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Adult Fiction

(NOTE: These books are generally unsuitable for children, due to adult themes, situations and languge)

Fyodor Dostoevsky - "The Brothers Karamazov" (Review): Widely considered one of the best novels ever written, Dostoevsky combines a soap-operatic plot with profound meditations on God, life, and Russia, in this work that foreshadows Christian Existential Humanism.

Robert A. Heinlein - "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"

Zora Neale Hurston - "Their Eyes Were Watching God"

Haruki Murakami - "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles": The surrealist Japanese master's most successful explorations of the familiar mysteries of human existence.

Carl Friedman - "Nightfather" : A chillingly beautiful set of intertwined fables and reminiscences about the Holocaust.

Sheri S. Tepper - "The Marianne Trilogy" : Out of print, and notoriously hard to find, a luminous fantasy world with feminist undertones.

David Zindell - "Neverness"

Vladimir Nabakov - "Lolita"

Samuel S. Delany - "Dhalgren" : A weighty, complex and maddening masterpiece of hallucinatory science fiction.

Paul Elliot Russell - "Boys of Life" (Review)

Non-fiction

Susan Faludi - "Stiffed"
The best examination I've read of the way modernity has damaged and poisoned the positive aspects of American masculinity. Skip the first chapter for maximum enjoyment.

James Gleick - "Chaos: Making a New Science"
The seminal popularization of chaos theory, the science of the future.

Karen Armstrong - "History of God"

William Strauss & Neil Howe - "The Fourth Turning"
A look at the cycles of history in American social life and in relation to generational traits.

Jared Diamond - "Guns, Germs and Steel"

Debbie Ford - "The Dark Side of the Light Chasers"

Authors

Nick Hornby

Janusz Korchak

Jorge Luis Borges

Miscellanious

Anne Patterson & Peter Blood - Rise Up Singing.
The famous folkie fake-book, chock-full of wonderful songs to play on the guitar or piano.

Current Recommendations

Joe Meno - "Hairstyles of the Damned" A note perfect memory of the high-school years for anyone in the 25 to 35 age range.
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