Kary Mullis's Recommended Reading List

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Mullis is the '93 Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry

Douglas Adams
The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide

Halton Arp
Seeing Red: Red Shifts, Cosmology and Academic Science

Lyndon Ashmore
The Big Bang Blasted

Jean Auel
Clan of the Cave Bear

Robert Aunger
Electric Meme

Julian Barbour
The End of Time

John D. Barrow, and J. Frank Tipler
The Anthropic Cosmological Principle

John D. Barrow
New Theories of Everything and The Infinite Book

John M. Barry
The Great Influenza

Gregory Benford
Timescape

David Berlinski
A Tour of the Calculus

Harvey Bialy
Oncogenes, Aneuploidy and AIDS

Douglas Bohm
Wholeness and the Implicate Order

Colin Bruce
Schroedingers Rabbits: The Many Worlds of Quantum

Chandler Burr
The Emperor of Scent

Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game

Sean Carrol
From Eternity to Here

Marcus Chown
We Need to Talk About Kelvin

Brian Cleg
The God Effect

Brian Cox, and Jeff Forshaw
Why Does E=mc2

Matthew B. Crawford
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work

Michael Crichton
The State of Fear

Richard Dawkins
The Ancestors Tale
The Selfish Gene

Daniel Dennett
Breaking the Spell
Consciousness Explained
Darwins Dangerous Idea

David Deutsch
The Beginning of Infinity
The Fabric of Reality

Jared Diamond
Collapse
Guns, Germs and Steel

Freeman Dyson
Disturbing the Universe also Infinite in All Directions

Loren Eiseley
The Star Thrower

Paul Ewald
Plague Time: The New Germ Theory of Disease

Brian Fagan
The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization

Richard Feynman
Surely You Must Be Joking, Mr. Feynman

Michael W. Friedlander
A Thin Cosmic Rain

Max G. Gergel
Excuse Me Sir, Would you like to buy a Kilo of Isopropyl Bromide

Rebecca Goldstein
Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Goedel

Brian Greene
The Elegant Universe
The Fabric of the Universe

Sam Harris
The End of Faith

Jack Heighway
Einstein, the Aether and Variable Rest Mass

Russell Hoban
Riddley Walker

Douglas Hofstadter
I am a Strange Loop

Bruce M. Hood
Supersense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable

Fred Hoyle, Geoffrey Burbidge and Jayant V. Narlikar
A Different Approach to Cosmology

Julian Jaynes
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Michio Kaku
Hyperspace
Visions

Robert Kaplan
The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero

Serge Lang
Challanges

Robert Lanza, and Bob Berman
Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe

Eric J. Lerner
The Big Bang Never Happened

Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
Freakonomics

David Lindley
Boltzmanns Atom

David J. C. MacKay
Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air

Cormac McCarthy
The Road

Mark W. Moffett
Adventures Among Ants

Richart A. Muller
Physics for Future Presidents

Robert Nadeau and Menas Kafatos
The Non-Local Universe

V. S. Naipaul
Beyond Belief

Isaac Newton
The Principia

Steven Pinker
How the Mind Works

Michael Pollan
The Botany of Desire

Dean Radin
Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experience in a Quantum Reality

Lisa Randall
Warped Passages

Tom Robbins
Skinny Legs and All

Dan Rockmore
Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis

Benjamin Rosenbaum
The Ant King and Other Stories

Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner
Quantum Enigma

Gunter Sachs
The Astrology File

Oliver Sacks
The Island of the Colorblind

Erwin Schrodinger
What Is Life

Kathyrn Schulz
Being Wrong

Charles Seife
Zero

Walter Semkiw
Return of the Revolutionaries: The Case for Reincarnation

Simon Singh
Fermats Last Theorem

Lee Smolin
The Life of the Cosmos
The Trouble with Physics
Three Roads to Quantum Gravity

Willie Soon, and Steven Yaskell
The Maunder Minimum and the Variable Sun-Earth Connection

Russell Standish
Theory of Nothing

Paul J. Steinhardt and Neil Turok
Endless Universe: Beyond the Big Bang

Gunter Stent
Paradoxes of Free Will

Ian Stewart, Jack and Cohen
Figments of Reality

Leonard Susskind
The Cosmic Landscape

Henrik Svensmark and Nigel Calder
The Chilling Stars: A Cosmic View of Climate Change

Bryan Sykes
Adam's Curse

Thomas Szasz
Ceremonial Chemistryand The Myth of Mental Illness

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Black Swan

Michael Ray Taylor
Dark Life

Wallace Thornhill and David Talbott
The Electric Universe

The Urantia Book
ostensibly by Extraterrestrials

Vlatko Vedral
Decoding Reality

Alex Vilenkin
Many Worlds in One

Andrew Weil
The Natural Mind

Julia Whitty
The Fragile Edge

Ian Wishart
Air Con: The Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming

Peter Woit
Not Even Wrong

Herman Wouk
The Language God Talks