Book Wishlist

These are books I want to read, but tend to forget about when I'm at Amazon browsing.

Fiction:

1. The Last Convertible, Anton Myrer
2. The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
3. The Witch of Hebron, James Howard Kunstler
4. Star Trek: The Final Reflection, John M. Ford
5. Star Trek the Next Generation: the Sky's the Limit, Geoff Trowbridge
6. Constellations, Marco Palmieri
7. Christopher Moore's vampire books.

Society:

1. Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, David Simon 
2. The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood, David Simon
3. Home from Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler
4. The Long Emergency, James Howard Kunstler
5. The Architecture of Community, Leon Krier
6. The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects, Lewis Mumford
7. Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic, various authors

History

1. The Vertigo Years: Change and Culture in the West, 1900-1914; Philipp Blom
2. The Great War in Modern Memory, Paul Fussell
3. Greek Ways: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization, Bruce Thornton
4. India: A History, John Keay
5. China: A History, John Keay 
6. The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization, Brian M. Fagan
7. The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World, Anthony David
8. A Thousand Shall Fall: The True Story of a Canadian Bomber Pilot in World War Two, Murray Peden

Science:

1. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human, V.S. Ramachandran
2. Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes, Frans de Waal
3. Good Natured: the Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals, Frans de Waal
4. Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5. Billion-Year History of the Human Body, Neil Shubin
5. A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love; Richard Dawkins
6. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Astronomy, Christopher Gordon de Pree
7. Among the Great Apes: Adventures on the Trail of Our Closest Relatives, Paul Raffaele
8. The Naked Ape, Desmond Morris
9. The Ghosts of Evolution: Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, and Other Ecological Anachronisms, Connie C. Barlow
10. The Humans  Who Went Exinct: Why Neanderthals Died Out and We Survived, Clive Finlayson
11. Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Timothy Ferris
12. Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them, Clifford A. Pickover
13. Mathematics Made Simple, Thomas Cusick
14. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: the Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
15. Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to Modern Humans
16. Born in Africa: the Quest of the Origins of Human Life, Martin Meredith

Philosophy & Religion

1. The Architecture of Happiness, Alain de Botton
2. Epicurus for Everyone, Stuart Pickering
3. The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition, Timothy Patrick McCarthy
4. Dialogues and Essays, Seneca
5. On the Good Life, Marcus Tullius Cicero
6. A History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell
7. The Conquest of Happiness, Bertrand Russell
8. Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings,  Peter Kropotkin
9. On Desire: Why We Want What We Want, William Braxton Irvine
10. On Disobedience: Why Freedom Means Saying "No" to Power, Erich Fromm
11. In Praise of Idleness and other Essays, Bertrand Russell
12. Plato, not Prozac! Lou Marinoff

Occupation:

1. Hack: How I Stopped Worrying About What to Do with my Life and Started Driving a Yellow Cab, Melissa Plaut
2. Homicide Special: A Year with the LAPD's Elite, Miles Corwin