Sunday, November 27, 2005

Reading List

I need to keep track of the books I've read/want to read while I'm out here. If you're wondering why I'm still not posting, the list below has a lot to do with it ;-) I'm on a pilgrimage, if you will. Formatting and links coming soon. The book(s) I'm currently reading will be in blue. So, without further ado...



  • Viktor Frankl
    • Man's Search for Meaning


  • Barack Obama
    • The Audacity of Hope


  • Norton Juster
    • The Phantom Tollbooth


  • Ann Coulter
    • Slander
    • Treason
    • How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)


  • J.K. Rowling
    • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince


  • John Bunyon
    • The Pilgrim's Progress (Part 1: Christian's Pilgrimage)
    • The Pilgrim's Progress (Part 2: Christiana's Pilgrimage)


  • Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
    • Freakonomics


  • Christopher Moore
    • Lamb: A Novel. The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal


  • Robert A. Heinlein
    • Stranger in a Strange Land
    • The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
    • Time Enough for Love


  • Bill O'Reilly
    • The O'Reilly Factor: The Good, the Bad, and the Completely Ridiculous in American Life


  • Chuck Palahniuk
    • Fight Club


  • The Qur'an


  • Ayn Rand
    • We The Living
    • Anthem
    • The Fountainhead
    • Atlas Shrugged
    • For the New Intellectual
    • The Virtue of Selfishness
    • Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
    • Philosophy: Who Needs It?


  • Robert M. Pirsig
    • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
    • Lila: An Inquiry into Morals


  • Plato
    • (The) Republic
    • Everything Else


  • The Bible

    • Old Testament
      • Genesis
      • Exodus
      • Leviticus
      • Numbers
      • Deuteronomy
      • Joshua
      • Judges
      • Ruth
      • 1 Samuel
      • 2 Samuel
      • 1 Kings
      • 2 Kings
      • 1 Chronicles
      • 2 Chronicles
      • Ezra
      • Nehemiah
      • Esther
      • Job
      • Psalms
      • Proverbs
      • Ecclesiastes
      • Song of Solomon
      • Isaiah
      • Jeremiah
      • Lamentations
      • Ezekiel
      • Daniel
      • Hosea
      • Joel
      • Amos
      • Obadiah
      • Jonah
      • Micah
      • Nahum
      • Habakkuk
      • Zephaniah
      • Haggai
      • Zachariah
      • Malachi

    • New Testament
      • Matthew
      • Mark
      • Luke
      • John
      • The Acts
      • Romans
      • 1 Corinthians
      • 2 Corinthians
      • Galatians
      • Ephesians
      • Philippians
      • Colossians
      • 1 Thessalonians
      • 2 Thessalonians
      • 1 Timothy
      • 2 Timothy
      • Titus
      • Philemon
      • Hebrews
      • James
      • 1 Peter
      • 2 Peter
      • 1 John
      • 2 John
      • 3 John
      • Jude
      • The Revelation


  • C.S. Lewis
    • A Preface to Paradise Lost
    • The Pilgrim's Regress
    • Reflections on the Psalms
    • A Grief Observed
    • The Abolition of Man
    • Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
    • The Great Divorce
    • The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition
    • Spirits in Bondage
    • The Screwtape Letters
    • Screwtape Proposes a Toast
    • The Problem of Pain
    • Till We Have Faces
    • Mere Christianity
    • The Joyful Christian
    • Miracles
    • Surprised By Joy
    • All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C.S. Lewis 1922-27
    • God in the Docks
    • The Four Loves
    • Readings for Meditation and Reflection
    • Essay Collection: Faith, Christianity, and the Church
    • Essay Collection: Literature, Philosophy, and Short Stories
    • The Chronicles of Narnia
      • The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
      • Prince Caspian
      • The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
      • The Silver Chair
      • The Horse and His Boy
      • The Magician's Nephew
      • The Last Battle


  • John Milton
    • Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin (1645)
    • Poems, etc., Upon Several Occasions (1673)
    • The Reason of Church Government
    • An Apology for Smectymnuus
    • The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
    • Of Education
    • Areopagitica
    • The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
    • Second Defence of the English People
    • The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth
    • Paradise Lost
    • Paradise Regained
    • Samson Agonistes
    • Christian Doctrine


  • Dan Brown
    • Digital Fortress
    • Angels and Demons
    • The Da Vinci Code
    • Deception Point


  • Karl Marx
    • Das Kapital
    • The Communist Manifesto


  • Dante Alighieri
    • The Divine Comedy


  • Immanuel Kant
    • Oh man, there's a lot of these


  • Dan Millman
    • Way of the Peaceful Warrior


  • Winston Churchill
    • The Crisis


  • Sun Tzu
    • The Art of War


  • Che Guevara
    • Self-Portrait: Che Guevara
    • The Diary of Che Guevara
    • The Motorcycle Diaries
    • The African Dream: The Diaries of the Revolutionary War in the Congo
    • Bolivian Diary
    • Guerilla Warfare
    • Critical Notes on Political Economy
    • Our America and Theirs
    • Manifesto: Three Classic Essays on How to Change the World


  • Whittaker Chambers
    • Witness


  • Phyllis Schlafly
    • Not sure yet...


  • Tom Robbins
    • Even Cowgirls Get the Blues


  • John Eldredge
    • Wild at Heart


  • Ernest Hemingway
    • For Whom the Bell Tolls
    • The Sun Also Rises
    • More...


  • Hunter S. Thompson
    • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
    • Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail


  • Adam Smith
    • The Wealth of Nations
    • The Theory of Moral Sentiments


  • David Hume
    • A Treatise of Human Nature
    • An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
    • An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
    • Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
    • Essays Moral and Political


  • Joseph Addison
    • Cato, a Tragedy


  • Thomas Reid
    • Inquiry Into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense
    • Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man
    • Essays on the Active Powers of Man


  • John Locke
    • A Letter Concerning Toleration
    • A Second Letter Concerning Toleration
    • A Third Letter for Toleration
    • Two Treatises of Government
    • An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
    • Some Thoughts Concerning Education
    • The Reasonableness of Christianity, as Delivered in the Scriptures
    • A Vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity
    • First Tract on Government (the English Tract)
    • Second Tract on Government (the Latin Tract)
    • Essays on the Law of Nature
    • Essays Concerning Toleration
    • Of the Conduct of the Understanding
    • A Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistles of Paul


  • René Descartes
    • Compendium Musica
    • Rules for the Direction of the Mind
    • Discourse on Method
    • La Géométrie
    • Meditations on First Philosophy
    • Principles of Philosophy
    • The Singing Epitaph
    • Comments on a Certain Broadsheet
    • The Description of the Human Body
    • Conversation with Burman
    • Passions of the Soul


  • Saint Thomas Aquinas
    • Everything... and there's a lot


  • Thomas Hobbes
    • The Elements of Law, Natural and Political
    • Elementa Philosophica
    • Leviathan
    • Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity and Chance
    • Behemoth (or The Long Parliament)


  • John Calvin
    • Institutes of the Christian Religion
    • His biblical commentaries


  • Aristotle
    • Everything, and there's a lot


  • Socrates
    • Everything, and there's a lot


  • Niccolò Machiavelli
    • Everything (and there's a lot)


  • Thomas Malthus
    • Everything


  • Adolf Hitler
    • Mein Kampf


  • Nelson Mandela
    • In His Own Words


  • The Federalist Papers


  • The 9/11 Commission Report

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

read Angels and Demons before you read The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown). I also suggest Ian McEwan's Enduring Love, Atonement, Between the Sheets and I've heard Saturday is good though I've not read it yet.

Anonymous said...

A History of God - Karen Armstrong
East of Eden - John Steinbeck

AdamNation said...

I appreciate the comments. They'll get added after I finish some more books, because it's depressing for the list to grow faster than I cross them off. Also, for people who give me future suggestions, I want to know what you think I should read, but I also want to know WHY you think I should read it ;-)

Love, peace, and hair grease!

Shawn said...

Mein Kampf-Hitler

Tuesday's with Morrie (not sure of the author)

Who we'll see when we get to Heaven (same author as above..title may be slightly different)

Watership Down-Richard Adams

1984 & Animal Farm- Orson Wells (Animal Farm comparisons to the Bush administration run amuck!)

Sword of Truth series- Terry Goodkind (A MUST READ-11 books in the series though, be careful before starting...you won't want to stop..I spent many a night reading thru on this series...)

Re-read Catcher in the Rye

Anything Stephen King and over 500 pages

Flight of the Intruder-Stephen Coonts

The Car- Gary Paulsen

Anonymous said...

read the phanton tollbooth

seriously...its a childrens book but it is so fun you wont give a fuck

Anonymous said...

I think it's "The Five People You Meet in Heaven."

I wanted to see what AS suggested for your reading pleasure, but I don't see it on here.

Anonymous said...

The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom

Anonymous said...

Read Hyperion by Dan Simmons, a great blend of scifi, mixed with regigious and political overtones.

An American in Aland said...

You've read a lot, that's cool. You might be interested in some Toni Morrison (The Bluest Eye, Beloved- beware,emotionally difficult), Jamaica Kincaid (A Small Place- eye opening, interesting), Ralph Ellison (Invisible Man- thought-provoking), James Baldwin (Go Tell It on the Mountain- since you are religious, I think you could relate to this one), Flannery O'Connor (A Good Man is Hard to Find- collection of short stories, twisted and great).
Just trying to add a little diversity to your list :)

Oh, and I love Steinbeck. East of Eden is my favorite.

There is always soooo much to read!!!

Anonymous said...

Quite a reading list, and t may be years before you have the room, but two books by A. Augustine are worth a look. "City of God" for a good perspective on eternity and "Confessions" for a map of one very smart person's spiritual journey.

Nice to meet you, btw

Bruce