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