Update 4/21/2008: I have been tracking the books I have read (and writing book reviews) on my Goodreads profile. That will invariably be more up to date than this page.
Note: This should probably be called Partial list of books I have read. By happy coincidence I came across this list going through some old files. I was really upset when I thought I had lost it forever. I started the list on the front cover of a sketch book/journal that I bought my 3rd year in college. Then it has migrated to various work computers, Palms, PDAs, Outlook files. I finally found it on Outlook on our home computer.
The list as I found it hasn’t been updated since August 2002, and I never bothered to start a new one. Between August 2002 and now we have given away most of our books to the Friends of the Elysium Library, so I can’t go through them to get a complete list. I’m filling books in as I remember them. Consider anything newer than August 2002 to be incomplete, though I admit freely that I have been reading a lot less since then. I’m not going to bother to include the 1,000s of childrens books that I have read to my kids.
The books are (mostly) in reverse chronological order and separated by year markers or milestones in my life.
Sloth by Gilbert Hernandez
Gemma Bovery by Posy Simmonds
Jetavana (Buddha, Vol. 8) by Osamu Tezuka
Prince Ajatasattu (Buddha, Vol. 7) by Osamu Tezuka
Ananda (Buddha, Vol. 6) by Osamu Tezuka
Deer Park (Buddha, Vol. 5) by Osamu Tezuka
The Forest of Uruvela (Buddha, Vol. 4) by Osamu Tezuka
Devadatta (Buddha, Vol. 3) by Osamu Tezuka
The Four Encounters (Buddha, Vol. 2) by Osamu Tezuka
Kapilavastu (Buddha, Vol. 1) by Osmau Tezuka
It’s a Good Life, If You Don’t Weaken by Seth
The New Smithsonian Book of Comic Book Stories: From Crumb to Clowes, ed. by Bob Callahan
The R. Crumb Handbook by R Crumb and Peter Poplaski
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
Year’s Best Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga, ed. by Byron Preiss, Howard Zimmerman, and Neil Gaiman
Graphic Novels: Everything You Need to Know by Paul Gravett
Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang
Planetary: Crossing Worlds by Warren Ellis and John Cassaday
Planetary Vol. 3: Leaving the 20th Century by Warren Ellis
Planetary Vol. 2: The Fourth Man by Warren Ellis
Planetary Vol. 1: All Over the World and Other Stories by Warren Ellis
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Rip It Up & Start Again: PostPunk 1978-1984 by Simon Reynolds
Spy: The Funny Years by Kurt Andersen, Graydon Carter, and George Kalogerakis
Wall and Piece by Bansky
Raymond Chandler’s Marlowe, The Graphic Novel: A Trilogy of Crime, ed. by Dean Motter
Flaming Carrot, Vol. 6: Special Women Trouble Issue by Bob Burden
Google Hacking for Penetration Testers by Johnny Long
Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion From Reagan’s Workplaces to Clinton’s Columbine and Beyond by Mark Ames
Pleasant Hell by John Dolan
Bad Childhood, Good Life by Dr. Laura Schlessinger
How To Survive a Robot Uprising : Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion by Daniel H. Wilson
Music Lust : Recommended Listening for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason by Nic Harcourt
The Google Story by David Vise
The Beatles: The Biography by Bob Spitz
*** Beginning of 2006/End of 2005 ***
The New Yorker Book of Christmas Cartoons
The Birth of Plenty : How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created by William Bernstein
Getting What You Came For by Robert L. Peters, Ph.D.
Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There by David Brooks
Miss America by Howard Stern
Private Parts by Howard Stern
The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture by John Battelle
Washington DC, Eyewitness Travel Guides
Last Night A DJ Saved My Life by Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton
Spanking The Donkey by Matthew Taibbi
Letters To A Young Conservative by Dinesh D’Souza
What’s So Great About America by Dinesh D’Souza
Vengeance : The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team by George Jonas
Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
The Exile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia by Mark Ames, Matthew Taibbi
Listening In by Susan Douglas
How To DJ Right by Frank Broughton
Radio Production: A Manual For Broadcasters, 4th Edition by Robert McLeish
The Radio Station, 6th Edition by Michael C. Keith
***Beginning of 2005/End of 2004***
The Big Book of Conspiracies by Doug Moench
McSweeny’s Quarterly Concern #13 (Cartoons)
Hubble, The Mirror On The Universe by Robin Kerrod
The Proper Care And Feeding Of Husbands by Dr. Laura Schlessinger
The Beatles Literary Anthology by Mike Evans, ed.
The Middle Mind by Curtis White
The 9/11 Commission Report by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
Beyond by Michael Benson
Kant for Beginners by Christopher Want
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeill and Gillian McCain
Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
A World of Imponderables: The Answers to Life’s Most Mystifying Questions (Imponderables Series) by David Feldman
Mythology : The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross by Alex Ross
Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
My War With Brian by Ted Rall
Real Americans Admit: The Worst Thing I Ever Did by Ted Rall
American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar
*** Left Pacifica/Moved to Palo Alto ***
*** Beginning of 2003/End of 2002 ***
The Mammoth Book of Ancient Rome Eyewitness by Jon Lewis, ed.
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome (Penguin Historical Atlases)
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Volume 1) by Edward Gibbon
The Code Book by Simon Singh
Secrets and Lies : Digital Security in a Networked World by Bruce Schneier
The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security by Kevin D. Mitnick
Counterhack by Ed Skoudis
How to Make Money in Commercial Real Estate : For the Small Investor by Nicholas Masters
101 Secrets a Good Dad Knows by Walter Browder, Sue Ellin Browder
First Things First by Stephen R. Covey
Batman: The Ultimate Guide To The Dark Knight by Scott Beatty
Balsamic Dreams: A Short but Self-Important History of the Baby Boom Generation by Joe Queenan
Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon: Joe Queenan’s America by Joe Queenan
Spiderman: The Ultimate Guide by Tom DeFalco
Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe-A Centennial Celebration, ed. by Byron Preiss
Slate’s Greatest Hits: The Best of Our First Five Years (eBook)
The Slate Diaries (eBook)
The Magic of Reading by Bill Hill (eBook)
The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking
Was This Man a Genius by Julie Hecht (eBook)
*** Beginning of 2002/End of 2001 ***
On Writing by Steven King
Lennon In America by Geoffrey Giuliano
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
The Scientific American Book of the Cosmos, ed. by David H. Levy
North Pole, South Pole: Journeys to the Ends of the Earth pub. by Bertrand Imbert
Nightwatch: A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe by Terence Dickinson
The Onion: Dispatches From The Tenth Circle, ed. by Robert Siegel
The British Medical Association Family Doctor Guide to Migraine and Other Headaches by Dr. Marcia Wilkinson and Dr. Anne MacGregor
David Boring by Daniel Clowes
Lipstick Traces by Greil Marcus
A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future by Charles Van Doren
The Ice-Shirt by William T. Vollmann
Revenge of the Latch Key Kids by Ted Rall
Anthology by The Beatles
From Dawn To Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jaques Barzun
The Knowledge Web by James Burke
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare (eBook)
How To Live on 24 Hours A Day by Arnold Bennett
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
White Noise by Don DeLilo
Turn of the Century by Kurt Andersen
*** Beginning of 2000/End of 1999***
Paisley Goes With Nothing by Hal Rubenstein with Jim Mullen
The Only Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need by Andrew Tobias
Beyond Soap, Water, and Comb by Ed Marquand with Marsha Burns
A Well-Dressed Gentleman’s Pocket Guide by Oscar Lenius
Things A Man Should Know About Style by Scott Omelanuk and Ted Allen
Internet Plumbing Handbook by Novell Press
The Race for Bandwidth: Understanding Data Transmission by Cary Lu
The Knowledge Web by James Burke
Nerds 2.0.1 by Stephen Segaller
Feel Like Going Home: Portraits in Blues and Rock ‘N’ Roll by Peter Guralnick
Andy Kaufman Revealed: Best Friend Tells All by Bob Zmuda
The Complete Book of UFOs by Jenny Randles and Peter Hough
UFOs, JFK, and Elvis: Conspiracies You Don’t Have To Be Crazy To Believe by Richard Belzer
Cats Cats Cats: A Collection of Cat Cartoons ed. by S. Gross
The Love You Make: An Insider’s Story Of The Beatles by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines
Sweet Soul Music: Rythm and Blues and The Southern Dream Of Freedom by Peter Guralnick
Confessions of a Record Producer by Moses Avalon
The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock ‘N’ Roll fully revised and updated, ed. Anthony DeCurtis and James Henke
The Lloyd Llewellyn Collection by Daniel Clowes
Flamming Carrot Comics: Fortune Favors The Bold! by Bob Burden
My American Century by Studs Terkel
The Illiad by Homer trans. Robert Fagles and Bernard Knox
Apocalypse Pretty Soon by Alex Heard
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Hell’s Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
Commodify Your Dissent by Thomas Frank and Matt Weiland
Boardwatch Magazine’s Directory of Internet Service Providers, 11th Edition, 1999
Encyclopedia of Networking by Tom Sheldon
The American Century by Harold Evans
Granada, A Synonym for Paradise:The Ocean Shore Railroad Years by Barbara VenderWerf
***Moved To America, September 1998***
Burn Rate: How I Survived The Gold Rush Years on the Internet by Michael Wolff
Internetworking with TCP/IP Vol 1: Principles, Protocols, and Architecture
How To Buy A House In California by Ralph Warner, Ira Serkes, and George Devine
Sleep Thieves by Stanley Coren
Physics by Aristotle
Timaeus and Critias by Plato
On Knowing: The Natural Sciences by Richard McKeon
Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now by Barry Miles
Fitness for Dummies by Suzanne Schlosberg and Liz Neporent
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
Crazy From The Heat by David Lee Roth
Get A Life! by David Burke and Jean Lotus of White Dot
Woody Guthrie by Joe Klein
Classis Rock Albums: Abbey Road/Let It Be by Peter Doggett
Toward The End of Time by John Updike
Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Trouble is My Business by Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler by Tom Hiney
The Best of Rolling Stone
The End of Science by John Horgan
***Beginning of 1998/End of 1997***
The Trouble with Dilbert by Norman Solomon
The Banquet Years by Roger Shattuck
The Traveller’s Handbook, published by Wexas
For Your Eyes Only by Ian Fleming
Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming
From Russia, With Love by Ian Fleming
Diamonds are Forever by Ian Fleming
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
Moonraker by Ian Fleming
Octopussy by Ian Fleming
The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming
Dr. No by Ian Fleming
The Man with the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming
The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan
Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household
***Moved to England***
The Ultimate Guitar Book by Tony Bacon
Conspiracy of Silence by Kevin D. Randle, Captain, USAFR
X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography by Ray Davies
The Real Frank Zappa Book by Frank Zappa with Peter Occhiogrosso
The Frontiers of Meaning: Three Informal Lectures on Music by Charles Rosen
Charles Ives Remembered: An Oral History by Vivian Perlis
Charles Ives: A Life with Music by Jan Swafford
The 10 Natural Laws of Successful Time and Life Management by Hyrum W. Smith
Baked Potatoes: A Pot Smoker’s Guide to Film and Video by John Hulme and Michael Wexler
The Lives of the Great Composers by Harold C. Schonberg
The World of Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Fletch by Gregory McDonald
The World of Music by G. Wallace Woodworth
The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Classical Music gen. ed. Robert Ainsley
Samuel Pepys’ Diary abridged, ed. by Willis L. Parker, Cameo Classics
A Short History of Music by Alfred Einstein
Understanding Music by Antony Hopkins
***Beginning of 1997/End of 1996***
Machiavelli in Hell by Sebastian de Grazia
A Book of One’s Own: People and Their Diaries by Thomas Mallon
The Lost Beatles Interviews by Geoffrey Giuliano
Introducing Machiavelli by Patric Curry and Oscar Zarate
The Most of P.G. Wodehouse (Jeeves Stories)
Viz Comic, The Big Hard One: Best of Issues 1 to 12
The Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction ed. by Maxim Juakubowski
The Prince and Other Political Writings by Niccolo Machiavelli, ed. by Robin Kirkptrick, Everyman Edition
Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and other Indestructible Writers of the Western World by David Denby
***First Trip To Europe***
Downsize This! by Michael Moore
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs by Dan Kennedy
The Dilbert Principle by Scott Adams
Coyote V. Acme by Ian Frazier
The Gentle Art of Making Enemies by James McNeill Whistler
The Big Book of Urban Legends by Jan Harold Brunvand, Robert Loren Fleming, and Robert F. Boyd, Jr.
American Tabloid by James Ellroy
Paris by Knopf Guides
Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind by C.D.B. Bryan
American Spectator’s Enemies List by P.J. O’Rourke
All the Trouble in the World by P.J. O’Rourke
The Only Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need (Revised and Updated) by Andrew Tobias
Small Change: A Life of Tom Waits by Patrick Humphreys
If You Haven’t Got The Time To Do It Right, When Will You Find Time To Do It Over? by Jeffrey J. Mayer
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
Changing Places by David Lodge
John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener: From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death by Steve J. Heims
The Howard Stern Book by Jim Cegielski
***Beginning of 1996/End of 1995***
The Teachings of Don Von: A Turnkey Way of Knowledge by Tom Abellera
A Short History of Financial Euphoria by John Kenneth Gilbraith
Prisoners Dilemma by William Poundstone
How To Tell When You’re Tired: A Brief Examination of Work by Reg Theriault
Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
The Unofficial X-Files Guide by N.E. Genge
It’s a Conspiracy by The National Insecurity Council
Miss America by Howard Stern
Rabbit Redux by John Updike
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers
The Tom Peters Seminar by Tom Peters
The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Personal Finance by Kenneth M. Morris and Alan M. Siegel
The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money and Investing by Kenneth M. Morris and Alan M. Seigel
Crossing the Chasm by Geoffry Moore
Quivers: A Life by Robin Quivers
Create Wealth With Quicken by Christopher E. Vogt
Cobblestone by Peter Lengyel
The Mac Is Not a Typewriter by Robin Williams
The Non-Designer’s Design Book by Robin Williams
The Thurber Album by James Thurber
Among the Thugs by Bill Buford
Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis
Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
A Fan’s Notes by Frederick Exley
The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis
***Beginning of 1995/End of 1994***
Gilgamesh by David Ferry (trans.)
Tristram Shandy Books I and II by Laurence Sterne
In Defense of Elitism by William A. Henry III
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
Grendel by John Gardner
The Rifles by William T. Vollman
Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer
***Started working at Verity***
Guide to the Macintosh Underground by Michael Frasse
Insanely Great by Stephen Levy
The Macintosh Way by Guy Kawasaki
Thirteen Stories and Thirteen Epitaths by William T. Vollman
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
The Devil’s Race Track by Mark Twain
Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool by Herb Gold
A Rebours by J.K. Huysmans trans. By ???
Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov trans. By Mirra Ginsburg
Aurelia and Sylvie by Gerard de Nerval
Truth and Lies in Literature by Stephen Vizinczey
The Evolution of Useful Things by Henry Petroski
First Hubby by Roy Blount Jr.
Fathers and Crows by William T. Vollman
Bohemian Heart by James Dalessandro
The Literary World of San Francisco and its Environs by Don Herron
Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov trans. By Mirra Ginsburg
Ian Shoales’ Perfect World by Ian Shoales
Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut by Paul Krassner
The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler
Lure of the Law by Richard W. Moll
Looking at Law School ed. by Stephen Gillers
***Beginning of 1994/End of 1993***
The Rainbow Stories by William T. Vollman
The Ice-Shirt by William T. Vollman
An Autobiographical Novel by Kenneth Rexroth
Self Help by Lorrie Moore
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz
The Annotated Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, annot. by Alfred Appel, Jr.
The Liar by Stephen Fry
On Becoming a Novelist by John Gardner
Who Shot JFK? A Guide to the Major Conspiracy Theories by Bob Callahan, illus. Mark Zingarelli
Inferno by Dante Alighieri, the Carlyle-Okey-Wicksteed translation
Lost in the Cosmos by Walker Percy
The High Window by Raymond Chandler
Memories of the Ford Administration by John Updike
Camels are Easy, Comedy’s Hard by Roy Blount, Jr.
Honk If You’re a Writer by Arthur Plotnik
How to Think About God by Mortimer J. Adler
A Guide For The Perplexed by E.F. Schumacher
St. Francis of Assisi by G.K. Chesterton
The Most of P.G. Wodehouse by P.G. Wodehouse
***Started work at Scopus***
Aunt Julia And The Script Writer by Mario Vargas Llosa
Room Temperature by Nicholson Baker
We Find Ourselves in Moontown by Edward Gummerman
The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom
Remembering Denny by Calvin Trillin
Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
The Life of Raymond Chandler by Frank MacShane
Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler ed. by Frank McShane
Another Sort of Learning by James V. Schall
Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
Stand-Up Comedy: The Book by Judy Carter
Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
Private Parts by Howard Stern
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke trans. Stephen Mitchell
Trouble Is My Business by Raymond Chandler
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke trans. M.D. Herter Norton
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger by Cecil Brown
The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler and English Summer: A Gothic Romance by Raymond Chandler
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
A Primer of Freudian Psychology by Clavin S. Hall
Roger’s Version by John Updike
The History of Luminous Motion by Scott Bradfield
Disturber of the Peace: The Life and Riotous Times of H.L. Mencken by William Manchester
Zombies of the Gene Pool by Sharyn McCrumb
Life, A User’s Manual by Georges Perec
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde by Peter Ackroyd
Laughing Matters by Gene Shalit (ed.)
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kassler, J.S.P.S. by Jeremy Leven
The Gentle Art of Making Enemies by James Abbot McNeill Whistler
Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man (The Early Years) by Thomas Mann
Opium And Other Stories by Geza Csath
Big Secrets by William Poundstone
Christmas Story by H.L. Mencken
Love and Death in the American Novel by Leslie Fiedler
U and I by Nicholson Baker
A Universal History of Infamy by Victor Luis Borges
V. by Thomas Pynchon
In Praise of Older Women by Stephen Vizinczey
Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Body Builder by Samuel Wilson Fussell
Appointment in Samarra by John O’Hara
Harlan Ellison’s Watching by Harlan Ellison
Where Do You Stop? By Eric Krafy
My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist by Mark Leyner
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot by John Callahan
***Beginning of 1993/End of 1992***
Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
Last Notes From Home by Frederick Exley
Book: A Novel by Robert Grudin
On Writing by George V. Higgins
The Best of Out West by Chuck Woodbury
More Parkside Pranks and Sunset Stunts by Mary Ada Williams
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings
The Neon Bible by John Kennedy Toole
The Magazine: Everything You Need To Know To Make It In The Magazine Business by Leonard Mogel
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
An American Tragedy (Book 1) by Theodore Drieser
Pages From a Cold Island by Frederick Exley
Accidental Empires by Robert X. Cringley
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans
Privacy for Sale by Jeffrey Rothfeder
Rivethead by Ben Hamper
Et Tu, Babe by Mark Keyner
Road Fever by Tim Cahill
Citizen Lazlo by Don Novello
The Lazlo Letters by Don Novello
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes
The Anti-Death League by Kingsley Amis
Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins
Cruel Shoes by Steve Martin
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
The Heart of the World by Nik Cohn
The Great Cat Massacre by Robert Darnton
The Short Stories by Ernest Hemingway
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
Generation X by Douglas Coupland
Mencken: A Portrait From Memory by Charles Angoff
Give War A Chance by P.J. O’Rourke
The Career of a Journalist by William Salisbury
Parliament of Whores by P.J. O’Rourke
Zen Comics by Ioanna Salajan
Mondo Boxo by Roz Chaste
On Writing by George V. Higgins
Little Follies: The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences and Observations of Peter Leroy by Eric Kraft
The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater by Ralph Eugene Meatyard
The Leatherman’s Handbook II by Larry Townsend
Tools of the Writer’s Trade by ASJA with Dodi Shultz ed.
Vox by Nicholson Baker
A Fan’s Notes by Frederick Exley
The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
Plexus, The Rosy Crucifixion II by Henry Miller
Sexus, The Rosy Crucifixion I by Henry Miller
The Satyricon by Retronius
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Nabokov’s Dozen by Vladimir Nabokov
The Impossible H.L. Mencken by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers, ed.
***Beginning of 1992/End of 1991***
Into the Newsroom: An Introduction to Journalism by Leonard Teel, Ron Taylor
Freelance Writing for Newspapers and Magazines by Marcia Yudkin
Dave Barry’s Only Travel Guide You’ll Ever Need by Dave Barry
American Literary Almanac by Karen L. Rood, ed.
John Lennon, His Life and Legend by Richard Buskin
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
Wise Guy: Life in a Mafia Family by Nicholas Pileggi
Major Barbara by Bernard Shaw
50 Ways to Fight Censorship by Dave Marsh
Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis
The Diary of H.L. Mencken by Charles A. Fecher, ed.
The Abortion by Richard Brautigan
The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
Amerika by Franz Kafka
The Telephone Book by Avita Ronell
Red Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes by Terry Southern
Tales of Beatnik Glory by Ed Sanders
Salome by Oscar Wilde, illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley
The Autobiography of Malcom X by Malcom X as told to Alex Haley
Against Nature by J.K. Huysmans
The Vintage Mencken by H.L. Mencken
The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
Prejudices by H.L. Mencken
Car Talk by Tom and Ray Magliozzi
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Snow White, A Novel by Donald Barthelme
Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan
I Heard The Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven
My World-And Welcome To It by James Thurber
Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon by Jim Paul
The Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
The Benchley Roundup by Robert Benchley
The American Quest by Jake Barth
Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut
The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis
Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
Candide by Voltaire
Small Change: A Life of Tom Waits by Peter Humphreys
Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov
Strong Opinions by Vladimir Nabokov
Batman: The Dark Night Returns by Frank Miller
The Only Other Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need by Andrew Tobias
Monkey by Ch’eng-En
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Big Picture by A. Whitney Brown
I Seem To Be A Verb by R. Buckminster Fuller
***Started working at IDE***
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All by Allan Gurganus
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Crazy Wisdom by Wes ‘Scoop’ Nisker
Complete Fairy Tails by Oscar Wilde
***Beginning of 1991/End of 1990***
Of Mice and Men by John Stienbeck
Something Happened by Joseph Heller
The Owl In The Attic and Other Perplexities by James Thurber
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rile
Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book by Maxine Hong Kingston
Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh
Tao Te Ching by Lau Tzu
What Color Is Your Parachute by Richard Bolles
Palm Sunday by Kurt Vonnegut
I Am Curious (Yellow) by Vilgot Sjoman
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Pinckert’s Practical Grammar by Robert Pinckert
Lonesome Traveler by Jack Kerouac
The World According to Garp by John Irving
Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Illusions by Richard Bach
Vagabonding in America by Ed Buryn
Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
The Cuckoo’s Egg by Clifford Stoll
The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
The World According to Garp by John Irving
***Left UC Berkeley***
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
The Shining by Stephen King
Diet For A Small Planet by Frances M. Lappe
Zen for Beginners by Judith Blackstone and Zoran Josipovic
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Maus: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Essential Whole Earth Catalog by Stewart Brand
Americana by Don DeLillo
Ratner’s Star by Don DeLillo
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Real Frank Zappa Autobiography by Frank Zappa
***Drove to California/Graduated Purdue***
What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman
The Beatles: Recording Sessions by Mark Lewisson
Lennon Remembers: The Rolling Stone Interviews by Jann Wenner
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Tales of Ordinary Madness by Charles Bukowski
Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber
***Moved back to Indiana***
Down the Street by Lynda Barry
Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
Are We Having Fun Yet? by Bill Griffith
Tell Me Why by Tim Riley
Hercules Amongst the North Americans by Mark Marek
***Moved to Boston ***
Everything in the World by Lynda Barry
The Good Times Are Killing Me by Lynda Barry
Being There by Jerzy Kosinski
Steps by Jerzy Kosinski
Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel (Male Edition) by Milorad Pavic
The Lennon Companion by Elizabeth Thompson and D. Gutnan (ed.)
Dead Eye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut
Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons by Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
Skywriting by Word of Mouth by John Lennon
Spaniard in the Works by John Lennon
In His Own Write by John Lennon
Peace For Beginners by Ian Kellas
Einstein For Beginners by Joseph Schwartz and Michael McGuinness
Sex Pistols: The Inside Story by Fred and Judy Vermorel