As Requested :
From The Eye Opener Thread , As of 1/28/06.
I tried to group catergories as best I could with the information given in this thread and what I could find on Amazon/B&N. If I skipped one, or put an incorrect author (some posts gave only titles) please let me or a Mod know and corrections will be made.
Some books fit more than one catergory - I included them twice if I thought that was the case.
Books listed Alphabetically within category/subject by Author.
I typed this in MS word, so if someone would like the actual word file to print, kindly send me a PM
EYE OPENER'S READING LIST COMPILATION
Social/Environmental, Histories, American Pop Culture
Rolling Thunder Doug Boyd
Understanding Power Noam Chomsky
What If ? - Cowley, Editor
Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond
The Quick and Dirty Guide to War - James F. Dunnigan, Austin Bay
Dropsie Avenue Will Eisner
American Gods Neil Gaiman
A Language Older than Words - Derrick Jensen
The Culture of Make Believe - Derrick Jensen
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations - David Landes
The Lies My Teacher told Me - James W. Loewen
Lies Across America - James W. Loewen
The Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart
Great American Eccentrics - Carl Sifakis
The Jungle Upton Sinclair
Maus I & II Art Spiegelman
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Hells Angels Hunter S. Thompson
The Art of War Sun Tzu
A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
Rats, Lice, and History Hans Zinsser
Spirituality, Psychology, Consciousness, Religion, Philosophy
Gods Debris : A Thought Experiment - Scott Adams
Finding Your Way Home - Melody Beattie
Mahabarata - William Buck
The Vein of Gold Journey to your Creative Heart Julia Cameron
The Tao of Physics -Fritjof Capra
The Teachings of Don Juan Carlos Casteneda
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
White Noise - Don Delillo
The Third Chimpanzee - Jared Diamond
Foucalt's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
Thoughts Without a Thinker by Mark Epstien
Man's Search For Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
Sophies World - Jostein Gaarder
Gospel Fictions -Randel Helms
Who Wrote The Gospels - Randel Helms
Siddhartha Herman Hesse
Godel, Escher, Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas R. Hofstadter
The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
The Collected Works of Carl Jung- Carl Jung
The Three Pillars of Zen - Philip Kapleau Roshi
Prayers of the Cosmos Meditations on the Aramaic Words of Jesus - Neil Douglas-Klotz
Screwtape Letters C.S. Lewis
Mere Christianity C.S. Lewis
Communist Manifesto - Carl Marx
The Collected Works of Friedrich Nietzsche - Friedrich Neitzsche,
The Invitation - Oriah Mountain Dreamer
The Jesus Sutras: Rediscovering the Lost Scrolls of Taoist Christianity - Martin Palmer
The Road less Traveled M. Scott Peck
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
The Fountainhead Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield
The Diamond Sutra: The Perfection of Wisdom, Text and Commentaries translated from Sanskrit and Chinese Red Pine
Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu, Lao Zi, Charles Muller (Translator), Yi-Ping Ong (Introduction)
Integral Psychology -Ken Wilber
A Theory of Everything - Ken Wilbur
Bibles :
The Holy Bible, King James version
The Holy Bible, New Jerusalem version
The Psalms Holy Bible
The Holy Bible NIV version
The Message Bible - Eugene H. Peterson (Editor)
Science, Physics, Mathematics, Space, Time, Relativity
The Tao of Physics -Fritjof Capra
The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World - Jack Cohen, Ian Stewart
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins 2nd Edition
Darwin's Dangerous Idea - Daniel C. Dennett
Foucalt's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
Chaos : Making a New Science - James Gleick
The Elegant Universe Brian Greene
In Search of Schroedingers Cat John Gribbin
Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos - Roger Lewin
Man and Time - J.B Priestley
Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark - Carl Sagan
Pale Blue Dot - Carl Sagan
Prometheus Rising Robert Anton Winston
Taking the Quantum Leap Fred Alan Wolfe
The Dancing Wu Li Masters - Gary Zukav
Science Fiction/ Fantasy / Comics
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (and assorted sequels) - Douglas Adams
Foundation Series - Isaac Asimov
Earthsea Trilogy - Ursula Le Guin
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
Dune Series - Frank Herbert
The Dosadi Experiment - Frank Herbert
The Amazing Spider Man Stan Lee
Small Gods Terry Pratchett
Memnoch the Devil - Anne Rice
Illuminatus Trilogy - Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson, Robert A. Wilson
The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien
Lord of Light - Roger Zelazny
Futuristic
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Plowing the Dark by Richard Powers
1984 - George Orwell
General Fiction
Jonathon Livingston Seagull Richard Bach
The Plague Albert Camus
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky
Foucalt's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
The Great Divorce - C.S. Lewis
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest - Ken Kesey
The Source James Michener
The Bromeliad Trilogy - Terry Pratchett
Gravitys Rainbow Thomas Pynchon
Complete Short Stories Mark Twain
Kurt Vonnegut Breakfast of Champions, Slaughterhouse 5, Welcome to the Monkey House, Cat's Cradle
Non Fiction
Death Be Not Proud: A Memoir - John J. Gunther
A Book of Dreams Peter Reich
Satire
Animal Farm George Orwell
Gullivers Travels Jonathon Swift
A Modest Proposal Jonathon Swift
Candide Voltaire