- Clive Barker, Everville
- C. J. Cherryh, The Faded Sun
- Ernest Newman, The Wagner Operas
- Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
- C.J. Cherryh, Cloud's Rider
- Caroline Stevermer, Magic Below Stairs
- Timothy Zahn, The Icarus Hunt
- Neal Stephonson, Snow Crash
- Isaac Asimov, 9 Tomorrows
- J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
- Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
- Sandra Dallas, The Persian Pickle Club
- Christopher Marlowe, The Complete Plays
- Neil Gaiman, Sandman, the Complete series
- Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Sir Walter Scot, The Talisman
- Voltaire, Candide and other Stories
- George R. R. Martin, Dances with Dragons
- Mark Twain, Pudd'n Head Wilson
- J. D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
- Terry Pratchet, Pyramids
- Roger Zelazny, Creatures of Light and Darkness
- Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
- Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel
- Christopher Hitchens, God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
- Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
- David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
- Robert V.S. Redick, The Red Wolf Conspiracy
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
- Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things
- Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
- Kurt Vonnegut, Long Walk to Forever
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
- Carl Sagan, The Demon Haunted World
- David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
- Kurt Vonnegut, Armageddon in Retrospect
- Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
- Roger Zelazny, Doorways in the Sand
- David Sedaris, When you are Engulfed in Flame
- Aristophanes, Lysistrata
- Noam Chomsky, The Noam Chomsky Reader
- Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States
- Forgotten Realms Anthology, Realms of the Deep
- Roald Dahl, Esio Trot
- Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October
- Mary Roach, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
- Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Barbara Hambly, The Silent Tower
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
- Adam Gopnik, ed., The Best American Essays 2008
- Barbara Hambly, The Silicon Mage
- Barbara Hambly, Dog Wizard
- R.A. Lafferty, Annals of Klepsis
- Barbara Hambly, Those who Hunt the Night
- Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
- Garth Nix, Sabriel
- Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
- Terry Pratchet, The Thief of Time
- Joseph Heller, Catch-22
- Gail Carriger, Soulless
- Charles Dickens, Tale of Two Cities
- Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
- Kurt Vonnegut, Deadeye Dick
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies
- Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
- Aldous Huxley, The Devils of Loudun
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground
- Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
- John Steinbeck, East of Eden
- Kathryn Stockett, The Help
- Laura Simms, ed. A Key to the Heart
- Richard Feynman, Six Not so Easy Pieces
- Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht, The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook
- Terry Pratchett, Jingo
- H.P. Lovecraft, The Complete H. P. Lovecraft Reader
- Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
- China Mieville, The Scar
- Mary Roach, Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Books I Have Read During my Peace Corps Service
Warning: navel-gazing.
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Interesting list. I have read the following from your list...
ReplyDelete8,11,20,24,25,28,37,40,42,51,59,61,63,66 & 67
Are these in any particular order?
ReplyDeleteBob-but did you like that subset? Or a subset of that subset?
ReplyDeleteYes, those are in order of reading. Yes, I kept a running list.
Did I like the subset? Well, some I liked better than others. Catch-22 is at the top of this list. The first time I read it, I thought it was the funniest book I ever read. The 2nd time I read it, I thought it was the saddest book I ever read. The 3rd time I read it, I realized it is manic-depressive.
ReplyDeleteAristophanes is hard not to like, but Lysistrata is too much like a moral-ly fable, so didn't care for this very much. Clouds is much better. "The mind absorbs the sap of the watercress??"
For Stephen Hawking, I prefer The Nature of Space and Time, a series of lectures with Roger Penrose.