The Not-even-close Replacement for actual Life Experience:

My Wasted Childhood

This is a work in progress. If you can think of any that you thought I'd read or talked about that aren't on here, please, let me know. This is probably an impossible task. I'm sure I won't remember half of it.
Including books of poetry would make it that much more impossible, and add about a humdred more to this list, so I didn't bother with that nonsense, but here you are:

1.       Agamemnon

Aeschylus

2.      Things Fall Apart(Yams!!)

Chinua Achebe

3.      Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

4.      Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

5.      The Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso)

Dante Alighieri

6.      I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou

7.      The Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood

8.      Foundation (only 1st book, so far)

Isaac Asimov

9.      The Prolific and The Devourer

W.H. Auden

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10.  Clan of the Cave Bear

Jean M. Auel

11.  Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

12.  Emma

Jane Austen

13.  Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

14.  The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

15.  Notes of a Native Son

James Baldwin

16.  Crash

J.G. Ballard

17.  The Sot-Weed Factor

John Barth

18.  Waiting for Godot

Samuel Beckett

19.  Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

John Berendt

20.  Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

21.  The Postman

David Brin

22.  Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Dee Brown

23.  The Pilgrim’s Progress

John Bunyan

24.  A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess

25.  The Stranger

Albert Camus

26.  The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

Albert Camus

27.  The Buddha

Michael Carrithers

28.  Alice in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

29.  Through the Looking Glass

Lewis Carroll

30.  The Cherry Orchard

Anton Chekov

31.  The Cantebury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

32.  2001: A Space Odyssey

Arthur C. Clark

33.  Childhood’s End

Arthur C. Clark

34.  Heart of Darkness & the Secret Sharer

Joseph Conrad

35.  Victory

Joseph Conrad

36.  The Secret Agent

Joseph Conrad

37.  The Red Badge of Courage

Stephen Crane

38.  Team First, Team Last (I know, it’s kinda biased)

Mark Craver

39.  James and the Giant Peach

Roald Dahl

40.  Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Dafoe

40.  Fifth Business

Robertson Davies

40.  The Manticore

Robertson Davies

41.  Bleak House

Charles Dickens

42.  Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

43.  A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

44.  Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

45.  The Immense Journey

Loren Eisley

46.  Star Thrower

Loren Eisley

47.  Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

48.  In Praise of Folly

Erasmus

49.  The Tibetan Book of the Dead

W.Y. Evans-Wentz

50.  The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner

51.  A Light in August

William Faulkner

52.  Absalom, Absalom

William Faulkner

53.  The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

54.  Madame Bovary

Gustav Flaubert

55.  Johnny Tremaine

Esther Forbes

56.  Howard’s End

E.M. Forster

57.  A Room with a View

E.M. Forster

58.  Where Angels Fear to Tread

E.M. Forster

59.  Passage to India

E.M. Forster

60.  The Diary of Anne Frank

Anne Frank

61.  Faust

Goethe

62.  Dakrness Visible

William Golding

63.  The Inheritors

William Golding

64.  Lord of the Flies

William Golding

65.  The Tin Drum

Gunter Grass

66.  The Flounder

Gunter Grass

67.  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon

68.  Wild Ivy

Zen Master Hakuin

69.  The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

70.  The Complete Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne

71.  Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry

72.  Beowulf

Seamus Heaney

73.  For Whom The Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway

74.  Stranger in a Strange Land

Robert Heinlein

75.  Dune

Frank Herbert

76.  Dune Messiah

Frank Herbert

77.  Children of Dune

Frank Herbert

78.  God Emporer of Dune

Frank Herbert

79.  Peter Camenzind

Hermann Hesse

80.  Steppenwolf

Hermann Hesse

81.  Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse

82.  Narcissus and Goldmund

Hermann Hesse

83.  Demian

Hermann Hesse

84.  Journey to the East

Hermann Hesse

85.  Glass Bead Game

Hermann Hesse

86.  Odyssey

Homer

87.  Iliad

Homer

88.  Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

89.  The Perennial Philosophy

Aldous Huxley

90.  The Genius and the Goddess

Aldous Huxley

91.  Jacob’s Hands

Aldous Huxley

92.  Point Counter Point 

Aldous Huxley

93.  Antic Hay

Aldous Huxley

94.  Eyeless in Gaza 

Aldous Huxley

95.  Those Barren Leaves

Aldous Huxley

96.  Time Must Have a Stop

Aldous Huxley

97.  Science, Liberty, and Peace 

Aldous Huxley

98.  The Devils of Loudon 

Aldous Huxley

99.  Chrome Yellow

Aldous Huxley

100.  The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

Aldous Huxley

101.  Brave New World Revisited 

Aldous Huxley

102.  Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

103.          La Bas

Huysmans

104.          Against Nature

Huysmans

105.          A Doll’s House

Henrik Ibsen

106.          A prayer for Owen Meany

John Irving

107.          The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving

Washington Irving

108.          Redwall

Brian Jacques

109.          The Golden Bowl

Henry James

110.          Turn Of the Screw

Henry James

111.          Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce

112.          Metamorphosis and Other Stories (yes, and the other stories)

Franz Kafka

113.          The Trial

Franz Kafka

114.          One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Ken Kesey

115.          Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes

116.          Into Thin Air

John Krakauer

117.          Angela’s Ashes

Frank McCourt

118.          Valmont

Choderlos De Laclos

119.          To Kill a Mocking Bird

Harper Lee

120.          A Wrinkle in Time

Madeline L’Engle

121.          A Ring of Endless Light

Madeline L’Engle

122.          A Wind in the Door

Madeline L’Engle

123.          A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Madeline L’Engle

124.          Chronicles of Narnia

C.S. Lewis

125.          Dymer (and the complete narrative poems of: C.S Lewis)

C.S. Lewis

126.          Out of the Silent Planet

C.S. Lewis

127.          Peralandra

C.S. Lewis

128.          That Hideous Strength

C.S. Lewis

129.          The Call of the Wild

Jack London

130.          White Fang

Jack London

131.          The Giver

Lois Lowry

132.          Wandering on the Way: Early Toaist Tales

Victor H. Mair

133.          100 Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

134.          A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

135.          The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx

136.          Capital 

Karl Marx

137.          Of Human Bondage 

W. Somerset Maugham

138.          The Razor's Edge 

W. Somerset Maugham

139.          Billy Budd

Herman Melville

140.          Bartleby The Scrivener (yes, I actually buy the Jesus arguments…darn you, Dr. Craver)

Herman Melville

141.          Moby Dick

Herman Melville

142.          On Liberty

John Stuart Mill

143.          The Death of a Salesman

Arthur Miller

144.          The Crucible

Arthur Miller

145.          The Bhagavad-gita

Barbara Miller

146.          A Canticle for Lebowitz

Walter Miller

147.          Paradise Lost

John Milton

148.          Anne of Green Gables

Lucy Montgomery

149.          Utopia

Sir Thomas More

150.          Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison

151.          The Gay Science

Friedrich Nietzsche

152.          Thus Spake Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche

153.          Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche

154.          The Upanisads (NF)

Patrick Olivelle

155.          Homage to Catalonia (NF)

George Orwell

156.          Burmese Days

George Orwell

157.          Down and Out in Paris and London

George Orwell

158.          A Clergyman’s Daughter

George Orwell

159.          Keep the Aspidistra Flying

George Orwell

160.          The Road to Wigan Pier (NF)

George Orwell

161.          Coming up for Air

George Orwell

162.          The Complete Essays of George Orwell

George Orwell

163.          Animal Farm

George Orwell

164.          1984

George Orwell

165.          Choke

Chuck Palahniuk

166.          Fight Club

Chuck Palahniuk

167.          Invisible Monsters

Chuck Palahniuk

168.          Survivor

Chuck Palahniuk

169.          Lullaby

Chuck Palahniuk

170.          Doctor Zhivago

Boris Pasternak

171.          The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

172.          The Republic

Plato

173.          The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

174.          Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand

175.          Where the Red Fern Grows

Wilson Rawls

176.          Cyrano de Bergerac

Edmond Rostand

177.          On the Social Contract

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

178.          Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

179.          The Bodhicaryavatara

Santideva

180.          Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

181.          Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw

182.          The Jungle

Upton Sinclair

183.          The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton

Jane Smiley (AHHHHHHHHHH)

184.          Antigone and Oedipus Rex

Sophocles

185.          The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

186.          Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

187.          Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

188.          Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

189.          Dracula

Bram Stoker

190.          Gulliver’s Travells

Jonathan Swift

191.          The Joy Luck Club

Amy Tan

192.          Down These Mean Streets (autographed)

Piri Thomas (cool guy)

193.          Walden

Henry David Thoreau

194.          Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

195.          The Hobbit

J.R.R. Tolkien

196.          The Fellowship of the Ring

J.R.R. Tolkien

197.          The Two Towers

J.R.R. Tolkien

198.          The Return of the King

J.R.R. Tolkien

199.          The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

200.          The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

201.          The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain

Mark Twain

202.          A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court

Mark Twain

203.          Pudd’nhead Wilson

Mark Twain

204.          The Prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain

205.          Worlds in Collision (What!? It’s entertaining)

Immanuel Velikovsky (hehe)

206.          Breakfast of Champions

Kurt Vonnegut

207.          Slaughterhouse 5

Kurt Vonnegut

208.          Candide

Voltaire

209.          The Invisible Man

H.G. Wells

210.          The Time Machine

H.G. Wells

211.          The Island of Dr. Moreau

H.G. Wells

212.          Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton

213.          The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams

214.          Our Town

Thorton Wilder

215.          Native Son

Richard Wright

216.          Black Boy

Richard Wright

217.          Gilgamesh

 

218.          Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

 

NF

NF

 

219.          Necessary Illusions

Noam Chomsky

220.          Guns Germs and Steel

Jared Diamond

221.          Homo Hierarchicus: the Caste System and Its Implications

Louis Dumont

222.          Aldous Huxley Recollected: An Oral History

David King Dunaway

223.          Captains of Consciousness

Stuart Ewen

224.          The Feynman Lectures (Vol I-III)

Richard Feynman

225.          Hermann Hesse: Pilgrim of Crisis

Ralph Freedman

226.          The Foucault Reader

Michel Foucault

227.          Schizophrenia Genesis: The Origins of Madness

Irving Gottesman

228.          A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking

229.          Elemental Mind

Nick Herbert

230.          Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid

Douglas Hofstadter

231.          The Age of Reform

Richard Hofstadter

232.          Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Forms: A Unifed Approach (2nd ed.)

John H. Hubbard

233.          The Structure of Scientific Revolutions 

Thomas Kuhn

234.          The Metaphors We Live By

George Lakoff & Mark Johnson

235.          The God Particle

Leon Lederman

236.          Structural Anthropology

Claude Levi-Strauss

237.          Surfaces and Interfaces of Solid Materials,3rd Ed.

Hans Luth.

238.          Transitions of Collective Flow at Intermediate Energies (I think 200 dissertations count)

Daniel Joseph Magestro

239.          The First Frontier

John C. Miller

240.          Godel's Proof

Nagel & Newmann

241.          Visual Complex Analysis

Tristam Needham

242.          Collective Flow in Intermediate Energy Collisions

Robert Pak (Really, they count!)

243.          The Psychology of Intelligence

Jean Piaget

244.          Cosmos

Carl Sagan

245.          Integral Measure and Derivative

Shilov & Gurevich

246.          Calculus On Manifolds

Michael Spivak

247.          Chemistry In Two Dimensions: Surfaces

Gabor A. Somorjai

248.          Churchill’s Black Dog, Kafka’s Mice, & Other Phenomena of the Human Mind

Anthony Storr

249.          The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience

Emory M. Thomas

250.          The Quantum Dot

Richard Turton

251.          Sociological Writings (Vol. 60)

Max Weber

252.          Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics

Weinberg and Feynman

253.          The First Three Minutes

Steven Weinberg


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