reading


read

(ones I particularly liked *'ed, * = books you should read, just to be a good person)



*The Good Thief - Hannah Tinti
****Harlem is Nowhere - Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
****The Wandering Jew - Eugene Sue
***Crossing Ocean Parkway - Marianna DeMarco Torgovnick
****Dombey and Son - Charles Dickens
****Pictures from Breughel - William Carlos Williams
* Ancient Rome: from the earliest times down to 476AD - Robert Franklin Pennell
******In The American Grain - William Carlos Williams
****Time Pieces - Wright Morris
***Makers - Cory Doctorow
*** Man Meets Dog - Conrad Lorenz
**** Systems of Survival - Jane Jacobs
****
The Red and the Black - Stendahl
***
The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" - William Hope Hodgson
**
Ship's Company, The Entire Collection - W.W. Jacobs ***Life on the Screen - Sherry Turkle
*** Three John Silence Stories - Algernon Blackwood
*** The Family that Couldn't Sleep - D.T. Max
**
The Evolution of the Machine - Ritchie Calder
** Three John Silence Stories - Algernon Blackwood
***
Prescription for a Healthy Nation - Tom Farley, M.D. and Deborah M. Cohen, M.D.
****
In The Beginning, A Catholic Understanding of Creation and the Fall - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
*
Untouchable - Mulk Raj Anand
*** Into the Night Land - William Hope Hodgson
*** Terror Keep - Edgar Wallace
** She - H. Rider Haggard
*** What Maisie Knew - Henry James
*** Ronia, Robbers Daughter - Astrid Lindgren
**
The Worlds Desire - H. Rider Haggard and Fritz Lang
*** Swiss Family Robinson - Johann David Wyss
**** Doing Documentary Work - Robert Coles
*** Average Jones - Samuel Hopkins Adams
***
The Law of the Four Just Men - Edgar Wallace
*** A Tramp Abroad - Mark Twain
*** Taras Bulba and other stories - Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
*** Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K. Dick
** The Brass Bowl - Louis Joseph Vance
**** I Promessi Sposi - Alessandro Manzoni
**** Orlando - Virginia Woolf
**** The Last of the Just - Andre Schwarz-Bart
*** The Drowned and the Saved - Primo Levi
**** The Lone Samurai: The Life of Miyamoto Musashi - William Scott Wilson
**** Musashi - Eiji Yoshikawa
**Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior - Temple Grandin
***A Tower for the Summer Heat - Li Yu
****Autobiography of Red - Anne Carson
*A Dustbin of Milligan - Spike Milligan
**Gunner Milligan - Spike Milligan
***The Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton
**Shane - Jack Schaeffer
**The Paper Door and other Stories - Shiga Naoya
****The Nobility of Failure - Ivan Morris
***The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues - Harry Harrison
***The Sound of Waves - Mishima Yukio
***Creation Myths of Primitive America - Jeremiah Curtin
****.5Embers - Sandor Marai
***A Woman in the Dunes - Kobo Abe
***Joan of Arc - Jules Michelet
**Native American Sweat Lodge - Joseph Bruchac
****Native American Stories - Karl Kroeber (ed.)
**Droning Shaman - Nora Marks Dauenhauer
***Amok - Stefan Zweig
****The Invisible Collections - Stefan Zweig
*The Kris, An Earthly Approach to a Cosmic Symbol - David VanDuuren
***The Club of Queer Trades - G.K. Chesterton
****Freddy's Book - John Gardner
***The Fugitive - Pramoedya Ananta Toer
****Il Gattopardo - Giuseppe Lampedusa
***Last Tales - Isak Dinesen
***The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table - Oliver Wendell Holmes
****Thousand Cranes - Kawabata Yasunari
**Gitanjali - Rabindranath Tagore
***The last Speeches - Malcolm X
***Malgudi Days- R.K. Narayan
****The Mahabharata - R.J. Gopalachari (trans.)
*The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
**A Personal Matter - Oe Kenzaburo
***Dr. Brodies Report -Jorge Louis Borges
****Rime of the Ancient Mariner -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
******The Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord
****Confessions of Love - Uno Chiyo
****Orthodoxy - G.K. Chesterton
****Persian Poems - Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
***The Kris: Mystic Weapon of the Malay World - Edward Frey
****Letters of A Sufi Master - The Shaikh al-'Arabi ad-Darqawi
**On Airs, Waters, and Places - Hippocrates
****Kwaidan - Lafcadio Hearn
***Zen Flesh, Zen Bones - compiled by Paul Reps
**Techniques of the Observer - Jonathan Crary
***Wisdom of the Desert - Thomas Merton
****The Ancient Mariners - Lionel Casson
****Tales - Hazrat Inayat-Khan
*****Tales of the Dervishes - Idries Shah*
***The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea - Mishima Yukio
****The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
*****Go Down Moses - William Faulkner
***Zen and the Birds of Appetite - Thomas Merton
**The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter - trans. Donald Keene
***Suicidal Narrative in Modern Japan - Alan Wolfe
****The House of the Sleeping Beauties - Kawabata Yasunari
*Alone in Bad Company (biography of Ambrose Bierce) - Roy Morris Jr.
**Self Portraits - Dazai Osamu
**Childhood Years - Tanizaki Junichiro
**The Death of Mr. Baltisberger - Bohumil Hrabal
*The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
****A Diamond as Big as the Ritz and other stories - F. Scott Fitzgerald
**I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
**A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
*** Mike at Wrykn - P.G. Wodehouse
**Myths and Legends of Singapore
*South of the Border, West of the Sun - Murakami Haruki
***The Castle - Franz Kafka
****One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
***The Marble Faun - Nathaniel Hawthorne
** A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel DeFoe
**Korean Chests - Michael Wickman
**The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
****If on a Winters Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino
***Echoes from the Oil Country vol. 1 - W. Osborne
***Don Camillo Meets Hell's Angels - Giovanni Guareschi
**Acts of Worship - Mishima Yukio
***Too Loud a Solitude - Bohumil Hrabal
****The Essential Rumi - trans. Coleman Barks
*Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
*****The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Alex Haley
****Deep River - Shusaku Endo
**The Death of Ivan Ilych - Leo Tolstoy
**Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
*Facundo - Domingo Sarmiento
***The General In His Labyrinth - Gabriel Garcia Maquez
***A Room of Ones Own - Virginia Woolf
*****Subtle Wisdom - Master Sheng-yen
***An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
****Five by Endo - Endo Shusaku



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Giovanni Guareschi - The Little World of Don Camillo

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