Current

The Illiad, Homer
A Dream of Red Mansions, Cao Xueqin

Upcoming

The Odyssey, Homer
The Aeneid, Virgil
Bobos in Paradise, David Brooks
When Genius Failed, Roger Lowenstein
Historic China and other sketches, Herbert Allen Giles
L'Amant, Marguerite Duras

Backburner / Re-reads

A Fine Disregard: What Makes Modern Art Modern, Kirk Varnedoe
    | NYT | newshour | city arts | rugby magazine |
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
The Philip K. Dick Reader, Philip K. Dick
Alien Agenda, Jim Marrs

2004

Infectious Greed, Frank Partnoy
Fiasco, Frank Partnoy
Mona Lisa Overdrive, William Gibson
Count Zero, William Gibson

2003

Neuromancer, William Gibson
Two Years in the Forbidden City, Princess Der Ling
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Philip K. Dick
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
    | MOQ.org | picture | Great Books Project | GBF |
Chapterhouse: Dune, Frank Herbert
The Years of Living Dangerously, Stephen Vines
Heretics of Dune, Frank Herbert
God Emperor of Dune, Frank Herbert
Children of Dune, Frank Herbert
Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert
Dune, Frank Herbert
Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
A Lost Paradise, Jun'ichi Watanabe

2002

The Accidental Asian, Eric Liu
Witnessed, Budd Hopkins
The Philip K. Dick Reader, Philip K. Dick
A Fine Disregard: What Makes Modern Art Modern, Kirk Varnedoe
    | NYT | newshour | city arts | rugby magazine |
Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl, Tracy Quan
One Hundred More Poems from the Chinese, translated by Kenneth Rexroth
One Hundred Poems from the Chinese, translated by Kenneth Rexroth
China Wakes, Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl Wudunn

2001

Derailed in Uncle Ho's Victory Garden, Tim Page
Shanghai Baby, Wei Hui
Shanghai, Christopher New
The Quiet American, Graham Greene
History's Fiction, XuXi
First They Killed My Father, Loung Ung

Personal Favorites

Short Fiction

Paul's Case, Willa Cather
The Rocking Horse Winner, D.H. Lawrence
By the Waters of Babylon, Stephen Vincent Benet
The Portable Phonograph, Walter van Tilburg Clark
The Scarlet Ibis, James Hurst

Fiction

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Anthem, Ayn Rand
The Watchmen, Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons   [salon]
1984, George Orwell
Night Mother, Marsha Norman
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Non Fiction

"The American Scholar", Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Self Reliance", Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pyramids of Sacrifice, Peter Berger
One Writer's Beginnings, Eudora Welty

Finance Books

The Worldly Philosophers, Robert L. Heilbroner
Liar's Poker, Michael Lewis
Den of Thieves, James Stewart

Transcendent / Great Books

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Robert Pirsig
    | MOQ.org | picture | Great Books Project | GBF |
Man's Search for Meaning (1963), Victor Frankl
    | Victor Frankl Institut | summary | tribute | links | more links |
The Three Pound Universe (1986), Judith Hooper & Dick Teresi
    | toc | consumer reviews | mind & brain |
The Worldly Philosophers (1953), Robert L. Heilbroner
    | bio | summary | economist links | NYT | NYRB |

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