Recommended Reading
Also: The Ten Favorite Books
WATKINS
• Stand Before Your God
• The Story of My Disappearance
• The Forger
• Night Over Day Over Night
• The Promise of Light
• The Ice Soldier
• The Fellowship of Ghosts
CLAVELL
• Shogun
• Tai-Pan
• Whirlwind
• GaiJin
TOLSTOY
• The Cossacks
• Happy Ever After
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich
ECKERT
• The Frontiersmen
• The Conquerers
• A Sorrow in My Heart
• Wilderness Empire
• The Wilderness War
WOLFE
• The Painted Word
• The Right Stuff
• A Man in Full
BIOGRAPHIES / AUTOBIOGRAPHIES / DIARIES
• Harlan Hubbard: Life and Work by Wendell Berry
• Sam Houston by James Haley
• The Raven by Marquis James
• N.C. Wyeth: A Biography by David Michaelis
• In the Arena by Charlton Heston
• Nature’s Engraver — A Life of Thomas Bewick by Jenny Uglow
• The Diaries of Paul Klee
OTHER WORKS
• I Ching or Book of Changes (The Wilhelm-Baynes Translation)
• The Odyssey by Homer (The Robert Fitzgerald Translation)
• The Conduct of Life by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
• In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
• The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses by Robert W. Service
• Taras Bulba by Nicolai Gogol
• The City in the Dawn by Hervey Allen
• The New Landscape by Gyorgy Kepes
• The Islands of Unwisdom by Robert Graves
• The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
• The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp
• Drawing Life by David Gelernter
• We Die Alone by David Howarth
• The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
• Payne Hollow by Harlan Hubbard
• Watchmen by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons
• The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
AND SHORT STORIES BY
• Stephen Crane
• Rudyard Kipling
• James Thurber
• Irwin Shaw
• Ernest Hemingway
• Robert M. Coates
• Walter Van Tilburg Clark
• Paul Horgan
• Flannery O’Connor
• Gene Wolfe