Current 

• Man Walks into a Pub: A Sociable History of Beer - by Pete Brown  (Travel Book)
• The Mind's I: Fantasies And Reflections On Self & Soul - Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett 
• The Ghost: A Cultural History - Susan Owens
• The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire -  Alan Warwick Palmer   

Set Aside

• Color Ontology and Color Science - Jonathan Cohen (Editor), Mohan Matthen (Editor) (lost at airport)
• Great Wisconsin Taverns - Dennis Boyer
• The Local: A History of the English Pub - Paul Jennings  
• Great Pubs of London – George Dailey  
• Early Mormonism and the Magic World View - D. Michael Quinn 
• Custerology  
• Colonial Inns and Taverns of Bucks County - Marie Murphy Duess 
• Great Rocky Mountain Watering Holes - Michael Caldwell
• Too High & Too Steep: Reshaping Seattle's Topography - David B. Williams  
• Swinging Doors - Jim Marshall 
• New York City's Best Dive Bars: Drinking and Diving in the Big Apple - Ben Westhoff 
• Inventing Beauty: A history of the innovations that have made us beautiful - Teresa Riordan 
• Eye, Brain, and Vision - David H. Hubel

In the queue 

• The Mind of the Market - How Biology and Psychology Shape Our Economic Lives  - Michael Shermer
• The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values - Sam  Harris  
• Visual Intelligence - Donald D. Hoffman 
• The Unknown American Revolution - Gary B. Nash 
• Thunderstruck - Erik Larson 
• Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief - Rodney Stark
• A Natural History of the Senses
• Vision and Mind: Selected Readings in the Philosophy of Perception
• Is the Visual World a Grand Illusion? (Journal of Consciousness Studies Controversies in Science & the Humanities) 
• Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction - Lynne Olson
• The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket - by Benjamin Lorr 
• Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind - Daniel Dennett, Matthew Hurley
• Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion - Stewart Elliott Guthrie
• The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain's Most Terrifying Prison - Nicholas Guyatt  
• Mr. B: The Music and Life of Billy Eckstine - Cary Ginell  
• The Undoing Project - Michael Lewis  
• Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution Of Human Sexuality - Jared Diamond 
• Dark History of Penn's Woods: Murder, Madness, and Misadventure in Southeastern Pennsylvania - Jennifer L. Green 
• From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds - Daniell Dennett 
• Pittsburgh and the Great Migration: Black Mobility and the Automobile - Frick Art & Historical Center  
• The First Americans: In Pursuit of Archeology's Greatest Mystery - James Adovasio 
• August Wilson: Pittsburgh Places in His Life and Plays -  Laurence A. Glasco and Christopher Rawson 
• Jazz in the Hill: Nightlife and Narratives of a Pittsburgh Neighborhood -  Colter Harper
• Early Taverns of Bucks County - Willis M. Rivinus
• Bucks County Inns and Taverns - Kathleen Zingaro Clark
• Well Behaved Taverns Seldom Make History - M. Diane McCormick
• Forever Blue Moon - Walt Crowley 
• Shakespeare's Local: Six Centuries of History Seen Through One Extraordinary Pub - Pete Brown 
• The Pub: A Cultural Institution - from Country Inns to Craft Beer Bars and Corner Locals - Pete Brown 
• The Philosophy of Modern Song - Bob Dylan  
• Super Intelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies - Nick Bostrom
• Global Catastrophic Risks - Ed. Nick Bostrom 
• Jungle Girls - Mitch Maglio  
• Ghosts of Seattle Past - Ed. Jaimee  Garbacik
• American's Historic Inns and Taverns - Irvin Haas
• A Guide to the Notorious Bars of Alaska - Doug Vandegraft 
• Haunted Restaurants, Taverns, and Inns of Texas - Robert Wlodarski and Anne Powell Wlodarski 
• The Great American Bars and Saloons - Kathy Weiser  
• History by the Glass: Portland's Past and Present Saloons, Bars, and Taverns - Paul Pintarich 
• Obituary Cocktail - The Great Saloons of New Orleans - Kerri McCaffety 
• The Book of Great American Watering Holes - Michael Caldwell 
• Rum Runners and Renegades: Whisky Wars of the Pacific Northwest, 1917-2012 - Rich Mole  
• Bucket List Bars: Historic Saloons, Pubs, and Dives in America - Dr. Clint Lanier and Derek Hembree 
• Hidden History of Tacoma: Little Known Tales from the City of Destiny - Karla Stover
• Snohomish County: An Illustrated History - David A. Cameron et. al. 
• South on the Sound: An Illustrated History of Tacoma and Pierce County - Murray and Rosa Morgan
• That Ribbon of Highway III: Highway 99 through the Pacific Northwest - Jill Livingston 
• History of Tolt Carnation a Town Remembered - ed Isabel L. Jones  (Pete's Club?)
• Washington Curiosities - Quirky characters, roadside oddities & other offbeat stuff - Harriet Baskas 
• Seattle's International District - The Making of a Pan-Asian American Community - Doug Chin 
• Rake at the Gates of Hell - Shane MacGowan in Context - Robert Mamrak 
• A Hidden Past: An exploration of Eastside History - Ed. Arlene Bryant
• The Stanwood Story (Vol 1 & 2) - Alice Essex 
• Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife - Lisa Miller
• The Beer Trials -  Robin Goldstein, Seamus Campbell
• 101 Places to Get Fucked Up Before You Die - Ed. David S. Miller
• Alcoholica Esoterica: A Collection of Useful and Useless Information as it Relates to the History and Consumption of all Manner of Booze - Ian Lendler
• New Orleans: The Underground Guide - Michael Patrick Welch  
• Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America  Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America - John Avlon, Tina Brown
• Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith - Mark E. Smith
• What Jesus Meant - Garry Wills
• Bomb Power - The Modern Presidency and the National Security State - Garry Wills

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

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

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

• A Haunted Half Life at Jules Maes Saloon - Funi Daniels
• Indivisible By Two: Lives of Extraordinary Twins - Nancy L. Segal

• The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right

• Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human 

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

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

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

Recently Completed  

1. The Witches are Coming - Lindy West 
2. Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler – Lynne Olson
3. Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind - Annaka Harris 
4. Free Will - Sam Harris
5. The Johnstown Flood - David McCullough 
6. Never Understood: The Jesus and Mary Chain - William Reid and Jim Reid 
7. The Brain and the Meaning of Life - Paul Thagard 
8. The Illusion of Conscious Will - Daniel M. Wegner
9. Subliminal - How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior - Leonard Mlodinow  
10. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania - Erik Larson   
11. The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies - Alan Taylor
12. New England Tiki - Kevin Quigley (autographed copy from Ohana 2024) 
13. The Golden Elixir of the West - Sherry Monahan, Jane Perkins 
14. The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern - James McPherson 
15. Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America Paperback – Harry L. Watson 
16. The Marvel Age of Comics 1961-1978 - Roy Thomas  
17. Gen X Pittsburgh: The Beehive and the ’90s Scene - David Rullo
18. The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War - Peter Guardino 
19. From Farmland to Card Shop - Jason Kirin 
20. We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson  
21. Meet Me at Ray's: A Celebration of Ray's Place in Kent, Ohio - Patrick J. O'Conner 
22. Guns at the Forks - by Walter O'Meara  
23. An Assassin in Utopia - Susan Wells  
24. Stone House Legends & Lore - Marci Lynn McGuinness 
25. A History of the Amish - Steven M. Nolt
26. A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears) -  Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling 
27. Pittsburgh Drinks - Codey McDevitt and Sean Enright
28. Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance -  Mark Whitaker 
29. An Alternative  History of Pittsburgh - Ed Simon 
30. Sedition Hunters: How January 6th Broke the Justice System -  Ryan J. Reilly   
31. The Whiskey Rebellion and the Rebirth of Rye - Mark Meyer and Meredith Meyer Grelli
32. B.A. Stevens: Billiard and bar goods - Richard M Bueschel 
33. Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America - Will Sommer 
34. The Lives of Lowbrow Artists, Vol. 1 - Fritz Costa 
35. Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer
36. The Splendid and the Vile - Erik Larson 
37. The Case Against Reality - Donald Hoffman 
38. Seattle Prohibition: Bootleggers, Rumrunners & Graft in the Queen City - Brad Holden
39. Marvel Comics: The Untold Story - Sean Howe
40. Latah County - Julie R. Monroe
41. A Proper Drink - The Untold Story of How a Band of Bartenders Saved the Civilized Drinking World - Robert Simonson
42. The Saloon on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier - Elliot WestElmer Ogawa: After Hours with Seattle's Forgotten Photographer - Todd Matthews
43. Stranger In Town: A Guide to Taverns in Oregon and Southwest Washington - Philip and Barbara Ree Thompson 
44. Seattle Justice: The Rise and Fall of the Police Payoff System in Seattle - Christopher Bayley
45. Post Office - Charles Bukowski
46. Once Upon a Time in Seattle - Emmett Watson
47. The Guns at Last Light - The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 - Rick Atkinson
48. The Barringtons: White Water Skippers of the North - Nancy Warren Ferrell
49. One Hundred Years of the "Waterland" Community - A History of Des Moines, Washington - Ed. Richard T. Kennedy and Gretchen F.Schmidt
50. Taverns West - An enjoyable look at the finest watering holes to be found along the West Coast - Michael H. Caldwell
51. The Dry Years: Prohibition & Social Change in Washington - Norman H. Clark
52. America Walks into a Bar: A Spirited History of Taverns, Saloons, Speakeasies and Grog Shops - Christine Sismondo
53. Gay Seattle: Stories of Exile and Belonging - Gary L. Atkins
54. Pioneer Square - Seattle's Oldest Neighborhood - ed. Mildred Tanner Andrews 
55. Gold Creeks and Ghost Towns of Northeastern Washington - N.L. Barlee
56. A Billion Wicked Thoughts - What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships - Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam 
57. Scoundrels and Saloons: Whisky Wars of the Pacific Northwest, 1840-1917 - Rich Mole
58. Fugitives and Regugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon - Chuck Palahniuk
59. Coal Towns in the Cascades - John C. Shideler
60. Boom Towns & Relic Hunters of Northeastern Washington - Jerry Smith
61. Before Seattle Rocked: A City and its Music - Kurt E. Armbruster
62. Calabash: A Guide to the History, Culture & Art of African Americans in Seattle and King County, Washington - Esther Hall Mumford
63. McCall's Historic Shore Lodge - Darcy Williamson and Marlee Wilcomb
64. Early Ballard - Julie D. Pheasant-Albright
65. Among The Truthers: A Journey through America's Growing Conspiracist Underground - Jonathan Kay
66. Early Seattle Profiles - Henry Broderick
67. Doc Maynard - Bill Speidel
68. Watering Holes of the Northwest - Michael Caldwell
69. The Strangest Tribe: How a Group of Seattle Rock Bands Invented Grunge - Stephen Tow
70. In the Garden of Beasts - Eric Larson (very good)
71. Jackson Street After Hours - The Roots of Jazz in Seattle (very good)
72. Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street  Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street - Michael Lewis(good)
73. Losers - The Road to Everyplace but the White House - Michael Lewis (good)
74. Heavier Than Heaven - A Biography of Kurt Cobain - Charles R. Cross (good)
75. The Big Short - Michael Lewis (very good)
76. Hedonists in pursuit of pleasure and happiness - a 1970 guide to Seattle bars and restaurants - Ed. Wm. L. Hailey
77. Just Kids - Patti Smith
78. 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior - Scott O. Lilienfeld et. al.

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

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

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

82. Kafka - Robert Crumb and David Zane Mairowitz

83. Sarah from Alaska - Scott Conroy, Sushannah Walshe

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

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

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

87. The Wine Trials - Robin Goldstein (excellent)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

95. The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzati (very good)
96. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape our Decisions -- Dan Ariely (excellent)
97. Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris (okay)
98. What Americans Really Believe - Rodney Stark (good)
99. Chance - A Guide to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market & Just About Everything Else (very good)
100. I am a Strange Loop - Douglas Hofstadter (okay)
101. Bad Moon Rising: How Reverend Moon Created The Washington Times, Seduced the Religious Right, and Built and American Kingdom - John Gorenfeld (good)
102. Worlds of Their Own: A Brief History of Misguided Ideas: Creationism, Flat-Earthism, Energy Scams, and the Velikovsky Affair Robert J. Schadewald (good)
103. Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture Daniel Radosh (very good)
104.  Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets - Nassim Nicholas Taleb (okay)
105. The Drunken Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives - Leonard Mlodinow (excellent)
106. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance - Barack Obama (very good)
107. Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire - Matt Taibi (very good)
108. Breaking the Spell: Religion as Natural Phenomenon - Daniel Dennett (very good)
109. The Wisdom of Crowds - James Surowiecki (very good)
110. Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays - Frederick Crews (excellent)
111. Blind Side - Michael Lewis (very good)
112. What Is Intelligence? - James R. Flynn (good)
113. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable - Nassim Nicholas Taleb (disappointing)
114. 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)
115. A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness:  From Imposter Poodles to Purple Numbers V.S. Ramachandran (very good)
116. Beautiful Crescent: A History of New Orleans - Garvey and Widmer
117. Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What it Means to be Human - Ed. Susan Blackmore (excellent)
118. Entwined Lives: Twins and What They Tell Us about Human Behavior - Nancy L. Segal (very good)
119. Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong - Marc D. Hauser
120. Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction - David Kuo (very good; should be read by every religious conservative)
121. State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III - Bob Woodward (overrated, considerably inferior to Hubris or Fiasco)
122. Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War - Michael Isikoff and David Corn (very good)
123. Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq - Thomas E. Ricks (excellent)
124. A World Without Time - The Forgotten Legacy of Godel and Einstein (good)
125. Foundations of Vision (very good)

Partially read / Never quite finished

1. UniverCity - The Story of the University District in Seattle - Rob Nielsen
2. Puyallup: A Pioneer Paradise - Lori Price and Ruth Anderson 
3. Proust Was a Neuroscientist - Jonah Lehrer
4. Harvard Business Review on Knowledge Management - Peter Ferdinand Drucker, David Garvin, Dorothy Leonard, Susan Straus, John Seely Brown
5. Pagan Christianity - Frank Viola, George Barna
6. The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber - Mel Gordon
7. Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know about the Game is Wrong - Ed. Johan Keri
8. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins

9. Utopias on Puget Sound, 1885-1915 

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

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