Current

• The Strangest Tribe: How a Group of Seattle Rock Bands Invented Grunge - Stephen Tow
• Eye, Brain, and Vision - David H. Hubel

In the queue 

1. Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife - Lisa Miller
2. The Beer Trials -  Robin Goldstein, Seamus Campbell
3. The Mind of the Market - How Biology and Psychology Shape Our Economic Lives  - Michael Shermer
4. Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America  Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America - John Avlon, Tina Brown
5. Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith - Mark E. Smith
6. What Jesus Meant - Garry Wills
7. Bomb Power - The Modern Presidency and the National Security State - Garry Wills
8. Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief - Rodney Stark
9. Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution Of Human Sexuality - Jared Diamond
10. The Illusion of Conscious Will - Daniel M. Wegner

11. An Evening at the Garden of Allah - Don Paulson, Roger Simpson

12. Prime Curios!: The Dictionary of Prime Number Trivia - Chris K. Caldwell

13. Is Christianity Good for the World?  A Debate - Christopher Hitchens, Douglas Wilson 

14. A Haunted Half Life at Jules Maes Saloon - Funi Daniels
15. Indivisible By Two: Lives of Extraordinary Twins - Nancy L. Segal
16. A Natural History of the Senses
17. Vision and Mind: Selected Readings in the Philosophy of Perception
18. Is the Visual World a Grand Illusion? (Journal of Consciousness Studies Controversies in Science & the Humanities)

19. The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right

20. Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human 

21. Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

22. A Thousand Days of Wonder: A Scientist's Chronicle of His Daughter's Developing Mind

23. Philanthrocapitalism
24. What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything - John Brockman
25. Dereliction of Duty : Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
26. The Bible:  A Biography - Karen Armstrong
27. The Mismeasure of Woman
28. The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature - Steven Pinker
29. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
30.  The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution - Sean B. Carroll
31.  Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology - Daniel Dennett
32. Guns Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond
33. Causing a Scene: Extraordinary Pranks in Ordinary Places with Improv Everywhere
34. Blackwater: The Rise of the World's most Powerful Mercenary Army - Jeremy Scahill
35. The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America are Winning the Culture War
36. The Selfish Gene (30th Anniversary Edition)
37. How Bill James Changed Our View of Baseball - Ed. Gregory F. Augustine Pierce
38. The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions - Karen Armstrong
39. A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government - Garry Wills
40. Mind, Life, and Universe: Conversations with Great Scientists of our Time - Ed. Lynn Margulis, Eduardo Punset
41. It Ain't Over Til It's Over: The Baseball Prospectus Pennant Race Book - Ed. Steve Goldman
42. Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think: Reflections by Scientists, Writers, and Philosophers
43. Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness - Dennett
44. The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success - Rodney Stark
45. The Rise of Mormonism - Rodney Stark
46. Stumbling on Happiness - Daniel Gilbert (no copy in hand yet, recommended in supercilious e-mail by stevei)
47. Blind Into Baghdad: America's War in Iraq - James Fallows
48. Religion, Deviance, and Social Control - Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge
49. Tales of the End - A Narrative Commentary on the Book of Revelation
50. The Once and Future Jesus - Funk et. al.
51. The Republican War on Science - Chris Mooney
52. Christianity Without God - Lloyd Geering
53. Herzog
54. Curve Ball - Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the Game
55. Baseball by the Numbers - How Statistics are Collected, What They Mean, and How They Reveal the Game
56. A Mathematician at the Ballpark - Odds and Probabilities for Baseball Fans - Ken Ross
57. The Third Chimpanzee - The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal - Jared Diamond
58. Monkeyluv - And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals
59. Religious Movements: Genesis, Exodus, and Numbers - Rodney Stark

Recently Completed

1. In the Garden of Beasts - Eric Larson (very good)
2. Jackson Street After Hours - The Roots of Jazz in Seattle (very good)
3. Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street  Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street - Michael Lewis(good)
4. Losers - The Road to Everyplace but the White House - Michael Lewis (good)
5. Heavier Than Heaven - A Biography of Kurt Cobain - Charles R. Cross (good)
6. The Big Short - Michael Lewis (very good)
7. Hedonists in pursuit of pleasure and happiness - a 1970 guide to Seattle bars and restaurants - Ed. Wm. L. Hailey
8. Just Kids - Patti Smith
9. 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior - Scott O. Lilienfeld et. al.

10. Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime - John Heilemann, Mark Halperin (very good)

11. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (good)

12. We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson (good)

13. Kafka - Robert Crumb and David Zane Mairowitz

14. Sarah from Alaska - Scott Conroy, Sushannah Walshe

15. Storm of Steel - Ernst Junger (very good)

16. Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy  (very good)

17. On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not - Robert A. Burton

18. The Wine Trials - Robin Goldstein (excellent)

19. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (okay) 

20. Devil in the White City - Erik Larson (very good)

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

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

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

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

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

26. The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzati (very good)
27. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape our Decisions -- Dan Ariely (excellent)
28. Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris (okay)
29. What Americans Really Believe - Rodney Stark (good)
30. Chance - A Guide to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market & Just About Everything Else (very good)
31. I am a Strange Loop - Douglas Hofstadter (okay)
32. Bad Moon Rising: How Reverend Moon Created The Washington Times, Seduced the Religious Right, and Built and American Kingdom - John Gorenfeld (good)
33. Worlds of Their Own: A Brief History of Misguided Ideas: Creationism, Flat-Earthism, Energy Scams, and the Velikovsky Affair Robert J. Schadewald (good)
34. Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture Daniel Radosh (very good)
35.  Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets - Nassim Nicholas Taleb (okay)
36. The Drunken Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives - Leonard Mlodinow (excellent)
37. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance - Barack Obama (very good)
38. Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire - Matt Taibi (very good)
39. Breaking the Spell: Religion as Natural Phenomenon - Daniel Dennett (very good)
40. The Wisdom of Crowds - James Surowiecki (very good)
41. Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays - Frederick Crews (excellent)
42. Blind Side - Michael Lewis (very good)
43. What Is Intelligence? - James R. Flynn (good)
44. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable - Nassim Nicholas Taleb (disappointing)
45. 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)
46. A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness:  From Imposter Poodles to Purple Numbers V.S. Ramachandran (very good)
47. Beautiful Crescent: A History of New Orleans - Garvey and Widmer
48. Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What it Means to be Human - Ed. Susan Blackmore (excellent)
49. Entwined Lives: Twins and What They Tell Us about Human Behavior - Nancy L. Segal (very good)
50. Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong - Marc D. Hauser
51. Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction - David Kuo (very good; should be read by every religious conservative)
52. State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III - Bob Woodward (overrated, considerably inferior to Hubris or Fiasco)
53. Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War - Michael Isikoff and David Corn (very good)
54. Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq - Thomas E. Ricks (excellent)
55. A World Without Time - The Forgotten Legacy of Godel and Einstein (good)
56. Foundations of Vision (very good)

Partially read / Never quite finished

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

7. Utopias on Puget Sound, 1885-1915 

8. Psychobabble and Biobunk: Using Psychology to Think Critically about Issues in the News

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