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Summer Reading List

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Since graduating and starting a real job, my liesure reading has increased tenfold (maybe more). Once you start reading, however, you start hearing about more and more books you want to check out. So here's a list of some of the books I'm looking to read in the near future along with a list of the ones I have recently read. The lists are sorted by author, in case you were wondering. Feel free to make suggestions!

Current Dig
  • The City of Fallen Angels, by John Berendt
On Hold
  • Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, by Steven Levy
  • A Whole New Mind, by Daniel Pink
  • CCNA INTRO Exam Certification Guide
Future Reads
  • The Long Tail, by Chris Anderson
  • Patton: The Man Behind the Legend, 1885-1945, by Martin Blumenson
  • The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
  • Beclouded Visions: Hiroshima-Nagasaki and the Art of Witness, by Kyo MacLear
  • And the Band Played On, by Randy Shilts
  • The Miracle of Saint Anthony, by Adrian Wojnarowski
  • Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas Hofstadter
Recently Finished
  • World War Z, by Max Brooks
  • Make Love! (the Bruce Campbell way), by Bruce Campbell
  • First Meetings in the Enderverse, by Orson Scott Card
  • The Plague, by Albert Camus
  • The Fabric of the Cosmos, by Brian Greene
  • Just Another Soldier, by Jason Christopher Hartley
  • A Brief History of Time (10th Anniversary Edition), by Stephen Hawking
  • The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger, by Stephen King
  • The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three, by Stephen King
  • The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands, by Stephen King
  • The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass, by Stephen King
  • The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla, by Stephen King
  • The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah, by Stephen King
  • The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower, by Stephen King
  • The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
  • Freakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
  • The Alphabet of Manliness, by Maddox
  • Angela's Ashes, by Frank McCourt
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J.K. Rowling
  • Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, by David Sedaris
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Night, by Elie Wiesel

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