literature

The following is a sampling of books that I and others have read and enjoyed, some for their content(themes/message/etc), some for their style, some for both.

Negative Utopias

  • 1984- George Orwell
  • Brave New World- Huxley
  • We- Zamyatin (spelling may differ, he is russian)
  • Farenheit 451

Science Fiction/Fantasy

  • Sphere- Michael Crichton
  • Nueromancer- William Gibson
  • The Memory of Earth (Homecoming Series)- Orson Scott Card
  • Dune (plus sequels and prequel)- Frank Herbert (son and another writer on prequel)
  • Jesus Incident- Frank Herbert
  • Godmakers- Frank Herbert
  • Toward Infinity- various (short stories)
  • Stranger in a Strange Land- Robert A. Heinlin
  • Martian Chronicles- Ray Bradbury
  • A Wrinkle in Time (plus sequels)- L'Engle
  • The Stranger- Albert Camus
  • (Earthsea Cycle)
  • Childhood's End- Arthur Clarke
  • The Hobbit- Tolkien

General Fiction

  • As I Lay Dying- Faulkner
  • Absalom, Absalom- Faulkner
  • Utopia- Sir Thomas Moore
  • Count of Monte Cristo
  • The Plague- Albert Camus
  • The Stranger- Albert Camus
  •  

Plays

  • Julius Caesar- Shaekespeare
  • MacBeth- Shakespeare

Non-Fiction

  • Cyberia- Daniel Rushkoff
  • Go Ask Alice- Anonymous
  • Chaos- Gleick
  • Ugly American-
  • Nation of Sheep-
  • A Brief History of Time- Stephen Hawking
  • Liberalism and Its Challengers- Alonzo Hamby
  • The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed- David Stockman

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