Books I Have Read

Ken Wilber
Fredrick Copleston
     A History of Philosophy  4 volumes
Friedrich Nietzsche
Noam Chomsky
    Acts of Agression
    What Uncle Sam Really Wants
    Manufacturing Consent
Mark Zepezaur
    Take the Rich Off Welfare
    The CIAs greatest hits
Howard Zinn
    A People's History of the United States
Stephen Pinker
     The Language Instinct
      Better Angels of Our Nature
The Secret Life of Pronouns
Dr Paul Ekman
Henry Hitchings
     The Language Wars
Dr John McWhorter
The Talent Code
Charles Duhgig
    The Power of Habit
Alan Alter
     Drunk Tank Pink
Willpower
The Straight A Conspiracy
Lynn Truss   Eat Shoots and Leaves,  Talk to the Hand
Hesiod
    Words and Days/ Theogony
Hayler and Sunstein
     Nudge
Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman
      Sway
Wray Herbert
      On Second Thought


Dan Arielly 
    The Upside of Irrationality
    Predictably Irrational
Michael Shermer,
    Why People Believe Weird Things
Tom Robbins
    Still Life With Woodpecker
    Another Roadside Attraction
    Skinny Legs and All
    Jitterbug Perfume
 
Kurt Vonnegut
   Cats Crade
   God Bless You Mr Rosewater
   Welcome to the Monkey House
   Bluebeard
   Breakfast of Champions
   Slaughterhouse Five
   Wompeters Foma and Granfalloons

Piers Anthony
   Xanth series
   Incarnations of Immortality Series

Dragonlance
   Chronicles
   Legends

Drizzt:
   Icewind Dale Trilogy
   Homeland Trilogy

Thomas Pynchon
       Gravity's Rainbow

Jane Austen
       Northanger Abbey
       Mansfield Park

Saul Bellow
  Henderson the Rain King

JD Salinger
  Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters
  Nine Stories
  Franny and Zooey
  The Catcher in the Rye

JK Rowling
   The first four

James Morrow
   Only Begotten Daughter
   I know why the something whale sings


 


NONFICTION
    Everything is Obvious  by Duncan J Watts
    Innumerancy
    The Peter Principle
     Acid Dreams
    Moonwalking With Einstein  by Jonathan
    Tricks of the Mind by Derren Brown
     Irrationality by Dan Arielly
     Influence by Robert Cialdini
     Paul Ekman on lies and basic facial expressions
     The Worldly Philosophers b Robert Heilbroner
     Milton Freidman   Free to Choose
     Ayn Rands boy toy named Nathanial Brandan The Virtue of Selfishness
     Godel Escher Bach   by Douglas Hofstadter
  MICHAEL LEWIS
      Liars Poker
      Flash Boys

NASIM TALIB
     Black Swan

CARLSON AND GRAHAM HANCOCK
    Magicians of the Gods

R BUCKMINSTER FULLER
    Guinea Pig B

Robert Anton Wilson
    ALL OF IT.

    YES.


    YOU HEARD ME

    ALL OF IT.
 

NLP
    Richard Bandler
    Robert Diltz
    Milton Erickson
    More I'm sure....



POETRY

RUMI

BUKOWSKI

HAFIZ

CUMMINS

SUNDIATA

WHITMAN

FROST

ROBERT BLY

AR AMMONS

DR SEUSS

MAYA ANGELOU

PABLO NERUDA

YEATS

WALLACE STEVENS

LORCA

FERLINGHETTI

CORSO

SAUL WILLIAMS

PUSHKIN

WISLAWA O, the polish lady whose name I can't remember.

Be Angry at the Sun

BASHO

ISSA

KABIR

SILVERSTEIN

EMILY DICKENSON

TS ELIOT

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS      "This is just to say......"

Sex Without Love

Please Don't Steal My Air Jordans

RIMBAUD

BAUDELAIRE

BYRON

COLERIDGE




Innumeracy
Everything is Obvious
Fredrick Copleston History of Philosophy volumes 4 6 and one i dont remember

Cliff Notes
Oh shit this will be a long list.



PERSONAL EXPERIENCE STUFF

AJ Jacobs
   The Year of Living Biblically
   Drop Dead Healthy

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Tim Ferris
   4 HOUR BODY
   4 HOUR CHEF









AUDIOBOOKS AND LECTURE SERIES

Daniel Robinson
      Great Ideas In Philosophy
      Great Ideas in Psychology

Brooks Landon
      Sentences, making them awesome.

Heidegger professor
     Lots of lecture audio from 2 courses.   I'm not sure I ever figured it out.

Alan Dershowitz
    Controversial cases that always seem to be on the side of the rich guy

Seth Lehrer
    The History of the English Language

J Rufus Fears
    Life Lessons from Great Books

Bart Ehrman
   The Historical Jesus




Dan Carlin
    All of them.

John McWhorter



The Narcissist Next DOor
John Allen Paulos
Innumeracy:Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
Deborah Meier et al
Many Children Left Behind
Mel Levine
A Mind Left Behind

Charles Panati
     Extraordinary Origins of Profound Things
     Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things