Here is my list of books so far!
When I post the reading order, I'll add credits for whomever recommended the book. :)
Week #1 "A Jacques Barzun Reader" - Edited by Michael Murray
Week #2 "The Golden Compass" - by Philip Pullman
Week #3 "Science and Philosophy" - by Alfred North Whitehead
Week #4 "The Wind-up Bird Chronicle" - by Haruki Murakami
Then, in an order not yet devised---
"Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners" - by William Hazlitt
"Gossip Girl" - by Cecily von Ziegesar
"The Parasitic Mind" - by Gad Saad
"The 48 Laws of Power" - Robert Greene
"In The Woods" - Tana French
"A Great and Terrible Beauty" - Libba Bray
"Beneath a Scarlet Sky" - Mark Sullivan
"Fate is the Hunter" - Ernest K Gann
"The Raw Shark Texts" - Steven Hall
"Exodus" - Leon Uris
"When Breath Becomes Air" - Paul Kalanithi
"Gaudy Night" - Dorothy Sayers
"Babylon Berlin" - Volker Kutscher
"Inkheart" - Cornelia Funke
"The Beguiled" - Thomas Cullinan
"Killing Lincoln" - Bill O'Reilley
"Insomnia" - Stephen King
"Go Set a Watchman" - Harper Lee
"Less Than Words Can Say" - Richard Mitchell
"The Power of Babel" - John McWhorter
"Six Easy Pieces" - Richard P. Feynman
"Amazing Grace; William Wilberforce" - Eric Metaxas
"Flatland" - Edwin Abbott
"The Story of Earth" - Robert M. Hazen
"Tale of Two Cities" - Charles Dickens
"Treason's Crown" - Anne Wheeler (hooray!!!!!)
"The Great Believers" - Rebecca Makkai
"The Second Mountain" - David Brooks
"Under the Banner of Heaven" - Jon Krakauer
"A Moveable Feast" - Ernest Hemingway
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" - Hunter S. Thompson
"A Few Lives Lost" - J Glen Percy
"Princess, More Tears To Cry" - Jean Sasson
"Lonesome Dove" - Larry McMurtry
I plan on mixing up the fiction and non-fiction as much as I can; We'll see how that works out. There is some Young Adult, some classic (Dickens, Abbott, Lee, Uris) and some non-fiction (Most of the suggestions have been Fiction; I have plenty of non-fiction to mix into the weeks ahead.)
Cheers!
Scott
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