Current

1. The Drunken Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives - Leonard Mlodinow
2. Pagan Christianity - Frank Viola, George Barna
3.  Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
4. The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber - Mel Gordon
5. Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief - Rodney Stark
6. I am a Strange Loop - Douglas Hofstadter
7. Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know about the Game is Wrong - Ed. Johan Keri
8. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins

In the queue

1. The Bible - Karen Armstrong
2. The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature - Steven Pinker
3.  The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution - Sean B. Carroll
4. Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology

1. Blackwater: The Rise of the World's most Powerful Mercenary Army - Jeremy Scahill
2. The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America are Winning the Culture War
3. Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong - Marc D. Hauser
4. Indivisible By Two: Lives of Extraordinary Twins - Nancy L. Segal
5. The Selfish Gene (30th Anniversary Edition)
6. How Bill James Changed Our View of Baseball - Ed. Gregory F. Augustine Pierce
7. The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions - Karen Armstrong
8. A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government - Garry Wills
9. Mind, Life, and Universe: Conversations with Great Scientists of our Time - Ed. Lynn Margulis, Eduardo Punset
10. It Ain't Over Til It's Over: The Baseball Prospectus Pennant Race Book - Ed. Steve Goldman
11. Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think: Reflections by Scientists, Writers, and Philosophers
12. Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness - Dennett
13. The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success - Rodney Stark
14. The Rise of Mormonism - Rodney Stark
15. Stumbling on Happiness - Daniel Gilbert (no copy in hand yet, recommended in supercilious e-mail by stevei)
16. Blind Into Baghdad: America's War in Iraq - James Fallows
17. Religion, Deviance, and Social Control - Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge
18. Tales of the End - A Narrative Commentary on the Book of Revelation
19. The Once and Future Jesus - Funk et. al.
20. The Republican War on Science - Chris Mooney
21. Christianity Without God - Lloyd Geering
22. Herzog
23. Chance - A Guide to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market & Just About Everything Else
24. A Natural History of the Senses
25. Curve Ball - Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the Game
26. Baseball by the Numbers - How Statistics are Collected, What They Mean, and How They Reveal the Game
27. A Mathematician at the Ballpark - Odds and Probabilities for Baseball Fans - Ken Ross
28. The Third Chimpanzee - The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
29. Monkeyluv - And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals
30. Religious Movements: Genesis, Exodus, and Numbers - Rodney Stark

Recently Completed

1. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance - Barack Obama
2. Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire - Matt Taibi
3. Breaking the Spell: Religion as Natural Phenomenon - Daniel Dennett
4. The Wisdom of Crowds - James Surowiecki
5. Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays - Frederick Crews (excellent)
6. Blind Side - Michael Lewis (good)
7. What Is Intelligence? - James R. Flynn (good)
8. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable - Nassim Nicholas Taleb (disappointing)
9. A Tragic Legacy: How A Good VS Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency - Glenn Greenwald (a good summary, but little new info for people paying attention at the time)
10. A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness:  From Imposter Poodles to Purple Numbers V.S. Ramachandran (very good)
11. Beautiful Crescent: A History of New Orleans - Garvey and Widmer
12. Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What it Means to be Human - Ed. Susan Blackmore (excellent)
13. Entwined Lives: Twins and What They Tell Us about Human Behavior - Nancy L. Segal (very good)
14. Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction - David Kuo (very good; should be read by every religious conservative)
15. State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III - Bob Woodward (overrated, considerably inferior to Hubris or Fiasco)
16. Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War - Michael Isikoff and David Corn (very good)
17. Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq - Thomas E. Ricks (excellent)
18. A World Without Time - The Forgotten Legacy of Godel and Einstein (good)
19. Foundations of Vision (very good)

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