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I've been a compulsive reader all my life. Some years, I wrote down the names of the books I was reading.

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FEATHERS: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle, by Thor Hanson

THE TELL-TALE BRAIN: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human, by V. S. Ramachandran

ON THE ORIGIN OF TEPEES: The Evolution Of Ideas (And Ourselves), by Jonnie Hughes

THE END OF DISCOVERY: Are We Approaching The Boundaries Of The Knowable?, by Russell Stannar

THE POISONER'S HANDBOOK: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York, by Deborah Blum

HAMLET'S BLACKBERRY: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age, by William Powers

THE STORY OF CHARLOTTE'S WEB: E.B. White's Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic, by Michael Sims.

THE BEGINNING OF INFINITY: Explanations That Transform the World, by David Deutsch

LIFE ASCENDING: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution, by Nick Lane

SCIENCE-MART: Privatizing American Science, by Philip Mirowski.

DESIGNING ENGINEERS, by Louis L. Bucciarelli

ALONE TOGETHER: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less From Each Other, by Sherry Turkle

THE HIDDEN REALITY: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos, by Brian Greene

THE SOCIAL ANIMAL: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement, by David Brooks

I AM JOHN GALT: Today's Heroic Innovators Building the World and the Villainous Parasites Destroying It, by Donald L. Luskin and Andrew Greta

THE GOOGLIZATION OF EVERYTHING (And Why We Should Worry), by Siva Vaidhyanathan

CYCLES OF TIME: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe, by Roger Penrose

LEARNING CURVE | 1907-1948: Robert A. Heinlein In Dialogue With His Century, by William H. Patterson Jr.

RAINBOW'S END, a novel by Vernor Vinge

INCANDESCENCE, a novel by Greg Egan

THE ART OF IMMERSION: How The Digital Generation is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories, by Frank Rose

WILL EISNER: A Dreamer's Life In Comics, by Michael Schumacher

NORTH POLE, SOUTH POLE: The Epic Quest To Solve The Great Mystery Of Earth's Magnetism, by Gillian Turner

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN

INFINITE REALITY: Avatars, Eternal Life, New Worlds, and the Dawn of the Virtual Revolution, by Jim Blascovich and Jeremy Bailenson

HOW TO WRITE A DAMN GOOD THRILLER: A Step by Step Guide for Novelists and Screenwriters, by James N. Frey

MYSTERY CULTS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD, by Hugh Bowden

ALLIES AND ENEMIES: How the World Depends on Bacteria, by Anne Maczulak

THE INFORMATION: A Theory, A History, A Flood, by James Gleick

THE ELEMENTS OF TYPOGRAPHIC STYLE, by Robert Bringhurst

DECONSTRUCTING OBAMA: The Life, Loves, and Letters of America's First Postmodern President, by Jack Cashill

WHAT IS LIFE? by Erwin Schrodinger

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MIND: From Apes To Intellect and Beyond,
by William H. Calvin

THE EVOLUTIONARY WORLD: How Adaptation Explains Everything From Seashells to Civilization, by Geerat J. Vermeij

WRITTEN IN STONE: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature,
by Brian Switek.

THE NAKED APE, by Desmond Morris

ORIGINS OF EXISTENCE: How Life Emerged in the Universe, by Fred Adams

DREAMWEAVER CS5: THE MISSING MANUAL, by David Sawyer McFarland