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The  Millennium  Reading  List ¹

Abbey's Road

Edward Abbey

Beyond the Wall

Black Sun

Brave Cowboy

Confessions of a Barbarian

Desert Solitaire*

Down the River

Fire on the Mountain

Fool's Progress***

Hayduke Lives!

Journey Home

Monkey Wrench Gang

One Life at A Time Please

Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Natural History of the Senses

Diane Ackerman

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

Carl Sagan
and Ann Druyan

Gods Themselves

Issac Asimov

I Robot

Martian Way and Other Stories

Music of Chance

Paul Auster

Johnathan Livingston Seagull

Richard Bach

Droll Stories

Honore' de Balzac

Desierto

Charles Bowden

Budding Prospects

T.Correghessan Boyle

Without a Hero and Other Stories

Dandelion Wine

Ray Bradbury

Illustrated Man*

Martian Chronicles

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Dee Brown

How to Talk Dirty and Influence Strangers

Lenny Bruce

South By No North

Charles Bukowski

The Fall

Albert Camus

The Plague

The Stranger

A Separate Reality

Carlos Castaneda

Journey to Ixtlan

Tales of Power

Teachings of Don Juan

Family of Pascual Duarte

Camilo Jose' Cela

Necessary Illusions

Noam Chomsky

Profit Over People

What Uncle Sam Really Wants

Year 501*

Arthur C Clarke

Childhood's End

Rendezvous with Rama

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

Guns Germs and Steel*

Jared Diamond

For the Time Being

Annie Dillard

Pilgram at Tinker Creek*

Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment

Story of Philosophy

Will Durant

Relativity-A Simple Explanation

Albert Einstein

To Your Scattered Bodies Go

Philip Jose Farmer

Venus on the Half Shell

Philip Jose Farmer
(as Kilgore Trout)

Light in August

William Faulkner

Sound and the Fury*

Great Gatsby

F.Scott Fitzgerald

Autobiography and Other Writings

Benjamin Franklin

Book of the Eskimos

Peter Freuchen

The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx and
Friedrich Engels

Bible

Almighty God

Stranger in a Strange Land

Robert Heinlein

Time Enough for Love

Catch-22

Joseph Heller

Islands in the Stream*

Ernest Hemingway

Dune

Frank Herbert

Siddhartha*

Hermann Hesse

Godel Escher Bach (to chapter 4)

Richard Hofstader

End of Science

John Horgan

How to Lie with Statistics

Darrell Huff

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

Doors of Perception

Hotel New Hampshire

John Irving

Prayer for Owen Meany*

World According to Garp

Ulysses

James Joyce

On the Road

Jack Keroauc

Flowers for Algernon*

Daniel Keyes

Stand

Stephen King

Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer

Into Thin Air

Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera

Haunted Mesa

Louis L'amour

Return From the Stars

Stanislaw Lem

Golden Notebook

Doris Lessing

Out of the Silent Planet

C.S. Lewis

Babbitt

Sinclair Lewis

Einstein's Dreams

Alan Lightmen

Lies My Teacher Told Me

James Loewen

Call of the Wild

Jack London

Martin Eden*

People of the Abyss

The Iron Heel

One Hundred Years of Solitude*

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Lord of the Flies

William Golding

A Reasonable Life

Ferenc Mate

Razor's Edge

Somerset Maugham

All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy

Child of God

End of Nature*

Bill McKibben

Canticle for Liebowitz

Walter Miller

Downsize This!

Michael Moore

Black Elk Speaks

John Neihart

George Orwell

Animal Farm

Grizzly Years

Doug Peacock

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Robert Pirsig

Ship of Fools

Katherine Anne Porter

Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand

Fountainhead*

End of Work

Jeremy Rifkin

Silicon Snakeoil

The Social Contract or 
Principles of Political Right

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays

Bertrand Russell (1)

Why I am Not a Christian*

Bertrand Russell (2)

Broca's Brain*

Carl Sagan

Dragons of Eden

Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

Dying Inside

Robert Silverberg

Man in the Maze

Masks of Time*

To Live Again

Up the Line

Life of the Cosmos*

Lee Smolin

Angle of Repose

Wallace Stegner

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

More Than Human

Theodore Sturgeon

When Elephants Weep

Jeffrey Masson
and Susan McCarthy

Gulliver's Travels

Jonathon Swift

Civil Disobedience*

Henry David Thoreau

Walden

Future Shock

Alvin Toffler

Fellowship of the Ring*

J.R.R. Tolkien

Hobbit

Lord of the Rings

Return of the King

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

Confederacy of Dunces*

John Kennedy Toole

The Caretta

B. Traven

The White Rose*

Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

Theory of the Leisure Class

Thorstein Veblen

Breakfast of Champions

Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughter House-Five

The Book 
(On the Taboo Against 
Knowing Who You Are)

Alan Watts

Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman

Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Tom Wolfe

Waves*

Virginia Woolf

Native Son

Richard Wright

Declarations of Independence*

Howard Zinn

People's History of the United States

All the above titles were read 
and personally recommended by:

John Whitley

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John >>

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