My Reading List

Favorite Novels and Fiction

All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
The Door into Summer, Robert A. Heinlein
Crime and Punishment, Feyodor Dostoyevski
The Riders of the Purple Sage, Zane Grey
The Caine Mutiny, Herman Wauk
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Little Big Man, Thomas Berger
Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, Evan S. Connell
Good Faith, Jane Smiley
Tortilla Curtain, T. C. Boyle
King Solomon's Carpet, Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell)
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
Continental Drift, Russell Banks
Lust for Life, Irving Stone
Hawaii, James A. Michener
The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
The Chill, Ross Macdonald
The Goodbye Look, Ross Macdonald
Bang the Drum Slowly, Mark Harris
A City for Lincoln, John R. Tunis
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
A Blackness Darker than Night, Michael Connelly
Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris
The Shining, Stephen King
Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe
The Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy
Dracula, Bram Stoker
Snow Crash, Neil Stephenson
Neuromancer, William Gibson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larrson
V, Thomas Pynchon
The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass
Fatherland, Robert Harris
Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith
The Ginger Man, J P Donleavy
A Star Called Henry, Roddy Doyle
Kahawa, Donald E. Westlake
The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, Philip K. Dick
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard
The Steam Pig, James McClure
Love in the Time of Cholera,  Gabriel García Márquez
The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West
Miss Lonely Hearts, Nathanael West
Tales of the Fish Patrol, Jack London
Something of Value, Robert Ruark
The Stranger, Albert Camus
The Full Catastrophe, David Carkeet
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
The Trial, Franz Kafka
The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
Natural Man, Ed McClanahan
From Here to Eternity, James Jones
Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
Gone Girl, Jillian Flynn
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
The Dogs of Riga, Henning Mankell
Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
Candide, Voltaire
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexander Dumas
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Rabelais
Cancer Ward, Alexander Solzhenitzyn
Rabble in Arms, Kenneth Roberts
The Tenants of Time, Thomas Flanagan
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Captains Courageous, Rudyard Kipling

Favorite Non-fiction

The Control of Nature, John McPhee
Common Carriers, John McPhee
Chaos, James Gleick
The Information, James Gleick
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
Longitude, Dava Sobel
Krakatoa, Simon Winchester
The Fracture Zone, Simon Winchester
The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
Innumeracy, John Allen Paulos
Beautiful Evidence, Edward Tufte
Envisioning Information, Edward Tufte
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative, Edward Tufte
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward Tufte
The Fatal Shore, Robert Hughes
The Cluetrain Manifesto, Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, David Weinberger
Software for Use, Lucy Lockwood & Larry Constantine
Information Anxiety, Richard Saul Wurman
Human Ecology: A Theory of Community Structure, Amos Hawley
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum, Alan Cooper
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter
The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman
The Yalta Conference (Problems in American Civilization), Richard F. Fenno, Jr
Common Carriers, John McPhee
Civil Disobedience, H. D. Thoreau
As We May Think, Vannevar Bush
The Allegory of the Cave, Plato
Following the Equator, Mark Twain

Favorite Poems

Tiger Tiger, William Blake
For Whom the Bell Tolls, John Donne
The Iliad and The Odyssey, Homer
The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost
Xanadu, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley
Invictus, Gerard Manley Hopkins
Hiawatha, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Casey at the Bat, Ernest Thayer
Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll
The World is Too Much with Us, William Wordsworth
Hélas, Oscar Wilde
The Odyssey, Homer
The Iliad, Homer
I am large, I contain multitudes, Walt Whitman
How Calmly Does The Olive Branch, Tennesee Williams
If I Ran the Zoo, Dr. Seuss
Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss
Annabelle Lea, Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe
The Highwayman, Alfred Noyes