{"id":724,"date":"2007-06-14T23:57:56","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T03:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/uncle-john\u2019s-recommended-reading\/"},"modified":"2018-02-03T13:40:59","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T17:40:59","slug":"uncle-john%e2%80%99s-recommended-reading","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/uncle-john%e2%80%99s-recommended-reading","title":{"rendered":"Recommended Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

Also: The Ten Favorite Books<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

O\u2019BRIAN<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 The Unknown Shore<\/p>\n

\u2022 Master and Commander<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Far Side of the World<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Reverse of the Medal<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Letter of Marque<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Commodore<\/p>\n

(and the entire Aubrey-Maturin series<\/a> of novels \u2014 a masterwork ideally suited to my preferences and peculiarities as a reader of fiction)<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

WATKINS<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Stand Before Your God<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Story of My Disappearance<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Forger<\/p>\n

\u2022 Night Over Day Over Night<\/p>\n

\u2022 Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Promise of Light<\/p>\n

\u2022 In the Blue Light of African Dreams<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Ice Soldier<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Fellowship of Ghosts<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 Eye of the Red Tsar<\/em>
\n      (as Sam Eastland)<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Red Coffin<\/em>
\n      (as Sam Eastland)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

CLAVELL<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Shogun<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tai-Pan<\/p>\n

\u2022 GaiJin<\/p>\n

\u2022 King Rat<\/p>\n

\u2022 Noble House<\/p>\n

\u2022 Whirlwind<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

TOLSTOY<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 War and Peace<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Cossacks<\/p>\n

\u2022 Hadji Murat<\/p>\n

\u2022 Master and Man<\/p>\n

\u2022 Happy Ever After<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Death of Ivan Ilyich<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

KIPLING<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Kim<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Jungle Book<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Man Who Would Be King<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Miracle of Purun Bhagat<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

ECKERT<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 The Frontiersmen<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Conquerers<\/p>\n

\u2022 A Sorrow in My Heart<\/p>\n

\u2022 Wilderness Empire<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Wilderness War<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

ROBERTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Northwest Passage<\/p>\n

\u2022 Lydia Bailey<\/p>\n

\u2022 Arundel<\/p>\n

\u2022 Rabble In Arms<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

RENAULT<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 The King Must Die<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Bull From the Sea<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

RAND<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 The Fountainhead<\/p>\n

\u2022 Atlas Shrugged<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

JUNGER<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Fire<\/p>\n

\u2022 War<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Perfect Storm<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

RICHTER<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 The Awakening Land<\/em><\/p>\n

      The Trees<\/p>\n

      The Fields<\/p>\n

      The Town<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Sea of Grass<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 The Light in the Forest<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

WOLFE<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 The Right Stuff<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Painted Word<\/p>\n

\u2022 A Man in Full<\/p>\n

\u2022 I Am Charlotte Simmons<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

WOLFE<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 The Wizard Knight<\/em><\/p>\n

      The Knight<\/p>\n

      The Wizard<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Book of the New Sun<\/em><\/p>\n

      The Shadow of the Torturer<\/p>\n

      The Claw of the Conciliator<\/p>\n

      The Sword of the Lictor<\/p>\n

      The Citadel of the Autarch<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Urth of the New Sun<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Fifth Head of Cerberus<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Devil in a Forest<\/p>\n

\u2022 Soldier of the Mist<\/p>\n

\u2022 Pirate Freedom<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

HEMINGWAY<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 The Sun Also Rises<\/p>\n

\u2022 In Our Time<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

BERRY<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Jayber Crow<\/p>\n

\u2022 Harlan Hubbard: Life and Work<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

BIOGRAPHIES \/ AUTOBIOGRAPHIES \/ DIARIES \/ MEMOIRS<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Payne Hollow<\/em> by Harlan Hubbard<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sam Houston<\/em> by James Haley<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Raven<\/em> by Marquis James<\/p>\n

\u2022 N.C. Wyeth: A Biography<\/em> by David Michaelis<\/p>\n

\u2022 If They Move…Kill \u2019Em \u2014 The Life and Times of
\n   Sam Peckinpah<\/em> by David Weddle<\/p>\n

\u2022 In the Arena<\/em> by Charlton Heston<\/p>\n

\u2022 Charlton Heston: Hollywood’s Last Icon<\/em> by Marc Eliot <\/p>\n

\u2022 Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of
\n   Joseph Cornell<\/em> by Deborah Solomon<\/p>\n

\u2022 Nature\u2019s Engraver \u2014 A Life of Thomas Bewick<\/em> by Jenny Uglow<\/p>\n

\u2022 How to Live, or, A Life of Montaigne<\/em> by Sarah Bakewell<\/p>\n

\u2022 Two Years Before the Mast<\/em> by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Between Worlds: The Autobiography of Leo Lionni<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 The Diaries of Paul Klee<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

OTHER WORKS<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 I Ching<\/em> or Book of Changes<\/em> (The Wilhelm-Baynes Translation)<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Odyssey<\/em> by Homer (The Robert Fitzgerald Translation)<\/p>\n

\u2022 Essays<\/em> by Michel de Montaigne<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Conduct of Life<\/em> by Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/p>\n

\u2022 Huckleberry Finn<\/em> by Mark Twain<\/p>\n

\u2022 Invisible Man<\/em> by Ralph Ellison<\/p>\n

\u2022 Slaughterhouse-Five<\/em> by Kurt Vonnegut<\/p>\n

\u2022 Red Harvest<\/em> by Dashiell Hammett<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Crossing<\/em> by Cormac McCarthy<\/p>\n

\u2022 Lonesome Dove<\/em> by Larry McMurtry<\/p>\n

\u2022 Appaloosa<\/em> by Robert B Parker<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses<\/em> by Robert W Service<\/p>\n

\u2022 Taras Bulba<\/em> by Nicolai Gogol<\/p>\n

\u2022 The City in the Dawn<\/em> by Hervey Allen<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Islands of Unwisdom<\/em> by Robert Graves<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Day of the Jackal<\/em> by Frederick Forsyth<\/p>\n

\u2022 Cold Mountain<\/em> by Charles Frazier<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Creative Habit<\/em> by Twyla Tharp<\/p>\n

\u2022 The New Landscape<\/em> by Gyorgy Kepes<\/p>\n

\u2022 Drawing Life<\/em> by David Gelernter<\/p>\n

\u2022 Deep Work<\/em> by Cal Newport <\/p>\n

\u2022 The Consolations of Philosophy<\/em> by Alain de Botton<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Lazy Man\u2019s Guide To Enlightenment<\/em> by Thaddeus Golas<\/p>\n

\u2022 Levels of Knowing and Existence<\/em> by Harry L Weinberg<\/p>\n

\u2022 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance<\/em> by Robert Pirsig<\/p>\n

\u2022 We Die Alone<\/em> by David Howarth<\/p>\n

\u2022 Brave Companions: Portraits In History<\/em> by David McCullough<\/p>\n

\u2022 Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America<\/em> by James Webb<\/p>\n

\u2022 Liberal Fascism<\/em> by Jonah Goldberg<\/p>\n

\u2022 Watchmen<\/em> by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

AND SHORT STORIES BY<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Ernest Hemingway<\/p>\n

\u2022 Leo Tolstoy<\/p>\n

\u2022 Rudyard Kipling<\/p>\n

\u2022 W. Somerset Maugham<\/p>\n

\u2022 James Thurber<\/p>\n

\u2022 Irwin Shaw<\/p>\n

\u2022 Stephen Crane<\/p>\n

\u2022 Jack London<\/p>\n

\u2022 Bret Harte<\/p>\n

\u2022 Robert M. Coates<\/p>\n

\u2022 Walter Van Tilburg Clark<\/p>\n

\u2022 Paul Horgan<\/p>\n

\u2022 Flannery O\u2019Connor<\/p>\n

\u2022 Gene Wolfe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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