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read
(ones
I particularly liked *'ed, * = books you should read, just to be a good
person)
**** The Red and the Black - Stendahl
*** The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" - William Hope Hodgson
** Ship's Company, The Entire Collection - W.W. Jacobs
*** 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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