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"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all."  Thoreau



Some of my favorite reads:


Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations (Maxwell Staniforth translation)

Beowulf Poet. Beowulf (Burton Raffel translation)

Buffett, Jimmy. A Pirate Looks at Fifty

Bukowski, Charles. Post Office

Cahill, Thomas. How the Irish Saved Civilization

Campbell, Bonnie Jo. American Salvage

Carnegie, Dale. How To Win Friends and Influence People

Carver, Raymond. Cathedral

Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales

Cheever, John. The Stories of John Cheever

Chekhov, Anton. The Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov (Pevear & Volokhonsky translation)

Clarke, Arthur C.. 2001: A Space Odyssey

Crichton, Michael. The Andromeda Strain

Dahl, Roald. Fantastic Mr. Fox

Dahl, Roald. James and the Giant Peach

Davis, Terry. Vision Quest

Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Dick, Philip K. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Dick, Philip K. We Can Remember It for You Wholesale: and Other Classic Stories

Dinesen, Isak. Out of Africa

Doig, Ivan. This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The Brothers Karamazov (Pevear & Volokhonsky translation)

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment (Jessie Coulson translation)  
    
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The Idiot (Pevear & Volokhonsky translation)

Dundee, Angelo. My View from the Corner

Fante, John. Ask the Dust

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby

Garcí­a Márquez, Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude

George, Jean Craighead. My Side of the Mountain

Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea

Herbert, Frank. Dune

Hilton, James. Lost Horizon

Hinton, S.E.. The Outsiders

Homer. The Iliad (Robert Fagles translation)

Homer. The Odyssey (Robert Fagles translation)

Jones, Stephen Graham. The Only Good Indians

Jackson, Shirley. We Have Always Lived in the Castle

King, Stephen. Doctor Sleep

King, Stephen. It

King, Stephen. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

King, Stephen. Pet Sematary

King, Stephen. Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing

King, Stephen. The Shining

Klein, Marcus, and Pack, Robert, eds.. Short Stories: Classic, Modern, Contemporary

Krakauer, Jon. Into Thin Air

L'Amour, Louis. Flint

L'Engle, Madeleine. A Wrinkle in Time

Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird

Lee, Shannon. Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

Lewis, C.S.. The Chronicles of Narnia

Maclean, Norman. A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

Matheson, Richard. I Am Legend and Other Stories

McCloud, Scott. Understanding Comics

McManus, Patrick F. A Fine and Pleasant Misery

Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman

Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita

Norris, Frank. McTeague

O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried

Orwell, George. 1984

Ovid. Metamorphoses

Palahniuk, Chuck. Consider This

Palahniuk, Chuck. Fight Club

Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago (Pevear & Volokhonsky translation)

Percy, Benjamin. Thrill Me

Poe, Edgar Allan. The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Pollock, Donald Ray. Knockemstiff

Pollock, Donald Ray. The Devil All the Time

Proulx, Annie, ed.. The Best American Short Stories 1997

Pushkin, Alexander. Eugene Onegin (James E. Falen translation)

Raskin, Ellen. The Westing Game

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. The Yearling

Reisner, Marc. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water

Steinbeck, John. Cannery Row

Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men

Thoreau, Henry David. Walden and other writings

Tolkien, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit

Tolstoy, Leo. Master and Man (Constance Garnett translation)

Tolstoy, Leo. The Death of Ivan Ilych (Constance Garnett translation)

Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace (Pevear & Volokhonsky translation)

Turgenev, Ivan. Fathers and Sons (Constance Garnett translation)

Turow, Scott. Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty

Updike, John, ed.. The Best American Short Stories of the Century

Virgil. The Aeneid (Robert Fitzgerald translation)

Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray

Yates, Richard. Revolutionary Road
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