_Books Read--Lifetime
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- Abani, Chris--Graceland
- Abrams, M. H. (et al, eds)--Norton Anthology of English Literature: Major Authors
- Achebe, Chinua--Things Fall Apart
- Adams, Douglas--Life, the Universe, and Everything
- ---. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- ---. The Resturant at the End of the Universe
- ---. So Long and Thanks for all the Fish
- ---. Young Zaphod Plays it Safe
- Adams, Richard--Watership Down
- Adler, John Mortimer--The Great Conversation
- Aeschylus--Agamemnon (2 times)
- ---. The Libation Bearers
- ---. The Eumenides
- ---. The Suppliant Maidens
- ---. The Persians
- ---. The Seven Against Thebes
- ---. Prometheus Bound
- Agee, James--A Death in the Family
- ---. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- Aird, Catherine--Some Die Eloquent
- Akunin, Boris--The Winter Queen
- Albee, Edward--Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Aldiss, Brian--Billion Year Spree
- Alexie, Sherman--The Toughest Indian in the World
- Allison, Alexander (ed.)--The Norton Anthology of Poetry
- Ammons, A. R. (ed.)--The Best American Poetry 1994
- Anaya, Rudolpho--Bless Me, Ultima
- Anderson, Sherwood--Winesburg, Ohio (2 times)
- Andrew, Malcolm (ed)--Critical Essays on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- Angier, Bradford--How to Stay Alive in the Woods
- Anonymous--The Epic of Gilgamesh (2 times)
- ---. The Bagavad Gita (2 times)
- ---. The Revenger’s Tragedy
- ---. Beowulf (2 times)
- ---. The Poem of the Cid
- ---. The Song of Roland
- Anthony, Piers--Chthon
- ---. Heaven Cent
- ---. Race Against Time
- ---. Bio of a Space Tyrant vol 2: Mercenary
- ---. For Love of Evil
- ---. A Spell for Chameleon
- ---. Ghost
- ---. Chaining the Lady
- ---. Vale of the Vole
- ---. Triple Detente
- ---. With a Tangled Skein
- ---. Omnivore
- ---. But What of Earth?
- ---. Virtual Mode
- ---. Wielding a Red Sword
- ---. On a Pale Horse
- ---. Blue Adept
- ---. Man from Mundania
- ---. The Source of Magic
- ---. Isle of View
- ---. Anthonology
- ---. Firefly
- ---. Refugee (Bio of a space Tyrant One)
- ---. Ox
- ---. Cluster
- ---. Juxtaposition
- ---. Night Mare
- ---. Being a Green Mother
- ---. Fractal Mode
- ---. Split Infinity
- ---. Bearing An Hourglass
- ---. Isle of Woman
- ---. Bio of an Ogre
- Aristophanes--Lysistrata
- Arnstein, Warren--Britian Yesterday and Today: 1830 to the Present
- Aron, Elaine N.--The Highly Sensitive Person
- Asimov, Isaac--The Caves of Steel
- ---. Second Foundation
- ---. Foundation and Empire
- ---. I, Robot
- ---. Beginnings
- ---. Foundation
- ---. Nemesis
- ---. Asimov’s Guide to Shakespeare
- ---. Gold
- ---. In Memory Yet Green
- ---. In Joy Still Felt
- ---. Azazel
- Asimov and Greenspan (eds)--Cosmic Critiques: How . . . SF Stories Work
- Atchity, Kenneth J. (ed.)--The Classical Greek Reader
- Atwood, Margaret--The Handmaid’s Tale
- Auden, W. H.--Selected Poems
- Auel, Jean--Clan of the Cave Bear
- Aurelius, Marcus--Meditations
- Austen, Jane--Pride and Prejudice (3 times)
- ---. Emma
- ---. Sense and Sensibility
- ---. Northanger Abbey
- Bach, Richard--Jonathan Livingston Seagull
- Baillie, Joanna--De Montfort
- Baker, Kage--In the Garden of Iden
- ---. Sky Coyote
- ---. Mendoza In Hollywood
- ---. The Graveyard Game
- ---. The Life of the World to Come
- Baker, Nicholson--Vox
- Barad, Judith--The Ethics of Star Trek
- Barker, Clive--The Inhuman Condition
- ---. Weaveworld
- ---. The Damnation Game
- ---. Imajica
- ---. Books of Blood Vol. One
- ---. In the Flesh
- Barks, Coleman (editor)--The Essential Rumi
- Barlowe, Wayne Douglas, et al.--Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials
- Barth, John--Lost in the Funhouse
- Baty, Chris--No Plot? No Problem!
- Baugh, Albert C. and Thomas Cable--A History of the English Language
- Baum, L. Frank--The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- Baym, Nina--The Norton Anthology of American Literature vol. 2
- Beattie, Melody--Codependent No More
- Beauman, Nicola--E.M. Forster (a biography)
- Beckford, William--Vathek
- Beckett, Samuel--Waiting for Godot
- Behn, Aphra--Oroonoko
- Beidler, Peter G. (ed.)--The Wife of Bath: Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism
- Bester, Alfred--The Demolished Man
- Benson, Larry D (ed.)--The Riverside Chaucer
- Bently, E. C.--Trent's Last Case
- Bickham, Jack M.--Setting
- Black Elk and John G. Neihardt--Black Elk Speaks
- Blake, William--The Viking Portable Blake
- Blish, James--Star Trek 1
- ---. Star Trek 2
- ---. Star Trek 3
- ---. Star Trek 4
- ---. Star Trek 5
- ---. Star Trek 6
- ---. Star Trek 7
- ---. Star Trek 8
- ---. Star Trek 9
- ---. Star Trek 10
- ---. Star Trek 11
- Block, Lawrence--The Burglar who Traded Ted Williams
- ---. Eight Million Ways to Die
- ---. Out on the Cutting Edge
- ---. The Burglar who Studied Spinoza
- ---. Writing the Novel
- ---. The Burglar who Liked to Quote Kipling
- ---. Hit List
- ---. The Burglar in the Library
- ---. Burglars Can’t Be Choosers
- ---. Hit Man
- ---. Telling Lies for Fun and Profit
- ---. Spider Spin Me a Web
- ---. The Burglar in the Closet
- ---. Hit Parade
- ---. Enough Rope
- ---. Hit and Run
- Boccacio, Giovanni--The Decameron
- Bodanis, David--The Secret House
- Borroff, Marie (Trans.)--Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2 times)
- ---. Pearl
- Bortolin, Matthew--The Dharma of Star Wars
- Boswell, James--Boswell’s London Journal: 1762-1763
- Bourdain, Anthony--Kitchen Confidential
- Bowman, Alan K.--Egypt After the Pharaohs
- Boyle, T. Coragheesen--Descent of Man
- ---. Greasy Lake
- ---. If the River was Whiskey
- ---. Without a Hero
- ---. Drop City
- Bradbury, Ray--The Martian Chronicles
- ---. Fahrenheit 451 (2 times)
- Braddon, Mary Elizabeth--Lady Audley's Secret
- Branden, Nathaniel--How To Raise Your Self-Esteem
- Bredvold, Louis I.--The Literature of the Eighteenth Century 1660-1798
- Briant, Pierre--Alexander the Great
- Brin, David--Sundiver
- ---. The Postman
- Brinkley, Alan--The Unfinished Nation
- Brodhead, Richard H. (editor)--New Essays on Moby Dick
- Bronte, Charlotte--Jane Eyre (2 times)
- Bronte, Emily--Wuthering Heights
- Brown, Alton--Gear For Your Kitchen
- Brown, Dan--Angles and Demons
- ---. The Da Vinci Code
- Brown, Dee--Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
- Brown, Wesley and Amy Ling--Visions of America
- --- Imagining America
- Browning, Elizabeth Barret--Sonnets from the Portugese
- Bryson, Bill--A Walk in the Woods
- Buchan, John--The 39 Steps
- Budilovsky, Joan and Eve Adamson--The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Meditation
- Buehrens, John and Forrest Church--A Chosen Faith
- Burns, David D--Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
- ---. Ten Days to Self-Esteem
- Burroughs, William S.--My Education: A Book of Dreams
- Butler, Octavia--Parable of the Sower
- Cain, James M.--The Postman Always Rings Twice
- ---. Double Indemnity
- ---. Mildred Pierce
- Cain, P. J. and A. G. Hopkins--British Imperialism 1688-2000
- Campbell, Joseph--The Mythic Image
- ---. The Hero With A Thousand Faces
- ---. The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology
- Camus, Albert--The Stranger
- Capote, Truman--In Cold Blood
- Card, Orson Scott--Seventh Son
- ---. The Memory of Earth
- ---. The Worthing Saga
- ---. The Ships of Earth
- ---. The Call of Earth
- ---. Earthfall
- ---. Earthborn
- ---. Characters and Viewpoint (Elements of Fiction Writing)
- ---. How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy
- ---. Ender’s Game
- Carper, Jean--The Food Pharmacy
- Carr, Edward Hallett--What is History?
- Carr, Terry (editor)--Universe 7
- Carson, Rachel--Silent Spring (2 times)
- Carter and McRee--The Routledge History of English Literature
- Caruth, Hayden (editor)--The Voice that is Great Within Us
- Carver, Raymond--What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
- Castiglione, Baldesar--The Book of the Courtier
- Cather, Willa--My Antonia
- ---. The Professor's House
- Cavendish, Richard (ed.)--Mythology
- Cawley, A. C. (ed.)--Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays
- Ceram, C. W.--Gods, Graves, and Scholars
- Cervantes, Miguel--Don Quixote
- Chabon, Michael--The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
- Chalker, Jack--And the Devil will Drag You Under
- ---. Empires of Flux and Anchor
- ---. Masters of Flux and Anchor
- ---. Lords of the Middle Dark
- ---. Lilith: A Snake in the Grass
- ---. The Identity Matrix
- ---. Warriors of the Storm
- ---. Spirits of Flux and Anchor
- ---. Pirates of the Thunder
- ---. Cerberus: A Wolf in the Fold
- ---. Masks of the Martyrs
- Chandler, Raymond--The Big Sleep
- Chaucer, Geoffrey--The Canterbury Tales (3 times)
- ---. Troilus and Cressida
- Checkhov, Anton--The Portable Checkhov (ed. Avrahm Yarmolinsky)
- Chretien De Troyes--Eric and Enide
- ---. Cliges
- ---. The Knight of the Cart (Lancelot)
- ---. The Knight With the Lion (Yvain)
- ---. The Story of the Grail (Perceval)
- Christie, Agatha--Murder at the Vicarage
- ---. And Then There Were None
- ---. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- ---. Death on the Nile
- ---. The Mirror Crack’d
- ---. Evil Under the Sun
- Chopin, Kate--The Awakening (2 times)
- Cicero--On Moral Ends
- ---. On Obligations
- Clancy, Tom--Patriot Games
- Clark, Arthur C.--Rendevous with Rama
- Clark, Mary Higgins--Loves Music, Loves to Dance
- Codrescu, Andre (editor)--Up Late: American Poetry Since 1970
- Coetzee, J. M.--Waiting for the Barbarians
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor--The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Collins, Max Allan--Two for the Money
- Congreve, William--The Way of the World
- Connelly, Michael--The Black Echo
- ---. The Black Ice
- ---. The Concrete Blond
- Conrad, Joseph--Youth and The End of the Tether
- ---. Lord Jim
- ---. Under Western Eyes (3 times)
- ---. Victory
- ---. The Shadow Line
- ---. Typhoon and Other Stories
- ---. The Secret Agent
- ---. Almayer’s Folly
- ---. An Outcast of the Islands
- ---. Nostromo
- ---. The Nigger of the Narcissus
- ---. Heart of Darkness (3 times)
- Conroy, Pat--The Prince of Tides
- Crane, Hart--The Collected Poems of Hart Crane
- Crane, Stephen--The Viking Portable Stephen Crane
- ---. The Red Badge of Courage (2 times)
- ---. Maggie, Girl of the Streets (2 times)
- Crichton, Michael--Timeline
- ---. Sphere
- ---. Prey
- Cross, Charles R.--Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain
- Cruise, Edwina J.--English Grammar for Students of Russian
- Current-Garcia, Eugene and Bert Hitchcock (eds.)--American Short Stories
- Cutler, Howard C. and the Dalai Lama--The Art of Happiness at Work
- Dante--Inferno (Allen Mandelbaum Translation)
- Darwin, Charles--The Origin of Species
- Das, Lama Surya--Awakening the Buddha Within
- ---. Awakening to the Sacred
- ---. Letting Go of the Person You Used to Be
- Datlow, Ellen (editor)--Omni Best Science Fiction Two
- Davies, Robertson--The Cunning Man
- Davis, Norman (editor)--Sweet’s Anglo-Saxon Primer
- Defoe, Daniel--Moll Flanders
- ---. Robinson Crusoe
- Descartes, Rene--Meditations on First Philosophy
- Dibell, Anson--Plot (Elements of Fiction Writing Series)
- Dichter, Susan--Teachers: Straight Talk From The Trenches
- Dick, Philip K--Clans of the Alphane Moon
- ---. The Zap Gun
- ---. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
- ---. Radio Free Albemuth
- ---. The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
- ---. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (2 times)
- ---. The Divine Invasion
- ---. Collected Stories Vol. One
- ---. The World Jones Made
- ---. The Game-Players of Titan
- ---. Valis
- ---. The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected . . . Philosophical Writings
- ---. Confessions of a Crap Artist
- ---. Martian Time-Slip
- ---. Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
- ---. A Scanner Darkly
- ---. Now Wait for Last Year
- ---. Ubik
- ---. The Man in the High Castle
- ---. The Cosmic Puppets
- ---. The Eye of the Sybil (Collected Stories Volume 5)
- Dickens, Charles--A Tale of Two Cities
- ---. David Copperfield
- ---. The Old Curiosity Shop
- ---. Bleak House
- Dickinson, Emily--The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
- Dickson, Gordon R.--The Final Encyclopedia
- ---. The Star Road
- Didion, Joan--The White Album
- Dillard, Annie--The Writing Life
- ---. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (2 times)
- Donaldson, E. Talbot (et al, eds.)--The Norton Anthology of English Lit. Vol. One
- Donaldson, Stephen R.--The Power that Preserves
- ---. The Wounded Land
- ---. The Illearth War
- ---. Lord Foul’s Bane
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor--Crime and Punishment
- Douglass, Frederick--Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Dove, Rita--Selected Poems
- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan--A Study in Scarlett
- ---. The Sign of the Four
- ---. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- ---. Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
- ---. The Return of Sherlock Holmes
- ---. The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Drabble, Margaret--The Radiant Way
- Dreiser, Theodore--Sister Carrie
- Du Bois, W. E. B--The Souls of Black Folk
- Eberl, Jason T. and Kevin S. Decker--Star Trek and Philosophy: The Wrath of Kant
- Eddings, David--Queen of Sorcery
- ---. Enchanter's End Game
- ---. Magician's Gambit
- ---. Castle of Wizardy
- ---. Pawn of Prophecy
- Ehrehriech, Barbara--Nickel and Dimed
- Eliot, T. S.--The Complete Poems and Plays: 1909-1950
- ---. The Waste Land and Other Poems
- Elkins, James--What Painting Is
- Ellison, Ralph--Invisible Man
- Epictetus--The Discourses, the Handbook, Fragments
- Erasmus--Praise of Folly
- Erdrich, Louise--Tracks
- ---.The Painted Drum
- Erricker, Clive--Teach Yourself: Buddhism
- Esch, Deborah (ed.)--New Essays on The House of Mirth
- Estleman, Loren D.--Gas City
- Euripides--Alcestis
- ---. Medea (3 times)
- ---. The Bacchae (2 times)
- ---. Rhesus
- ---. Hippolytus
- ---. Heracleidae
- ---. The Suppliants
- ---. The Trojan Women
- ---. Ion
- ---. Helen
- ---. Andromache
- ---. Hecubae
- ---. Heracles Mad
- ---. The Phoenician Maidens
- ---. Orestes
- ---. Iphigenia Among the Tauri
- ---. Iphigenia at Aulis
- ---. The Cyclops
- ---. Electra
- Faulkner, William--As I Lay Dying
- ---. The Sound and the Fury
- Ferris, Timothy--Seeing in the Dark
- Fforde, Jasper--The Eyre Affair
- Fielding, Henry--Joseph Andrews and Shamela
- ---. Tom Jones
- Finder, Joseph--Paranoia
- Finley, M. I.(ed.)--The Portable Greek Historians
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott--The Great Gatsby (2 times)
- Flaubert, Gustave--Madame Bovary (2 times)
- Forbes, Esther--Johnny Tremain
- Ford, Boris--Pelican Guide to English Literature 4: From Dryden to Johnson
- Forster, E. M.--Aspects of the Novel (2 times)
- ---. Howard’s End
- ---. A Room with a View
- ---. A Passage to India
- Foster, Alan Dean--Spellsinger
- ---. The Man Who Used the Universe
- ---. Cat-a-lyst
- Foucault, Michel--The Order of Things
- Fowles, John--The French Lieutenant's Woman
- Francis, Dick (or, more likely, Mary)--Nerve
- Frank, Anne--The Diary of a Young Girl (The "Definitive Edition")
- Franklin, Benjamin--The Autobiography and Other Writings (2 times)
- Fredette, Jean M.--Handbook of Short Story Writing Vol. 2
- Froissart, Jean--Chronicles
- Fromkin, Victoria and Robert Rodman--An Introduction to Language
- Frost, Robert--Selected Poems
- ---. The Poetry of Robert Frost (ed. Edward Connery Lathem)
- Fukyama, Francis--The End of History and The Last Man
- Fuller, Margaret--The Essential Margaret Fuller (ed. Jeffery Steele)
- Fussell, Paul--Class
- Gach, Gary--The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Understanding Buddhism
- Gaddis, John Lewis--Russia, the Soviet Union, and the United States
- Galahad Books (editor not given)--Great Tales of Crime and Detection
- Gardner, John--On Becoming a Novelist
- Geis, Joseph and Frances Geis--Life in a Medieval City
- Gibbon, Edward--The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Gibrahn, Kahlil--The Prophet
- Gibson, William--Neuromancer
- ---. Virtual Light
- Gilbert, Sandra M. andd Susan Gubar--The Madwoman in the Attic
- Goffman, Erving--Asylums
- Goldberg, Natalie--Writing Down the Bones
- ---. Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft
- ---. Long Quiet Highway
- Golding, William--Lord of the Flies (2 times)
- Gore, Al--Earth in the Balance
- Grafton, Sue--I is for Innocent
- ---. C is for Corpse
- ---. D is for Deadbeat
- ---. A is for Alibi
- ---. B is for Burglar
- Grahame, Kenneth--The Wind in the Willows
- Graves, Robert--I, Claudius
- Gray, John--Men Are From Mars Women Are From Venus
- Greeley, Andrew--The Cardinal Sins
- ---. God Game
- Greene, Graham--The Heart of the Matter
- Grisham, John--The Rainmaker
- ---. The Last Juror
- ---. The Broker
- Haldeman, Joe--The Forever War
- Hammet, Dashiel--The Glass Key
- ---. The Maltese Falcon
- Hamiliton, Edith--Mythology
- Hanh, Thich Nhat--Peace is Every Step
- ---. The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching
- ---. The Miracle of Mindfulness
- ---. Living Buddha, Living Christ
- Hardy, Thomas--Far From the Madding Crowd
- ---. Tess of the d’Urbervilles
- Harrison, Harry--The Stainless Steel Rat for President
- ---. The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You
- Hatzfeld, Jean--History of Ancient Greece
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel--The Blithedale Romance
- ---. The House of the Seven Gables
- ---. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Tales (ed. James McIntosh: Norton)
- ---. The Scarlett Letter (3 times)
- Hawking, Stephen--A Brief History of Time
- ---. The Universe in a Nutshell
- Heaney, Seamus--The Spirit Level
- Heinlein, Robert--The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- ---. Friday
- ---. Time Enough for Love
- ---. Have Spacesuit Will Travel
- ---. Starship Troopers
- ---. The Cat who Walks Through Walls
- ---. Stranger in a Strange Land
- Heller, Joseph--Catch 22
- Helprin, Mark--Winter's Tale
- Hemingway, Ernest--A Moveable Feast
- ---. The Snows of Kilamanjaro and Other Stories
- ---. For Whom the Bell Tolls
- ---. A Farewell to Arms
- ---. The Old Man and the Sea
- ---. In Our Time
- ---. The Sun Also Rises (2 times)
- Herbert, Frank--Children of Dune
- ---. Dune Messiah
- Herbert, James--Deadly Eyes (The Rats)
- Herodotus--The Histories
- Herrigel, Eugen--Zen in the Art of Archery
- Hess, Fred C.--Chemistry Made Simple
- Hesse, Herman--Siddhartha
- Hiaasen, Carl--Sick Puppy
- Higgins, Jack--Passage by Night
- Hill, John and Pamela Church Gibson--Film Studies: Critical Approaches
- Hoeye, Michael--Time Stops for No Mouse
- Hogan, Linda--Mean Spirit
- Homer--The Iliad (Samuel Butler Prose Translation)
- ---. The Odyssey
- ---. The Iliad (The Richmond Lattimore Translation)
- Hooper, Finely--Roman Realities
- Horace--The Complete Works of Horace
- Hornby, Nick--About a Boy
- Howells, William D.--A Modern Instance
- Hubbard, L. Ron--The Invader's Plan
- ---. Black Genesis
- Hugo, Richard--The Triggering Town
- Huizinga, J.--The Waning of the Middle Ages
- Huxley, Aldous--Brave New World
- Ibsen, Heinrich--A Doll House
- ---. The Master Builder
- ---. Hedda Gabler (2 times)
- Ignatow, David--Whisper to the Earth: New Poems
- Inwood, Brad and I. P. Gerson (Trans. and Ed.)--Hellenistic Philosophy
- Irving, John--The World According to Garp
- James, Henry--The Turn of the Screw (2 times)
- ---. The American
- ---. Daisy Miller
- ---. The Portrait of a Lady
- James, P. D.--The Lighthouse
- Jarrell, Randall--The Complete Poems
- ---. The Bat Poet
- Jensen--Renaissance Europe
- Johnson, Ben--Volpone
- Johnson, Charles--Middle Passage
- Johnson, Samuel--Rasselas
- Josephus--The Jewish War
- Joyce, James--A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- ---. Ulysses
- ---. Dubliners
- Kafka, Franz--The Trial
- Kaminsky, Stuart--Bullet for a Star
- ---. Murder on the Yellow Brick Road
- Keesey, Donald--Contexts for Criticism
- Kemple, Brian--Essential Russian Grammar
- Kendall, Paul Murray--Richard the Third
- Kennedy, X. J. and Dana Gioia (editors)--An Introduction to Poetry
- ---. An Introduction to Fiction
- Kerouac, Jack--The Dharma Bums
- ---. On the Road
- Kesey, Ken--One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Kincaid, Jamaica--Annie John
- King, Stephen--Firestarter
- ---. Bag of Bones
- ---. Rose Madder
- ---. Danse Macabre
- ---. Night Shift
- ---. The Gunslinger
- ---. Nightmares and Dreamscapes
- ---. The Green Mile
- ---. The Bachman Books
- ---. On Writing
- ---. The Stand
- ---. Desperation
- ---. It
- ---. Gerald's Game
- ---. Four Past Midnight
- ---. Insomnia
- ---. Needful Things
- ---. The Drawing of the Three
- ---. Thinner
- ---. The Eyes of the Dragon
- ---. Salem’s Lot
- ---. Different Seasons
- ---. The Tommyknockers
- ---. The Dark Half
- ---. Song of Suzannah
- ---. The Waste Lands
- ---. Wizard and Glass
- ---. The Shining
- ---. Pet Sematary
- ---. Wolves of the Calla
- ---. Misery
- ---. The Dark Tower
- ---. From a Buick 8
- ---. The Dead Zone
- ---. Everything's Eventual
- ---. Cell
- ---. Duma Key
- King, Stephen and Peter Straub--The Talisman
- King, Thomas--The Truth About Stories
- ---. Green Grass, Running Water
- Kingsolver, Barbara--High Tide in Tucson
- Kingston, Maxine Hong--The Woman Warrior (2 times)
- Kipling, Rudyard--Kim
- Kirszner, Laurie G.and Stephen R. Mandell (editors)--Patterns For College Writing: A Rhetorical Reader and Guide (9th edition)
- Koontz, Dean--The Bad Place
- ---. Sole Survivor
- ---. Hideaway
- ---. Dragon Tears
- ---. Cold Fire
- ---. Strangers
- ---. Intensity
- ---. Watchers
- ---. How to Write Bestselling Fiction (2 times)
- ---. Writing Popular Fiction (2 times)
- ---. Phantoms
- ---. Dark Rivers of the Heart
- Kraus, Lawrence--The Physics of Star Trek
- Kreisman, Jerold J. and Hal Straus--I Hate You Don’t Leave Me
- Kulkarni, H. B.--Moby Dick: A Hindu Avatar
- Kumin, Maxine--Our Groundtime Here Will Be Brief: New and Selected Poems
- Kureishi, Hanif--The Buddha of Surburbia
- Kurtz, Katherine--Deryni Checkmate
- ---. Camber of Culdi
- Lamott, Anne--Bird By Bird
- L’amour, Louis--Education of a Wandering Man
- Langland, William--Piers Plowman
- Larson, Eric--The Devil in the White City
- Larson, Gary--The Farside Gallery 5
- ---. The Farside Gallery
- ---. The Farside Gallery 3
- ---. The Farside Gallery 2
- ---. The Prehistory of the Farside
- Lappe, Frances Moore--Diet for a Small Planet
- Lawrence, D. H.--Sons and Lovers
- --- Women in Love
- --- Lady Chatterly's Lover
- Le Carre, John--Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
- ---. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
- Lee, Harper--To Kill a Mockingbird (2 times)
- Le Guin, Ursula K--The Left Hand of Darkness
- ---. A Wizard of Earthsea
- ---. The Tombs of Atuan
- ---. The Farthest Shore
- Lehane, Dennis--Mystic River
- ---. Shutter Island
- Lehman, Arthur C. and James Myers--Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion
- Leitch, Vincent B. (et. al., eds.)--The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
- Lem, Stanislaw--Solaris
- Leonard, Elmore--Split Images
- ---. Out of Sight
- ---. Pagan Babies
- ---. Touch
- Leshan, Lawrence--How to Meditate
- Lewis, C. S.--The Magician’s Nephew
- ---. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
- ---. The Horse and his Boy
- ---. Prince Caspian
- ---. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- ---. The Silver Chair
- ---. The Last Battle
- Lichtheim, Miriam--Ancient Egyptian Literature Vol. 1
- ---. Ancient Egyptian Literature Vol. 2
- Lisle, Holly--Mugging the Muse: Writing Fiction for Love and Money (online book)
- London, Jack--The Sea Wolf
- Ludlum, Robert--The Bourne Identity
- ---. The Bourne Supremacy
- ---. The Holcroft Covenant
- Lunsford, Andrea (et al. eds.)--Everything’s an Argument: With Readings
- MacDonald, John D.--The Crossroads
- ---. Death Trap
- ---. The Damned
- ---. Murder in the Wind
- ---. One Monday We Killled Them All
- ---. The Executioners
- ---. The Green Ripper
- ---. The Deep Blue Good-by
- ---. The Dreadful Lemon Sky
- ---. The Empty Copper Sea
- ---. Free Fall in Crimson
- ---. A Tan and Sandy Silence
- ---. Nightmare in Pink
- ---. A Purple Place for Dying
- ---. The Quick Red Fox
- ---. A Bullet for Cinderella
- ---. Cry Hard, Cry Fast
- ---. On the Run
- ---. You Live Once
- ---. A Deadly Shade of Gold
- Macdonald, Ross--The Drowning Pool
- Machiavelli--The Prince (2 times)
- ---. The Portable Machiavelli (ed. Peter Bondanella)
- Mack, Bernard (et al, eds.)--Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces
- Mailer, Norman--The Naked and the Dead
- Mallory, Sir Thomas--King Arthur and His Knights
- Maltz, Leora (ed.)--The Cold War Period 1945-1992
- Marinaccio, Dave--All I Really Need to Know I Learned From Watching Star Trek
- Marlowe, Christopher--The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (2 times)
- Marquez, Gabriel Garcia--One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Martin, Philip--The Zen Path Through Depression
- Martin, Steve--Cruel Shoes
- ---. Pure Drivel
- Maslow, Abraham H.--Motivation and Personality
- Matheson, Richard--The Shrinking Man
- Maugham, W. Sommerset--The Razor’s Edge
- McBain, Ed--Ice
- ---. Ax
- ---. Sadie When She Died
- ---. Fuzz
- ---. Alice In Jeopardy
- ---. Goldilocks
- ---. The Mugger
- ---. Killer's Wedge
- ---. Lady Killer
- ---. Vanishing Ladies
- ---. The Heckler
- ---. See Them Die
- ---. The Gutter and the Grave
- McCullough, Colleen--The Thorn Birds
- McEwan, Ian--Saturday
- McKee, Robert--Story (2 times)
- McLuhan, Marshall--The Medium is the Massage
- McMichael, George (ed.)--Anthology of American Literature Vol. One (2 times)
- ---. Anthology of American Literature Vol. Two (2 times)
- McMurtry, Larry--Lonesome Dove
- Mellor, Robert (editor)--The Historians of Ancient Rome
- Melville, Herman--Moby Dick (3 times)
- ---. Bartleby and Benito Cereno (2 times)
- ---. The Confidence Man
- Merchant, Carolyn--The Death of Nature
- Meredith, Scott--Writing to Sell
- Michener, James--Hawaii
- ---. My Lost Mexico
- ---. The Covenant
- ---. Alaska
- Miller, Arthur--The Crucible
- ---. Death of a Salesman (2 times)
- Miller, George (ed.)--The Prentice Hall Reader
- Miller, Walter M.--A Canticle for Leibowitz
- Milton, John--Paradise Lost
- Minor, Vernon Hyde--Art History’s History
- Miyabe, Miyuke--All She Was Worth
- Momaday, N. Scott--House Made of Dawn
- Moorcock, Michael--Elric of Melnibone
- ---. The Sailor on the Seas of Fate
- ---. The Weird of the White Wolf
- ---. The Vanishing Tower
- ---. The Bane of the Black Sword
- ---. Stormbringer
- Moore, Michael--Stupid White Men
- More, (Sir) Thomas--Utopia
- Morris, Desmond--Catwatching
- ---. Catlore
- Morrison, Tony--Beloved
- ---. Sula
- ---. The Bluest Eye
- Mosley, Walter--White Butterfly
- Moyers, Bill (et al)--The Language of Life
- Murray, Sarah--Moveable Feasts
- Myss, Caroline--Sacred Contracts
- Nabokov, Vladimir--Pnin
- Naipaul, V.S.--The Enigma of Arrival
- Najder, Stanislaw--Joseph Conrad: A Biography
- Naslund, Sena Jeter--Ahab's Wife
- Nicholls, Peter--The Science in Science Fiction
- Nietzsche, Fredrick (Ed. William Kaufman)--The Will to Power
- ---. The Birth of Tragedy
- ---. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- Nimoy, Leonard--I am Spock
- Niven, Larry--N Space
- ---. The Integral Trees
- Nixon, Richard M.--1999: Victory Without War
- Noble, William--Conflict, Action and Suspense (Elements of Fiction Writing)
- Northcutt, Wendy--The Darwin Awards
- Norville, Barbara--Writing the Modern Mystery
- Oates, Joyce Carol--Love and its Derangements: Poems
- O'Brien, Tim--The Things They Carried
- Ochoa and Osier--The Writer’s Guide to Creating a Science Fiction Universe
- Okuda, Michael and Denise Okuda--The Star Trek Encyclopedia
- Olds, Sharon--The Gold Cell
- ---. The Wellspring
- O'Neill, Eugene--Long Day's Journey Into Night
- Orwell, George--Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Ovid--Metamorphoses
- Pagliaro, Harold E. (ed.)--Major English Writers of the Eighteenth Century
- Paramananda--A Practical Guide to Buddhist Meditation
- Parker, Robert B.--Looking for Rachel Wallace
- ---. Paper Doll
- Patchett, Ann--Bel Canto
- Paton, Alan--Cry, the Beloved Country
- Payne, Ruby K.--A Framework for Understanding Poverty
- Percy, Walker--The Moviegoer
- Peter, Laurence J.--The Peter Principle
- Peter Pauper Press (no editor given)--The Jade Flute: Chinese Poems in Prose
- Philbrick, Nathaniel--In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
- Pirandello, Luigi--Six Characters in Search of an Author
- Plath, Sylvia--Collected Poems
- Plato--Great Dialogues of Plato
- ---. The Republic
- Poe, Edgar Allan--The Unabridged Edgar Allan Poe
- Polidori, John--The Vampyre
- Polti, Georges--The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations
- Porter, John M.--The Tao of Star Wars
- Potok, Chaim--The Book of Lights
- Power, Eileen--Medieval People
- Pratchett, Terry--Monstrous Regiment
- Pressfield, Steven--The War of Art
- Proulx, Annie--The Shipping News
- Pushkin, Alexander--Selected Poems (Trans. Henry Jones)
- Pullman, Philip--The Golden Compass
- Radcliffe, Ann--A Sicilian Romance
- Raffel, Burton (ed.)--Poems and Prose from the Old English
- Ramsland, Katherine--Dean Koontz: A Writer's Biography
- Remarque, Erich--All Quiet on the Western Front
- Reynolds, David S.--Beneath the American Renaissance
- Rhys, Jean--Wide Sargasso Sea
- Rice, Anne--The Vampire Lestat
- ---. The Tale of the Body Thief
- ---. The Queen of the Damned
- ---. Memnoch the Devil
- Rich, Adrienne--Dark Fields of the Rebublic: Poems 1991-1995
- Rich, Adrienne (editor)--The Best American Poetry of 1996
- Robinson, Kim Stanley--Red Mars
- Rodriguez, Richard--Hunger of Memory
- Roethke, Theodore--The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke
- Ross, James and Mary Mclaughlin--The Viking Portable Renaissence Reader
- Rossi, M. L.--What Every American Should Know About the Rest of the World
- Rostand, Edmund--Cyrano De Bergerac
- Roth, Philip--The Ghost Writer
- Rowling, J. K.--Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
- ---. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- ---. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azakaban
- ---. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- ---. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- ---. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- ---. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Rumi (Translated by Coleman Barks)--The Essential Rumi
- Rushdie, Salmon--Midnight’s Children
- Saberhagen, Fred--The First Book of Swords
- ---. The Second Book of Swords
- ---. The Third Book of Swords
- Salinger, J. D.--The Catcher in the Rye
- Sapir, Richard and Warren Murphy--The Destroyer: Mafia Fix (I read a lot of this series when I was 13 but except for this one--which I found at a thrift store and I'm sure I've read--I've forgotten exactly which ones I've read and I can't tell from looking at the titles . . . they are all pretty much the same. This is # 4 in the series.)
- Sargent, Pamela (ed.)--Women of Wonder: The Classic Years
- Saunders, Jeraldine and Harvey Ross--Hypoglycemia
- Scarne, John--Scarne on Card Tricks
- Scholes, Robert--Text Book
- Selby, Nick (editor)--Herman Melville: Moby-Dick (Columbia Critical Guides)
- Sexton, Anne--The Complete Poems
- Shakespeare, William--A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- ---. The Comedy of Errors
- ---. Coriolanus
- ---. Julius Caesar
- ---. Anthony and Cleopatra
- ---. Titus Andronicus
- ---. Love’s Labor’s Lost
- ---. The Taming of the Shrew
- ---. Romeo and Juliet
- ---. The Merchant of Venice
- ---. Much Ado About Nothing
- ---. Othello (2 times)
- ---. The Tempest
- ---. All’s Well That Ends Well
- ---. King Lear
- ---. Hamlet (3 times)
- ---. Macbeth (2 times)
- ---. King John
- ---. Richard II
- ---. Henry IV Part One
- ---. Henry IV Part Two
- ---. Henry V
- ---. Henry VI Part One
- ---. Henry VI Part Two
- ---. Henry VI Part Three
- ---. Richard III (3 times)
- Shaw, Irwin--Beggarman, Thief
- ---. Rich Man, Poor Man
- Sheldon, Sidney--Rage of Angels
- ---. Bloodline
- ---. Master of the Game
- ---. A Stranger in the Mirror
- ---. The Naked Face
- ---. If Tomorrow Comes
- ---. The Other Side of Midnight
- Shelley, Mary--Frankenstein (3 times)
- Sheriden, Jill (editor)--The Quotable Star Trek
- Shubin, Seymour--Witness to Myself
- Silko, Leslie Marmon--Ceremony
- ---. Storyteller
- Silva, Jose--The Silva Mind Control Method
- Silverberg, Robert--At Winter’s End
- ---. Dying Inside
- ---. Star of Gypsies
- ---. Beyond the Safe Zone
- ---. The World Inside
- ---. The New Springtime
- ---. Hawksbill Station
- ---. The Face of the Waters
- ---. The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party
- ---. The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Vol One: Secret Sharers
- ---. Up the Line
- ---. Lord Valentine's Castle
- Silverberg, Robert (editor)--The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One
- Silverman, David P (ed.)--Ancient Egypt
- Simak, Clifford D.--Way Station
- Simmons, Dan--Hardcase
- ---. Prayers to Broken Stones
- ---. Hyperion
- ---. Hard Freeze
- Singley, Carol J. (ed.)--Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth: A Casebook
- Sjowall, Maj and Per Wahloo--The Laughing Policeman
- Smith, Anna Deavere--Fires in the Mirror
- Smith, George--Atheism: The Case Against God
- Smith, Tom E.C., et al--Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings (5th edition)
- Smollett, Tobias--Humphry Clinker
- Snow, C. P.--The Two Cultures
- Sobchack, Vivian--Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film
- Solzhenitsyn, Alexander--One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- Sophocles--Oedipus the King (4 times)
- ---. Oedipus at Colonus
- ---. Antigone (3 times)
- ---. Ajax
- ---. Electra
- ---. Trachiniae
- ---. Philoctetes
- Sowards, J. Kelley (ed.)--Makers of the Western Traditon: Vol. One
- Spark, Muriel--A Far Cry From Kensington
- Spencer, Colin--The Heretic’s Feast
- Spillane, Mickey--Killer Mine
- ---. I, the Jury
- Stafford, William--You Must Revise Your Life
- Standing Bear, Luther--My People the Sioux
- Stape, J. H.--The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad
- Stark, Richard--The Sour Lemon Score
- ---. Deadly Edge
- ---. The Jugger
- ---. The Mourner
- ---. The Score
- ---. Run Lethal
- ---. The Man With the Getaway Face
- ---. The Hunter
- ---. Slayground
- ---. The Black Ice Score
- ---. The Green Eagle Score
- ---. Flashfire
- ---. Backflash
- ---. Firebreak
- ---. Comeback
- ---. Breakout
- ---. Nobody Runs Forever
- ---. The Damsel
- ---. The Handle
- ---. The Blackbird
- ---. Lemons Never Lie
- ---. The Outfit
- ---. Point Blank
- ---. Ask the Parrot
- ---. Butcher's Moon
- ---. The Dame
- ---. Dirty Money
- Steinbeck, John--The Grapes of Wrath (3 times)
- ---. Of Mice and Men
- ---. Travels with Charlie
- ---. East of Eden
- ---. Working Days
- ---. Journal of a Novel
- Stephenson, Neal--Cryptonomicon
- Sterne, Laurence--The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
- Stevens, Wallace--The Collected Poems
- Stevenson, Jay--The Idiot's Guide to Eastern Philosophy
- Stevenson, Robert Louis--Dr. Jeckel and Mr. Hyde
- ---. Treasure Island
- Stevic, Robert D.--One Hundred Middle English Lyrics
- Stewart, Mary--The Crystal Cave
- ---. The Hollow Hills
- ---. The Last Enchantment
- Stoker, Bram--Dracula
- Stout, Rex--The Red Box
- ---. A Family Affair
- ---. Fer De Lance
- ---. The Golden Spiders
- ---. Might As Well Be Dead
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher--Uncle Tom’s Cabin (2 times)
- Strand, Mark (editor)--The Contemporary American Poets
- Strathern, Paul--Plato in 90 Minutes
- Streiber, Whitley--Billy
- Strindberg, August--Miss Julie
- Suetonius--The Twelve Caesars
- Sundquist, Eric J.--Cultural Contexts for Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
- Suttin, Lawrence--Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick
- Suzuki, Shunryu--Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
- Swift, Jonathan--Gulliver’s Travels (4 times)
- ---. The Writings of Jonathan Swift (Norton)
- ---. Selected Poems
- Synge, John Millington--The Playboy of the Western World
- Tacitus--The Agricola and the Germania
- ---. The Annals
- ---. The Histories
- Tennyson, Alfred (Lord)--Idylls of the King
- Terry, Patricia (Translator)--Renard the Fox
- Tey, Josephine--The Daughter of Time
- Thomas, Dylan--Collected Poems
- Thoroeu, Henry David--Walden and Civil Disobedience (4 times)
- Thucydides--The Peloponnesian War
- Tillotson, Geoffrey (et al, eds.) Eighteenth Century English Literature
- Tobias, Ronald B.--20 Master Plots and How to Build Them
- ---. Theme and Strategy (Elements of Fiction Writing Series)
- Tolkien, J. R. R.--The Fellowship of the Ring
- ---. The Hobbit
- ---. The Return of the King
- ---. The Two Towers
- Tolstoy, Leo--Anna Karenina
- Trollope, Anthony--An Autobiography
- Trollope, Joanna--The Rector's Wife
- Turco, Lewis--Dialogue (Elements of Fiction Writing Series)
- Turgenev, Ivan--Fathers and Sons
- Twain, Mark--Life on the Mississippi
- ---. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (2 times)
- ---. Pudd'nhead Wilson
- Tzu, Lao (Trans. John C. H. Wu)--Tao Te Ching (2 times)
- Updike, John--Collected Poems: 1953-1993
- Uris, Leon--Trinity
- Varley, John--Titan
- ---. Wizard
- ---. Demon
- Van De Castle, Robert L.--Our Dreaming Mind
- Vercoutter, Jean--The Search for Ancient Egypt
- Vienne, Veronique and Erica Lennard--The Art of Doing Nothing
- Villanueva (editor)--Cross Talk in Comp Theory
- Vine, Barbara--The Minotaur
- Virgil--The Aenid
- Vonnegut, Kurt--Hocus Pocus
- ---. Slaughterhouse-Five (2 times)
- ---. The Sirens of Titan
- ---. Breakfast of Champions
- ---. Galapagos (2 times)
- ---. Cat's Cradle
- Walpole, Horace--The Castle of Otranto
- Watters, Thomas R. (editor)--Planets: A Smithsonian Guide
- Webster, John--The Duchess of Malfi
- Weil, Simone and Rachel Bespaloff--War and the Iliad
- Welch, James--Fools Crow
- Wells, H. G.--The Time Machine (2 times)
- ---. The War of the Worlds
- ---. The Island of Dr. Moreau
- Welty, Eudora--One Writer's Beginnings (2 times)
- Westlake, Donald E.--Bank Shot
- ---. The Hot Rock
- ---. The Ax
- ---. Castle in the Air
- ---. 361
- ---. Somebody Owes Me Money
- Wharton, Edith--The House of Mirth
- ---. The Age of Innocence
- Whitfield, Stephen J.--The Culture of the Cold War
- Whitman, Walt--Leaves of Grass
- Wilbur, Richard--New and Collected Poems
- Willcock, Malcolm M.--A Companion to the Iliad
- Willcox, William B.--The Age of Aristocracy: 1688-1830
- Williams, Oscar (editor)--Major British Poets
- Williams, Tennessee--The Glass Menagerie
- ---. A Streetcar Named Desire
- Williams, William Carlos--Asphodel, That Greeny Flower and Other Poems
- Wilson, August--Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
- Wolff, Tobias--This Boy's Life
- Wollstonecraft, Mary--Maria
- Wong, Harry K. and Rosemary T. Wong--The First Days of School: How to be an Effective Teacher
- Woolf, Virginia--A Writer's Diary
- ---. To the Lighthouse
- Wordsworth, William--Selected Poetry
- X, Malcolm--The Autobiography of Malcolm X (2 times)
- Yeats, W.B.--The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
- ---. Selected Poems and Three Plays
- Yergin, Daniel--The Prize
- Zelazny, Roger--This Immortal
- ---. Lord of Light
- ---. Sign of the Unicorn
- ---. Nine Princes in Amber
- ---. The Guns of Avalon
- ---. The Hand of Oberon
- ---. The Courts of Chaos
- Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin)--Dreams and Thunder
Author Comments:
I know there are plenty of books that I've read that aren't on the list, but these are the ones I can remember clearly. Also, with a few exceptions (see that list), I own a copy of all of these books.








Of the very few I know, I don't see much non-fiction. Do you mostly read fiction?
Yeah. I seem to read mostly fiction. I've got another list up on this site that I call Books Read--Fiction only and it's at 542 books. And if you add the plays to that (which are fiction too, I guess), it's probably much higher.
Your list would be a lot more interesting if you eliminated the fluffy adolescent genre fiction that you probably read at a younger age.
One person's "fluffy adolescent genre fiction" is another person's "art." I'll leave my list as it is, thank you. Perhaps you could start your own list and do whatever you want to with it. Who made you the guardian of good taste anyway? And what makes you think that I've outgrown "genre fiction?" Actually, I'd prefer that you didn't answer that question, or respond to this post in any way. You don't seem capable of having a reasonable discussion about this issue. Your mind seems already to be made up about what you consider to be worthwhile and what you consider to be garbage. How do you go about deciding what's "fluffy" and what isn't anyway (obviously not by reading it, apparently). . . Really . . . The nerve of some people . . .
Ok calm down now... I am not trying to insult you. I thought you were including a lot of young adult reading, which in my case I would consider mostly irrelevant. If you enjoy it, more power to you. I did in fact post a list and you can see what kind of things I read.. not a lifetime list yet. By the way, what I consider "fluffy" is unchallenging irrelevant novels that are written for entertainment purposes strictly. I know it sounds pretentious, and I am; but I am not trying to bring people down at all.
Just came across this your message here and I believe that you are being pretentious as well as close-minded some of the most intelligent, thought-provoking, meaningful books I have read happen to fall in the YA category. Take some time and really read those books like His Dark Materials, I lent this trilogy to a over 30 year old and she is finding it a good, diffcult read and knows that she is not understanding it all because a lot of the underlying messages are going over her head and this is a YA book. What some may call fluffy reading can be others way of knowledge through entertainment because if you have ever read a Terry Pratchett book they are fluffy if you can't peel back the onion so to speak and see the core of what is there. But hey to each one's own and as the writer of this list said you have made up your mind before you even took the time and wrote your comment, so there is no real point of trying to help you open your eyes to look at different types of books in a whole new light.
to the owner of this list I just skimmed it but it's a great list good luck on your goal!
Hui, impressive. One could say that you read a lot.
Yeah. I figure that I've read an average of about 70 books a year for the last decade or so, but I don't really know because I didn't keep a list until 2003 (which was a probably my worst year of reading). I can't wait to get to 1000 books. If I could read them any faster, I would.
I only know 6 of FP's Top 100 Intellectuals. How many do you know, n2lec2el? :-)
Whew! . . . For a few minutes there I thought I was going to end up being too dumb to figure out the link you gave me. I'm not a big fan of sites that I have to register with before I can access information. What, do they really think that I'm going to give them my correct info?
Anyway . . . what do you mean by know? "Personally?" or "Of?" If it's "personally," I'm afraid you get around more than I do. If it's "Of" then I'm in business:
1. Chinua Achebe Novelist Nigeria (I've read Things Fall Apart)
2. Pope Benedict XVI Religious leader Germany, Vatican (I watched his Christmas Eve Mass a few times because it was a good way to practice my (very bad) Latin. Saw all the hoopla when he kicked it)
3. Noam Chomsky Linguist, author, activist United States (I've read an article or two in school. Got one of his books sitting on a shelf somewhere)
4. J.M. Coetzee Novelist South Africa (I've read Waiting for the Barbarians and I have a couple more of his novels lying around here somewhere. Only person I've ever read BEFORE they won the Nobel Prize.)
5. Richard Dawkins Biologist, polemicist Britain (read an essay by)
6. Hernando de Soto Economist Peru (name rings a bell, but I'm not sure why . . . thought he was a Conquistador . . . )
7. Jared Diamond Biologist, physiologist, historian United States (Read two of his essays. Watched the PBS version of Guns, Germs, and Steel)
8. Freeman Dyson Physicist United States (read an essay by)
9. Umberto Eco Medievalist, novelist Italy (Saw the movie version of The Name of the Rose. I keep meaning to read the novel sometime)
10. Paul Ekman Psychologist United States (name rings a bell. I've probably read an essay by)
11. Thomas Friedman Journalist, author United States (read a bunch of his New York Times columns before they decided to try to get me to pay for them. Now I just see him all over the TV)
12. Francis Fukuyama Political scientist, author United States (Read The End of History and The Last Man)
13. Gao Xingjian Novelist, playwright China (My Partner keeps telling me I have to read Soul Mountain. I'll get to it someday)
14. Howard Gardner Psychologist United States (Read a few essays by. Have taught his concept of 7 intelligences to many a Freshman)
15. Henry Louis Gates Jr. Scholar, cultural critic United States (Read an essay or two. Seen on TV.)
16. Clifford Geertz Anthropologist United States (Studied in an Anthropolgy class)
17. Germaine Greer Writer, academic Australia, Britain (Read and taught excerpts of The Female Eunuch)
18. Jürgen Habermas Philosopher Germany (Read something or other by, I think)
19. Ha Jin Novelist China (I am waiting to one day read Waiting, but for now, it just sits there on my bookshelf, waiting)
20. Václav Havel Playwright, statesman Czech Republic (Studied in History Classes)
21. Christopher Hitchens Polemicist United States, Britain (Seen on the TV)
22. Julia Kristeva Philosopher France (Read an essay by)
23. Paul Krugman Economist, columnist United States (Read his column a few times)
24. Camille Paglia Social critic, author United States (Read an essay or two)
25. Orhan Pamuk Novelist Turkey (Keep hearing about. Mean to read one day. Read about his recent legal troubles)
26. Steven Pinker Experimental psychologist Canada, United States (Read an essay)
27. Salman Rushdie Novelist, political commentator Britain, India (Read Midnight's Children. Seen on TV and in Bridget Jones's Diary)
28. Jeffrey Sachs Economist United States (Read an essay by)
29. Peter Singer Philosopher Australia (Read his solution to world poverty. Agree with. Only wish I made enough to do my part.)
30. Wole Soyinka Playwright, activist Nigeria (heard of)
31. Steven Weinberg Physicist United States (read an essay by)
32. Paul Wolfowitz Policymaker, academic United States (Saw him in Fahrenheit 911 (among other places) VERY VERY VERY afraid of on many levels)
33. Fareed Zakaria Journalist, author United States (Seen on TV. Read his column in Newsweek. Don't think he belongs on this list . . .)
So 33. Do I get to keep my moniker?
Wait a minute . . . number 2 is the new guy (who voted himself into office when the guy I was thinking of--John Paul II--kicked it). Guess you can tell that I'm not Catholic.
Thanks especially for your comments on each intellectual. And, sorry: I should've directed you to Bug Me Not so you could avoid that registration nonsense to view the page!
At a quick glance, it looks as though Singer's "solution" to poverty is merely a philosophical argument for charity to the less fortunate. Does his essay offer a systemized solution, or merely say, "If all the rich people gave 30% of their wealth to help the poor, we could eliminate extreme poverty."?
Howard Gardner: ain't it 8, going on 9?
Gardner keeps adding them each time he revises his books. And I think others add them in too. Anyway, he started with seven and now he just calls it "multiple intelligences." The idea is that we are all smart in differnent ways. The idea that we should all be good at math and reading is inane, I say to the no child left behind bozos.
And I just know the one essay I've read by Singer where he advocates giving away everything you make above $35,000 each year. Really, why do we need more than that to live well? Unfortunately, I'm a lowly grad student and don't even make that.
You should read some Richard Russo; a friendly recommendation from a fellow reader.
Thanks for the suggestion. I've had a copy of Empire Falls on my shelf for a while now . . . Maybe I'll get around to it sooner than later now.