READING LIST FOR LIFE -- BY SUBJECT

(Current as of October 28, 2008)

Astronomy

• Longitude by Dava Sobel  (QB 225 .S63)

Biography

• American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur, 1880 – 1964 by William Manchester.  (E 745 .M3 M27)
• George Washington, A Biography by Douglas Southall Freeman.  (E 312 .F83)
• Harold Macmillan (DA 566.9 .M33 H6 1989)
• Hilbert, by Constance Reid (QA 29 .H5 R42 1986)
• John Paul Jones by Samuel Eliot Morison. (E 207 .J7 M6 1989)
• Lincoln by Gore Vidal.  (PS 3543 .I26 L5 1998) (FICTION)
• Master of Sea Power, A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King by Thomas Buell.  (V 63 .K56 B83 1995)
• The Nightingale’s Song by Robert Timberg. (Book: E 876 .T55 1995, Videorecording: E 876 .T553 1995)
• Narrative of the Life by Frederick Douglass. (E449 .D75 D68 1997)
• Nimitz by E. B. Potter.  (V 63 .N55 P67)
• R. E. Lee, A Biography by Douglas Southall Freeman.  (E 467.1 .L4 F83 1943)
• Shackleton: Books on Sir Ernest Shackleton and his third expedition to Antartica (1914-1916)
• Tecumseh by John Sugden.   (E 99 .S35 S86 1998)
• Witness by Whittaker Chambers.  (E 743.5 .C47) 
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Persig.  (CT 275 .P6483 D57 1990)

Economics

• The Ancient Economy, by M. I. Finley. (HC 31 .F5)
• Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman.  (HB 501 .F7) 
• The Citizen and the State, George Stigler.  (HD 82 .S834) 
• Free to Choose by Milton Friedman. (HB 501 .F72) 
• Economics and the Public Purpose by John Kenneth Galbraith. 
• The Economist as Preacher, George Stigler.  (HB 71 .S83 1982)
• The Lexus and the Olive Tree, by Thomas L. Friedman. (Book: HF 1359 .F74 1999; Audiovisual: HF 1359 .F74 1999b)
• The Machine That Changed the World, by James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos.  (HD 9710 .A2 W65 1990) 
• The Making of Modern Economics by Mark Skousen (HB75 .S545 2001)
• The Myth of the Robber Barons by Burton Folsom
• Talking From 9 To 5: How Women's And Men's Conversational Styles Affect Who Gets Heard, Who Gets Credit, and What Gets Done at Work by  Deborah Tannen.  (HF 5718 .T36 1994)
• Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery by Robert W. Fogel and Stanley L Engerman.  (E 449 .F65)
• The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith. (HB 161 .S646 1961)
(HC 106.6 .G344) 
• The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner. (HB 76 .H4 1999)

Education

• Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom. (LD 571 .B418 S383 1998)

Engineering and Technology

• Inviting Disaster: Lessons From the Edge of Technology: An Inside Look at Catastrophes and Why They Happen by James Chiles.  (T 174.5 .C57 2001)
• Miracle of Flight by Stephen Dalton (TL 570 .D35 1999)
• Skunk Works by Ben Rich and Leo Janos.  (TL 565 .R53 1994)
• To Engineer is Human:  The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski.  (Book: TA 174 .P474 1985,  Videotape: TA169.5 .W52 1997 Title:  When Engineering Fails.)
• The  Woman's  Guide to  Navigating the Ph.D. in Engineering and Science, by Barbara B. Lazarus, Lisa M. Ritter, and Susan A. Ambrose. (TA 157 .L385 2001)

Fishing

• Fly Fishing in Salt Water, Lefty Kreh.  (SH 456.2 .K73 1997)

Gender Related Issues

• The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan.  (HQ 1426 .F844 1997)
• Talking From 9 To 5: How Women's And Men's Conversational Styles Affect Who Gets Heard, Who Gets Credit, and What Gets Done at Work by  Deborah Tannen.  (HF 5718 .T36 1994)
• You Just Don't Understand by Deborah Tannen. (HQ 734 .T24 1990)

History

• American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur, 1880 – 1964 by William Manchester.  (E 745 .M3 M27)
• American Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund S. Morgan. (E 445 .V8 M67 1975)
• Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt.  (Book: E 184 .I6 1966, Audio:  E 184 .I6 M117 1997)
• Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson.  (E 173 .O94 vol 6)
• Black Like Me by John Howard Griffen. (E 185.61 .G84 1989)
• Brave Ship, Brave Men by Arnold S. Lott.  (D 774 .A2 L6 1994)
• A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan (DS 558 .S47 1988)
• Citizen Soldiers: the U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945.  Stephen Ambrose.  (Book: D 756 .A52 1997, Audiotape: D 756 .A52 1997b)
• Civil War, A Narrative (3 Volumes) by Shelby Foote.  (E 468 .F7)
• Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.  (DS 135 .N6 F73413 1995)
• Emergence of Man (Time/Life Series)  Some volumes in this series are:
• The Empire Builders.  (DS 66 .H5)
• The First Americans.  (E 77 .C57)
• The First Farmers.  (S 421 .L46)
• The First Horsemen.  (SF 280 .T7)
• The First Men.  (GN 768 .F57 1973)
• The Metalsmiths.  (TT 205 .K57)
• The Neanderthals.  (GN 285 .C66)
• The Northmen.  (DL 65 .F7)
• The Persians.  (DS 275 .H5)
• The Ends of the Earth by Robert Kaplan (DS 10 K345 .1977)
• The Face of Battle by John Keegan.  (D 25. K43 1976)
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis. (E 302.5 .E45 2000)
• George Washington, A Biography by Douglas Southall Freeman.  (E 312 .F83)
• The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill.  (Book: D 805 .G3 B713, Videotape:  D 805 .G3 B713 1996)
• Harold Macmillan (DA 566.9 .M33 H6 1989)
• In Love and War: the Story of a Family's Ordeal and Sacrifice During the Vietnam Years by Jim and Sybil Stockdale. (DS 559.4 .S75 1984)
• John Paul Jones by Samuel Eliot Morison. (E 207 .J7 M6 1989)
• Journey into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg. (DK 268.3 .G513)
• Log from The Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck. (F 1246 .S78 1951)
• The Making of the Middle Ages by Richard Southern.  (CB 351 .S6 1953a)
• Markings by Dag Hammarskjold.  (D 839.7 .H3 A313)
• Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman. (DS 135 .P63 S68 1997)
• The Mountain People by Colin Turnbull. (DT 429 .T87)
• Any book by Bruce Catton, such as Mr. Lincoln's Army (E 470.2. C37 1962)
• My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass.  (E 449 .D7838 1968)
• Narrative of the Life by Frederick Douglass. (E 449 .D75 D68 1997)
• The Nightingale’s Song by Robert Timberg. (Book: E 876 .T55 1995, Videorecording: E 876 .T553 1995)
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.  (E 169.1 Z53 1980)
• Peter the Great, His Life and World by Robert K. Massie. (DK 131 .M28 1980)
• The Puritan Dilemma by E. S. Morgan. (F 67 .W798)
• R. E. Lee, A Biography by Douglas Southall Freeman.  (E 467.1 .L4 F83 1943)
• Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence. (D 568.4 .L4 1935b)
• Strategies of Containment by John Lewis Gaddis.  (E 774 .G24 1982)
• Tecumseh by John Sugden.   (E 99 .S35 S86 1998)
• Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery by Robert W. Fogel and Stanley L Engerman.  (E 449 .F65)
• The Tragedy of American Diplomacy by William Appleman Williams. (E 744 .W56)
• The Tragedy of Great Power Politics by John Mearsheimer. (D 397 .M38 2001)
• The Two Ocean War by S. E. Morison.  (D 773 .M62)
• Witness by Whittaker Chambers.  (E 743.5 .C47) 
• Witness to Gettysburg by Richard Wheeler.  (E475.53.W55 1987)
• Wrapping Culture by Joyce Hendry. (DS 830 .H45 1993)

Humanities (General Works)

• Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles Mackay. (AZ 999 .M2 1932)
• Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams. (DC 20 .A2 1913)

Intellectual History

• Aristotle's Children by Richard Rubenstein (Book: B734 .R79 2003, Audio CD: B734 .R79 2003b)
• Greek Ways: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization by Bruce Thornton (DF78 .T53 2000)

Leadership

• Situational Leadership by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard (Out of print; updated by the videotape Situational Leadership for Supervisors (HD 57.7 .S57 1990)

Literature

• General - American - Arabic - British - Classical - French - German - Greek - Italian - Russian - Spanish

   

General
• The Chemist's English by Robert Schoenfeld.  (PE 1475 .S29 1985) 
• The Dermis Probe by Idries Shah. (PN 6071 .S85 S49 1980)
• The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White.  (PE 1408.S772 2000)
• The Peter Principle by Laurence Peter.  (PN 6231 .M2 P4 1969)
Literature TOP
American
• Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner. (PS 3511 .A86 A65 1951)
• The Agony and the Ecstasy: a novel of Michelangelo by Irving Stone (PS 3537 .T669 A64 1961)
• Airframe by Michael Crichton.  (PS 3553 .R48 A77 1996)
• All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (PS 3545 .A748 A7 1996)
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.  (PS 3535 .A547 A94 1992)
• Bang the Drum Slowly by Mark Harris (PS 3515.A757 B3 1984)
• Battle Cry by Leon Uris.  (PS 3541 .R46 B38 1953)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison. (PS 3563 .O8749 B4 1987, Videorecording: PS 3563 .O8749 B4 1998)
• The Black Flower, Howard Bahr.  (PS 3552 .A3613 B57 1997)
• Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. (PS 3563 .C337 B4 2001)
• Cannery Row by John Steinbeck.  (Book:  PS 3537 .T3234 C35 1945, Videotape: PS 3537 .T3234 C35 1993)
• Catch 22 by Joseph Heller.  (PS 3558 .E476 C3 1961)
• Cat's Craddle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (PS 3572 .O5 C38 1963b).
• Chesapeake by James Michener.  (PS 3525 .I19 C55)
• The Children's Story by James Clavell.  (PS 3553 .L365 C5 1989)
• Cider House Rules by John Irving (PS 3559.R8 C5 1999)
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier.  (PS 3556 .R3599 C6 1997) 
• The Covenant by James Michener.  (PS 3525 .I19 C68)
• The Cream of the Jest by James Branch Cabell.  (PS 3505 .A153 C7 2001)
• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller.  (Book: PS 3525 .I5 156 A6 1995, Videotape: PS 3525 .I5 156 D4 2001)
• Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey (PS 3551 .B2 Z463 1988)
• Dune by Frank Herbert.  (PS 3558 .E63 D8 1999)
• Einstein's Dreams by Alan P. Lightman. (PS 3562 .I45397 E38 1993)
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. (PS 3553 .A655 E5 1991)
• Essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson. (PS 1608 .A2 F47 1987)
• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (PS 3515 .E37 F67 1968, Videotape: PS 3515 .E37 F67 1995)
• Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield (PS 3566.R3944 G38 1998)
• The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers (PS 3566 .O92 G65 1992)
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck  (PS 3537 .T3234 G8 1986b)
• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (PS 3566 .Y55 G7)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.  (Book: PS 3511 .I9 G7 1991, Audiotape: PS 3511 .I9 G74 1997).  
• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.  (PS 3519 .A392 H3 1976)
• Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (PS 3568 .O3125 H6 1997)
• The Hunters by James Salter. (PS 3569 .A4622 H86 1997)
• The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain.  (PS 1313 .A1 1996)
• Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison. (PS 3555 .L625 I53)
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach.  (PZ 10.3 .B123 Jo)
• Just an Ordinary Day by Shirley Jackson.  (PS 3519 .A392 J8 1997)
• The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara.  (Book: PS 3569 .H2 K55 1975, Audiotape: PS 3569 .H2 K55 1994, Videotape: PS 3569 .H2 K55 1993)
• Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson.  (PS 3519 .A392 Z5 1953).
• Lincoln by Gore Vidal.  (PS 3543 .I26 L5 1998)
• Log from The Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck. (F 1246 .S78 1951)
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac. (PS 3521 .E735 O6 1991)
• Memoirs of A Geisha by Arthur S. Golden (PS 3557 .O35926 M45 1999)
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville. (PS 2384 .M6 1989, Audiotape: PS 2384 .M6 1987, Videotape: PS 2384 .M6 M62 1990)
• The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.  (PS 3564 .I9 M6)
• Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut. (PS 3572 .O5 M6 1999)
• 1919 by John Dos Passos (vol II of his USA trilogy)  (PS 3507 .O743 U5 1946)
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving.  (PS 3559 . R8 P7 1990).  
• The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran.  (Book: PS 3513 .I25 P7 1991, Audiotape: PS 3513 .I25 P6 1985)
• The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (PS 2116 .P6 1995b)
• Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson.  (PS 3519 .A392 R3 1957)
• A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner (PS 3511.A86 R6 1970)
• The Sand Pebbles: A Novel by Richard McKenna. (Book: PS 3563 .A3155 S26 1984, videotape: PS 3563 .A3155 S26 1986)
• Seven Days in May by Fletcher Knebel.  (PS 3561 .N4 S48 1962)
• The Shipping News by Annie Proulx.  (PS 3566 .R697 S4 1994)
• Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (PS 3554 .I86 S57 2000)
• Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey.  (PS 3561 .E667 S6 1988)
• Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein (PS3515.E288 S75 1997)
• Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein (PS 3515 .E288 S87, Audiotape: PS 3515 .E288 S87 1997
• Tides of War by Steven Pressfield (PS 3566.R3944.T54 2001)
• The Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr (PS 3552.A73184 T7 1994)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (PS 2954 .U5 1998)
• Virtues of War by Steven Pressfield (PS 3566.R3944 V57 2004)
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau. (PS 3048 . A1 1970)
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson. (PS 3519 .A392 W45 1962)
• Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls.  (PS 3568 .A85 W484 2001)
• White Jacket by Herman Melville.  (Book:  PS 2384 .W5 1988, Audiotape:  PS 2384 .W5 1983)
• The Winds of War by Herman Wouk (PS 3545 .O98 W55)
• Word of Honor by Nelson Demille.  (PS 3554 .E472 W6 1985)
Literature TOP
Arabic
• The Cairo Trilogy by Naghib Maufouz.  (PJ 7846 .A46 C35 2001)
• The Conference of the Birds by Farid ud-Din Attar (12th Century Persian Poet)  (PK 6451 .F4 M2813 1984)
Literature TOP
British
• The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
• Justine.  (PR 6007 .U76 J88 1957)
• Balthazar.  (PR 6007 .U76 B34 1958)
• Mountolive.  (PR 6007 .U76 M68 1959)
• Clea.  (PR 6007 .U76 C44 1960)
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.  (Book: PR 4611 .A7 1983, Videotape: PR 4611 .A73 A43 1994)
• Black Dogs by Ian McEwan.  (PR 6063 .C4 B5 1999)
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (PR 6015 .U9 B73 1950)
• Captain Horatio Hornblower by C. S. Forester (PR 6011 .O56 C36 1967) (or any other Hornblower novel)
• Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling. (PR 4854 .C36 E97)
• The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell (PR 6029 .R8 A6)
• The Collected Verse of A B Paterson by A B "Banjo” Paterson.  (PR 9619.3 .P28 A17 1982)
• The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. (PR 4621 .C6 1973)
• Complete Tales & Poems of Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne. (PR 6025 .I65 W45 2001)
• [Complete Works] Edgar Allan Poe (PS 2601 .H3 1965)
• The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat (PR 6025 .O36 C7 1988, Audiotape: PR 6025 .O36 C7 1977, Videotape: PR 6025 .O36 C7 1993)
• Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton.  (PR 6031.A757 C78 1948)
• The English Patient, by Michael Odantje.  (PR 9199.3 .O5 E54 1993)
• Flaubert's Parrot by  Julian Barnes.  (PR 6052 .A6657 F56 1990)
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (PR 5397 .F73 1912, Audiotape: PR 5397 .F7 1994)
• The General by C. S. Forester.  (PR 6011 .O56 G4 1982)
• Girl in a Swing by Richard Adams.  (PR 6051 .D345 G57 1981)
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Book: PR 9199.3 .A8 H3 1986, Audiotape: PR 9199.3 .A8 H3 1999)
• HMS Ulysses by Alastair MacLean.  (Paine M163hm 1955)
• The Hornblower stories by C. S. Forester.
• Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott.  (PR 5318 .A2 D86 1996)
• London Fields by Martin Amis.  (PR 6051 .M5 L6 1991)
• Lucky Jim, by Kingsley Amis.  (PR 6001 .M6L8 1976) 
• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.  (PR 6068 .U757 M5 1995).   
• The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (PR 4494 .M62 1999)
• The Once and Future King by T. H. White.  (PR 6045 .H2052 1958)
• The Magus by John Fowles (PR 6056 .O85 M30)
• Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian, (PR 6029 .B55 M28 1990, Audiotape: PR 6029 .B55 M28 1992) plus other works in the Jack Aubrey / Stephen Maturin Series by this author.
• The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy (PR 4750 .M39 1984)
• The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare (PR 2825 .A2 M87 1987, Audiotape: PR 2825.A2 G7 1995, Videotape: PR 2825 .A23 1987)
• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.  (PR 6068 .U757 M5 1995)
• Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C. S. Forester. (Book: PR 6011 .O56 M74 1950, Audiotape: PR 6011 .O56 M74 1983)
• The Once and Future King by T.H. White.  (PR 6045 .H2 O52 1958)
• Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (PR 4568 .C67 1986)
• Parade's End by Ford Maddox Ford.  (PR 6011 .O53 P37 1950)
• Perelandra by C. S. Lewis.  (PR 6023 .E926 P47)
• Politics and the English Language, in The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell.  (PR 6029 .R8 A6 1968)
• Possession by A.S. Byatt.  (PR 6052 .Y2 P6 1990)
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (PR 4034 .P7 1990, Audiotape: PR 4034 .P7 1980, Videotape: PR 4034 .P7 1998)
• The Raj Quartet by Paul Scott. 
• The Day of the Scorpion.  (PR 6069 .C596 D39 1992)
• A Division of the Spoils.  (PR 6069 .C596 D58 1979)
• The Jewel in the Crown.  (PR 6069 .C596 J49 1979)
• The Towers of Silence.  (PR 6069 .C596 T68 1979)
• Regeneration by Pat Barker.  (PR 6052 .A6488 R4 1961)
• The Remains of the Day by Kauzuo Ishiguro.  (PR 6059.S5 R46 1990)
• The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers. Book: PR 6005 .H52 R52 1995, Sound recording: PR6005.H52 R52 1989)
• Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth. (PR 6071 .N8 S3 1992)
• Selected Poems by W. H. Auden.  (PR 6001 .U4 A17 1959) 
• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (Book:  PR 4034 .S4 1953, Audio CD:  PR4034 .S4 2000)
• The Story of San Michele (Le Livre de San Michele) by Axel Munthe.  (PR 6025 .U69 S7) 
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.  (Book: PR 4571 .C48 1996, Audiotape: PR 4571 .A1 1986, Videotape:  PR 4571 .A1 1990)
• Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome.  (PR 4825 .J3 T5 1999)
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (PR 6045 .O72T6)
• A Treasury of Great Poems, edited by Louis Untermeyer.  (PR 1175 .T74 1993)
• Waiting for the Barbarians by Joseph Coetzee.  (PR 9369.3 .C58 W3 1982)
Literature TOP
Classical Greek and Roman
• Discourses, by Epictetus.
• The Iliad by Homer.  (PA 4025 .A2 M85 1999)
• The Odyssey by Homer.  (Book: PA 4167 .H66 1996, Audiotape: PA 4025 .A5 M36 1996)
• Tales from Ovid (translated by Ted Hughes) (PA 6522 .M2 H78 1997)
• Tragedies, by Aeschylus.
Literature TOP
French
• Candide by Voltaire (Book: PQ 2082 .C3 E5 1951, Audiotape: PQ 2082 .C3 E5 1986)
• The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) by Antoine de Saint Exupe'ry.  (PQ 2637 .A274 P43713 1943) 
• Maxims by La Rochefoucauld.  (PQ 1815 .A7 1940)
• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo  (PQ 2286 .A33 1982)
• Night Flight (Vol de Nuit) by Antoine de Saint Exupe'ry.  In Airman's Odyssey.(PQ 2637 .A274 A23)
• The Stranger by Albert Camus (PQ 2605 .A3734 E813)
• A Very Long Engagement by Sebastian Japrisot.  (PQ 2678 .O72 J3613 1994))
• Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (PQ 2603 .E378 E513 1954)
Literature TOP
German
• Faust by Johann Goethe.  (PT 2026 .F2 P25) 
• The Neverending Story by Michael Ende (PT 2665 .N27 N39 1997)
• The Reader by  Bernhard Schlink.  (PT 2680 .L54 V6713 1998)
Literature TOP
Greek
• Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis.  (PA 5610 .K39 Z6713 1952)
Literature TOP
Italian
• The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. (Book: PQ 4315 .D87 1996, Videotape: PQ 4315.17 .C57 1998)
• Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. (PQ 4865 .C3 P4613 1989)
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (PQ 4865 .C6 N613 1983)
• Pereira Declares by Antonio Tabucchi.  (PQ 4880 .A24 S6613 1995)
Literature TOP
Russian
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (PG 3366 .A6 1995)
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.  (Book:  PG 3326 .B7 G32, Audiotape:  PG 3326 .B7 F5 1997)
• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (PG 3476 .P27 D63 1990)
• Fathers and Sons, by Ivan Turgenev. (PG 3420 .O8 E5 1996)
• Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (PG 3476 .B78 M3 1967)
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (PG 3366 .V6 1942)
• We by Yevgeny Zamyatin.  (PG 3476 .Z34 W4)
Literature TOP
Spanish/South American
• Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes (Book: PQ 6329 .A2 1932, Videotape: PQ 6323 .A5 1993)
• Lazarillo of Tormes  (Anonymous)  (PC 4117 .A52 2000)
• Life is a Dream by Calderon de la Barca.  (PQ 6292 .V5 C55 1998)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.  (PQ 8180.17 .A73 C513 1970)
• The Poems of St. John of the Cross (PQ 6400 .J8 A26 1989)
• El Tunel by Ernesto Sabato.  (PQ 7797 .S214 T8 1965)
Literature TOP

Mathematics

• A First Course in Turbulence by J.L. Lumley and H. Tennekes.  (QA 913 .T44)
• Flatland by Edwin A. Abbot. (QA 699 .A13 1983)
• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas R. Hofstadter. (QA 9.8 .H63)
• Hilbert, by Constance Reid (QA 29 .H5 R42 1986)
• An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics by G.K. Batchelor.  (QA 911 .B33 1999)

Medicine and Public Health

• Plagues and Peoples, by William H. McNeill. (RA 649 .M3)
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman. (RA 418.5 .T73 F33 1997)

Military History

• The Barbary Wars by Frank Lambert (E335 .L36 2005)
• Old Soldiers Never Die: The Life of Douglas MacArthur by Geoffrey Perret (E745.M3 P42 1996)
• Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East by Michael Oren (DS63.2.U5 O54 2007)
• Six Days of War by Michael Oren (DS127 .O74 2002)
• The Soul of Battle by Victor Davis Hanson (D25.5 .H26 1999)

Music

• Kind of Blue by Miles Davis. (Music Collection at Circulation Desk)

Natural History/Biology/Physiology

• The Double Helix by James Watson.  (QH 450.2 .W37)
• How the Mind Works by Stephen Pinker.  (QP 360.5 P56 1997)
• On Evolution, by John Maynard Smith. (QH 366.2 .M3919)
• On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin. (QH 365 .O2 1979) 
• Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold.  (QH 81 .L56 1966)
• What Is Life? by Erwin Schrodinger (QH 331 .S3557)

Naval History and Science

• Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew (VB 231.U54 S65 1998, Audiotape: VB 231 .U54 S65 1999).
• Brave Ship, Brave Men by Arnold S. Lott.  (D 774 .A2 L6 1994)
• The Influence of Law on Seapower by D.P. O'Connell.  (V 25 .O23)
• John Paul Jones by Samuel Eliot Morison. (E 207 .J7 M6 1989)
• Life in Nelson’s Navy by Dudley Pope. (VA 454 .P66 1981)
• Master of Sea Power, A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King by Thomas Buell.  (V 63 .K56 B83 1995)
• Nimitz by E. B. Potter.  (V 63 .N55 P67)
• This People's Navy by Kenneth J. Hagan. (E 182 .H26 1991)
• The Two Ocean War by S. E. Morison.  (D 773 .M62)
• The United States Navy: 200 Years  by Edward Beach.  (VA 55 .B36 1986) 

Philosophy

• After Virtue by Alasdair MacInytre.  (BJ 1012 .M325 1984)
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (PS3535.A547 A94 2005)
• The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong. (BL 238 .A76 2000)
• Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche. (B 3313 .G42 E55 1990)
• The Body in Pain by Elaine Scarry (BJ 1409 .S35 1985)
• The Book of Jewish Values by Joseph Telushkin.  (BJ 1285 .T45 2000)
• The Capitalist Manifesto by Andrew Bernstein (HB501 .B47 2005)
• The Death of the Soul by William Barrett.  (BD 421 .B33 1986) 
• Existentialism and Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre. (B 819 .S32 1977)
• Explaining Postmodernism by Stephen Hicks
• A History of Western Philosophy, by Bertrand Russell. (B 72 .R8)
• Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand by Leonard Peikoff (B945.P234P44 1991)
• On the Genealogy of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche.  (B 3313 .Z73 D5413 1994)
• The Phenomenon of Man, by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. (BD 512.T413 1965)
• Science And Human Values by J. Bronowski (Q 171 .B8785 1965)
• The Shattered Lantern by Ronald Rolheiser. (On order)
• The Tao is Silent by Raymond Smullyan.  (B 127 .T3 S65 1992)
• Writings of C. S. Lewis
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig  (CT 275 .P648 A33)

Physics

• Clouds in a Glass of Beer: Simple Experiments in Atmospheric Physics by Craig Bohren (QC 861.2 .B64 1987).
• Disturbing the Universe by Freeman Dyson. (QC 16 .D95 A33 1979)
• The Evolution of Physics by Albert Einstein (QC 7 .E5)
• Foundations of Physics by Robert B. Lindsay and Henry Margenau. (QC 6 .L42)
• Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein (QC 71 .E54 1954)
• Magnetic Induction in Iron and Other Metals by Sir James Alfred Ewing (1892) (On Order)
• QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard Feynman. (QC 793.5 .P422 F48 1985)
• "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman": Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman (QC 16.F49 A37, Audiotape: QC 16 .F49 A37 1998).
• The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism by Fritof Capra. (QC 6 .C277b)
• University Physics by Frank Sears and Mark Zemansky.  (QC 21.2 .S36 1976)

Political Science

• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville. (JK216 .T713 2000)
• Miracle at Philadelphia; the story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September, 1787 by Catherine Drinker Bowen.  (JK 146 .B75)  
• On Liberty by John Stuart Mill. (JC 585 .M6 1985)
• Politics, by Aristotle (JC 71 .A41 L67 1985)
• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli.  (JC 143 .M3813 1997)
• The Republic by Plato.  (JC 71 .P35 1985)
• The Tragedy of Great Power Politics by John Mearsheimer. (D 397 .M38 2001)

Psychology

• Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud. (BF 173 .F682 1962)
• Don't Sweat the Small Stuff--And It's All Small Stuff by Richard Carlson.  (BF 637 .B4 C35 1997)
• Escaping the Hostility Trap by Milton Layden. (BF 575 .H6 L39 1977)
• The Road Less Traveled by Scott Peck.  (BF 637 .S4 P43)
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey. (Book: BF 637.S8 C68 1989, Audiotape: BF 637 .S8 C68 1989b)
• Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn.  (BF 637 .M4 K23 1994)

Religion

• The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong. (BL 238 .A76 2000)
• The Bible
• The Book of Romans, New Testament
• Can Man Live Without God? by Ravi Zacharias.  (BR 128 .A8 Z33 1994b)
• The City of God by St. Augustine.  (BR 65.A64 E5 1998)
• Confessions by St. Augustine.  (BR 65 .A6 E5 1991)
• A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All Life (Book 1) by John Piper.  (BV 4501.2 .P55436 1997 v.1)
• How Should We Then Live by Francis Schaeffer.  (BR 115 .C5 S33 1976)
• Letters and Papers from Prison by Deitrich Bonhoeffer.  (BX 4827 .B57 A34 1972)
• Life of Teresa of Jesus translated by David Lewis.  (BX 4700 .T4 A2 1991)
• The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict by Josh McDowell.  (BS 480 .M384 1999)
• Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton. (BR 121 .C5 1959) 
• The Path to Tranquility by the Dalai Lama.  (BQ 5580 .B77 1999)
• Psalms of David (BS 1424 .P73 1996)
• The Shattered Lantern by Ronald Rolheiser. (On order)
• The Sleep Walkers by Arthur Koestler (BL 245.K63 1959a)

Science (General)

• The End of Certainty by Ilya Prigogine (Q 175 .P7513 1997)
• Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue With Nature by Ilya Prigogine. (Q 175 .P8823 1984)
• Science And Human Values by J. Bronowski (Q 171 .B8785 1965)
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn.  (Q 175 .K95 1970)

Sociology

• Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond. (Book: HM 206 .D48 1997, CD: HM 206 .D48 2001) 
• The Need for Roots by Simone Weil.  (HM 216 .W352 1971) 
• News from Nowhere by William Morris. (HX 811 .1890 .M62)

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