Other People's Recommendations
This is a list of books that various people have recommended to me.
Classics:
- Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
- William Golding: Lord of the Flies
- Edith Wharton: Age of Innocence
- James Joyce: (I gotta force one down some day)
Fiction:
- Annie Proulx: (her new one)
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez: 100 Years of Solitude (even better than Love...Cholera??)
Sci-Fi:
- Emma Bull: Falcon (Courtney loved this one)
- Pinchot: Gravity's Rainbow (Derek from NZ)
- Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle (this is the one with "ice 9"?)
- R Forward: Dragon's Egg (something about life on a neutron star??!!)
- J L Borges: (he has very alien aliens??)
- Larry Niven: Ringworld, Inconstant Moon (I'm told I have to give him another chance)
- Arthur C Clarke: The Star, The City and the Stars (and 1000 others!)
- John Ford: Growing up Weightless (Courtney recommends as like Red Shift)
- Dunnett: the Lymond books (another Courtney recommendation, she reads too much!)
Fantasy:
- Lian Hearn: The Otori or somesuch (Courtney again)
Travel:
- Bruce Chatwin: In Patagonia
- William Dalrymple: Down From the Mountain and In Xanadu
- Bill Irwin: Blind Courage
- V. S. Naipul: anything
- Eric Newby: A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
- Peter Jenkins: Looking for Alaska
History:
- James Michener: Chesapeake
- Patrick O'Brian: the rest of the Aubrey / Maturin novels
Nature:
- Colin Fletcher: Man from the Cave and River
Philosophy:
- Paulo Coelho: The Valkyries
- Alan Watts: The Way of Zen (to reread, it's been too long)
- E O Wilson: Diversity of Life, Ants, Conciliance (Derek from NZ)
- Schermer (sp?): Why People Believe... (from Paul Johnson)
Science:
Writing:
- Ray Bradbury: Zen and the Art of Writing
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