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Via PZ "I bought you a sacred host but I trasheded it" Myers comes this book meme: from the list of popular science books below, highlight which ones you've read. It's making me feel like an ignoramus; even with the expanded list suggested by PZ, I don't get very far at all:

1. Micrographia, Robert Hooke 2. The Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin 3. Never at Rest, Richard Westfall 4. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, Richard Feynman 5. Tesla: Man Out of Time, Margaret Cheney 6. The Devil's Doctor, Philip Ball 7. The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes 8. Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos, Dennis Overbye 9. Physics for Entertainment, Yakov Perelman 10. 1-2-3 Infinity, George Gamow 11. The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene 12. Warmth Disperses, Time Passes, Hans Christian von Bayer 13. Alice in Quantumland, Robert Gilmore 14. Where Does the Weirdness Go? David Lindley 15. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson 16. A Force of Nature, Richard Rhodes 17. Black Holes and Time Warps, Kip Thorne 18. A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking 19. Universal Foam, Sidney Perkowitz 20. Vermeer's Camera, Philip Steadman 21. The Code Book, Simon Singh 22. The Elements of Murder, John Emsley 23. Soul Made Flesh, Carl Zimmer 24. Time's Arrow, Martin Amis 25. The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments, George Johnson 26. Einstein's Dreams, Alan Lightman 27. Godel, Escher, Bach, Douglas Hofstadter 28. The Curious Life of Robert Hooke, Lisa Jardine 29. A Matter of Degrees, Gino Segre 30. The Physics of Star Trek, Lawrence Krauss 31. E=mc2, David Bodanis 32. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, Charles Seife 33. Absolute Zero: The Conquest of Cold, Tom Shachtman 34. A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, Janna Levin 35. Warped Passages, Lisa Randall 36. Apollo's Fire, Michael Sims 37. Flatland, Edward Abbott 38. Fermat's Last Theorem, Amir Aczel 39. Stiff, Mary Roach 40. Astroturf, M.G. Lord 41. The Periodic Table, Primo Levi 42. Longitude, Dava Sobel 43. The First Three Minutes, Steven Weinberg 44. The Mummy Congress, Heather Pringle 45. The Accelerating Universe, Mario Livio 46. Math and the Mona Lisa, Bulent Atalay 47. This is Your Brain on Music, Daniel Levitin 48. The Executioner's Current, Richard Moran 49. Krakatoa, Simon Winchester 50. Pythagorus' Trousers, Margaret Wertheim 51. Neuromancer, William Gibson 52. The Physics of Superheroes, James Kakalios 53. The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump, Sandra Hempel 54. Another Day in the Frontal Lobe, Katrina Firlik 55. Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps, Peter Galison 56. The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan 57. The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins 58. The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker 59. An Instance of the Fingerpost, Iain Pears 60. Consilience, E.O. Wilson 61. Wonderful Life, Stephen J. Gould 62. Teaching a Stone to Talk, Annie Dillard 63. Fire in the Brain, Ronald K. Siegel 64. The Life of a Cell, Lewis Thomas 65. Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Timothy Ferris 66. Storm World, Chris Mooney 67. The Carbon Age, Eric Roston 68. The Black Hole Wars, Leonard Susskind 69. Copenhagen, Michael Frayn 70. From the Earth to the Moon, Jules Verne 71. Gut Symmetries, Jeanette Winterson 72. Chaos, James Gleick 73. Innumeracy, John Allen Paulos 74. The Physics of NASCAR, Diandra Leslie-Pelecky 75. Subtle is the Lord, Abraham Pais 76. Ascent of Man, Jacob Bronowski 77. Basin and Range, John McPhee 78. Beak of the Finch, Jonathan Weiner 79. Chance and Necessity, Jacques Monod 80. Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation, Olivia Judson 81. Endless Forms Most Beautiful, Sean Carroll 82. Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea, Carl Zimmer 83. Genome, Matt Ridley 84. Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond 85. It Ain't Necessarily So, Richard Lewontin 86. On Growth and Form, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson 87. Phantoms in the Brain, VS Ramachandran 88. The Ancestor's Tale, Richard Dawkins 89. The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution, Elisabeth Lloyd 90. The Eighth Day of Creation, Horace Freeland Judson 91. The Great Devonian Controversy, Martin Rudwick 92. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, Oliver Sacks 93. The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould 94. The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment, Richard Lewontin 95. Time, Love, Memory, Jonathan Weiner 96. Voyaging and The Power of Place, Janet Browne 97. Woman: An Intimate Geography, Natalie Angier

I have read several of the books suggested in the comment thread, though, including Steve Jones' Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated and several other Dawkins books. Still, this makes me feel like I should work harder on this reading thing.