Martha's votes on the list A Nerd's Guide to Reading

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1	Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter 4.29 avg rating — 52,638 ratings Martha rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Cosmos by Carl Sagan 4.40 avg rating — 159,269 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Absolutely Small: How Quantum Theory Explains Our Everyday World by Michael D. Fayer 3.91 avg rating — 553 ratings Martha rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	All The Fun's In How You Say A Thing: An Explanation Of Meter & Versification by Timothy Steele 3.94 avg rating — 157 ratings Martha rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso by Dante Alighieri 4.09 avg rating — 172,899 ratings Martha rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett 3.89 avg rating — 12,952 ratings Martha rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Time Travel in Einstein's Universe: The Physical Possibilities of Travel Through Time by J. Richard Gott III 4.07 avg rating — 2,147 ratings Martha rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century by Tony Judt 4.16 avg rating — 1,229 ratings Martha rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) (editor) 4.15 avg rating — 1,605 ratings Martha rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Year Million: Science at the Far Edge of Knowledge by Damien Broderick (Editor) 3.74 avg rating — 163 ratings Martha rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law by Peter Woit 3.94 avg rating — 1,761 ratings Martha rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Helen Vendler 4.31 avg rating — 1,245 ratings Martha rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective by Peter L. Berger 3.85 avg rating — 1,269 ratings Martha rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Knowledge for What: The Place of Social Science in American Culture by Robert Staughton Lynd 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings Martha rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience by Erving Goffman 3.99 avg rating — 349 ratings Martha rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chögyam Trungpa 4.22 avg rating — 8,881 ratings Martha rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next by Lee Smolin 4.04 avg rating — 10,694 ratings Martha rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics by Gino Segrè 3.98 avg rating — 411 ratings Martha rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science by David Lindley 4.02 avg rating — 2,325 ratings Martha rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	The Search for Superstrings, Symmetry, and the Theory of Everything by John Gribbin 3.84 avg rating — 472 ratings Martha rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality by John Gribbin 4.06 avg rating — 21,663 ratings Martha rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman 4.26 avg rating — 218,164 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. Hawking 4.21 avg rating — 480,359 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 193,153 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 41,044 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn 4.03 avg rating — 30,006 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee 4.34 avg rating — 114,629 ratings Martha added it to possibilities See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman 4.19 avg rating — 30,750 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks 4.05 avg rating — 246,870 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	The Time Machine by H.G. Wells 3.89 avg rating — 566,301 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond 4.04 avg rating — 458,680 ratings Martha rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien 4.54 avg rating — 731,998 ratings Martha rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	1984 by George Orwell 4.20 avg rating — 5,483,723 ratings Martha rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Time Warped: Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception – Brain Science for Retraining, Managing, and Planning Your Future by Claudia Hammond 3.53 avg rating — 1,227 ratings Martha rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind by Michio Kaku 4.08 avg rating — 15,543 ratings Martha rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,875 ratings Martha rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr (Goodreads Author) 3.90 avg rating — 33,075 ratings Martha rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	The Glass Cage: Automation and Us by Nicholas Carr (Goodreads Author) 3.75 avg rating — 2,324 ratings Martha rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars