create a list of over 100 books I would definitely enjoy reading

12 Steps to Raw Foods: How to End Your Addiction to Cooked Food by Victoria Boutenko
A Discourse on Method by Rene Descartes
A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
A Singular Modernity: Essay on the Ontology of the Present by Fredric Jameson
A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume, et al.
An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
Axiomatic Set Theory by Patrick Suppes
Basic Writings of Kant by Immanuel Kant
Basic Writings of Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche, et al.
Basic Writings: Second Edition, Revised and Expanded by Martin Heidegger
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
Between Kant and Hegel: Lectures on German Idealism by Dieter Henrich, David S. Pacini
Beyond Good & Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Friedrich Nietzsche
Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala by Stephen E. Schlesinger, et al.
Branded for Life: How Americans are Brainwashed by the Brands We Love by Howard J. Blumenthal
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
Challenges to German Idealism: Schelling, Fichte and Kant by Kyriaki Goudeli
Cheap: The Real Cost of the Global Trend for Bargains, Discounts & Customer Choice by David Bosshart
Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud, et al.
Closing Time: The Sequel to Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide by Henry Jenkins
Crimes Against Logic by Jamie Whyte
Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another by Philip Ball
Critique of Cynical Reason by Peter Sloterdijk
Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant
Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, et al.
Critique of the Power of Judgment by Immanuel Kant, et al.
Death at the Parasite Cafe: Social Science and the Postmodern by Stephen Pfohl
Digital Play: The Interaction of Technology, Culture, and Marketing by Stephen Kline, et al.
Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
Ethics by Michel Foucault
Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies by Russ Kick
Existentialism and Human Emotions by Jean-Paul Sartre
First-Order Logic by Raymond M. Smullyan
Forget Foucault by Jean Baudrillard
Foucault and Heidegger: Critical Encounters by Alan Milchman
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
From Occam’s Razor to the Roots of Consciousness: 20 Essays on Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Mind by Gerhard D. Wassermann
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler
Girl With Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace
Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals: With on a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns by Immanuel Kant, James W. Ellington
Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents by Tom McDonough
Haunted: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk
How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers
Introduction to Logic by Alfred Tarski
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology: Expanded Second Edition by Ayn Rand, et al.
Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics by Martin Heidegger
Kant: Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason: And Other Writings by Immanuel Kant, et al.
Leaving the 20th Century: The Incomplete Work of the Situationist International by Larry Law
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen
Life is Hard: Machismo, Danger, and the Intimacy of Power in Nicaragua by Roger N. Lancaster
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century by Greil Marcus
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault
Meta Math!: The Quest for Omega by Gregory Chaitin
Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics by Hubert L. Dreyfus
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre
No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs by Naomi Klein
Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
On the Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International 1957-1972 by Peter Wollen
Our Word is Our Weapon by Subcomandante Marcos, Juana Ponce de Leon
Philip Glass: A Descent into the Maelstrom
Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings, 1977-1984 by Michel Foucault
Postmodernism or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson
Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977 by Michel Foucault
Raw Foods for Busy People: Simple and Machine-Free Recipes for Every Day by Jordan Maerin
Representation of the World: A Naturalized Semantics by Arthur Melnick
Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
Seduction by Jean Baudrillard
Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality by Anne Fausto-Sterling
Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
Situacionistas/Situationists: Arte, Politica, Urbanismo/Art, Politics, Urbanism by Xavier Costa, et al.
Skyscrapers by Judith Dupre, Philip Johnson
Something Happened by Joseph Heller
Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories by Chuck Palahniuk
The 70 Greatest Conspiracies Of All Time: History’s Biggest Mysteries, Coverups, and Cabals by J. Vankin
The Anti-Christ by Friedrich Nietzsche, H. L. Mencken
The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language by Michel Foucault
The Birth of Tragedy & the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche, Henry Louis Mencken
The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell
The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures by Jean Baudrillard
The Deviant’s Advantage: How to Use Fringe Ideas to Create Mass Markets by Ryan Mathews, Watts Wacker
The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
The End of Cinema As We Know It: American Film in the Nineties by Jon Lewis
The Equation That Couldn’t Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry by Mario Livio
The Essential Foucault by Michel Foucault, et al.
The Fall by Albert Camus
The Future Dictionary of America by Jonathan Safran Foer, et al.
The Geometry of Art and Life by Matila Ghyka
The German Ideology: Including Thesis on Feuerbach by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx
The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World’s Most Astonishing Number by Mario Livio
The History of Sexuality: The Care of the Self by Michel Foucault
The History of Sexuality: The Use of Pleasure Vol. 2 by Michel Foucault
The Illusion of the End by Jean Baudrillard
The Landmarks of New York: An Illustrated Record of the City’s Historic Buildings by Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel
The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International and After by Sadie Plant
The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays by Albert Camus
The New Sugar Busters by H. Leighton Steward, et al.
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of Human Sciences by Michel Foucault
The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don’t Need by Juliet B. Schor
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz
The Political Unconscious by Fredric Jameson
The Pop-Up Book of Phobias by Gary Greenberg
The Poverty of Philosophy by Karl Marx
The Principles of Mathematics by Bertrand Russell
The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
The Revolution of Everyday Life by Raoul Vaneigem
The Saddest Pleasure: A Journey on Two Rivers by Moritz Thomsen, Paul Theroux
The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
The Spirit of Terrorism: And Requiem for the Twin Towers by Jean Baudrillard
The Stones of Summer by Dow Mossman
The Transcendence of the Ego: An Existentialist Theory of Consciousness by Jean-Paul Sartre
The War Against Oblivion: The Zapatista Chronicles by John Ross
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor by David S. Landes
The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman
The Zapatista Reader by Tom Hayden
Theory, Culture & Society by Jean Baudrillard
Thinker on Stage: Nietzsche’s Materialism by Peter Sloterdijk
What Is the What by Dave Eggers
Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America by Hilton Als, et al.
You Are Being Lied To: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths by Russ Kick
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife

I’m really trying to finish “Zen…Motorcycle Maintenance.” I like it but it’s not a book I can sit down and read straight through. There have been a couple things in there that have really hit home with me. I have recorded them in my journal :) – which is helping me to also accomplish another one of my goals!!

I just finished “The Scarlet Letter.” This is when I wish I had a book club to discuss it in. It was very thought provoking for me on many levels. I had a really hard time understanding Hester Prynne. It is hard for me to relate to how she handled her situation. I have a deep respect with how she cared for other people and how she chose to basically give her life to others but – I don’t get why she felt that she had to punish herself for the rest of her life. I understand that it was a different time and religion was such a strong part of their life. It makes me so angry with the way the people treated her – as if they were perfect and did nothing wrong. Ugh! I have many more thoughts but for now – this is enough :). On to my next book – “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.”

The trick is keeping them in one place. I started on my list in 1994. I’m using reader2.com to start cataloguing them.

• Amazon.com affiliated purchases (“People who bought XXXX also bought:”)
• reading lists from library websites, or printed sheets
• Lifetime Reading Plan by Clifton Fadiman
• A Lifetime’s Reading by Philip Ward
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• Utne Reader’s Loose Canon
  http://www.utne.com/web_special/web_specials_archives/articles/330-1.html
• Harold Bloom’s 278 Books You Should Have Read By Now
  http://www.io.com/beckerdo/books/sqrlst.txt

I have just about got my list completed. Here is a list of the first 10 books I will be reading: (in no particular order)

1. The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
2. The Rough Guide to First-Time Around the World
3. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
4. Varieties of Religious Experience
5. A Room with a View (E.M. Forster)
6. The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
7. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
8. The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkein)
9. A People’s History of the United States (Howard Zinn)
10. Animals in Translation (Temple Grandin/Catherine Johnson)

As I get through these I will post more of the books I will be reading.

The easiest thing to do so far on my “43 things” list!