Favorite Books

Crime and Punishment, by Fyudor Dostoyevski • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain • The Complete Letters of Vincent van Gogh • The Art Spirit, by Robert Henri • Righteous Gentile: The Story of Raoul Wallenberg, Missing Hero of the Holocaust, by John Bierman • Survival in Auschwitz, by Primo Levi • The Reawakening, by Primo Levi • Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov • Watt, by Samuel Beckett • Women, by Charles Bukowski • Lady Chatterly's Lover, by D. H. Lawrence • For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemmingway • A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemmingway • The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemmingway • The Trial, by Franz Kafka • The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka • Man's Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl • The Trial and Death of Socrates, by Plato • Economics in One Lesson, by Henry Hazlitt • The Man Who Fell to Earth, by Walter Tevis • Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank • The Age of Spiritual Machines, by Ray Kurzweil • Candide, by Voltaire • Schindler's List, by Thomas Keneally • The Pearl, by John Steinbeck • Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck • The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck • The Aeneid, by Virgil • Tiberius, by Allan Massie • One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey • Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson • A Virtuous Woman, by Kay Gibbons • Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes • Farenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury • The Reader, by Bernard Schlink • Seven Days in May, by Fletcher Knebel & Charles Bailey • The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck • Finding Moon, by Tony Hillerman • Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea, by Gary Kinder • All Things Bright and Beautiful, by James Herriot • The Notebook, by Nicholas Sparks • Bastard out of Carolina, by Dorothy Allison • The Fragile Species, by Lewis Thomas • Hiroshima, by John Hershey • The Making of the Atomic Bomb, by Richard Rhodes • Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein • I Know This Much is True, by Wally Lamb • Blood Music, by Greg Bear • A Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking • The Story of My Life, by Helen Keller • Skunk Works, by Ben R. Rich • A Year in Provence, by Peter Mayle • Angela's Ashes, by Frank McCourt • The Closing of the American Mind, by Allen Bloom • Independence Day, by Richard Ford • Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You, by Fred Chappell • Artistic Differences, by Charlie Hauck • The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, by Carl Sagan • The Magic Lantern, by Ingmar Bergman • Walden, by H. D. Thoreau • Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth, by J. E. Lovelock • The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, by James Hogg • Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tsu • Gray Matters, by William Hjortsberg • Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous, by George Berkeley • The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger • At Home in the World, by Joyce Maynard • The Lime Twig, by John Hawkes • The Rain in the Trees, poems by W. S. Merwin • Veinte Poemas de Amor y Una Cancion Desesperada, poems by Pablo Neruda • The Collected Works of William Butler Yeats, by W. B. Yeats • Wilbur and Orville, by Fred Howard • The Agony and the Ecstasy, by Irving Stone • Lust for Life, by Irving Stone • The Origin, by Irving Stone • Depths of Glory, by Irving Stone • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare • The Complete Greek Drama • The Dumbwaiter, by Harold Pinter • On the Injurious Effects of Smoking Tobacco, by Anton Chekov • Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens • The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, by Collier-MacMillan • With Malice Toward None, by Stephen Oates • The Antagonists, by Ernest K. Gann • In a Sunburned Country, by Bill Bryson • If You Want To Write, by Brenda Ueland • Cyrano De Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand • A Bell for Adano, by John Hersey • Quantum Evolution, by Johnjoe McFadden • The Nature of Consciousness: A Hypothesis, by Sue Pockett • John Adams • by McCullough • Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem • Chronopolis, by J.G. Ballard • From Bauhaus to Our House, by Tom Wolfe • Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clark • The Hot Zone, by Richard Preston • The Making of Schindler's List, by Franciszek Palowski • Creation: Life and How to Make It, by Steve Grand • Founding Brothers, by Joseph J. Ellis • Mother Tongue, by Demetria Martinez • A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson • The First American, by H. W. Brands • Growing Up with Lucy; How to Build an Android in Twenty Easy Steps, by Steve Grand • Longitudes and Attitudes, by Thomas L. Friedman • In Dubious Battle, by John Steinbeck • East of Eden, by John Steinbeck • The Pearl, by John Steinbeck • This Just In, by Bob Shieffer • A Widow for One Year, by John Irving • The Lexus and the Olive Tree, by Thomas L. Friedman • Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship, by George Dyson • Mittelmann's Hardware, by George Raphael Small • The World is Flat, by Thomas L. Friedman • E = mc2, a Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation, by David Bodanis • The Cider House Rules, by John Irving • The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen • The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand • The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss • Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand • 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, by Charles C. Mann • L 136, Diary with Ingmar Bergman, by Vilgot Sjöman • A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving • Clear Mind, Wild Heart, by David Whyte • While I Was Gone, by Sue Miller • The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini • Ten Thousand Sorrows, by Elizabeth Kim • Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony, by Lewis Thomas • Life Studies, by Karen White • The Archivist, by Martha Cooley • Night, by Elie Wiesel • Einstein, His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson • Wine and War, by Don & Pitie Kladstrup • The End of Faith, by Sam Harris, Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes, by Daniel L. Everett • The Mind's I, by Douglas Hoffstadter and Daniel Dennett • The Twelve Caesars, by Michael Grant • The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins • Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson • Van Gogh –The Life, by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith • Johanna, by Claire Cooperstein