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Book Shelf

This is simply a near-complete list of the books on my shelves at home. I suppose some might consider it pretentious to post such a list—“I own a few books. I’m so smart.” They might have a point, though it could be said that being a professor and a writer is itself pretentious (all of you sit there—and take notes—while I lecture about something important, and while you’re at it, hand over $24.95 to be enlightened by this book I wrote). Perhaps, but I have no pretensions that somehow I am more well-read than everyone else. Certainly, plenty of people—colleagues as well as those in nonacademic fields—have read universes more than I have, have far larger book collections, or own no books at all but have read a ton and know more than I do about a host of subjects. Some people just don’t hang on to books, and others don’t like to read but manage to be smart anyway. And lots of people read all the time and can’t form a coherent, original thought.

In any case, I’m a book person. I can’t resist checking out the books on display in other people’s homes—not that I think this gives me any insight into the book owners; trying to understand someone by seeing the books he’s read is futile. Still, as a student I would have been interested to know what some of my favorite professors had read. So I’ve posted this here, for those students interested in having a book list as a resource, and for those friends, colleagues, and readers, who, like me, are just curious to know what’s on someone’s book shelf.

Disclaimers: I don’t claim to have read every title below. I’ve read lots of them, of course—as an English professor and writer, obviously my books aren’t there just to impress dinner guests. But some are on my hope-to get-to-soon list or my hope-to-read-before-I-die list. Others are on the my-wife-read-it-and-it’s-not-for-me list. A few others are on my I-don’t-know-how-in-the-world-this-got-here-and-life-is-too-short list. Anyway, read or unread, inclusion below is not meant to imply endorsement of any kind. Finally, I know that several of the books could have been just as plausibly listed under different headings. Categories are imperfect.

FICTION

M.H. Abrams, et al, editors THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
Chinua Achebe THINGS FALL APART
Douglas Adams THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY • THE ULTIMATE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE
Aesop THE FABLES OF AESOP
Sholem Aleichem TEVYE THE DAIRYMAN AND THE RAILROAD STORIES • STORIES AND SATIRES
Isabel Allende HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS • EVA LUNA
Piers Anthony A SPELL FOR CHAMELEON
Robert Antoni DIVINA TRACE
Apuleus THE GOLDEN ASS
Jeffrey Archer KANE & ABEL
José Maria Arguedas DEEP RIVERS
Margaret Atwood LADY ORACLE
Jane Austen PERSUSASION • SENSE AND SENSIBILITY • PRIDE AND PREJUDICE • EMMA
Isaac Babel COLLECTED STORIES
Kirsten Bakis LIVES OF THE MONSTER DOGS
J.G. Ballard THE DROWNED WORLD
Honoré de Balzac A MURKY BUSINESS
Melissa Banks THE GIRLS’ GUIDE TO HUNTING AND FISHING
Dave Barry BIG TROUBLE
John Barth LOST IN THE FUNHOUSE
L. Frank Baum THE WIZARD OF OZ
Nina Baym, et al, editors THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE
Saul Bellow THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH • THE BELLAROSA CONNECTION
Maeve Binchy THE GLASS LAKE
Valerie Block WAS IT SOMETHING I SAID? • NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS
Jorge Luis Borges LABYRINTHS • FICCIONES
Pierre Boulle PLANET OF THE APES
Ray Bradbury SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES • COLLECTED NOVELS (FAHRENHEIT 451; THE ILLUSTRATED MAN; DANDELION WINE; THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN; THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES) • DEATH IS A LONELY BUSINESS
Emily Bronte WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Charles Brockden Brown EDGAR HUNTLY • ARTHUR MERVYN
William Hill Brown/Hannah Foster THE POWER OF SYMPATHY/THE COQUETTE
Pearl S. Buck THE GOOD EARTH
Christopher Buckley BOOMSDAY
Michael Bulgarov THE MASTER AND MARGARITA
Anthony Burgess A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
Italo Calvino THE NONEXISTENT KNIGHT/ THE CLOVEN VISCOUNT • IF ON A WINTER’S NIGHT A TRAVELER
Albert Camus THE STRANGER • THE PLAGUE
Orson Scott Card ENDER’S GAME
Lewis Carroll ALICE IN WONDERLAND • ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND & THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS
Raymond Carver CATHEDRAL
R.V. Cahill, editor THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT FICTION
Willa Cather DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP • O PIONEERS! • MY ANTONIA
Cervantes DON QUIXOTE
John Cheever FALCONER • THE STORIES OF JOHN CHEEVER
Anton Chekhov ANTON CHEKHOV’S SHORT STORIES • THE KISS AND OTHER STORIES
Terrence Cheng SONS OF HEAVEN
Wu Ch’êng-ên MONKEY
Carolyn Chute THE BEANS OF EGYPT-MAINE
Mary Higgins Clark ON THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE
Arthur C. Clarke CHILDHOOD’S END
Susanna Clarke JONATHAN STRANGE & MR. NORRELL • THE LADIES OF GRACE ADIEU AND OTHER STORIES
James Clavell SHOGUN
Paula Marantz Cohen Jane Austen in BocA • MUCH ADO ABOUT JESSIE KAPLAN
Joseph Conrad HEART OF DARKNESS
James Fenimore Cooper THE PIONEERS
Douglas Coupland GENERATION X • SHAMPOO PLANET
Stephen Crane THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE
Michael Cunningham THE HOURS
Daniel Defoe ROXANA • ROBINSON CRUSOE
Pete Dexter GOD’S POCKET
Anita Diamant THE RED TENT
Albert DiBartolomeo THE VESPERS TAPES • FOOL’S GOLD
Philip K. Dick THE COLLECTED STORIES OF PHILIP K. DICK VOLUME I • BLADE RUNNER (DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?) • THE DIVINE INVASION
Charles Dickens A TALE OF TWO CITIES • GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Fyodor Dostoevsky POOR FOLK • GREAT SHORT WORKS OF FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY • CRIME AND PUNISHMENT • THE IDIOT • THE POSSESSED • THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
Theodore Dreiser AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY
Arthur Conan Doyle THE COMPLETE SHERLOCK HOLMES
E.L. Doctorow BILLY BATHGATE
Nguyen Du KIM VAN KIEU
Alexandre Dumas THE THREE MUSKETEERS • THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
Katherine Dunn GEEK LOVE
George Eliot MIDDLEMARCH
Stanley Elkin MRS. TED BLISS
Ralph Ellison INVISIBLE MAN
Jeffrey Eugenides THE VIRGIN SUICIDES • MIDDLESEX
Nicholas Evans THE HORSE WHISPERER
William Faulkner ABSALOM, ABSALOM! • INTRUDER IN THE DUST
Henry Fielding TOM JONES
Joy Fielding DON’T CRY NOW
Amanda Filapacchi NUDE MEN
Jack Finney INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS • time and again
Gustave Flaubert MADAME BOVARY
Jonathan Safran Foer EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED
E.M. Forster HOWARDS END
Jonathan Franzen THE CORRECTIONS
Charles Frazier COLD MOUNTAIN
Neil Gaiman AMERICAN GODS
Mary Gaitskill BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO
John Gardner GRENDEL
Olga Gardner Galvin THE ALPHABET CHALLENGE
Alex Garland THE BEACH
William Gibson NEUROMANCER
Emily Giffin BABY PROOF
Maurice Girodias, editor THE OLYMPIA READER
Nikolai Gogol DIARY OF A MADMAN AND OTHER STORIES
Arthur Golden MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
William Golding LORD OF THE FLIES
Lester Goran THE DEMON IN THE SUN PARLOR • MRS. BEAUTIFUL • TALES FROM THE IRISH CLUB • SHE LOVED ME ONCE AND OTHER STORIES • BING CROSBY’S LAST SONG • OUTLAWS OF THE PURPLE COW AND OTHER STORIES
Kathleen Martell Gordon THE PSYCHIC AND THE SWAMP MAN
Jane Green JEMIMA J
Joanne Greenberg I NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE GARDEN
Graham Greene BRIGHTON ROCK • THE POWER AND THE GLORY • A BURNT-OUT CASE • THE QUIET AMERICAN • THE CAPTAIN AND THE ENEMY • COLLECTED SHORT STORIES
David Guterson SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS
Mark Haddon THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME
Joe Haldeman DEALING IN FUTURES
Jane Hamilton A MAP OF THE WORLD
Dashiell Hammett THE THIN MAN • THE MALTESE FALCON
Kyle Hannon THE YELLOWSTONE FAITHFUL
Thomas Hardy TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES • JUDE THE OBSCURE
Kent Haruf PLAINSONG
David G. Hartwell, editor THE WORLD TREASURY OF SCIENCE FICTION • MASTERPIECES OF FANTASY AND ENCHANTMENT
Nathaniel Hawthorne THE SCARLET LETTER
Melinda Haynes MOTHER OF PEARL
Robert A. Heinlein STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND • THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS
Ernest Hemingway THE SHORT STORIES • THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA • FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS • TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT
Frank Herbert DUNE
Joseph Heller CATCH-22
Carl Hiaasen SKINNY DIP
E.T.A. Hoffman TALES OF HOFFMAN
Nick Hornby HIGH FIDELITY • HOW TO BE GOOD
Khaled Hosseini THE KITE RUNNER • A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS
William Dean Howells A HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES
Victor Hugo LES MISERABLES
Aldous Huxley BRAVE NEW WORLD
Alan Isler THE BACON FANCIER
John Irving THE WATER METHOD MAN
Henry James THE TURN OF THE SCREW AND OTHER SHORT FICTION • IN THE CAGE AND OTHER TALES • THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY • WHAT MAISIE KNEW • THE PRINCESS CASAMASSIMA • THE BOSTONIANS • THE VIKING PORTABLE HENRY JAMES
Ha Jin THE CRAZED • THE BRIDEGROOM
James Joyce ULYSSES • THE VIKING PORTABLE JAMES JOYCE
Franz Kafka THE BASIC KAFKA • THE METAMORPHOSIS AND OTHER STORIES • THE COMPLETE STORIES • AMERIKA • THE CASTLE • THE TRIAL
Marvin Kaye, editor MASTERPIECES OF TERROR AND THE SUPERNATURAL • WEIRD TALES
Garrison Keillor, editor THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 1998
Jack Kerouac ON THE ROAD
Ken Kesey ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST
Daniel Keyes FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON
Stephen King FIRE-STARTER • DOLORES CLAIBORNE • CARRIE
John Knowles A SEPARATE PEACE
Judith Krantz MISTRAL’S DAUGHTER
Milan Kundera THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING • LIFE IS ELSEWHERE
Jhumpa Lahiri THE NAMESAKE
Christopher Largen JUNK
D.H. Lawrence SONS AND LOVERS
John Le Carre THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD
Ursula K. Le Guin THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS
Harper Lee TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Stanislaw Lem THE CYBERIAD • SOLARIS • TALES OF PRIX THE PILOT • THE FUTUROLOGICAL CONGRESS • THE CHAIN OF CHANCE
Elmore Leonard BE COOL
Doris Lessing THE GOLDEN NOTEBOOK • THE FIFTH CHILD
C.S. Lewis THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE
Clarence Lispector THE PASSION ACCORDING TO G.H.
Penelope Lively MOON TIGER
David Lodge THE BRITISH MUSEUM IS FALLING DOWN
Jack London THE COLLECTED JACK LONDON
George Lucas STAR WARS
Joaquim M. Machado de Assis DOM CASMURO
Bernard Malamud THE FIXER • THE ASSISTANT
Thomas Mann THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN • DEATH IN VENICE
Gabriel Garcia Marquez ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE • LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA • CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD
Yann Martel LIFE OF PI
Guy de Maupassant THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES OF MAUPASSANT
Evelyn Wilde Mayerson MIAMI
Cormac McCarthy ALL THE PRETTY HORSES
Jay McInerney BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY
Emma McLaughlin and Nicole Klaus THE NANNY DIARIES
Jillian Medoff HUNGER POINT
Herman Melville THE CONFIDENCE MAN • MOBY DICK
James A. Michener RECESSIONAL
Sue Miller WHILE I WAS GONE
Yukio Mishima THE TEMPLE OF THE GOLDEN PAVILION
Margaret Mitchell GONE WITH THE WIND
Ogai Mori THE WILD GEESE
Toni Morrison COLLECTED NOVELS (SONG OF SOLOMON, TAR BABY, SULA) • THE BLUEST EYE • BELOVED
Bharati Mukherjee THE MIDDLEMAN AND OTHER STORIES
Iris Murdoch THE BLACK PRINCE
Thomas More UTOPIA
Vladimir Nabokov KING, QUEEN, KNAVE • LOLITA • THE REAL LIFE OF SEBASTIAN KNIGHT • PALE FIRE
Audrey Niffenegger THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE
Flannery O’Connor THREE BY FLANNERY O’CONNER
John O’Hara FROM THE TERRACE
O’Henry TALES OF O’HENRY: SIXTY-TWO STORIES
Joyce Carol Oates, editor THE OXFORD BOOK OF AMERICAN SHORT STORIES
Toby Olson SEAVIEW
George Orwell ANIMAL FARM • NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR
Jodi Picoult MY SISTER’S KEEPER
Marge Piercy
WOMAN ON THE EDGE OF TIME
Nélida Piñion THE REPUBLIC OF DREAMS
Edgar Allan Poe COMPLETE TALES AND POEMS • TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION
Chaim Potok THE CHOSEN • THE PROMISE • IN THE BEGINNING
Terry Pratchett THE COLOR OF MAGIC
Marcel Proust SWANN’S WAY
Thomas Pynchon THE CRYING OF LOT 49
Anna Quindlen BLACK AND BLUE
Ayn Rand WE THE LIVING • ANTHEM • THE FOUNTAINHEAD • ATLAS SHRUGGED
Erich Maria Remarque ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
Elizabeth Richards EVERY DAY
Tom Robbins JITTERBUG PERFUME • skinny legs and all • still life with woodpecker
Mordecai Roshwald LEVEL 7
Philip Roth PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT • OPERATION SHYLOCK • AMERICAN PASTORAL
J.K. Rowling HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCEROR’S STONE • HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS
Juan Rulfo PABLO PÁRAMO
J.D. Salinger THE CATCHER IN THE RYE • NINE STORIES
José Saramago THE HISTORY OF THE SIEGE OF LISBON • BLINDNESS
Jean-Paul Sartre NAUSEA • THE WALL
Sam Savage FURMIN: ADVENTURES OF A METROPOLITAN LOWLIFE
David Schickler KISSING IN MANHATTAN
Ken Schoolland THE ADVENTURES OF JONATHAN GULLIBLE
Alice Sebold THE LOVELY BONES
Diane Setterfield THE THIRTEENTH TALE
Mary Shelley
FRANKENSTEIN
Upton Sinclair THE JUNGLE
Isaac Bashevis Singer THE SLAVE • THE COLLECTED STORIES • THE DEATH OF METHUSELAH
L. Neil Smith THE PROBABILITY BROACH
Alexander Solzhenitsyn ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH
Nicholas Sparks NIGHTS IN RODANTHE
Mickey Spillane THE MIKE HAMMER COLLECTION: I THE JURY, MY GUN IS QUICK, VENGEANCE IS MINE!
Olaf Stapledon ODD JOHN/SIRIUS
Scott Stein LOST • MEAN MARTIN MANNING
John Steinbeck THE GRAPES OF WRATH • EAST OF EDEN • TORTILLA FLAT
Laurence Sterne TRISTAM SHANDY
Robert Louis Stevenson DR. JECKYL AND MR. HYDE
Bram Stoker DRACULA
Harriet Beecher Stowe UNCLE TOM’S CABIN
Jacqueline Susann VALLEY OF THE DOLLS
Jonathan Swift GULLIVER’S TRAVELS
Amy Tan THE KITCHEN GOD’S WIFE • THE HUNDRED SECRET SENSES
Donna Tartt THE SECRET HISTORY
William Makepeace Thackeray VANITY FAIR
Paul Theroux HOTEL HONOLULU
Lynne Tillman NO LEASE ON LIFE
J.R.R. Tolkien THE HOBBIT • THE LORD OF THE RINGS PART ONE: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
Leo Tolstoy ANNA KARENINA
John Kennedy Toole A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
William Trevor FAMILY SINS AND OTHER STORIES • DEATH IN SUMMER
Jonathan Tropper THE BOOK OF JOE
Ivan Turgenev FATHERS AND SONS
Scott Turow THE BURDEN OF PROOF
Mark Twain THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN • THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
Anne Tyler EARTHLY POSSESSIONS • COLLECTED NOVELS (A PATCHWORK PLANET; LADDER OF YEARS; SAINT MAYBE) • BACK WHEN WE WERE GROWNUPS • DIGGING TO AMERICA
John Updike RABBIT RUN • S. • TRUST ME AND OTHER STORIES • TOWARD THE END OF TIME • GERTRUDE AND CLAUDIUS • TERRORIST • THE EARLY STORIES 1953-1975
Mario Vargas Llosa THE STORYTELLER
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE • CAT’S CRADLE • BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS • HOCUS POCUS
Voltaire CANDIDE
Alice Walker THE COLOR PURPLE
Robert Penn Warren ALL THE KING’S MEN
Evelyn Waugh SCOOP
Jennifer Weiner GOOD IN BED • IN HER SHOES
H.G. Wells THE WAR OF THE WORLDS • THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU
Rebecca Wells LITTLE ALTARS EVERYWHERE
Eudora Welty THE WIDE NET • THE OPTIMIST’S DAUGHTER
P.G. Wodehouse STIFF UPPER LIP, JEEVES • CODE OF THE WOOSTERS • HOW RIGHT YOU ARE, JEEVES • JEEVES AND THE TIE THAT BINDS
Tobias Wolff BACK IN THE WORLD • THE NIGHT IN QUESTION
Virginia Woolf JACOB’S ROOM • MRS. DALLOWAY • BETWEEN the ACTS • TO THE LIGHTHOUSE • ORLANDO • THE VIRGINIA WOOLF READER
Herman Wouk WAR AND REMEMBRANCE
Richard Wright NATIVE SON
Lama Yongden MIPAM
Lynn York THE PIANO TEACHER
Yevgeny Zamyatin WE

PLAYS

Edward Albee WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF
Anton Chekhov ANTON CHEKHOV’S PLAYS
Compilation SIX GREAT MODERN PLAYS
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee INHERIT THE WIND
William Shakespeare THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Tom Stoppard JUMPERS
Tennessee Williams SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH • COLLECTION (THE GLASS MENAGERIE; A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE; CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF; SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER) • A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

POETRY

Dante Alighieri THE INFERNO
Andrew Ashfield, editor ROMANTIC WOMEN POETS 1770-1838 AN ANTHOLOGY
W.H. Auden COLLECTED POEMS
John Balaban LOCUSTS AT THE EDGE OF SUMMER
Matsuo Basho THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH
Ernest Bernbaum, editor THE ROMANTIC PERIOD
Charles Bukowski LOVE IS A DOG FROM HELL: POEMS 1974-1977 • MOCKINGBIRD WISH ME LUCK
Lord Byron BYRON’S POETRY
Geoffrey Chaucer THE CANTERBURY TALES
Samuel Taylor Coleridge SELECTED POEMS AND PROSE
Robert Frost SELECTED POEMS, PROSE & PLAYS
Donald Hall, editor CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY
Linda M. Hasselstrom BITTER CREEK JUNCTION
Homer THE ILIAD
John Keats SELECTED POEMS AND LETTERS
Jack Kerouac BOOK OF BLUES
Lynn Levin IMAGINARIUM
Eugene J. McCarthy MEMORIES OF A NATIVE SON
Kenneth Rexroth, editor ONE HUNDRED POEMS FROM THE CHINESE
Susan Polis Schutz, editor MARRIAGE IS A PROMISE OF LOVE
Percy Bysshe Shelley SHELLEY’S POETRY AND PROSE
Lewis Turco THE NEW BOOK OF FORMS
Virgil THE AENEID OF VIRGIL
Oscar Williams and Edwin Honig, editors THE MENTOR BOOK OF MAJOR AMERICAN POETS
William Wordsworth SELECTED POETRY
Duncan Wu ROMANTICISM: AN ANTHOLOGY
William Butler Yeats THE YEATS READER

WRITERS AND CRITICISM

Mikhail Bakhtin PROBLEMS OF DOSTOEVSKY’S POETICS
Roland Barthes MYTHOLOGIES
Walter Pater SELECTED WRITINGS OF WALTER PATER
Max Brod FRANZ KAFKA
Richard Davenport-Hines AUDEN
Neil Gaiman DON’T PANIC: THE OFFICIAL HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY COMPANION
Lester Goran THE BRIGHT STREETS OF SURFSIDE: THE MEMOIR OF A FRIENDSHIP WITH ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER
Alexandra Johnson THE HIDDEN WRITER
Franz Kafka DIARIES
Azar Nafisi READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN: A MEMOIR IN BOOKS
Jean-Paul Sartre THE WORDS
Stacy Schiff VERA (MRS. VLADIMIR NABAKOV)
Norman Sherry THE LIFE OF GRAHAM GREENE VOLUME I: 1904-1939
Sally Soames WRITERS PHOTOGRAPHS
Oscar Wilde THE ARTIST AS CRITIC

ART, MUSIC, FILM, AND TELEVISION

Dawn Ades DALI
Beethoven LETTERS, JOURNALS AND CONVERSATIONS
Blockbuster Video THE GREATEST MOVIES OF ALL TIME
Peter Brown and Steven Gaines THE LOVE YOU MAKE: THE INSIDER’S STORY OF THE BEATLES
Tim Bywater and Thomas Sobchack INTRODUCTION TO FILM CRITICISM
Terence Cheng DEEP IN THE MOUNTAINS: AN ENCOUNTER WITH ZHU QIZHAN
Jim Cullen BORN IN THE U.S.A.: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE AMERICAN TRADITION
Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe MILES: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Lawrence Gowning MATISSE
Bill Graham and Robert Greenfield BILL GRAHAM PRESENTS
Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman NO ONE HERE GETS OUT ALIVE
Arthur Knight THE LIVELIEST ART
Presley Love THE CLASSIC ROCK QUIZ BOOK
Ivan March, et al THE PENGUIN GUIDE TO COMPACT DISCS YEARBOOK 1995/6: BEST BUYS IN CLASSICAL MUSIC
Dave Marsh GLORY DAYS: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN IN THE 1980s
Scott McCloud UNDERSTANDING COMICS: THE INVISIBLE ART
Michael McKenzie BACKSTAGE AT SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
Tim Motion JAZZ PORTRAITS AN EYE FOR THE SOUND: IMAGES OF JAZZ AND JAZZ MUSICIANS
Edward Pincus GUIDE TO FILMMAKING
David Piper LOOKING AT ART
Gilda Radner IT’S ALWAYS SOMETHING
Rolling Stone, editors SPRINGSTEEN
Lucus Drew and Raymond Barr EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Marianne Meyer BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Stanford Humanities Review MOVEMENTS OF THE AVANT-GARDE
Carol Strickland THE ANNOTATED MONA LISA
John Swenson, editor
THE JAZZ AND BLUES ALBUM GUIDE
Seth Gordon, compiler THE VIDEO RENTER’S BIBLE
Vincent Van Gogh DEAR THEO: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF VINCENT VAN GOGH
Michael Whelan MICHAEL WHELAN’S WORKS OF WONDER
Bob Woodward WIRED: THE SHORT LIFE AND FAST TIMES OF JOHN BELUSHI

NONFICTION AND MEMOIRS

Henry Adams THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS
Anonymous GO ASK ALICE (note: I understand that this is really fiction, but that’s not how it’s sold)
Jean-Dominque Bauby THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
Joël Glenn Brenner
THE EMPERORS OF CHOCOLATE: INSIDE THE SECRET WORLD OF HERSHEY AND MARS
Bryan Burrough DRAGONFLY: AN EPIC ADVENTURE OF SURVIVAL IN OUTER SPACE
Augusten Burroughs RUNNING WITH SCISSORS
Truman Capote IN COLD BLOOD
George Dawson and Richard Glaubman LIFE IS SO GOOD
Susan Jane Gilman HYPOCRITE IN A POUFFY WHITE DRESS: TALES OF GROWING UP GROOVY AND CLUELESS
Sebastian Junger THE PERFECT STORM • FIRE
Susanna Kaysen GIRL, INTERRUPTED
Haven Kimmel A GIRL NAMED ZIPPY
John Krakauer EIGER DREAMS • INTO THE WILD • INTO THIN AIR UNDER • THE BANNER OF HEAVEN
Frank McCourt ANGELA’S ASHES • ’TIS
Jerri Nielson and Maryanne Vollers ICE BOUND
Dave Pelzer A CHILD CALLED IT
Richard Preston THE HOT ZONE
Wladyslaw Szpilman THE PIANIST
Henry David Thoreau THE MAINE WOODS • WALDEN • A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS
Hunter S. Thompson FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS • HELL’S ANGELS
Tom Wolfe THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST
Virginia Woolf A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN

PHILOSOPHY

Ethel M. Albert, et al. Great Traditions in Ethics
Aristotle Poetics
Peter J. Burgard Nietzsche and the Feminine
Steven M. Cahn, editor Classics of Western Philosophy
Daniel C. Dennett Freedom Evolves
Rene Descartes Discourse on Method • Meditations on First Philosophy
Albert Einstein Ideas and Opinions
Alan H. Goldman Moral Knowledge
Anthony Gottlieb The Dream of Reason
Susan Haack Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate • METAPHYSICS COURSE COMPILATION
G.W.F. Hegel Introduction to the Philosophy of History
Benjamin Hoff The Tao of Pooh
Yeager Hudson The Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings
David Hume (Charles W. Hendel, Jr., editor) Hume Selections
David Kelley The Evidence of the Senses
John Knoblock READINGS IN CLASSICAL CHINESE PHILOSOPHY (DRAFT FOR COURSE)
Thomas S. Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
John Morreal, editor The Philosophy of Laughter and Humor
Friedrich Nietzsche On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life • The Birth of Tragedy and The Genealogy of Morals • Beyond Good and Evil • The Gay Science • The Viking Portable Nietzsche • The Will to Power
José Ortega Y Gasset The Revolt of the Masses
Robert M. Pirsig Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Plato The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues • The Last Days of Socrates
Ayn Rand The Virtue of Selfishness • Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal • The Romantic Manifesto • For the New Intellectual • Philosophy: Who Needs It
Jean-Paul Sartre Essays in Existentialism
George H. Smith Atheism: The Case Against God
Louis Torres and Michelle Marder Kamhi What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand
Arthur Waley The Way and its Power: A Study of the Tao Tê Ching and its Place in Chinese Thought
Morris Weitz, editor 20th Century Philosophy: The Analytic Tradition
Morton White, editor The Age of Analysis
Ludwig Wittgenstein Lectures and Conversations • On Certainty

POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICAL THEORY

Randy E. Barnett RESTORING THE LOST CONSTITUTION: THE PRESUMPTION OF LIBERTY
Frederic Bastiat
The Law • Profession of Faith to the Electors of the District of Saint-Sever (1846)
David Boaz Libertarianism: A Primer
Bill Bradley The Journey from Here
Roy A. Childs, Jr. Liberty Against Power
R.W. Grant The Incredible Bread Machine: A Study of Capitalism, Freedom, and the State
F.A. Hayek The Road to Serfdom • The Constitution of Liberty
Thomas Hobbes Leviathan
Rose Wilder Lane The Discovery of Freedom
John Locke Two Treatises of Government
Niccolò Machiavelli The Prince
Karl Marx Selected Writings (edited by David McLellan) • The Marx-Engels Reader (edited by Robert C. Tucker) • The German Ideology (by Marx and Engels, edited by C.J. Arthur)
John Stuart Mill On Liberty and Other Essays
Jan Narveson The Libertarian Idea
Albert Jay Nock Our Enemy the State
Robert Nozick Anarchy, State, and Utopia
P. J. O’Rourke Parliament of Whores
Thomas Paine (edited by Michael Foot and Issac Kramnick) The Thomas Paine Reader
Isabel Paterson The God of the Machine
Jack N. Rakove Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
Diane Ravitch and Abigail Thernstrom, editors THE DEMOCRACY READER
Murray N. Rothbard For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto • THE ETHICS OF LIBERTY
Jean-Jacques Rousseau A Discourse on Inequality
Thomas Sowell The Vision of the Anointed: SELF-CONGRATULATION AS A BASIS FOR SOCIAL POLICY • A Conflict of Visions: IDEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF POLITICAL STRUGGLES
Lysander Spooner The Lysander Spooner Reader
Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience
Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy in America
Fareed Zakaria The Future of Freedom

ECONOMICS

W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm Myths of Rich and Poor
Hernando de Soto The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
David Friedman Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life
Milton Friedman Capitalism and Freedom • Free to Choose
Henry Hazlitt Economics in One Lesson
Vanden Heuvel, editor The Future of Freedom in Russia
David S. Landes The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are so Rich and Some so Poor
Tomas Larsson The Race to the Top: The Real Story of Globalization
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner FREAKONOMICS (REVISED EDITION): A ROGUE ECONOMIST EXPLORES THE HIDDEN SIDE OF EVERYTHING
Ludwig von Mises Socialism • Human Action • The Anticapitalistic Mentality
P. J. O’Rourke Eat the Rich
Michael Parkin ECONOMICS
Jim Powell
FDR’s Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
Leonard E. Read
I, Pencil
Sheldon Richman Your Money or Your Life: Why We Must Abolish the Income Tax
Murray N. Rothbard Making Economic Sense
Adam Smith Wealth of Nations
Thomas Sowell Basic Economics: A Citizen’s Guide to the Economy
Richard K. Vedder and Lowell E. Gallaway Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth Century America

SOCIAL ISSUES AND PUBLIC POLICIES

Terry L. Anderson and Donald R. Leal Free Market Environmentalism
Ronald Bailey Eco-Scam: The False Prophets of Ecological Apocalypse • Testimony: The Impact of Science on Public Policy
Paul Ballonoff Energy: Ending the Never-Ending Crisis
Wilfred Beckerman Through Green-Colored Glasses: Environmentalism Reconsidered
Walter Block Defending the Undefendable
Clint Bolick The Affirmative Action Fraud: Can We Restore the American Civil Rights Vision?
Dinesh D'Souza The END OF RACISM
Richard Epstein Mortal Peril: Our Inalienable Right to Health Care?
Lawrence M. Friedman American Law: An Introduction
Linda Bird Francke Ground Zero: The Gender Wars in the Military
Milton Friedman and Thomas Szasz On Liberty and Drugs
Francis Fukuyama The Great Disruption
Bernard Goldberg Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News
David Harmer School Choice: Why You Need It—How You Get It
David Harsanyi NANNY STATE: HOW FOOD FASCISTS, TEETOTALING DO-GOODERS, PRIGGISH MORALISTS, AND OTHER BONEHEADED BUREAUCRATS ARE TURNING AMERICA INTO A NATION OF CHILDREN
Douglas Kellner Media Culture: Cultural Studies, Identity and Politics between the Modern and the Postmodern
Gary Kleck and Don B. Kates Armed: New Perspectives on Gun Control
Wayne LaPierre and James Jay Baker shooting straight: telling the truth about guns in america
Bjørn Lomborg The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World
Timothy Lynch, editor After Prohibition: An Adult Approach to Drug Policies in the 21st Century
Tibor R. Machan Putting Humans First: Why we are Nature’s Favorites
John McWhorter Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America
H.L. Mencken The Vintage Mencken
Thomas Gale Moore CLIMATE OF FEAR: WHY WE SHOULDN’T WORRY ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING
J. Wilson Mixon, Jr., editor PRIVATE MEANS, PUBLIC ENDS: VOLUNTARISM VS. COERCION
Myron Magnet, editor WHAT MAKES CHARITY WORK? A CENTURY OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PHILANTHROPY
Bill O’Reilly THE NO SPIN ZONE: CONFRONTATIONS WITH THE POWERFUL AND FAMOUS IN AMERICA
Virginia Postrel THE FUTURE AND ITS ENEMIES: THE GROWING CONFLICT OVER CREATIVITY, ENTERPRISE. AND PROGRESS • THE SUBSTANCE OF STYLE: HOW THE RISE OF AESTHETIC VALUE IS REMAKING COMMERCE, CULTURE, & CONSCIOUSNESS
Diane Ravitch THE LANGUAGE POLICE: HOW PRESSURE GROUPS RESTRICT WHAT STUDENTS LEARN
Simon H. Rifkind AT 90, ON THE 90s: THE JOURNAL OF SIMON H. RIFKIND
Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton THE TYRANNY OF GOOD INTENTIONS: HOW PROSECUTORS AND BUREAUCRATS ARE TRAMPLING THE CONSTITUTION IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE
Jeffrey Scheuer THE SOUND BITE SOCIETY: TELEVISION AND THE AMERICAN MIND
Michael A. Smerconish MUZZLED: FROM T-BALL TO TERRORISMTRUE STORIES THAT SHOULD BE FICTION
Thomas Sowell RACE AND CULTURE: A WORLD VIEW • THE ECONOMICS AND POLITICS OF RACE • CIVIL RIGHTS: RHETORIC OR REALITY? • INSIDE AMERICAN EDUCATION: THE DECLINE, THE DECEPTION, THE DOGMAS • AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AROUND THE WORLD: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY
Harry Stein HOW I ACCIDENTALLY JOINED THE VAST RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY (AND FOUND INNER PEACE)
Scott Stein and C.P. Kaiser, editors WHEN FALLS THE COLISEUM: A JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE (OR LACK THEREOF)
John Stossel GIVE ME A BREAK: HOW I EXPOSED HUCKSTERS, CHEATS, AND SCAM ARTISTS AND BECAME THE SCOURGE OF THE LIBERAL MEDIA
Jacob Sullum FOR YOUR OWN GOOD: THE ANTI-SMOKING CRUSADE AND THE TYRANNY OF PUBLIC HEALTH • SAYING YES: IN DEFENSE OF DRUG USE
Deborah Tannen YOU JUST DON’T UNDERSTAND: WOMEN AND MEN IN CONVERSATION
Norah Vincent SELF-MADE MAN: ONE WOMAN'S JOURNEY INTO MANHOOD AND BACK AGAIN
Larry C. White MERCHANTS OF DEATH: THE AMERICAN TOBACCO INDUSTRY
Walter E. Williams DO THE RIGHT THING: THE PEOPLE’S ECONOMIST SPEAKS
Cintra Wilson A MASSIVE SWELLING: CELEBRITY RE-EXAMINED AS A GROTESQUE CRIPPLING DISEASE AND OTHER CULTURAL REVELATIONS

SCIENCE

Robert T. Bakker THE DINOSAUR HERESIES
Peter J. Bowler EVOLUTION
Richard P. Brennan DICTIONARY OF SCIENTIFIC LITERACY
Alice Calaprice, editor DEAR PROFESSOR EINSTEIN
Fritjof Capra THE TAO OF PHYSICS
Gene Cittadino THE DARWINIAN REVOLUTION COURSE COMPILATION
Charles Darwin
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES • VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE • THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CHARLES DARWIN
Richard Dawkins THE SELFISH GENE • THE BLIND WATCHMAKER • THE ANCESTOR’S TALE
Meir H. Degani ASTRONOMY MADE SIMPLE
Adrian Desmond and James Moore
DARWIN
Albert Einstein RELATIVITY
Timothy Ferris THE WHOLE SHEBANG
James Gleick CHAOS
Stephen Jay Gould TIME’S ARROW, TIME’S CYCLE
Stephen W. Hawking A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME
John R. Horner and Edwin Dobb DINOSAUR LIVES
Michio Kaku HYPERSPACE
G. Tyler Miller, Jr. LIVING IN THE ENVIRONMENT: AN INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
John Allen Paulos A MATHEMATICIAN READS THE NEWSPAPER
Steven Pinker HOW THE MIND WORKS • THE LANGUAGE INSTINCT • THE BLANK SLATE: THE MODERN DENIAL OF HUMAN NATURE
Robert I. Richards DARWIN AND THE EMERGENCE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORIES OF MIND AND BEHAVIOR
David A. Ross INTRODUCTION TO OCEANOGRAPHY
Carl Sagan COSMOS • DRAGONS OF EDEN • BILLIONS AND BILLIONS
Michael A. Seeds HORIZONS: EXPLORING THE UNIVERSE
Michael Sherman
WHY PEOPLE BELIEVE WEIRD THINGS
Simon Singh BIG BANG: THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE
E.O. Wilson
SOCIOBIOLOGY

AMERICAN HISTORY

Joyce Appleby THOMAS JEFFERSON
Randall Bedwell, editor BRINK OF DESTRUCTION: A QUOTABLE HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR
Paul S. Boyer, et al THE ENDURING VISION: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE VOLUMES I AND II WITH DOCUMENTS
H.W. Brands THE FIRST AMERICAN: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
T.H. Breen THE MARKETPLACE OF REVOLUTION: HOW CONSUMER POLITICS SHAPED AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
Bruce Chadwick GEORGE WASHINGTON'S WAR: THE FORGING OF A REVOLUTIONARY LEADER AND THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY
J. Hector St. John Crèvecoeur LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN FARMER AND SKETCHES OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA
Thomas DiLorenzo THE REAL LINCOLN: A NEW LOOK AT ABRAHAM LINCOLN, HIS AGENDA, AND AN UNNECESSARY WAR
David Herbert Donald LINCOLN
Frederick Douglass NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Joseph J. Ellis FOUNDING BROTHERS: THE REVOLUTIONARY GENERATION
Linda Gutstein HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN AMERICA
John Higham, editor
THE RECONSTRUCTION OF AMERICAN HISTORY
James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton SLAVERY AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA
Paul Johnson A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
John F. Kennedy PROFILES IN COURAGE
Edward Klein THE KENNEDY CURSE
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark THE JOURNALS OF LEWIS AND CLARK
Brink Lindsey THE AGE OF ABUNDANCE: HOW PROSPERITY TRANSFORMED AMERICA'S POLITICS AND CULTURE
Malcolm X AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X
Elaine Tyler May GREAT EXPECTATIONS: MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE IN POST-VICTORIAN AMERICA
Mary Beth Norton IN THE DEVIL’S SNARE: THE SALEM WITCHCRAFT CRISIS OF 1692
Francis Parkman, Jr. THE OREGON TRAIL
Merrill B. Peterson JOHN BROWN: THE LEGEND REVISITED
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. A THOUSAND DAYS: JOHN F. KENNEDY IN THE WHITE HOUSE
Harvard Sitkoff THE STRUGGLE FOR BLACK EQUALITY 1954-1980
Robert Torricelli and Andrew W. Carroll IN OUR OWN WORDS: EXTRAORDINARY SPEECHES OF THE AMERICAN CENTURY
Steven R. Weisman THE GREAT TAX WARS
Gordon S. Wood THE RADICALISM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein THE FINAL DAYS
Chuck Yeager and Leo Janos YEAGER: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY

HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II AND THE HOLOCAUST

Iris Chang THE RAPE OF NANKING
Carlo D’Este
PATTON: A GENIUS FOR WAR
Anne Frank THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL
Raul Hilberg PERPETRATORS, VICTIMS, BYSTANDERS
Adolf Hitler MEIN KAMPF
Deborah Lipstadt DENYING THE HOLOCAUST
Walter Lord DAY OF INFAMY
Richard F. Newcomb ABANDON SHIP!
Jon Meacham FRANKLIN AND WINSTON
Patrick K. O’Donnell OPERATIVES, SPIES, AND SABOTEURS
Richard Overy THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN
William L. Shirer THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH • THE COLLAPSE OF THE THIRD REPUBLIC
Hampton Sides GHOST SOLDIERS
Albert Speers INSIDE THE THIRD REICH
Frederick Taylor DRESDEN
Stephen Walker SHOCKWAVE: COUNTDOWN TO HIROSHIMA

GENERAL HISTORY

Anne Abblebaum GULAG: A HISTORY
Adam Bellow THE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE: A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
Nicholas Best THE KINGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND
Thomas Cahill THE GIFTS OF THE JEWS
Stéphane Courtois, et al. THE BLACK BOOK OF COMMUNISM: CRIMES, TERROR, REPRESSION
Winston Churchill A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLE: THE GREAT DEMOCRACIES
Kenneth C. Davis DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT GEOGRAPHY
Jared Diamond
GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL
Abba Eban AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Edward Gibbon THE HISTORY OF THE RISE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (VOLUMES I-VIII)
Heinrich Graetz HISTORY OF THE JEWS (VOLUMES I-VI)
Bernard Grun THE TIMETABLES OF HISTORY
N.G.L. Hammond THE GENIUS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT
John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr IN DENIAL: HISTORIANS, COMMUNISM, AND ESPIONAGE
Richard Holbrooke TO END A WAR
Samuel Katz BATTLEGROUND: FACT AND FANTASY IN PALESTINE
David I. Kertzer THE POPES AGAINST THE JEWS: THE VATICAN’S ROLE IN THE RISE OF MODERN ANTI-SEMITISM
Jonathan Kirsch GOD AGAINST THE GODS: THE HISTORY OF THE WAR BETWEEN MONOTHEISM AND POLYTHEISM
Bernard Lewis WHAT WENT WRONG: THE CLASH BETWEEN ISLAM AND MODERNITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Magnus Magnusson, editor CHAMBERS BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY
John Man GUTENBERG: HOW ONE MAN REMADE THE WORLD WITH WORDS
Charles Murray HUMAN ACCOMPLISHMENT: THE PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES, 800 B.C. TO 1950
Nassim Nicholas Taleb THE BLACK SWAN: THE IMPACT OF THE HIGHLY IMPROBABLE
Medieval Times MUSEUM OF TORTURE
Charles Nicholl LEONARDO DA VINCI: FLIGHTS OF THE MIND
Henry Petroski THE EVOLUTION OF USEFUL THINGS
Tom Standage A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 6 GLASSES
Hew Strachan, editor WORLD WAR I: A HISTORY
Lytton Strachey ELIZABETH AND ESSEX • EMINENT VICTORIANS • QUEEN VICTORIA
Edward Tenner OUR OWN DEVICES: HOW TECHNOLOGY REMAKES HUMANITY
Miranda Twiss THE MOST EVIL MEN AND WOMEN IN HISTORY
Kenneth Windschuttle THE KILLING OF HISTORY: HOW LITERARY CRITICS AND SOCIAL THEORISTS ARE MURDERING OUR PAST

PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY

Sigmund Freud THREE CASE HISTORIES • CIVILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS • JOKES AND THEIR RELATION TO THE UNCONSCIOUS
Henry Gleitman BASIC PSYCHOLOGY
Lois Hoffman, et al DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
William C. Levin SOCIOLOGICAL IDEAS
George Ritzer SOCIAL PROBLEMS

RELIGION

Author Unknown HOLY BIBLE
Author Unknown THE KORAN
Eknath Easwaran, translator THE UPANISHADS
Kenneth C. Davis DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THE BIBLE
Edith Hamilton MYTHOLOGY
Lewis M. Hopfe RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD
C.S. Lewis MERE CHRISTIANITY
Alfred J. Kolatch THE JEWISH BOOK OF WHY

HUMOR

Dave Barry DAVE BARRY’S BABIES AND OTHER HAZARDS OF SEX
George Carlin NAPALM AND SILLY PUTTY
Robert N. Linscott, editor BEST AMERICAN HUMOROUS SHORT STORIES
Ted L. Nancy MORE LETTERS FROM A NUT
The Onion OUR DUMB CENTURY
Mordecai Richler THE BEST OF MODERN HUMOR
David Sedaris NAKED • ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY
Bill Watterson THE ESSENTIAL CALVIN AND HOBBES • WEIRDOS FROM ANOTHER PLANET

ODD

Nostradamus THE COMPLETE PROPHECIES
Sasha Fenton FORTUNE TELLING BY TAROT CARDS
World Almanac THE WORLD ALMANAC BOOK OF THE STRANGE

NOT LISTED

Some textbooks from my days as an undergraduate student
Textbooks from the courses I teach
Baby books (how to get them to sleep, eat, poop on command, whatever)
My wife’s education textbooks
Children’s books (my wife’s old Nancy Drew books, my son’s Dr. Seuss books, etc.)
Books I no longer have (most books I read as a kid/teenager have been sucked into a black hole)
Writing and other reference books (just assume I own a dictionary and all the rest)
Some oversized coffee table books
Cookbooks
Some other stuff

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