BOOK LIST

I've decided to post books that I've found worth my time. They are organized categorically as best I could. Wipe the dust off your library card and enjoy.

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Non-fiction

 

Autobiographies / Biographies

 

Bernstein, Jeremy - Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma

Gunther, John - Death Be Not Proud

Nasar, Sylvia - A Beautiful Mind

 

 

Economics

 

Smith, Adam - The Wealth of Nations

 

 

Foreign Languages

 

Berlitz, Charles - French Step-By-Step

 

 

Games

 

Chernev, Irving; Harkness, Kenneth - An Invitation to Chess

Mezrich, Ben - Bringing Down the House

 

 

Life

 

O'Hurley, John - It's Okay to Miss the Bed on the First Jump: And Other Life Lessons I Learned from Dogs

Pirsig, Robert - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an Inquiry into Values

Thoreau, Henry David - Walden, or, Life in the Woods

 

 

Martial Arts

 

Miyamoto, Musashi - The Book of Five Rings

Rielly, Robin - Karate Basics

Yagyū, Munenori - The Book of Family Traditions on the Art of War

 

 

Notes / Quotes

 

Enright, Dominique - The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

Richter, Jean Paul - The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

Skinner, BF - Notebooks

 

 

Other

 

Wolfe, Tom - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

 

 

Politics

 

Machiavelli, Niccolo - The Prince

Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich - The Communist Manifesto

 

 

Reading / Writing

 

Frank, Stanley D., Ed.D. - The Evelyn Wood Seven Day Speed Reading and Learning Program

King, Stephen - On Writing

Strunk Jr., William; White, E.B. - The Elements of Style

Writers INC

Writer's Digest Handbook of Making Money Freelance Writing

 

 

Science

 

Barbour, Ian - Ethics in an Age of Technology

Chiles, James R. - Inviting Disaster: Lessons from the Edge of Technology

Stachel, John - Einstein's Miraculous Year: Five Papers that Changed the Face of Physics

Tenner, Edward - Why Things Bite Back

 

 

Fiction

 

Alighieri, Dante - Inferno (part I of trilogy)

Alighieri, Dante - Purgatory (part II)

Alighieri, Dante - Paradise (part III)

Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451

Brown, Dan - The Da Vinci Code

Burgess, Anthony - A Clockwork Orange

Carroll, Lewis - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Carroll, Lewis - Through the Looking Glass (and what Alice found there)

Carroll, Lewis - The Hunting of the Snark

Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage

Danticat, Edwidge - Breath, Eyes, Memory

Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying

Frayn, Michael - Copenhagen

Golding, William - Lord of the Flies

Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms

Hemingway, Ernest - The Old Man and the Sea

Hemingway, Ernest - The Sun Also Rises

Homer - The Iliad

Homer - The Odyssey

Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World

Lowry, Lois - The Giver

Miller, Arthur - The Crucible

Orwell, George - 1984

Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (book 1 of 7)

Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (book 2)

Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (book 3)

Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (book 4)

Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (book 5)

Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (book 6)

Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (book 7)

Salih, Tayeb - Season of Migration to the North

Sedaris, David - Naked

Shakespeare, William - Macbeth

Shakespeare, William - Othello

Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare, William - The Tempest

Shelly, Mary - Frankenstein

Stevenson, Robert Louis - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Stoker, Bram - Dracula

Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Hobbit

Tolkien, J.R.R. - Fellowship of the Ring (part I of Lord of the Rings trilogy)

Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Two Towers (part II)

Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Return of the King (part III)

Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Silmarillion

Virgil - The Aeneid

 

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