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  1. Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of ComicsTom Scioli 
  2. Wild West Bartender's Bible -  Byron A. Johnson and Sharon Peregrine Johnson - Some rare and very helpful history on the gilded age of saloons
  3. Neal Adams, Master Illustrator - Alex Grand and Bill Field 
  4. The Witches are Coming - Lindy West 
  5. Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler – Lynne Olson
  6. Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the MindAnnaka Harris 
  7. Free Will - Sam Harris
  8. The Johnstown Flood - David McCullough 
  9. Never Understood: The Jesus and Mary Chain - William Reid and Jim Reid 
  10. The Brain and the Meaning of Life - Paul Thagard 
  11. The Illusion of Conscious Will - Daniel M. Wegner
  12. Subliminal - How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior - Leonard Mlodinow  
  13. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania - Erik Larson   
  14. The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies - Alan Taylor
  15. New England Tiki - Kevin Quigley (autographed copy from Ohana 2024) 
  16. The Golden Elixir of the West - Sherry Monahan, Jane Perkins 
  17. The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern - James McPherson 
  18. Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America Paperback – Harry L. Watson 
  19. The Marvel Age of Comics 1961-1978 - Roy Thomas  
  20. Gen X Pittsburgh: The Beehive and the ’90s Scene - David Rullo
  21. The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War - Peter Guardino 
  22. From Farmland to Card Shop - Jason Kirin 
  23. We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson  
  24. Meet Me at Ray's: A Celebration of Ray's Place in Kent, Ohio - Patrick J. O'Conner 
  25. Guns at the Forks - by Walter O'Meara  
  26. An Assassin in Utopia - Susan Wells  
  27. Stone House Legends & Lore - Marci Lynn McGuinness 
  28. A History of the Amish - Steven M. Nolt
  29. A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears) -  Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling 
  30. Pittsburgh Drinks - Codey McDevitt and Sean Enright
  31. Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance -  Mark Whitaker 
  32. An Alternative  History of Pittsburgh - Ed Simon 
  33. Sedition Hunters: How January 6th Broke the Justice System -  Ryan J. Reilly   
  34. The Whiskey Rebellion and the Rebirth of Rye - Mark Meyer and Meredith Meyer Grelli
  35. B.A. Stevens: Billiard and bar goods - Richard M Bueschel 
  36. Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America - Will Sommer 
  37. The Lives of Lowbrow Artists, Vol. 1 - Fritz Costa 
  38. Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer
  39. The Splendid and the Vile - Erik Larson 
  40. The Case Against Reality - Donald Hoffman 
  41. Seattle Prohibition: Bootleggers, Rumrunners & Graft in the Queen City - Brad Holden
  42. Marvel Comics: The Untold Story - Sean Howe
  43. Latah County - Julie R. Monroe
  44. A Proper Drink - The Untold Story of How a Band of Bartenders Saved the Civilized Drinking World - Robert Simonson
  45. The Saloon on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier - Elliot West
  46. Elmer Ogawa: After Hours with Seattle's Forgotten Photographer - Todd Matthews
  47. Stranger In Town: A Guide to Taverns in Oregon and Southwest Washington - Philip and Barbara Ree Thompson 
  48. Seattle Justice: The Rise and Fall of the Police Payoff System in Seattle - Christopher Bayley
  49. Post Office - Charles Bukowski
  50. Once Upon a Time in Seattle - Emmett Watson
  51. The Guns at Last Light - The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 - Rick Atkinson
  52. The Barringtons: White Water Skippers of the North - Nancy Warren Ferrell
  53. One Hundred Years of the "Waterland" Community - A History of Des Moines, Washington - Ed. Richard T. Kennedy and Gretchen F.Schmidt
  54. Taverns West - An enjoyable look at the finest watering holes to be found along the West Coast - Michael H. Caldwell
  55. The Dry Years: Prohibition & Social Change in Washington - Norman H. Clark
  56. America Walks into a Bar: A Spirited History of Taverns, Saloons, Speakeasies and Grog Shops - Christine Sismondo
  57. Gay Seattle: Stories of Exile and Belonging - Gary L. Atkins
  58. Pioneer Square - Seattle's Oldest Neighborhood - ed. Mildred Tanner Andrews 
  59. Gold Creeks and Ghost Towns of Northeastern Washington - N.L. Barlee
  60. A Billion Wicked Thoughts - What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships - Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam 
  61. Scoundrels and Saloons: Whisky Wars of the Pacific Northwest, 1840-1917 - Rich Mole
  62. Fugitives and Regugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon - Chuck Palahniuk
  63. Coal Towns in the Cascades - John C. Shideler
  64. Boom Towns & Relic Hunters of Northeastern Washington - Jerry Smith
  65. Before Seattle Rocked: A City and its Music - Kurt E. Armbruster
  66. Calabash: A Guide to the History, Culture & Art of African Americans in Seattle and King County, Washington - Esther Hall Mumford
  67. McCall's Historic Shore Lodge - Darcy Williamson and Marlee Wilcomb
  68. Early Ballard - Julie D. Pheasant-Albright
  69. Among The Truthers: A Journey through America's Growing Conspiracist Underground - Jonathan Kay
  70. Early Seattle Profiles - Henry Broderick
  71. Doc Maynard - Bill Speidel
  72. Watering Holes of the Northwest - Michael Caldwell
  73. The Strangest Tribe: How a Group of Seattle Rock Bands Invented Grunge - Stephen Tow
  74. In the Garden of Beasts - Eric Larson (very good)
  75. Jackson Street After Hours - The Roots of Jazz in Seattle (very good)
  76. Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street  Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street - Michael Lewis(good)
  77. Losers - The Road to Everyplace but the White House - Michael Lewis (good)
  78. Heavier Than Heaven - A Biography of Kurt Cobain - Charles R. Cross (good)
  79. The Big Short - Michael Lewis (very good)
  80. Hedonists in pursuit of pleasure and happiness - a 1970 guide to Seattle bars and restaurants - Ed. Wm. L. Hailey
  81. Just Kids - Patti Smith
  82. 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior - Scott O. Lilienfeld et. al.
  83. Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime - John Heilemann, Mark Halperin (very good)

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

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

  86. Kafka - Robert Crumb and David Zane Mairowitz

  87. Sarah from Alaska - Scott Conroy, Sushannah Walshe

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

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

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

  91. The Wine Trials - Robin Goldstein (excellent)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  99. The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzati (very good)
  100. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape our Decisions -- Dan Ariely (excellent)
  101. Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris (okay)
  102. What Americans Really Believe - Rodney Stark (good)
  103. Chance - A Guide to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market & Just About Everything Else (very good)
  104. I am a Strange Loop - Douglas Hofstadter (okay)
  105. Bad Moon Rising: How Reverend Moon Created The Washington Times, Seduced the Religious Right, and Built and American Kingdom - John Gorenfeld (good)
  106. Worlds of Their Own: A Brief History of Misguided Ideas: Creationism, Flat-Earthism, Energy Scams, and the Velikovsky Affair Robert J. Schadewald (good)
  107. Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture Daniel Radosh (very good)
  108.  Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets - Nassim Nicholas Taleb (okay)
  109. The Drunken Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives - Leonard Mlodinow (excellent)
  110. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance - Barack Obama (very good)
  111. Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire - Matt Taibi (very good)
  112. Breaking the Spell: Religion as Natural Phenomenon - Daniel Dennett (very good)
  113. The Wisdom of Crowds - James Surowiecki (very good)
  114. Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays - Frederick Crews (excellent)
  115. Blind Side - Michael Lewis (very good)
  116. What Is Intelligence? - James R. Flynn (good)
  117. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable - Nassim Nicholas Taleb (disappointing)
  118. 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)
  119. A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness:  From Imposter Poodles to Purple Numbers V.S. Ramachandran (very good)
  120. Beautiful Crescent: A History of New Orleans - Garvey and Widmer
  121. Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What it Means to be Human - Ed. Susan Blackmore (excellent)
  122. Entwined Lives: Twins and What They Tell Us about Human Behavior - Nancy L. Segal (very good)
  123. Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong - Marc D. Hauser
  124. Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction - David Kuo (very good; should be read by every religious conservative)
  125. State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III - Bob Woodward (overrated, considerably inferior to Hubris or Fiasco)
  126. Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War - Michael Isikoff and David Corn (very good)
  127. Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq - Thomas E. Ricks (excellent)
  128. A World Without Time - The Forgotten Legacy of Godel and Einstein (good)
  129. 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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