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BOOKS I READ IN HIGH SCHOOL BEFORE I STARTED READING THE WORST ODYSSEY TRANSLATION EVER THAT MADE ME STOP READING FOR 5 YEARS
Steal this Book (Abbie Hoffman), Johnny Got His Gun (Dalton Trumbo), Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon), Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury), Lord of the Rings 1-3 (J.R.R. Tolkien), the Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien), Watership Down (Richard Adams), the Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka), Macbeth (Shakespeare), Dracula (Bram Stoker), the Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger), Maus I&II (Art Spiegelman), Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs), The Human Body: Its Structure and Operation (Isaac Asimov), Catch-22 (Joseph Heller), Ubik (Philip K. Dick), Lord of the Flies (William Golding), the Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald), Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut), the Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank), to Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee), the Crucible (Arthur Miller), Othello (Shakespeare), Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller), a Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams), Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes), On the Road (Jack Kerouac), the Occult (Colin Wilson), Red Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson), Animal Farm (George Orwell), Brave New World (Aldous Huxley), Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad), the Disposessed (Ursula K. LeGuin), Hamlet (Shakespeare), 1984 (George Orwell), War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy), of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck), Faust I&II (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe), Romeo & Juliet (Shakespeare), a Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson), Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood), Dune (Frank Herbert), the Odyssey (Homer, trans: Eickhoff)
READLIST I
The Leopard (Guiseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa), Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison), Homage to Catalonia (George Orwell), Demanding the Impossible (Peter Marshall), War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells), Crime & Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevski), Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk), the Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon), Great Expectations (Charles Dickens), Children of Men (P.D. James), We (Yevgeny Zamyatin), Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe), Paradise Lost (John Milton), A Place of Greater Safety (Hillary Mantel), the Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde), Ayoade on Top (Richard Ayoade), the Gift of Fear (Gavin de Becker), Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov), The Road (Cormac McCarthy), Candide (Voltaire), I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou), a Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess), the Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevski), Flatland (Edwin A. Abbott), By the Sword (Richard Cohen), Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick), The Trial (Franz Kafka), The Illiad (Homer), Night (Elie Wiesel), Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K. LeGuin), the Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo), Les Miserables (Victor Hugo), Phantom of the Opera (Gaston LeRoux), the Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison), Labor of Love (M. Weigel), Tawaw (C. Chartrand), Lady Chatterley's Lover (D.H. Lawrence), Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert), Islands in the Stream (Ernest Hemingway), Superior (Angela Saini), The Prophet (Kalil Gibran), Inferior (Angela Saini), Little Brother (Cory Doctorow), Attack Surface (Cory Doctorow), Bullshit Jobs (David Graeber), A Scanner Darkly (Philip K. Dick), Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri), Steppenwolf (Herman Hesse), The Stranger (Albert Camus), For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway), Roadside Picnic (A. Strugatsky), the Colossus (Sylvia Plath), Jekyll & Hyde (R.L. Stevenson), Dharma Bums (Jack Kerouac), Moby Dick (Herman Melville), Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut), 100 Years of Solitude (G.G. Marquez), Ulysses (James Joyce), Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe), Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood), of Human Bondage (W.S. Maugham), Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov), Wuthering Heights (E. Bronte), Jane Eyre (C. Bronte), Scaramouche (R. Sabatini), the Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath), the Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas), the Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas), A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens), the Song of Achilles (Madeline Miller), Laws of Human Nature (R. Greene), the Color Purple (Alice Walker), No Exit (J.P. Sartre), the Secret Life of Groceries (Benjamin Lorr), House of Leaves (Mark Danielewski), Julie or Nouvelle Eloise (Jean Jaques Rousseau), the Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up (Marie Kondo), Spark Joy (Marie Kondo), Carmilla (J.S. LeFanu), the Jungle (Upton Sinclair), Against Empathy (Paul Bloom), Don Quixote (M. de Cervantes S.), Dark Money (Jane Mayer), Morte Darthur (Thomas Malory), A Room with a View (E.M. Forster), Sybil or the Two Nations (Benjamin Disraeli), the Far Pavilions (M.M. Kaye), Kino-Eye (Dziga Vertov), Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace), The Prince (Nicolo Machiavelli), The Naked Ape (Desmond Morris), the Time Machine (H.G. Wells), Plutarch's Lives (Plutarch), the Sorrows of Young Werther (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe), Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice), the Castle of Otranto (Horace Wapole), the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Rebeca Skloot), The Historian (Elizabeth Kostovo), A Thousand Ships (Natalie Haynes), The Symposium (Plato), Metamorphoses (Ovid), Inconvenient Indian (Thomas King), Daphnis & Chloe (Longus), the Virgin Suicides (Jeffrey Eugenids)
MISC.
This Land is Their Land (David J. Silverman), D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths (Ingri & Edgar d'Aulaire), the Art of War (Sun Tzu), the Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame), Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
READLIST II
Philosophy of Science: A New Introduction (Gillian Barker), the Sandman (Neil Gaiman), Midwest Futures (Phil Christman), The Works and Days / Theogony / The Shield of Herakles (Hesiod), the Selfish Gene (Richard Dawkins), The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Art of Frugal Hedonism (Adam Grubb), Prinsessen av Clèves (Madame de LaFayette), Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen), the Colour of Magic (Terry Pratchett), Strong Towns (Charles L. Marohn), the Order of Things (Michel Foucault), Time Travel in Einstein's Universe (J. Richard Gott III), Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw), A Generation of Sociopaths (Bruce Cannon Gibney), the Republic (Plato), Fashionopolis (Dana Thomas), The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry), Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche), Normal People (Sally Rooney), Captive Prince (C.S. Pacat), a People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn), Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany (Normal Ohler), the Marrow Thieves (Cherie Dimaline), the Oresteia (Aeschylus), Libidinal Economy (Jean-Francois Lyotard), No Longer Human (Osamu Dazai), Braiding Sweetgrass (Robin Wall Kimmerer), the Emperor's Body (Peter Brooks), the Vampire Lestat (Anne Rice), Capital Vol. I (Karl Marx), the Archaeology of Knowledge (Michel Foucault), Imperialism (Vladimir Lenin), Pest Control (Bill Fitzhugh), Cycle of Fire (Hal CLement), the Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (Peter & Iona Opie), the Word for World is Forest (Ursula K. LeGuin), Who Goes There? (John W. Campbell), a Wizard of Earthsea (Ursula K. LeGuin), the Origin of Capitalism (Ellen Meiksins Wood), Robert's Rules of Order (Henry Martyn Robert), It's Not News, It's Fark (Drew Curtis), the City in History (Lewis Mumford), the Descent of Man (Charles Darwin), a History of Western Philosophy (Bertrand Russell), Theories of Surplus Value (Karl Marx), the Soul of Man Under Socialism (Oscar Wilde), the Bullet Journal Method (Ryder Carroll), Chess: From First Moves to Checkmate (Daniel J. King), Make Time (J. Knapp & J. Zeratsky), Medical Nihilism (Jacob Stegenga), Van Gogh: the Life (S. Naifeh & G.W. Smith), American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis), the Dream of the Red Chamber (Tsao Hsueh-Chin), Indian Horse (Richard Wagamese), the Bloody Chamber (Angela Carter), Stalingrad (Vasily Grossman), the Song of Roland (Turoldus), the Myth of Sisyphus (Albert Camus), Gargantua and Pantagruel (Francois Rabelais), Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Susanna Clarke), 2666 (Roberto Bolano), a Little Life (Hanya Yanagihara), the Secret History (Donna Tartt), Debt: the First 5,000 Years (David Graeber), Biology Under the Influence (R. Levins & R.C. Lewontin), Mad in America (Robert Whitaker), Surveillance Valley (Yasha Levine), the Emperor (Georg Ebers), Cheating Lessons (James M. Lang), This is How You Lose the Time War (Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone), Red Rain (R.L. Stine), the Wreath (Sigrid Undset), the Road to Wigan Pier (George Orwell), Fencing: Steps to Success (Elaine Cheris), the Science of Fencing (William M. Gaugler), the Ring of the Nibelung (Richard Wagner), the Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde), My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Ottessa Moshfegh), Circe (Madeline Miller), Beowulf, the Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Taylor Jenkins Reid), People We Meet on Vacation (Emily Henry), the Haunting of Hill House (Shirley Jackson), Manufacturing Consent (Noam Chomsky)