Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Suggested Reading List

As I plan to shut down this blog and move to Wattpad like everybody else, I decided to post a suggested reading list. 

I believe a well read society is a well informed society. 

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Suggested Reading List:

1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Good Earth by Pearl Buck

Candide by Voltaire

Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy

Truman: David McCullough

The Godfather and The Sicilian by Mario Puzo

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Native Son & Black Boy by Richard Wright

On The Road,  The Town and the City, Maggie Cassidy, Desolation Angels and The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac. 

Slaughter House Five, Sirens of Titan, Breakfast of Champions, Player Piano, Mother Night and Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

The Lost Prince, Young Joe the forgotten Kennedy by Hank Searls

The Woman in the Dunes by Kobe Abe

Dracula by Bram Stoker

American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964 by William Manchester

Babbit and It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis

The Jungle by Lewis Sinclair

The Sheep Look Up: John Brunner

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Enemy Within by Robert F. Kennedy

The Executioners Song by Norman Mailer

The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

I am Legend and The Incredible Shrinking Man  by Richard Matheson

The Little Prince

The Color Purple and Possessing The Secret Of Joy by Alice Walker

I am The Cheese and After The First Death by Robert Cormier

On the Beach by Nevil Schutte

Ghost in the Shell manga

Myra Breckenridge: by Gore Vidal

Rebecca, The Scapegoat and My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier

The Haunting of Hill House  and The Lottery(short story) by Shirley Jackson

Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

Face It by Deborah Harry

The Autobiography of Malcolm X  by Alex Haley and Malcolm X

Drought by J.G. Ballard