Pop-sci book meme

Anyway, here's my copy of the list:

  1. Micrographia, Robert Hooke
  2. The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
  3. Richard Westfall
  4. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, Richard Feynman
  5. Tesla: Man Out of Time, Margaret Cheney
  6. The Devil's Doctor, Philip Ball
  7. The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes
  8. Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos, Dennis Overbye
  9. Physics for Entertainment, Yakov Perelman
  10. 1-2-3 Infinity, George Gamow
  11. The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene
  12. Warmth Disperses, Time Passes, Hans Christian von Bayer
  13. Alice in Quantumland, Robert Gilmore
  14. Where Does the Weirdness Go? David Lindley
  15. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
  16. A Force of Nature, Richard Rhodes
  17. Black Holes and Time Warps, Kip Thorne
  18. A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
  19. Universal Foam, Sidney Perkowitz
  20. Vermeer's Camera, Philip Steadman
  21. The Code Book, Simon Singh
  22. The Elements of Murder, John Emsley
  23. Soul Made Flesh, Carl Zimmer* on hand, in progress
  24. Time's Arrow, Martin Amis
  25. The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments, George Johnson
  26. Einstein's Dreams, Alan Lightman
  27. Godel, Escher, Bach, Douglas Hofstadter
  28. The Curious Life of Robert Hooke, Lisa Jardine
  29. A Matter of Degrees, Gino Segre
  30. The Physics of Star Trek, Lawrence Krauss
  31. E=mc2, David Bodanis
  32. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, Charles Seife
  33. Absolute Zero: The Conquest of Cold, Tom Shachtman
  34. A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, Janna Levin
  35. Warped Passages, Lisa Randall
  36. Apollo's Fire, Michael Sims
  37. Flatland, Edward Abbott
  38. Fermat's Last Theorem, Amir Aczel
  39. Stiff, Mary Roach
  40. Astroturf, M.G. Lord
  41. The Periodic Table, Primo Levi
  42. Longitude, Dava Sobel
  43. The First Three Minutes, Steven Weinberg
  44. The Mummy Congress, Heather Pringle
  45. The Accelerating Universe, Mario Livio
  46. Math and the Mona Lisa, Bulent Atalay
  47. This is Your Brain on Music, Daniel Levitin
  48. The Executioner's Current, Richard Moran
  49. Krakatoa, Simon Winchester
  50. Pythagorus' Trousers, Margaret Wertheim
  51. Neuromancer, William Gibson
  52. The Physics of Superheroes, James Kakalios
  53. The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump, Sandra Hempel
  54. Another Day in the Frontal Lobe, Katrina Firlik
  55. Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps, Peter Galison
  56. The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan
  57. The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins
  58. The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker
  59. An Instance of the Fingerpost, Iain Pears
  60. Consilience, E.O. Wilson
  61. Wonderful Life, Stephen J. Gould
  62. Teaching a Stone to Talk, Annie Dillard
  63. Fire in the Brain, Ronald K. Siegel
  64. The Lives of a Cell, Lewis Thomas
  65. Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Timothy Ferris
  66. Storm World, Chris Mooney
  67. The Carbon Age, Eric Roston
  68. The Black Hole Wars, Leonard Susskind
  69. Copenhagen, Michael Frayn
  70. From the Earth to the Moon, Jules Verne
  71. Gut Symmetries, Jeanette Winterson
  72. Chaos, James Gleick
  73. Innumeracy, John Allen Paulos
  74. The Physics of NASCAR, Diandra Leslie-Pelecky
  75. Subtle is the Lord, Abraham Pais

More added by PZ Myers:

  1. Ascent of Man, Jacob Bronowski
  2. Basin and Range, John McPhee* intend to read
  3. Beak of the Finch, Jonathan Weiner
  4. Chance and Necessity, Jacques Monod
  5. Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation, Olivia Judson* part of Mount To-Be-Read
  6. Endless Forms Most Beautiful, Sean Carroll*
  7. Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea, Carl Zimmer
  8. Genome, Matt Ridley
  9. Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond* part of Mount To-Be-Read
  10. It Ain't Necessarily So, Richard Lewontin
  11. On Growth and Form, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
  12. Phantoms in the Brain, VS Ramachandran
  13. The Ancestor's Tale, Richard Dawkins
  14. The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution, Elisabeth Lloyd
  15. The Eighth Day of Creation, Horace Freeland Judson
  16. The Great Devonian Controversy, Martin Rudwick
  17. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, Oliver Sacks
  18. The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould
  19. The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment, Richard Lewontin
  20. Time, Love, Memory, Jonathan Weiner
  21. Voyaging and The Power of Place, Janet Browne
  22. Woman: An Intimate Geography, Natalie Angier* part of Mount To-Be-Read

Others on my list:

Cocktail Party Physics suggested a popular-science book meme and asked bloggers to list some of their favourite books, books they had read, or books they'd like to read.

  1. The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction, David Quammen* on Mount TBR
  2. Connections, by James Burke
  3. Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sachs on Mount TBR
  4. Rats, Lice and History, by Hans Zinsser
  5. Microcosm by Carl Zimmer
  6. FAt the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs by Carl Zimmer
  7. The Hot Zone - Richard Preston
  8. Microbe Hunters - Paul de Kruif
  9. The Dinosaur Heresies by Robert T. Bakker* would like to read
  10. Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin* at home, on my to-read list
  11. 1-2-3 Infinity, George Gamow
  12. Hot-blooded Dinosaurs
  13. Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World Of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures by Carl Zimmer
  14. In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall
  15. The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan - might have read it
  16. The Dragons of Eden, Carl Sagan
  17. The Third Chimpanzee, Jared Diamond* on hand
  18. The Double Helix, James Watson
  19. Rosalind Franklin and DNA
  20. Darwin's Ghost: "The Origin of Species" Updated by Steve Jones*
  21. Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud by Robert L. Park
  22. Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science by Martin Gardner
  23. The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcher by Lewis Thomas
  24. Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould
  25. The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas
  26. Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
  27. The Velvet Claw: A Natural History of the Carnivores by David Macdonald
  28. Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
  29. The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
  30. Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
  31. Stars, Men and Atoms by Heinz Haber
  32. The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
  33. An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas by Stephen Jay Gould
  34. On Aggression by Konrad Lorenz; Marjorie Kerr Wilson (tr.)
  35. The Fragile Species by Lewis Thomas
  36. Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony by Lewis Thomas
  37. Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
  38. Jacobson's Organ and the Remarkable Nature of Smell by Lyall Watson
  39. Darwin for Beginners by Jonathan Miller, Borin Van Loon
  40. The Dawn of Life by J. H. Rush
  41. Inside the Nucleus by Irving Adler; Ruth Adler (illustrator) (look for books from the Signet Science Library)
  42. African Genesis: The Animal Origins and Nature of Man by Robert Ardrey
  43. The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations by Robert Ardrey
  44. Here Am I -- Where Are You? The Behavior of the Greylag Goose by Konrad Lorenz
  45. Why We Run: A Natural History by Bernd Heinrich
  46. King Solomon's Ring by Konrad Lorenz; Marjorie Kerr Wilson (tr.)
  47. Diseases and History (or some such)
  48. Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea by Carl Zimmer
  49. The Best American Science Writing,* I've read a few and recommend anything in the series)
  50. The Best American Science and Nature Writing,* (I've read a few and recommend anything in the series)
  51. The Marine Biology Coloring Book by Thomas M. Niesen; Wynn Kapit (ill.) (this represents a class of informative coloring books)
  52. Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks
  53. An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver Sacks
  54. A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks
  55. I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
  56. The Living Clocks by Ritchie R. Ward
  57. Powers of Ten by Philip Morrison, Phylis Morrison, Charles & Ray Eames
  58. The Island of the Colorblind: and Cycad Island by Oliver W. Sacks
  59. Newton's Madness: Further Tales of Clinical Neurology by Harold L. Klawans
  60. The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness by Antonio R. Damasio
  61. The Seashell on the Mountaintop: ...A New History of the Earth by Alan Cutler
  62. Dead Men Do Tell Tales: Strange and Fascinating Cases (forensic science) by William R. Maples
  63. Toronto Rocks: The Geological Legacy of the Toronto Region by Nick Eyles
  64. some of Isaac Asimov's science books
  65. Newton's Tyranny: The Suppressed Scientific Discoveries of Stephen Gray and John Flamsteed by David Clark
  66. The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe by Arthur Koestler
  67. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
  68. The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the Ice Age by Edmund Blair Bolles
  69. Chasing Science: Science as Spectator Sport by Frederik Pohl
  70. Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel the Way You Do by Candace B. Pert
  71. After Man: A Zoology of the Future by Dougal Dixon
  72. Of Moths and Men: An Evolutionary Tale by Judith Hooper (in progress)
  73. The John McPhee Reader (don't remember editor)
  74. The Miner's Canary: Unravelling the Mysteries of Extinction by Niles Eldredge
  75. Darwin's Century: Evolution and the Men Who Discovered It by Loren Eiseley (in progress)
  76. Pigs Pigs Pigs by Lyall Watson
  77. At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs by Carl Zimmer
  78. How to Lie with Statistics (in progress)
  79. Parasite Rex by Carl Zimmer
  80. Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human by Richard Leakey, Roger Lewin
  81. Acquiring Genomes: A Theory of the Origins of Species by y Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan
  82. The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions by David Quammen
  83. The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman
  84. Winston Churchill's Afternoon Nap: A wide-awake inquiry into the human nature of time by Jeremy Campbell
  85. The Living Clocks by Ritchie R. Ward
  86. Why Do Buses Come in Threes? The Hidden Mathematics of Everyday Life by Rob Eastaway, Jeremy Wyndham
  87. Turn Signals Are the Facial Expressions of Automobiles by Donald A. Norman
  88. The First Chimpanzee: In Search of Human Origins by John Gribbin, Jeremy Cherfas

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