Book log

The book log, to remind me to perhaps write a few collective reviews somewhen...

2004

This list is incomplete because I've forgotten some of them already.

1. Richard Dawkins. The Selfish Gene
2. Richard Dawkins. A Devil's Chaplain
3. Richard Dawkins. The Extended Phenotype
4. Matt Ridley. Genome
5. Steven Pinker. The Blank Slate
6. John King. Reaching For The Sun: How Plants Work
7. Steve Jones. The Language Of The Genes
8. Richard Dawkins. River Out Of Eden
9. Carl Zimmer. Evolution
10. Ernst Mayr. What Evolution Is
11. Alan Corren. All Except The Bastard
12. Matt Ridley. Nature Via Nurture
13. Richard Dawkins. Unweaving The Rainbow
14. Lewis Wolpert. The Unnatural Nature of Science
15. Molly Ivans. Bushwacked
16. Daniel Dennett. Darwin's Dangerous Idea
17. Richard Leakey. The Origin of Humankind

2005

List of books read in 2005 (to remind me to write short reviews on the website, and for the "read 50 books in a year" challenge):

1. Patrick Bateson & Paul Martin. 1999. Design For A Life: How Behaviour Develops (Jonathan Cape, ISBN:0224050648) (Jan)
2. Adrian Woolfson. 2000. Life Without Genes (HarperCollins, ISBN:0002556189) (Jan-Feb)
3. Francis Wheen. 2004. How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered The World (Fourth Estate, ISBN:0007140967) (Feb)
4. Primo Levi. 1988. The Drowned & The Saved (Michael Joseph, ISBN:0671632809) (Feb) ²
5. Johnathan Lynn & Anthony Jay. 1987. Yes, Prime-Minister II (BBC Books, ISBN:0563205849) (Feb)
6. Susan Blackmore. 1999. The Meme Machine (OUP, ISBN:0198503652) (Feb)
7. Susan Greenfield. 1997. The Human Brain: A Guided Tour (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ISBN:0297816926) (Feb) ¹
8. Gary Marcus. 2004. The Birth Of The Mind: How a tiny number of genes creates the complexities of human thought (Basic, ISBN:0465044050) (Feb) ¹
9. John Diamond. 2001. Snake Oil & Other Preocupations (Vintage, ISBN:0099428334) (Feb-May)
10. Fi Glover. 2002. Travels With My Radio (Ebury, ISBN:0091882745) (Feb-Mar)
11. Douglas Hofstadter & Daniel Dennett (eds). 1981 The Mind's I (Longman, ISBN:0710803524 or Penguin, ISBN:014006253X) (Mar)
12. Edward O. Wilson. 1978. On Human Nature (Harvard, ISBN:0674634411) (Mar) ¹
13. Steven Rose. 1992. The Making Of Memory (Bantam, ISBN:0593019903) (Mar)
14. John O'Farrell. 1999. Things Can Only Get Better (Black Swan, ISBN:0552998036) (Mar) ¹
15. Bill Bryson, 1991. Mother Tongue (Penguin, ISBN:014014305X) (Mar) ¹
16. Sokal & Bricmont, 2003. Intellectual Impostures (Economist, ISBN:1861976313) (Mar) ²
17. Steven Pinker, 1997. How The Mind Works (Norton: ISBN:0393045358) (Mar-Jul) ²
18. Eric von Hippel, 2005. Democratizing Innovation (MIT: ISBN:0262002744) (Apr)
19. Thomas Henry Huxley, 1894. Evolution & Ethics (ISBN:1410203549) (Apr-May)
20. Aldous Huxley, 1932. Brave New World (ISBN:0099458160) (May) ¹
21. Julian Huxley, 1970. Memories (George Allen & Unwin, ISBN:004925006X) (May)
22. James Cameron, 1985 Cameron In The Guardian: 1974-1984 (Hutchinson, ISBN:0091627109) (May-Jul)
23. A.J. Ayer, 1988 Bertrand Russell (Univ of Chicago, ISBN: 0226033430) (May-Jun) ²
24. James Watson, 1981. The Double Helix (Signet, ISBN:0451625943) (Jun)
25. Clark & Thompson. The Dorset Landscape (Jun)
26. Molly Ivins. Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? (Jun)
27. Carl Sagan. The Demon Haunted World (Jun)
28. John Naughton. A Brief History of the Future (Jun)
29. Terry Pratchett. The Carpet People (Jun) ¹
30. Edward O. Wilson. The Diversity Of Life (Jun-Jul)
31. Terry Pratchett. Truckers (Jun) ¹
32. Mick Wall. John Peel (Jul)
33. Bill Bryson. Made In America (Jul)
34. Robin Cook. Point of Departure (Jul)
35. Karen Farrington. Everything You Didn't Need To Know About The USA (Jul)
36. George Orwell. Animal Farm (Jul) ¹
37. Terry Pratchett. Diggers (Jul) ¹
38. J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Aug)
39. Robert Axelrod. The Evolution of Cooperation (Aug) ²
40. Frances Crick. The Astonishing Hypothesis (Aug-Sep)
41. Carl Sagan. Billions & Billions (Sep)
42. Jennifer Ackerman. Chance In The House Of Fate (Sep-Oct)
43. Stephen Jay Gould. Ever Since Darwin (Oct)
44. Christopher Wills. Children Of Prometheus (Oct)
45. Anthony Burgess. A Clockwork Orange (Oct) ¹
46. Stephen Rothman. Lessons From The Living Cell (Oct)
47. Richard Morris. The Evolutionists (Nov)
48. George C. Williams. The Pony Fish's Glow (Nov)
49. Doron Swade. The Difference Engine (Nov)
50. Evelyn Fox Keller. The Century Of The Gene (Nov)
51. Steve Jones. Y: The Descent Of Men (Nov)
52. Jared Diamond, 1992. The Third Chimpanzee (HarperCollins, ISBN:0060183071) (Nov-Dec)
53. Al Franken, 1996. Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot (Delacorte, ISBN:0385314744) (Nov)
54. Al Franken, 1999. Why Not Me? (Random House, ISBN:038531809X) (Dec)
55. Francis Wheen. 2002. Hoo-Hahs and Passing Frenzies (Guardian/Atlantic, ISBN:1903809428) (Dec)
56. Gabriel Dover, 2000. Dear Mr Darwin (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ISBN:0753811278) (Dec-Jan) ²

2006

Books read in 2006, as a reminder to write reviews. See also book log.

1. Gabriel Dover, 2000. Dear Mr Darwin. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ISBN:0753811278. (Dec-Jan)
2. John O'Farrell, 2000. The Best A Man Can Get. Doubleday, ISBN:0552998443. (Jan)
3. Mark Steel, 2002. Reasons To Be Cheerful. Scribner, ISBN:0743208048. (Jan)
4. Daniel J. Kevles, 1985. In The Name of Eugenics. Harvard, ISBN:0674445570. (Jan-Apr)
5. John Humphries, 1999. Devil's Advocate. Arrow, ISBN:0090279657. (Mar-Apr)
6. Michael Shermer, 2001. The Borderlands of Science. OUP, ISBN:0195143264. (Apr-Jul)
7. Daniel Dennet, Brainstorms. (Jul-Sep) ²
8. Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle. (Jul-Aug)
9. Daniel Dennet, 1991. Consciousness Explained. Back Bay Books, 0316180653. (Aug-Nov)
10. Malcolm Bradbury, 1983. Rates of Exchange. Picador, ISBN:0330412892. (Sep)

2007

1. Voltaire - Candide
2. Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion
3. Kafka - The Castle²
4. Stephen Fry - Moab Is My Washpot
5. Wodehouse - Heavy Weather
6. Stephen Fry - The Stars' Tennis Balls
7. Stephen Fry - The Liar
8. Stephen Fry - Paperweight
9. Hawking - Brief History of Time
10. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
11. Dickens - David Copperfield
12. Morgan et al - The Oxford History of Britain²
13. E.O. Wilson - Consilience²
14. Dickens - Great Expectations
15. Skrabanek and McCormick - Follies and Fallacies in Medicine
16. W.A. Schulz - Molecular Biology of Human Cancers²
17. Stephen Fry - The Hippopotamus
18. Andrew Gregory - Eureka! The Birth of Science
19. Plato - The Republic²
20. Dickens - Pickwick Papers²
21. John Gribbin - In Search of Schrödinger's Cat

 

2008

1. Steven Pinker - The Stuff Of Thought²
2. E.A. Proulx - The Shipping News
3. E.M. Forster - Aspects of the Novel²
4. Michael Palin - Hemingway's Chair
5. Flann O'Brien - The Third Policeman
6. Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children
7. Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
8. Albert Camus - The Outsider
9. Dick Taverne - The March of Unreason
10. Simon Singh - Fermat's Last Theorum
11. Robert Axelrod - The Evolution of Cooperation
12. P.G. Wodehouse - The Luck of the Bodkins¹
13. P.G. Wodehouse - Barmy In Wonderland¹
14. Woody Guthrie - Bound For Glory
15. Nick Hornby - About A Boy¹
16. Sandi Toksvig - Whistling For The Elephants
17. John Wyndham - The Midwich Cuckoos
18. Steven D Levitt & Stephen J Dubner - Freakonomics
19. John Diamond - C²
20. Carl Sagan - Broca's Brain²
21. D.T. Max - The Family That Couldn't Sleep²
22. Richard Wiseman - Quirkology²
23. Burkhardt - Origins²