Recommended Reading

Also: The Ten Favorite Books

 

O’BRIAN

• The Unknown Shore

• Master and Commander

• The Far Side of the World

• The Reverse of the Medal

• The Letter of Marque

• The Commodore

(and the entire Aubrey-Maturin series of novels — a masterwork ideally suited to my preferences and peculiarities as a reader of fiction)

 

WATKINS

• Stand Before Your God

• The Story of My Disappearance

• The Forger

• Night Over Day Over Night

• Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn

• The Promise of Light

• In the Blue Light of African Dreams

• The Ice Soldier

• The Fellowship of Ghosts

• Eye of the Red Tsar
      (as Sam Eastland)

• The Red Coffin
      (as Sam Eastland)

 

CLAVELL

• Shogun

• Tai-Pan

• GaiJin

• King Rat

• Noble House

• Whirlwind

 

TOLSTOY

• War and Peace

• The Cossacks

• Hadji Murat

• Master and Man

• Happy Ever After

• The Death of Ivan Ilyich

 

KIPLING

• Kim

• The Jungle Book

• The Man Who Would Be King

• The Miracle of Purun Bhagat

 

ECKERT

• The Frontiersmen

• The Conquerers

• A Sorrow in My Heart

• Wilderness Empire

• The Wilderness War

 

ROBERTS

• Northwest Passage

• Lydia Bailey

• Arundel

• Rabble In Arms

 

RENAULT

• The King Must Die

• The Bull From the Sea

 

RAND

• The Fountainhead

• Atlas Shrugged

 

JUNGER

• Fire

• War

• The Perfect Storm

 

RICHTER

• The Awakening Land

      The Trees

      The Fields

      The Town

• The Sea of Grass

• The Light in the Forest

 

WOLFE

• The Right Stuff

• The Painted Word

• A Man in Full

• I Am Charlotte Simmons

 

WOLFE

• The Wizard Knight

      The Knight

      The Wizard

• The Book of the New Sun

      The Shadow of the Torturer

      The Claw of the Conciliator

      The Sword of the Lictor

      The Citadel of the Autarch

• The Urth of the New Sun

• The Fifth Head of Cerberus

• The Devil in a Forest

• Soldier of the Mist

• Pirate Freedom

 

HEMINGWAY

• The Sun Also Rises

• In Our Time

 

BERRY

• Jayber Crow

• Harlan Hubbard: Life and Work

 

BIOGRAPHIES / AUTOBIOGRAPHIES / DIARIES / MEMOIRS

• Payne Hollow by Harlan Hubbard

• Sam Houston by James Haley

• The Raven by Marquis James

• N.C. Wyeth: A Biography by David Michaelis

• If They Move…Kill ’Em — The Life and Times of
   Sam Peckinpah
by David Weddle

• In the Arena by Charlton Heston

• Charlton Heston: Hollywood’s Last Icon by Marc Eliot

• Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of
   Joseph Cornell
by Deborah Solomon

• Nature’s Engraver — A Life of Thomas Bewick by Jenny Uglow

• How to Live, or, A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell

• Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

• Between Worlds: The Autobiography of Leo Lionni

• 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)

• Essays by Michel de Montaigne

• The Conduct of Life by Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

• Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett

• The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy

• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

• Appaloosa by Robert B Parker

• 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 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

• The New Landscape by Gyorgy Kepes

• Drawing Life by David Gelernter

• Deep Work by Cal Newport

• The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton

• The Lazy Man’s Guide To Enlightenment by Thaddeus Golas

• Levels of Knowing and Existence by Harry L Weinberg

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig

• We Die Alone by David Howarth

• Brave Companions: Portraits In History by David McCullough

• Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America by James Webb

• Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg

• Watchmen by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons

 

AND SHORT STORIES BY

• Ernest Hemingway

• Leo Tolstoy

• Rudyard Kipling

• W. Somerset Maugham

• James Thurber

• Irwin Shaw

• Stephen Crane

• Jack London

• Bret Harte

• Robert M. Coates

• Walter Van Tilburg Clark

• Paul Horgan

• Flannery O’Connor

• Gene Wolfe

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