Dave Thuleen's Reading List:
Everyone needs to check these books out, because its THULEEN'S reading list!
Here's that list:
FICTION:
Robertson Davies - The Cornish Trilogy: The Rebel Angels, What's Bred in the Bone, The Lyre of Orpheus
Robertson Davies - Fifth Business
David Lodge - The Rummidge Trilogy: Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work
David Lodge - Paradise News
David Lodge - Thinks
Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Patrick Dennis - Auntie Mame
Frederick Forsythe - The Fist of God
Tom Clancy - The Sum of All Fears
Ken Follett - The Pillars of the Earth
Robert Heinlein - Orphans of the Sky
Jean Auel - Clan of the Cave Bear (but none of its sequels)
Richard Adams - Watership Down
Ray Bradbury - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury - Dandelion Wine
William Saroyan - The Human Comedy
Robert Graves - I, Claudius
Robert Graves - Claudius the God
Graham Green - The Power and the Glory
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe mysteries
Dorothy L. Sayers - Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries
David Brin - The Postman
Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game and its sequel, Speaker for the Dead
Delacorta - Diva
Thomas Pynchon - The Crying of Lot 49
Michael Chabon - Wonder Boys
Michael Chabon - Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones/Labyrinths (short story collections, with some overlap)
Peter DeVries - Consenting Adults, Or The Duchess Will Be Furious
Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr. Ripley (evil book, but well written)
George O'Toole - The Cosgrove Report
J. D. Salinger - Catcher in the Rye
Walter M. Miller - A Canticle For Leibowitz
Diane Duane - Spock's World
Diane Duane - The Wounded Sky
Ursula Le Guin - The Lathe of Heaven
Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and sequels
Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe (ISBN: 0671038907)
NON-FICTION:
Thomas Cahill - Desire of the Everlasting Hills
Thomas Cahill - How The Irish Saved Civilization
Thomas Cahill - The Gifts of the Jews
Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond - The Third Chimpanzee
Jared Diamond - Collapse
Steven Pinker - The Blank Slate
Steven Pinker - The Language Instinct
David Edmonds and John Eidinow - Wittgenstein's Poker
Matt Ridley - Genome
Richard Dawkins - The Blind Watchmaker
Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins - The Ancestors' Tale
Daniel Dennett - Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Alan Watts - Behold the Spirit
Alan Watts - Beyond Theology
Alan Watts - The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Phillip Knightley - The Master Spy
Jacques Barzun - The Culture We Deserve
Tony Rothman and Georger Sudarshan - Doubt and Certainty
Douglas Hofstadter - Gödel, Escher, Bach
Simon Singh - The Code Book
William Wright - Born That Way: Genes, Behavior, Personality
Donald Palmer - Looking At Philosophy
Karen Armstrong - A History of God
Neil Postman - Conscientious Objections
Neil Postman - The Disappearance of Childhood
Neil Postman - Amusing Ourselves To Death
Neil Postman - Teaching As A Conserving Activity
Steve Olson - Mapping Human History
Spencer Wells - The Journey of Man
Bernard Lewis - The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2000 Years
J. M. Roberts - The Penguin History of the World
Anthony Cave Brown - Treason in the Blood
Hal Higdon - Leopold and Loeb: The Crime of the Century
Vincent Bugliosi - Helter Skelter
Bruce Feiler - Learning to Bow
Isaac Asimov - The Universe: From Flat Earth to Quasar
Jay Winik - April 1865: The Month That Saved America
Steven Levy - Artificial Life
Oliver Sacks - Awakenings
Oliver Sacks - An Anthropologist On Mars
Richard Rhodes - The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes - Dark Sun (The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb)
Simon Winchester - The Professor and the Madman
Simon Winchester - Krakatoa
James Gleick - Genius
James Gleick - Chaos
Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception
Here's that list:
FICTION:
Robertson Davies - The Cornish Trilogy: The Rebel Angels, What's Bred in the Bone, The Lyre of Orpheus
Robertson Davies - Fifth Business
David Lodge - The Rummidge Trilogy: Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work
David Lodge - Paradise News
David Lodge - Thinks
Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Patrick Dennis - Auntie Mame
Frederick Forsythe - The Fist of God
Tom Clancy - The Sum of All Fears
Ken Follett - The Pillars of the Earth
Robert Heinlein - Orphans of the Sky
Jean Auel - Clan of the Cave Bear (but none of its sequels)
Richard Adams - Watership Down
Ray Bradbury - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury - Dandelion Wine
William Saroyan - The Human Comedy
Robert Graves - I, Claudius
Robert Graves - Claudius the God
Graham Green - The Power and the Glory
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe mysteries
Dorothy L. Sayers - Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries
David Brin - The Postman
Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game and its sequel, Speaker for the Dead
Delacorta - Diva
Thomas Pynchon - The Crying of Lot 49
Michael Chabon - Wonder Boys
Michael Chabon - Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones/Labyrinths (short story collections, with some overlap)
Peter DeVries - Consenting Adults, Or The Duchess Will Be Furious
Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr. Ripley (evil book, but well written)
George O'Toole - The Cosgrove Report
J. D. Salinger - Catcher in the Rye
Walter M. Miller - A Canticle For Leibowitz
Diane Duane - Spock's World
Diane Duane - The Wounded Sky
Ursula Le Guin - The Lathe of Heaven
Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and sequels
Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe (ISBN: 0671038907)
NON-FICTION:
Thomas Cahill - Desire of the Everlasting Hills
Thomas Cahill - How The Irish Saved Civilization
Thomas Cahill - The Gifts of the Jews
Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond - The Third Chimpanzee
Jared Diamond - Collapse
Steven Pinker - The Blank Slate
Steven Pinker - The Language Instinct
David Edmonds and John Eidinow - Wittgenstein's Poker
Matt Ridley - Genome
Richard Dawkins - The Blind Watchmaker
Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins - The Ancestors' Tale
Daniel Dennett - Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Alan Watts - Behold the Spirit
Alan Watts - Beyond Theology
Alan Watts - The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Phillip Knightley - The Master Spy
Jacques Barzun - The Culture We Deserve
Tony Rothman and Georger Sudarshan - Doubt and Certainty
Douglas Hofstadter - Gödel, Escher, Bach
Simon Singh - The Code Book
William Wright - Born That Way: Genes, Behavior, Personality
Donald Palmer - Looking At Philosophy
Karen Armstrong - A History of God
Neil Postman - Conscientious Objections
Neil Postman - The Disappearance of Childhood
Neil Postman - Amusing Ourselves To Death
Neil Postman - Teaching As A Conserving Activity
Steve Olson - Mapping Human History
Spencer Wells - The Journey of Man
Bernard Lewis - The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2000 Years
J. M. Roberts - The Penguin History of the World
Anthony Cave Brown - Treason in the Blood
Hal Higdon - Leopold and Loeb: The Crime of the Century
Vincent Bugliosi - Helter Skelter
Bruce Feiler - Learning to Bow
Isaac Asimov - The Universe: From Flat Earth to Quasar
Jay Winik - April 1865: The Month That Saved America
Steven Levy - Artificial Life
Oliver Sacks - Awakenings
Oliver Sacks - An Anthropologist On Mars
Richard Rhodes - The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes - Dark Sun (The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb)
Simon Winchester - The Professor and the Madman
Simon Winchester - Krakatoa
James Gleick - Genius
James Gleick - Chaos
Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception