An incomplete answer to the question: What do you read?
Fiction
- Lucky Jim, by Kingsley Amis
- Heyday: A Novel, by Kurt Andersen.
- Lives of the Monster Dogs, by Kirstin Bakis.
- The Sot-Weed Factor, John Barth.
- The Postman Always Rings Twice, by James M. Cain.
- Double Indemnity, by James M. Cain.
- Don Quixote by Cervantes (new translation from Edith Grossman)
- Falconer, by John Cheever.
- The Andromeda Strain, by Michael Crichton.
- Bleak House, by Charles Dickens.
- Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
- Notes From The Underground, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
- The Dick Gibson Show, by Stanley Elkin.
- The Living End, by Stanley Elkin.
- As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner.
- The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen.
- The Thought Gang, by Tibor Fischer.
- Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert.
- Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol.
- Lord Of The Flies, William Golding.
- Mariette In Ecstasy, by Ron Hansen.
- Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett.
- Jesus’s Son, by Denis Johnson.
- The Pugilist At Rest, by Thom Jones.
- Dreamcatcher, by Stephen King.
- The Long Walk, by Stephen King.
- Misery, by Stephen King.
- The Stand, by Stephen King.
- Bad Chemistry, by Gary Krist.
- Chaos Theory, by Gary Krist.
- The Unbearable Lightness Of Being, by Milan Kundera.
- Shutter Island, by Dennis Lehane
- Get Shorty, by Elmore Leonard.
- Doctor Faustus, by Thomas Mann.
- I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson.
- The Moon and Sixpence, by W. Somerset Maugham.
- The Razor’s Edge, by W. Somerset Maugham.
- Charming Billy, Alice McDermott
- The Treatment, by Daniel Menaker.
- Moby Dick, Herman Melville.
- The Tropic Of Cancer, Henry Miller.
- Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov.
- Pale Fire, by Vladimir Nabokov.
- The Complete Stories Of Flannery O’Connor, by Flannery O’Connor.
- The Most Of S.J. Perelman, by S.J. Perelman.
- Galatea 2.2, by Richard Powers.
- Gravity’s Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon.
- The Face Of A Naked Lady: An Omaha Family Mystery, by Michael Rips.
- The Catcher In The Rye, J.D. Salinger.
- Franny and Zooey, by J.D. Salinger.
- CivilWarLand In Bad Decline, by George Saunders.
- Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson.
- The Confessions Of Nat Turner, by William Styron.
- Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy.
- Presumed Innocent, by Scott Turow.
- Pleading Guilty, by Scott Turow.
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain.
- Breakfast Of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut.
- Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut.
- The Bonfire of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe.
- A Man In Full, by Tom Wolfe.
Non-Fiction
- The Savage God, by A. Alvarez.
- The Mother Tongue, by Bill Bryson.
- The Songlines, by Bruce Chatwin.
- Descartes Error, by Antonio Damasio.
- Consciousness Explained, by Daniel Dennett.
- The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, by Charles Darwin.
- The Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist’s Astonishing Journey into the Secret Societies of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis, and Magic, by Wade Davis.
- Climbing Mount Improbable, by Richard Dawkins.
- Guns, Germs and Steel, by Jared Diamond.
- Seeing in the Dark, by Timothy Ferris.
- The Golden Bough, James Frazer.
- Radical Evolution, by Joel Garreau.
- The Coming Plague, by Laurie Garrett.
- On Being Blue, William Gass.
- When Things Start To Think, by Neil Gershenfeld.
- Conduct Under Fire, by John A. Glusman.
- No Ordinary Time, by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
- Life Work, by Donald Hall.
- Swearing: A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths and Profanity, by Geoffrey Hughes.
- Hate Crimes: Criminal Law & Identity Politics, by Jacobs & Potter.
- The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, by Julian Jaynes.
- Savages, by Joe Kane.
- Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist, by Walter Kaufmann
- The Face Of Battle, by John Keegan.
- The Florence King Reader, by Florence King.
- With Charity Toward None: A Fond Look At Misanthropy, by Florence King.
- On Writing, by Stephen King.
- The Age Of Spiritual Machines, by Ray Kurzweil.
- Are We Spiritual Machines? Kurzweil vs. The Critics of Strong A.I., by Kurzweil et al.
- Bird By Bird: Some Instructions On Writing And Life, by Anne Lamott
- Sade: A Biography, by Maurice Lever.
- Wild People: Travels With Borneo’s Headhunters, by Andro Linklater.
- Big Chief Elizabeth, by Giles Milton.
- The American Way Of Death, by Jessica Mitford.
- Robot: Mere Machine To Transcendent Mind, by Hans P. Moravec.
- A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, by Sylvia Nasar.
- The Scramble For Africa, by Thomas Packenham.
- In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, by Nathaniel Philbrick
- How The Mind Works, by Steven Pinker.
- The Language Instinct, by Steven Pinker.
- Brainscapes: An Introduction to Neuroscience, by Richard Restak.
- The Red Queen: Sex and Evolution, by Matt Ridley.
- The Face Of A Naked Woman: An Omaha Family Mystery, by Michael Rips.
- Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks.
- The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era, by Thomas Schatz.
- Illness As Metaphor, Susan Sontag.
- The Elements Of Style, Strunk and White.
- Darkness Visible, by William Styron.
- A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, by Barbara Tuchman
- Dreams Of A Final Theory, by Steven Weinberg.
- The Naturalist, by E.O. Wilson.
- The Ants, by E.O. Wilson.
- Consilience, by E.O. Wilson.
- The Moral Animal, by Robert Wright.
