Books I Want to Read
- Computers as Theatre / Brenda Laurel
- Predictably irrational / Dan Ariely
- The Flowers / Dagonerto Gilb (LA Chicano coming of age story, circa 1992)
- City of Thieves / David benioff (supposed to be quite good)
- The Mandarins / Simone de Beauvoir
- The Lost Estate / Alain-Fournier
- Appointment in Samarra / John O'Hara
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter / Carson McCullers
- The New York Trilogy / Paul Auster
- McTeague / Frank Norris (Dreiseresque story, set in San Francisco)
- The Wings of the Dove / Henry James
- The Infiltrator / Harmon Leon (funny political journalism)
- Noble House / James Clavell (like Bonfire of the Vanities, but set in Hong Kong)
- The Seducer / Jan Kjaestad (funny, Norwegian national character)
- The Eyre Affair / Fford
- Baroque Trilogy / Stevenson
- Paul Bowles
- Atonement / Ian McEwan
- The People's Act of Love / James Meek
- The Assistant / Bernard Malamud
- Gravity's Rainbow / Thomas Pynchon
- The Ghost at the Table / Suzanne Berne
- The Sky Changes / Gilbert Sorentino
- Cross-X / Joe Miller
- The Uses of Enchantment / Bruno Bettelheim
- Nada / Carmen Laforet (coming of age under Franco)
- Pocho Jose / Anotnion Villareel ("the first Chicano novel")
- My Name is Aram / William Saroyan (Armenians in Fresno)
- L'Assommoir / Emile Zola
- Nana / Emile Zola
- L'Arge / Emile Zola
- ***** Remainder / Tom McCarthy
- Mistress of the Art of Death / Ariana Franklin
- Nelson Algren (anything)
- The Secret History / Donna Tart
- e.e. cummings, anything
- Everything is Miscellaneous / David Weinberger
- Fields Notes From a Catastrophe / Elizabeth Kolbert (global warming primer)
- The Female Brain / Louann Brizendine
- Women, Fire and Dangerous Things / George Lakoff
- The Definitive Book of Body Language / Pease
- Man and His Symbols / C. Jung (especially Chapter 1)
- The Portable Jung, ed., J. Campbell
- A Guided Tour of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung / Robert Hopcke
- How Buildings Learn / Stewart Brand
- Mountains Beyond Mountains
- Friday Night Lights