Current

• Seattle Justice: The Rise and Fall of the Police Payoff System in Seattle - Christopher Bayley
• Too High & Too Steep: Reshaping Seattle's Topography - David B. Williams 

Set Aside for the Moment 

• Puyallup: A Pioneer Paradise - Lori Price and Ruth Anderson
• Great Rocky Mountain Watering Holes - Michael Caldwell
• UniverCity - The Story of the University District in Seattle - Rob Nielsen
• Subliminal - How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior - Leonard Mlodinow 
• 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 Saloon on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier - Elliot West
• American's Historic Inns and Taverns - Irvin Haas
• The Great American Bars and Saloons - Kathy Weiser  
• 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 
• Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind - Daniel Dennett, Matthew Hurley
• Free Will - Sam Harris
• 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  
• The Mind of the Market - How Biology and Psychology Shape Our Economic Lives  - Michael Shermer
• 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
• The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values - Sam  Harris  
• Bomb Power - The Modern Presidency and the National Security State - Garry Wills
• Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief - Rodney Stark
• Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution Of Human Sexuality - Jared Diamond
• The Illusion of Conscious Will - Daniel M. Wegner

• 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
• 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)

• 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. Post Office - Charles Bukowski
2. Once Upon a Time in Seattle - Emmett Watson
3. The Guns at Last Light - The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 - Rick Atkinson
4. The Barringtons: White Water Skippers of the North - Nancy Warren Ferrell
5. One Hundred Years of the "Waterland" Community - A History of Des Moines, Washington - Ed. Richard T. Kennedy and Gretchen F.Schmidt
6. Taverns West - An enjoyable look at the finest watering holes to be found along the West Coast - Michael H. Caldwell
7. The Dry Years: Prohibition & Social Change in Washington - Norman H. Clark
8. America Walks into a Bar: A Spirited History of Taverns, Saloons, Speakeasies and Grog Shops - Christine Sismondo
9. Gay Seattle: Stories of Exile and Belonging - Gary L. Atkins
10. Pioneer Square - Seattle's Oldest Neighborhood - ed. Mildred Tanner Andrews 
11. Gold Creeks and Ghost Towns of Northeastern Washington - N.L. Barlee
12. A Billion Wicked Thoughts - What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships - Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam 
13. Scoundrels and Saloons: Whisky Wars of the Pacific Northwest, 1840-1917 - Rich Mole
14. Fugitives and Regugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon - Chuck Palahniuk
15. Coal Towns in the Cascades - John C. Shideler
16. Boom Towns & Relic Hunters of Northeastern Washington - Jerry Smith
17. Before Seattle Rocked: A City and its Music - Kurt E. Armbruster
18. Calabash: A Guide to the History, Culture & Art of African Americans in Seattle and King County, Washington - Esther Hall Mumford
19. McCall's Historic Shore Lodge - Darcy Williamson and Marlee Wilcomb
20. Early Ballard - Julie D. Pheasant-Albright
21. Among The Truthers: A Journey through America's Growing Conspiracist Underground - Jonathan Kay
22. Early Seattle Profiles - Henry Broderick
23. Doc Maynard - Bill Speidel
24. Watering Holes of the Northwest - Michael Caldwell
25. The Strangest Tribe: How a Group of Seattle Rock Bands Invented Grunge - Stephen Tow
26. In the Garden of Beasts - Eric Larson (very good)
27. Jackson Street After Hours - The Roots of Jazz in Seattle (very good)
28. Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street  Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street - Michael Lewis(good)
29. Losers - The Road to Everyplace but the White House - Michael Lewis (good)
30. Heavier Than Heaven - A Biography of Kurt Cobain - Charles R. Cross (good)
31. The Big Short - Michael Lewis (very good)
32. Hedonists in pursuit of pleasure and happiness - a 1970 guide to Seattle bars and restaurants - Ed. Wm. L. Hailey
33. Just Kids - Patti Smith
34. 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior - Scott O. Lilienfeld et. al.

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

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

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

38. Kafka - Robert Crumb and David Zane Mairowitz

39. Sarah from Alaska - Scott Conroy, Sushannah Walshe

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

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

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

43. The Wine Trials - Robin Goldstein (excellent)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

51. The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzati (very good)
52. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape our Decisions -- Dan Ariely (excellent)
53. Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris (okay)
54. What Americans Really Believe - Rodney Stark (good)
55. Chance - A Guide to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market & Just About Everything Else (very good)
56. I am a Strange Loop - Douglas Hofstadter (okay)
57. Bad Moon Rising: How Reverend Moon Created The Washington Times, Seduced the Religious Right, and Built and American Kingdom - John Gorenfeld (good)
58. Worlds of Their Own: A Brief History of Misguided Ideas: Creationism, Flat-Earthism, Energy Scams, and the Velikovsky Affair Robert J. Schadewald (good)
59. Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture Daniel Radosh (very good)
60.  Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets - Nassim Nicholas Taleb (okay)
61. The Drunken Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives - Leonard Mlodinow (excellent)
62. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance - Barack Obama (very good)
63. Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire - Matt Taibi (very good)
64. Breaking the Spell: Religion as Natural Phenomenon - Daniel Dennett (very good)
65. The Wisdom of Crowds - James Surowiecki (very good)
66. Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays - Frederick Crews (excellent)
67. Blind Side - Michael Lewis (very good)
68. What Is Intelligence? - James R. Flynn (good)
69. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable - Nassim Nicholas Taleb (disappointing)
70. 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)
71. A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness:  From Imposter Poodles to Purple Numbers V.S. Ramachandran (very good)
72. Beautiful Crescent: A History of New Orleans - Garvey and Widmer
73. Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What it Means to be Human - Ed. Susan Blackmore (excellent)
74. Entwined Lives: Twins and What They Tell Us about Human Behavior - Nancy L. Segal (very good)
75. Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong - Marc D. Hauser
76. Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction - David Kuo (very good; should be read by every religious conservative)
77. State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III - Bob Woodward (overrated, considerably inferior to Hubris or Fiasco)
78. Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War - Michael Isikoff and David Corn (very good)
79. Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq - Thomas E. Ricks (excellent)
80. A World Without Time - The Forgotten Legacy of Godel and Einstein (good)
81. 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

Pete's Book Reference