My buddy Kate asked friends about their favorite books and compiled a list. Here’s the list (which I’m super excited to dive into!) and her email if you’re interested in being a part of the shared google doc.
Edwind Abbott, Flatland Paul Auster, City of Glass Anthony Beevors, Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin Roberto Bolaño , 2666 Paul Bowles, The Spider’s House Italo Calvino, If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler James Clavell, Shogun Richard Dawkins,, The Blind Watchmaker Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince Antoine de St Exupery, Sand, Wind and Stars Don DeLillo, White Noise Daniel Dennett, Kinds of Minds Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehe Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo <===== editor's note: my contribution to the list. Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance” Hans Fallada, Everyman Dies Alone William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 100 Years of Solitude Joseph Heller, Catch-22 Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf Douglas Hofstadter, Godel, Escher, Bach INCITE!, The Revolution Will Not be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex Henry James, Portrait of a Lady James Joyce, Ulysses James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near Reif Larson, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet Ron Leshem, Beaufort C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia (series) Mark Mazower, The Dark Continent Carson McCullers, The Heart is A Lonely Hunter Herman Melville, Moby Dick Herman Melville, Billy Bud, Sailor Toni Morrison , Beloved Vladmir Nabokov, Lolita, Mary Oliver, Mary Oliver Poems Charles Petzold, The Annotated Turing Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass (series Daniel Quinn, Ishmael Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses J.D. Salinger, Nine Short Stories Orson Scott Card, Enders Game (series- stick with the first 3 Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henriette Lacks Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety John Steinbeck, Cannery Row John Steinbeck, East of Eden John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley Gary Steyngart, Super Sad True Love Story Mark Twain’s, Pudd’n Head Wilson John Updike, Rabbit Redux John Updike., Rabbit, Run, Craig Werner, A Change is Gonna Come Cornel West, Democracy Matters Cornel West, Race Matters Elie Wiesel, Night Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
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