Books

I have been an avid reader since childhood. This list contains the books I am currently reading or have completed over the last few years, along with the books currently in the queue.

(Be sure also to check out my update on the N.E.A.’s report on reading in America.)

Current

• The Kalevala (translated by Keith Bosley)
• Alvin Maker 3: Prentice Alvin (by Orson Scott Card)
• Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew (by C.S. Lewis)

Completed Since January 2009

• Time Bites (by Doris Lessing)
• When Faith Meets Reason
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (by Robert Pirsig)
• Batman: Year One (by Frank Miller)
• The Sandman, Volume 1: Preludes and Nocturnes (by Neil Gaiman)
• The Sufis (by Idries Shah)
• The Sandman, Volume 2: The Doll’s House (by Neil Gaiman)
• The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (by Doris Lessing)
• Art & Physics (by Leonard Shlain)
• The Silmarillion: Thirty Years On
• The Sandman, Volume 3: Dream Country (by Neil Gaiman)
• A History of God (by Karen Armstrong)
• Prometheus Unbound (by Percy Bysshe Shelley)
• Redwall (audio / written and read by Brian Jacques)
• Sentimental Agents in Volyen Empire (by Doris Lessing)
• Starchild: Crossroads (by James A. Owen)
• Alvin Maker 1: Seventh Son (by Orson Scott Card)
• Alvin Maker 2: Red Prophet (by Orson Scott Card)
• Theory and History of Folklore (by Vladimir Propp)

Up Next

• Introduction to Metaphysics (by Martin Heidegger)
• The Great Transformation (by Karen Armstrong)
• The Power of Myth (by Joseph Campbell)
• The Courtier and the Heretic
• The Waste Land (by T.S. Eliot)
• The Norse Myths
• Sophie’s World (by Jostein Gaarder)
• Harry Potter 3-6
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (by Arthur C. Clarke)
• Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (by Ignatius Donnelly)
• The Ghost in the Atom
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (7)
• The Atlas of Middle-Earth (by Karen Wynn Fonstad)
• The Annotated Hobbit (edited by Douglas Anderson)
• The Silmarillion (by JRR Tolkien)
• History of the Civil War (from American Heritage)
• The Stranger (by Albert Camus)
• Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet (by C.S. Lewis)
• Space Trilogy: Perelandra (by C.S. Lewis)
• Space Trilogy: That Hideous Strength (by C.S. Lewis)
• Essential Classic X-Men, Vol. 2
• Shamans and Kushtakas
• Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra (by Sophocles)
• Aesop’s Fables (by Laura Gibbs)
• The Devils (by Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
• Boxen (by C.S. Lewis as a child)
• Catching the Light (by Arthur Zajonc)
• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (by Douglas R. Hofstadter)
• True Enough (by Farhad Manjoo)
• Preface to Plato (by Eric Havelock)
• The Raven & The Totem
• Orpheus: Metamorphoses of a Myth (by John Warden)