Current

1. Proust Was a Neuroscientist - Jonah Lehrer
2. Harvard Business Review on Knowledge Management - Peter Ferdinand Drucker, David Garvin, Dorothy Leonard, Susan Straus, John Seely Brown
3. Pagan Christianity - Frank Viola, George Barna
4. The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber - Mel Gordon
5. Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know about the Game is Wrong - Ed. Johan Keri
6. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins

In the queue

1. Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief - Rodney Stark
2. Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution Of Human Sexuality - Jared Diamond
3. Philanthrocapitalism
4. What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything - John Brockman
5. The Bible - Karen Armstrong
6. The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature - Steven Pinker
7. The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
8.  The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution - Sean B. Carroll
9. Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology
10. Guns Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond
11. Blackwater: The Rise of the World's most Powerful Mercenary Army - Jeremy Scahill
12. The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America are Winning the Culture War
13. Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong - Marc D. Hauser
14. Indivisible By Two: Lives of Extraordinary Twins - Nancy L. Segal
15. The Selfish Gene (30th Anniversary Edition)
16. How Bill James Changed Our View of Baseball - Ed. Gregory F. Augustine Pierce
17. The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions - Karen Armstrong
18. A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government - Garry Wills
19. Mind, Life, and Universe: Conversations with Great Scientists of our Time - Ed. Lynn Margulis, Eduardo Punset
20. It Ain't Over Til It's Over: The Baseball Prospectus Pennant Race Book - Ed. Steve Goldman
21. Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think: Reflections by Scientists, Writers, and Philosophers
22. Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness - Dennett
23. The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success - Rodney Stark
24. The Rise of Mormonism - Rodney Stark
25. Stumbling on Happiness - Daniel Gilbert (no copy in hand yet, recommended in supercilious e-mail by stevei)
26. Blind Into Baghdad: America's War in Iraq - James Fallows
27. Religion, Deviance, and Social Control - Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge
28. Tales of the End - A Narrative Commentary on the Book of Revelation
29. The Once and Future Jesus - Funk et. al.
30. The Republican War on Science - Chris Mooney
31. Christianity Without God - Lloyd Geering
32. Herzog
33. Chance - A Guide to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market & Just About Everything Else
34. A Natural History of the Senses
35. Curve Ball - Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the Game
36. Baseball by the Numbers - How Statistics are Collected, What They Mean, and How They Reveal the Game
37. A Mathematician at the Ballpark - Odds and Probabilities for Baseball Fans - Ken Ross
38. The Third Chimpanzee - The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal - Jared Diamond
39. Monkeyluv - And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals
40. Religious Movements: Genesis, Exodus, and Numbers - Rodney Stark

Recently Completed

1. The Invention of Air:  A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America - Steven Johnson (good)

2. The Pluto Files:  The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet - Neil deGrasse Tyson (good)

3. Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) - Tom Vanderbilt (very good)

4. The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 - Thomas Ricks (excellent)

5. The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America - David Hajdu (good)

6. The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzati (very good)
7. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape our Decisions -- Dan Ariely (very good)
8. Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris (okay)
9. What Americans Really Believe - Rodney Stark (good)
10. I am a Strange Loop - Douglas Hofstadter (okay)
11. Bad Moon Rising: How Reverend Moon Created The Washington Times, Seduced the Religious Right, and Built and American Kingdom - John Gorenfeld (good)
12. Worlds of Their Own: A Brief History of Misguided Ideas: Creationism, Flat-Earthism, Energy Scams, and the Velikovsky Affair Robert J. Schadewald (good)
13. Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture Daniel Radosh (very good)
14.  Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets - Nassim Nicholas Taleb (okay)
15. The Drunken Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives - Leonard Mlodinow (excellent)
16. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance - Barack Obama (very good)
17. Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire - Matt Taibi (very good)
18. Breaking the Spell: Religion as Natural Phenomenon - Daniel Dennett (very good)
19. The Wisdom of Crowds - James Surowiecki (very good)
20. Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays - Frederick Crews (excellent)
21. Blind Side - Michael Lewis (very good)
22. What Is Intelligence? - James R. Flynn (good)
23. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable - Nassim Nicholas Taleb (disappointing)
24. A Tragic Legacy: How A Good VS Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency - Glenn Greenwald (a good summary, but little new info for people paying attention at the time)
25. A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness:  From Imposter Poodles to Purple Numbers V.S. Ramachandran (very good)
26. Beautiful Crescent: A History of New Orleans - Garvey and Widmer
27. Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What it Means to be Human - Ed. Susan Blackmore (excellent)
28. Entwined Lives: Twins and What They Tell Us about Human Behavior - Nancy L. Segal (very good)
29. Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction - David Kuo (very good; should be read by every religious conservative)
30. State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III - Bob Woodward (overrated, considerably inferior to Hubris or Fiasco)
31. Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War - Michael Isikoff and David Corn (very good)
32. Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq - Thomas E. Ricks (excellent)
33. A World Without Time - The Forgotten Legacy of Godel and Einstein (good)
34. Foundations of Vision (very good)

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