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May 21, 2002

List of Stephen Jay Gould's books

Browsing around trying to find a list of Stephen Jay Gould's books, I found a site with a useful set of links, including a (not fully up-to-date) list of Gould's Natural History essays listed by book.

Looking down at our bookshelf, I realized we have the first eight books in the series. If I read one essay a day, I could keep myself busy until next January.  (There are 242 essays in the first 8 books, an average of a about 30 per book.)

Some years ago I borrowed several Books on Tape versions of Gould's essays from the library.  They were wonderful.