<p>I think the Oprah contest is just writing an essay about Night...and you win a trip to Chicago? I'm in Chicago so I really didn't pay too much attention lol</p>
<p>The Code Book, by Simon Singh.</p>
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<li>Anything by Richard Dawkins</li>
<li>The Emperor of Scent by Chandler Burr (currently reading)</li>
<li>The Execution Protocol by Stephen Trombley</li>
<li>The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester</li>
<li>The Gatekeepers by Jacques Steinberg (this is CC, after all)</li>
<li>The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White</li>
</ul>
<p>Human All Too Human by Friedrich Nietzsche</p>
<p>H.G. Bissinger's Friday Night Lights.</p>
<p>The Way Things Work
Guiness Book of Records
Calculus: Early Transcendentals</p>
<p>A History of the American People- Paul Johnson
Conquests and Cultures: An International History-Thomas Sowell
Voodoo Science- Robert Park
1776- David McCullogh</p>
<p>Battle Cry of Freedom: James McPherson
The World is Flat: Friedman
Another good book was Freakonomics, which I enjoyed as well.</p>
<p>Guns, Germs, and Steel -- Jared Diamond</p>
<p>One of the best books I've ever read.</p>
<p>I'm currently reading Collapse, also by Jared Diamond...what's Guns, Germs, and Steel about?</p>
<p>I'm reading Collapse right now too! Guns, Germs and Steel won the Pulitzer Prize and discusses how geographic factors have caused various societies to succeed and fail. There is some criticism of his thesis, but overall I found it to be an extremely interesting and insightful read.</p>
<p>I finished reading "The Neptune File" by Thomas Standage. Great story on how Neptune was discovered and the struggle behind it. My new favorite nonfiction book</p>
<p>Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, by Mary Roach. Funny, morbid, and a little bit deep. I loved it!</p>
<p>^I'm reading that right now, actually. I like it a lot so far (but I've always been a little bit morbid, myself). :)</p>