Currently Reading:
Twilight of the Idols Nietzsche
The Harper Hall of Pern McCaffrey (trilogy)
Books sitting in my personal library that I have yet to
read:
Twilight of the Idols Nietzsche
The Fallon Blood Reagan O'Neal (Robert Jordon)
Prologs Jonathan Bayliss
Madame Bovary Flaubert
The Harper Hall of Pern McCaffrey (trilogy)
Paradise Lost and Other Poems Milton (anthology)
Provisions (anthology of 19th century American
Women)
The Foundation Trilogy by Asimov
Intruder in the Dust Faulkner
Selected Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne (edited
by Kazin)
Finnigan's Wake Joyce
Ulysses Joyce
Five Great Dialogues Plato (anthology)
War and Peace Tolstoy
Museums and Women Updike
S. Updike
Each * indicates the degree to which I recommend the book (where the more is the merrier...)
** Things Fall Apart Achebe
** The More than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide Adams
(anthology)
* Robot Visions by Issac Asimov (anthology)
*** Aristotle's Poetics Aristotle (translated
by Butcher)
* A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
The Pacific Crest Trail (A Hiker's Companion)
K. Berger & S. Smith (**** recommended for PCT Hikers)
** Napalm & Silly Putty George Carlin
** Don Quixote by Cervantes
The Sum of all Fears by Tom Clancy
Patriot Games by Tom Clancy
*** Shogun by James Clavell
** King Rat by James Clavell
** Noble House Clavell
** Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim Joseph Conrad
Jurassic Park Michael Crichton
** Inferno Dante
* Fup Jim Dodge
** Lord Foul's Bane Donaldson (1)
" The Illearth War Donaldson (2)
" The Power that Preserves Donaldson (3)
** The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever
Donaldson (trilogy)
* Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquirel
* The Hamlet Faulkner
** As I lay Dying Faulkner
Pylon Faulkner
** The Sound and the Fury Faulkner
Howard's End by E.M. Forester
** Cold Mountain Charles Frazier
A Time to Kill Grisham
Pelican Brief Grisham
** The Old Man and the Sea Hemingway
* The Sun Also Rises Hemingway
** For Whom the Bell Tolls Hemingway
*** Catch 22 Heller
** Steppenwolf Hesse
*** Narcissus and Goldmund Hesse
**** The Glass Bead Game Hesse
** Peter Camenzind Herman Hesse
** Klingsor's Last Summer Herman Hesse
**** The Iliad Homer (translated by Lattimore)
*** The Odyssey Homer (translated by Fitzgerald)
** Brave New World Huxley
**** The Eye of the World Robert Jordan (book
1/? of Wheel of Time)
" The Great Hunt Robert Jordan (2)
" The Dragon Reborn Robert Jordan (3)
" The Shadow Rising Robert Jordan (4)
" The Fires of Heaven Robert Jordan (5)
" Lord of Chaos Robert Jordan (6)
" Crown of Swords Robert Jordan (7)
" Path of Daggers Robert Jordan (8)
" Winter’s Night Robert Jordan (9)
** Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man Joyce
** Zorba the Greek Kazantzakis
** One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey
* The Stand Stephen King
* The Talisman King and Straub
** The Gunslinger King (book 1/6? of The Dark
Tower)
" The Drawing of the Three King (2)
" The Wastelands King (3)
" Wizard and Glass King (4)
* A Separate Peace John Knowles
Women in Love D.H. Lawrence
** Arrowsmith Sinclair Lewis
**** One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia
Marquez
*** Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia
Marquez
**Of Love and Other Demons Gabriel Garcia Marquez
* Strange Pilgrims Gabriel Garcia Marquez (anthology)
** Moby Dick Herman Melville
** Death of a Salesman Miller (a play)
** Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller
** 1984 Orwell
01 - 01 - 00 R.J. Pineiro
**** Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon
** Vineland Pynchon
** V. Pynchon
* The Crying of Lot 49 Pynchon
** 1984 Orwell
** Dragon Prince Melanie Rawn (book 1/3 of Dragon
Prince)
" The Star Scroll Melanie Rawn (2)
" Sunrunner's Fire Melanie Rawn (3)
** Stronghold Melanie Rawn (book 1/3 of Dragon
Star)
" The Dragon Token Melanie Rawn (2)
" Skybowl Melanie Rawn (3)
Journey on the Crest Cindy Ross
Nine Stories Salinger (anthology)
* Catcher in the Rye Salinger
** A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley
* Of Mice and Men Steinbeck
** East of Eden Steinbeck
The Red Pony Steinbeck
* Floating Dragon Peter Straub
* The Silmarillion Tolkien
*** The Hobbit Tolkien
** The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien (Lord of
the Rings 1/3)
" The Two Rivers Tolkien (2)
" The Return of the King Tolkien (3)
** Huckleberry Finn Twain
* The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Twain
*** Rabbit, Run Updike
*** Rabbit Redux Updike
*** Rabbit is Rich Updike
* Bech: a book John Updike
* Bech is Back John Updike
* Bech at Bay John Updike
*** The Color Purple Walker
*** Breakfast of Champions Vonnegut
*** Cat's Cradle Vonnegut
*** Siren's of Titan Vonnegut
*** Slaughterhouse 5 Vonnegut
** Slapstick Vonnegut
** God Bless you, Mr. Rosewater Vonnegut
** Jailbird Vonnegut
* Welcome to the Monkey House Vonnegut
* Mother Night Vonnegut
** Player Piano Vonnegut
* Galapagos Vonnegut
** BlueBeard Vonnegut
* Wampeters, Foma & Granfallons Vonnegut
* Palm Sunday Vonnegut
* Deadeye Dick Vonnegut
** Fates Worse than Death Vonnegut
** Hocus Pocus Vonnegut
Between Time and Timbuktu (or, Prometheus-5) (a screenplay)
Vonnegut
* Bagombo Snuff Box Kurt Vonnegut Jr (anthology)
Timequake Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
* The Swiss Family Robinson Wyss
Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language (published 1996)
Every writer/reader/fuck it, HUMAN, should have one of
these -- great book.
Fantasy Books I read in my youth but am ashamed to list with the others:
* The Crystal Shard R.A. Salvatore (Icewind Dale
Trilogy 1/3)
* Streams of Silver R.A. Salvatore (2)
* The Halflings Gem R.A. Salvatore (3)
* Homeland R.A. Salvatore (Dark Elf Trilogy 1/3)
* Exile R.A. Salvatore (2)
* Sojourn R.A. Salvatore (3)
The Legacy R.A. Salvatore
* Dragons of Autumn Twilight Weis and Hickman
(Dragonlance Chronicles 1/3)
* Dragons of Winter Night Weis and Hickman (2)
* Dragons of Spring Dawning Weis and Hickman (3)
** Time of the Twins Weis and Hickman (Legends
book 1/3)
** War of the Twins Weis and Hickman (2)
** Test of the Twins Weis and Hickman (3)
The Will of the Wanderer Weis and Hickman (Rose
of the Prophet 1/3)
The Paladin of the Night Weis and Hickman (2)
The Prophet of Akhran Weis and Hickman (3)
Forging the Darksword Weis and Hickman (The Darksword
Trilogy 1/3)
Doom of the Darksword Weis and Hickman (2)
Triumph of the Darksword Weis and Hickman (3)
Dragon Wing Weis and Hickman (The Death Gate Cycle
1/7)
Elven Star Weis and Hickman (2)
Fire Sea Weis and Hickman (3)
The Hand of Chaos Weis and Hickman (4)