User:Lar/Wikipedian Bookshelf

Fiction

• Airframe
• Animal Farm
• The Bourne Identity
• Brave New World
• Catch-22
• Catcher in the Rye
• Deliverance
• Frankenstein
• The Grapes of Wrath
• Hawaii
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series (first three)
• The Hobbit
• Invisible Man
• The Jungle
• Lila: An Inquiry into Morals
• Lord of the Flies
• The Lord of the Rings trilogy
• Of Mice and Men
• Nineteen Eighty-Four
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Plato's Republic
• A Separate Peace
• The Silmarillion
• Space
• A Wrinkle in Time
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Non-fiction

• A Brief History of Time
• Bully for Brontosaurus
• Chaos: Making a New Science
• Civil Disobedience
• The Closing of the American Mind
• Cosmos
• The Diary of Anne Frank
• Disturbing the Universe
• The Double Helix
• Envisioning Information
• The Fractal Geometry of Nature
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
• God's Politics
• Infinity and the Mind
• Innumeracy
• Lost Moon
• The Man Who Knew Infinity: a Life of the Genius Ramanujan
• Metamagical Themas
• The Mismeasure of Man
• A New Kind of Science
• Nicholas and Alexandra
• The Selfish Gene
• Shadows of the Mind
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
• Visual Explanations
• Walden
• Witness to Hope
• many of Martin Gardner's works

• Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Rose Madder by Stephen King
• Pet Sematary by Stephen King
• The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
• The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney
• Whatever Happened to Janie? by Caroline B. Cooney

• The Grapes of Wrath
• Of Mice and Men
• Kidnapped
• Down and Out in Paris and London
• Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Catch-22
• Lord of the Flies
• Heart of Darkness
• Brave New World
• Fahrenheit 451
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• A Brief History of Time

• Smiley's People
• The Russia House
• The Onion Field
• The Choirboys
• Gorky Park
• The Falls
• High Fidelity
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
• Nature's End (by Whitley Strieber)
• The End of Eternity
• Dune
• The Naked Ape

• I'm not so much into books.

• I watch Bill O'Reilly a lot.

On Paper

• Anything by my main man, Terry Pratchett
• Tom Clancy: Red Storm Rising
• Tom Clancy: Rainbow Six
• JRR Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings
• JRR Tolkien: The Hobbit
• Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl (series)
• Eoin Colfer: The Supernaturalist
• Anthony Horowitz: Ark Angel
• How to Rule the World: Andre De Guillaume
• The War of the Worlds: H. G. Wells
• Commodore 1541 Operation Manual
• Sun-Tzu The Art of War
• PCPP

Off Paper

• Street signs
• Sky writing Will you marry me? What?
• Alphabet Spaghetti
• Number plates
• Messages in the Sand
• Graffiti

• The Prometheus Deception
• Second Foundation
• The Amulet of Samarkand
• Northern Lights
• Mao's Last Dancer (by Li Cunxin)
• The Girl Most Likely (by Rebecca Sparrow)
• The Bourne Identity

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Mostly Harmless
• 366 Readings from Buddhism
• What they don't teach you at Harvard Business School
• Managing at the top
• Airborne
• Boy (by Roald Dahl)

Read

• Failed States-Noam Chomsky
• Hegemony or Survival-Noam Chomsky
• Animal Farm-George Orwell
• Homage to Catalonia-George Orwell
• Nineteen Eighty-Four-George Orwell
• The Wealth of Nations-Adam Smith
• Calculus: Early Trancendentals-James Stewart ^{(2/3 read)}
• Slaughterhouse-Five-Kurt Vonnegut
• Weavers of Revolution-Peter Winn
• Open Veins of Latin America-Eduardo Galeano

Currently Reading

• No One Writes to the Colonel-Gabriel García Márquez

To Read List

• General Theory of Employment Interest and Money-John Maynard Keynes
• A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture-Marguerite Feitlowitz
• The Cuban Revolution: Origins, Course, and Legacy-Marifeli P'erez-Stable
• On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation-David Ricardo

• A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman
• Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto
• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
• Villette by Charlotte Brontë
• Tam Lin by Pamela Dean
• Poetry by Emily Dickinson
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• Moonheart by Charles de Lint
• Yarrow by Charles de Lint
• Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
• Poetry by Émile Nelligan
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
• Illuminations (poems) by Arthur Rimbaud
• The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien

• Animorphs
• Baseball trivia books, especially by the Lyons brothers
• the Bible
• The Eight
• Ender's Game
• Godel, Escher, Bach
• Harry Potter
• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Homecoming Saga
• works of Martin Gardner
• Redwall
• works of Raymond Smullyan

• The Wretched of the Earth
• We Say No
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed
• Our Word is Our Weapon
• Instead of Education
• Dune
• Che: A Revolutionary Life
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• Brave New World
• 1984

Fiction

• Amerika
• The Bell Jar
• The Castle
• Catch-22
• Company
• The Foundation Series
• Franny and Zooey
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
• House of Leaves
• Jennifer Government
• The Jungle
• Kiss Kiss
• Lolita
• The Master and Margarita
• Michael Kohlhaas
• The Monkey Wrench Gang
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• The Plague
• The Stranger

• Survivor
• Syrup
• Ubu Roi
• V for Vendetta
• The Word for World is Forest
• "The Burrow"
• "In the Penal Colony"

Non-fiction

• A People's History of the United States
• Amérique
• Anarchism & Other Essays
• Asylums
• Desert Solitaire
• Down the River
• Ecofeminism
• The Feminist Case Against Bureaucracy
• Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
• Last Chance to See
• The Politics of Individualism
• The Second Sex

• A Series of Unfortunate Events
• Alex Rider series
• Animal Farm
• Coping With Cash
• Coping With The Family
• Coping With Teachers
• Flatland
• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Murderous Maths
• Nineteen Eighty-Four

• C. D. Baker
  • The List
  • A Journey of Souls:
    • Crusade of Tears
    • Quest of Hope
    • Pilgrims of Promise
• Charles Dickens
  • A Tale of Two Cities
  • Hard Times, for These Times
  • David Copperfield
• J. R. R. Tolkien
  • The Hobbit
  • The Lord of the Rings
    • The Fellowship of the Ring
    • The Two Towers
    • The Return of the King
  • The Silmarillion

These are just a few of the books I like, some of which actually are on my nightstand right now.

• Thomas Brussig, Helden wie wir
• Anton Chekhov, Chayka - Dyadya Vanya - Tri Sestry - Vishnevyy Sad
• Louis Couperus, Eline Vere
• Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
• James Joyce, Finnegans Wake
• Ulrich Plenzdorf, Die neuen Leiden des jungen W.
• Annie M. G. Schmidt, Jip en Janneke
• Joost van den Vondel, Lucifer - Adam in ballingschap - Noah

Fiction

• A Scanner Darkly, Philip K. Dick
• The Age of Reason, Jean-Paul Sartre
• Animorphs series, K. A. Applegate
• Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
• Candide, Voltaire
• Catch-22, Joseph Heller
• Discworld series, Terry Pratchett
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
• Ender's Game series, Orson Scott Card
• Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
• Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
• Foundation series, Isaac Asimov
• Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
• Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
• The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
• The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
• Harrison Bergeron, Kurt Vonnegut
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
• How Much Land Does a Man Need?, Leo Tolstoy
• The Invisible Man, H. G. Wells
• Logan's Run, William F. Nolan
• The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
• The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
• Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive, Willuam Gibson
• Nightfall, Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg
• Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
• Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey

• The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
• Planet of the Apes, Pierre Boulle
• Ringworld, Larry Niven
• The Running Man, Stephen King (as Richard Bachman)
• The Secret of the League, Ernest Bramah (for ironic reasons)
• The Sheep Look Up, John Brunner
• The Sleeper Awakes, H. G. Wells
• Swastika Night, Katharine Burdekin (as Murray Constantine)
• The Time Machine, H. G. Wells
• To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

Non-fiction

• A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift
• Anarchism & Other Essays, Emma Goldman
• The Darwin Awards, Wendy Northcutt
• Days of War, Nights of Love, CrimethInc.
• L'existentialisme est un humanisme, Jean-Paul Sartre
• Metamagical Themas, Douglas R. Hofstadter
• Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, Peter Kropotkin
• Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook, CrimethInc.
• The Soul of Man under Socialism, Oscar Wilde
• Voices of a People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove
• The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon

• Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
• The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht
• The Empty Space by Peter Brook
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov
• Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
• Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• Have a Nice Day by Mick Foley
• Ulysses by James Joyce
• Guerrilla Warfare by Che Guevara
• All My Sons by Arthur Miller

• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
• The Crucible by Arthur Miller
• V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
• Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• Huis Clos by Jean-Paul Sartre
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• Julius Ceasar by William Shakespeare
• The Tempest by William Shakespeare
• Gunsmith Cats by Kenichi Sonoda
• The Lady of Shalott by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

Fiction

• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• The Black Cat
• Brave New World
• Breakfast of Champions
• The Cask of Amontillado
• The Color Purple
• Empire of the Ants (by Bernard Werber, not the H. G. Wells short story)
• Fahrenheit 451
• The Glass Menagerie
• God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
• The Grapes of Wrath
• Harry Potter series
• The Illustrated Man
• Ishmael
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (wait, does that really go in the fiction section?)
• The Lorax
• Lord of the Flies

• Macbeth
• The Martian Chronicles
• Parable of the Sower (Sci-fi story by Octavia Butler, not the Biblical parable)
• Slaughterhouse-Five
• The Tell-Tale Heart
• The Time Machine
• To Kill a Mockingbird

Non-fiction and Essays

• A Modest Proposal
• Anarchism & Other Essays
• Days of War, Nights of Love
• Evasion
• Pacifism as Pathology: Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America
• Off the Map
• Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook
• Voices of a People's History of the United States

• Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
• Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
• Fire Bringer, David Clement-Davies
• The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
• The House of the Dead, Fyodor Dostoevsky

• The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
• Mémoires, Hector Berlioz
• The Trial, Franz Kafka
• The Twenty-One Balloons, William Pène du Bois
• Watership Down, Richard Adams

Non-Fiction

• The Journal of Benjamin Randall
• Developing the Leaders Around You - John C. Maxwell
• From Old English to Standard English - Dennis Freeborn
• The Story of English - Robert McCrum, et al.
• Running with the Giants - John C. Maxwell
• A Calendar of Wisdom - Tolstoy
• Republic - Plato
• De re publica - Cicero
• The City of God - Augustine of Hippo
• Politics - Aristotle
• Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
• Bias - Bernard Goldberg
• To Gettysburg and Beyond - Michael Golay
• A National Party No More - Zell Miller
• Racing to Win - Joe Gibbs
• Builders of England's Glory - Godfrey Turton
• Personal Work - R. A. Torrey
• The Battle of Gettysburg - Haskell
• The Civil War - Geoffrey Ward & Ken Burns

• Before Scotland: The Story of Scotland Before History - Alistair Moffat
• A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland: with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides - Samuel Johnson & James Boswell
• Flodden 1513: Scotland's greatest defeat - John Sadler
• The Scottish Highlands: A Contested Country/Gaidhealtachd Alba: Tir fo Dheasbad - James Hunter
• The Emergence Of Modern Southeast Asia: A New History - Norman Owen & David Chandler
• International Relations in Southeast Asia: The Struggle for Autonomy - Donald Wetherbee
• Early Civilizations of Southeast Asia - Dougald J.W. O'Reilly

Fiction

• The Book of Lost Tales - J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Hobbit
• The Fellowship of the Ring
• The Two Towers
• The Return of the King
• Star Trek TNG: War Drums - John Vornholt
• Star Trek TNG: Here There Be Dragons - John Peel
• Star Trek TNG: The Romulan Prize - Simon Hawke
• Star Trek DS9: Antimatter - John Vornholt
• Star Trek TNG: Masks - John Vornholt
• Macbeth William Shakespeare
• Beowolf

Fiction

• Heaven Eyes - David Almond
• Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson
• Catalyst - Laurie Halse Anderson
• Miracle At Philadelphia - Catherine Drinker Bowen
• The Manchurian Candidate - Richard Condon
• Paint it Black - Janet Fitch
• The Day They Came to Arrest the Book - Nat Hentoff
• Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
• Gammage Cup - Carol Kendall
• To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

• Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov
• The Violent Bear It Away - Flannery O'Connor
• Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
• A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

Nonfiction

• A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
• Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau

Fiction

• Immortality and the other novels and essays - Milan Kundera
• Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
• The Castle - Franz Kafka