Life Bibliography

My life list of reading

There are many books missing from here. For example, there are a large number of Christian books I need to add here.

Please note that a book appearing in this list does not necessarily have my endorsement!

This list includes books read (physically or in electronic format), and books heard (via audio cassettes, CDs or mp3s)

A=Abridged

GN = Graphic Novels

-- The Bible

-- El Cid

-- Beowulf (translated by Seamus Heaney)

-- Gilgamesh (translated by Stephen Mitchell)

-- The Mabinogion (translated by )

Adams, Richard The Plague Dogs

Adams, Richard Watership Down

Amis, Kingsley The Green Man

Anderson, Fred The War that Made America

Anderson, Neil & Park, Dave Getting Anger Under Control

Anderson, Neil & Park, Dave Stomping Out the Darkness

Andrews, Cecile The Circle of Simplicity (A)

Anthony, Piers On a Pale Horse

Ashe, Geoffrey King Arthur's Avalon

Baum, L. Frank The Wizard of Oz

Beach, Rex The Spoilers

Benchley, Robert The Treasurer's Report

Benson, Raymond The World is not Enough (007)

Bierce, Ambrose An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Black, Holly Valiant

Blish, James A Case of Conscience

Borges, Jose Luis Labyrinths

Brendon, Piers Ike: His Life & Times

Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre

Brooks, Terry Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (based on Lucas screenplay)

Busiek, Kurt Astro City: Life in the Big City (GN)

Burroughs, Edgar Rice John Carter of Mars (series)

Cahill, Thomas Desire of the Everlasting Hills

Cahill, Thomas The Gift of the Jews

Cahill, Thomas How the Irish Saved Civilization (A)

Cahill, Thomas Mysteries of the Middle Ages

Cahill, Thomas Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea

Callenbach, Ernest Ecotopia

Caras, Roger The Forest

Carson, Rachel Silent Spring

Chopra, Deepak; Shekhar Kapur Ramayan (GN)

Clement-Davies, David The Telling Pool

Cooper, James F The Deerslayer

Cooper, James F Last of the Mohicans

Cornwell, Bernard The Winter King (part 1 of The Warlord Chronicles)

Cornwell, Bernard Enemy of God (part 2 of The Warlord Chronicles) (A)

Cornwell, Bernard Excalibur (part 3 of The Warlord Chronicles) (A)

Crane, Stephen An Episode of War

Dalbey, Gordon Healing the Masculine Soul

Dante The Inferno

Davis, Kenneth C. Don’t Know Much about Mythology

DeFoe, Daniel Robinson Carusoe

DeFoe, Daniel Moll Flanders

DeMille, Nelson The Lion’s Game

Dickens, Charles Great Expectations

Drout, Michael D. C. Rings, Swords, and Monsters: Exploring Fantasy Literature (a Modern Scholar course)

Dumas, Alexandre The Man in the Iron Mask

Duncan, Dayton; Ken Burns Lewis and Clark (abridged)

Eco, Umberto The Name of the Rose

Eldredge, John Waking the Dead

Eldredge, John Wild at Heart

Eliot, George Silas Marner

Elwood, Roger Without the Dawn (6 part series)

Farrar, Steve Point Man

Farris, Michael How a Man Prepares his Daughters for Life (lifeskills for men series)

Fast, Howard The Crossing

Feist, Raymond E. The Wood Boy (GN)

Ferling, John Adams vs. Jefferson

Fitzgerald, F. Scott This Beautiful and Damned (partial)

Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby

Fitzgerald, F. Scott This Side of Paradise

Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary

Flint, Kenneth C. Challenge of the Clans

Follet, Ken Eye of the Needle

Follet, Ken Triple

Forster, E. M. A Room with a View

Forster, E. M. Howard’s End

Foster, Richard J. Celebration of Discipline (abridged)

Fromme, Eric The Art of Loving

Frost, Robert The Poetry of Robert Frost

Gaiman, Neil Stardust (w/ illustrations by Charles Vess)

Garland, Hamlin The Return of a Private

Gibson, William Virtual Light

Gilbert, How a Man Stands up for Christ (lifeskills for men series)

Gleeson, Janet The Arcanum; The Extrordinary True Story (A)

Gleick, James Chaos

Grey, Zane Riders of the Purple Sage

Haddon, Mark The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Hardy, Thomas Tess of the d’Urbervilles

Harte, Bret The Outcasts of Poker Flat

Hawke, David F. John D. [Rockefeller]

Hawking, Stephen A Brief History of Time

Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel Young Goodman Brown

Heinlein, Robert L. Starship Troopers

Hemingway, Earnest A Farewell to Arms

Hemingway, Earnest Across the River and Into the Trees

Hemingway, Earnest For Whom the Bell Tolls

Hemingway, Earnest The Old Man and the Sea

Hemingway, Earnest The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

Hemingway, Earnest The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Hemingway, Earnest The Sun Also Rises

Hemingway, Earnest To Have and Have Not

Henry, O. The Furnished Room

Henry, O. The Gift of the Magi

Hersey, John A Bell for Adano

Hillerman, Tony Dance Hall of the Dead (#2)

Hillerman, Tony The Dark Wind (#5)

Hillerman, Tony The Fallen Man (#12)

Hillerman, Tony The First Eagle (#13)

Hillerman, Tony The Ghostway (#6)

Hillerman, Tony Hunting Badger (#14)

Hillerman, Tony Sacred Clowns (#11)

Hillerman, Tony The Sinister Pig (#16)

Hillerman, Tony The Shape Shifter (#18)

Hillerman, Tony Skeleton Man (#17)

Hillerman, Tony The Wailing Wind (#15)

Hofstaedler, D. Godel, Escher, Bach

Homer The Iliad (trans. by Robert Fitzgerald)

Homer The Odyssey

Howarth, David, Stephen Lord Nelson

Hugo, Victor Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Irving, Washington The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Irving, Washington Rip Van Winkle

Jacques, Brian Mossflower

Jacques, Brian Redwall

James, P.D. The Black Tower

Kafka, Franz The Metamorphosis

Keegan, John The First World War (A)

Keene, Carolyn The Clue of the Whistling Bagpipes

Kiellor, Garrison Guy Noir, Radio Private Eye

Kiellor, Garrison Mother Father Uncle Aunt – Stories from Lake Wobegon

Kiellor, Garrison Stories – Stories from Lake Wobegon

Kiellor, Garrison The Book of Guys

Kiellor, Garrison Wobegon Boy

Kipling, Rudyard Mary Postgate

Kipling, Rudyard The Drums of the Fore and Aft

Kipling, Rudyard The Man Who Would be King

Kohn, Howard The Last Farmer

Lacey, R; Danziger, D The Year 1000

Langguth, A. J. Patriots

Lardner, Ring Haircut

Larson, Gary Cows of Our Planet

Le Carre, John The Looking Glass War

L’ Engle, Madeleine A Wrinkle in Time

Le Guin, Ursula The Beginning Place

Lehaye, Tim; Jenkins, J Left Behind (series)

Lee, Tanith The Birthgrave

Levitt, Steven D; Dubner, Stephen J. Freakonomics

Lewis, C.S. Mere Christianity

Lewis, C.S. The Abolition of Man

Lewis, C.S. The Four Loves

Lewis, C. S. Till We Have Faces

Leopold, Aldo A Sand County Almanac

London, Jack To Build a Fire

Machiavelli, Niccolo The Prince

Madden, Thomas F. God Wills It! Understanding the Crusades (a Modern Scholar course)

Manchester, William A World Lit Only by Fire

Martel, Yann Life of Pi

Martin, George R R The Hedge Knight (GN)

Martin, George R R A Game of Thrones (#1 of A Song of Ice and Fire)

Martin, George R R A Clash of Kings (#2 of A Song of Ice and Fire)

Martin, George R R A Storm of Swords (#3 of A Song of Ice and Fire)

Martin, George R R A Feast for Crows (#4 of A Song of Ice and Fire)

Massie, Allan Tiberius

Mast, Joseph A. The Emerging Self - A Celtic Journey

Matthiessen, Peter The Snow Leopard

Mazower, Mark The Balkans

McCaffrey, Anne Dragonflight

McCaffrey, Anne Dragonquest

McCaffrey, Anne The Masterharper of Pern

McCaffrey, Anne Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern

McCaffrey, Anne Renegades of Pern

McCaffrey, Anne The White Dragon

McCain, John Faith of my Fathers (abridged)

McCloud, Scott Comics Revisited

McCloud, Scott Understanding Comics

Melville, Herman Bartleby the Scrivener

Melville, Herman Billy Budd

Milton, John Paradise Lost

Mitchell, Stephen Gilgamesh (translation)

Montgomery, L.M. The Chronicles of Avonlea

Muir, John The Mountains of California

Naisbitt, John High Tech, High Touch (abridged)

O’Brien, George The giants of Irish literature: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce and Beckett (a Modern Scholar course)

O’Donnell, How a Man Prepares his Sons for Life (lifeskills for men series)

O’Donohue, John The Invisible World

O’Nan, Giving Yourself Away

Peattie, Donald C A Natural History of Trees

Peters, Ellis An Excellent Mystery

Peters, Ellis Monk’s Hood

Peters, Ellis The Confession of Brother Haluin

Peters, Ellis The Knocker on Death’s Door

Peters, Ellis The Summer of the Danes

Poe, Edgar Allen The Tell-Tale Heart

Prebble, John Culloden

Preston, Richard American Steel

Pyle, Howard The Story of King Arthur and his Knights

Pyle, Kevin C. Blindspot (GN)

Rice, Anne Interview with the Vampire

Rice, Anne The Vampire Armand (abridged)

Roberts, John Maddox King of the Woods

Rosenberg, Joel <sci fi>

Shakespeare, William A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Shakespeare, William Hamlet

Shakespeare, William Macbeth (from Shakespeare Appreciated - guided analysis)

Shelley, Mary Dracula

Shorto, Russell The Island at the Center of the World

Shutt, Timothy B. Masterpieces of Medieval Literature (a Modern Scholar course)

Shutt, Timothy B. Monsters, Gods & Heroes; Approaching the Epic in literature (a Modern Scholar course)

Silverberg, Robert Sailing to Byzantium

Smalley, Gary The DNA of Relationships

Smith, Jeff Rose

Sobel, Dava Galileo’s Daughter

Stegner, Wallace A Sense of Place

Stott, John R. Basic Christianity

Stevenson, Robert Louis Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Stewart, Mary The Gabriel Hounds

Stockton, Frank The Lady or the Tiger

Swift, Jonathan Gulliver's Travels

Swindoll, Charles The Mystery of God’s Will (abridged)

Theroux, Paul Half Moon Street

Theroux, Paul The Old Patagonian Express

Thurber, James Interview with a Lemming

Tolkien, J R R The Hobbit

Tolkien, J R R The Lord of the Rings

Toqueville, Alexis de Democracy in America

Tozer, A. W. The Attributes of God

Turner, Michael Soulfire (1) (GN)

Twain, Mark The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

Twain, Mark What Stumped the Blue Jays?

Tyler, Anne The Accidental Tourist

Ueland, Brenda If You Want to Write (abridged)

Vess, Charles Spirits of the Earth (GN)

Vidal, Gore 1876

Vidal, Gore Burr

Vidal, Gore The Golden Age

Vidal, Gore Inventing a Nation

Welty, Eudora The Ponder Heart

Wharton, Edith Ethan Frome

White, E B Charlotte's Web

White, E B Stuart Little

Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray

Wilkinson, Bruce The Prayer of Jabez

Williams, Tad The Burning Man (GN)

Wolgemuth, Robert Daddy @Work (A)

Yolen, Jane Sword of the Rightful King

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