Literature Book List

General Literature (part of the Wiki BookList)

Fiction of Interest...

• RemembranceOfThingsPast, by MarcelProust
• ClockworkOrange, by AnthonyBurgess?
• LePetitPrince? (aka TheLittlePrince), AntoineDeSaintExupery
• OneHundredYearsOfSolitude, by GabrielGarciaMarquez
• TheCultureSeries? by IanBanks?
• TheTrial by FranzKafka
• MissLonelyhearts? by NathanielWest?
• TheBeach? by AlexGarland?
• HiFidelity? by NickHornby?
• TheCaineMutiny? by HermanWouk? (a PointyHairedBoss in a setting of almost unendurable stress)
• LordOfTheRings by JrrTolkien
• LesMiserables? by VictorHugo? (Just skip the boring bits. What boring bits?)
• SnowCrash by NealStephenson
• CryptoNomicon by NealStephenson (an absolute must read!!!)
• The Neon Wilderness by Nelson Algren
• Sneaky People by Thomas Berger
• Valis by Philip K. Dick (PhilDick)
• GravitysRainbow by Thomas Pynchon
• Lolita by VladimirNabokov (NabokovsLolita)
• InfiniteJest by David Foster Wallace
• A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce
• Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
• Ishmael (IshmaelBook) by DanielQuinn
• Everything by Jim Harrison
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

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Poetry

• ArchyAndMehitabel, Don Marquis

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None of the Above (but recommended)

• TheHistoryOfTheDelineAndFallOfTheRomanEmpire? by Edward Gibbon
• TheSacredDepthsOfNature, UrsulaGoodEnough?
• ShakerBuilt, PaulRocheleau? and JuneSprigg?
• Solve Your Child's SleepProblems, RichardFerber?
• TheMoralAnimal, RobertWright?: an examination of human behavior as it may have been influenced by natural selection
• ZenAndTheArtOfMotorcycleMaintenance by RobertPirsig
• WindSandAndStars, by AntoineDeSaintExupery
• The BraveWildCoast by JudsonCrews Before there was Duke & Gonzo, before there were Beatniks, there was Crews & HenryMiller?
• InColdBlood?, by TrumanCapote
• HowToWinFriendsAndInfluencePeople by DaleCarnegie
• MythicalManMonth by FredBrooks

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For children (and grownups)

• AlicesAdventuresInWonderland
• WinnieThePooh
• TheCatInTheHat?
• And the next time your 13-year-old starts whining about how difficult life is, hand her TheDiaryOfAnneFrank?.

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While there are some good books here, I don't think anyone is going to come to this list to find something to read. Better to recommend something in context, than merely list a bunch of books. As this page is therefore pretty useless, I propose it is a DeletionCandidate. If not, PleaseMoveThisToTheAdjunct.

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