Reading List

Keep the suggestions coming. If I get too many for this year, I will make it a rolling thing and try to do one per month FOREVAAAAAR. Suggestions as comments to my 2010 New Year’s Resolutions post or contact me any other way you know how.

To be read:

  • Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes;
  • Paradise Lost, John Milton (at least try it);
  • Republic, Plato;
  • Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter;
  • The Dragonbone Chair, Tad Williams (Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy);
  • Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy;
  • Finnegans Wake, James Joyce;
  • “The Bible, and another religious text of your choosing.” (Thanks a bunch, Joe);
  • The Silmarillion, JRR Tolkien;
  • Descartes’ Meditations;
  • The Iliad, Homer;
  • After Virtue, Alasdair MacIntyre;
  • A History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell;

In progress:

  • A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess;
  • The Code of the Woosters, P.G. Wodehouse;
  • QED, Richard Feynman;
  • On Liberty, JS Mill;
  • The Waste Land, TS Eliot;
  • Wuthering Heights, Emily Bront