BOOKS

Books I Have Completed

1984 – George Orwell

About a Boy – Nick Hornby

The Actual – Saul Bellow

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

The American Dream – Edward Albee

Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt

Animal Farm – George Orwell

Apology – Plato

Awareness: the Perils and Opportunities of Reality – Anthony de Mello

Beowulf 

Best Christmas Pagaent Ever – Barbara Robinson

Big Sur – Jack Kerouac

Black Elk Speaks

The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

Bridge to Terabithia – Katherine Paterson

The Call of the Wild – Jack London

Candide – Voltaire

The Cat in the Hat – Dr. Seuss

The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger

Centering Prayer: Renewing an Ancient Christian Prayer Form – M. Basil Pennington*

Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White

The Children’s Story – James Clavell

The Chosen – Chaim Potok

A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana – Michael Azerrad

The Commitments – Roddy Doyle

A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

Contemplative Prayer – Thomas Merton

The Contender – Robert Lipsyte

Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Crito – Plato

A Day No Pigs Would Die – Robert Newton Peck

Desert Solitaire – Edward Abbey

The Dharma Bums – Jack Kerouac

Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia - Carolyn & Pamela Wagner

Dolores Claiborne – Stephen King

Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ... 5 per cent unread

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim – David Sedaris

Emma – Jane Austen

Encounters with Qi: Exploring Chinese Medicine – David Eisenberg

Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury

The Fellowship of the Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien

The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom

Flight – Sherman Alexie

The Fool’s Progress – Edward Abbey

Forrest Gump – Winston Groom

Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything – Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner*

Free the Beagle: A Journey to Destinae – Roy H. Williams

The Ghostway – Tony Hillerman

The Ginger Man – J.P. Donleavy

Girls & Sex – Peggy Orenstein*

The Giver – Louis Lowry

The Giving Tree – Shel Silverstein

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut

The Golden Compass – Philip Pullman*

The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck

Goodbye Mr. Chips – James Hilton

The Grand Design – Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow*

The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

The Great Bicycle Caper: Across America on a Ten Speed – Edward Wright

Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift

Hard Times – Charles Dickens

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (1)

“                             Chamber of Secrets (2) – J.K. Rowling

Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad (abridged)

Heavier Then Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain – Charles R. Cross

Historie d’O – Pauline Reage

The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien

Homecoming – Cynthia Voigt

How Droofus The Dragon Lost His Head – Bill Peet

How to Eat – Thich Nhat Hanh

Illusions: Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah – Richard Bach

I Still Dream About You – Fannie Flagg*

Indian Killer – Sherman Alexie

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – James Rollins

Inferno – Dante Alighieri

Invention – Lionel Bender

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit – Daniel Quinn

It’s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life – Lance Armstrong

John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs – Jack London

Junky – William S. Burroughs

Jurassic Park – Michael Crichton

The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East – Sandy Tolan*

A Light in the Attic – Shel Silverstein

The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven – Sherman Alexie

The Lorax – Dr. Seuss

Lord of the Flies - William Golding

Love Story – Erich Segal

Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris

Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

Meno – Plato

The Misanthrope – Moliere

Moby Dick; or, The Whale – Herman Melville

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain - Oliver Sacks*

Never Fade Away: The Kurt Cobain Story – Dave Thompson

Night – Elie Wiesel

The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway

Old Yeller – Fred Gipson

On the Road – Jack Kerouac

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft – Stephen King

Oscar Lobster’s Fair Exchange – George Selden

The Outsiders – S.E. Hinton

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha – Roddy Doyle

The Pearl – John Steinbeck

The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster

Pot Planet: Adventures in Global Marijuana Culture – Brian Preston

Pot Stories for the Soul – Paul Krassner

A Practical Guide to Buddhist Meditation – Paramananda

The Raft – Robert Trumbull

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction – J.D. Salinger

The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane

Reservation Blues – Sherman Alexie

Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien

The Road – Jack London

Room – Emma Donaghue*

The Secret – Rhonda Byrne*

The Secret Life of Dilly McBean – Dorothy Haas

SeinLanguage – Jerry Seinfeld

The Seven Storey Mountain – Thomas Merton

Simple Gifts – Lori Copeland

Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut

Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation - Alan Watts

The Stranger – Albert Camus

The Symposium – Plato

Taming the Star Runner – S.E. Hinton

The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism – Fritjof Capra

The Tao of Pooh – Benjamin Hoff

Tao te Ching – Lao Tzu

The Te of Piglet - Benjamin Hoff

The Tempest – William Shakespeare

Ten Little Indians – Sherman Alexie

A Theft – Saul Bellow

The Toughest Indian in the World – Sherman Alexie

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith

Tristessa – Jack Kerouac

True at First Light – Ernest Hemingway

Two for Survival – Arthur J. Roth

The Two Towers – J.R.R. Tolkien

The Victim – Saul Bellow

Wait and See – Robert Munsch

The Whale’s Song – Dyan Sheldon

Where the Red Fern Grows – Wilson Rawls

Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein

Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak

White Fang – Jack London

White Noise – Don DeLillo

The Winter’s Tale – William Shakespeare

Wisdom of the Ages – Wayne Dyer* 

The Wish – Gail Carson Levine

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum

Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë

You’re in Love, Charlie Brown – Charles M. Schulz

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values – Robert M. Pirsig

*Audiobook

Books I Want to Read A.S.A.P.

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea – Jules Verne

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain

Andromeda Strain – Michael Crichton

Around the World in 80 Days – Jules Verne

The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

Beloved – Toni Morrison

The Book of Chuang Tzu 

The Chronicles of Narnia (1-7) – C.S. Lewis   

Cien Años de Soledad – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court – Mark Twain

The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown

Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller

Dhalgren – Samuel R. Delany

Down the Long Hills – Louis L’Amour

Dracula – Bram Stoker

Everything – Kevin Canty

A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway

Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes

Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell

The Green Mile – Stephen King

Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

Happiness - Thich Nhat Hanh

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (3)

“                             Goblet of Fire (4)

“                             Order of the Phoenix (5)

“                              Half-Blood Prince (6)

“                              Deathly Hallows (7) – J.K. Rowling

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers

It – Stephen King

Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne

Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

Le Morte D’Artur – Thomas Malory

Lila: An Inquiry into Morals – Robert M. Pirsig

The Neverending Story – Michael Ende

Perfume – Patrick Suskind

The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky

Peter Pan – J.M. Barrie

Self-Reliance – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Shining – Stephen King

Shōgun – James Clavell

Sphere – Michael Crichton

The Stand – Stephen King

The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway

Tex – S.E. Hinton

The Time Machine – H.G. Wells

To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

The Tommyknockers – Stephen King

The Town and the City – Jack Kerouac

Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson

Ulysses – James Joyce

Walden – Henry David Thoreau

Watership Down – Richard Adams

Winnie-the-Pooh – A.A. Milne

A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle

— February 2017