In "Dancing Naked in the Mind Field," Kary Mullis writes with passion and humor about a wide range of subjects: from the scientific method to parapsychology, from poisonous spiders to the HIV virus and AIDS, from global warming to astrology, from the O.J. Simpson trial to how you can turn a light bulb on with your mind.

His book challenges us to question the authority of scientific dogma even as it reveals the workings of an uncannily original scientific mind.

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And, after you've read that, here are several other books that Mullis recommends:

• The Astrology File, Gunter Sachs
• What Is Life, Erwin Schrodinger
• Beyond Belief , V.S. Naipaul
• Boltzmann's Atom, David Lindley
• The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan
• Ceremonial Chemistry, and The Myth of Mental Illness both by Thomas Szasz
• Challenges, Serge Lang
• Clan of the Cave Bear series, Jean Auel
• The Cosmic Landscape, Leonard Susskind
• Hyperspace, Michio Kaku
• Dark Life, Michael Ray Taylor
• The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene
• The Emperor of Scent, Chandler Burr
• The End of Time, Julian Barbour
• Enders Game, Orson Scott Card
• Excuse Me Sir, Would you Like to Buy a Kilo of Isopropyl Bromide? Max G. Gergel
• Fermat's Last Theorem, Simon Singh
• Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Consciousness Explained, Breaking the Spell and anything else by Daniel Dennett
• Guns, Germs and Steel, and Collapse, both by Jared Diamond
• Hyperion, Dan Simmons
• Timescape, Gregory Benford
• The Island of the Colorblind, Oliver Sacks
• The Natural Mind, Andrew Weil
• The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero, Robert Kaplan
• The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes
• Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban
• A Tour of the Calculus, David Berlinski
• Zero, Charles Seife
• The Life of the Cosmos, Lee Smolin
• Oncogenes, Aneuploidy and AIDS, A Scientific Life and Times of Peter H. Duesberg by Harvey Bialy
• State of Fear, Michael Crichton
• The Fabric of the Cosmos and The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene
• The Long Summer, How Climate Changed Civilization, Brian Fagan
• The Maunder Minimum and the Variable Sun-Earth Connection, Willie Soon and Steven Yaskell
• The Ancestor's Tale, The Selfish Gene, and all of Richard Dawkins
• The Great Influenza, John M. Barry
• Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and all of Douglas Adams
• How The Mind Works, Steven Pinker
• Adam's Curse, Bryan Sykes
• Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, Lee Smolin
• Electric Meme, Robert Aunger
• Figments of Reality, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen
• Freakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
• Entangled Minds, Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality, Dean Radin
• The Non-Local Universe, Robert Nadeau and Menas Kafatos
• Wholeness and the Implicate Order, David Bohm
• Surely You Must Be Joking, Mr. Feynman, Richard Feynman
• The Urantia Book, ostensibly by Extraterrestrials (details here)
• The Fabric of Reality, David Deutsch
• Theory of Nothing, Russell K. Standish
• Schroedinger's Rabbits: the many worlds of quantum, Colin Bruce
• The God Effect, Brian Cleg
• Many Worlds in One, Alex Vilenkin
• Not Even Wrong, Peter Woit
• Seeing Red, Red Shifts, Cosmology and Academic Science, Halton Arp
• The Big Bang Blasted, Lyndon Ashmore
• The Big Bang Never Happened, Eric J. Lerner
• Warped Passages, Lisa Randall
• Plague Time: The New Germ Theory of Disease, Paul Ewald
• The Trouble With Physics, Lee Smolin
• Paradox of Free Will, Gunther Stent
• Dark Matters, Percy Seymour
• The End of Faith, Sam Harris
• The Electric Universe, Wallace Thornhill and David Talbott