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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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INTUITION PUMPS and Other Tools For Thinking, by Daniel C. Dennett

LAST APE STANDING: The Seven Million Year Story of How and Why We Survived, by Chip Walter

HOW TO CREATE A MIND: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed, by Ray Kurzweil.     

SUPERINTELLIGENCE: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, by Nick Bostrom

THE CHEMISTRY OF ALCHEMY: Fromm Dragon's Blood to Donkey Dung: How Chemistry Was Forged

STARLIGHT DETECTIVES: How Astronomers, Inventors, and Eccentrics Discovered the Modern Universe, by Alan Hirshfeld

THE SECOND MACHINE AGE: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee

THE UNPERSUADEABLES: Adventures with the Enemies of Science, by Will Storr

WHAT IF? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions, by Randall Munroe

MASTERS OF THE PLANET: The Search For Our Human Origins, by Ian Tattersall

THE EVOLUTION OF USEFUL THINGS: How Everyday Artifacts--From Forks And Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers--Came To Be As They Are, by Henry Petroski

FROM DAWN TO DECADENCE: 1500 TO THE PRESENT: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, by Jacques Barzun

THE HAND: How Its Use Shapes The Brain, Language, and Human Culture, by Frank R. Wilson

THE FIRST HUMAN: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors, by Ann Gibbons

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN: VOLUME 2: The Man Who Learned Better, by William H. Patterson

MARKETPLACE OF THE MARVELOUS: The Strange Origins Of Modern Medicine: A History of Botanical Remedies, Hypnotic Suggestion, Water Cures, and Other Alternative Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America, by Erika Janik

MAGNIFICENT PRINCIPIA: Exploring Isaac Newton's Masterpiece, by Colin Pask

STUMBLING ON HAPPINESS, by Daniel Gilbert.

THE QUANTUM UNIVERSE: (And Why Anything That Can Happen, Does), by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw

THE GAP: The Science of What Separates Us From Other Animals, by Thomas Suddendorf

NEANDERTHALS REDISCOVERED: How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story, by Mimitra Papagianni and Michael A. Morse

GOING CLEAR: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief, by Lawrence Wright

SMARTER THAN YOU THINK: How Technology is Changing our Minds for the Better, by Clive Thompson

THE PRINCE OF MEDICINE: Galen in the Roman Empire, by Susan P. Mattern