Booklist
I now have one of the five artists books that I made in The Tate Gallery special archive of artists books along with all the other artists books that artists have made and The Tate Gallery have acquired and thought worthy to add through their history.
Link to my artists book in The Tate special archive of artists books
It is suppose to be a permanent link supplied by the Tate but seems to sometimes say expired... Not so permanent then... That is The Tate no me...
Where should I start with the books on dinosaurs, fossils and history from when I was 5 or 6, they were not just picture books but books with pictures and full of writing, in fact the one on fossils was mostly writing my parents bought them for me, birthday and Christmas. The history were from a set of encyclopaedias, though I read the history mainly; ancient Greek and Egyptian, of course a lot of the myths from these ancient cultures as well. Or later when 9 my mothers books of poems, then they were sets with most of the poets through history, though mostly British poets, so British poets through history. But then maybe start later when I started reading fiction, at around 12 years old, one of my brothers had boxes of books and more on shelves, in the large double room we shared. So there I think, so it would probably have to start with Sartre, though what follows in the lists is in no particular order, either chronologically ( when I read them) or by personal preference. Sartre first though because him and Camus I think I read first. Now beginning I realise what a cyclopean task this is as I have read 10,000's books in my life, so I will add this now and continually add books to it as I remember more, titles or authors and then work out what I have read by them. I have known many people that have read many books, but apart from a few that have read them and memorised some parts, they may lecture or write, but they do not understand them, it is like Einstein's 'Theory of Relativity' easy to read, understand the words, I am sure lots of people can do the math, but truly understanding his concepts well apparently not many people do, though they think they do, let me put it this way, to really understand Einstein's 'Theory of Relativity' and it's permutations maybe you have a brain at least halfway as intelligent as Einstein's. I am sure Stephen Hawking does, and various people like him, no I am not saying Stephen Hawking is half as intelligent as Einstein. Just to give you an idea of what I am trying to convey. Of course many people would argue if you can read the words and do the math of Einstein's 'Theory of Relativity' you do understand it, I would beg to differ, as with theory any kind when you 'absorb' it and understand it, it alters the way you think, it opens the mind, the world of possibilities, ideas concepts. I am not saying I 'understand' Einstein's 'Theory of Relativity' by the way, though I can read the words and should be able to do the math though my math is a bit rusty at the moment.
"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing."
Socrates
Not that he knew nothing but was intelligent enough to know how little he knew and of what he knew how much he really understood or did not.
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
Albert Einstein
I would say imagination, knowledge, a conceptual framework and philosophical framework more akin to Einstein's, many people have knowledge and many people have imagination, not many have Einstein's engagement with the world of ideas, the pure joy of ideas, concepts and the wonder to explore the universe. Why Einstein was so rare, though there have been others through history and will be again. Leonardo da Vinci for one.
There is a great scene from one of the Star Trek films, Mccoy asks Spock what is it like to die, Spock replies he can not discuss the concept with Mccoy because Mccoy has not, Mccoy says what you mean I have to die to talk to you about what it is like to die ?
(This is not verbatim, I have looked it up and quoted the piece of dialogue on my Quotations page)
Reference points, ways of thinking, the worlds of possibilities
Since I am writing a booklist, my poetry book on iBooks
My photography book on iBooks; My photography iBook
Enjoy the booklist.
The Age of Reason
The Reprieve
Iron in the Soul
Nausea
No Exit
Being And Nothingness
(though only parts & various essays of 'Being And Nothingness')
The Philosophy of Jean Paul Sartre
by
Jean Paul Sartre
Penguin classics edition with the Picasso painting covers
The Stranger
The Plague
The Fall
The Rebel
The Myth Of Sisyphus and other essays
The Albert Camus Collection
by
Albert Camus
The Iliad
The Odyssey
By
Homer
Translated to prose by E.V.Rieu
The Golden Ass
by
Asinus Aureus
A Wizard of Earthsea
The Tombs of Atuan
The Farthest Shore
Tehanu
Rocannon's World
Planet of Exile
City of Illusions
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Dispossessed
The Word for World Is Forest
The Lathe of Heaven
The Wind's Twelve Quarters
Orsinian Tales
The Eye of the Heron
The Compass Rose
by
Ursula K. Le Guin
Gulliver's Travel
A Tale of a Tub
by
Jonathan Swift
The Trial
The Castle
The Metamorphosis
by
Franz Kafka
The Order Of Things
The Archaeology Of Knowledge
by
Michel Foucalt
Steppenwolf
by
Hermann Hesse
Wuthering Heights
by
Emily Brontë
The Name Of The Rose
Foucault's Pendulum
The Open Work
Misreadings
Travels in Hyperreality (Faith in Fakes)
by
Umberto Eco
Mythologies
Camera Lucida
Image-Music-Text
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
The Rustle Of Langauge
by
Roland Barthes
If On A Winter's Night A Traveler
Invisible Cities
Cosmicomics
by
Italo Calvino
More Pricks Than Kicks
Molloy
Malone Dies
The Unnamable
Watt
might have read 'Murphy' as well
Selected Plays
by
Samuel Beckett
The Alchemist
by
Paulo Coelho
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
A Separate Reality
Journey to Ixtlan
Tales of Power
by
Carlos Castaneda
On Photography
Against Interpretation
Styles Of Radical Will
Regarding The Pain Of Others
by
Susan Sontag
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Love in the Time of Cholera
Of Love and Other Demons
No One Writes to the Colonel
by
Gabriel García Márquez
Jane Eyre
by
Charlotte Brontë
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
The Differend
The Postmodern Explained to Children
The Inhuman: Reflections on Time
by
Jean-Francois Lyotard
The Shadow Of The Wind
by
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Cool Memories
Simulacra and Simulation
The Mirror of Production
Seduction
Fatal Strategies
Simulations
America
The Ecstasy of Communication
The Transparency of Evil
by
Jean Baudrillard
Catcher In The Rye
by
J. D. Salinger
Poems
by
T S Eliot
Ethics
by
Spinoza
Witch World
Web of the Witch World
Three Against the Witch World
Warlock of the Witch World
Sorceress of the Witch World
Trey of Swords
Ware Hawk
The Gate of the Cat
Year of the Unicorn
The Crystal Gryphon
The Jargoon Pard
Zarsthor's Bane
Gryphon In Glory
Lore Of The Witch World
Spell Of The Witch World
Horn Crown
Flight of Vengeance
On Wings Of Magic
Storms Of Victory
The Key of the Keplian
The Magestone
The Warding of Witch World
The Gifts of Asti
By
Andre Norton
Chrome Yellow
Brave New World
The Doors Of Perception, Heaven and Hell
Those Barren Leaves
Eyeless In Gaza
Point Counter Point
Island
by
Aldous Huxley
Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion
by
Rosemary Jackson
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Under the Greenwood Tree
The Woodlanders
Far from the Madding Crowd
The Return of the Native
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Life's Little Ironies
The Trumpet Major
Jude the Obscure
by
Thomas Hardy
In Praise of Idleness
The Problems of Philosophy
Why I am Not a Christian
The Analysis of Mind
by
Bertrand Russell
Paul Klee Notebooks
by
Paul Klee
Love Among The Artists
The Adventures of The Black Girl In Her Search For God
by
George Bernard Shaw
Interpreting Contemporay Art
Edited by
Stephen Bann & William Allen
Cider With Rosie
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
by
Laurie Lee
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
One-Way Street and Other Writings
Illuminations
by
Walter Benjamin
The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project
by
Walter Benjamin unfinished project by Susan Buck-Morss
Tender Is The Night
The Beautiful And The Damned
This Side of Paradise
The Great Gatsby
The Love of the Last Tycoon
(And various short stories and some of his letters)
Who is my favourite American writer of fiction
by
F. Scott Fitzgerald
One thing that amazes me, F. Scott Fitzgerald never won an award, then I think that says more about awards and prizes in general than F. Scott Fitzgerald. Especially when you look at the writers that have won the Pulitzer Prize and even the Nobel Prize. A number of whom I have read, the prize winners that is some are fabulous many are decidedly mediocre. Not hat this phenomenon is restricted to those prizes, the Booker Prize could have the same said of it. As could not just literary prizes but prizes in general; visual arts etc.
The Republic
Apology
various other texts
by
Plato
Titus Groan
Gormenghast
Titus Alone
by
Mervyn Peake
The Truth in Painting
Writing and Difference
Of Grammatology
by
Jacques Derrida
Keep The Aspidistra Flying
The Road To Wigan Pier
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Animal Farm
by
George Orwell
Babel 17
The Einstein Intersection
Nova
Stars In My Pockets Like Grains of Sand
Dhalgren
The Jewels of Aptor
Triton
Tales of Neveryon
Neveryona
Flight From Neveryon
Return To Neveryon
by
Samuel R. Delany
More Than Human
by
Theodore Sturgeon
The Second Sex
by
Simone de Beauvoir
Have read a theory book by Julia Kristeva but longtime ago so still trying to remember
might be Black Sun
The Cherry Orchard
will add more as I remember
by
Anton Chekhov
The Prince
Discourses On The First Decade of Titus Livius
by
Niccolo Machiavelli
The Fall of The House of Usher
The Masque of The Red Death
The Pit And The Pendulum
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Premature Burial
Eleonara
The Murder In The Rue Morgue
Narrative of A.Gordon Pym
The Raven
Eldorado
Tamerlane
Elenore
by
Edgar Allan Poe
Though I have read all his prose and most of his poetry and other things, but a sample
Foundation
Foundation And Empire
Second Foundation
I, Robot
The Caves of Steel
The Naked Sun
The Stars, Like Dust
By
Isaac Asimov
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
By
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Four Fundamentals of Psychoanalysis
Écrits
by
Jacques Lacan
The Chronicles of Morgaine
Exile's Gate
Fortress in the Eye of Time
Fortress of Eagles
Fortress of Owls
Fortress of Dragons
Fortress of Ice
Downbelow Station
Merchanter's Luck
Rimrunners
Heavy Time
Hellburner
Tripoint
Finity's End
Serpent's Reach
Forty Thousand in Gehenna
Cyteen
The Paladin
The Pride of Chanur
Chanur's Venture
The Kif Strike Back
Chanur's Homecoming
Chanur's Legacy
The Faded Sun Trilogy
Angel with the Sword
Port Eternity
Voyager in Night
Cuckoo's Egg
Brothers of Earth
Hunter of Worlds
by
C. J. Cherryh
On The Museum's Ruins
by
Douglas Crimp
Destiny Doll
by
Clifford D. Simak
Frankenstein Unbound
Helliconia Spring
Helliconia Summer
Helliconia Winter
by
Brian Aldiss
The City and the Stars
2001: A Space Odyssey
2010: Odyssey Two
2061: Odyssey Three
Rendezvous with Rama
The Songs of Distant Earth
by
Arthur C. Clarke
The Golden Bough
by
James George Frazer
Supernature
by
Lyall Watson
Sigmund Freud various texts
by
Sigmund Freud
Time Enough for Love
Stranger in a Strange Land
Glory Road
I Will Fear No Evil
by
Robert A. Heinlein
Sister Alice
by
Robert Reed
Elric of Melniboné
The Dreaming City
The Stealer of Souls
Stormbringer
Elric: The Sailor on the Seas of Fate
The Vanishing Tower
Elric At The End Of Time
Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress
Elric: The Revenge of The Rose
Elric: The Fortress of The Pearl
Elric of Melniboné And Other Stories
Son of The Wolf
The Quest For Tanelorn
The Champion of Garathorm
Count Brass
The Runestaff
The Sword of Dawn
The Jewel In The Skull
The Knight of Swords
The Queen of Swords
The King of Swords
The Bull and the Spear
The Oak and the Ram
The Sword and the Stallion
The Mad God’s Amulet
Behold the Man
The Ice Schooner
The Black Corridor
The Distant Suns
An Alien Heat
The Hollow Lands
The End of All Songs
The Final Programme
A Cure for Cancer
The English Assassin
The Condition of Muzak
The Adventures of Una Persson and Catherine Cornelius in the 20th Century
The Entropy Tango
The Dreamthief's Daughter
The Skrayling Tree
The White Wolf's Son
Destiny’s Brother
by
Michael Moorcock
Mille Plateaux
Nomadology: The War Machine
by
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
Don Quixote
by
Miguel de Cervantes
Neuromancer
Count Zero
by
William Gibson
Naked Lunch
The Ticket That Exploded
by
William S. Burroughs
Sundiver
Startide Rising
The Uplift War
Brightness Reef
Infinity's Shore
Heaven's Reach
The Practice Effect
The Postman
by
David Brin
Shikasta
The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five
The Sirian Experiments
The Making of the Representative for Planet 8
The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire
The Grass Is Singing
Briefing for a Descent into Hell
by
Doris Lessing
The Shadow of the Torturer
The Claw of the Conciliator
The Sword of the Lictor
The Citadel of the Autarch
Soldier of the Mist
The Urth of the New Sun
by
Gene Wolfe
The Divine Comedy
by
Dante Alighieri
Fahrenheit 451
The Illustrated Man
The Martian Chronicles
Something Wicked This Way Comes
by
Ray Bradbury
The Drowned World
The Drought
Crash
The Wind from Nowhere
Empire of The Sun
The Crystal World
The Atrocity Exhibition
Concrete Island
High Rise
The Unlimited Dream Company
Hello America
The Terminal Beach
The Day of Forever
The Overloaded Man
The Disaster Area
Vermilion Sands
The Day of Creation
Cocaine Nights
Low-Flying Aircraft and Other Stories
The Venus Hunters
The Voices of Time
Myths of the Near Future
by
J. G. Ballard
The Birth of Venus
by
Sarah Dunant
Magician
Silverthorn
A Darkness at Sethanon
by
Raymond E. Feist
Daughter of the Empire
Servant of the Empire
Mistress of the Empire
Raymond E. Feist & Janny Wurts
Curse of the Mistwraith
Ships of Merior
Warhost of Vastmark
Fugitive Prince
Grand Conspiracy
Peril's Gate
Traitor's Knot
Stormed Fortress
Initiate's Trial
Stormwarden
Keeper of the Keys
Shadowfane
by
Janny Wurts
Tao Te Ching
(The Way)
by
Lao-Tzu
The Handmaid's Tale
by
Margaret Atwood
Robinson Crusoe
by
Daniel Defoe
Last and First Men
by
Olaf Stapledon
Spirit Gate
Shadow Gate
Traitor's Gate
by
Kate Elliott
The Three Musketeers
Twenty Years After
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Man in the Iron Mask
by
Alexandre Dumas
Popular Defense & Ecological Struggles
Speed and Politics
by
Paul Virilio
A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
A Storm of Swords
A Feast of Crows
A Dance With Dragons
by
George R. R. Martin
The Hobbit
The Fellowship of The Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
Tree and Leaf
Smith of Wootton Major
Farmer Giles of Ham
The Silmarillion
The Book of Lost Tales 1
The Book of Lost Tales 2
The Lays of Beleriand
The Shaping of Middle-earth
The Lost Road and Other Writings
The Return of the Shadow
The Treason of Isengard
by
J. R. R. Tolkien
Remaking History
Discussions in Contemporary Culture #4
Edited by
Barbara Kruger & Phil Mariani
Dune
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune
God Emperor of Dune
Heretics of Dune
Chapterhouse: Dune
The Heaven Makers
The Godmakers
and various short stories
by
Frank Herbert
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Horse and His Boy
The Magician's Nephew
The Last Battle
by
C. S. Lewis
Discussions in Contemporary Culture #1
Edited by
Hal Foster
Recodings: Art, Spectacle, Cultural Politics
by
Hal Foster
Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Postmodernism and Cultural Theories
The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System
by
Fredric Jameson
A streetcar Named Desire
The Glass Menagerie
Orpheus Descending
Suddenly, Last Summer
Sweet Bird of Youth
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
I think I have read most of his plays after all he is my favourite American Playwright
by
Tennessee Williams
The Ascent of Man
by
Jacob Bronowski
Dracula
The Lair of The White Worm
by
Bram Stoker
Frankenstein;
Or The Modern Prometheus
by
Mary Shelley
Beyond The Wall of Sleep
The Transition of Juan Romero
The Statement of Randolph Carter
The Cats of Ulthar
At The Mountains of Madness
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
The Nameless City
The Call of Cthulthu
The Silver Key
Nyarlathotep
The Shadow Out Of Time
The Haunter of The Dark
by
H. P. Lovecraft
(A selection of what I have read by H. P. Lovecraft as otherwise it would be a very long list
as I have read all his stories, expect the first few)
Various books on the Bauhaus
by
Various members of the Bauhaus apart from the Paul Klee
I can not remember the other titles at the moment
King's Blood Four
Necromancer Nine
Wizard's Eleven
The Song of Mavin Manyshaped
The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped
The Search for Mavin Manyshaped
Jinian Footseer
Dervish Daughter
Jinian Star-Eye
by
Sheri S. Tepper
White Crow
Golden Witchbreed
Ancient Light
by
Mary Gentle
Deconstruction And Art / The Art of Deconstruction
Architectural Design (journal)
includes architects; Valerio Adami, Daniel Libeskind, Gunter Behnisch, Hiromi Fujji
I have part of the book here as I cut it up and used parts in a book I made 1991,
but not sure if it is the right title as can not find it searching for it, when I do I will update the reference.
Catch 22
by
Joseph Heller
Jonothan Livinston Seagull
by
Richard Bach
Watership Down
by
Richard Adams
MASH
by
Richard Hooker
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Soul of Man
The Happy Prince & Other Stories incldung
The Selfish Giant
by
Oscar Wilde
Rights of Man
by
Thomas Paine
Of Human Bondage
by
W. Somerset Maugham
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by
Maya Angelou
The Color Purple
by
Alice Walker
To Kill a Mockingbird
by
Harper Lee
Dead Souls
by
Nikolai Gogol
The Portrait of An Artist as A young Man
Have started 'Ulysses' several times and since I like the postmodern,
'Ulysses' often claimed as the first postmodern novel never really enjoyed it, I like the Odyssey
as well which it parallels, favourite Irish writer is Samuel Beckett
by
James Joyce
Collected Short Stories of Bertolt Brecht
The Modern Theatre Is the Epic Theatre
& I think Threepenny Novel
might have read some more by him as well
by
Bertolt Brecht
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Think I have read a number of her books
by
Beatrix Potter
Kidnapped
Treasure Island
The Master of Ballantrae
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
by
Robert Louis Stevenson
Book/s & some essays
will add when I remember which
by
Theodor W. Adorno
In a Lonely Street: Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity
by
Frank Krutnik
The Sword of Shannara
The Elfstones of Shannara
The Wishsong of Shannara
The Scions of Shannara
The Druid of Shannara
The Elf Queen of Shannara
The Talismans of Shannara
Ilse Witch
Antrax
Morgawr
by
Terry Brooks
Hawksmoor
by
Peter Ackroyd
You might notice a lot of science fiction and fantasy, well yes I do like, and many of the writers, scientist as well, including ones that have written scientific theorem, consult for Nasa, on various committees, boards and consult for various agencies, scientific, environmental, AI, etc, and or have also written books on issues like the environment and various other subjects, historians, professors of comparative literature etc. And are some of the best writers in their field, and have influenced scientific thought with their ideas and books through time, imagination.
The Time Machine
The First Men in the Moon
A Modern Utopia
The New Machiavelli
The War in the Air
The Sleeper Awakes
The Dream
Kipps
The Shape of Things to Come
The Island of Doctor Moreau
The War of the Worlds
I think I have read most of his fiction, though not his non-fiction
but the list is incredibly long, his none fiction is incredibly long as well.
by
H G Wells
I Ching
(The Book of Changes)
Not sure which translation of this ancient Chinese text but I think it was a Penguin book.
The Art of War
by
Sun Tzu
The Once and Future King
by
T. W. White
Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath
by
John Steinbeck
Hotel du Lac
by
Anita Brookner
The White Hotel
by
D. M. Thomas
The Bone People
by
Keri Hulme
Heart of Darkness
Think I have read some others
by
Joseph Conrad
Permutation City
by
Greg Egan
Remote Control
by
Barbara Kruger
Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado about Nothing
Macbeth
etc...
by
William Shakespeare
Literature and Evil
Story of the Eye
Lascaux; or, the Birth of Art, the Prehistoric Paintings
The Accursed Share
The Tears of Eros
L'Abbé C
Blue of Noon
by
Georges Bataille
Delos; Monuments And Museum
by
Dr Fotini Zaphiropoulou
Bought on Delos while I was there, amazing place
Iconographic Anatomique
by
André Vésale
The Naked Ape
by
Desmond Morris
Postmodernism Critical Concepts
Edited by
Victor E. Taylor, Charles E. Winquist
The Anti-Aesthetic
ESSAYS ON POSTMODERN CULTURE
Edited by
Hal Foster
Art in Theory
1900-1990
An Anthology of Changing Ideas
edited
Charles Harrison and Paul Wood
Most but not all
The Chronicles of The Conquest of Granada
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Rip Van Winkle
The Alhambra
(The Wars of Granada)
Thought that was the title, then I read it when I was 14,
stayed in the Washington Irving Hotel when I drove around
Spain, well France and crossed to Morocco too, with the first woman I lived with
by
Washington Irving
The Pastel City
A Storm of Wings
In Viriconium
Viriconium Nights
by
M. John Harrison
Selection of Poems
by
Arthur Rimbaud
Poets of The English Language
Volume I Langland to Spenser
Volume II Marlowe to Marvell
Volume III Milton to Goldsmith
Volume IV Blake to Poe
Volume V Tennyson to Yates
edited by
W. H. Auden & Norman Holmes Pearson
(These are one of the sets of poetry books of my mothers I read when I was 9 onwards)
The Canterbury Tales
by
Geoffrey Chaucer
Another quick note here, books, many of the classics are now available online free from various sites, I have bouhgt many books since reading the books in the boxes my brother had, from second-hand bookshops, Spinoza's 'Ethics' I bought from a second hand bookshop for 20p, one of the great works of its time, that opened peoples minds and helped start the 'Englightenment'.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
by
T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)
On The Origin of Species
by
Charles Darwin
Man and His Symbols
by
Carl Jung
The World
(Treatise on the Light)
by
René Descartes
The Dying Earth
The Eyes of the Overworld
Cugel's Saga
Rhialto the Marvellous
Araminta Station
Ecce and Old Earth
Throy
Trullion: Alastor 2262
Marune: Alastor 933
Wyst: Alastor 1716
The Anome
The Brave Free Men
The Asutra
City of the Chasch
Servants of the Wankh
Lyonesse
Lyonesse: The Green Pearl
Lyonesse: Madouc
The Dirdir
The Pnume
The Blue World
Showboat World
by
Jack Vance
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
(On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres)
by
Copernicus
Selection of Poems
by
Federico García Lorca
Midnight In The Garden of Good And Evil
by
John Berendt
In fact over time and still am, I have been availing myself on online downloads to replace the books I sold and or read when I was 14, 16, 18 etc... ebooks, some paid but many free online because they are older classics now in the public domain, no longer under copyright. Still downloading some over the last few days that I really haven't read since I was 16. Travelling the universes of the mind, travelling the world of ideas, like I travel with a backpack on my back.
Washington Square
The American
The Europeans
by
Henry James
Captain Courageous
Kim
The Light That Failed
The Jungle Book
I think I have read most by him
by
Rudyard Kipling
Ben Hur
by
Lew Wallace
The Rainbow
Women In Love
by
D. H. Lawrence
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf (Read a number of others by Virginia Woolf, need to think about them.)
Le Morte D'Arthur
by
Sir Thomas Mallory
The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change
by
Robert Hughes
Gardens Of The Moon
Deadhouse Gates
Memories Of Ice
House Of Chains
Midnight Tides
The Bonehunters
Reaper's Gale
Toll The Hounds
Dust Of Dreams
The Crippled God
by
Steven Erikson
Pawn Of Prophecy
Queen Of Sorcery
Magician's Gambit
Castle Of Wizardry
Enchanters' End Game
Belgarath the Sorcerer
Polgara the Sorceress
by
David Eddings
Futility
by
William Gerhardie
Perspectives on Power: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by
Noam Chomsky
Remix
Redrobe
by
Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Nights at the Circus
by
Angela Carter
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Around the World in Eighty Days
by
Jules Verne
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
by
Victor Hugo
The Midwich Cuckoos
The Day of the Triffids
The Chrysalids
The Kraken Wakes
Trouble with Lichen
Chocky
by
John Wyndham
Ways of Seeing
About Looking
by
John Berger
Myth and Meaning
Mythologiques I–IV (Parts of the books not all)
by
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Stories From Le Morte D'Arthur And The Mabinogion
by
Beatrice E. Clay
The New History of the World 6th Edition (ISBN 0195219279)
By
J M Roberts
(Published by Penguin)
Though I have read many history books through time, and ones that covered large part of this book. This history though not as detailed gives a brilliant overview and perspective of the history of humanity.
A Short History of Europe: Pericles to Putin
By
Simon Jenkins
Son of Achilles
Circe
By
Madeline Miller
France: A History: from Gaul to De Gaulle
By
John Julius Norwich
ORIGINS:
How the Earth Shaped Human History
By
Lewis Dartnell
(ORIGINS a book that anyone with a claim to think should read, and reflect on)
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by
Yuval Noah Harari
I finished reading Sapiens on 21st May 2020 just after reading ORIGINS, much of what I read in Sapiens I had already read and researched myself in the past so maybe it helped with many of the references and ideas in Sapiens, though it seems to be written in such a fluid and informative way that whether you do not know any of the histories or ideas in Sapiens you will by the end and the overall vastness both in time and concepts and the way they are put together is wonderful. If you read 2 books this year I would recommend you read ORIGINS and Sapiens.
Who We Are And How We Got Here
By
David Reich
Another brilliant book this one on ancient DNA as I have loved history ever since I was 5.
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
by
Carlo Rovelli
Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
by
Jim Al-Khalili & Johnjoe McFadden
2 books on quantum physics everyone should read.
To be continued when I remember more...
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