Some of the Books I Have Read & Enjoyed (Outside of Academics)

Sigmund Freud:

• Civilization and Its Discontents

Fyodor Dostoyevsky:

• Crime and Punishment

William Hubben:

• Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Kafka 

Friederich Nietzsche:

• The Gay Science

Irvin D. Yalom

• When Nietsche Wept
• The Shopenhaur Cure
• Lying on the Couch

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

• Faust: Parts I
• Faust: Part II 

Voltaire:

• Candide

Walt Whitman

• Song of Myself (Leaves of Grass)

Lord (George Gordon) Byron:

• Selected Poems

Honoré de Balzac

• The Wild Ass’s Skin 

George Orwell: 

• 1984
• Animal Farm
• Down and Out in Paris and London 

Henrik Ibsen: 

• An Enemy of the People
• Ghosts

William Golding:

• Lord of the Flies

Hermann Hesse:

• Demian
• Siddhartha
• Steppenwolf

Maurice Sendak:

• Higglety Pigglety Pop! Or, There Must Be More to Life
• Where the Wild Things Are

Margery Williams:

• The Velveteen Rabbit

Charles Dickens:

• A Tale of Two Cities

Buckminster Fuller: 

• Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
• Grunch of Giants
• Earth, Inc
• I Seem to Be a Verb

Lloyd Steven Sieden:

• Buckminster Fuller’s Universe: His Life and Work

Alan Weisman:

• Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World

B.F. Skinner:

• Walden Two 

Alan Lightman:

• Einstein’s Dreams

Aldo Leopold:

• A Sand County Almanac

Martha Stout

• The Myth of Sanity 

Simone de Beauvoir:

• The Ethics of Ambiguity 

Thomas Szasz:

• The Myth of Psychotherapy 

Matt Ruff:

• Set This House in Order

Daniel Keys:

• Flowers for Algernon

Greg Bottoms:

• Angel-Head: My Brother’s Decent into Madness

Ken Kesey:

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

William James:

• The PhD Octopus

Robert Louis Stevenson:

• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
• The Body Snatchers

Mary Shelly: 

• Frankenstein (or The Modern Promethius): The 1818 Text

Victor Hugo: 

• The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Bram Stoker:

• Dracula

Arthur Miller: 

• The Crucible

Franz Kafka:

• The Metamorphosis
• The Trial

Edgar Allen Poe:

• The Tell-Tale Heart
• The Raven

C.S. Lewis

• The Screwtape Letters

Dean Koontz:

• Demon Seed

Oscar Wilde:

• The Picture of Dorian Gray

James Joyce

• Ulysses
• The Dubliners

Nathaniel Hawthorne:

• The Scarlet Letter 

Elizabeth McCracken:

• The Giant’s House

Alice Hoffman: 

• Second Nature
• The Ice Queen

Roderick Anscombe:

• The Secret Life of Laslo Count Dracula

Jonathan Swift:

• A Modest Proposal
• Directions to Servants
• The Art of Political Lying
• A Digression Concerning the Critics
• Sweetness and Light

Chuck Palahniuk:

• Haunted 

Keith Gessen:

• All the Sad Young Literary Men 

Anthony Burgess:

• A Clockwork Orange

Robert Louis Stephenson:

• The Body Snatchers
• Isle of Voices
• The Waif Woman

Joseph Conrad:

• The Heart of Darkness
• Typhoon

S.E. Hinton:

• The Outsiders
• That was Then, This is Now

H.G. Wells:

• The Invisible Man

Arthur Miller:

• The Crucible

Aldous Huxley:

• The Doors of Perception
• The Perennial Philosophy 
• Brave New World

Lewis Carroll:

• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Carlos Castenada:

• The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
• A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan
• Tales of Power

William Blake:

• Selected Poems
• The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
• The Everlasting Gospel

Richard Bach:

• Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Daniel Quinn:

• Ishmael
• My Ishmael 

Kurt Vonnegut:

• The Sirens of Titan
• Welcome to the Monkey House
• God Bless You Mr. Rosewater
• Breakfast of Champions
• Slaughterhouse Five
• Player Piano
• Cat’s Cradle
• Mother Night 

Paulo Coelho:

• Eleven Minutes
• The Fifth Mountain
• The Devil and Miss Prym
• Veronika Decides to Die

Albert Camus:

• The Stranger

Anais Nin:

• Children of the Albatross
• The Journals of Anais Nin – Volume 3

Ernest Hemingway:

• A Moveable Feast

Jon Ronson:

• Them: Adventures with Extremists 

Benjamin Franklin:

• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

• A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Douglas R. Hofstadter: 

• Gödel, Escher and Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Douglas R. Hofstadter & Daniel C. Dennett:

• The Minds I : Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul

Paul Brok:

• Into the Silent Land: Journeys in Neuropsychology

Douglas Adams:

• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
• Life, the Universe and Everything
• So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Tom Robbins:

• Another Roadside Attraction
• Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Tom Bodett:

• The End of the Road
• Norman Tuttle on the Last Frontier

Paul Reps and Nyogen Senzaki (compiled by):

• Zen Flesh, Zen Bones 

Paul Williams

• Das Energi 

Ram Dass: 

• Be Here Now

Ram Dass and Paul Gorman:

• How Can I help? Stories and Reflections on Service

Shakti Gawain:

• Creative Visualization

Julia Cameron

• The Artist’s Way

Benjamin Hoff:

• The Tao of Pooh

Thich Nhat Hanh:

• Peace Is Every Step

Dan Millman:

• Way of the Peaceful Warrior

Dave Eggers

• A Hearttbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Jack Kerouac:

• Dharma Bums
• On the Road

Anonymous:

• Beowulf

Dante Alighieri

• The Inferno (Dante’s Inferno)

Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall (Attributed)

• Mutiny on the Bounty

Richard Shapero

• Wild Animus

Ismet Prcic

• Shards: A Novel

Kate Horsley

• Black Elk in Paris: A Novel

Malcom X:

• The End of White World Supremacy

Martin Luther King, Jr:

• Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Jerzy Kosinski:

• The Painted Bird

Bertolt Brecht:

• The Good Woman of Setzuan
• Mother Courage and Her Children

Nellie Bly

• Ten Days in a Mad-House
• Trying to Be a Servant
• Nellie Bly as a White Slave

D.H. Lawrence:

• Lady Chatterly’s Lover

Aristophanes:

• Lysistrata

William Shakespeare:

• The Tempest
• King Lear
• Othello
• Hamlet
• Julius Caesar
• Romeo and Juliette

Al Franken (and “Stuart Smalley”):

• I’m Good Enough, I’m Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me!: Dailey Affirmations by Stuart Smalley

Tennessee Williams:

• A Streetcar Named Desire

Sun Tzu:

• The Art of War

Jules Verne:

• Around the World in 80 Days

Neil deGrasse Tyson:

• The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries

Leo Tolstoy

• The Death of Ivan Ilych