This used to be just some comments on some books that I have read,
but more
recently I've been getting into doing these book reviews. Perhaps this is tied
to an increase in free time, or maybe I've started to realize the value of
writing down notes about books so I can remember them more than a week later.
Books marked with a (P) or (H) received the Pulitzer Prize or the Hugo Award, respectively.
Fiction
Anthony Burgess : A Clockwork Orange
Disclosure
The Great Train Robbery
Samuel Beckett : Waiting for Godot
Clyde Edgerton : Walking Across Egypt
The Collector
The French Lieutenant's Woman
A Maggot
The Magus
Mark Haddon : The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Black Sunday
Red Dragon
The Silence of the Lambs
The Journey East
Siddhartha
James Joyce : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Poisonwood Bible
Prodigal Summer
Alan Lightman : Good Benito
Toni Morrison : The Bluest Eye
Ayn Rand : The Fountainhead
J.D. Salinger : The Catcher in the Rye
Erich Remarque : All Quiet on the Western Front
Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson : The Illuminatus! Trilogy
Upton Sinclair : The Jungle
Mark Twain : The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Porno
Trainspotting
Scifi / fantasy
The Foundation Series
The Robot Series
Orson Scott Card : Ender's Game
The Andromeda Strain
Jurassic Park
Sphere
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (H)
Stranger in a Strange Land (H)
Frank Herbert : Dune
Daniel Keyes : Flowers for Algernon
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle : The Mote in God's Eye
Robert C. O'Brien : Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
The Silmarillion
Nonfiction
Frank W. Abnagle, Jr. : Catch Me If You Can
Robert Baker : A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown
William Calvin and Derek Bickerton : Lingua Ex Machina
Stanley Coren : The Left-Hander Syndrome
Travis Culley : The Immortal Class
Hillman Curtis : MTIV : Process, Inspiration, and Practice for the New Media Designer
Terrence Deacon : The Symbolic Species
John Dewey : Experience and Education
Jared Diamond : Guns, Germs, and Steel (P)
Ivan Doig : This House of Sky
John Eccles and Karl Popper : The Self and Its Brain
Dave Eggers : A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Paul Fussell : Poetic Meter & Poetic Form
Neil Gershenfeld : When Things Start to Think
Gödel, Escher, Bach (P)
Metamagical Themas
Tracy Kidder : The Soul of a New Machine (P)
Barbara Kingsolver : Small Wonder
Naomi Klein : No Logo
Into the Wild
Into Thin Air
John McWhorter : The Power of Babel
Isshu Miura and Ruth Fuller Sasaki : The Zen Koan
Donald Norman : The Design of Everyday Things
Kathleen Norris : Dakota : A Spiritual Geography
Daniel Quinn : Ishmael
Masters of Death
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (P)
Matt Ridley : Genome
Arundhati Roy : War Talk
The Conquest of Happiness
A History of Western Philosophy
Marriage and Morals
Unpopular Essays
David Sedaris : Me Talk Pretty One Day
Barbara Siegert : Bicycle Across America
Howard Zinn : A People's History of the United States