A list of 100 books I have read. How many of these books have you read?<\/p>\n
\n1984 – George Orwell<\/p>\nA Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole<\/p>\n
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain<\/p>\n
Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Caroll<\/p>\n
All Creatures Great and Small – James Herriot<\/p>\n
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque<\/p>\n
Anarchist Portraits – Paul Avrich<\/p>\n
And the Band Played On – Randy Shilts<\/p>\n
Assassination Vacation – Sarah Vowell<\/p>\n
Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music – S Alexander Reed<\/p>\n
The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Malcolm X<\/p>\n
Bekenntnisse – Nina Hagen<\/p>\n
Bird by Bird – Anne Lammot<\/p>\n
The Boys of Summer – Roger Kahn<\/p>\n
Charlotte’s Web – EB White<\/p>\n
Das Boot – Lothar-G\u00fcnther Buchheim<\/p>\n
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller<\/p>\n
The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger<\/p>\n
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl<\/p>\n
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens<\/p>\n
The Code Book – Simon Singh<\/p>\n
The Color Purple – Alice Walker<\/p>\n
The Complete Plays of Joe Orton – Joe Orton<\/p>\n
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky<\/p>\n
Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol<\/p>\n
Death of a Salesman -Arthur Miller<\/p>\n
Demon Haunted World – Carl Sagan<\/p>\n
Der, Die, Was? – David Bergmann<\/p>\n
The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri<\/p>\n
The Diary of Anne Frank – Anne Frank<\/p>\n
Drugs are Nice – Lisa Crystal Carver<\/p>\n
Dune – Frank Herbert<\/p>\n
The Edible Woman – Margaret Atwood<\/p>\n
Eight Men Out – Eliot Asinof<\/p>\n
The Elegance of the Universe – Brian Greene<\/p>\n
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues – Tom Robbins<\/p>\n
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury<\/p>\n
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S Thompson<\/p>\n
The Good Earth – Pearl S Buck<\/p>\n
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck<\/p>\n
The Great Gatsby – F Scott Ftzgerlad<\/p>\n
Ham on Rye – Charles Bukowski<\/p>\n
Hamlet – “William Shakespeare”<\/p>\n
Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen – Joanne K Rowling<\/p>\n
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad<\/p>\n
Hell’s Angel – Sonny Barger<\/p>\n
Hey, Wait a Minute – John Madden<\/p>\n
The History of Western Philosiphy – Bertrand Russel<\/p>\n
The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams<\/p>\n
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou<\/p>\n
In the Land of Invented Languages – Arika Orkent<\/p>\n
The Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison<\/p>\n
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone – August Wilson<\/p>\n
The Last Resort – Aggie Max<\/p>\n
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry<\/p>\n
Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkein<\/p>\n
Les Miserabl\u00e9 – Victor Hugo<\/p>\n
Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris<\/p>\n
Men of Mathematics – ET Bell<\/p>\n
The Mismeasure of Man – Stephen Jay Gould<\/p>\n
Moby Dick – Herman Melville<\/p>\n
The Moviegoer – Walker Percy<\/p>\n
My Brief History – Stephen Hawking<\/p>\n
My Gender Workbook – Kate Bornstein<\/p>\n
My World and Welcome to it – James Thurber<\/p>\n
Naked Lunch – William S Burroughs<\/p>\n
Native Son – Richard Wright<\/p>\n
No Exit – Jean Paul Sartre<\/p>\n
Nothing for Ungood – John Madison<\/p>\n
The Odyssey – Homer<\/p>\n
On the Road – Jack Kerouac<\/p>\n
The Once and Future King – TH White<\/p>\n
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez<\/p>\n
Orange is the New Black – Piper Kerman<\/p>\n
Packing for Mars – Mary Roach<\/p>\n
Persopolis – Marjane Satrapi<\/p>\n
Peter the Great – Robert k Massie<\/p>\n
The Physics of Star Trek – Lawrence Krauss<\/p>\n
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde<\/p>\n
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyces<\/p>\n
The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane<\/p>\n
Rock n’ Roll Melancholy – Kim Acrylic<\/p>\n
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne<\/p>\n
The Screwtape Letters – CS Lewis<\/p>\n
Shock Value – John Waters<\/p>\n
Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vinnegut<\/p>\n
The Souls of Black Folk – WEB Dubois<\/p>\n
Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse<\/p>\n
The Street – Ann Petry<\/p>\n
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway<\/p>\n
The Thin Red Line – James Jones<\/p>\n
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee<\/p>\n
The Trial – Franz Kafka<\/p>\n
Trout Fishing in America – Richard Brautigan<\/p>\n
Tyco and Kepler – Kitty Ferguson<\/p>\n
Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett<\/p>\n
Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters – Jean Shepard<\/p>\n
The Call of the Wild – Jack London<\/p>\n
Who Wrote Shakespeare? – John Michel<\/p>\n
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert M Pirsig<\/ol>\n
I didn’t list these particular books because they were necessarily standouts in my mind, and are not in any particular order or genre, save alphabetical. In writing this list I just started jotting down the first titles that came to mind. I mentioned the Walker Percy book because that writer was instrumental in getting A Confederacy of Dunces published.<\/p>\n
I was careful not to list the same author twice. I’ve read many books by Hunter S Thompson and Sarah Vowell, for example, but I only listed one book by each of them. (Same for Richard Wright and Dostoyevsky and several others.) Some of these books I read for school. The Once and Future King and The Invisible Man, for instance. <\/p>\n
In saying I’ve read these books I mean I’ve really read them, all the way through. One writer who wrote and article about William S Burrough’s Naked Lunch remarked that most people who had read the book had only really read half, or two thirds of the book, without finishing it, yet would still proclaim “I’ve read Naked Lunch”. The same thing applies to other works like Moby Dick. “I’ve read Moby Dick!” (They actually didn’t get around to finishing it three quarters of the way through.) Each and every book on this list was read by me cover-to-cover.<\/p>\n
Some of these books I read in German. Das Boot for example. There are also a couple of books which I’ve read in English and then later on in German. Confederacy of Dunces and The Little Prince, for example. (The German translation of Confederacy was superb, FYI. By a translator named Peter Marginter, who must be an English and Deutsch Meister!) And I have read the first Harry Potter book, but it was the German translation, ergo the German title.<\/p>\n
There is an awful lot of non-fiction on this list, it’s true. I do have a weakness for the stranger-than-fiction. There are also a few obscure titles on this list. Nina Hagen’s autobiography Bekentnisse hasn’t gotten around too much, at least in the US, and The Last Resort was written by a friend of mine, and never got much exposure. Her publisher didn’t put much elbow grease into promoting it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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