Books Read
High School:
Black Beauty
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
Kipling: The Jungle Book
Louisa May Alcott
Lewis Carroll
Mark Twain
Dickens
Thackery
Bible - Old Testament - partial
Veblen: Leisure Class
Of Missing Persons - Jack Finney
Frieden: Feminine Mystique
Catch 22
Eugenie Grandet ?
T.S. Eliot: Four Quartets - read
Conrad: Heart of Darkness - read
Faulkner
Saroyan
Sandburg
Steinbeck: Grapes of Wrath
The Wandering Jew
Hugo: Hunchback of Notre Dame
Voltaire: Candide
H.S. Junior and after:
01. Lord of the Flies - Golding
02. The Reivers - Faulkner
03. Raisin in the Sun - Hansberry
04. Mila 18 - Uris
05. Cry the Beloved Country - Paton
06. Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck
07. The Little Prince - St. Exupery
08. African Genesis - Audrey - jr/sr summer in Israel
09. No Exit - Sartre - h.s. senior
10. The Doll's House - Ibsen
11. The People of the Dead Sea Scrolls
12. Dr. Zhivago - Pasternak
13. Oedipus Rex
14. The Little World of Don Camillo - Guareschi
15. Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
16. The Good Earth - Buck
17. Animal Farm - Orwell
18. King Lear - Shakespeare
19. The American Dream - Albee
20. The Zoo Story - Albee
21. The Glass Menagerie - Williams
22. Macbeth - Shakespeare
23. Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow (1959)
24. Herzog - Saul Bellow (1961)
25. Henry IV Part I - Shakespeare
26. Heart of Darkness - Conrad
27. Darkness at Noon - Koestler
28. Dangling Man - Saul Bellow (1944)
29. The Victim - Saul Bellow (1947)
30. Seize the Day - Saul Bellow (1956)
31. Flowers for Algernon
32. Pygmalion
Fresh/Soph summer 67: 1-24 (24 books) - at home, David
Salinger: / Nine Stories (1953) #1
Salinger: Raise High (1962) #2
McLuhan: Understanding Media #3
Hesse: 1922 - Siddhartha #4
Lambert: Inside Daisy Clover #5
#6
Bellow: Augie March (1953) #7
Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (1925) #8
McCarthy: The Group (1954) #9
Sinclair Lewis: Babbit #10
Huxley: Brave New World #11
Wilde: Dorian Gray #12
Baldwin: Go Tell It On The Mountain (1953) #13
Tolkien: The Hobbit #14
Joyce: Portrait of the Artist #15
Hesse: 1927 - Der Steppenwolf #16
Samuel Butler: The Way of all Flesh #17
Baldwin: Giovanni's Room (1956) #18
Kenneth Patchen: Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer #18
Robert Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land #19
Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest #20
Nietzsche: Thus Spake Zarathustra #21
Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls #22
Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle #23
Soph yr 1967-68: 24-44 (20 books) - first hippie year
The Ginger Man #24
Hesse: 1910 - Gertrude #25
Frankl: Man's Search for Meaning #26
John Lennon: In His Own Write #27
John Lennon: A Spaniard in the Works #28
Joyce: Ulysses #29
Rod McKuen: Stanyon Street & Other Sorrows #30
Kahlil Gibran: The Prophet #31
Alan Watts: The Book #32
Shaw: St. Joan #33
Salinger: Catcher in the Rye (1951) #34
Ibsen: An Enemy of the People #35
Farina: Been Down So Long . . . #36
Eric Berne: Games People Pay #37
Andre Gide: The Pastoral Symphony #38
#39
Kerouac: On the Road (1957, 1960) #40
Artaud: The Theatre & Its Double #41
Norman O. Brown: Love's Body #42
Bhagavid Gita #43
Alfred Jarry: Ubu Roi #44
Soph/Jr summer 68: 45-61 (17 books) - living in the little house
McLuhan: The
Medium is the Message #45
Huxley: Island #46
Baldwin: The Fire Next Time (1963) #47
Thoreau: Walden #47 / Civil Disobedience #48
William Golding: The Spire #49
Dylan Thomas: Under Milk Wood #50
Daniel Kramer: Bob Dylan #51
John Barth: The Floating Opera #52
Gary Snyder: The Back Country (1968) #53
Hesse: 1932 - Journey to the East - Die Morgenlandfahst #54
Huxley: Doors of Perception
/ & / Heaven & Hell #55
Claude Brown: Manchild in the Promised Land #56
J.P. Donleavy: The Saddest Summer of Samuel S #57
Kafka: The Trial #58
Patchen: Hallelujah Anyway #59
Patchen: Because It Is #60
Neil: Summerhill #61
Junior yr 1968-69: 62-90 (29 books) - living in group house, then house
with 3 women, Gordon
Joan Baez: My Life is a Crystal Teardrop #62
Kafka: Stories #63
Fromm: Escape from Freedom #64
Hesse: Beneath the Wheel #65
Erich Fromm: The Art of Loving #65
Hesse: 1906 - Unterm Rael / Beneath the Wheel #65
#66
Jan Yoors: The Gypsies #67
Dostoevsky: Crime & Punishment (1866) #68
Camus: The Fall 1957 #69
Dostoevsky: Notes from the Underground (1864?) #70
Kafka: The Castle #71
Tom Wolfe: Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby #72
Hesse: 1943 - Magister Ludi / The Bead Game - Goethe - Das Glasperlenspiel #73
Alan Watts: The Way of Zen #74
Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus 1955
#75
Camus: The Plague 1948 #76
Tao teh Ching #77
Goethe: Faust #78
#79
Sartre: Nausea #80
Sartre: Age of Reason #81
Henry Miller: The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder (1948) #82
Camus: / The Rebel 1954 #83
Rod McKuen: Listen to the Warm #84
Rod McKuen:
Lonesome Cities #85
Goodman: Growing Up Absurd #86
Kerouac: 1958 The Subterraneans #87
Hans Richter: Dada: Art and Anti-Art #88
#89
#90
Jr/Sr summer 69: 91-116? (16? books)
Alan Watts: Beat Zen, Square Zen & Zen -> This is It #91
Dostoevsky: Brothers Karamazov (1881) #92
Tom Wolfe: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test #93
Kerouac: 1958 The Dharma Bums #94
Salinger: Hapworth 16, 1924 #95
Kerouac: 1962 Big Sur #96
Guthrie: Bound for Glory #97
Kerouac: 1965 Desolation Angels #98
Farina: Long Time Coming . . . #99
Nietzsche: Genealogy of Morals #99
Ginsberg: T.V. Baby Poems #100
Kerouac: 1950 The Town & the City #101
Tom Wolfe: The Pump House
Gang #102
Kerouac: 1959 Mexico City Blues - poems #103
Norton Juster: The Phantom Tollbooth #104
Kerouac: 1959 Doctor Sax - Faust part three #105
Free: Revolution for the Hell of It #106
Kramer: Allen Ginsberg in America #107
Henry Miller: Tropic of Cancer
(1934) #108
Goethe: Sorrows of Young Werther #109
Lipton: Holy Barbarians #110
Brautigan: Trout Fishing in America #111
Nelson Algren: Man With the Golden Arm #112
Bible: New Testament #113
Alan Watts: Psychotherapy East & West #114
Ferlinghetti: The Secret Meaning of Things #115
Senior yr 1969-70: 116?-126? (10? books)
Castaneda: The Teachings of Don Juan #116
#117
#118
Hesse: 1930 - Narziss und Goldmund - Death & the Lover #119
Timothy Leary: High Priest #119
#120
Norman Mailer: The Naked & the Dead #121
Cleaver: Soul on Ice #122
Henry Miller: Tropic of Capricorn (1939) #123
Free: Woodstock Nation #124
Gary Snyder:Earth HouseHold #125
Bellow: Mr. Sammler's Planet #126
Shirer: Third Reich #126 (partial)
summer 70, Extra Senior semester - graduation (Dec 1970):127 - 132
Kenneth Grahame: The Wind in the Willows #127
R. Buckminster Fuller: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth #128
Beauvoir: The Second Sex #129
R. Buckminster Fuller: Towards a Benign Environment #130
Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary #131
Kerouac: 1959 Maggie Cassidy #132
summer 71:133 - 144 - living with Warren
Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man #133
Cage: A Year from Monday #134
Arthur Clarke: Childhood's End #135
John Fowles: The French Lieutenant's Woman #136
Tom Wolfe: Radical Chic #137
Lawrence Durrell: Justine #138
Frank Herbert: Dune #139
John Fowles: The Magus #140
Hesse: Klingsor's Last
Summer #141
Updike: Rabbit, Run #142
Tolstoy: War and Peace #143
Dostoevsky: The Idiot (1869) #144
to Dec. 1972: 145 -157
Dostoevsky: The Possessed (1873) #145
Henry Miller: The Cosmological Eye (1939)
#146
Germaine Greer: Female Eunuch #147
Henry Miller: Colossus of Maroussi (1941) #148
Henry Miller: Air-Conditioned Nightmare
(1945) #149
Henry Miller: Remember to Remember (1947) #149
E. M. Forster: Lonesome Traveler #150
Alexandro Jodorowsky: El Topo #151
Borges: Dream Tigers #152
Jung: The Secret of the Golden Flower / Man and his Symbols #153
Joseph Campbell: The Hero with a Thousand Faces #154
#155
Bullfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable #156
Saul Raskin: Kabbalah #157
summer 73:158 - 181
Bart McDowell: Gypsies #158
Baba Ram Dass: Be Here Now #159
Kenneth Patchen: The Journal of Albion Moonlight #160
Gertrude Stein: Brewsie & Willie #161
Henry Miller: Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (1957) #162
Castaneda: A Separate Reality #163
Richard Bach: Jonathan Livingston Seagull #164
Hesse: Knulp #165
Goethe: Reynard #166
Goethe:
Wilhelm Meister #167
Goethe:
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
#168
Alix Kates Shulman: Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen #169
---- Castaneda: The
Sorcerer's Apprentice - #about late 160's
Anais Nin: Diary 1931-34 #170
Arguelles: Mandala #171
Hesse: 1904 - Peter Camenzind - failed artist finds consolation in nature #172
Serrano: C.G. Jung & Hermann Hesse #173
Henry Miller: Quiet Days in Clichy
(1956) #174
Villasenor: Tapestries in Sand #175
Bahti: Southwestern Indian Ceremonials #176
Anais Nin: House of Incest #177
Jung: Aion
#178
Neihardt: Black Elk Speaks #179
Jung: Alchemical Studies #180
Casserta: Janis Joplin #181
Franny & Zooey (1961) #196
Fall 1973 on:
Elie Faure: The Spirit of the Forms #182
Ken Kesey: Kesey's Garage Sale #183
Kobo Abe: The Woman in the Dunes #184
185 - Hunter Thompson: Fear and Loathing
Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse #186
187 - Leary: Confessions of a Hope Fiend
188 - Rank: Art and Artist
189 - Anne Charters: Kerouac
190 - D. H. Lawrence: Virgin & the Gypsy
191 - Kerouac: Maggie Cassidy
192 - Kerouac: The Subterraneans
193 - Joan Didion: Play It As It Lays
194 - Whole Earth Catalog
195 - Castaneda: Tales of Power
196
- Bob Dylan's Writings & Drawings
197 - Vonnegut: God Bless You Mr. Rosewater
198 - Vonnegut:
Player Piano
199 - Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
200 - Church: Mary Shelley
201 - Gerson: Daughter of Earth and Water
Summer 1975
202 - St. John of the Cross: Dark Night of the Soul
203 - Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions
204 - Vonnegut: Sirens of TItan
205 - The Geocentric Experience
206 - Willoya?: Warriors of the Rainbow
207 - Borges: A Personal Anthology
208 - Pauwels: The Morning of the Magicians
Willets:
209 - Steve Gaskin: Monday Night Class
210 - Celtic Mythology
Guatemala:
211 - Robert Graves: The White Goddess
211 - Aleister Crowley: The Book of Thoth
212 - Thomas Pyncheon: V
213 - Jan Yoors: The Gypsies of Spain
214 - Vonnegut: Mother Night
215 - Sir James Fraser: Adonis, Attis, Osiris
(Ortega y Gasset: The Dehumanization of Art)
216 - Robert Graves: King Jesus
(Gray: Near Eastern Mythology)
Fall 1975
217 - Campbell: Mythic Image
Dec 1975
218 - Pirsig: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Repair
219 - Griaule: Conversations with Ogotemmeli
220 - Rolling Stone Songbook
221 - Pearce: Crack in the Cosmic Egg
222 - Campbell: Myths to Live By
Summer 1976
(reread Castaneda)
223 - Campbell: Flight of the Wild Gander
224 - Zimmer: King and Corpse
(Eliade: Shamanism)
225 - Zimmer: Myths and Symbols in Indian Art & Civilization
226 - Storm: Seven Arrows
227
- Lama Govinda: The Way of the White Clouds
228 - Campbell: Masks of God: Primitive Mythology
229 -
Campbell: Masks of God: Oriental Mythology
230 - Stone: When God Was A Woman
231 - Harding: Woman's Mysteries
Summer 1977
232 - Neuman: The Great Mother
233 - Bridge: Gods of Egyptians Vol. I
234 - Apuleius: The Golden Ass (trans. Graves)
235 - Briffault: The Mothers
236 - Michele: The View over Atlantis
Fall 1977
237 - Brennan: The Complete Book of Midwifery
238 - ??: The Natural Birth Control Book
Fraser: The Golden Bough
239 - Kreig: Green Medicine
240 - Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
241 - Maxine Hong Kingston: Memories of a Childhood Among Ghosts
242 - Stanislaw Lem: Star Diaries
Pyncheon: V
Lem: The Cyberiad
Reed: Woman's Evolution
???: Passages
Europe, Summer 1978:
Tom Robbins: Another Roadside Attraction
Marquez: No One Writes to the Colonel
Pyncheon: Gravity's Rainbow
Marquez: The Autumn of the Patriarch
Dylan Illustrated History
Vonnegut: Slapstick
McEvedy: Penguin Atlas of Ancient History
Hapgood: Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings
Barry Fell: America B.C.
Mc Evedy: Medieval History
Mead: Blackberry Winter
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Tolstoy: / Anna Karenina - read
Bradbury: Dandelion Wine / Fahrenheit 451
Joyce: / Dubliners (partial)
D. H. Lawrence: Sons & Lovers (partial)
Samuel Butler: Erewhon
Thomas Mann: Disorder & Early Sorrow - read
Henry Miller: Sexus (1949) / Nexus (1953) /
Plexus (1960)
Evans-Wentz: The Book of the Dead (partial)
Alan Watts:
The Joyous Cosmology (partial)
Ouspensky: In Search of the Miraculous (partial)
Ginsberg: Howl (1956)
e.e. cummings
Ionesco: Rhinoceros
Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot / Krapp's Last Tape
Robbe-Grillet: The Voyeur
Hesse: 1919 - Demian
Matthew Arnold: To Marguerite / Dover Beach - both read
Nostradamus x
Thoreau
Riesman: The Lonely Crowd
Carl Rogers: On Becoming a Person
Mazlow: Towards a Psychology of Being
Upton Sinclair: The Jungle
Pauline Reage: Story of 'O'