This list of my favorite books has been floating around my site for about a decade now … Originally I had it prefaced with:
“This is my list of the all-time best books ever written. If you get a chance, read at least one of these before you die. The WWW is great fun, TV is great, the radio is always playing, but nothing compares to a good book. Please, do yourself a favor, read. I’ll add more as I come across them, but the truly great are rare.”
I’ll revise that now to simply say that it’s a list of what were my favorite books in the 90s. Some of them I still consider faves. YMMV.
- Becket - Jean Anouilh
- Naked - David Sedaris
- Hamlet - William Shakespeare
- Johnny Tremain - Esther Forbes
- Lake Wobegon Days - Garrison Keillor
- Lempriere’s Dictionary - Lawrence Norfolk
- Love and Garbage - Ivan Klima
- Mosquito Coast - Paul Theroux
- My Side of the Mountain - Jean George
- No One Here Gets Out Alive - Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugarman
- Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption and Survivor Type - Stephen King
- To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
- The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice (You must read this book if you ever hope to know anything about me.)
- Physics, Science, Math, Sociology, Psychology, etc.
- Labyrinths of Reason and Prisoner’s Dilemma - William Poundstone
- 13th Gen - Neil Howe and Bill Strauss
- bots - Andrew Leonard
- What Do You Care What Other People Think? - Richard Feynman
- For Shame - the Loss of Common Decency in American Culture and Adcult - James Twitchell
- The Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition - Ed Regis
- Mystery
- all of Robert B. Parker’s Spenser novels
- Presumed Innocent - Scott Turow
- Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
- A Case of Need - Michael Crichton
- Sci-Fi
- V - A.C. Crispin
- The Cylon Death Machine - Glen A. Larson and Robert Thurston
- Glory Lane - Alan Dean Foster
- Han Solo at Stars’ End - Brian Daley
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All of John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee books!
The DaVinci Code
Lord of the Rings
Gone With the Wind
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