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Old 01-28-2006, 03:36 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Eye Opener's Reading List

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
Hell’s 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

God’s 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
Sophie’s 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
Gravity’s 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
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathon Swift
A Modest Proposal – Jonathon Swift
Candide – Voltaire
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