Reading List

These are some authors and books which Becca and Laurie and I have loved and learned from. We hope you’ll love them and learn from them, too. If you have books you’d like to recommend we read, we’d love to hear from you! (The links will take you to official and unofficial websites for the various writers....)

 

Adult Books

• Bach, Richard: Illusions, The Bridge Across Forever (and others)

• Bensen, E.F.: the Mapp and Lucia novels

• Castaneda, Carlos: The Teachings of Don Juan (and the rest of the Don Juan series)

• d’Antin van Rooten, Luis: Mots D’Heures: Gousses, Rames

• de Bono, Edward: Lateral Thinking (and others)

• Dillard, Annie: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (a Laurie pick)

• Doty, Mark: poetry (a Laurie pick)

• Fforde, Jasper: The Eyre Affair (and others featuring Thursday Next, but not the Nursery Crimes series, which suck)

• Gurdjieff, Georges: Meetings with Remarkable Men

• Hall, Steven: The Raw Shark Texts

• Haddon, Mark: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

• Hoff, Benjamin: The Tao of Pooh

• Hubbell, Sue: nature writing (a Laurie pick)

• James, M.R.: ghost stories (a Laurie pick)

• Jensen, Liz: The Ninth Life of Louis Drax

• Lamott, Anne: essays (a Laurie pick)

• Least Heat Moon, William: Blue Highways, Prairy Earth (and others)

• Leyner, Mark: Et Tu, Babe

• Lopez, Barry: nature writing (a Laurie pick)

• Maupin, Armistead: the Tales of the City series

• Noon, Jeff: Vurt

• Nabokov, Vladimir: Pale Fire

• Oliver, Mary: poetry (a Laurie pick)

• Onions, Oliver: ghost stories (a Laurie pick)

• Pessl, Marisha: Special Topics in Calamity Physics

• Pirsig, Robert: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

• Reps, Paul: Zen Flesh, Zen Bones

• Rhinehart, Luke: The Book of est and The Dice Man

• Roberts, Jane: Seth Speaks, The Education of Oversoul Seven (and other Seth and Oversoul Seven books)

• Shea, Robert and Wilson, Robert Anton: The Illuminatus Trilogy (and others)

• Stoppard, Tom: Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and The Real Inspector Hound

• Theroux, Paul: Riding the Iron Horse, The Old Patagonia Express (and others)

• Updike, John: Rabbit Run (and others)

• Vonnegut, Kurt: Player Piano, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater (and others)

• Waugh, Evelyn: anything and everything!

• Wharton, William: Birdy, Scumbler (and others)

• Wodehouse, P.G.: anything and everything!

 

Mysteries

• Block, Lawrence: the Bernie Rhodenbarr and Matt Scudder series

• Christie, Agatha: Tommy & Tuppence, Harley Quinn, Hercules Poirot....

• Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur: the Sherlock Holmes books and stories

• Estleman, Loren: the Amos Walker series

• James, P.D.: the Inspector Dalgleish series (a Laurie pick)

• McBain, Ed: the 87th Precinct police procedurals

• Parker, Robert B.: the Spenser and Jesse Stone series

• Queen, Ellery: the Ellery Queen and Drury Lane series

• Roberts, Les: the Milan Jacovich series

• Sayers, Dorothy L.: the Peter Wimsey series (a Laurie pick)

• Stout, Rex: the Nero Wolfe books and How Like a God

 

Children’s Books

• Dahl, Roald: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (and others)

• Juster, Norton: The Phantom Tollbooth

• Lewis, C.S.: The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy

• Lowry, Lois: The Giver

• L’Engle, Madeleine: A Swiftly Tilting Planet (and others)

• Pinkwater, Daniel: Borgel, Alan Mendelssohn Boy From Mars (and others)

• Raskin, Ellen: The Westing Game (and others)

• Sachar, Louis: Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Holes (and others)

 

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