| Title |
Publication Date |
Author |
Notes |
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The 5000 Year
Leap |
|
Willard
Cleon Skousen |
|
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Accidental
Empires |
|
Robert X. Cringely (Mark Stephens) |
|
|
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
|
Mark Twain |
|
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Aesop's Fables |
|
Aesop |
Online Collection. |
|
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
|
Lewis Carroll |
|
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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (1974) |
|
Piers Paul Read |
Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. |
|
An American in Leningrad |
1984 |
Logan Robinson |
|
|
Animal Farm |
|
George Orwell |
Orwell's socialist poppycock
was more informing and entertaining than most of what has been
produced by those of his persuasion. At least
he saw Stalin for the evil man that he was. Unfortunately, Orwell
viewed the Stalin problem as one of "execution" rather than
fundamental philosophy. |
|
Annals of the Former World |
|
John McPhee |
I read aloud
from this book to Ai-chan during the summer of 2008. |
|
Apple: The Inside Story of Intrigue, Egomania, and Business Blunders |
|
Jim Carlton |
|
|
April 1865: The Month That Saved America |
|
Jay Winik |
|
|
The Art
of War |
|
Sun Tsu |
|
|
The Ascent of Man: A Personal View |
|
Jacob Bronowski. |
The companion
book for the BBC series "The
Ascent of Man." |
|
Astoria: Adventure in the Pacific Northwest |
|
Washington Irving |
|
|
Atlas Shrugged |
|
Ayn Rand |
|
|
Become The Arrow |
|
Byron Ferguson |
Howard Hill. |
|
Beyond
The Dolphin Smile |
|
Richard O'Barry / Keith Coulbourn |
I read it and
was at first moved. Then critical thinking set in... |
|
Black Elk Speaks |
|
John Neihardt |
|
|
Blacklisted By History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and
his Fight Against America's Enemies |
|
M. Stanton Evans |
|
|
Blaze and the Indian Cave |
|
C.W. Andersn |
This is one of
the first books I remember carrying around and reading. |
|
Brave New World |
|
Aldous Huxley |
Interesting
man, of course; and deserving of a chapter in the as yet
non-existent book "The Roots of Hippie Madness." |
|
The Call of the Wild |
|
Jack London |
One of best
stories I've had the pleasure to have read; and one that has always
stayed with me. In one of my favorite episodes of Northern Exposure,
Chris Stevens reads from Call of the Wild on his morning
radio show as Maurice and Hollings make good on an old promise to
bury a recently deceased hunting companion at a remote wilderness
point called No-Name Point. Call of the Wild is good enough
that I overlook Jack London's nutty political views. |
|
Camping & Wilderness Survival |
|
Paul Tawrell |
|
|
Cancer Ward |
|
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
|
|
Chariots of the Gods? |
|
Erich Von Daniken |
At age 15 this interesting
but fraudulent theory caught my imagination. |
|
Comanche Moon |
|
Larry McMurtry |
|
|
A
Confederacy of Dunces |
|
John Kennedy Toole |
|
|
Crazy Horse
and Custer |
|
Stephen E. Ambrose |
|
|
The
Dancing Wu Li Masters |
|
Gary Zukav |
|
|
Dead Man's Walk |
|
Larry McMurtry |
|
|
Deceived: The Story of the Donner Party |
|
Peter R. Limburg |
|
|
The Decline of the West |
|
Oswald Spengler |
Timely article... |
|
Deliverance |
|
James Dickey |
|
|
Diet For a New America |
|
John Robbins |
|
|
Do You Know What I'm Going To Do Next Saturday? |
1963 |
Helen Palmer Geisel |
This book
was always laying around when I was 5, 6, 7 years old, and I thumbed
through it countless times. The image of the pancakes was seared
permanently in my mind, and I've never had pancakes sense without
that image coming to mind... |
|
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the
American Dream |
|
Hunter S. Thompson |
Entertaining,
and influential in a host of negative ways. Hunter S. Thompson's
words and phrasings were clever, but practically devoid of
meaningful insight - except for insight into the sickness of the
60's. HST found a niche in the stupid pop culture of the 1960's and
1970's and he worked it for all it was worth. Personally, I think the man was quite
worthless... clever, but worthless. |
|
Flowers For Algenon |
|
Daniel Keyes |
Charly
(film). |
|
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television |
1978 |
Jerry Mander |
Some of
Mander's criticisms are interesting; food for thought, but to be
taken with a healthy portion of skepticism. In total, I suspect he's
just another whacky anti-capitalist. |
|
From Bauhaus to Our House |
|
Tom Wolfe |
|
|
The Geography of Nowhere |
1993 |
James Howard Kunstler |
Interesting
criticisms, more than a few of which fail to hold much water... |
|
Gulliver's Travels |
|
Jonathan Swift |
|
|
The Girl
From Petrovka |
|
George Feifer |
|
|
Hard Tack & Coffee |
|
John D.
Billings |
|
|
The
Heart is a Lonely Hunter |
|
Carson McCullers |
|
|
Hickory Wind: The Life and Times of Gram Parsons |
|
Ben Fong-Torres |
|
|
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
|
Edward Gibbon |
|
|
The Holy
Bible |
|
|
|
|
Huckleberry Finn |
1885 |
Mark Twain |
The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
(1876). |
|
The Importance of
Living |
|
Lin Yutang |
|
|
In My Own Way |
|
Alan Watts |
An interesting
fellow, though a foundational pillar of 60's-style wackiness. |
|
In
Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson |
|
Noble E. Cunningham |
|
|
Into the Wild |
|
Jon Krakauer |
|
|
Inside The Third Reich |
|
Albert Speer |
|
|
Jefferson and the Gun-Men:
How the West Was Almost Lost |
|
M.R. Montgomery |
|
|
John Colter:
His Years in the Rockies |
|
Burton Harris |
John Colter |
|
Johnny Tremain |
|
Esther Forbes |
A memorable
book from around my 5th grade year. |
|
The
Journals of Lewis & Clark |
|
Bernard DeVoto (Editor) |
Full Text |
|
The Last of the Mohicans |
|
James Fenimore Cooper |
|
|
The
Last River: The Tragic Race For Shangri-la |
|
Todd Balf |
|
|
Leviathan |
|
Thomas Hobbes |
|
|
Lewis & Clark Among the Indians |
|
James P. Ronda |
|
|
The Life and Times Grigorii Rasputin |
|
Alex De Jonge |
|
|
The Log of a Cowboy |
|
Andy Adams |
|
|
Lonesome Dove |
|
Larry McMurtry |
My
favorite novel. I have been disappointed by some of McMurtry's other
work, and by some of his comments. |
|
The Making of Microsoft |
|
Daniel Ichbiah
& Susan L. Knepper |
|
|
The Marketing Of Evil |
|
David Kupelian |
|
|
Memoirs
of a Geisha |
|
Arthur Golden |
|
|
Memories, Dreams, Reflections |
|
Carl Jung |
|
|
The Mountain Men |
|
George Laycock |
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Mountain-Men/George-Laycock/e/9781592286553 |
|
The Mouse and the Motorcycle |
|
Beverly Cleary |
|
|
My Side
of the Mountain |
|
Jean Craighead George |
|
|
Nineteen Eighty-Four |
|
George Orwell |
I'll pay some attention to his socialist poppycock; it is entertaining.
He railed against Stalin, and that's good. |
|
No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War |
|
Hiroo Onoda |
The Soldier Who Wouldn't Quit.
Amazon. |
|
Nothing
Like It In The World |
|
Stephen E. Ambrose |
|
|
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge |
|
Ambrose
Gwinnett Bierce |
Text. |
|
The Odessa File |
|
Frederick Forsyth |
|
|
Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple - A Journey of Adventure, Ideas, and the
Future |
|
John Sculley |
|
|
One of
Jackson’s Foot Calvary |
|
John H. Worsham |
|
|
One Man’s Wilderness: An Alaskan
Odyssey |
|
Sam
Keith |
From
the journals of Richard Proenneke. |
|
Ordeal by Hunger |
|
George R. Stewart |
|
|
Overdrive: Bill Gates and the Race To Control Cyberspace |
|
James Wallace |
|
|
The Painted Word |
|
Tom Wolfe |
|
|
Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse |
|
James Rawles |
|
|
The Prophet |
|
Khalil Gibran |
|
|
Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era |
|
Sterling North |
|
|
Rebel Private: Front and Rear: Memoirs of a Confederate Soldier |
|
William A. Fletcher |
|
|
Red Badge of Courage |
|
Stephen Crane |
|
|
The Right Stuff |
|
Tom Wolfe |
|
|
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich |
|
William L. Shirer |
|
|
The Road to Gilford Courthouse: The American Revolutions in the
Carolinas |
|
John Buchanan |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Guilford_Court_House |
|
The Road to Serfdom |
|
Friedrich von Hayek |
|
|
Robinson Crusoe |
|
Daniel Defoe |
|
|
Roughing It |
|
Mark Twain |
|
|
Sabre
Jet Ace |
|
Charles Ira Coombs |
|
|
Second Treatise of Government |
|
John Locke |
|
|
Shakedown: Exposing The Real Jessie Jackson |
2002 |
Kenneth R. Timmerman |
|
|
The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture |
|
David E. Shi |
|
|
Sing Me Back Home |
|
Merle Haggard and Peggy Russell |
|
|
Singing Cowboys |
|
Douglas B. Green |
Ranger Doug, bless his heart! |
|
Six Great Ideas |
|
Mortimer J. Adler |
|
|
Six
Years with the Texas Rangers 1875 to 1881 |
|
James B. Gillet |
|
|
The South Was Right |
|
James Ronald Kennedy & Walter Donald Kennedy |
The Kennedy Twins. |
|
Spark Your
Dream |
|
Candelaria & Herman Zapp |
|
|
Subliminal Seduction |
1974 |
Wilson Byron Key |
|
|
Suicide or Murder? The Strange Death of Governor Meriwether Lewis |
|
Vardis Fisher |
|
|
This House
of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind |
|
Ivan Doig |
|
|
The Three Pillars of Zen |
|
Roshi Philip Kapleau |
|
|
The True Believer |
|
Eric Hoffer |
|
|
Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor
and What We Can Do About It |
|
Star Parker |
|
|
Undaunted Courage |
|
Stephen E. Ambrose |
|
|
Walden |
|
Henry David Thoreau |
|
|
Watership Down |
|
Richard Adams |
|
|
The Wealth of Nations |
|
Adam Smith |
Rarely has one man been so
correct. Adam Smith was right, and Karl Marx wrong. Period. |
|
The
Wisdom of Confucius |
|
Lin Yutang |
|
|
Zen and
the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An inquiry into Values |
|
Robert M. Pirsig |
|
|
Zen in the Art of Archery |
|
Eugen Herrigel |
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