Favorite Books

Favorites:
• Barth, John: The Sot-Weed Factor
• Borges, Jorge Luis: Collected Fictions
• Joyce, James: Ulysses
• Lem, Stanislaw: Solaris
• Mann, Thomas: Buddenbrooks
• Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: One Hundred Years of Solitude
• McCarthy, Cormac: Suttree
• Nadas, Peter: Book of Memories
• Proust, Marcel: In Search of Lost Time
• Pynchon, Thomas: Gravity's Rainbow
• Saramago, Jose: Blindness
• Shakespeare, William: Hamlet
• Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace
• Whitman, Walt: Leaves of Grass
• Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse

Fiction:
• Abe, Kobo: The Woman in the Dunes
• Achebe, Chinua: Things Fall Apart
• Adams, Richard: Watership Down
• Anderson, Sherwood: Winesburg, Ohio
• Atwood, Margaret: Surfacing
• Barth, John: Giles Goat-Boy
• Bolano, Robert: 2666
• Bowles, Paul: The Sheltering Sky
• Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights
• Byatt, A.S.: Posession
• Canetti, Elias: Auto-da-Fe
• Carpentier, Alejo: The Lost Steps
• Carson, Anne: Autobiography of Red
• Cervantes, Miguel: Don Quixote
• Cheever, John: Bullet Park
• Cheever, John: Falconer
• Coetzee, J.M.: Disgrace
• Coetzee, J.M.: Waiting for the Barbarians
• Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness
• Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo
• Cortazar, Julio: Hopscotch
• Davies, Robertson: The Deptford Trilogy
• Davies, Robertson: The Rebel Angels
• DeLillo, Don: Underworld
• DeLillo, Don: White Noise
• Dickens, Charles: Bleak House
• Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: The Brothers Karamasov
• Eliot, George: Middlemarch
• Erickson, Steve: The Sea Came at Midnight
• Faulkner, William: As I Lay Dying
• Faulkner, William: Light in August
• Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary
• Franzen, Jonathan: The Corrections
• Gaddis, William: The Recognitions
• Gay, William: Provinces of Night
• Gibson, William: Neuromancer
• Graves, Robert: I, Claudius
• Guin, Ursula K. Le: The Left Hand of Darkness
• Hamsun, Knut: Pan
• Harington, Donald: The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks
• Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms
• Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• Kafka, Franz: The Trial
• Kesey, Ken: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
• King, Stephen: Carrie
• King, Stephen: The Shining
• King, Stephen: The Stand
• Koestler, Arthur: Darkness at Noon
• Kundera, Milan: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• Lem, Stanislaw: His Master's Voice
• Llosa, Mario Vargas: Conversation in the Cathedral
• London, Jack: Call of the Wild
• London, Jack: The Sea-Wolf
• Mailer, Norman: The Executioner's Song
• McCammon, Robert: Swan Song
• McCarthy, Cormac: Blood Meridian
• McCarthy, Cormac: The Road
• McMurty, Larry: Lonesome Dove
• Melville, Herman: Moby-Dick
• Murakami, Haruki: Hard Boiled Wonderland at the End of the World
• Musil, Robert: The Man Without Qualities
• Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita
• Nabokov, Vladimir: Pale Fire
• Orwell, George: 1984
• Pavese, Cesare: The Moon and the Bonfire
• Purdy, James: In a Shallow Grave
• Pynchon, Thomas: Mason & Dixon
• Pynchon, Thomas: V.
• Richards, David Adams: Road to the Stilt House
• Roth, Philip: American Pastoral
• Roth, Philip: Portnoy's Complaint
• Salinger, J. D.: The Catcher in the Rye
• Schnitzler, Arthur: Dream Story
• Shelly, Mary: Frankenstein
• Smith, Zadie: White Teeth
• Stapledon, Olaf: Star Maker
• Stendhal: The Red and the Black
• Steinbeck, John: The Grapes of Wrath
• Svevo, Italo: Zeno's Conscience
• Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver's Travels
• Tolkein, J. R. R.: The Hobbit
• Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Voltaire: Candide
• Vonnegut, Kurt: Mother Night
• Vonnegut, Kurt: Slaughterhouse-Five
• Wallace, David Foster: Infinite Jest
• Wells, H. G.: The Time Machine
• Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Woodrell, Daniel: Winter's Bone
• Woolf, Virginia: Orlando
• Wright, Richard: Native Son
• Yourcenar, Marguerite: Memoirs of Hadrian

Poetry:
• Anonymous: The Epic of Gilgamesh
• Ashbery, John: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
• Lucretius: De Rerum Natura
• Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
• Crane, Hart: The Bridge
• Eliot, T. S.: Four Quartets
• Guillen, Nicolas: Man-Making Words
• Hirsch, Edward: Earthly Measures
• Homer: The Odyssey
• Horace: Odes
• Kinnel, Galway: Selected Poems
• Lorca, Federico Garcia: Gypsy Ballads
• Milton, John: Paradise Lost
• Paz, Octavio: Selected Poems
• Pessoa, Fernando: A Little Larger than the Entire Universe
• Rilke, Rainer Maria: Selected Poems
• Tennyson, Alfred: In Memoriam
• Tzu, Lao: Tao Te Ching
• Virgil: The Aeneid
• Wright, Charles: The World of the Ten Thousand Things

Theatre:
• Aeschylus: The Orestia
• Beckett, Samuel: Waiting for Godot
• Capek, Karel: R. U. R.
• Chekhov, Anton: The Cherry Orchard
• Euripides: Medea
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: Faust: First and Second Part
• Ibsen, Henrik: Hedda Gabler
• Ibsen, Henrik: Peer Gynt
• Kushner, Tony: Angels in America
• Miller, Arthur: Death of a Salesman
• Moliere: The Misanthrope
• Pirandello, Luigi: Six Characters in Search of an Author
• Racine, Jean: Phedre
• Sartre, Jean-Paul: No Exit
• Shakespeare, William: Henry IV
• Shakespeare, William: King Lear
• Shakespeare, William: Richard II
• Sophocles: Antigone
• Vega, Lope de: Fuenteovejuna
• Wilde, Oscar: The Importance of Being Earnest

Non-fiction:
• Becker, Ernest: The Denial of Death
• Bloom, Howard: The Lucifer Principle
• Brown, Dee: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
• Bostrom, Nick: Superintelligence
• Bryson, Bill: A Short History of Nearly Everything
• Calvin, William: How Brains Think
• Chaisson, Eric: Cosmic Evolution
• Churchland, Paul: The Engine of Reason
• Davies, Paul: The Eerie Silence
• Dawkins, Richard: The Ancestor's Tale
• Diamond, Jared: Guns, Germs and Steel
• Donald, Merlin: Origins of the Modern Mind
• Durant, Will: The Story of Civilization
• Freidman, Milton: Capitalism and Freedom
• Gleick, James: The Information
• Goodall, Jane: In the Shadow of Man
• Harari, Yuval Noah: Sapiens
• Hofstader, Douglas: Godel, Escher, Bach
• Jacons, Jane: The Life and Death of Great American Cities
• Kahneman, Daniel: Thinking Fast and Slow
• Kaku, Michio: Hyperspace
• Levi, Primo: The Periodic Table
• Mate, Gabor: In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
• Minsky, Marvin: The Society of Mind
• Mithen, Steven: The Prehistory of the Mind
• Plotkin, Henry: Darwin Machines and the Nature of Knowledge
• Safina, Carl: Beyond Words
• Sagan, Carl: Pale Blue Dot
• Shelton, John: Geology Illustrated
• Surowiecki, James: The Wisdom of Crowds
• Thomas, Lewis: The Lives of a Cell
• Wallace, David Foster: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
• de Waal, Franz: Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
• Wells, H. G.: The Outline of History
• Wilson, Edward: On Human Nature
• Wilson, Edward: The Social Conquest of Earth
• Wright, Lawrence: The Looming Tower
• Wright, Richard: Black Boy