MarkTilley

This is a good idea for a wiki. A place for book lovers to revel in their addiction!

Bookstores are great, but going to garage sales is like a pilgrimage and a treasure hunt. See Wiki:TheBestLiteratureIsFree.

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Note - I've only posted those worth recommending.

Hmmm, can't decide whether to sort by type or author. I guess it'll be a mix.

Work In Process

• 1001GhostStories? AlexandreDumas?

Waiting to be read

Near term

• TheSailmakersApprentice? EmilianoMarino?
• TheNewTestamentAndThePeopleOfGod? N.T.Wright?
• JesusAndTheVictoryOfGod? N.T.Wright?

Long term

• PoeticalWorksOfAlexanderPope? 1852 ed.
• OfTheImitationOfChrist? ThomasaKempis?
• TheRiseAndFallOfTheThirdReich AlbertSpeer?
• ThePerennialPhilosophy? AldousHuxley
• Leviathan? ThomasHobbes?
• TheAenid? Virgil?

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TheOldManAndTheSea

Fiction

• HornblowerSeries? CSForrester?
• TheShip? CSForrester?
• TheSeaWolf? JackLondon?
• TheCruelSea? NicholasMonsarrat?
• TheShipThatDiedOfShame? NicholasMonsarrat?
• DiveInTheSun? DouglasReeman?
• ThePenguinBookOfSeaStories? various

Non

• SailingAloneAroundTheWorld? JoshuaSlocum?
• TheCorvetteNavy? JamesLamb?
• TheSerpentsCoil? FarleyMowat?
• TheBoatWhoWouldntFloat? FarleyMowat?
• CruisingInSeraffyn? LinAndLarryPardey?
• ThereBeNoDragons? : How to Cross a Big Ocean in a Small Sailboat ReesePalley?
• WindWhalesAndWhisky? SilverDonaldCameron?
• MaidenVoyage? TaniaAebi?
• SailingPromise? AlayneMain?
• TamataAndTheAlliance? BernardMoitessier?
• AnEmbarrassmentOfMangoes? AnnVanderhoof?
• TheVoyageOfTheNorthernMagic? DianeStuemer?
• Treasure Islands PamelaStephenson?
• TwoInABoat? GwynethLewis?
• ABriefHistoryOfFightingShips? DavidDavies?

Technical

• Boatowner'sMechanicalAndElectricalManual? NigelCalder?
• HowBoatThingsWork? CharlieWing?
• SailboatElectricsSimplified? DonCasey?
• SailboatRefinishing? DonCasey?
• UnderstandingBoatDesign? TedBrewer?
• TheSeaworthyOffshoreSailboat? JohnVigor?
• OffshoreSailing?: 200 Essential Passagemaking Tips BillSeifert?
• ReadyForSea? TorPinney?
• BestBoatsToBuildOrBuy? FerencMate?
• TheCompleteGuideToChoosingACruisingSailboat? RogerMarshall?
• SailBetter? RogerMarshall?
• SailPerformance? CAMarchaj?
• SailAndRigTuning? IvarDedekam?
• TheBestOfSailTrim? various - collection of articles from SailMagazine?
• TheSailBookOfCommonsenseCruising? various - collection of articles from SailMagazine?
• SailingOnABudget? AnneJohnson?

Coffee Table

• TheWorld'sBestSailboats? Vol. I FerencMate?
• TheWorld'sBestSailboats? Vol. II FerencMate?

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VisionsOfWonder

JRRTolkien

• TheHobbit
• TheLordOfTheRings
• TheSilmarillion
• TheAdventuresOfTomBombadil?
• TreeAndLeaf?
• SirGawainAndTheGreenKnight

CSLewis

• ChroniclesOfNarnia
• OutOfTheSilentPlanet?
• VoyageToVenus?
• ThatHideousStrength?
• TheDarkTower?
• TillWeHaveFaces?

Wiki:RichardAdams

• Wiki:WatershipDown
• Shardik?
• ThePlagueDogs?
• TheGirlInASwing?
• Maia?
• TheIronWolf?

• TheWormOuroboros? EREddison?
• FoundationSeries? IsaacAsimov
• Too many short novels and short story collections to count (or keep) IsaacAsimov

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Classics

Really Old Ones

• Beowulf?
• LeMorteD'Arthur? SirThomasMalory?
• TheCanterburyTales GeofferyChaucer?
• TheDecameron? GiovanniBoccaccio?

Not Quite So Old

ThomasHardy?

• TessOfTheD'Urbervilles?
• FarFromTheMaddingCrowd?
• JudeTheObscure

• Ivanhoe SirWalterScott?
• ATaleOfTwoCities? CharlesDickens
• TheTenantOfWildfellHall? AnneBronte?
• Middlemarch GeorgeEliot?
• IdyllsOfTheKing? AlfredLordTennyson?
• Dracula? BramStoker?

Newer Stuff

• WhiteFang? JackLondon?
• ABraveNewWorld AldousHuxley
• 1984 GeorgeOrwell
• TheLottery? and other stories ShirleyJackson

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Humour

StephenLeacock?

• SunshineSketchesOfALittleTown?
• MyDiscoveryOfEngland?
• NonsenseNovels?
• MoonbeamsFromTheLargerLunacy?
• FrenziedFiction?
• ShortCircuits?
• LastLeaves?

• TheDefinitiveBiographyOfPDQBach? PeterSchickele?

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Thinking and learning just for fun

CSLewis

• Why:TheAbolitionOfMan
• TheFourLoves?
• TheGreatDivorce
• TheScrewtapeLetters
• ScrewtapeProposesAToast?
• TheWeightOfGlory?
• FirstAndSecondThings?
• TheDiscardedImage?: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
• AnExperimentInCriticism?
• APrefaceToParadiseLost?

• StressWithoutDistress? HansSelye?
• EmotionalIntelligence? DanielGoleman?
• Why:TheresNoSuchThingAsFreeSpeech Why:StanleyFish
• AuthorityAndTheIndividual? BertrandRussell?
• TheProfessorAndTheMadman SimonWinchester?
• CitadelsOfMystery? LSpragueDeCamp?
• TheAncientEngineers? LSpragueDeCamp?
• Structures? JEGordon?
• TheNewScienceOfStrongMaterials? JEGordon?
• ABriefHistoryOfTime Wiki:StephenHawking
• TheRiseAndFallOfTheGreatPowers? PaulKennedy?
• TheAgeOfAmericanUnreason? SusanJacoby?
• ReadingTheClassicsWithC.S.Lewis? Edited by ThomasLMartin?
• TheQuestionOfGod?: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex and The Meaning of Life DrArmandMNicholiJr?
• TheBottomBillion? PaulCollier?

Not so much fun but useful

• GettingToYes RogerFisher and WilliamUry
• Wiki:StartWithNo RogerCamp?
• CrucialConversations: Tools for talking when the stakes are high KerryPatterson? et al
• DifficultConversations DouglasStone? et al

• Maverick?: The Success Story Behind The World's Most Unusual Workplace RicardoSemler
• TheSevenDayWeekend: Changing The Way Work Works RicardoSemler
• TheFutureOfWork? ThomasMalone?

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Biographies

• GlennGouldVariations? By Himself and His Friends
• Wiki:TheManWhoLovedOnlyNumbers PaulHoffman?
• ThePythonsAutobiography? ThePythons?

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Other non-fiction

• LeftToTell?: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust Immaculee Ilibagiza

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From my youth

• TheYearling? MarjorieKinnanRawlings?
• Rascal? SterlingNorth?
• AcrossFiveAprils? IreneHunt?
• LassieComeHome? EricKnight?
• TheBlackStallion? WalterFarley?
• ASeparatePeace? JohnKnowles?

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Miscellaneous

UmbertoEco

• TheNameOfTheRose
• FoucaultsPendulum
• TheIslandOfTheDayBefore?

Wiki:AynRand

• Wiki:WeTheLiving
• Wiki:TheFountainhead
• Wiki:AtlasShrugged
• Anthem

• HrolfKraki'sSaga? PoulAnderson?
• TheCamerons? RobertCrichton?
• TheKeep? FPaulWilson?
• TheTomb? FPaulWilson?

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UnfinishedTales

• TheIdiot? FyodorDostoyevski?

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