Transcendian Reading List
Short version, or unexplained list.
The I Ching/by wonder
The Bible/By spiritual season
War and Peace/ Tolstoy
Absolam Absolam/William Faulkner
Classic Readings in International Relations
The works of James Jones: Some Came Running, The Thin Red Line, From Here to Eternity, The Pistol, Go To the Widow Maker, Whistle.
The Naked and the Dead & Harlots Ghost/Norman Mailer
The USA Trilogy/ 1919, The 42nd Parrallel, and The Big Money by John Dos Passos.
A Death out of Season, Blood on the Snow, and The Face of Terror by Emmanuel Litvinoff
15 Battles that Changed the World/John Creasy
The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich & The Nightmare Years by William Shirer
Inside the Third Reich/Albert Speer
Les Misarbles/Victor Hugo
Flying Cloud/Armstrong Sperry
All of the books by Nevil Shute, but particularly Round the Bend and The Legacy.
The Art of Clear Thinking/author name forgotten
The Civil War Trilogy by Shelby Foote
Grant/McFeely
The Last Picture Show, Texasville & Duane’s Depressed
Lonsome Dove, Streets of Laredo, Commanche Moon & All My Friends are Going to be Strangers/ Larry McMurtry
Dog Soldiers, Outerbridge Reach and Damascus Gate/Robert Stone
Lolita/ Nabakov
Gorky Park & Polar Star/Martin Cruz Smith
The Prince of Berlin/ Dan Sherman
KGB/Ken Barrows
Time and Time Again/Clifford Simak
Pillars of the Earth/Ken Follet
The Human Comedy/William Saroyan
Collected Poems/Weldon Kees
Collected Poems/Gregory Courso
Fantasies and Meditations on the Illusionless Man/Alan Wellis
Catch 22/Joseph Heller
All Quiet on The Western Front/Erich Marie Remarque
The Enormous Room/ee cummings
The Norton Anthology of Modern War/edited by Paul Fussell
The First World War and Modern Memory/Paul Fussell
The Prince/Machievelli
Three Soldiers/John Dos Passos
Chicken Hawk/authors name not now remembered
Dispatches/Michael Herr
Highways to a War/Christopher Koch
In Cold Blood/Truman Capote
Executioners Song/Norman Mailer
Goodbye Mickey Mouse & Spy Story/Len Deighton
Cold Mountain/Charles Fraizer
Home Before Dark/Susan Cheever
Continental Drift/Russell Banks
Fools Die & The Dark Arena/Mario Puzo
Amerika/Franz Kafka
A Clockwork Orange/Anthony Burgess
Hollywood/Charles Bukouski
For Whom the Bell Tolls/Ernest Hemingway
Confederacy of Dunces/
The Flim Flam Man/
Blue Movie/Terry Southern
Young Men and Fire/Norman Mclean
Play it as it Lays/Joan Didion
Final Drafts/
Final Payments/Mary Gordon
The Fountainhead & Atlas Shrugged/Ayn Rand
Sand and Stone/ Frank Lloyd Wright
Einstein History and Other Passions/Kenneth Knowlton
Blood Meridian/Cormac McCarthy
This is the short version of my reading list that has no comments.
Russell Scott Day 8/28/05