Books I've Read


This listing of all the books I've read is long. To help you access a particular portion of the list, I have indexed it so you can jump to the various years of my reading existence. For some reason I broke the original list down by school years, I have retained that format her.


Cyberpunk, Science Fiction

Thrillers, Crime, Psychological Fiction

"Literature", Misc. Fiction, & (Auto)Biography

Science, Psychology, Writing Non-Fiction

Architecture, Design, & Other Non-Fiction



9th Grade:1988-1989


1.Isaac Asimov Foundation Trilogy

2. Isaac Asimov Foundation's Edge

3. Richard Bach The Bridge Across Forever

4. John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

5. George Orwell Animal Farm

6. James Michener Bridges at Toko-Ri

7. Mike McQuay Lifekeeper

8. Robert Heinlein The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

9. Daniel Moran Armageddon Blues

10. Philip Farmer Dayworld

11. Pamela Sargent Shore of Women

12. David Palmer Emergence

13. Gregory Benford Shiva Descending

14. David Brin The River of Time

15. Robert Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land

16. John Varley Blue Champagne

17. Kevin O'Donnel Jr. Ora;cle

18. Pamela Sargent Venus of Dreams

19. Piers Anthony Anthonology

20. Piers Anthony Macroscope

21. Micheal Hutchinson MegaBrain

22. John Hersey Hiroshima

23. Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird

24. John Brunner Children of the Thunder

25. William Gibson Neuromancer

26. Greg Bear Eon

27. L. Ron Hubbard Mission Earth 1: Invader's Plan

28. Lawrence Sanders Seduction of Peter S.

29. Mark Twain Tom Sawyer

30. L. Ron Hubbard Mission Earth 2: Black Genesis

31. George Orwell 1984

32. L. Ron Hubbard Mission Earth 3: Enemy Within

33. Robert Heinlein Friday

34. L. Ron Hubbard Mission Earth 4: An Alien Affair

35. L. Ron Hubbard Mission Earth 5: Fortune of Fear

36. L. Ron Hubbard Mission Earth 6: Death Quest

37. William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice

38. L. Ron Hubbard Mission Earth 7: Voyage of Vengeance

39. L. Ron Hubbard Mission Earth 8: Disaster

40. James P. Hogan Proteus Operation

41. Thomas Wolfe The Right Stuff

42. L. Ron Hubbard Mission Earth 9: Villany Victorious

43. L. Ron Hubbard Mission Earth 10: Doomed Planet

44. Piers Anthony Bio of a Space Tyrant 1: Refugee

45. Piers Anthony Bio of a Space Tyrant 2: Mercenary

46. Piers Anthony Bio of a Space Tyrant 3: Politician

47. Piers Anthony Bio of a Space Tyrant 4: Executive

48. Spider Robinson Time Pressure

49. V.M. Thompson Project God

50. James N. Frey Circle of Death

51. Piers Anthony Race Against Time

52. Philip K. Dick Time Out of Joint

53. Omni 4th Book of Science Fiction

54. Piers Anthony Bio of a Space Tyrant 5: Statesman

55. Isaac Asimov Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain


10th Grade:1989-1990


56. Chaim Potok The Chosen

57. Walter M. Miller Jr. A Canticle for Leibowitz

58. Pat Cadigan Mind Players

59. John Knowles A Separate Peace

60. L. Neil Smith Crystal Empire

61. William Golding Lord of the Flies

62. William Shakespeare Othello

63. Walter Jon Williams Hardwired

64. William Gibson Count Zero

65. William Gibson Mona Lisa Overdrive

66. Homer Iliad

67. Greg Bear Eternity

68. Robert Heinlein Farnham's Freehold

69. Erich Maria Remarque All's Quiet On the Western Front

70. J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye

71. Robert Heinlein Expanded Universe

72. Bruce Sterling Mirrorshades

73. Carson McCullers The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

74. (various) Hitler Victorious

75. Greg Bear Forge of God

76. Spider Robinson Mindkiller

77. Stephen Fine Molly Dear

78. Micheal D. Weaver Mercedes Nights

79. Bruce Sterling Islands in the Net

80. Robert Heinlein I Will Fear No Evil

81. J. Neil Schulman The Rainbow Cadenza

82. J. Neil Schulman Alongside Night

83. Pascal Bruckner Evil Angels

84. Walter Jon Williams Angel Station

85. Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea

86. Greg Bear Tangents

87. Patricia McKillip Fool's Run

88. Mike Resnick Eros at Zenith

89. James Gunn The Dreamers

90. Bruce Sterling Schismatrix

91. Walter Jon Williams Facets

92. Terence M. Green Barking Dogs

93. Robert Reed Black Milk

94. Norman Spinrad Little Heroes

95. K.W. Jeter Farewell Horizontal

96. Harry Harrison A Stainless Steel Rat is Born

97. D.C. Poyer Stepfather Bank

98. Lawrence Watt-Evans Nightside City

99. Dakota James Milwaukee the Beautiful

100.Jonathan Littel Bad Voltage

101.Somtow Sucharitkul Mallworld


11th Grade:1990-1991


102.Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlett Letter

103.Upton Sinclair The Jungle

104.Bruce Sterling Crystal Express

105.John Allen Paulos Innumeracy

106.William Shatner TekWar

107.Harry Harrison The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted

108.George Alec Effinger When Gravity Fails

109.Lisa Mason Arachne

110.Mark Twain Huck Finn

111.Jack L. Chalker The Identity Matrix

112.Robert Charles Wilson A Hidden Place

113.Karl Hansen Dream Games

114.Micheal D. Weaver My Father Immortal

115.Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage

116.George Alec Effinger Relatives

117.Parke Godwin Waiting for the Galactic Bus

118.Micheal Swanick Vacuum Flowers

119.Robert Cormier Fade

120.F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

121.Ernest Hemingway A Farewell To Arms

122.Arthur Miller The Death of a Salesman

123.Peter Blake Forms Follows Fiasco

124.William C. Dietz Matrix Man

125.Dave Pollock Skywalking: The Life & Films of George Lucas

126.F. Paul Wilson Dydeetown World

127.Joseph Heywood The Berkut

128.Robert Venturi Learning From Las Vegas

129.K.W. Jeter Dr. Adder

130.Bernard Rudofsky Architecture w/o Architects

131.Ben Bova Exiled From Earth

132.Ben Bova Flight of Exiles

133.Ben Bova End of Exile

134.Ben Bova Future Crime

135.John Cook&Heirich Klotz Conversations With Architects 136.Ray Bradbury Zen and the Art of Writing

137.(various) Eros in Orbit

138.Kit Reed Revenge of the Senior Citizens

139.Pat Conroy Lords of Discipline


12th Grade:1991-1992


140.Larry Niven Oath of Fealty

141.Robert Penn Warren All the King's Men

142.Mike Farren Necrom

143.Robert Aspirin Phule's Company

144.Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

145.Pat Conroy Prince of Tides

146.Thomas Harris The Silence of the Lambs

147.Isabel Allende The House of the Spirits

148.William Shakespeare Hamlet

149.William Faulkner Light in August

150.Daniel Burstein Euro-Quake

151.Joseph Conrad Lord Jim

152.Timothy Zahn Star Wars: Heir to the Empire

153.John Frances Casey The Flock

154.Cliv Joe Haldeman Buying Time

155.Harry Harrison The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World

156.George Eliot The Mill on the Floss

157.Bill Bryson Mother Tongue

158.Charles Berlitz Native Tongues

159.Richard Lederer Crazy English

160.Richard Lederer Anguished English

161.Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime & Punishment

162.William Shakespeare Henry V

163.( ? ) Aussie English

164.Anne Sexton A Self-Portrait in Letters

165.William Shakespeare MacBeth

166.William Lutz DoubleSpeak

167.Peter F. Drucker Managing for the Future 168.Joe Flower Prince of the Magic Kingdom

169.Rita Mae Brown Starting from Scratch

170.Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot

171.(various) The Best American Poetry 1989

172.Toni Morrison Beloved

173.James Morrow Only Begotten Daughter

174.Barry B. Longyear Sea of Glass

175.Mick Farren Vickers

176.Tom Clancy Red Storm Rising


13th Grade:1992-1993


177.Eugene Raskin Architecturally Speaking

178.(?) Disney's World

179.Robert Grudin The Grace of Great Things

180.Edward de Bono I am Right and You Are Wrong

181.Kate Chopin The Awakening

182.Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises

183.Erica Jong Becoming Light

184.Martin Amis London Fields

185.William Styron Darkness Visible

186.Kathryn Harrison Exposure

187.Aldous Huxley Brave New World

188.Daniel M. Pinkwater Young Adults

189.Tom Clancy The Sum of All Fears

190.Erica Jong The Devil at Large

191.Robert M. Pirsig Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

192.W.Gibson & B. Sterling The Difference Engine

193.Josephine Hart Damage

194.Dorothea Brande Becoming a Writer

195.Harry Edward Neal Nonfiction

196.William Zinsser On Writing Well

197.Jamie Malanowski Mr. Stupid Goes to Washington

198.Susanna Kaysen Girl, Interrupted

199.Robert Harris Fatherland

200.Art Speigelman Maus I

201.Andrew Vachss Shella

202.Timothy Zahn Star Wars: Dark Force Rising

203.( ? ) The Goering Files

204.David Fischer The Wrong Man

205.Barbara Sher Wishcraft: How to Get What You Really Want


14th Grade:1993-1994


206.Greil Marcus ranters & crowd pleasers

207.Robert O'Connor Buffalo Soldiers

208.Fyodor Dostoevsky Notes from the Underground

209.Susan Shreve The Train Home

210.Jerry Seinfeld SeinLanguage

211.Nicholson Baker U and I

212.John Nichols Conjugal Bliss

213.Samuel Beckett Malone Dies

214.Leonard Wibberley The Mouse that Roared

215.Richard Lederer The Miracle of Language

216.Nikolai Gogol Diary of a Madman

217.Franz Kafka The Trial

218.Timothy Zahn Star Wars: The Last Command

219.Kevin J. Anderson Star Wars: Jedi Search

220.Dr. Seuss I Am Not Going to Get Up Today!

221.Margaret & HA Rey's Curious George Goes to the Aquarium

222.Clive Barker Imajica

223.Matt Groening Bart Simpson's Guide to Life

224.J Hopkins, D Sugerman No One Gets Out of Here Alive

225.Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

226.Douglas Adams The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

227.Shel Silverstein Where the Sidewalk Ends

228.B Graham, R Greenfield Bill Graham Presents

229.Jack Hitt In A Word

230.Daniel Keyes The Minds of Billy Milligan

231.Nancy Taylor Rosenberg Mitigating Circumstances

232.Michael Crichton Sphere


15th Grade:1994-1995


233.Richard North Patterson Degree of Guilt

234.Michael Crichton Rising Sun

235.Isaac Asimov I. Asimov: A Memoir

236.William Gibson Visual Light

237.Michael Crichton Congo

238.Stanislaw Lem Peace on Earth

239.Fyodor Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov

240.Benjamin Hoff The Tao of Pooh

241.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Welcome to the Monkey House

242.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Mother Night

243.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Breakfast of Champions

244.Stewart Brand The Media Lab

245.Thomas More Utopia

246.Thomas Mann Death In Venice

247.E Spiekermann,EM Ginger Stop Stealing Sheep & find out how type works

  • 248.Vonda N. McIntyre Star Wars: The Crystal Star

    249.James Joyce The Dead

    250.William Congreve The Way of the World

    251.Woody Allen Getting Even

    252.Tennessee Williams Streetcar Named Desire

    253.Douglas Coupland Generation X

    254.Bruce Sterling The Hacker Crackdown

    255.Bret Easton Ellis The Rules of Attraction

    256.D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterly's Lover

    257.Bret Easton Ellis The Informerers

    258.Carl Djerassi The Pill, Pygmy Chimps, and Degas' Horse

    259.James B. Twitchell Carnival Culture:The Trashing of Taste in America

    260.Victor Montejo Testimony: Death of a Guatemalan Village

    261.William Bridges Job Shift: How to Prosper in a Workplace Without Jobs

    262.Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice

    263.Virginia Woolf To The Lighthouse

    264.Clive Chajet/Tom Shachtman Image By Design

    265.Oliver Sacks Anthropolgist on Mars


    Matte Elsbernd - melsbern@tuba.aix.calpoly.edu