My Book List

May 9th, 2009

This is an updated list of books I have read while in Peace Corps Jamaica. Ratings reflect my enjoyment of the book at the time I read it..

Sony Reader

Phil Lesh - Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead Rating: ★★★★★
Daniel Quinn - Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit Rating: ★★★★★
Erik Larson - Thunderstruck Rating: ★★★☆☆
Robert M. Pirsing - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values Rating: ★★★★☆
Whitley Strieber - 2012: The War for Souls (A strange and terrible find from the Peace Corps library)
John Twelve Hawks - The Traveler (Another strange find from the library)
Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything Rating: ★★★★☆
Bill Bryson - Best Travel Writing 2007 Rating: ★★★★★
Bill Bryson - Notes From a Big Country Rating: ★★★★★
Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Rating: ★★☆☆☆
Karl Marx - Marx Later Political Writings
John Steinbeck - Cannery Row Rating: ★★★★★
Jack London - Call of the Wild Rating: ★★★★★
Barack Obama - The Audacity of Hope Rating: ★★★★☆
David Oliver Relin - Three Cups of Tea Rating: ★★½☆☆
William Gibson - Neuromancer Rating: ★★★★★
John Steinbeck – Of Mice and Men Rating: ★★★★★
Raymond Chandler – The Big Sleep Rating: ★★★★★
Walpola Rahula – What the Buddha Taught Rating: ★★★★½
Richard Hughes – A High Wind in Jamaica
John D. MacDonald - The Deep Blue Good-By
Douglas Adams - Last Chance to See Rating: ★★★★☆
Cormac McCarthy - The Road Rating: ★★★★★
Ron Paul - Revolution: A Manifesto Rating: ★★★★★
Art Spiegelman - Maus I: A Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Art Spiegelman - Maus II: A Survivors Tale: And Here My Troubles Begin
Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception Rating: ★★★☆☆
Tony Hillerman - The Dark Wind
Robert A. Heinlein - The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress Rating: ★★★★★
Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead Rating: ★★★★★
John Steinbeck - The Pastures of Heaven Rating: ★★★★★
Margret Atwood - Oryx and Crake Rating: ★★½☆☆
Franklin Foer - How Soccer Explains The World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization Rating: ★★★☆☆
Dan White - The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind-and Almost Found Myself-on the Pacific Crest Trail Rating: ½☆☆☆☆ (So far the only book I semi-regret reading)
Hunter S. Thompson - The Curse of Lono Rating: ★★★★½
Jean M. Auel - The Clan of the Cave Bear Rating: ★★★★½
John Steinbeck - East of Eden Rating: ★★★★★
Deepak Chopra - Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment Rating: ★★★½☆
Heinrich Harrer - Seven Years In Tibet Rating: ★★★★★
Raymond Carver - Where I’m Calling From Rating: ★★★★★
Gary Snyder - Practice of the Wild Rating: ★★½☆☆
Jon Krakauer - Into the Wild Rating: ★★★★★
Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace Rating: ★★★★★★★★★★
Henry David Thoreau - Walden
Pat Frank - Alas, Babylon
John Muir - The Story of my Boyhood and Youth
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 100 Years of SolitudeRating: ★★★★★
Terence McKenna - True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author’s Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil’s Paradise
Carlos Castaneda - The Teachings of don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
Jack Kerouac - On The Road
Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon
John Steinbeck - Once There Was a War Rating: ★★★★★
Jose Saramago - Blindness
Steven Hawking - A Brief History of Time
Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Junot Diaz - The Brief and Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao Rating: ★★★★★
Tom Wolfe - The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test
Rohinton Mistry - A Fine Balance
John Steinbeck - Travels with Charley
Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
Herman Hesse - Journey to the East

Currently Reading:
Apsley Cherry-Garrard - The Worst Journey in the World

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