Member: danielx

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About meBipedal primate with the physiology of a large tropical mammal; species origins, Africa; interests, varied.



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About my libraryMy online listings are a virtual library of books that I've read, most of which reside in my home library. A minority are books I've not finished. Outside of fiction (and I love the classics!), areas of special interest include evolutionary biology and the history of science. However, I also like to read world history, politics, and biography. In addition, I have special interests in the writers Somerset Maugham, Franz Kafka, Booth Tarkington, and Sinclair Lewis.

Books are rated within their genres (since to do otherwise would be to compare everything to William Shakespeare and Charles Darwin). Listed dates usually indicate date of publication of the original work.


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Favorite authorsJane Austen, Peter J. Bowler, Janet Browne, Vincent Bugliosi, James M. Cain, Robert A. Caro, Raymond Chandler, Noam Chomsky, Michael Connelly, Joseph Conrad, Frederick C. Crews, Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Jared Diamond, Charles Dickens, Will Durant, Bart D. Ehrman, E. M. Forster, Dick Francis, Al Franken, Nicci French, Rebecca Goldstein, Stephen Jay Gould, Bill Griffith, John Grisham, Matt Groening, Ernst Haeckel, Dashiell Hammett, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Thomas Henry Huxley, James Hynes, Greg Iles, Robert G. Ingersoll, Ian Kershaw, Paul Krugman, Gary Larson, Sinclair Lewis, Ross Macdonald, W. Somerset Maugham, Daphne du Maurier, Ernst Mayr, Ian McEwan, Candice Millard, George Orwell, Elaine Pagels, Marge Piercy, Steven Pinker, Robert J. Richards, Matt Ridley, Mary Roach, Bertrand Russell, John Steinbeck, Mary Stewart, Booth Tarkington, Trevanian, Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut, Alfred Russel Wallace, H. G. Wells, Edward O. Wilson, Don Winslow, Tom Wolfe, Carl Zimmer (Shared favorites)

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Currently readingThe Third Chimpanzee : The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared Diamond
The Blank Slate: the Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
The Rough Guide to Evolution (Rough Guide Science/Phenomena) by Mark Pallen
The Darwin Experience: The Story of the Man and His Theory of Evolution by John van Wyhe
The Dawn of the Deed: The Prehistoric Origins of Sex by John A. Long
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity by Carl Zimmer
Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream by Neil Young
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
The Halls of Dinosaurs: A Guide To Saurischians and Ornithischians by Lowell Dingus
The Book You're Not Supposed to Have by Stephan Pastis
Sanditon by Jane Austen
A Little History of the World (Little Histories) by E. H. Gombrich
The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct by Bert Hölldobler
A Different Kind of Animal: How Culture Transformed Our Species (The University Center for Human Values Series) by Robert Boyd
Introducing Cultural Studies: A Graphic Guide (PDF) by Ziauddin Sardar
How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference by Adam Rutherford
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Genius of Thomas Hardy by Margaret Drabble
CliffsNotes on Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd by R. E. Jonsson
Eagerly Awaiting Your Irrational Response (Dilbert Book 48) by Scott Adams
Bloom County: Best Read On The Throne by Berkeley Breathed
Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories by Philip Roth
Brett Ashley (Major Literary Characters) by Harold Bloom
Revolutionary Road (E-book) by Richard Yates
'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy: And Other Misheard Lyrics by Gavin Edwards
Elizabeth Bennet (Bloom's Major Literary Characters) by Harold Bloom
Uncle Vanya by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
In Our Time: Stories (PDF) by Ernest Hemingway
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