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 Earthsea Cycle: A Wizard of Earthsea (by Ursula K. LeGuin)
- The Masks of God: Occidental Mythology (by Joseph Campbell)
Up Next
- The Earthsea Cycle: The Tombs of Atuan (by Ursula K. LeGuin)
- The Earthsea Cycle: The Farthest Shore (by Ursula K. LeGuin)
- A Wrinkle In Time (by Madeleine L’Engle)
- The Masks of God: Creative Mythology (by Joseph Campbell)
- The Kalevala
- The Waste Land (by T.S. Eliot)
- The Power of Myth (by Joseph Campbell)
- 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) *
- Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (by Ignatius Donnelly)
- The Great Transformation (by Karen Armstrong)
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Essential Classic X-Men, Vol. 2
- The Silmarillion (by JRR Tolkien) *
- The Annotated Hobbit (edited by Douglas Anderson)
- History of the Civil War (from American Heritage)
- The Atlas of Middle-Earth (by Karen Wynn Fonstad)
- The Devils (by Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
- The Norse Myths *
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (by Arthur C. Clarke)
- Introduction to Metaphysics (by Martin Heidegger)
- The Ghost in the Atom
- Sophie’s World (by Jostein Gaarder)
- Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra (by Sophocles)
- Aesop’s Fables (by Laura Gibbs)
- Boxen (by C.S. Lewis as a child)
- The Stranger (by Albert Camus)
- The Courtier and the Heretic
- Harry Potter 1-6
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (7)
Completed
Since January 2008
- Neoplatonic Philosophy (ed. John M. Dillon) †
- The Hero With A Thousand Faces (by Joseph Campbell) †
- A Short History of Myth (by Karen Armstrong)
- The Spiral Staircase (by Karen Armstrong)
- Gilgamesh (translation by Stephen Mitchell)
- Parabola 17:2 - Labyrinth
- Lyra’s Oxford (by Philip Pullman)
- His Dark Materials: The Subtle Knife (by Philip Pullman)
- Phantastes (by George MacDonald)
- Bhagavad Gita (translated by W.J. Johnson)
- Shikasta (by Doris Lessing)
- Parabola 25:2 - Riddle & Mystery
- The Rock That Is Higher: Story as Truth (by Madeleine L’Engle)
- Writers on Writing (Collected Essays from the New York Times)
- Till We Have Faces (by C.S. Lewis) *
- The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud … *
- The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology (by Joseph Campbell)
- The Battle for God (by Karen Armstrong)
- The Masks of God: Oriental Mythology (by Joseph Campbell)
- Enchantment (by Orson Scott Card)