Recommended Reading
This is a complete listing of my own personal library. These are books I have collected from my travels abroad and locally from about the age of 8, and I have separated them into fiction and non-fiction. I am a very prolific reader, and though I have read books that are not listed here, I have these books because I enjoyed them so much that I decided to keep them or buy them. (My deep apologies to the few Libraries that still have me on their Most-Wanted list, although I have to say that most of the books were in fact purchased) The List is by no means a complete, but I highly recommend each and every one of them and that you all go out and build your own personal collection. I have tried to keep the same topics under non-fiction relatively grouped together, but since my bookshelves are not labelled and ssome topics overlap, I have not bothered with proper classifications. I do hope you enjoy the list and that you read at least a few of my favourites. Enjoy! P.S. If it says Isaac Asimov on a Book, READ IT!!!
Fiction
*The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever - Stephen R. Donaldson (First, Second and Last)
*The Gap Series - Stephen R. Donaldson
*Bio of a Space Tyrant - Pierce Anthony (5 Book Series)
( These 3 series are my all-time favourites )
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Harry Potter series – JK Rowling (all)
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
The Bible
The Torah
The Talmud
The Quran
Siddhartha
The Wisdoms of Confucius
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
Complete Works of Shakespeare
Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
The Time Travellers Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby — F Scott Fitzgerald
Bleak House – Charles Dickens
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina –Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
Emma – Jane Austen
Persuasion – Jane Austen
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere
Memoirs of a Geisha - Willaim Golden
Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
Animal Farm – George Orwell
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabrial Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
Far from the Madding Crowd — Thomas Hardy
The Handmaids Tale - Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Life of Pi - Yann Martell
Dune – Frank Herbert
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
Love in the time of Cholera - Gabriel garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick – Herman Melville
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Dracula – Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson
Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Bell Jar - Sylivia Plath
Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
Germinal – Emile Zola
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession - AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Cloud Atlas - Charles Mitchell
The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte’s Web - EB White
The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Faraway Tree collection - Enid Blyton
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint Exupery
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Watership Down - Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Hamlet – William Shakespeare
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
House Made of Dawn - Momaday
Ceremony - Silko
Creek Mary’s Blood - Brown
Non-Fiction
Reform or Revolution - R. Luxemburg
The Mass Strike, The Party and The Trade Unions - R. Luxemburg
Law and Marxism – Pashukanis
The Idea of Good Government – Malatesta
The Struggle Against the State – Makhno
The State: It’s Historic Role - Peter Kropotkin
The Poverty of Philosophy - Karl Marx
Logic and Existence - Jean Hyppolite
Heritage of Our Times - Ernst Bloch
Reason and Revolution – H. Marcuse
Dialectic of the Concrete - Karl Kosik
Philosophy and Revolution – Dunayevskaya
Marx, The Young Hegelians and the Origins of Radical Social Theory – W. Breckman
Atheism in Christianity - Ernst Bloch
The Meek and The Militant - Paul Siegel
Socialism and The Churches - R. Luxemburg
The Ghost Dance: Origins of Religion - W. La Barre
The Origins of Christianity - A. Robertson
Ireland and The Irish Question - Marx/Engels
Toward the Abolition of Whiteness – Roediger
The Wages of Whiteness – Roediger
The Color of Politics – Goldfield
Congress of the People’s of the East at Baku
The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism – F. Perlman
Third Worldism or Socialism? – Solidarity (U.K.)
How the Irish Became White – Ignatiev
Racism and the Class Struggle – James Boggs
The Political Economy of Racism – M. Leiman
The Economics of Racism, USA 1 and 2 - Perlo
The Invention of the White Race, 2 Vols. – Theodore Allen
Imagined Communities – B. Anderson
Black Skin, White Masks - Frantz Fanon
Stirrings in the Jug - Adolph Reed Jr.
Fighting Racism in WWII - C.L.R. James
The Tragedy of Woman’s Emancipation - Emma Goldman
The Sexual Contract – Carole Pateman
Gender and Power – R. W. Connell
Foucault and Queer Theory - Tamsin Spargo
The Material Queer – Morton
Fear of a Queer Planet – Warner
The Social Significance of Modern Drama - Goldman
Essays on the Philosophy of Music - Ernst Bloch
The Night Is Dark And I Am Far From Home - Jonathan Kozol
Schooling In Capitalist America - Bowles/Gintis
Cosmos - Carl Sagan
Order Out of Chaos - Ilya Prigogene
The Big Bang Never Happened – E. J. Lerner
The Strange Story of the Quantum – Banesh Hoffman
Causality and Chance in Modern Physics – D. Bohm
Making a New Science - Gleick
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
Chaos - James Gleick
The Arrow of Time - P. Coveney/R. Highfield
The Quark and the Jaguar - M. Gell-Mann
Complexity - M. Waldrop
Basic Physics – Kuhn
Physics the Easy Way – Lehrman
Six Easy Pieces/Six Not-So-Easy Pieces – Feynman, Davies, Ed.
My View of The World – Schrodinger
Space-Time Structure – Schrodinger
The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics – Schrodinger
Dreams of a Final Theory – Weinberg
Science and The Retreat From Reason – Gillot/Kumar
Mathematics for Physicists - Dennery
The Evolution of Physics (with Infeld) - Albert Einstein
Relativity - Albert Einstein
The Meaning of Relativity - Albert Einstein
Essays in Physics - Albert Einstein
The Historical Background of Chemistry – Leicester
Introduction to Quantum Mechanics – Pauling
Modern Quantum Chemistry – Szabo
Thermodynamics of Irreversible Process – Haase
Chemistry the easy Way – Macetta
Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle - S.J. Gould
Basic Paleontology – Benton/Harper
The Earth: An introduction to Physical Geology – Tarbuck/Lutgens
A Concise History of Mathematics - Dirk J. Struik
Capitalism and Arithmetic - Swetz
The Art of Mathematics – King
Dangerous To Your Health - V. Navarro
The Second Sickness - H. Waitzkin
The Social Transformation of American Medicine - P. Starr
The Youngest Science - L. Thomas
The Architecture of Language - Noam Chomsky
New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind - Noam Chomsky
The Minimalist Program - Noam Chomsky
Transformational Grammar – A. Radford
Move! A Minimalist Theory of Construal – N. Hornstein
Foundations of Language – R. Jackendoff
Course in General Linguistics – Saussure
Saussure and His Interpreters – R. Harris
Freud - Peter Gay
Conditioned Reflexes - Pavlov
The Political Economy of Science - H. Rose/S. Rose
Science: Good, Bad, Bogus - Martin Gardner
Anarchism – Guerin
Anarchism and Organization – Malatesta
A Project of Anarchist Organization – Makhno
Founding of the International – Bakunin
No Gods, No Masters - Guerin
Red Emma - Emma Goldman
The Venture of Islam - Hodgson (Vol. 1-3)
Islam and Capitalism - Rodinson
Rethinking World History – Hodgson/Burke, Eds.
The Colonizer’s Model of the World - Blaut
Philosophy and Science in the Islamic World - C.A. Qadir
A Short History of Africa - Joffe
Pre-Colonial Africa - C.A. Diop
Self-Made Man - J. Kingdon
African Civilizations - G. Connah
Stone Age Economics - M. Sahlins
The Labour Theory of Culture - C. Woolfson
Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge – di Leonardo, Ed.
Arcane of Reproduction – L. Fortunati
Caliban and the Witch – S. Federicci
The Work of Love – dalla Costa
Man’s Worldly Goods - Huberman
The Age of Revolution - Hobsbawm
Studies in The Development of Capitalism - M. Dobb
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Development - B. Moore, Jr.
The Rise and Fall Of The Great Powers - P. Kennedy
Absolutism and Revolution in Germany, 1525-1848 - Mehring
A People’s History of the United States - Zinn
America’s Revolutionary Heritage - Novack
Contours of American History - W.A. Williams
The Tragedy of American Diplomacy - W.A. Williams
Who Built America? (2 vols.) - H.C. Gutman
Letters To Americans, 1848-1895 - Marx/Engels
Lenin On The United States
The Politics of History - Zinn
Declarations of Independence - Zinn
Year 501 - Noam Chomsky
