Book List
I suppose, in a sense, I am a bit of a literary snob. (As you’ll read later on, my doctor gave me that label a while ago, on 3/22/06.) My favorite books tend to be classics with a bit of the more “pop-culture” type thrown in, and my current and future readings tend to be academia of some sort, books I’d use to research the given subject.
Anyway, just a list for those curious as to what I read, and what I’m presently reading.
Currently Reading:
Rookie Teaching for Dummies
W. Michael Kelley
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Conversational Sign Language
Carole Lazorisak & Dawn Donohue
American Sign Language Dictionary
Martin L. Sternberg
The Wicca Spellbook
Genrina Dunwich
The Count of Monte Cristo (As always, it is the one 1000+ page book I can read over and over again, and never tire of.)
Alexandre Dumas
Future Reading:
The Unabridged, Complete Kama Sutra
Alain Daniélou
Feminist Ethics
Claudia Card
Teaching Children: A Curriculum Guide to What Children Need to Know at Each Level Through Sixth Grade
Diane D. Lopez
The Complete Daily Curriculum for Early Childhood : Over 1200 Easy Activities to Support Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles
Pam Schiller
World Religions
John Bowker
Grendel (on recommendation from my doctor, who calls me “a bit of a literary snob”)
John Gardner
Favorite Reading:
The Count of Monte Cristo (Unabridged; the abridged does it no justice.)
Alexandre Dumas
The Princess Bride
William Goldman
Charlotte’s Web
E.B. White
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Beowulf
Unknown
Greek Mythology
Edith Hamilton
Oedipus Rex & Antigone
Sophocles
The Virgin Suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides
The Harry Potter Series
J. K. Rowling
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Little Friend
Donna Tartt
Still Life With Woodpecker & Jitterbug Perfume
Tom Robbins
Helter Skelter
Vincent Bugliosi
The Inferno
Dante
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Romeo & Juliet & Macbeth & Hamlet & A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
Night
Elie Wiesel
Les Miserables
Victor Hugo
Watership Down
Richard Adams
The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
A Bend in the Road & A Walk to Remember & Message in a Bottle
Nicholas Sparks
Shake Hands with the Devil
Roméo Dallaire
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Brothers Grimm
More, Now, Again & Prozac Nation
Elizabeth Wurtzel
