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

High School: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


    High School: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


    High School: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


    High School: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


    Undergrad: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


    Undergrad: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


    Undergrad: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. Neal Stephenson Snow Crash
  266. Neal Stephenson The Big U
  267. Eric Maisel A Life in The Arts
  268. Kathy Tyers Star Wars: Truce at Bakura
  269. Mark Leyner Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog
  270. Franz Kafka Amerika
  271. Richard Saunders (?) Jump Start Your Brain!
  272. Mark Leyner Et Tu, Babe
  273. Douglas Coupland Microserfs
  274. Bill Bryson Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
  275. Stephen King The Stand
  276. Martin Amis Visiting Mrs. Nabakov and other Excursions

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