50 Non-Fiction Books

And here's the list of non-fiction. Interesting to look at the patterns of my reading over the year-so-far. You can sort of see what things are fascinating me right now.

1. Skeptics and True Believers by Chet Raymo
   
2. Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer
   
3. Eccentric Lives, Peculiar Notions by John Michel
   
4. The Ancient Engineers by L. Sprague deCamp
   
5. The New Aquarium Handbook by Ines Scheurmann
   
6. Bettas by Robert J. Goldstein
   
7. Galileo's Finger by Peter Atkins
   
8. Under the Black Flag by David Cordingly
   
9. Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries? by Martin Gardner
   
10. Generation S.L.U.T. by Marty Beckerman
    
11. The Queen's Conjurer by Benjamin Wolley
    
12. Voodoo Science by Robert Park
    
13. The Search for the Giant Squid by Richard Ellis
    
14. On Writing by Stephen King
    
15. Shadows in the Sea by Thomas B. Allen
    
16. A History of Pirates by Nigel Cawthorne
    
17. How We Believe by Michael Shermer
    
18. How to Write a Book Proposal by Michael Larsen
    
19. Monsters by John Michael Greer
    
20. West Coast Fossils by R. Ludvigsen and G. Beard
    
21. Dinosaurs, Spitfires and Sea Dragons by Christopher McGowan
    
22. The Flamingo's Smile by Stephen Jay Gould
    
23. Second Act by Barbara Barrie
    
24. The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
    
25. How to Create Action, Fantasy and Adventure Comics by Tom Alvarez
    
26. Animal Bone Archaeology by Brian Hesse and Paula Wapnish
    
27. Science Fiction Comics: The Illustrated History by Mike Benton
    
28. Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life by Stephen Jay Gould
    
29. Murder One: A Writer's Guide to Homicide by Mauro V. Corvasce and Joseph R. Paglino
    
30. The Rat: A Perverse Miscellany (compiled) by Barbara Hodgson
    
31. Seals and Sea-Lions of the World by Nigel Bonner
    
32. The Neptune File by Tom Standage
    
33. Phantom Islands of the Atlantic by Donald S. Johnson

Depending on how much I keep reading, I might end up dividing the fiction into YA and adult books and the non-fiction into . . . maybe science, history and misc?