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 Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (by Junot Diaz)
• The Raven Steals The Light
• Redwall (audio / written and read by Brian Jacques)
• The Historian (by Elizabeth Kostova)

Up Next

• Theory and History of Folklore (by Vladimir Propp)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (by J.K. Rowling)
• The Raven & The Totem
• Shamans and Kushtakas
• 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 3-6
• 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)
• The Earthsea Cycle: A Wizard of Earthsea (by Ursula K. LeGuin)
• The Earthsea Cycle: The Tombs of Atuan (by Ursula K. LeGuin)
• The Masks of God: Occidental Mythology (by Joseph Campbell)
• The Earthsea Cycle: The Farthest Shore (by Ursula K. LeGuin)
• Interrupted Music (by Verlyn Flieger) *
• The Great Satan “Eblis”
• The Masks of God: Creative Mythology (by Joseph Campbell)
• The Princess and the Goblin (by George MacDonald) [text, audio]
• The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (by Doris Lessing)
• Harry Potter 1
• Totem Poles of the Pacific Northwest Coast (by Edward Malin)
• The Wolf and the Raven: Totem Poles of Southeastern Alaska
• A Wrinkle In Time (by Madeleine L’Engle)
• The Sirian Experiments (by Doris Lessing)
• Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative (by Mieke Bal)
• The Princess and Curdie (by George MacDonald) [text, audio]
• Morphology of the Folktale (by Vladimir Propp)

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