bukes update

Everyone in the world (well, within LJ) seems to be posting about all the bukes they've been reading, often in connection with the 50-Buke Challenge. I got up to (I think) 32 with the couple of books I read in hospital, but since then have -- with astonishing self-discipline -- read nothing but research stuff for my own upcoming book Bogus Science. It somehow seems rather unfair to list "work" books as contributors to what's really intended as a leisure-reading "challenge", so I've not been doing that. However, just to show I've not been idle, here's a listing of the relevant books to date (I've been keeping a running tally in a sidebar of this blog's homepage):

Edward de Bono: Free or Unfree? (2007)

Diarmiud O'Murchu: Quantum Theology (1997)

J. Douglas Kenyon (ed): Forbidden Science: From Ancient Technologies to Free Energy (2008)

Martin Gardner: The New Age: Notes of a Fringe Watcher (1988)

Rhonda Byrne: The Secret (2006)

F. LaGard Smith: Out on a Broken Limb (1986)

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: On Life after Death (1991, 2008)

Michael W. Friedlander: At the Fringes of Science (1995)

Colin Wilson & Christopher Evans (eds): The Book of Great Mysteries (1990 edn)

Henry Gordon: Extrasensory Deception (1987)

L. Sprague de Camp: The Ragged Edge of Science (1980)

Mary Roach: Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (2005)

Colin Wilson: Afterlife: An Investigation (1985)

Matthew Fox & Rupert Sheldrake: The Physics of Angels (1996)

Tim Swartz: Secret Black Projects of the New World Order (1998)

Deepak Chopra: Quantum Healing (1989)

George H. Leonard: Somebody Else is on the Moon (1976)

Colin Wilson: Rogue Messiahs (2000)

Deepak Chopra: Ageless Body, Timeless Mind (1993)

Colin Wilson: From Atlantis to the Sphinx (1996)

Rosemarie Pilkington (ed): Men and Women of Parapsychology: Personal Reflections (1987)

Colin Wilson: The Psychic Detectives (1984)

Damon Knight: Charles Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained (1970)

Steve Salerno: SHAM: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless (2005)

Some of these are pretty short (de Bono, Kubler-Ross), some are, um, not; in addition, many have seemed very considerably longer than their page-count might suggest -- I'm sure you'll have no difficulty identifying those.