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reading list

I love seeing what other authors are reading, so I've put together a list of my personal favorites and recent reads:

  • RECENT READS
    • Spook Country, William Gibson
    • The Society of Others, William Nicholson
    • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, A. Scott Berg
    • The Android's Dream, John Scalzi
    • The Faithful Spy: A Novel, Alex Berenson

  • SCIENCE FICTION
    • Dune, Frank Herbert
    • Ender's Game/Ender's Shadow, Orson Scott Card
    • Treason, Orson Scott Card
    • Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
    • Neuromancer, William Gibson
    • Gunslinger, Stephen King
    • Jennifer Government, Max Barry
    • Altered Carbon, Richard K. Morgan
    • The Descent, Jeff Long
    • Escape from Katmandu, Kim Stanley Robinson
    • Old Man's War, John Scalzi

  • THRILLER/MYSTERY
    • The Bourne Identity, Robert Ludlum
    • The Company, Robert Littell
    • The Day After Tomorrow, Allan Folsom
    • A Small Death in Lisbon, Robert Wilson
    • Improbable, Adam Fawer
    • The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl
    • Bangkok 8, John Burdett

  • FICTION
    • House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
    • Lord of the Barnyard, Tristan Egolf
    • Gates of Fire, Steven Pressfield
    • A Cafe on the Nile, Bartle Bull

  • HUMOR
    • The Illuminatus Trilogy, Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
    • Tokyo Suckerpunch, Isaac Adamson
    • Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, Tom Robbins
    • Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask, Jim Munroe

  • NONFICTION
    • Chatter, Patrick Radden Keefe
    • Radical Evolution, Joel Garreau
    • Body of Secrets, Jams Bamford
    • Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd, Richard Zachs
    • Iron and Silk, Mark Salzman
    • Ugly Americans, Ben Mezrich

  • NATURE/TRAVEL
    • Solo Faces, James Salter
    • The River Why, David James Duncan
    • Seven Summits, Dick Bass et al.
    • Below Another Sky, Rick Ridgeway
    • White Spider, Heinrich Harrer
    • Video Night in Katmandu, Pico Iyer
    • Touching the Void, Joe Simpson

  • CLASSIC
    • Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
    • Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
    • Labyrinths, Jorge Luis Borges
    • Dubliners, James Joyce
    • Gilgamesh, Stephen Mitchell translation
    • Inferno, Dante Alighieri


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