Friday, September 2, 2011

List #2 Neil Strandberg

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Fiction

The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway
Vanity Fair, Thackery
East of Eden, Steinbeck
Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck
Bleak House, Dickens
Ramayana, Valmiki (not really "fiction," as such, but one helluva a story)
History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Fielding
Last of the Mohicans, Cooper
Count of Monte Cristo, Dumas
Three Musketeers, Dumas
Code of the Woosters, Wodehouse; but I really mean all things Wooster
Sot-Weed Factor, Barth
Lolita, Nabakov
Moby Dick; or, The Whale, Melville
Tin Drum, Grass
I, Claudius, Graves
Blood Meridian, McCarthy
White Noise, DeLillo
The English Patient, Ondaatje
Perfume, Suskind
True History of the Kelly Gang, Carey
Remains of the Day, Ishiguro
Things They Carried, O'Brien
Winter's Tale, Helprin
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meany, Irving
Killer Angels, Shaara
Centaur, Updike

Genre

Gorky Park, Smith; but I really mean to say all things Arkady Renko
Lucifer's Hammer, Niven
Cryptonomicon, Stephenson
Snow Crash, Stephenson
Farewell, My Lovely, Chandler; but I really mean to say all things Chandler
Sun of Suns, Schroeder
Windup Girl, Bacigalupi
Hobbit, Tolkien
Lord of the Rings, Tolkien
Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1), Herbert

Non Fiction

Longitude, Sobel
Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa, Sledge
Son of the Morning Star: General Custer and the Battle of Little Bighorn, Connell
Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions, Quammen
Making of the Atomic Bomb, Rhodes
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph, Lawrence
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War, Manchester
Worst Journey in the World, Cherry-Garrard
Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding, Hughes
Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality, Greene
Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Pollan

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