Books that I have read (and date completed)

Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself -- While the Rest of Us Die (January 9, 2024) by Garrett M. Graff
Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis (February 19, 2023) by Jared Diamond
Shuttle Down (December 11, 2019) by Lee Correy
Dancer (July 19, 2019) by Robert K. Godwin
Space Wars: The First Six Hours of World War III, a Wargame Scenario (November 11, 2018) by William B. Scott, Michael J. Coumatos, and William J. Birnes
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascas Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (January 29, 2018) by Eric Schlosser
Capturing Jonathan Pollard: How One of the Most Notorious Spies in American History Was Brought to Justice (July 21, 2017) by Ronald J. Olive
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (April 30, 2017) by Daniel Yergin
Out of Character: Surprising truths about the Liar, Cheat, Sinner (and Saint) lurking in all of us (April 30, 2014) by David DeSteno and Piercarlo Valdesolo
The Art of War (November 16, 2012) by Sun Tzu
How the States Got Their Shapes (September 3, 2012) by Mark Stein
The Mind of the Market (February 27, 2012) by Michael Shermer
The Omnivore's Dilemma (August 8, 2011) by Michael Pollan
The Wizards of Langley (March 27, 2011) by Jeffrey T. Richelson
The End of Oil (August 22, 2010) by Paul Roberts
In the Shadow of Man (May 26, 2010) by Jane Goodall
The Black Swan (August 14, 2009) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (December 8, 2008) by Thomas Kuhn
Achieving Umami (June 10, 2008) by Josh Conley
1984 (October 31, 2007) by George Orwell
Thread of the Silkworm (May 1, 2007) by Iris Chang
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (December 9, 2006) by Jared Diamond
Where the Action Is: Memoirs of a U. S. Communist (December 20, 2005) by Jack Kling
Ender's Game (December 7, 2005) by Orson Scott Card
Lolita (October 15, 2005) by Vladimir Nabokov
The Lexus and the Olive Tree (September 23, 2005) by Thomas L. Friedman
Uncoupling: Turning Points in Intimate Relationships (July 23, 2005) by Diane Vaughan
The Secret Service: The Hidden History of an Enigmatic Agency (June 12, 2005) by Philip H. Melanson and Peter F. Stevens
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (March 14, 2005) by Richard Rhodes
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (January 28, 2005) by Jared Diamond
An Execution in the Family: One Son's Journey (November 7, 2004)by Robert Meeropol (son of Ethel & Julius Rosenberg)
The "God" Part of the Brain (October 5, 2004)by Matthew Alper
The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA (September 8, 2004) by Diane Vaughan
Sex Slaves: The Trafficking of Women in Asia (April 12, 2004) by Louise Brown
The Problems of Philosophy (March 17, 2004) by Bertrand Russell
The Cartoon Guide to Statistics (December 2, 2003) by Larry Gonick & Woollcott Smith
Why Terrorism Works: Understanding the Threat, Responding to the Challenge (November 2, 2003) by Alan M. Dershowitz
I Love You, Goodbye (August 15, 2003) by Arlene C. Stein
Klaus Fuchs, Atom Spy (January 10, 2003) by Robert Chadwell Williams
Letters to my Son (January 3, 2003) by Kent Nerburn
The Meaning of Life (December 15, 2002) by Bradley Trevor Greive
Down to a Sunless Sea (October 18, 2002) by David Graham
The Worst-case Scenario Survival Handbook: Travel (May 14, 2002) by Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht
The World Set Free (November 19, 2001) by H. G. Wells
The End of the World That Was: Six Lives in the Atomic Age (October 20, 2001) by Peter Goldman
Israel and the Bomb (September 27, 2001) by Avner Cohen
Memoirs of a Geisha (August 13, 2001) by Arthur Golden
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History (July 20, 2001) by Stephen Jay Gould
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (September 7, 2000) by Iris Chang
Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence (August 9, 2000) by Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (June 5, 2000) by Eleanor Coerr
The Meaning of it All, Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist (June 5, 2000) by Richard P. Feynman
The Cold War, an International History 1947-1991 (May 18, 2000) by S. J. Ball
Scientists and the Development of Nuclear Weapons (January 13, 2000) by Lawrence Badash
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (December 28, 1999) by Richard Rhodes
Atlas Shrugged (October 9, 1999, FINALLY!!) by Ayn Rand
You Gotta Have Wa (September 7, 1999) by Robert Whiting
Falling Leaves (August 30, 1999) by Adeline Yen Mah
Crime and Punishment (August 5, 1999) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Wisdom of the Body [a.k.a. How We Live] (May 23, 1999) by Sherwin Nuland
Notes from Underground (February 26, 1999) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality (February 5, 1999) by Jared Diamond
Sperm Wars -- The Evolutionary Logic of Love and Lust (January 25, 1999) by Robin Baker
Silicon Snake Oil (December 27, 1998) by Clifford Stoll
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff... and it's all small stuff (December 17, 1998) by Richard Carlson
Bicycle Days (August 7, 1998) by John Burnham Schwartz
Hiroshima (August 1, 1998) by John Hershey
Audrey Hepburn's Neck (June 5, 1998) by Alan Brown
Japanese Sense of Self (May 25, 1998) by Nancy R. Rosenberger
Dave Barry Does Japan (May 7, 1998) by Dave Barry
The Fountainhead (May 2, 1998) by Ayn Rand
The Moral Animal (March 19, 1998) by Robert Wright
The Thermodynamics of Pizza & other Essays on Science & Everyday Life (January 3, 1998) by Harold J. Morowitz
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (November 18, 1997) by Robert M. Pirsig
In Search of Schrodinger's Cat (September 14, 1997) by John Gribbin
To Engineer is Human (August 27, 1997) by Henry Petroski
Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order (July 30, 1997) by George Johnson
Prisoner's Dilemma (June 29, 1997) by William Poundstone
The Double Helix (June 3, 1997) by James D. Watson
Longitude (1997) by Dava Sobel
Broca's Brain (1997) by Carl Sagan
Fermat's Last Theorem (Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem) (1997) by Amir D. Aczel
Feynman's Lost Lecture (1996-1997) by David & Judith Goodstein
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1996-1997) by Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1996-1997) by Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe, and Everything (1996-1997) by Douglas Adams
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (1996-1997) by Douglas Adams
Young Zaphod Plays It Safe (1996-1997) by Douglas Adams
The Selfish Gene (Fall 1996) by Richard Dawkins
Teach Yourself Astronomy (1996) by Patrick Moore
Practical Astronomy With Your calculator (1996) by Peter Duffett-Smith
Earthquakes (1995-1996) by Bruce A. Bolt
The End of Evolution (1995-1996) by Peter Ward
Dead Men Do Tell Tales by William R. Maples and Michael Browning
The History of Pi (Summer of 1995) by Petr Beckmann
How We Die (Summer of 1995) by Sherwin Nuland
Brief History of Time by Steven Hawking
Chaos by James Gleick
Genius by James Gleick
What Do You Care What Other People Think? by Richard Feynman
Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman
The Cat Who Went to Paris by Peter Gethers
Flatland - a Romance of Many Dimensions (Summer 1994) by Edwin Abbott
The Jungle (1994) by Upton Sinclair
The Bridges of Madison County (1993-1994) by Robert James Waller
From Takeoff to Landing: Everything you wanted to know about airplanes but had no one to ask (1993) by Ed Sternstein and Todd Gold
How to Lie with Statistics (1993) by Darrell Huff
Wonderful Life (Fall 1991) by Stephen J. Gould
Catcher in the Rye (1989-1990) by J. D. Salinger
Brave New World (1988-1989) by Aldous Huxley
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Animal Farm by Toni George Orwell
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

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