Book log

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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.

Richard Dawkins. The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins. A Devil's Chaplain
Richard Dawkins. The Extended Phenotype
Matt Ridley. Genome
Steven Pinker. The Blank Slate
John King. Reaching For The Sun: How Plants Work
Steve Jones. The Language Of The Genes
Richard Dawkins. River Out Of Eden
Carl Zimmer. Evolution
Ernst Mayr. What Evolution Is
Alan Corren. All Except The Bastard
Matt Ridley. Nature Via Nurture
Richard Dawkins. Unweaving The Rainbow
Lewis Wolpert. The Unnatural Nature of Science
Molly Ivans. Bushwacked
Daniel Dennett. Darwin's Dangerous Idea
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):

Key

Red: fiction
Black: science non-fiction
Blue: non-science non-finction
Green: non-fiction anthologies

Footnotes:

were read in a single sitting.
current or unfinished (I've taken to reading several at once!

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

2006

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

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

2007

Voltaire - Candide
Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion
Kafka - The Castle²
Stephen Fry - Moab Is My Washpot
Wodehouse - Heavy Weather
Stephen Fry - The Stars' Tennis Balls
Stephen Fry - The Liar
Stephen Fry - Paperweight
Hawking - Brief History of Time
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Dickens - David Copperfield
Morgan et al - The Oxford History of Britain²
E.O. Wilson - Consilience²
Dickens - Great Expectations
Skrabanek and McCormick - Follies and Fallacies in Medicine
W.A. Schulz - Molecular Biology of Human Cancers²
Stephen Fry - The Hippopotamus
Andrew Gregory - Eureka! The Birth of Science
Plato - The Republic²
Dickens - Pickwick Papers²
John Gribbin - In Search of Schr�dinger's Cat

2008

Steven Pinker - The Stuff Of Thought²
E.A. Proulx - The Shipping News
E.M. Forster - Aspects of the Novel²
Michael Palin - Hemingway's Chair
Flann O'Brien - The Third Policeman
Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Albert Camus - The Outsider
Dick Taverne - The March of Unreason
Simon Singh - Fermat's Last Theorum
Robert Axelrod - The Evolution of Cooperation
P.G. Wodehouse - The Luck of the Bodkins¹
P.G. Wodehouse - Barmy In Wonderland¹
Woody Guthrie - Bound For Glory
Nick Hornby - About A Boy¹