Book List Randomness

[eiblyn]

I'm trying to get together a list of books to read this year outside of class. I am nowhere as industrious as some of my friends (*grins at blueathena*) but I think I should be able to handle 20 books. So please add suggestions as I have no idea what 20 books are worth time reading this year. BTW...no, I really haven't read any of the things on this list. If you make fun of me, I'll be forced to cry on you.

1. Da Vinci Code


2. Civil Disobedience


3. Fellowship of the Ring


4. The Two Towers


5. Return of the King


6. Stranger in a Strange Land


7. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy


8. Restaurant at the End of the Universe


9. 1984


10. Callahan's Lady


11. Lady Slings the Booze


12. The Druids: Celtic Priests of Nature


13. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep


14. Warriors of the Heart The review on Amazon sounded like this a definite book to go over well in my life currently...


15. The Green Consumer


16. The Half-Blood Prince


17. The Green Consumer's Shopping Guide


18. Pagans and the Law


19. Radical Honesty


20. Tailchaser's Song


21. Godbody


22. The Stranger


23. Ancestors of Avalon


24. Something MYTH,Inc


25. Reading the Tarot


26. Women Leaders in African History

Thanks to those who helped get together most of this.

Comments

[moechus.livejournal.com]

I've only read 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and they're all good.

Have you read "Walden"? It's a better intro to Thoreau than "Civil Disobedience." And you should check out Emerson's essay Thoreau (written shortly after Thoreau's death), not to mention all of Emerson's essays; they truly define the American character at its best.

I found "Stranger in a Strange Land" a bit annoying. Heinlein's characters tend to be rather preachy and this gets under my skin even when I agree with their preaching.

If you Adams, you should read the whole trilogy through from start to finish. It's a lot of fun and his inventiveness is amazing. The later books in the "trilogy" aren't quite as good.

"1984" remains a classic and is still relevant today, 20 years after that date has passed (especially as Bush and company have launced an Orwellian attack on our freedoms, our language, and our history). Let me also recommend "Brave New World" another anti-utopian novel of a very different sort.