To Read List

See, I really do pay attention in class! Everytime a professor mentions a book related to just about anything he or she is saying, I write it down in the margins. This is a compilation of my margin scribblings from the first term and two weeks of the second. This is already more reading than I think I may do in this lifetime, but oh well. This is also mostly for personal reference and I don't really want it front-paged, so I changed the date. The actual date here is Apr 14th. I'll leave comments open, in case you have anything fantastic to suggest or add.


Need to buy, borrow or steal:

Johanna Nichols - Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time
Stephen Pinker -The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs and Steel
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
The Third Chimpanzee : The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
William Durham - Coevolution: Genes, Culture, and Human Diversity
Clive Gamble - Timewalkers : The Prehistory of Global Colonization
Steven Mithen - The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science
Merlin Donald - Origins of the Modern Mind
Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene
Shelley Wachsmann - Seagoing Ships & Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant Eric Wolf - Europe and the People Without History
Michael T. Klare - Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict
Richard Alley - Two-Mile Time Machine
Stuart Brand - The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility: The Ideas Behind the World's Slowest Computer
Jim Lichatowich - Salmon without Rivers



Sitting next to the shelf in the unread pile:

Susan Blackmore - The Meme Machine
James W. Loewen - Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Ray Raphael - A People's History of the American Revolution
J.F.Cooper - The Last of the Mohicans
Stephen Ambrose - Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Andrew Garcia - Tough Trip Through Paradise
Barbara W. Tuchman - The Guns of August
David Fromkin - A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
Azar Nafisi - Reading Lolita in Tehran
McKay Jenkins - The Last Ridge
Sean Naylor - Not a Good Day to Die : The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda
Michael Herr - Dispatches
Homer - The Iliad
Homer - The Odyssey
Plato - The Republic
Thomas Paine - Rights of Man
Kurt Vonnegut Jr - Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut Jr - Bluebeard
Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island
Edward Rutherfurd - The Princes of Ireland
James Joyce - Dubliners
James Joyce - A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
D.H. Lawrence - Women in Love
Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
Stephen King - The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
Pearl S. Buck - The Good Earth