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
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
The Halls of Dinosaurs: A Guide To Saurischians and Ornithischians by Lowell Dingus
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
The Genius of Thomas Hardy by Margaret Drabble
Ernest Hemingway: A Biography (Ebook) by Mary Dearborn
Hemingway: The Paris Years (Ebook) by Michael Reynolds
Out on a Limb: Selected Writing, 1989–2021 (Ebook) by Andrew Sullivan
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century (Ebook) by Dorothy Roberts
The Naughty Bits: The Steamiest and Most Scandalous Sex Scenes from the World's Great Books (Ebook) by Jack Murnighan
Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist by Richard Dawkins
Monica's Story (E-book) by Andrew Morton
My Journey to the Father: One Woman's Path to Find Healing, Freedom, and Her True Identity by Jennifer LaSarge
Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
The Complete Peanuts, 1953-1954 by Charles M. Schulz
The World of Tomorrow by Tom Tomorrow
Fortune and Glory: Tantalizing Twenty-Seven (Stephanie Plum) by Janet Evanovich
Crazy Is The New Normal (This Modern World) by Tom Tomorrow
Kennywood...: Roller Coaster Capital of the World by Charles J. Jacques
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