My Book List
May 9th, 2009This 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..

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: 




William Gibson - Neuromancer Rating: 




John Steinbeck – Of Mice and Men Rating: 




Raymond Chandler – The Big Sleep Rating: 




Walpola Rahula – What the Buddha Taught Rating: 




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: 




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: 



(So far the only book I semi-regret reading)
Hunter S. Thompson - The Curse of Lono Rating: 




Jean M. Auel - The Clan of the Cave Bear Rating: 




John Steinbeck - East of Eden Rating: 




Deepak Chopra - Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment Rating: 




Heinrich Harrer - Seven Years In Tibet Rating: 




Raymond Carver - Where I’m Calling From Rating: 




Gary Snyder - Practice of the Wild Rating: 




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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