Below are some of my favorite books. They are alphabetized by authors first name. If you have any recommended reading for me send me an e-mail. I am always looking for something good. Happy reading.
Aldous Huxley:
- “Eyeless in Gaza”
- “Brave New World”
- “The Genius and the Goddess”
- “Time Must Have a Stop”
- “Chrome Yellow”
Blaise Cendrars:
- “Sutter’s Gold”
- “Moravagine”
- “To the End of the World”
- “Dan Yack”
Bruce Lee:
- “The Tao of Jeet Kune Do”
Carlos Castaneda:
- “The Art of Dreaming”
- “A Yaqui Way of Knowledge”
Christopher McDougall:
- “Born to Run”
Dante Alighieri:
- “The Divine Comedy”
D.H. Lawrence:
- “Apocalypse”
Emanuel Swedenborg:
- “Heaven and Hell”
Emile Zola:
- “Germinal”
Eric Schlosser:
- “Fast Food Nation”
Ernest Hemmingway:
- “The Sun Also Rises”
F. Scott Fitzgerald:
- “This Side of Paradise”
- “The Great Gatsby”
- “The Beautiful and Damned”
Francois Rabelais:
- “Gargantua and Pantagruel”
Friedrich Nietzsche:
- “Thus Spake Zarathrustra”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky:
- “The Devils”
- “Notes Form the Underground”
- “The Idiot”
- “The Brothers Karamazov”
- “Crime and Punishment”
- “A Gentle Spirit”
- “The House of the Dead”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez:
- “One Hundred Years of Solitude”
- “Love in the Time of Cholera”
George Orwell:
- “An Age Like This”
- “My Country Right or Left”
- “As I Please”
- “In Front of Your Nose”
Giaccomo Casanova:
- “The Story of my Life”
H.G. Wells:
- “A Short History of the World”
Henry David Thoreau:
- “Walden, or Life in the Woods”
Henry Miller:
- “Quiet Days in Clichy”
- “Tropic of Capricorn”
- “Tropic of Cancer
- “Sexus”
- “Plexus”
- “Nexus”
- “Stand Still Like a Hummingbird”
- “The Air Conditioned Nightmare:
- “The Wisdom of the Heart”
- “The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder”
- “The Cosmological Eye”
- “The Colossus of Maroussi”
- “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”
- “Black Spring”
- “Crazy Cock”
Hermann Hesse:
- “Siddhartha”
- “Rosshalde”
- “Beneath the Wheel”
- “Gertrude”
- “Steppenwolf”
- “The Glass Bead Game”
- “Damien”
- “Narcissus and Goldmund”
- “The Prodigy”
- “Knulp”
- “Klingsor’s Last Summer”
Herman Melville:
- “Moby Dick”
- “Confidence-Man”
- “White-Jacket”
Homer:
- “The Iliad”
- “The Odyssey”
Honore De Balzac:
- “Lost Illusions”
- “Louis Lambert”
- “Seraphita”
- “The Exiles”
- “Old Goriot”
- “Cousin Bette”
- “The Duchesse De Langeais”
- “The Country Doctor”
- “The Cure De Tours”
Howard Zinn:
- “A People’s History of the United States”
Hunter S. Thompson:
- “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”
- “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail”
Jack Kerouac:
- “Subterraneans”
- “Desolation Angels”
- “Big Sur”
- “The Dharma Bums”
Jack London:
- “The Call of the Wild”
- “White Fang”
J.D. Salinger:
- “The Catcher in the Rye”
Jacob Wassermann:
- “The Triumph of Youth”
- “The Dark Pilgrimage”
- “Oberlin’s Three Stages”
- “The Maurizius Case”
- “Doctor Kerkhoven”
- “Kerkhoven’s Third Existence”
- “The Goose Man”
- “The World’s Illusions”
- “Caspar Hauser”
- “Wedlock”
- “Farber”
- “Bula Matari”
- “Sturreganz”
James Joyce:
- “Ulysses”
- “Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man”
Jean Giono:
- “Joy of Man’s Desiring”
Jiddu Krishnamurti:
- “Total Freedom”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe:
- “Faust”
John Cowper Powys:
- “A Glastonbury Romance”
- “Wolf Solent”
Jon Krakauer:
- “Into the Wild”
Joris-Karl Huysmans:
- “Against Nature”
Jules Verne:
- “L’Ile Mystérieuse”
- “Voyage au Centre de la Terre”
Ken Kesey:
- “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”
Knut Hamsun:
- “Hunger”
- “Mysteries”
- “In Wonderland”
Lau Tzu:
- “Hou Hu Ching”
- “Tao Te Ching”
Leo Tolstoy
- “War and Peace”
- “Anna Karenina”
Lenny Bruce:
- “How to Talk Dirty and influence People”
Lewis Carroll:
- “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
- “Through the Looking Glass”
Louis Ferdinand Celine:
- “Death on the Installment Plan”
- “Journey to the End of the Night”
Luke Rhinehart:
- “The Dice Man”
Marcel Proust:
- “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower”
Marquis De Sade:
- “The 120 Days of Sodom”
Michael Pollan:
- “The Omnivore’s Dilemma”
- “In Defense of Food”
Miguel De Cervantes:
- “Don Quixote”
Milan Kundera:
- “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”
- “Immortality”
- “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting”
- “Ignorance”
- “Identity”
- “Life is Elsewhere”
- “Slowness”
Nuel Emmons:
- “Manson in His Own Words”
Oscar Wilde:
- “The Picture of Dorian Grey”
Oswald Spengler:
- “Decline of the West”
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
- “Self Reliance and Other Essays”
Salvador Dali:
- “Diary of a Genius”
Stephen Hawking:
- “A Brief History of Time”
Thomas Mann:
- “Death in Venice”
Thomas Paine:
- “Common Sense”
Tim Hanna:
- “One Good Run”
Tom Neale:
- “An Island to Oneself”
Upton Sinclair:
- “100%: the Story of a Patriot”
Victor Hugo:
- “L’homme Qui Rit”
Voltaire:
- “Candide”
- “The Ingenu”
Walt Whitman:
- “Leaves of Grass” Death Bed Edition
William Shakespeare:
- “The Tempest”
- “Two Gentlemen of Verona”