This is an incomplete list of good books I have read. Feel free to use the contact page to send me book suggestions!
In Progress:
- Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
- Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers, Robert Sapolsky
Bookshelf:
George Orwell
- 1984
- Animal Farm
- Homage to Catalonia
- Facing Unpleasant Facts
- Burmese Days
- The Road to Wigan Pier
- Coming Up for Air
- A Clergymen’s Daughter
- The Lion and the Unicorn
J.D. Salinger
- The Catcher in the Rye
- Frannie and Zooey
- Nine Stories
- Raise High the Roofbeam Carpenters!
Kurt Vonnegut
- Slaughterhouse Five
- Cat’s Cradle
- Breakfast of Champions
- The Sirens of Titan
- Mother Night
- Bluebeard
- Slapstick
- Timequake
- Welcome to the Monkey House
- A Man Without a Country
- Bagombo Snuff Box
- God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
- Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview
- While Mortals Sleep
Misc. Novels and Short Stories
- Fahrenheit 451, Rad Bradbury
- The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
- A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
- The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
- One Hundred Days of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
- A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khalid Hosseini
- The Giver, Lois Lowry
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
- Tenth of December, George Saunders
- Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
- Into the Cosmos, Thomas Burke
Misc. Nonfiction
- Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
- Behave, Robert Sapolsky
- David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell
- The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
- Outlier, Malcolm Gladwell
- Freakonomics, Levitt and Dubner
- SuperFreakonomics, Levitt and Dubner
- Drug War Crimes, Jeffrey Miron
- Chaos, James Gleick
- A Primate’s Memoir, Robert Sapolsky
Poetry
- Howl, Alan Ginsberg
- The Rain in Portugal, Billy Collins
- Aimless Love, Billy Collins
- Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
- Ariel, Sylvia Plath