Saturday 15 March 2014

Three Lists




Three Lists

Books I Have Read More Than Once

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy (in five parts) – Douglas Adams
The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
Moby Dick – Hermann Melville
Leviathan or, The Whale – Philip Hoare
The Divine Comedy – Dante
Vita Nuova – Dante
Frankenstein – Mary Shelly
The Iron Heel – Jack London
The Road to Wigan Pier – George Orwell
Homage to Catalonia – George Orwell
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Dubliners – James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man – James Joyce
Ulysses – James Joyce
Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare – Henry Miller
Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
Relativity – Albert Einstein
Alice in Sunderland - Bryan Talbot
Dotter of Her Father’s Eye - Mary Talbot and Bryan Talbot
Either/Or- Kierkegaard

Books That I Once Started But Haven’t Finished Yet

The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
Tales From the Arabian Nights
Being and Nothingness – John Paul Sartre
The Pickwick Papers – Charles Dickens
The Freud Reader
Discourses – Machiavelli
Diaries 1969 -1979 - Michael Palin
Don Quixote – Cervantes
The Wealth of Nations – Adam Smith
The Decline of the West – Oswald Spengler
The History of the Peloponnesian War – Thucydides 
Dead Souls – Gogol
A Tramp Abroad – Mark Twain
On the Shoulders of Giants – Stephen Hawking (Editor)

Books That Took More Than One Attempt to Read

Moby Dick – Herman Melville
Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers – Jan Gullberg
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Finnegans Wake – James Joyce

Get it done.

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