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- About My Library
My 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 -- especially, "Darwiniana" (Darwin, Huxley, Wallace, etc.). However, I also like to read world history, politics, and biography. In addition, in the realm of fiction I have idiosyncratic interests in the writers Jane Austen, Somerset Maugham, and Franz Kafka, and in bygone decades, in 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 (not the edition).
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- About Me
- Bipedal primate with the physiology of a large tropical mammal; species origins, Africa; interests, varied.
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- A Different Kind of Animal: How Culture Transformed Our Species (The University Center for Human Values Series) by Robert BoydFatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century (Ebook) by Dorothy RobertsThe Naughty Bits: The Steamiest and Most Scandalous Sex Scenes from the World's Great Books (Ebook) by Jack MurnighanMy Journey to the Father: One Woman's Path to Find Healing, Freedom, and Her True Identity by Jennifer LaSargeWho Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University (e-book) by Richard WhiteAristotle and an Aardvark Go To Washington: Understanding Political Doublespeak Through Philosophy and Jokes by Thomas CathcartThe Rubayyat of Omar Khayam;: Life and love in one of the world's most famous poems in the classic translation of Edward FitzGerald by Omar Khayyam
- Favorite Authors
- Jane 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
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