Common Sense (2005), Thomas Paine. To-Read.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (2003), Laurence Sterne. To-Read.

Waiting for the Barbarians (1982), J.M. Coetzee. To-Read.

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1966), Richard Hofstadter. To-Read.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1996), Philip K. Dick. To-Read.

Neural Networks And Deep Learning Michael Nielson (2018), Michael Nielsen. To-Read.

The Autistic Brain (2013), Temple Grandin. To-Read.

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (2003), Max Weber, Talcott Parsons, R.H. Tawney. To-Read.

Prairie Fire (2007), Dan Armstrong. To-Read.

The Story of Art (1995), E.H. Gombrich. To-Read.

Between Friends (2012), Amos Oz. To-Read.

Ulysses (1990), James Joyce. To-Read.

Musicophilia (2007), Oliver Sacks. To-Read.

Peace Shall Destroy Many (2001), Rudy Wiebe. To-Read.

Sweeter Than All The World (2002), Rudy Wiebe. To-Read.

You Shall Know Our Velocity (2003), Dave Eggers. To-Read.

Proof of Heaven (2012), Eben Alexander. To-Read.

What's the Matter with White People? (2012), Joan Walsh. To-Read.

Strom Thurmond's America (2012), Joseph Crespino. To-Read.

Thomas Paine and the Promise of America (2006), Harvey J. Kaye. To-Read.

The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry (2003), Ilya Ehrenburg, Vasily Grossman, Irving Horowitz, David Patterson. To-Read.

Lukács and Brecht (1985), David Pike. To-Read.

Galileo's Commandment (1999), Edmund Blair Bolles. To-Read.

The Politics of Culture in Soviet-occupied Germany, 1945-1949 (1992), David Pike. To-Read.

The Russländer (2001), Birdsell Sandra. To-Read.

Camel Xiangzi (2004), Lao She, Shi Xiaojing. To-Read.

A Savage War of Peace (2006), Alistair Horne. To-Read.

Those Who have Borne the Battle (2012), Wright James Edward. To-Read.

What Is The What (2006), Dave Eggers. To-Read.

King Leopold's Ghost (1998), Adam Hochschild. To-Read.

Nick the Saint (2013), Anthony Szpak. To-Read.

Freeman (2012), Leonard Pitts. To-Read.

Truth: Philosophy in Transit (2013), John D. Caputo. To-Read.

Logicomix: An Epic Search For Truth (2009), Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos Papadimitriou. To-Read.

The Emperor of All Maladies (2011), Siddhartha Mukherjee. To-Read.

Life, Animated (2014), Ron Suskind. To-Read.

How to Teach Physics to Your Dog (2010), Chad Orzel. To-Read.

Walker's Appeal (2007), Henry Highland Garnet, David Walker. To-Read.

Small Boat of Great Sorrows (2004), Dan Fesperman, Dan Esperman. To-Read.

Suspended in Language (2009), Jim Ottaviani, Jay Holser, Steve Leialoha, Linda Medley, Jeff Parker. To-Read.

The Meaning of Human Existence (2014), Edward O. Wilson. To-Read.

On politics (2012), Ryan Alan. To-Read.

The Dream of Enlightenment (2016), Anthony Gottlieb. To-Read.

How To Teach Relativity To Your Dog (2012), Chad Orzel. To-Read.

Forever Free (2006), Eric Foner. To-Read.

Assembling California (1994), John McPhee. To-Read.

The Origins Of Political Order (2011), Francis Fukuyama. To-Read.

Gratitude (2015), Sacks Oliver. To-Read.

Home Land: A Novel (2005), Sam Lipsyte. To-Read.

The Grapes of Wrath (2002), John Steinbeck. To-Read.

Lord Jim (1962), Joseph Conrad. To-Read.

November 1916: Knot II (2000), Alexander Solzhenitsyn. To-Read.

It Can't Happen Here (2015), Sinclair Lewis. To-Read.

Kindred (2004), Octavia Butler. To-Read.

The Underground Railroad (2016), Colson Whitehead. To-Read.

Egypt, Greece, And Rome (1996), Charles Freeman. To-Read.

Sorrow Of War, The: A Novel Of North Vietnam (1995), Bao Ninh. To-Read.

Matterhorn (2010), Karl Marlantes. To-Read.

Mathematics: An Illustrated History Of Numbers (2012), Tom Jackson. To-Read.

The Heart Of A Woman (1997), Maya Angelou. To-Read.

Phage And The Origins Of Molecular Biology (1966), Cairns. To-Read.

The Refugees (2016), Viet Thanh Nguyen. To-Read.

Meditations In Green (1983), Stephen Wright. To-Read.

The Other Slavery (2017), Andrés Reséndez. To-Read.

The Portable Hannah Arendt (2003), Hannah Arendt. To-Read.

Gulag Voices (2011), Anne Applebaum. To-Read.

Native Son (1996), Richard Wright. To-Read.

Invisible Man (2002), Ralph Ellison. To-Read.

From Slavery To Freedom (1967), John Hope Franklin. To-Read.

The 13th Valley (1999), John M. Del Vecchio. To-Read.

Ender's Game (2002), Orson Scott Card. To-Read.

The Boys In The Boat (2013), Daniel J. Brown. To-Read.

Summing Up (1970), W. Somerset Maugham. To-Read.

Flashman And The Dragon (2008), George MacDonald Fraser. To-Read.

The Life And Times Of Chaucer (1977), John Gardner. To-Read.

Enlightenment Now (2018), Steven Pinker. To-Read.

Life On The Edge (2014), JohnJoe McFadden, Jim Al-Khalili. To-Read.

Data And Goliath (2015), Bruce Schneier. To-Read.

A Change Of Climate (2007), Hilary Mantel. To-Read.

Quantum Field Theory For The Gifted Amateur (2015), Tom Lancaster. To-Read.

Who We Are And How We Got Here (2018), David Reich. To-Read.

The Left Hand Of The Electron (1974), Isaac Asimov. To-Read.

Where The Water Goes (2017), David Owen. To-Read.

The Picture Of Dorian Gray (1994), Oscar Wilde. To-Read.

The Perfectionists (2018), Simon Winchester. To-Read.

Fascism: A Warning (2018), Madeleine Albright. To-Read.

Thunder In The Mountains (2017), Daniel J. Sharfstein. To-Read.

The Soul Of America (2018), Jon Meacham. To-Read.

American Gospel (2006), Jon Meacham. To-Read.

Exploring Quantum Physics Through Hands-On Projects (2012), David Prutchi. To-Read.

Another Country (1969), James Baldwin. To-Read.

Charlotte's Web (1974), E.B. White, Garth Williams. To-Read.

Frankenstein (1997), Mary Shelley. To-Read.

The Joy Luck Club (1990), Amy Tan. To-Read.

Looking For Alaska (2006), John Green. To-Read.

The Outsiders (2003), S.E. Hinton. To-Read.

Ghost (2016), Jason Reynolds. To-Read.

The Color Purple (1985), Alice Walker. To-Read.

Gilead (2006), Marilynne Robinson. To-Read.

Hatchet (1999), Gary Paulsen. To-Read.

Why Learn History (When It's Already On Your Phone) (2018), Samuel S. Wineburg. To-Read.

Our Declaration (2014), Danielle S. Allen. To-Read.

Civilization: The West and the Rest (2011), Ferguson. To-Read.

Becoming (2018), Michelle Obama. To-Read.

Escape Velocity (2012), Charles Portis. To-Read.

The Sirens Of Titan (1959), Kurt Vonnegut. To-Read.

The Life Of The Mind (1978), Hannah Arendt. To-Read.

Stalingrad (2019), Vasily Grossman. To-Read.

Democracy And Truth (2018), Sophia A. Rosenfeld. To-Read.

All Quiet On The Western Front (1996), Erich Maria Remarque. To-Read.

Einstein's Unfinished Revolution (2019), Smolin Lee. To-Read.

Of Human Bondage (1920), W. Somerset Maugham. To-Read.

The Water Dancer (2019), Ta-Nehisi Coates. To-Read.

Teach Yourself French (1998), Gaelle Graham. To-Read.

Chasing The Dime (2003), Michael Connelly. To-Read.

Call For The Dead (1981), John le Carré. To-Read.

A Murder Of Quality (1962), John le Carré. To-Read.

The Secret Pilgrim (1991), John le Carre. To-Read.

The Little Drummer Girl (1983), John le Carré. To-Read.

A Delicate Truth (2014), John le Carré. To-Read.

The Complete Works Of Saki (1989), Saki. To-Read.

March 1917: Knot III (2016), Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Marian Schwartz. To-Read.

Judas (2016), Amos Oz. To-Read.

Dear Zealots (2018), Oz Amos. To-Read.

The Leopard (1963), Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. To-Read.

American Spy: A Novel (2018), Lauren Wilkinson. To-Read.

Warlight (2018), Michael Ondaatje. To-Read.

The German Genius (2011), Peter Watson. To-Read.

What The Buddha Taught (1974), Walpola Rahula. To-Read.

A Little History Of The United States (2015), James West Davidson. To-Read.

The Grand Inquisitor's Manual (2008), Jonathan Kirsch. To-Read.

The Greatest Minds And Ideas Of All Time (2002), Will Durant. To-Read.

Red Famine (2017), Anne Applebaum. To-Read.

The Innovators (2014), Walter Isaacson. To-Read.

Glitz (1985), Elmore Leonard. To-Read.

Maximum Bob (1992), Elmore Leonard. To-Read.

Out Of Sight (1997), Elmore Leonard. To-Read.

The Strange Career Of Jim Crow (2001), C. Vann Woodward, William S. McFeely. To-Read.

Imperium (1994), Ryszard Kapuscinski. To-Read.

Journey To Armenia (1930), Osip Mandelstam. To-Read.

Watchmen (1995), Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, Barry Marx. To-Read.

The World As I See It (2001), Albert Einstein. To-Read.

The Blood Of Emmett Till (2017), Timothy B. Tyson. To-Read.

Serving The Reich (2014), Ball Philip. To-Read.

Roger Williams (2007), Edmund S. Morgan. To-Read.

Hitler's Gift (1999), J.S. Medawar. To-Read.

Misquoting Jesus (2005), Bart D. Ehrman. To-Read.

Jesus Wars (2010), John Philip Jenkins. To-Read.

Changing My Mind (2010), Zadie Smith. To-Read.

Incompleteness (2006), Rebecca Goldstein. To-Read.

Tourist Season (1992), Carl Hiaasen. To-Read.

Star Island (2011), Carl Hiaasen. To-Read.

The Rosie Effect (2014), Graeme C. Simsion. To-Read.

Deacon King Kong (2020), James McBride. To-Read.

Andrew Jackson (2005), Sean Wilentz. To-Read.

Andrew Johnson (2008), Annette Gordon-Reed, Arthur M. Schlesinger. To-Read.

Benjamin Harrison (2013), Charles W. Calhoun. To-Read.

Chester Alan Arthur (2004), Zachary Karabell. To-Read.

Dwight D. Eisenhower (2002), Tom Wicker, Arthur M. Schlesinger. To-Read.

Franklin Pierce (2010), Michael F. Holt. To-Read.

Abraham Lincoln (2008), George S. McGovern. To-Read.

George W. Bush (2015), James Mann. To-Read.

George Washington (2013), James MacGregor Burns, Susan Dunn. To-Read.

Gerald R. Ford (2007), Douglas Brinkley. To-Read.

Grover Cleveland (2002), Henry F. Graff, Arthur M. Schlesinger. To-Read.

James A. Garfield (2006), Ira Rutkow. To-Read.

James Buchanan (2004), Jean H. Baker. To-Read.

James K. Polk (2014), John Seigenthaler. To-Read.

James Monroe (2005), Gary Hart. To-Read.

John Adams (2003), John Patrick Diggins. To-Read.

Lyndon B. Johnson (2010), Charles Peters. To-Read.

Martin Van Buren (2005), Ted Widmer, Arthur M. Schlesinger. To-Read.

Millard Fillmore (2010), Paul Finkelman, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sean Wilentz. To-Read.

Richard M. Nixon (2007), Elizabeth Drew. To-Read.

Rutherford B. Hayes (2002), Hans Trefousse. To-Read.

Theodore Roosevelt (2002), Louis Auchincloss. To-Read.

Ulysses S. Grant (2004), Josiah Bunting. To-Read.

Warren G. Harding (2004), John W. Dean. To-Read.

William Henry Harrison (2012), Gail Collins, Sean Wilentz, Arthur M. Schlesinger. To-Read.

William Howard Taft (2018), Jeffrey Rosen. To-Read.

William Mckinley (2003), Kevin Phillips, Arthur M. Schlesinger. To-Read.

Woodrow Wilson (2003), H.W. Brands, Arthur M. Schlesinger. To-Read.

Jimmy Carter (2010), Julian E. Zelizer, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sean Wilentz. To-Read.

Bill Clinton (2017), Michael Tomasky. To-Read.

Harry S. Truman (2008), Robert Dallek. To-Read.

Germany 2000 Years Vol II (1950), Kurt F. Reinhardt. To-Read.

Germany 2000 Years Vol III (1992), Gerhardt Hoffmeister, Frederic Tubach. To-Read.

Two New Sciences (1638), Galileo Galilei, Stillman Drake. To-Read.

A Journal Of The Plague Year (1722), Daniel Defoe. To-Read.

The Invention Of Nature (2015), Andrea Wulf. To-Read.

No Longer At Ease (1960), Chinua Achebe. To-Read.

The Rosie Result (2019), Graeme Simsion. To-Read.

Fire In The Hole (2001), Elmore Leonard. To-Read.

Raylan (2012), Elmore Leonard. To-Read.

Trumpocracy: The Corruption Of The American Republic (2018), David Frum. To-Read.

Advice To A Young Scientist (1979), Peter Brian Medawar. To-Read.

Intellectuals (1990), Paul M. Johnson. To-Read.

The Cult Of Smart (2020), deBoer Fredrik. To-Read.

Don Quixote (1605), Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman. To-Read.

The Jefferson Bible: A Biography (2020), Peter Manseau. To-Read.

The Upswing (2020), Robert D. Putnam. To-Read.

The Rights Of Man (1791), Thomas Paine. To-Read.

Monumental Propaganda (2006), Vladimir Voinovich. To-Read.

The Youngest Science (1983), Lewis Thomas. To-Read.

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self (2010), Danielle Evans. To-Read.

Mennonite Community Cookbook (1986), Mary Emma Showalter. To-Read.

Hitler's First Hundred Days (2020), Peter Fritzsche. To-Read.

Vanishing Act (1996), Thomas Perry. To-Read.

To The Finland Station (1926), Edmund Wilson. To-Read.

A Thousand Brains: A New Theory Of Intelligence (2021), Jeff Hawkins. To-Read.

My Monticello: Fiction (2021), Jocelyn Nicole Johnson. To-Read.

Suite Française (2004), Irene Nemirovsky. To-Read.

Motherless Brooklyn (2000), Jonathan Lethem. To-Read.

Blood Shot (1989), Sara Paretsky. To-Read.

The Neon Rain (2000), James Lee Burke. To-Read.

Deep Blue Good-By (1995), John D. Macdonald. To-Read.

Clark And Division, Naomi Hirahara. To-Read.

Bootlegger's Daughter (1994), Margaret Maron. To-Read.

Blanche On The Lam (1992), Barbara Neely. To-Read.

The Collaborator Of Bethlehem: An Omar Yussef Mystery (Omar Yussef Mysteries) (2008), Matt Beynon Rees. To-Read.

The Steam Pig, James Mcclure. To-Read.

Knots And Crosses (2008), Ian Rankin. To-Read.

Racecraft (2014), Karen E. Fields. To-Read.

Atom (1992), Isaac Asimov, D.F. Bach. To-Read.

The Secret Chord (2016), Geraldine Brooks. To-Read.

Wilmington's Lie (2022), Toto. To-Read.

Stormy Weather (2001), Carl Hiaasen. To-Read.

Nature Girl (2006), Carl Hiaasen. To-Read.

Scum Of The Earth (1968), Koestler Arthur. To-Read.

Learning From The Germans (2019), Neiman Susan. Read 2020-01-08.

Nicomachean Ethics (2011), Aristotle. Read 2018-06-06.

Poetics (1997), Aristotle. Read 2018-06-06.

Nigger Of The Narcissus (1994), Joseph Conrad. Read 2018-06-06.

The Overstory (2018), Richard Powers. Read 2020-12-14.

The Joy of Reading (2008), Charles Van Doren. Read 2016-10-11.

A Short History Of The United States (2009), Robert V. Remini. Read 2018-06-06.

Quantum Theory: A Graphic Guide (2008), J.P. McEvoy, Oscar Zarate. Read 2018-04-25.

Beloved (1996), Toni Morrison. Read 2017-10-13.

Benito Cereno (1855), Herman Melville. To-Read.

Bloodlands (2010), Timothy Snyder. Read 2020-05-12.

The Equations Of Life (2018), Cockell Charles. Read 2019-01-16.

The Origins Of History (1981), Herbert Butterfield. Read 2018-11-13.

The Whig Interpretation Of History (1965), Herbert Butterfield. Read 2018-11-08.

Christianity And History (1949), Herbert Butterfield. To-Read.

Man On His Past (1969), Herbert Butterfield. To-Read.

The Other Solzhenitsyn (2014), Daniel J. Mahoney. Read 2016-11-28.

The Russian Question At The End Of The Twentieth Century (1995), Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Read 2016-11-26.

The Solzhenitsyn Reader (2006), Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Read 2016-01-16.

From Under The Rubble (1975), Alexander Solzhenitsyn. To-Read.

The Soul And Barbed Wire (2008), Edward E. Ericson Jr., Alexis Klimoff. To-Read.

The Stranger (1989), Albert Camus. Read 1969-05-14.

The Meursault Investigation (2015), Kamel Daoud. To-Read.

L'Étranger (2015), Albert Camus. To-Read.

Junk Dna (2015), Nessa Carey. Read 2019-04-25.

The Beak Of The Finch (1995), Jonathan Weiner. Read 2018-02-19.

Introducing Epigenetics: A Graphic Guide (2017), Cath Ennis. Read 2017-09-10.

The Epigenetics Revolution (2012), Nessa Carey. Read 2016-12-01.

Darwin On Trial (1991), Phillip E. Johnson. Read 1995-10-10.

Hacking Darwin (2019), Jamie Metzl. To-Read.