Reading List
The question of reading lists came up in a conversation last evening. Considering that my experience with contemporary and historical literature is both extensive and peculiar, let me take this opportunity to list some fine books.
- Never at Rest, a biography of Newton by Richard Westfall
- Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
- Anything by Dickens, especially Copperfield and Pickwick
- Dostoevsky by Joseph Frank
- Darwin in two volumes by Janet Browne
- Mineral Nutrition of Higher Plants by Marschner
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
- Environmental Chemistry of Soils by Murray McBride