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Books I have read

These are books I have read in the past, before I kept a blog. Some of these I still have, indicated by a (*) after the byline.

  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  • Moby Dick by Herman Mellville
  • By Ray Bradbury
    • Fahrenheit 451
    • Slaughterhouse Five
  • By Frank Herbert (*)
    • Dune, Dune Messiah
    • Children of Dune
    • God Emperor of Dune
    • Heretics of Dune
    • Chapterhouse: Dune
  • Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
    (Study guide here, the poem by Yeats is eerily applicable to world events in 2006)
  • By George Orwell:
  • A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  • The Satyricon by Petronius (English translation.)
  • The Fountains of Paradise, Rendezvous with Rama, The Nine Billion Names of God, The Wind from the Sun, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 2010: Odyssey Two, 2061: Odyssey Three, 3001: The Final Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Rama II, The Garden of Rama, Rama Revealed by Arthur C. Clarke with Gentry Lee
  • A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
  • By Michael Crichton:
    • Andromeda Strain
    • Disclosure
  • Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
  • Running with the Demon by Terry Brooks
  • The Other by Thomas Tryon (the biographical link is a real eye-opener.)
  • A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'engle