Catcher in the Rye
Nine Stories
Franny and Zoey
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour: an Introduction
Titles are organized by genre (though this is probably a bit subjective in some cases) and author, and are not reflective of the order in which I read them.
I'm sure I missed quite a
few which will be added as they occur to me. This is what I came
up with....
"
= Recommended title! These are books that I especially enjoyed and/or
got a lot out of irrespective of their status as "classics" or popular
favorites in a genre. I will give the authors a break here and not
single out their failures.
| J.D. Salinger |
Catcher in the Rye |
| George Orwell |
1984 |
| Unknown |
Beowulf |
| Homer |
The Illiad (excerpts) |
| Virgil |
The Aeneid |
| William Shakespear |
Julius Caesar |
| John Milton |
Paradise_Lost |
| Machiavelli |
The Prince |
| Dante |
The Inferno |
| Nathanial Hawthorne |
Scarlet Letter |
| Mark Twain |
Huckleberry_Finn |
| Arthur Conan Doyle |
The Hound of the Baskervilles |
| Oscar Wilde |
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| Charles Dickens |
Great Expectations |
| Albert Camus |
The Plague (unfinished) |
| Franz Kafka |
The Metamophosis |
| Joseph Conrad |
Heart of Darkness |
| Herman Hesse |
Siddhartha |
| John Steinbeck |
Of Mice and Men |
| Robert Penn Warren |
All the King's Men |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Great Gatsby |
| Wilson Rawls |
Where the Red Fern Grows |
| O. Henry |
Collected stories |
| Lewis Carroll |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
| Ernest Hemingway |
The Old Man and the Sea |
| Arthur Miller |
Death of a Salesman |
| Joseph Heller |
Catch_22 |
| Harper Lee |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Anonymous |
Go Ask Alice |
| John Knowles |
A Separate Peace |
| Barbara Kingsolver |
Animal Dreams |
| Michael Crichton |
The Andromeda Strain |
| Richard Bach |
Stranger To The Ground |
| Dan Brown |
Da Vinci Code |
| Barry Gifford |
Wild At Heart |
| Jennifer Lynch |
The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer |
| Douglas Coupland |
Miss Wyoming |
| James Ellroy |
Black Dahlia |
| Jerry Spinelli |
Space Station Seventh Grade |
| Tom Robbins |
Skinny Legs and All |
| Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
Player Piano |
| Chuck Palahniuk |
Fight Club |
| William S. Burroughs |
Naked Lunch |
| Jack Kerouc |
On the Road |
| Spalding Gray |
Gray's Anatomy |
| Robert Anton Wilson |
Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy Part 1: The Universe Next Door (in progress) |
| Hunter S. Thompson |
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
| Sarah Vowell |
Take the Cannoli |
| David Sedaris |
Barrel Fever |
| Sarah Thyre |
Dark at the Roots |
| Paul Reiser |
Couplehood |
| Woody Allen |
Getting Even |
| Ted L. Nancy |
Letters from a Nut |
| Ellen DeGeneres |
My Point... And I Do Have One |
| George Carlin |
Brain Droppings |
| Dave Barry |
Claw Your Way to the Top |
| Gary Larson |
The Far Side Gallery |
| The Daily Shown |
America: The Book |
| Frank Herbert |
The Dragon in the Sea (aka Under Pressure) |
| Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson |
The Butlerian Jihad |
| Arthur C. Clarke |
Rendezvous with Rama |
| Isaac Asimov |
The Complete Robot |
| Douglas Adams |
Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy |
| Phillip K. Dick |
Stories |
| Diane Carey |
Final Frontier (Star Trek) |
| Phillip Jose Farmer (writing as Kilgore Trout) |
Venus on the Halfshell |
| C. S. Lewis |
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe |
| Harry Harrison |
The Stainless Steel Rat |
| William Gibson |
Neuromancer |
| Carl Sagan |
Contact |
| Orson Scott Card |
Ender's Game |
| Ray Bradbury |
The Martian Chronicles |
| Walter M. Miller |
A Canticle For Leibowitz |
| Ursula K. Le Guin's |
The Left Hand of Darkness |
| Mary Stewart |
The Crystal Cave |
| L. Ron Hubbard |
Mission Earth: The Invander's Plan |
| Robert A. Heinlein |
Stranger in a Strange Land |
| Larry Niven |
Ringworld |
| J.R.R. Tolkien |
The Hobbit |
| Phillip Pullman |
Golden Compass |
| Laurent Bouzereau |
The Annotated Screenplays |
| Laurent Bouzereau and Jody Duncan |
The Making of Episode I: The Phantom Menace |
| Garry Jenkins |
Empire Building: The Remarkable Real-Life Story of Star Wars |
| Brian Daley |
The Radio Dramatizations: A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi |
| Various |
The Art of Star Wars |
| Mark Cotta Vaz and Shinji Hata |
The Star Wars Archives: Props, Costumes, Models and Artworks from Star Wars |
| David West Reynolds |
Star Wars, Episode I: The Phantom Menace, The Visual Dictionary |
| Clive Barker |
The Books Of Blood vol. 1 |
| Stephen King |
Pet Semetary |
| Thomas Harris |
Black Sunday |
| Anne Rice |
Interview with the Vampire |
| William F. Allman |
Apprentices of Wonder: Inside the Neural Network Revolution |
| Chandler Burr |
A Separate Creation: The Search for the Biological Origins of Sexual Orientation |
| Susan Greenfield |
The Human Brain: A Guided Tour |
| Michael S. Gazzaniga (ed.) |
Conversations in the Cognitive Neurosciences |
| Desmond Morris |
Babywatching |
| Oliver Sachs |
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat |
| Carl Sagan |
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence |
| James Watson |
The Double Helix |
| Richard Preston |
The Hot Zone |
| Stanley Coren |
The Left-Hander Syndrome: The Causes and Consequences of Left-Handedness |
| Steven Pinker |
The Blank Slate |
*See also my annotated list of Recommended readings for neuroscientists.
| Stephen Hawking |
A Brief History of Time |
| John Boslough |
Stephen Hawking's Universe |
| Carl Sagan |
Cosmos |
| Martin Gardner |
Relativity for the Million |
| Albert Einstein |
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory |
| Bill Bryson |
A Short History of Nearly Everything |
| Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts |
Enola Gay |
| Mario Livio |
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number |
| Rudolf Kippenhahn |
Code Breaking: A History and Exploration (unfinished) |
| James Gleick |
Chaos: Making a New Science |
| Paul Strathern |
Turing and the Computer |
| William Pinar et al. |
Understanding Curriculum |
| William Doll |
A Postmodern Perspective on Curriculum |
| Madeleine R. Grumet |
Bitter Milk |
| Theodore Sizer |
Horace's Compromise |
| Theresa Perry and James W. Fraser |
Freedom's Plow: Teaching in the Multicultural Classroom |
| Denis Newman, Peg Griffin, and Michael Cole |
The Construction Zone: Working for Cognitive Change in School |
| Howard Gardner |
The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach |
| Ruby K. Payne |
A Framework for Understanding Poverty |
| Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey |
Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping With Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood |
| Ronald Kotulak |
Inside The Brain: Revolutionary Discoveries of How the Mind Works |
| Don Tapscott |
Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation |
| Benard J. Miles |
Pink Floyd: The Visual Documentary |
| Adrian Legg |
Customizing Your Electric Guitar |
| Craig Anderton |
Do-It-Yourself Projects for Guitarists: 35 Useful, Inexpensive Projects That Help You Unlock Your Instrument's Potential |
| Forrest M. Mims III |
Getting Started in Electronics |
| James Gleick |
Faster |
| Stephen Covey |
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People |
| Alex Trebek |
The Jeopardy! book |
| Malcolm Gladwell |
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference |
| John Gray |
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting What You Want in Your Relationships |
| Sunzi |
The Art of War |
| Sylvia Nasar |
A Beautiful Mind |
| Sam Harris |
Letter to a Christian Nation |
| Richard Dawkins |
The God Delusion |
| Christopher Hitchens |
God Is Not Great |
| Walter Truet Anderson |
Reality Isn't What It Used to Be: Theatrical Politics, Ready-to-Wear Religion, Global Myths, Primitive Chic, and O (unfinished) |
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