Physics
Natural History/Biology
The Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin (I'm not quite as interested in this, but I really ought to read it once)
The Panda's Thumb by Stephen Jay Gould
The Flamingo's Smile by Stephen Jay Gould (I tracked down a box set of Gould's early books)
Philosophy
Persian Letters by Montesquieu
The Spirit of Laws by Montesquieu (on-line here)
Confessions by Rousseau (actually a tedious auto-biography - I got through 9 of the 12 sections before finally throwing in the towel*)
On Certainty by Wittgenstein
Being and Time by Heidegger
A Thousand Plateaus by Deleuze and Guattari
We Have Never Been Modern by Bruno Latour (ultimately abandoned this; just not rewarding)
Anthropology
The Raw and the Cooked by Levi-Strauss
Tristes Tropics by Levi-Strauss
Growing Up In New Guinea by Margaret Mead
Cultural Patterns and Technical Change ed. by Margaret Mead
Risk and Culture by Mary Douglas and Aaron Wildavsky
Patterns of Culture by Ruth Benedict
The Forest of Symbols by Turner
The Ritual Process by Turner
Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Malinowski
A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term by Malinowski
History
The Autumn of the Middle Ages by Huizinga and Payton
Crevecoeur - Letters from an American Farmer
Democracy in America by de Tocqueville
The Journals of Lewis and Clark ed. by DeVoto
The Silk Road by Wood
Gold and Spices: the Rise of Commerce in the Middle Ages by Favier
The Structures of Everyday Life (3 vol) - Ferdinand Braudel
Postwar by Tony Judt
Reappraisals by Tony Judt
The Cool School - Library of America (does Art History count?)
Urban Studies/Architecture
MoneySpace: Geographies of Monetary Transformation by Leyshon and Thrift
Now Here: Space, Time and Modernity ed. by Friedland and Boden
Economies of Signs and Space by Scott Lash and John Urry
Making the Second Ghetto by Arnold Hirsch
Venkatesh American Project
The Neoliberal City by Jason Hackworth
The Power Broker by Robert Caro (managed to get 1/3 through, but that was so long ago I'll have to restart this)
The Battle for Gotham by Gratz
Divided Cities: New York and London by Fainstein, Gordon & Harloe
Cities and Visitors by Hoffman, Fainstein and Judd
The Tourist City ed. by Judd and Fainstein
Tourism Mobilities: Places to Play, Places in Play by Sheller and Urry
Cities and Economic Development: From the Dawn of History ... by Bairoch
Cities in the International Marketplace by Savitch & Kantor
Global Chicago ed. Madigan
Chicago Dreaming by Spears
Nightshift NYC by Sharman and Sharman
City Lights by Jakle
Cities of Light and Heat by Ross
Subterranean Cities: The World Beneath Paris and London by David Pike
Metropolis on the Styx: The Underworlds of Modern Urban Culture by David Pike
The Ruins of Paris by Jacques Reda
The Search for the Ultimate Sink by Joel Tarr
Urban Studies: Toronto-specific
Urban Engimas ed. Sloan
Imagining Toronto by Harris
The Ward ed. Loring et. al.
Accidental City by Fulford
The Public Metropolis by Friskin
Changing Toronto by Boudreau, Keil & Young
General Non-Fiction Essays
Susan Sontag Essays of the 1960s & 70s (LOA)
Joan Didion We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (everything except
Saul Bellow It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future
Essays of E.B. White (includes Here is New York)
A Collection of Essays by George Orwell
Oliver Sacks The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat &
* I have to say that my bad reaction to Rousseau's The Confessions makes it much less likely I read anything else by him, though some day I'll perhaps attempt A Discourse on Inequality.
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