Books I Need to Read (or Re-read)

Submitted by hoffarth on Sun, 09/14/2008 - 02:44
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  1. Salman Rushdie-The Satanic Verses
  2. Salman Rushdie-Midnight's Children
  3. Salman Rushdie-The Enchantress of Venice
  4. Cervantes-Don Quixote
  5. Ruth Benedict-The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
  6. John Rawls-A Theory of Justice
  7. Sasha Issenberg-The Sushi Economy
  8. Eric Schlosser-Reefer Madness
  9. Isaac Asimov-I, Robot
  10. Scott Adams-The Religion War
  11. Edward Castronova-Synthetic Worlds
  12. Neal Stephenson-Cryptonomicon
  13. Adam Hochschild-King Leopold's Ghost
  14. Robert Nozick-Anarchy, State, and Utopia
  15. Matthew Pearl-The Dante Club
  16. Arturo Perez-Reverte-The Flanders Panel
  17. Philip Pullman-The Golden Compass
  18. Sogyal Rinpoche-The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
  19. Jean-Paul Sartre-Being and Nothingness
  20. Amartya Sen-Development as Freedom
  21. Saul Kripke-Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language
  22. G.A. Cohen-If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich?
  23. Robert Dahl-On Democracy
  24. Richard Dawkins-The God Delusion
  25. Daniel Dennett-Breaking the Spell
  26. Jared Diamond-Collapse
  27. Barbara Kingsolver-The Poisonwood Bible
  28. James Lovelock-The Ages of Gaia
  29. William Gibson-Neuromancer
  30. Saul Bellow-Herzog
  31. Terrence McKenna-Food of the Gods
  32. Max Dimont-Jews, God and History
  33. Milton Friedman-Free to Choose
  34. Frank Furedi-Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?
  35. Jostein Gaardner-Sophie's World
  36. Joel Garreau-Radical Evolution
  37. Jonathan Glover-Causing Death and Saving Lives
  38. Brian Greene-The Fabric of the Cosmos
  39. John Le Carre-The Constant Gardener
  40. Robert Ludlum-The Bourne Trilogy
  41. Corliss Lamont-The Philosophy of Humanism
  42. The Marx-Engels Reader
  43. Martin Meredith-The Fate of Africa
  44. John Stuart Mill-On Liberty and Utilitarianism
  45. Friedrich Nietzsche-Thus Spake Zarathustra
  46. Alvin Toffler-Future Shock
  47. J.R.R. Tolkien-The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings Trilogy
  48. Max Weber-The Protestant Ethic
  49. In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz-Michela Wrong
  50. Napoleon Chagnon-Yanomamo
  51. Orson Scott Card-Ender's Shadow
  52. Milan Kundera-The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
  53. Colin Turnbull-The Forest People
  54. Bart Ehrman-The New Testament
  55. Bart Ehrman-Lost Scriptures
  56. Jonathan Swift-Gulliver's Travels
  57. Frantz Fanon-The Wretched of the Earth
  58. James Frazer-The Golden Bough
  59. Christopher Hitchens-God is not Great
  60. Mircea Eliade-The Sacred and the Profane
  61. Giles Milton-Nathaniel's Nutmeg
  62. Susan Jacoby-Freethinkers
  63. Gilbert Ryle-The Concept of Mind
  64. Chuck Palahniuk-Choke
  65. Chuck Palahniuk-Fight Club
  66. Bart Ehrman-Lost Christianities
  67. Khaled Hosseini-The Kite Runner
  68. Jonathan Safran Foer-Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
  69. Steven Pinker-The Stuff of Thought
  70. Neal Stephenson-Anathem
  71. Milorad Pavich-Dictionary of the Khazars
  72. Umberto Eco-Foucault's Pendulum
  73. Gabriel Garcia Marquez-Love in the Time of Cholera
  74. Gabriel Garcia Marquez-One Hundred Years of Solitude
  75. Emile Zola-Drunkard
  76. Arbuthnot et al-Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus
  77. Emile Zola-Germinal
  78. Akutagawa Ryunosuke-Rashomon
  79. Hermann Hesse-The Glass Bead Game
  80. James Thurber-The 13 Clocks
  81. T.H. White-The Once and Future King
  82. Thomas Pynchon-V.
  83. Kurt Vonnegut-God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
  84. Kazuo Ishiguro-An Artist of the Floating World
  85. Douglas Adams-Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
  86. Douglas Adams-The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul
  87. Jim Dodge-Stone Junction
  88. Harry Mulisch-The Discovery of Heaven
  89. Peter Ackroyd-The House of Doctor Dee
  90. Alain de Botton-On Love
  91. Philip Roth-Operation Shylock
  92. Uwe Timm-The Invention of Curried Sausage
  93. Bernhard Schlink-The Teader
  94. Martin Amis-The Information
  95. David Foster Wallace-Infinite Jest
  96. Paulo Coelho-Veronika Decides to Die
  97. Yann Martel-Life of Pi
  98. Robert Mistry-Family Matters
  99. Mark Haddon-The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time