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, 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, John Sutherland, 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 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
Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To by Dean Burnett
The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World That He Made by Philip Bobbitt
Bloody Crimes: The Funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the Chase for Jefferson Davis by James L. Swanson
In the Womb: Animals by Michael Sims
The Old Curiosity Shop (Oxford Illustrated Dickens) by Charles Dickens
Beowulf: A Prose Translation (Second Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) by Nicholas Howe
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity by Carl Zimmer
The Sun Also Rises (Cliffs Notes) by Gary K Carey
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us by Jean M. Twenge PhD
The Sun Also Rises: A Novel of the Twenties (Twayne's Masterwork Studies) (No 16) by Michael S. Reynolds
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 3: Frontier Stories by Louis L'Amour
Bad Boy by Jim Thompson
Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell
The Little Drummer Girl by John Le Carre
The Confessor by Daniel Silva
Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories : with Two New Stories by Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka by Meno Spann
Franz Kafka : A Study of the Short Fiction by Allen Thiher
Hard Times : The 30s by Time- Life
Classics for Pleasure by Michael Dirda
The Coddling of the American Mind : How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff
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