FICTION - What is the sign of a great book?
You know you will read it again.
Ocean Sea (Alessandro Baricco)
Soie / Silk (Alessandro Baricco)
Disgrace (J.M. Coetzee)
A Man in Full
On Chesil Beach (Ian McEwan)
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Kristin Lavransdatter (3 volumes - Sigrid Undset)
The Master of Hestviken (4 volumes - Sigrid Undset)
The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoievski)
Les Frères Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoievski)
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Yukio Mishima)
Sparkenbroke (Charles Morgan)
Paludes (André Gide)
Les Nourritures Terrestres (André Gide)
Les Caves du Vatican (André Gide)
An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser)
Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
Watership Down (Richard Adams)
Gunnar's Daughter / Vigdis la Farouche (sigrid Undset)
Gift from the Sea (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
White Dog (Romain Gary)
Diaries and Letters (1922-1944 - five volumes - Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
NON-FICTION
Predictably Irrational (Dan Ariely)
The Selfish Gene (Richard Dawkins)
Blink (Malcolm Gladwell)
The Tipping Point (Malcolm Gladwell)
Surely, You're Joking, Mr. Feynman (Richard Feynman)
What do You Care What Other People Think? (Richard Feynman)
Merle's Door (Ted Kerasote)
The Social Animal (David Brooks)
Curious Minds (ed. John Brockman)
Conversations on Consciousness (Susan Blackmore)
The Starship and the Canoe (Kenneth Brower)
Geeks (Jon Katz)
Nano (Ed Regis)
Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition (Ed Regis)
POETS
Paul Verlaine
Arthur Rimbaud
Charles Baudelaire
Maurice Maeterlinck
Guillaume Apollinaire
Paul Eluard
Saint-John Perse
Henri Michaux