Friday, May 30, 2014

Monday, May 26, 2014

Reading List

A list of 27 books I plan on reading throughout 2014. Included are videos that either inspired me to check the books out or in other cases, excerpts and information about the book itself. Whether it be reviewers, new commentators or the author.

Fiction:

1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

2. Love In the Time of Cholera by  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

4. The Wasp Factory by Iain M. Banks

5. Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

6. The Savage Detectives by Robert Bolano
7. Tenth of December by George Saunders

8. Pastoralia by George Saunders

9. Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto
10. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

11. The Secret History by Donna Tartt

12. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt


Graphic Novels:

1. Black Hole by Charles Burns
2. The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale


Non-Fiction: 

1. The Disaster Artist by Greg Sistero and Tom Bissell

2. Man's Search For Meaning by Victor Frankl

3. People Who Eat Darkness, Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman

4. Last Words by George Carlin
5. Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lewis

6. Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

7. The Big Short by Michael Lewis

8. One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Kruschev and Castro and the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs
9. The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror In the Golden Age of Hijacking by Daniel I. Koehrner

10. The Friedkin Connection by William Friedkin

11. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

12. The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
13. Raven: The Untold Story of Jim Jones and People's Temple by Tim Reiterman