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.
Matte
Elsbernd - melsbern@tuba.aix.calpoly.edu
- Isaac Asimov Foundation Trilogy
- Isaac Asimov Foundation's Edge
- Richard Bach The Bridge Across Forever
- John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men
- George Orwell Animal Farm
- James Michener Bridges at Toko-Ri
- Mike McQuay Lifekeeper
- Robert Heinlein The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
- Daniel Moran Armageddon Blues
- Philip Farmer Dayworld
- Pamela Sargent Shore of Women
- David Palmer Emergence
- Gregory Benford Shiva Descending
- David Brin The River of Time
- Robert Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land
- John Varley Blue Champagne
- Kevin O'Donnel Jr. Ora;cle
- Pamela Sargent Venus of Dreams
- Piers Anthony Anthonology
- Piers Anthony Macroscope
- Micheal Hutchinson MegaBrain
- John Hersey Hiroshima
- Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird
- John Brunner Children of the Thunder
- William Gibson Neuromancer
- Greg Bear Eon
- L. Ron Hubbard Mission Earth 1: Invader's Plan
- Lawrence Sanders Seduction of Peter S.
- Mark Twain Tom Sawyer
- L. Ron Hubbard Mission Earth 2: Black Genesis
- George Orwell 1984
- L. Ron Hubbard Mission Earth 3: Enemy Within
- Robert Heinlein Friday
- L. Ron Hubbard Mission Earth 4: An Alien Affair
- L. Ron Hubbard Mission Earth 5: Fortune of Fear
- L. Ron Hubbard Mission Earth 6: Death Quest
- William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice
- L. Ron Hubbard Mission Earth 7: Voyage of Vengeance
- L. Ron Hubbard Mission Earth 8: Disaster
- James P. Hogan Proteus Operation
- Thomas Wolfe The Right Stuff
- L. Ron Hubbard Mission Earth 9: Villany Victorious
- L. Ron Hubbard Mission Earth 10: Doomed Planet
- Piers Anthony Bio of a Space Tyrant 1: Refugee
- Piers Anthony Bio of a Space Tyrant 2: Mercenary
- Piers Anthony Bio of a Space Tyrant 3: Politician
- Piers Anthony Bio of a Space Tyrant 4: Executive
- Spider Robinson Time Pressure
- V.M. Thompson Project God
- James N. Frey Circle of Death
- Piers Anthony Race Against Time
- Philip K. Dick Time Out of Joint
- Omni 4th Book of Science Fiction
- Piers Anthony Bio of a Space Tyrant 5: Statesman
- Isaac Asimov Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain
- Chaim Potok The Chosen
- Walter M. Miller Jr. A Canticle for Leibowitz
- Pat Cadigan Mind Players
- John Knowles A Separate Peace
- L. Neil Smith Crystal Empire
- William Golding Lord of the Flies
- William Shakespeare Othello
- Walter Jon Williams Hardwired
- William Gibson Count Zero
- William Gibson Mona Lisa Overdrive
- Homer Iliad
- Greg Bear Eternity
- Robert Heinlein Farnham's Freehold
- Erich Maria Remarque All's Quiet On the Western Front
- J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye
- Robert Heinlein Expanded Universe
- Bruce Sterling Mirrorshades
- Carson McCullers The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
- (various) Hitler Victorious
- Greg Bear Forge of God
- Spider Robinson Mindkiller
- Stephen Fine Molly Dear
- Micheal D. Weaver Mercedes Nights
- Bruce Sterling Islands in the Net
- Robert Heinlein I Will Fear No Evil
- J. Neil Schulman The Rainbow Cadenza
- J. Neil Schulman Alongside Night
- Pascal Bruckner Evil Angels
- Walter Jon Williams Angel Station
- Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea
- Greg Bear Tangents
- Patricia McKillip Fool's Run
- Mike Resnick Eros at Zenith
- James Gunn The Dreamers
- Bruce Sterling Schismatrix
- Walter Jon Williams Facets
- Terence M. Green Barking Dogs
- Robert Reed Black Milk
- Norman Spinrad Little Heroes
- K.W. Jeter Farewell Horizontal
- Harry Harrison A Stainless Steel Rat is Born
- D.C. Poyer Stepfather Bank
- Lawrence Watt-Evans Nightside City
- Dakota James Milwaukee the Beautiful
- Jonathan Littel Bad Voltage
- Somtow Sucharitkul Mallworld
- Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlett Letter
- Upton Sinclair The Jungle
- Bruce Sterling Crystal Express
- John Allen Paulos Innumeracy
- William Shatner TekWar
- Harry Harrison The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted
- George Alec Effinger When Gravity Fails
- Lisa Mason Arachne
- Mark Twain Huck Finn
- Jack L. Chalker The Identity Matrix
- Robert Charles Wilson A Hidden Place
- Karl Hansen Dream Games
- Micheal D. Weaver My Father Immortal
- Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage
- George Alec Effinger Relatives
- Parke Godwin Waiting for the Galactic Bus
- Micheal Swanick Vacuum Flowers
- Robert Cormier Fade
- F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
- Ernest Hemingway A Farewell To Arms
- Arthur Miller The Death of a Salesman
- Peter Blake Forms Follows Fiasco
- William C. Dietz Matrix Man
- Dave Pollock Skywalking: The Life & Films of George Lucas
- F. Paul Wilson Dydeetown World
- Joseph Heywood The Berkut
- Robert Venturi Learning From Las Vegas
- K.W. Jeter Dr. Adder
- Bernard Rudofsky Architecture w/o Architects
- Ben Bova Exiled From Earth
- Ben Bova Flight of Exiles
- Ben Bova End of Exile
- Ben Bova Future Crime
- John Cook&Heirich Klotz Conversations With Architects
- Ray Bradbury Zen and the Art of Writing
- (various) Eros in Orbit
- Kit Reed Revenge of the Senior Citizens
- Pat Conroy Lords of Discipline
- Larry Niven Oath of Fealty
- Robert Penn Warren All the King's Men
- Mike Farren Necrom
- Robert Aspirin Phule's Company
- Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary
- Pat Conroy Prince of Tides
- Thomas Harris The Silence of the Lambs
- Isabel Allende The House of the Spirits
- William Shakespeare Hamlet
- William Faulkner Light in August
- Daniel Burstein Euro-Quake
- Joseph Conrad Lord Jim
- Timothy Zahn Star Wars: Heir to the Empire
- John Frances Casey The Flock
- Cliv Joe Haldeman Buying Time
- Harry Harrison The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World
- George Eliot The Mill on the Floss
- Bill Bryson Mother Tongue
- Charles Berlitz Native Tongues
- Richard Lederer Crazy English
- Richard Lederer Anguished English
- Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime & Punishment
- William Shakespeare Henry V
- ( ? ) Aussie English
- Anne Sexton A Self-Portrait in Letters
- William Shakespeare MacBeth
- William Lutz DoubleSpeak
- Peter F. Drucker Managing for the Future
- Joe Flower Prince of the Magic Kingdom
- Rita Mae Brown Starting from Scratch
- Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot
- (various) The Best American Poetry 1989
- Toni Morrison Beloved
- James Morrow Only Begotten Daughter
- Barry B. Longyear Sea of Glass
- Mick Farren Vickers
- Tom Clancy Red Storm Rising
- Eugene Raskin Architecturally Speaking
- (?) Disney's World
- Robert Grudin The Grace of Great Things
- Edward de Bono I am Right and You Are Wrong
- Kate Chopin The Awakening
- Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises
- Erica Jong Becoming Light
- Martin Amis London Fields
- William Styron Darkness Visible
- Kathryn Harrison Exposure
- Aldous Huxley Brave New World
- Daniel M. Pinkwater Young Adults
- Tom Clancy The Sum of All Fears
- Erica Jong The Devil at Large
- Robert M. Pirsig Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- W.Gibson & B. Sterling The Difference Engine
- Josephine Hart Damage
- Dorothea Brande Becoming a Writer
- Harry Edward Neal Nonfiction
- William Zinsser On Writing Well
- Jamie Malanowski Mr. Stupid Goes to Washington
- Susanna Kaysen Girl, Interrupted
- Robert Harris Fatherland
- Art Speigelman Maus I
- Andrew Vachss Shella
- Timothy Zahn Star Wars: Dark Force Rising
- ( ? ) The Goering Files
- David Fischer The Wrong Man
- Barbara Sher Wishcraft: How to Get What You Really Want
- Greil Marcus ranters & crowd pleasers
- Robert O'Connor Buffalo Soldiers
- Fyodor Dostoevsky Notes from the Underground
- Susan Shreve The Train Home
- Jerry Seinfeld SeinLanguage
- Nicholson Baker U and I
- John Nichols Conjugal Bliss
- Samuel Beckett Malone Dies
- Leonard Wibberley The Mouse that Roared
- Richard Lederer The Miracle of Language
- Nikolai Gogol Diary of a Madman
- Franz Kafka The Trial
- Timothy Zahn Star Wars: The Last Command
- Kevin J. Anderson Star Wars: Jedi Search
- Dr. Seuss I Am Not Going to Get Up Today!
- Margaret & HA Rey's Curious George Goes to the Aquarium
- Clive Barker Imajica
- Matt Groening Bart Simpson's Guide to Life
- J Hopkins, D Sugerman No One Gets Out of Here Alive
- Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Douglas Adams The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- Shel Silverstein Where the Sidewalk Ends
- B Graham, R Greenfield Bill Graham Presents
- Jack Hitt In A Word
- Daniel Keyes The Minds of Billy Milligan
- Nancy Taylor Rosenberg Mitigating Circumstances
- Michael Crichton Sphere
- Richard North Patterson Degree of Guilt
- Michael Crichton Rising Sun
- Isaac Asimov I. Asimov: A Memoir
- William Gibson Visual Light
- Michael Crichton Congo
- Stanislaw Lem Peace on Earth
- Fyodor Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov
- Benjamin Hoff The Tao of Pooh
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Welcome to the Monkey House
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Mother Night
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Breakfast of Champions
- Stewart Brand The Media Lab
- Thomas More Utopia
- Thomas Mann Death In Venice
- E Spiekermann,EM Ginger Stop Stealing Sheep & find out how type works
- Vonda N. McIntyre Star Wars: The Crystal Star
- James Joyce The Dead
- William Congreve The Way of the World
- Woody Allen Getting Even
- Tennessee Williams Streetcar Named Desire
- Douglas Coupland Generation X
- Bruce Sterling The Hacker Crackdown
- Bret Easton Ellis The Rules of Attraction
- D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterly's Lover
- Bret Easton Ellis The Informerers
- Carl Djerassi The Pill, Pygmy Chimps, and Degas' Horse
- James B. Twitchell Carnival Culture:The Trashing of Taste in America
- Victor Montejo Testimony: Death of a Guatemalan Village
- William Bridges Job Shift: How to Prosper in a Workplace Without Jobs
- Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
- Virginia Woolf To The Lighthouse
- Clive Chajet/Tom Shachtman Image By Design
- Neal Stephenson Snow Crash
- Neal Stephenson The Big U
- Eric Maisel A Life in The Arts
- Kathy Tyers Star Wars: Truce at Bakura
- Mark Leyner Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog
- Franz Kafka Amerika
- Richard Saunders (?) Jump Start Your Brain!
- Mark Leyner Et Tu, Babe
- Douglas Coupland Microserfs
- Bill Bryson Made in America: An Informal History
of the English Language in the United States
- Stephen King The Stand
- Martin Amis Visiting Mrs. Nabakov and other Excursions
Matte
Elsbernd - melsbern@tuba.aix.calpoly.edu