My Current Reading List

The following is a list of books I read since 2001 (excluding books read for the doctoral program). *=favorites
1. Moby Dick by Herman Melville*
2. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein*
3. Old Man and the Sea by Earnest Hemingway
4. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
5. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe*
6. Animal Farm by George Orwell*
7. Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens*
8. Hard Times by Charles Dickens*
9. The Best of H.P. Lovecraft
10. Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut*
11. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut*
12. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
13. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger*
14. Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
15. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison*
16. Call of the Wild by Jack London*
17. White Fang by Jack London*
18. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller*
19. Dracula by Bram Stoker*
20. Sula by Toni Morrison
21. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
22. Silas Marner by George Eliot
23. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathon Swift
24. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
25. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn*
26. The Pearl by John Steinbeck*
27. Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
28. A Lesson Before Dying by Earnest Gaines
29. Wuthering Heights by Emile Bronte
30. Alice's Advetures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
31. East of Eden by John Steinbeck*
32. War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
33. The Count of Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas*
34. Tuesdays with Maurie by Mitch Albom
35. The Plague by Albert Camus*
36. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
37. The Alchemist by Paul Coelho*
38. Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
39. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee*
40. Rabbit, Run by John Updike*
41. Rabbit Redux by John Updike*
42. The Celestine Prochecy by James Redfield
43. The Amazing Adventures of Kavlier and Clay by Michael Chabon*
44. Night by Elie Weisel
45. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald*
46. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck*
47. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
48. Rabbit is Rich by John Updike*
49. Bleachers by John Grisham
50. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien*
51. How to Be Good by Nick Hornby*
52. Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut*
53. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck*
54. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
55. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
56. The Stranger by Albert Camus
57. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith*
58. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain*
59. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
60. Empire Falls by Richard Russo*
61. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
62. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
63. The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
64. Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stephenson
65. Going after Cacciato by Tim O'Brien*
66. Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
67. The Good Earth by Pearl Buck*
68. The Diary of Ann Frank
69. The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
70. Rabbit at Rest by John Updike**
71. The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk*
72. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess*
73. Mutiny on the Bounty by James Norman Hall
74. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
75. Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank*
76. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
77. One Flew Over the Cookoo’s Nest*
78. The Hobbit by J. R. Tolkien*
79. Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
80. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
81. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
82. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson Mcullers
83. In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck
84. Patriots Reign by Michael Holley*
85. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens*
86. Final Report of the 9/11 Commission
87. The Godfather by Mario Puzo*
88. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth*
89. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
90. Beloved by Toni Morrison *
91. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon*
92. The Life of Pi by Yann Martel*
93. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
94. The Devil Wears Prada by Laurie Weisenberg*
95. The Sun Also Rises by Earnest Hemingway
96. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
97. Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
98. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking 99. The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas*
100. Winning by Jack Welch
101. Persuasion by Jane Austen
102. The American Revolution: A History by Gordon Wood*
103. On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt
104. 1984 by George Orwell*
105. Chicken Soup for the College Soul by Jack Canfield
106. Origins of the Southern Middle Class by Jonathan Wells *
107. The Secret Life of Germs by Philip Tierno
108. Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
109. Atonement by Ian Mcewan*
110. The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
111. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes*
112. Prey by Michael Chrichton*
113. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubney*
114. Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
115. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston*
116. Gung Ho! by Ken Blanchard
117. Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
118. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote*
119. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
120. Jurassic Park by Michael Chricton*
121. My Freshman Year by Rebekkah*
122. The Time Machine by HG Wells*
123. The Invisible Man by HG Wells*
124. Sorting Out the New South City by Thomas Hanchette*
125. The Slow Way Back by Judy Goldman*
126. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell*
127. Emeril! by Marcia Layton Turner
128. Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons*
129. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card* (CD)
130. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair*
131. Education of a Coach by David Halberstam*
132. The Great Influenza by Johns Barry
133. His Excellency George Washington by Joseph Ellis* (CD)
134. Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons*
135. My Antonia by Willa Cather
136. Valhalla Rising by Clyve Cussler (CD)
137. The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
138. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie*
139. Fast Food Nation by Eric Shlosser* (CD)
140. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood*
141. Churchill by John Keegan (CD)
142. Rich Dad, Poor Dad Guide to Investing by Robert Kiyosaki (CD)
143. Fury by Salman Rushdie (CD)
144. Falconer by John Cheever*
145. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Payton*
146. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens*
147. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt* (CD)
148. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides *
149. The Bridge of San Louis Rey by Thornton Wilder (CD)
150. The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman* (CD)
151. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson*
152. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond* 153. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole* (MP3)
154. The Zahir by Paul Coehlo (CD)
155. The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis*
156. The Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick*
157. The First World War by John Keegan (CD)
158. Everything Bad is Good for You by Steven Johnson*
159. The One Percent Doctrine by Ron Suskind* (CD)
160. Collapse by Jared Diamond*
161. The Terrorist by John Updike (CD)
162. The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual by Rick Levin, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger*
163. The Culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong Things by Barry Glassner (CD)
164. Watership Down by Richard Adams**
165. The Difference Maker: Making Your Attitude Your Greatest Asset by John C. Maxwell (CD)
166. The Servant Leadership Training Course by James Hunter* (CD)
167. The World According to Garp by John Irving*
168. First, Break all the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently by Marcus Buckingham* (CD)
169. State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III by Rob Woodward (CD)
170. The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth by E. O. Wilson*
171. The Dechronization of Sam Magruder* by George Stimpson
172. American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century by Kevin Philips* (CD)
173. Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk by Maureen Dowd
174. Field Notes from a Catastophe: Man, Nature, and Clinate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert* (CD)
175. Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis by Jimmy Carter
176. Achieving and Sustaining Institutional Excellence for the First Year of College by Betsy Barefoot, et al.
177. What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain*
178. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins*
179. Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins (CD)
180. Into Thin Air by John Krakauer (CD)
181. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (CD)
182. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting BY in America by Barbara Eirenreich 183. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins*
184. The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins*
185. The Seven Daughters of Eve by Brian Sykes*
186. Bait and Switch: The Futile Pursuit of the American Dream by Barbara Eirenreich
187. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan* 188. Letter to a Christian Nation by Ed Harris*
189. Wicked The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire*
190. State of Fear by Michael Chrichton
191. Albert Schweitzer: Memoirs of Childhood and Youth
192. Dispatches from the Edge by Anderson Cooper (CD)
193. Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder by Richard Dawkins*
194. Adam's Curse: A Future Without Men by Brian Sykes (CD)
195. Wisdom of Our Fathers: Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sons by Tim Russert (CD)
196. The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo*
197. Too Far From Home: A Story of Life and Death in Space by Chris Jones (CD)*
198. Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama (CD)
199. Unspun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation by Brooks Jackson and Kathleen Hall Jamieson
200. Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut (CD)
201. Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of teh Search for God by Carl Sagan*
202.The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz (CD)*
203. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass*
204. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
205. The Road by Cormac McCarthy (CD)*
206. The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgramage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins*
207. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (CD)
208. The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of teh Human Animal by Jared Diamond*
209. Living History by Hillary Clinton (CD)
210. Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel Dennett
211. Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships by Danial Goleman (CD)
212. The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story by Richard Preston (CD)
213. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
214. Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
215. The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One that Isn't by Robert Sutton (CD) *
216. Harvard Business Review On Finding and Keeping the Best People
217. Hiring the Best: A Manager's Guide to Effective Recruitment by Martin Yate
218. The Wilmington Shipyard: Weldinga Fleet for Victory in World War II by Ralph Scott
219. Change Your Questions Change Your Life: 7 Powerful Tools for Life and Work by Marilee Adams
220. Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World by Bill Clinton (CD)
221. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
222. The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker (CD)
223. The Planets by Dava Sobel (MP3)
224. Raving Fans by Ken Blanchard
225. The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier
226. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner (CD)
227. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen**
228. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks*
229. The Black Swan: Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
230. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini*
231. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Moshin Hamid (CD)
232. Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors by Nicholas Wade
233. How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman (CD)
234. The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould
235. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (CD)*
236. A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love by Richard Dawkins*
237. Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins*
238. The House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus*
239. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (CD)
240. War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals by David Halberstam*
241. American Gods by Neil Gaiman*
242. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely (CD)*
243. The God of Small Things by Roy Arundhati
244. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (CD)
245. Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert*
246. The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam*
247. A Time to Lead by Wesley Clark (CD)
248. Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism by Kevin Philips (CD)
249. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown*
250. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
251. Assault on Reason by Al Gore (CD)
252. The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong*
253. The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman*
254. Three Cups of Tea" One Man's Mission to Promote Peace -- One School at a Time by Greg Mortensen*
255. Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue by John Reed, dale Reed, and William KcKinney
256. The Learning Paradigm College by John Tagg*
257. Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott CD)
258.The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz*
259. McKeachie's Teaching Tips : Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers by Wilbert McKeachie*
260. The People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks*
261. The Librarian by Larry Beinhart*
262. The Long Tail by Chris Anderson(CD)*
263. The Courage to Teach by Parker Palmer*
264. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles Mann
265. Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris (CD)
266. The Graphic Syllabus and the Outcomes Map: Communicating Your Course by Linda Nilson
267. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman*
268. Bel Canto by Ann Pratchett
269. Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher by Stephen Brookfield*
270. Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School by Philip Broughton (CD)
271. Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer*
272. Effective Grading: A Tool for Learning and Assessment by Barbara Walvoord and Virginia Anderson*
273. Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun that Chanegd Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It by Julia Keller*
274. American Creation by Joseph Ellis (CD)
275. Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas Friedman*
276. Learner-Centered Teaching by Mary Ellen Weimer*
277. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan*
278. Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You by Sam Gosling*
279. Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell*
280. Retribution: The War Against Japan by Max Hastings*
281. Armageddon: The War For Germany by Max Hastings*
282. Divided Mind by John Sarno (CD)
283. The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 by Thomas Hicks (CD)
284. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson*
285. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
286. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin*
287. Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping by Paco Underhill (CD)
288. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
289. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright* 290. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Nifenneger (CD)
291. A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign by Edward Larson*
292. Virtual Worlds, Real Libraries by Rhonda Trueman and Lori Bell*
293. Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to al-Qaeda by Robert Wallace and H. Keith Melton
294. Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way above Average by Joseph T. Hallinan*
295. Say Goodnight to Insomnia : The 6-Week Solution by Gregg D. Jacobs
296. Nothing to Fear : FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America by Adam Cohen
297. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka (CD)
298. The Human Side to Enterprise by Doug McGregor*
299. Buyology by Mark Underhill (CD)
300. The Third Reich at War by Richard Evans*
301. General and Industrial Managment by Henri Fayol*
302. The Social Psychology of Organizations by Danile Katz and Robert Kahn
303. Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman*
304. Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey*
305. On Becoming a Sevant Leader by Robert Greenleaf
306. Organizational Culture and Leadership by Edgar Schein*
307. Motivation and Work by Victor Vroom
308. Shadows of the Forgotten Ancestors by Carl Sagan and Ann Dryan*
309. Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge by Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus
310. Leading Change by John Kotter
311. Library Ethics by Jean Preer
312. Atomic America: How a Deadly Explosion and a Feared Admiral Changed the Course of Nuclear History by Todd Tucker*
313. Death By Meeting: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
314. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein*
315. Why Don't Students Like School by Daniel Wilingham*
316. Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe by Mark Mazower
317. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Money, Oil, and Power by Daniel Yergin*
318. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (CD)
319. Continuum by LaRon Jenkins
320. Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future by Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum*
321. Developing a Faculty Evaluation System: A Guide to Designing, Building, and Operating Large-Scale Faculty Evaluation Systems by Raoul Arreola
322. The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins*
323. Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5 Billion Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin*
324. Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate by Ernest Boyer
325. The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein*
326. Creating the Future of Faculty Development: Learning from the Past, Understanding the Present by Mary Sorcinelli, et al.*
327. Parenting with Love and Logic
328. There are no Shortcuts by Rafe Esquith (CD)
329. Big Bang by Simon Singh
330. Justice by Michael Sandel (CD)
331. War Made New: technology, warfare and the Course of History, 1500 to Today by Max Boot*
332. The Dark Side: The Inside Story on How the War on Terror Turned into a war on American Ideals by Jane Mayer
333. Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story on How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis -- and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin (e-book)
334. Just-inTime Teaching: Across the Disciplines, Across the Academy by Scott Simkins and Mark Maier
335. Freefall by Joseph Stiglitz (e-book)*
336. Stroke of Inisght by Jill Bolte Taylor
337. Nights in Rodanthe by Nichoal Sparks* (e-book) 338. Age of Unreason by Susan Jacoby (e-book)*
339. Timescape by Gregory Benford (e-book)
340. Smashed by Koren Zailcas
341. How Religion Poisons Everything by Christpher Hitchens* (e-book)
342. Why Darwin Matters by Michael Shermer* (e-book)
343. An Innocent Man by John Grisham (e-book)
344. Switch by Chip and Dan Heath (e-book)*
345. Mindset by Carol Dweck (e-book)*
346. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (e-book)
347. The Upside of Irrationality by Dan Ariely (e-book)*
348. The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow (e-book)*
349. Outcasts United by Warren St. John (e-book)
350. Online Teaching Survival Guide: Simple and Pedagogical Tips by Judith Boettcher and Rita Marie Conrad*
351. A People and a Nation: A History of the United States by Mary Beth Norton
352. The Winds of War by Herman Wouk (e-book)*
353. All Facts Considered by Kee Malesky*
354. The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution by Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending
355. Special Libraries and Information Centers by Ellis Mount and Renee Massoud 356. The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris (e-book) *
357. The Value of Nothing by Raj Patel
358. God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens (ebook)*
359. Librarian's Guide to Online Searching by Suzanne Bell
360. The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook by Randolph Hock
361. The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman (e-book)*
362. What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith (e-book)
363. Academically Adrift by Richard Arum and Josipa Roka (e-book)

364. Planetwalker by John Francis
365. What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 by Tina Seelig*
366. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
367. Spontaneous Happiness by Andrew Weil*
368. Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Hartford
369. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What we Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
370. Wise Up: Learning to Live the Learning Life by Guy Claxton
371. The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True by Richard Dawkins*

372. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky