book list to read

alphabetical by author last name, strikeout has been read.

-a----------------------------------------------------------------------
abé, shana
:: the smoke thief
ackerman, diane
:: the human age: the world shaped by us
adams, douglas
:: the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
:: the restaurant at the end of the universe
:: so long and thanks for all the fish
adams, richard
:: watership down

ahamed, liaquet

:: lords of finance : the bankers who broke the world
albom, mitch
:: the five people you meet in heaven
alexander, alma
:: changer of days
allen, sarah addison
:: the sugar queen
aquinas, thomas
:: summa theologica
aristotle
:: ethics
-b----------------------------------------------------------------------
bardi, jason
:: the calculus wars
boorstin, daniel
:: the creators
:: the discoverers

brook, timothy

:: vermeer's hat

buck, pearl s.
:: the good earth
butcher, jim
:: the furies of calderon
-c----------------------------------------------------------------------
camus, albert
:: l'etranger
carey, jacqueline
:: kushiel's mercy
:: naamah's kiss
carroll, lewis
:: alice in wonderland
:: through the looking glass
chaucer, geoffrey

:: the canterbury tales
colbert, stephen

:: i am america! and so can you

connelly, joan breton

:: the parthenon enigma

cowley, robert

:: what if

crawford, matthew

:: shop class as soulcraft
-d----------------------------------------------------------------------
dante

:: the inferno
defoe, daniel

:: robinson crusoe

de tocqueville, alexis

:: democracy in america
diamond, jared
* collapse
* guns, germs, and steel
dillard, annie
:: pilgrim at tinker creek

* the maytrees

dostoevsky, fyodor

:: the brothers karamazov

:: crime and punishment
-e----------------------------------------------------------------------
erasmus

:: the praise of folly
-f----------------------------------------------------------------------

feynman, richard
:: surely you're joking, mr. feynman!

follet, ken
:: the pillars of the earth
french, howard w.
:: china's second continent: how a million migrants are building a new empire in africa
friedman, thomas

:: longitudes and attitudes

:: the lexus and the olive tree

:: the world is flat

-g----------------------------------------------------------------------
giffin, emily

:: love the one you're with
gilbert, elizabeth
* eat, pray, love

gilman, susan jane

:: undress me in the temple of heaven
gladwell, malcolm

* blink

:: outliers

::the tipping point

gruen, sara
:: water for elephants
-h----------------------------------------------------------------------
hall, peter

:: cities in civilization : culture technology and urban order

:: sociable cities

:: the world's cities

harding, paul

:: tinkers
hemingway, ernest
:: for whom the bell tolls
:: the old man and the sea
hobbes, thomas

:: the leviathan
hofstadter, douglas
:: i am a strange loop

:: godel, escher, bach

hosseini, khaled
:: a thousand splendid suns

* the kite runner
howley, kerry
:: thrown

hume, david

:: a treatise of human nature

:: enquiries

:: the natural history of human religion
huxley, aldous
:: brave new world
-i----------------------------------------------------------------------
-j----------------------------------------------------------------------

jamison, leslie

:: the empathy exams: essays

jordan, robert

:: the wheel of time and etc
joyce, james

:: dubliners

:: ulysses
-k----------------------------------------------------------------------
kafka, franz

:: the metamorphosis
kant, immanuel

:: critique of pure reason

kissinger, henry

:: world order

kunstler, james howard

:: the geography of nowhere

:: the long emergency
-l----------------------------------------------------------------------
lackey, mercedes
:: the snow queen

landes, david

:: the wealth and poverty of nations

lewis, c.s.

:: the screwtape letters
levitt, steven

* freakonomics

li, yiyun

:: the vagrants
-m----------------------------------------------------------------------

maitland, sara

:: a book of silence

martel, yann

:: life of pi

merkin, daphne

:: the fame lunches

mieville, china

:: the city and the city

miodownik, mark

:: stuff matters: exploring the marvelous materials that shape our man-made world

mccann, colum

:: let the great world spin

moliére

:: the misanthrope
moore, alan ( + dave gibbons)

:: watchmen
mortenson, greg
* three cups of tea

mun, nami

:: miles from nowhere
-n----------------------------------------------------------------------

nabokov, vladimi

:: lolita

nafisi, azar

:: reading lolita in tehran
nwaubani, adaobi tricia

:: i do not come to you by chance
-o----------------------------------------------------------------------
-p----------------------------------------------------------------------
paolini, christopher

:: brisingr
pierce, tamora
:: bloodhound

:: elkhound

:: melting stones
pratchett, terry (+ neil gaiman)
* good omens
-q----------------------------------------------------------------------
-r----------------------------------------------------------------------
rand, ayn

:: atlas shrugged

:: the fountainhead

rousseau, jean-jacques

:: emile, or on education

:: the social contract
rowling, j.k.

:: tales of beedle the bard

ruhlman, michael

:: ratio
russell, bertrand

:: principia mathematica

:: history of western philosophy
-s----------------------------------------------------------------------
santayana, george

:: the life of reason

sayrafiezadeh, said

:: when skateboards will be free

schlosser, eric

:: fast food nation

shell, ellen ruppel

:: cheap: the high cost of discount culture

sheff, david
:: beautiful boy

smith, adam

:: the wealth of nations

snicket, lemony

:: a series of unfortunate events
snyder, maria

:: poison study

:: magic study

:: fire study
spinoza, baruch

:: ethics
steinback, john

:: east of eden

:: of mice and men
stiglitz, joseph
:: making globalization work
stoppard, tom

:: rosencrantz + guildenstern are dead
swift, jonathon

:: gulliver's travels
-t----------------------------------------------------------------------
tagore, rabindranath

:: gitanjali (song offerings)
thoreau, henry david

:: walden
tolkien, j.r.r.

:: the children of hurin

:: the simarillion

tzu, sun

:: the art of war
-u----------------------------------------------------------------------
-v----------------------------------------------------------------------

vanderbilt, eric

:: traffic : why we drive the way we do (and what it says about us)
voltaire

:: candide
-w----------------------------------------------------------------------
walcott, derek

:: midsummer
weisman, alan

:: the world without us
-x----------------------------------------------------------------------
-y----------------------------------------------------------------------
-z----------------------------------------------------------------------
zelazny, roger
:: the amber series
zukav, gary

:: the dancing wu-li masters
-unknown-------------------------------------------------------------

:: the arabian nights

:: the tale of genji

:: the bible

:: the qu'ran