My Favorite Books
~ Fiction and Literature ~
| Richard Bach | "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" "Illusions" "The Bridge Across Forever" "One" |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | "At the Earth's Core" |
| Lewis John Carlino | "The Mechanic" |
| Tom Clancy | "The Cardinal of the Kremlin" "The Sum of All Fears" |
| Arthur C. Clarke | "2001: A Space Oddysey" |
| Isak Dinesen | "Out of Africa" "Last Tales" |
| Jack Kerouac | "On the Road" |
| Arthur Koestler | "Darkness at Noon" |
| Jack London | "The Call of the Wild" "White Fang" "Martin Eden" "The Iron Heel" |
| Steve Martin | "Cruel Shoes" |
| Upton Sinclair | "The Jungle" |
| John Steinbeck | "The Grapes of Wrath" |
| Henry D. Thoreau | "Walden" |
| Mark Twain | "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" |
| Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | "Cat's Cradle" |
Poetry
Jewel Kilcher: "A Night Without Armor"Edgar Allan Poe
Robert Service: "The Best of Robert Service"
~ Nonfiction ~
Biography
| Subject | Author(s) | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Adams, John | David McCullough | "John Adams" |
| Aerosmith | Aerosmith and Stephen Davis |
"Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith" |
| Anderson, Walter | Walter Anderson | "Meant To Be" |
| Boem, Roy | Roy Boehm and Charles W. Sasser |
"First Seal" |
| Boone, Daniel | John Mack Faragher William Cunningham |
"Daniel Boone" "The Story of Daniel Boone" |
| Black Elk | John G. Neihardt | "Black Elk Speaks" |
| Crockett, Davy | "Himself" Constance Rourke |
"Davy Crockett's Own Story (as Written by Himself)" "Davy Crockett" |
| Dinesen, Isak (AKA Karen Blixen) |
Judith Thurman | "Isak Dinesen, The Life of a Storyteller" |
| Eckhardt-Gramatté, Sophie-Carmen | Ferdinand Eckhardt | "Music From Within" |
| Gzowski, Peter | Peter Gzowski Ed. Edna Barker |
"A Peter Gzowski Reader" |
| Hackworth, David | Col. David H. Hackworth and Julie Sherman |
"About Face" |
| Kilcher, Jewel | Jewel Kilcher | "Chasing Down the Dawn" |
| Koestler, Arthur | Arthur Koestler | "Arrow in the Blue" "The Invisible Writing" |
| Lemieux, Mario | Mario Lemieux | "The Final Period" |
| Malcolm X | Malcolm X and Alex Haley |
"The Autobiography of Malcolm X" |
| Marcinko, Richard | Richard Marcinko and John Weisman |
"Rogue Warrior" |
| McCartney, Paul | Barry Miles | "Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now" |
| Nearing, Helen | Helen Nearing | "Loving and Leaving the Good Life" |
| Norgay, Tenzing | Tenzing of Everest (Norgay) and James Ramsey Ullman |
"Tiger of the Snows" |
| Pollock, Jackson | Deborah Solomon | "Jackson Pollock" |
| Powell, Bud | Francis Paudras | "Dance of the Infidels" |
| Stravinsky, Igor | Igor Stravinsky | "An Autobiography" |
| Zappa, Frank | Frank Zappa and Peter Occhiogrosso |
"The Real Frank Zappa Book" |
History, Etc.
| Author(s) | Title | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| Mark Baker | "Nam" | Vietnam War |
| Roy Boehm and Charles W. Sasser |
"First Seal" | Military |
| John Dinges | "Our Man in Panama" | Panama |
| Peter Gzowski Ed. Edna Barker |
"A Peter Gzowski Reader" | Canada |
| Col. David H. Hackworth and Julie Sherman |
"About Face" | Military |
| Sam Harris | "The End of Faith" | World History/Current Events |
| Richard Marcinko and John Weisman |
"Rogue Warrior" | Military |
| Jonathan Evan Maslow | "Bird Of Life, Bird Of Death" | Natural/Central American/Political History |
| David McCullough | "The Path Between the Seas" "1776" | Panama Canal American Revolution |
| Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore & Joseph L. Galloway | "We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young" | Vietnam War |
| Julian Harriss Salomon | "The Book of Indian Crafts and Indian Lore" | Native American |
| Al Santoli | "Everything We Had" | Vietnam War |
| Gerard Thomas Straub | "Salvation For Sale" | Religion |
| Richard Wheeler | "Voices of 1776" | American Revolution |
| Elie Wiesel | "Night" | Holocaust |
| Eliot Wigginton | "The Foxfire Book" | Americana |
| Howard Zinn | "A People's History of the United States" | American History |
Science and Nature
| Author(s) | Title | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| William Beebe | "Jungle Days" | Nature |
| Vinson Brown | "The Amateur Naturalist's Handbook" (Original 1948 Edition!) | Nature Study |
| Jacques-Yves and Philippe Cousteau | "The Shark: Splendid Savage of the Sea" | Sharks |
| Charles Darwin | "The Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle" | Nature/Travel |
| Jared Diamond | "Guns, Germs, and Steel" | Anthropology |
| Raymond Lee Ditmars | "The Thrills of a Naturalist's Quest" | Nature |
| Iain and Oria Douglas-Hamilton | "Among the Elephants" | Elephants |
| Dian Fossey | "Gorillas in the Mist" | Great Apes |
| Biruté M. F. Galdikas | "Reflections of Eden" | Great Apes |
| James Gleick | "Chaos" | Physics |
| Jane Goodall | "In the Shadow of Man" "Through a Window" | Great Apes |
| Brian Greene | "The Elegant Universe" | Physics |
| Sir James Jeans | "The Mysterious Universe" | Astronomy |
| Arthur Koestler | "Janus" | Science/Philosophy |
| Louis Leakey | "White African" | Anthropology |
| Mary Leakey | "Disclosing the Past" | Anthropology |
| Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin | "Origins" | Anthropology |
| Jonathan Evan Maslow | "Bird Of Life, Bird Of Death" | Natural/Central American/Political History |
| Ann Haven Morgan | "Field Book of Ponds and Streams" | Field Guide |
| Mark and Delia Owens | "Cry of the Kalahari" | Nature |
| Wilhelm Reich | "The Function of the Orgasm" | Psychoanalysis |
| Herbert S. Zim & Hobart M. Smith | "Reptiles and Amphibians" | Field Guide |
Outdoors/Adventure
| Author(s) | Title | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| Edward Abbey | "Desert Solitaire" | Deserts/etc. |
| Boy Scouts of America | "Fieldbook" (1967 edition) | Field Guide |
| Rinker Buck | "Flights of Passage" | Flying: US |
| Peter Hathaway Capstick | "Death in the Long Grass" | Hunting: Africa |
| Charles Darwin | "The Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle" | World Travel/Nature |
| Scott Doggett | "Panama" (Lonely Planet) | Travel Guide |
| Euell Gibbons | "Stalking the Wild Asparagus" | Field Guide/Foraging |
| William Least Heat-Moon | "Blue Highways" | Travel: US |
| John Hildebrand | "Reading the River" | Travel: The Yukon |
| Sebastian Junger | "The Perfect Storm" | Tragedy at Sea |
| Jon Krakauer | "Into the Wild" "Into Thin Air" | Survival Mountaineering |
| Tenzing of Everest (Norgay) and James Ramsey Ullman | "Tiger of the Snows" | Mountaineering |
| Jamling Tenzing Norgay and Broughton Coburn | "Touching My Father's Soul" | Mountaineering |
| Pa. Game Commision | "Game News Treasury" | Outdoors/Hunting |
| Ned Smith | "Gone For the Day" | Outdoors/Nature |
| Burton L. Spiller | "Grouse Feathers" | Gamebirds/Philosophy/Americana |
| F. W. Up de Graff | "Head Hunters of the Amazon" | Travel/Adventure |
| Edward Weyer, Jr. | "Jungle Quest" | Amazon Basin |
Music
| Author(s) | Title | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| Aerosmith and Stephen Davis | "Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith" | Rock |
| Ferdinand Eckhardt | "Music From Within" | Classical |
| Guitar Player Magazine | "The Guitar Player Book" | Guitarists |
| Jewel Kilcher | "Chasing Down the Dawn" | Rock/Pop |
| Barry Miles | "Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now" | Rock/Pop |
| Robert Palmer | "Deep Blues" | Blues |
| Francis Paudras | "Dance of the Infidels" | Jazz |
| Igor Stravinsky | "An Autobiography" | Classical |
| Frank Zappa and Peter Occhiogrosso | "The Real Frank Zappa Book" | Rock |
Paranormal
Jane Roberts: "Seth Speaks"
