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Books I would like to buy
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Title
Author
Added
1
Astonishing Animals: Extraordinary Creatures and the Fantastic Worlds They Inhabit
by
Tim Flannery
104 members
1 review
4.2
Score 4
Added 2013-11-08, 04:37 PM
Member
al.vick
2
Sorry I Barfed on Your Bed (and Other Heartwarming Letters from Kitty)
by
Jeremy Greenberg
134 members
5 reviews
½
3.6
Score 3.36
Added 2013-11-08, 04:37 PM
Member
al.vick
3
The Dalai Lama's Cat
by
David Michie
494 members
24 reviews
4
Score 3.04
Added 2013-11-08, 04:37 PM
Member
al.vick
4
Castle Cats
by
Richard Surman
30 members
1 review
½
3.5
Score 2.83
Added 2013-11-08, 04:38 PM
Member
al.vick
5
Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
by
Madeleine Albright
922 members
23 reviews
4
Score 2.68
Added 2013-11-08, 04:39 PM
Member
al.vick
6
Dragonholder
by
Todd McCaffrey
289 members
5 reviews
3.9
Score 2.56
Added 2013-11-08, 04:39 PM
Member
al.vick
7
The Essential Calvin and Hobbes
by
Bill Watterson
6,115 members
37 reviews
½
4.6
Score 2.46
Added 2013-11-08, 04:41 PM
Member
al.vick
8
The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes
by
Bill Watterson
4,971 members
18 reviews
½
4.6
Score 2.38
Added 2013-11-08, 04:41 PM
Member
al.vick
9
Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths
by
Nancy Marie Brown
326 members
27 reviews
½
3.7
Score 2.31
Added 2013-12-03, 10:50 AM
Member
al.vick
10
The Aye-Aye and I
by
Gerald Durrell
304 members
12 reviews
½
3.7
Score 2.25
Added 2013-11-08, 04:44 PM
Member
al.vick
11
A Zoo in My Luggage
by
Gerald Durrell
1,003 members
16 reviews
3.9
Score 2.2
Added 2013-11-08, 04:44 PM
Member
al.vick
12
Physics and the Art of Dance: Understanding Movement
by
Kenneth Laws
41 members
½
4.5
Score 2.15
Added 2013-11-08, 04:45 PM
Member
al.vick
13
100 Diagrams That Changed the World: From the Earliest Cave Paintings to the Innovation of the iPod
by
Scott Christianson
268 members
23 reviews
3.2
Score 2.11
Added 2013-11-12, 11:45 AM
Member
al.vick
14
Impact Jupiter : The Crash of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9
by
David H. Levy
23 members
4
Score 2.07
Added 2013-11-08, 04:45 PM
Member
al.vick
15
Shoemaker by Levy: The Man Who Made an Impact
by
David H. Levy
37 members
3.9
Score 2.03
Added 2013-11-08, 04:45 PM
Member
al.vick
16
Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It?
by
Michael Shermer
296 members
3 reviews
4.1
Score 2
Added 2013-11-08, 04:46 PM
Member
al.vick
17
Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity
by
David Foster Wallace
1,666 members
31 reviews
½
3.6
Score 1.97
Added 2013-11-08, 05:15 PM
Member
al.vick
18
The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis
by
Sherwin B. Nuland
280 members
6 reviews
3.8
Score 1.94
Added 2013-11-08, 05:15 PM
Member
al.vick
19
Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time
by
Michio Kaku
532 members
17 reviews
4.1
Score 1.92
Added 2013-11-08, 05:15 PM
Member
al.vick
20
The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer
by
David Leavitt
728 members
19 reviews
½
3.5
Score 1.89
Added 2013-11-08, 05:16 PM
Member
al.vick
21
Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science
by
Lawrence M. Krauss
446 members
14 reviews
3.8
Score 1.87
Added 2013-11-08, 05:17 PM
Member
al.vick
22
The Selfish Gene
by
Richard Dawkins
11,911 members
135 reviews
4.2
Score 1.85
Added 2014-04-07, 07:29 PM
Member
al.vick
23
Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings
by
Virginia Morell
156 members
1 review
½
4.3
Score 1.83
Added 2014-05-10, 06:55 PM
Member
al.vick
24
An Atlas of Roman Britain
by
Barri Jones
61 members
½
4.5
Score 1.81
Added 2014-10-23, 03:05 PM
Member
al.vick
25
Absolut Sequel.: The Absolut Advertising Story Continues
by
Richard W. Lewis
50 members
1 review
½
4.4
Score 1.79
Added 2014-11-06, 04:18 PM
Member
al.vick
26
The Ghost with Trembling Wings: Science, Wishful Thinking and the Search for Lost Species
by
Scott Weidensaul
203 members
8 reviews
½
4.4
Score 1.77
Added 2014-11-11, 08:42 AM
Member
al.vick
27
I Am Not Spock
by
Leonard Nimoy
331 members
12 reviews
½
3.6
Score 1.76
Added 2015-01-31, 10:01 PM
Member
al.vick
28
Sunsets, Twilights, and Evening Skies
by
Aden Meinel
36 members
1 review
½
4.5
Score 1.74
Added 2015-08-06, 04:38 PM
Member
al.vick
29
Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing
by
Margaret Livingstone
236 members
2 reviews
½
4.6
Score 1.72
Added 2015-08-06, 04:42 PM
Member
al.vick
30
Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Portfolio 17
by
Rosamund Kidman Cox
38 members
½
4.7
Score 1.71
Added 2015-08-19, 01:11 PM
Member
al.vick
31
Simon's Cat
by
Simon Tofield
765 members
31 reviews
4.1
Score 1.7
Added 2015-09-09, 09:17 PM
Member
al.vick
32
The Bayeux Tapestry: The Life Story of a Masterpiece
by
Carola Hicks
173 members
7 reviews
4.2
Score 1.68
Added 2015-12-15, 08:48 AM
Member
al.vick
33
Forever Young: A Life of Adventure in Air and Space
by
John W. Young
84 members
2 reviews
½
4.6
Score 1.67
Added 2016-02-23, 01:25 PM
Member
al.vick
34
Dr. Fisher's Life on the Ark: Green Alligators, Bushman, and Other "Hare-Raising" Tales from America's Most Popular Zoo
by
Lester E. Fisher
6 members
Score 1.66
Added 2016-04-26, 02:43 PM
Member
al.vick
35
Simon's Cat: Beyond The Fence
by
Simon Tofield
333 members
12 reviews
4.1
Score 1.65
Added 2016-06-21, 12:26 PM
Member
al.vick
36
Simon's Cat in Kitten Chaos
by
Simon Tofield
269 members
22 reviews
½
4.4
Score 1.63
Added 2016-06-21, 12:26 PM
Member
al.vick
37
Simon's Cat Off to the Vet . . . and Other Cat-astrophes
by
Simon Tofield
103 members
20 reviews
4.2
Score 1.62
Added 2016-06-21, 12:27 PM
Member
al.vick
38
In Search of Ancient Astronomies
by
E. C. Krupp
133 members
1 review
½
3.7
Score 1.61
Added 2016-09-20, 03:17 PM
Member
al.vick
39
1066
by
David Howarth
1,670 members
29 reviews
3.9
Score 1.6
Added 2017-01-06, 12:29 PM
Member
al.vick
40
Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them
by
Nancy Marie Brown
281 members
16 reviews
½
3.4
Score 1.59
Added 2017-01-08, 06:11 PM
Member
al.vick
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