These are books that I've bought and have on my bookshelf but haven't got around to reading yet (64 entries at this point). If you've got a comment about one of these books or suggestions for additions (like "Read this right away!") let me know. You can also check out the books I might own someday.

Currently Reading

• The Federalist Papers; Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay; nonfiction
• The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 5th edition, The Major Authors; M.H. Abrams, ed. -- John Donne

On The Stack

• The Alhambra; Washington Irving; literature & fiction
• The Beardstown Ladies' Common-Sense Investment Guide; The Beardstown Ladies Investment Club with Leslie Whitaker; business & investing; via FMH
• The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll; Lewis Carroll; fiction & nonfiction
• Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation; Joseph Weizenbaum; nonfiction
• Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge; Edward O. Wilson; nonfiction
• The Dragonbone Chair; Tad Williams; science fiction & fantasy; via Bibliafiles
• Editors on Editing: What Writers Need to Know About What Editors Do; Gerald Gross (ed); nonfiction
• The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics; Roger Penrose; nonficton
• Faces of Feminism: An Activist's Reflections on the Women's Movement; Sheila Tobias; feminism; via Bibliafiles
• Far From the Maddening Crowd; Thomas Hardy; literature & fiction
• The Flickering Mind: The False Promise of Technology in the Classroom and How Learning Can Be Saved; Todd Oppenheimer
• Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society; Mary Beth Norton; nonfiction
• Green Mars; Kim Stanley Robinson; science fiction & fantasy
• Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science; Paul R. Gross & Norman Levitt; nonfiction
• The History of Sexuality: An Introduction; Michel Foucault; nonfiction; via AC
• Hometown; Tracy Kidder; nonfiction
• Infinite Jest; David Foster Wallace
• In Search of Schrodinger's Cat : Quantum Physics and Reality; John Gribbin; science & technology
• Islands of Truth: A Mathematical Mystery Cruise; Ivars Peterson; nonfiction; via ES
• Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations; Michael Walzer; via AC
• Lady or the Tiger? And Other Logic Puzzles Including a Mathematical Novel That Features Godel's Great Discovery; Raymond Smullyan; math & logic
• Lifting the Veil: The Feminine Face of Science; Linda Jean Shepherd
• Little Dorrit; Charles Dickens; literature & fiction
• Many Mirrors: Body Image and Social Relations; Nicole Sault (ed); nonfiction
• The Marble Faun; Nathaniel Hawthorne; literature & fiction
• Marriage and Morals; Bertrand Russell; nonfiction
• Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus; John Gray, Ph.D.; nonfiction
• The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements and Human Malaise; Dorothy Dinnerstein; feminism
• The Mind-Body Problem; Rebecca Goldstein; literature & fiction; via CU
• On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen; Harold McGee
• Origin of Species; Charles Darwin; science & technology
• Paradise; Toni Morrison; literature & fiction; via Bibliafiles
• Philosophy of Mathematics: selected readings; Paul Benacerraf & Hilary Putnam, eds.; nonfiction
• Poems of Tennyson; Jerome H. Buckley (ed); poetry
• The Press and the Cold War; James Aronson
• The Prince and The Discourses; Machiavelli; philosophy
• Resurrection; Leo Tolstoy; literature & fiction
• The Return of the Native; Thomas Hardy
• Romola; George Eliot
• Russka; Edward Rutherford
• The Schoolhome: Rethinking Schools for Changing Families; Jane Roland Martin; nonfiction
• The Second Sex; Simone de Beauvoir; feminism
• The Second Shift; Arlie Hochschild; feminism; via FMH
• Sexual Harassment of Working Women; Catharine MacKinnon; feminism; via FMH
• Sexual Politics; Kate Millett; feminism
• Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human; Harold Bloom; nonfiction 
• Shaping Technology/Building Science: Studies in Socoitechnical Change; Wiebe Bijker and John Law (ed); science & technology
• Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement; Robin Morgan (ed); feminism
• The Stronger Women Get, The More Men Love Football; Sexism and the American Culture of Sports; Mariah Burton Nelson; feminism; via FMH
• Surprised by Joy; C.S. Lewis; nonfiction; via FMH
• The Symposium; Plato; philosophy
• Take Back the Night: Women on Pornography; Laura Lederer (ed); feminism
• Talking From 9 to 5: Men and Women in the Workplace: Language, Sex and Power; Deborah Tannen; nonfiction; via CU
• Telerobotics, Automation, and Human Supervisory Control; Thomas Sheridan; science & technology
• Under the Greenwood Tree; Thomas Hardy
• The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages; Harold Bloom; nonfiction
• Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?: Thinking from Women's Lives; Sandra Harding; nonfiction
• Women and Writing; Virginia Woolf; essays
• Women in Science; Inna Kosheleva; non-fiction
• Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing; Christiane Northrup, M.D.; health

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