MY 50 FAVORITE BOOKS

 

         This list does not include all the reading I have done that was important to me.  I don’t list dictionaries, the Bible, the Federalist Papers, the Constitution, cookbooks, or the hundreds of books I have read about chess, backgammon, bridge, scrabble, poker, go, and other games. 

 

         The books listed here are fiction and non-fiction.  I have read a few of them many times and many of them several times.  All of them are books I have gone back to years after I read them because I wanted to re-read some passage or chapter.

 

One further qualification.  To keep the list a reasonable size, I have chosen to cite one or two books from a particular author even though I could have listed another dozen.  I have read and reread everything I could find from Charles Bukowski, J.P. Donleavy, Henry Miller, Thomas Sowell, and all the Bertie and Jeeves books from P.G. Wodehouse, though not all those titles appear here.   

 

         Rules For Radicals---Alinsky

 

Confederate General from Big Sur---Brautigan

 

Hm On Rye---Bukowski

 

The Big Sleep---Chandler

 

Kiss Kiss---Dahl

 

Life At the Bottom---Dalrymple

 

Guns, Germs and Steel---Diamond

 

The Ginger Man---Donleavy

 

My Family and Other Animals---G. Durrell

 

The Black Book---L. Durrell

 

Classical English Rhetoric---Farnsworth

 

Capitalism & Freedom---Friedman

 

Asylums---Goffman

 

Suicide Of the West---Goldberg

 

Liberal Fascism---Goldberg

 

The Silent Language---Hall

 

The Road to Serfdom---Hayek

 

Catch-22---Heller

 

Medieval Europe-A Short History---Hollister

 

No One Left to Lie To---Hitchens

 

People Love Dead Jews---Horn

 

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions---Kuhn

 

A History of The American People---Johnson

 

The Middle East---Lewis

 

What Went Wrong---Lewis

 

They Thought They Were Free---Mayer

 

Tropic of Capricorn---Miller

 

Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom---Milloy

 

Junk Science Judo---Milloy

 

Holidays in Hell---O’Rourke

 

1984---Orwell

 

Hidden Game of Football---Palmer

 

The Better Angels of Our Nature---Pinker

 

V---Pynchon

 

A Treasury of Damon Runyan---Runyan

 

The Case for Democracy---Sharansky

 

A Short History of The Mail Service---Scheele

 

The Signal and The Noise---Silver

 

The Chess Mysteries of The Arabian Knights---Smulyan

 

Basic Economics---Sowell

 

The Vision of The Anointed---Sowell

 

Migrations And Culture---Sowell

 

America Alone---Steyn

 

Mark Steyn’s Passing Parade---Steyn

 

Alice Let’s Eat---Trillin

 

A Distant Mirror---Tuchman

 

Cat’s Cradle---Vonnegut

 

The Code of The Woosters---Wodehouse

 

Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak-Catchers---Wolfe

 

Looming Tower---Wright

 

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