1 Henry David Thoreau - Walden
2 Kalikos - Physics of Superheroes
3 Dawkins - God Delusion
4 Sagan - Pale Blue Dot
5 Hitchens - God is Not Great
6 Tolkein - The Hobbit
7 Tolkein - Lord of the Rings - Fellowship
8 Harris - End of Faith
9 Tolkein - Lord of the Rings - Two Towers
10 Tolkein - Lord of the Rings - Return of the King
11 Harris - Letter to a Christian Nation
12 Dawkins - Time to Stand Up
13 Dennett - Breaking the Spell
14 Lord of the Rings and Philosophy
15 Kafka - The Metamorphosis
16 Vonnegut - A Man Without a Country
17 Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
18 Vonnegut - Deadeye Dick
19 Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
20 Sagan - Contact
21 Sartre - Existentialism is a Humanism
22 Nietzsche - On the Genealogy of Morals
23 Plato - Eutyhphro
24 Plato - Crito
25 Plato - Phaedo
26 Harris - An Atheist Manifesto
27 Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
28 Steinbeck - Travels with Charley
29 McKittrick - To Dwell Secure: Colonialism, Christianity and Generation in Ovamboland
30 Dostoyevsky - Notes from Underground
31 Sartre - Nausea
32 Marx and Engels - The Communist Manifesto
33 Orwell - Animal Farm
34 Weinberg - The First Three Minutes
35 Sobel - Galilieo's Daughter
36 Sagan - The Dragons of Eden
37 Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
38 Nujoma - Where Others Wavered
39 Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics
40 Jennifer Davis - Tales of the Caprivi
41 Goethe - Faust (translation by Fairley)
42 Paine - Rights of Man
43 Stewart - Yoga
44 Pullman - Northern Lights
45 Pullman - The Subtle Knife
46 Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching (translation by Muller)
47 I Ching (translation by Cleary)
48 Bryson - A Walk in the Woods
49 Bryson - Notes from a Big Country
50 Pullman - The Amber Spyglass
51 Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything
52 Feynman - The Meaning of it All
53 Melville - Moby Dick
54 Penrose - The Emperor's New Mind
55 Heisenberg - Physics and Philosophy
56 Dawkins - The Selfish Gene
57 Zinn - A People's History of the United States
58 Our 'Freedom' Documents
Jefferson - Declaration of Independence
Constitution of the United States of America
Lincoln - Gettysburg Address
59 Huxley - Essays of T.H. Huxley
60 Steinbeck - The Pearl
61 Steinbeck - The Moon is Down
62 Koran (English Translation by Dr. T.B.Irving)
63 Steinbeck - Cannery Row
64 Hishongwa - The Contract Labor System
65 Joyce - Dubliners
66 Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel
67 Kierkagaard - Fear and Trembling
68 Rushdie - The Satanic Verses
69 Schrodinger - What is Life?
70 D'Esposito - Neurological Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience
71 Mansfield - A History of the Middle East 2nd Edition
72 Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment
73 Singh - Fermat's Last Theorem
74 Homer - The Odyssey
75 Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
76 Bible NAB
77 Tolstoy - Family Happiness
78 Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
79 Hessler - River Town
80 Norman - On Humanism
81 Plato - The Republic
82 DeLillo - White Noise
83 Rand - The Fountainhead
84 Joyce - Ulysses
85 Henderson - The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
86 Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls
87 Tolstoy - The Death of Ivan Ilych
88 Feynman - What Do You Care What Other People Think?
89 Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities
90 Dickens - A Christmas Carol
91 Dickens - The Chimes
92 Einstein - The World as I See It
93 Hofstader - Gödel, Escher, Bach, An Eternal Braid
94 Voltaire - Candide
95 Voltaire - Zadig
96 Voltaire - Micromegas
97 Shakespeare - Merchant of Venice
98 Miller - Death of a Salesman
99 Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
100 Tolstoy - War and Peace
It's mostly classics and non-fiction, as those are definitely my favorites. Some people may gripe and say that some of these are very short and should not be counted as full books. I'll counter that and say that my last book was War and Peace and that its extra length makes up for any page deficiencies found in other books. I advise current volunteers to keep track of the books they read and post their lists when they COS. I hope that when I return the States I'll keep up with my reading and not be sucked into the entertainment vortex that is America.
2 comments:
It seems you and I have been filling our time with professions that are secret (or perhaps quite public) book clubs. We should chat about some of these books upon your return to America, fuck yeah. Especially the Tolkien and Steinbeck stretches of the list. Lord knows I love me some hobbits. I'm currently in the middle of Keith Richards' lengthy autobiography, Life. Fascinating stuff.
Dear Greg,
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sent 6 July 2011
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