The Book List

Last updated at 9:04 Tuesday 10 January 2006

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Fiction

Modern (since about 1930)

The System of the World, by Neal Stephenson
The Cobweb, by Stephen Bury (pen name of Neal Stephenson for a period of time back in the 1990s)
The Stranger by Albert Camus

Classical (before about 1930)

The Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux
Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
The Swiss Family Robinson, by Johann David Wyss
Metamorphosis, and other Short Stories, by Franz Kafka
The Trial, by Franz Kafka
Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
Give It Up: And Other Short Stories, by Franz Kafka
Dracula, by Bram Stoker
King Solomon's Mines, by H. Rider Haggard

Science Fiction

Altered Carbon, by Richard Morgan
Pattern Recognition, by William Gibson
The Golden Age, by John C. Wright
Broken Angels, by Richard K. Morgan
Hyperion, by Dan Simmons
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne
Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Invisible Man, by H. G. Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau, by H.G. Wells

San Antonio

The San Antonio Story, by Sam and Bess Woolford
To Wear a City's Crown, by Kenneth W. Wheeler
The WPA Guide to San Antonio
Rise of the Mexican American Middle Class, by Richard A. García
San Antonio de Béxar, by Jesús F. de la Teja

Architecture

The Nature of Order, Vol 1 - 4, by Christopher Alexander
Notes on the Synthesis of Form, by Christopher Alexander
The Oregon Experiment, by Christopher Alexander
Patterns of Home: The Ten Essentials of Enduring Design, by Max Jacobson, et al

Geography/Politics/Economics

1421, by Gavin Menzies
Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond
The Size of Nations, by Alberto Alesina, Enrico Spolaore
In Defense of Globalization, by Jagdish Bhagwati
The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty-First Century, by Robert Cooper
Man, Economy, and State, by Murray N. Rothbard
The Case Against the Fed, by Murray N. Rothbard
Conceived in Liberty, by Murray N. Rothbard
Growing Public: Volume 1, The Story : Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century, by Peter H. Lindert
The Economic Effects of Constitutions, by Torsten Persson, Guido Enrico Tabellini
Economic Growth, by Robert J. Barro, Xavier Sala-I-Martin
Globalization in Historical Perspective by Michael D. Bordo

Physics

Instant Physics, by Tony Rothman, Ph.D.
The Elegant Universe, by Brian Greene
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps and the Tenth Dimension, by Michio Kaku
The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe, by S. W. Hawking
A Brief History of Time : The Updated and Expanded Tenth Anniversary Edition, by S. W. Hawking
The Universe in a Nutshell, by S. W. Hawking
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory, by Albert Einstein

Texas

Lone Star, by T.R. Fehrenbach
Comanches, by T. R. Fehrenbach
Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star State, by Randolph B. Campbell
Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico, by T.R. Fehrenbach
Lone Star Nation : How a Ragged Army of Volunteers Won the Battle for Texas Independence - and Changed America, by H.W. Brands
The Texas Rangers, by Walter Prescott Webb
The Men Who Wear the Star: The Story of the Texas Rangers, by Charles M., III Robinson

Psychology

The Portable Jung, edited by Joseph Campbell
Man and His Symbols, by Carl G. Jung
Memories, Dreams, Reflections, by Carl. G. Jung
Modern Man in Search of a Soul, by Carl G. Jung
The Undiscovered Self, by Carl G. Jung
The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious, by Carl G. Jung
The Hero with a Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell