My Favorite Books and Authors
This is only a partial list of the books and authors that have inspired me the most over
the years. Thanks to each and every one of them for adding a bit of spice to an otherwise
ordinary existence.
These authors are not listed in any particular order.
J. R. R. Tolkien:
- The Lord of the Rings:
- The Hobbit
- The Fellowship of the Ring
- The Two Towers
- The Return of the King
- The Silmarillion
- Unfinished Tales
- The Tolkein Reader
- Master of Middle Earth (The fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien)
- by Paul H. Kocher
Richard Bach:
- Jonathon Livingston Seagull
- Illusions
- The Bridge Across Forever
- One
Herman Hesse
- Steppenwolf
Robert Pirsig
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
John Steinbeck
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Cannery Row
Douglas Adams
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- The Restaurant At the End of the Universe
- Life, the Universe and Everything
- So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish
Rob Grant and/or Doug Naylor
- The Red Dwarf Series
- Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers
- Better Than Life
- The Last Human- by Doug Naylor
- Backwards- by Rob Grant
George Orwell
- Animal Farm
- 1984
Ken Kesey
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
J. D. Salinger
- The Catcher In the Rye
John Gribbin
- In Search of Schrodinger's Cat
- In Search of The Big Bang
Edwin A. Abbot
- Flatland
- Sphereland- a continuing speculation on an expanding universe: by Dionys Burger
Stephen King
- The Stand
- The Shining
- Night Shift- a collection of short stories
Other Books of Interest:
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Dr. Timmothy Leary and Co.
The Phaedrus: Plato
Other Links of Interest:
KBC On-Line Book Store List
The On-Line Books Page
Wordsworth Books
The Library of Congress
Shakespeare Homepage
Yahoo Author Search Engine