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 83) Evolution, the Triumph of an Idea: Car Zimmer's companion work to his PBS series, this was an interesting account of evolutionary theory and the resistance to it, though I felt it strayed afield in the end with discussion of computer programming leading to the evolution of an AI. The most interesting thing about it was how it highlighted the inherent Anti-Darwinian bias in the Call of Cthulhu Sanity mechanic, which I discuss a little in this month's A&E. 

84) Bring The Jubilee: Ward Moore's time travel classic, this had been on my shelf for decades before I finally pulled it down. It was very good, but somehow I had built the image of it being a very different book in my head - one that I was less enthused to read than the one n that actually existed. Maybe the one I was thinking of was written in a previous timeline....