Pop science book meme

This I have to do! It's a book meme version from Coctail Party Physics.

The rules:

1. Highlight those you've read in full
   
2. Asterisk those you intend to read
   
3. Add any additional popular science books you think belong on the list
   
4. Link back to me (i. e. link to Jennifer, she wants to use the additions and comments to make a top hundred list)
   

Turns out I'm not doing so well on this one. There are many on the list that I don't recognize at all. There are some that I'm not sure I would classify as popular science at all, like Neuromancer. What is that one doing here? Well, more comments after the list.

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=mc<2>, 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. *Pythagoras' 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

Comments:
The Janna Levin book listed here is a novel. I have read her How the Universe Got Its Spots, which was not bad -- maybe I would substitute that one on the list. Instead of Neuromancer I would put a novel with higher science content, for example the latest trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. I haven't yet read Longitude by Dava Sobel, but I recently finished her Galileo's Daughter which I can recommend. By Stephen Pinker I would be tempted to put How the Mind Works before The Language Instinct, but perhaps that is because I read it more recently.

Now to my additions:

• The Quark and the Jaguar, Murray Gell-Mann


• The New World of Mr Tompkins, George Gamow and Russell Stannard (updated version of the classic)


• The Nurture Assumption, Judith Rich Harris


• Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond


• *The World Without Us, Alan Weisman


• *The Physics of the BuffyVerse, Jennifer Ouellette
  

There are two on the list I haven't read yet. I just started reading The World Without Us, and like it so far. The Physics of the BuffyVerse seems interesting, and I know from the blog that she can write.

I might add more to this if something pops up in my mind today.

(The next chapter about the PICASSO detector will come within a few days.)