Book log

The book log, to remind me to perhaps write a few collective reviews somewhen...

2004

This list is incomplete because I've forgotten some of them already.

1. Richard Dawkins. The Selfish Gene
2. Richard Dawkins. A Devil's Chaplain
3. Richard Dawkins. The Extended Phenotype
4. Matt Ridley. Genome
5. Steven Pinker. The Blank Slate
6. John King. Reaching For The Sun: How Plants Work
7. Steve Jones. The Language Of The Genes
8. Richard Dawkins. River Out Of Eden
9. Carl Zimmer. Evolution
10. Ernst Mayr. What Evolution Is
11. Alan Corren. All Except The Bastard
12. Matt Ridley. Nature Via Nurture
13. Richard Dawkins. Unweaving The Rainbow
14. Lewis Wolpert. The Unnatural Nature of Science
15. Molly Ivans. Bushwacked
16. Daniel Dennett. Darwin's Dangerous Idea
17. Richard Leakey. The Origin of Humankind

2005

List of books read in 2005 (to remind me to write short reviews on the website, and for the "read 50 books in a year" challenge):

1. Patrick Bateson & Paul Martin. 1999. Design For A Life: How Behaviour Develops (Jonathan Cape, ISBN:0224050648) (Jan)
2. Adrian Woolfson. 2000. Life Without Genes (HarperCollins, ISBN:0002556189) (Jan-Feb)
3. Francis Wheen. 2004. How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered The World (Fourth Estate, ISBN:0007140967) (Feb)
4. Primo Levi. 1988. The Drowned & The Saved (Michael Joseph, ISBN:0671632809) (Feb) ²
5. Johnathan Lynn & Anthony Jay. 1987. Yes, Prime-Minister II (BBC Books, ISBN:0563205849) (Feb)
6. Susan Blackmore. 1999. The Meme Machine (OUP, ISBN:0198503652) (Feb)
7. Susan Greenfield. 1997. The Human Brain: A Guided Tour (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ISBN:0297816926) (Feb) ¹
8. Gary Marcus. 2004. The Birth Of The Mind: How a tiny number of genes creates the complexities of human thought (Basic, ISBN:0465044050) (Feb) ¹
9. John Diamond. 2001. Snake Oil & Other Preocupations (Vintage, ISBN:0099428334) (Feb-May)
10. Fi Glover. 2002. Travels With My Radio (Ebury, ISBN:0091882745) (Feb-Mar)
11. Douglas Hofstadter & Daniel Dennett (eds). 1981 The Mind's I (Longman, ISBN:0710803524 or Penguin, ISBN:014006253X) (Mar)
12. Edward O. Wilson. 1978. On Human Nature (Harvard, ISBN:0674634411) (Mar) ¹
13. Steven Rose. 1992. The Making Of Memory (Bantam, ISBN:0593019903) (Mar)
14. John O'Farrell. 1999. Things Can Only Get Better (Black Swan, ISBN:0552998036) (Mar) ¹
15. Bill Bryson, 1991. Mother Tongue (Penguin, ISBN:014014305X) (Mar) ¹
16. Sokal & Bricmont, 2003. Intellectual Impostures (Economist, ISBN:1861976313) (Mar) ²
17. Steven Pinker, 1997. How The Mind Works (Norton: ISBN:0393045358) (Mar-Jul) ²
18. Eric von Hippel, 2005. Democratizing Innovation (MIT: ISBN:0262002744) (Apr)
19. Thomas Henry Huxley, 1894. Evolution & Ethics (ISBN:1410203549) (Apr-May)
20. Aldous Huxley, 1932. Brave New World (ISBN:0099458160) (May) ¹
21. Julian Huxley, 1970. Memories (George Allen & Unwin, ISBN:004925006X) (May)
22. James Cameron, 1985 Cameron In The Guardian: 1974-1984 (Hutchinson, ISBN:0091627109) (May-Jul)
23. A.J. Ayer, 1988 Bertrand Russell (Univ of Chicago, ISBN: 0226033430) (May-Jun) ²
24. James Watson, 1981. The Double Helix (Signet, ISBN:0451625943) (Jun)
25. Clark & Thompson. The Dorset Landscape (Jun)
26. Molly Ivins. Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? (Jun)
27. Carl Sagan. The Demon Haunted World (Jun)
28. John Naughton. A Brief History of the Future (Jun)
29. Terry Pratchett. The Carpet People (Jun) ¹
30. Edward O. Wilson. The Diversity Of Life (Jun-Jul)
31. Terry Pratchett. Truckers (Jun) ¹
32. Mick Wall. John Peel (Jul)
33. Bill Bryson. Made In America (Jul)
34. Robin Cook. Point of Departure (Jul)
35. Karen Farrington. Everything You Didn't Need To Know About The USA (Jul)
36. George Orwell. Animal Farm (Jul) ¹
37. Terry Pratchett. Diggers (Jul) ¹
38. J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Aug)
39. Frances Crick. The Astonishing Hypothesis (Aug-Sep)
40. Carl Sagan. Billions & Billions (Sep)
41. Jennifer Ackerman. Chance In The House Of Fate (Sep-Oct)
42. Stephen Jay Gould. Ever Since Darwin (Oct)
43. Christopher Wills. Children Of Prometheus (Oct)
44. Anthony Burgess. A Clockwork Orange (Oct) ¹
45. Stephen Rothman. Lessons From The Living Cell (Oct)
46. Richard Morris. The Evolutionists (Nov)
47. George C. Williams. The Pony Fish's Glow (Nov)
48. Doron Swade. The Difference Engine (Nov)
49. Evelyn Fox Keller. The Century Of The Gene (Nov)
50. Steve Jones. Y: The Descent Of Men (Nov)
51. Jared Diamond, 1992. The Third Chimpanzee (HarperCollins, ISBN:0060183071) (Nov-Dec)
52. Al Franken, 1996. Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot (Delacorte, ISBN:0385314744) (Nov)
53. Al Franken, 1999. Why Not Me? (Random House, ISBN:038531809X) (Dec)
54. Francis Wheen. 2002. Hoo-Hahs and Passing Frenzies (Guardian/Atlantic, ISBN:1903809428) (Dec)

2006

Books read in 2006, as a reminder to write reviews. See also book log.

1. Gabriel Dover, 2000. Dear Mr Darwin. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ISBN:0753811278. (Dec-Jan)
2. John O'Farrell, 2000. The Best A Man Can Get. Doubleday, ISBN:0552998443. (Jan)
3. Mark Steel, 2002. Reasons To Be Cheerful. Scribner, ISBN:0743208048. (Jan)
4. Daniel J. Kevles, 1985. In The Name of Eugenics. Harvard, ISBN:0674445570. (Jan-Apr)
5. John Humphries, 1999. Devil's Advocate. Arrow, ISBN:0090279657. (Mar-Apr)
6. Michael Shermer, 2001. The Borderlands of Science. OUP, ISBN:0195143264. (Apr-Jul)
7. Daniel Dennet, Brainstorms. (Jul-Sep) ²
8. Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle. (Jul-Aug)
9. Daniel Dennet, 1991. Consciousness Explained. Back Bay Books, 0316180653. (Aug-Nov)
10. Malcolm Bradbury, 1983. Rates of Exchange. Picador, ISBN:0330412892. (Sep)

2007

1. Voltaire - Candide
2. Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion
3. Stephen Fry - Moab Is My Washpot
4. Wodehouse - Heavy Weather
5. Stephen Fry - The Stars' Tennis Balls
6. Stephen Fry - The Liar
7. Stephen Fry - Paperweight
8. Hawking - Brief History of Time
9. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
10. Dickens - David Copperfield
11. Morgan et al - The Oxford History of Britain²
12. E.O. Wilson - Consilience²
13. Dickens - Great Expectations
14. Skrabanek and McCormick - Follies and Fallacies in Medicine
15. W.A. Schulz - Molecular Biology of Human Cancers²
16. Stephen Fry - The Hippopotamus
17. Andrew Gregory - Eureka! The Birth of Science
18. Plato - The Republic²
19. Dickens - Pickwick Papers²
20. John Gribbin - In Search of Schrödinger's Cat

 

2008

1. Steven Pinker - The Stuff Of Thought²
2. E.A. Proulx - The Shipping News
3. Michael Palin - Hemingway's Chair
4. Flann O'Brien - The Third Policeman
5. Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children
6. Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
7. Albert Camus - The Outsider
8. Dick Taverne - The March of Unreason
9. Simon Singh - Fermat's Last Theorum
10. Robert Axelrod - The Evolution of Cooperation
11. P.G. Wodehouse - The Luck of the Bodkins¹
12. P.G. Wodehouse - Barmy In Wonderland¹
13. Woody Guthrie - Bound For Glory
14. Nick Hornby - About A Boy¹
15. Sandi Toksvig - Whistling For The Elephants
16. John Wyndham - The Midwich Cuckoos
17. Steven D Levitt & Stephen J Dubner - Freakonomics
18. John Diamond - C²
19. D.T. Max - The Family That Couldn't Sleep
20. Richard Wiseman - Quirkology
21. Douglas Adams - The Long Dark Tea-Time Of The Soul
22. Robert Rankin - Sprout Mask Replica

 

2009

1. Burkhardt - Origins
2. Naomi Klein - Fences and Windows
3. James Gleick - Chaos
4. Wilfred Hodges - Logic²
5. Aldous Huxley - Chrome Yellow
6. Edzard Ernst & Simon Singh - Trick or Treatment
7. Charles Darwin - Origin of Species
8. H.G. Wells - The Island of Doctor Moreau
9. Nick Davies - Flat Earth News
10. Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird
11. John Polkinghorne - The Way The World Is
12. Ophelia Benson & Jeremy Stangroom - Why Truth Matters
13. William Golding - Free Fall
14. Ben Goldacre - Bad Science
15. Clay Shirkey - Here Comes Everybody
16. Doris Lessing - The Story of a Non-Marrying Man
17. George Orwell - 1984
18. Carl Sagan - Broca's Brain
19. Flann O'Brien - At-Swim Two Birds
20. George Bernard Shaw - The Black Girl In Search Of God
21. Mark Thomas - Belching Out The Devil
22. Christopher Dolley et al - The Penguin Book of English Short Stories
23. John Steinbeck - Cannery Row
24. E.M. Forster - Aspects of the Novel
25. Sean Carroll - The Making of the Fittest
26. Kafka - The Castle²
27. Richard Feynman - What Do You Care What Other People Think
28. Fern Elsdon-Baker - The Selfish Genius