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1. Apocryphal Tales by Karel Čapek
2. The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks? by Jan Zalasiewicz
3. Life As We Do Not Know It: The NASA Search For (and Synthesis of) Alien Life by Peter Ward
4. Deaf President Now!: The 1988 Revolution at Gaullaudet University by John B. Christensen and Sharon N. Barnartt
5. Deaf in America: Voices From a Culture by Carol Padden and Tom Humphries
6. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
7. Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements by Austin Burt and Robert Trivers

An interesting book. It took me a while to read it, as various things kept keeping me from getting a chance to sit down and read. It's also fairly long (475 pages, excluding references) and highly detailed. It describes selfish genetic material (selfish genes, meiotic drive genes, B chromosomes, endosymbiotes, etc.) in a wide range of organisms, mostly eukaryotes (and especially multicellular ones), but also prokaryotes. It's also fairly technical. It's definitely a great book if you're intrested in the topic and know a fair amount about it already.