List By Author

“Literature is my Utopia.”
Helen Keller (1880-1968)

Foreword:  As noted elsewhere, the books listed are only those which I have read or re-read within the past decade and which are exceptionally good or unusually bad (and, thus, merit comment).  Sadly, the list omits 80% of my  readings since college, as I simply didn’t make notes in that now distant past.

Allcott – Little Women Allen – As A Man Thinketh Angell – New Barbarian Arenas – Before Night Falls Armstrong – History of God Bach – Jonathon Livingston Seagull Baghavad Gita Baum – Word’s Living Religions Behe – Darwin’s Black Box Blech – Anti-Semitism Causes Bloom – Islam Boccaccio – Decameron Borysenko – Power of the Mind to Heal Bronte – Wuthering Heights Bryson – History of Almost Everything Bryson – Shakespeare Carnegie – How to Win Friends Carnegie – Public Speaking Dawood – Koran Hardy – Darkling Thrush Behe – Darwin’s Black Box Bernier – Corelli’s Mandolin Butler – The Way of All Flesh Calder – Einstein’s Universe Calder – Magic Universe Calvino – Baron in the Trees Holeman – Linnet Bird Cervantes – Don Quixote Hitchens – The Trial of Henry Kissenger Chappell – The Inescapable Self Chaucer – Canterbury Tales Chekhov’s Best Plays Chernow – Washington, A Life Chin – Analects of Confucius Cleary – Tao Cohan – Last Tycoon, Lazard Freres Collins – Language of God Confucius – Analects Cox – E=mc2 Dante – Divine Comedy Das – Paths to God Doidge – Brain That Changes Itself Dostoyevsky – Brothers Karamazov Dreiser – Jennie Gerhardt Dreiser – Sister Carrie Dreiser – Twelve Men Durant – Greatest Minds Easley – Guide to the Bible Eliot, Geo. – Silas Marner Eliot, T.S. – Selected Poems Epictetus-Lebell – Art of Living Epictetus – Discourses Erman – Misquoting Jesus Faulkner – Sound and Fury Faulks – Birdsong Faulks – Engleby Fitzgerald – Great Gatsby Flannery – Eternal Frontier Flaubert – Madame Bovary Follett – Pillars of the Earth Ford – Good Soldier Hill – Shakespeare’s Insults Gladwell – Tipping Point Glynn – God the Evidence Godin – Unleashing the Idea Virus Gnostic Bible Goethe – Faust Gopnik – Angels & Ages Gould – Wonderful Life Green – Elegant Universe Greenspan – Age of Turbulence Gruen – Water for Elephants Hagel – American The Next Chapter Haidt – Happiness Hypothesis Harbach – Art of Fielding Hardy – Darkling Thrush Harford – Logic of [Economic] Life Harris – End of [Violent] Faith Hardy – Far from the Madding Crowd Hardy – Jude the Obscure Hardy – Tess of Dubervilles Hawking – Brief History of Time Hendricks – Lao Tzu Heinrichs – Thank You for Not Arguing

Homer – Illiad Hugo – Les Miserables Hume – Dialogues of Natural Religion Hume – Enquiry on Human Understanding Jacobovici – Jesus Family Tomb Jacobson – JOBS Johnson – Hinduism Joyce – Portrait of an Artist Kaku – Physics of the Future Kilpatrick – Buffett, Of Permanent Value Kingsolver – Poisonwood Bible Koran Kurzweil – Singularity Is Near Lamont – Humanism Larson – Devil in the White City Larson – Thunderstruck Larson – Isaacs’s Storm Lawrence, DH – Sons and Lovers Lawrence, DH – Women in Love Levenson – Symbols of Buddhism Lewis – Mere Christianity Liss – Spectacle of Corruption Liss – The Coffee Trader Lord – What Kind of World Machiavelli – The Prince Mailer – Naked and the Dead Mamdani –Good Muslim, Bad Muslim Marber – Seeing the Elephant Marquez – Love in the Time Millay – Savage Beauty Mitchell – Gone with the Wind Mogg – Sovereign Individual Morris – Crucible of Creation Mortenson – Three Cups of Tea Nafisi – Reading Lolita in Tehran Nemirovsky – Suite Franchaise Orwell – Nineteen Eighty-Four Paine – Age of Reason Pasternak – Dr. Zhivago Price – Lush Life Ridley – Genome Ringer – Action Roberts – Shantaram Rodgers – Mencken, Iconoclast Rogers – Gift to Daughters Rostand – Cyrano de Bergerac Zacharias – Lotos and Cross Russell – Why Not a Christian Sabatini – Scaramouche Sagan – Cosmos Salinger – Catcher in the Rye Sears – Anti-Aging Zone Scharfstein – The Torah Shelton – Meltdown Hendricks – Lao Tzu Smick – World Is Curved Sobel – Longitude Spong – Sins of Scripture Zacharias – Jesus Other Gods Stockett – The Help St. Exupery – The Little Prince St. Exupery – Wind, Sand and Stars Styne – American Alone Tannehill – Market for Liberty Thoreau – Walden Tolstoy – War and Peace TS Eliot – Selected Poems Turgenev – Fathers & Sons Turgenev – First Love Twain – Mysterious Stranger Upanishads Verghese – Cutting for Stone Voltaire – Candide Heller – Catch 22 Voltaire – Treatise on Tolerance Vonnegut – Man without a Country Wilde – Dorian Gray Wilde – Importance of Being Earnest Wilde – Oscar Wilde’s Poems William James Writings Wincheser – Story of Oxford Dictionar Wilson – Confucius Wisdom Wolfe – A Man in Full Zacharias – Can Man Live without God

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