Book Reviews

I honestly Don't read much, but I can and therefore must, so here are my thoughts on literature:

Reviews:
The Handyman by Carolyn See

All time favorites:
A brief history of time, Hawkins (best science book, best non-fiction)
Genome, Ridley
Complications, Gawande
How to argue and win every time, Spence (best advice/self help book)
How we Die, Sherwin and Nuland
Hitch Hiker's guide to the Galaxy (best funny story)
Catch 22
America, the Book Stewart
The Quiet Man, (best short story)
A Brave New World,
The Giver, Lowry
Who's looking out for you? Bill O'reilly
MacBeth, (best Shakespeare play)



Other books that I will admit to having read(mostly for classes and in no order):
almost every shakespeare play
tons of poetry, carpe diem is the best
anything on my bookshelf (see below)
The Great Gatsby



On my bookshelf (In no particular orer):

A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
Complications, Atul Gawande
The Universe in a Nutshell, Stephen Hawking
The Theory of Everything, Stephen Hawking
Do Fish Drink Water?, Bill Mclain
Genome, Matt Ridley
Nature via Nurture, Matt Ridley
Google Hacks, (O'reilly book)
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, Richard Feynman
The Bible, God
Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003 and 2004
E equals MC squared, David Bodanis
The Physics of Christmas, Hirschfeld
Unweaving the Rainbow, Richard Dawkins
Creations of Fire, Cobb and Goldwhite
World Almanac
Mind Hacks, (O’reilly book)
To engineer is human Petroski
The Handyman, Carolyn See
Defying the crowd: Cultivating Creativity in a Culture of Conformity, Sternberg and Lubart
Gray’s Anatomy
Running Linux, (O’reilly book)
Almost Everyone’s guide to Science, Gribbin
Leonardo’s Mountain of Clams and
the Diet of Worms, Stephen J. Gould
Telecommunications Convergence, Shepard
Chaos, James Gleick
The Intern Blues Robert Marion
How to argue and win every time Gerry Spence
US armed forces survival guide
A Room of One's own Virginia Woolf
Guns Germs and Steel Jared Diamond
Death in Venice collection Thomas Mann
The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne
The Red Badge of Courage Crane
The Outsiders Hinton
Macbeth Shakespeare
The Death of a Salesman Miller
Oliver Twist Dickens
The Diary of Anne Frank
Alice Adventures in Wonderland (original version, dated 1895)

NSC First aid/CPR manual
Kaplan MCAT Review
A crapload of engineering textbooks