Bob Gragson

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 Reading List:

 

SOME BOOKS I'VE READ OVER THE YEARS
(with date book was copyrighted or released)

Disclaimer: Books listed here do not necessarily represent how I think. I read a broad range of books to understand various viewpoints and perspectives. Books are listed in no particular order, and I continue to add to this list.

Currently Reading

  • What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (2007) by Daniel Walker Howe
  • This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (2010) by Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff
  • The Great Reflation: How Investors Can Profit From the New World of Money (2010) by J. Anthony Boeckh
  • Power Hungry: The Myths of "Green" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future (2010) by Robert Bryce
  • How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes (2010) by Peter D. Schiff and Andrew J. Schiff
  • America's Great Depression (1963) by Murray N. Rothbard
  • A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era To World War II (2002) by Murray N. Rothbard
  • Who Rules America?: Power, Politics, & Social Change (2006) by G. William Domhoff
  • 7 Deadly Scenarios: A Military Futurist Explores War in the 21st Century (2009) by Andrew F. Krepinevich
  • Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (2004) by Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows
  • Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects (2008) by Dmitri Orlov
  • The Fourth Turning: What Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny (1997) by William Strauss and Neil Howe
  • Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression (1970) by Studs Terkel
  • Blackout: Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis (2009) by Richard Heinberg

Non-Fiction

  • American Conspiracies (2010) by Jesse Ventura with Dick Russell
  • Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy (2005) by Matthew R. Simmons
  • Leadership: Research Findings, Practice, and Skills, 5th Ed. (2007) by Andrew J. Dubrin
  • Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at at Time (2005) by Keith Ferrazzi
  • The Cunning of History: The Holocaust and the American Future (1978) by Richard L. Rubenstein
  • Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses (2009) by Timothy P. Carney
  • What Has Government Done to Our Money? (1963) by Murray N. Rothbard
  • China's Megatrends: The 8 Pillars of a New Society (2010) by John and Doris Naisbitt
  • The Corruption of Capitalism: A Strategy to Rebalance the Global Economy and Restore Sustainable Growth (2009) by Richard Duncan
  • Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches From America's Class War (2007) by Joe Bageant
  • The Revolution: A Manifesto (2008) by Ron Paul
  • We the People: A Call to Take Back America (2004) by Thom Hartman
  • International Business, 14th Ed. (2007) edited by Fred H. Maidment
  • The Fundraising Habits of Supremely Successful Boards (2008) by Jerold Panas
  • Crash Proof 2.0: How to Profit From the Economic Collapse (2009) by Peter D. Schiff
  • The Murder of Lehman Brothers: An Insider's Look at the Global Meltdown (2009) by Joseph Tibman
  • Dillavou & Howard's Principles of Business Law (1971) by Robert N. Corley and William J. Robert
  • End the Fed (2009) by Ron Paul
  • Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum (2004) by Michael T. Klare
  • Don't Start the Revolution Without Me (2008) by Jesse Ventura
  • The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal (2009) by Robert P. Murphy, PhD
  • Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse (2009) by Thomas E. Woods Jr.
  • The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada (2007) by Jerome R. Corsi, PhD
  • Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization (2009) by Jeff Rubin
  • Perspectives on Budgeting (1980) edited by Allen Schick
  • You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times (1994) by Howard Zinn
  • Budget Management: A Reader in Local Government Financial Management (1983) edited by Jack Rabin, W. Bartley Hildreth, and Gerald J. Miller
  • Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980 (1984) by Charles Murray
  • Economics Explained (1982) by Robert Heilbroner and Lester Thurow
  • Rebuilding America: A Blueprint for the New Economy (1984) by Gar Alperovitz and Jeff Faux
  • Accounting for Managers: Interpreting Accounting Information for Decision-making (2006) by Paul M. Collier
  • Strategy for a Living Revolution (1968) by George Lakey
  • Raising Capital: Get the Money You Need to Grow Your Business (2005) by Andrew S. Sherman
  • The Chalice & the Blade: Our History, Our Future (1987) by Riane Eisler
  • Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy (2003) by Ted Nace
  • What Would Jefferson Do? A Return to Democracy (2004) by Thom Hartmann
  • Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corproate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights (2004) by Thom Hartmann
  • The Radical Future of Liberal Feminism (1981) by Zillah Eisenstein
  • Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire and the End of the Age of Oil (2004) by Michael C. Ruppert
  • Political Repression in Modern America: 1870 to the Present (1978) by Robert Justin Goldstein
  • Powerline: The First Battle of America's Energy War (1981) by Barry M. Casper and Paul Wellstone
  • Feminism and Sexual Equality: Liberal Crisis in America (1984) by Zillah R. Eisenstein
  • The Passover Plot (1965) by Dr. Hugh J. Schonfield
  • Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story (1958) by Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Why Johnny Can't Read (1955) by Rudolf Flesch
  • Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life (1978) by Sissela Bok
  • Right-wing Women (1983) by Andrea Dworkin
  • Woman Hating (1974) by Andrea Dworkin
  • The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America (1978) by Lawrence Goodwyn
  • Why Americans Don't Vote (1989) by Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward
  • The Gulf Breeze Sightings (1990) by Ed Walters and Frances Walters
  • When Society Becomes an Addict (1987) by Anne Wilson Schaef
  • Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television (1978) by Jerry Mander
  • Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America (1988) by Jonathan Kozol
  • Side of the Road: A Hitchhiker's Guide to the United States (1972) by Ben Lobo and Sara Links
  • Organizational America (1979) by William G. Scott and David K. Hart
  • The Horned God: Feminism and Mean as Wounding and Healing (1987) by John Rowan
  • Good and Evil: A New Direction (1970) by Richard Taylor
  • Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway (1987) by Susan Jeffers, PhD
  • Born to Win: Transactional Analysis with Gestalt Experiments (1971) by Muriel James, EdD and Dorothy Jongeward, PhD
  • How to Control High Blood Pressure Without Drugs (1986) by Robert L. Rowan, MD
  • The Rebel Girl: An Autobiography: My First Life (1906-1926) (1955) by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
  • Living My Life (1931) by Emma Goldman
  • Saturn: A New Look at an Old Devil (1976) by Liz Greene
  • A Preface to History (1955) by Carl G. Gustavson
  • Reluctant Reformers: Racism and Social Reform Movements in the United States (1974) by Robert Allen
  • A Dialogue on Comparable Worth (1983) by Michael Evan Gold
  • Dr. Airola's Handbook of Natural Healing: How to Get Well (1974) by Paavo Airola, PhD, ND
  • The Bureaucratic Experience, 2nd Ed. (1982) by Ralph P. Hummel
  • Beyond Interdependence: the Meshing of the World's Economy and the Earth's Ecology (1991) by Jim MacNeill, Pieter Winsemius, and Taizo Yakushiji
  • The Politics of the Budgetary Process, 4th Ed. (1984) by Aaron Wildavsky
  • Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance (1963) by Howard S. Becker
  • Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World (2004) by Richard Heinberg
  • Control Theory: A New Explanation of How We Control Our Lives (1984) by William Glasser, MD
  • Steal This Urine Test: fighting Drug Hysteria in America (1987) by Abbie Hoffman
  • High Noon for Natural Gas: The New Energy Crisis (2004) by Julian Darley
  • The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies (2003)
    by Richard Heinberg
  • Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers (2002) by Geoffrey A. Moore
  • A People's History of the United States (1999) by Howard Zinn
  • Corporation Nation (1998) by Charles Derber
  • Hooked on Life: From Stuck to Starting Over (1985) by Tim Timmons and Stephen Arterburn
  • Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy (2001) edited by Dean Ritz
  • Who Rules America Now? A View for the '80s (1983) by g. William Domhoff
  • Fast Food Nation (2001) by Eric Schlosser
  • A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton (2007) by Carl Bernstein
  • Seeds of Deception (2003) by Jeffrey M. Smith
  • The Cultural Creatives (2000) by Paul H. Ray and Sherry Ruth Anderson
  • The Future and Its Enemies (1998) by Virginia Postrel
  • The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe Report (1997) by Timothy Ferris
  • Breaking Free: Self-Reparenting for a New Life (1981) by Muriel James
  • The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of the Worldwide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth (2002) by Jeremy Rifkin
  • Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe, and America (1992) by Lester Thurow
  • The Reagan Record (1984) edited by John L. Palmer and Isabel V. Sawhill
  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd Edition (1962) by Thomas S. Kuhn
  • Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge (1970) edited by Imre Lakatos and Alan Musgrave
  • Perception and Discovery: An Introduction to Scientific Inquiry (1969) by Norwood Russell Hanson (This is my all-time favorite book introduced to me by Dr. James C. Edwards, my philosophy instructor during my first year at Furman University. Thanks, Jim, for your passion and quest for knowledge which you instilled in me to this day. I am most grateful to you.)
  • The Art of Judgment: A Study of Policy Making (1965) by Sir Geoffrey Vickers
  • Human Systems Are Different (1983) by Sir Geoffrey Vickers
  • The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government (1965) by M. P. Follett
  • Organizational Reality: Reports from the Firing Line, 2nd Edition (1982) edited by Peter J. Frost, Vance F. Mitchell, and Walter R. Nord
  • Working Lives: The Southern Exposure History of Labor in the South (1980) edited by Marc S. Millers
  • Illiterate in America (1985) by Jonathan Kozol
  • The Night Is Dark and I Am Far from Home: A Political Indictment of the U.S. Public Schools (1975) by Jonathan Kozol
  • The Mean Season: The Attack on the Welfare State (1987) by Fred Block, Richard A. Cloward, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Frances Fox Piven
  • Democracy at Risk: The Politics of Economic Renewal (1984) by Kenneth M. Dolbeare
  • Deviance and Control (1966) by Albert K. Cohen
  • I'm OK -- You're OK: A Practical Guide to Transactional Analysis (1969) by Thomas A. Harris, MD
  • The Courage To Be (1952) by Paul Tillich
  • The Denial of Death (1973) by Ernest Becker
  • The Power of Positive Thinking (1952) by Norman Vincent Peale
  • Let the Trumpet Sound: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1982) by Stephen B. Oates
  • Mill Town: A Social History of Everett, Washington, from Its Earliest Beginnings on the Shores of Puget Sound to the Tragic and Infamous Event Known as the Everett Massacre (1970) by Norman H. Clark
  • Post-Conservative America: People, Politics, & Ideology in a Time of Crisis (1982) by Kevin P. Phillips
  • Nigger: An Autobiography (1964) by Dick Gregory
  • Discussions on Method and Meditations (1637) by René Descartes
  • A Manual for Direct Action: Strategy and Tactics for Civil Rights and All Other Nonviolent Protest Movements (1964) by Martin Oppenheimer and George Lakey
  • Utopias on Puget Sound, 1885-1915 (1975) by Charles Pierce LeWarne
  • Cutting Corporate Welfare (2000) by Ralph Nader
  • The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse (2006) by Richard Heinberg
  • Winning Through Participation: Meeting the Challenge of Corporate Change with the Technology of Participation (1989) by Laura J. Spencer
  • Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict (2001) by Michael T. Klare
  • Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation (1983) by Sissela Bok
  • The Economics of the Public Sector, 2nd Edition (1976) by Robert H. Haveman
  • The Prince (1952) by Machiavelli
  • All the President's Men (1974) by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
  • The Strawberry Statement: Notes of a College Revolutionary (1968) by James Simon Kunen
  • The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace (1987) by M. Scott Peck, MD
  • The Iron Fist and the Velvet Glove: An Analysis of the U.S. Police, 2nd Ed. (1977) by the Center for Research on Criminal Justice
  • The Mainstream of Civilization, Part Two Since 1660 (1969) by Joseph R. Strayer, Hans W. Gatzke, E. Harris Harbison, and Edwin L. Dunbaugh
  • Crashing to Party: How to Tell the Truth and Still Run for President (2002) by Ralph Nader
  • The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power (1982) by Robert A. Caro
  • The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent (1990) by Robert A. Caro
  • The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (1974) by Robert A. Caro
  • The Water Link: A History of Puget Sound as a Resource (1981) by Daniel Jack Chasan
  • Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? (1967) by Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Dollars and Dictators: A Guide to Central America (1982) by Tom Barry, Beth Wood, and Deb Preusch
  • Blunders in International Business, 4th Edition (2006) by David A. Ricks
  • Dude, Where's My Country? (2003) by Michael Moore
  • The Grassroots Fundraising Book: How to Raise Money in Your Community (1977) by Joan Flanagan for The Youth Project
  • The Campaign Manager, 2nd Ed. (2000) by Catherine Shaw
  • In Defense of Anarchism (1970) by Robert Paul Wolff
  • Co-Dependence: Misunderstood-Mistreated (1986) by Anne Wilson Schaef
  • The God Delusion (2006) by Richard Dawkins
  • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985) by Neil Postman
  • Stupid White Men (2001) by Michael Moore
  • The Road to Organic Growth: How Great Companies Consistently Grow Marketshare From Within (2007) by Edward D. Hess
  • The Management of Technology and Innovation: A Strategic Approach (2007) by Margaret A. White and Garry D. Bruton
  • Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant (2005) by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne
  • Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines (2007) by Richard Heinberg
  • Fundamentals of Financial Management, 11th Ed. (2008) by Eugene F. Brigham and Joel F. Houston
  • The Soul of a New Machine (1981) by Tracy Kidder
  • Celebrate Your Self: Enhancing Your Own Self-Esteem (1971) by Dorothy Corkille Briggs
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (2005) by James Howard Kunstler
  • The Eden Express (1975) by Mark Vonnegut
  • Never Cry Wolf (1963) by Farley Mowat
  • The Siberians (1970) by Farley Mowat
  • The Palace Guard (1974) by Dan Rather
  • The Boys of Summer (1973) by Roger Kahn
  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (1970) by Dee Brown
  • Nuclear Madness: What You Can Do! (1980) by Dr. Helen Caldicott
  • Witness to War (1984) by Charles Clements, MD
  • The Universe and Dr. Einstein (1948) by Lincoln Barnett
  • The Hazards of Being Male: Surviving the Myth of Masculine Privilege (1976) by Herb Goldberg, PhD
  • The Magic Animal: Mankind Revisited (1968) by Philip Wylie
  • Linda Goodman's Sun Signs (1968) by Linda Goodman
  • The Lunation Cycle: A Key to the Understanding of Personality (1967) by Dane Rudhyar
  • The Pulse of Life: New Dynamics in Astrology (1970) by Dane Rudhyar
  • Love Is Letting Go of Fear (1970) by Gerald G. Jampolsky, MD
  • New Age Politics: The Emerging New Alternative to Marxism and Liberalism (1976) by Mark Satin
  • The Life and Times of Liberal Democracy (1977) by C. B. Macpherson
  • Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others (1973) by Merle Shain
  • Conversationally Speaking: Tested New Ways to Increase Your Personal and Social Effectiveness (1980) by Alan Garner
  • Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number (1981) by Jacobo Timerman
  • Life After Life (1975) by Raymond A. Moody, Jr., MD
  • Chariots of the Gods?: Unsolved Mysteries of the Past (1968) by Erich von Daniken
  • Nuclear Power: The Unviable Option (1977) by John Berger
  • Raw Vegetable Juices (1970) by N. W. Walker, D.Sci.
  • Fresh Vegetable and Fruit Juices (1970) by N. W. Walker, D.Sci.
  • Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens (1994) by John E. Mack, MD
  • Kent State: What Happened and Why (1971) by James A. Michener
  • Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Nutrition (1978) by David Reuben, MD
  • Communion: A True Story (1987) by Whitley Strieber
  • Transformation: The Breakthrough (1988) by Whitley Strieber
  • Philosophy (1966) by C. E. M. Joad
  • The Bible
  • The Dragons of Eden (1978) by Carl Sagan
  • Cosmos (1980) by Carl Sagan
  • Contact (1985) by Carl Sagan
  • The Kingdom: Arabia & the House of Sa'ud (1981) by Robert Lacey
  • The Africans (1983) by David Lamb
  • Men Who Hate Women & The Women Who Love Them (1986) by Dr. Susan Forward
  • Biko (1978) by Donald Woods
  • On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors (1979) by J. Patrick Wright
  • Person to Person: The Problem of Being Human (1967) by Carl R. Rogers and Barry Stevens
  • The Poverty of Power: energy and the Economic Crisis (1976) by Barry Commoner
  • Revolution in Seattle (1964) by Harvey O'Connor
  • Roots of Western Tradition, 2nd Ed. (1972) by C. Warren Hollister
  • Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools (1991) by Jonathan Kozol
  • The Addictive Organization (1988) by Anne Wilson Schaef and Dianne Fassel
  • Death at an Early Age (1967) by Jonathan Kozol
  • American Indians, American Justice (1983) by Vine Deloria, Jr. and Clifford M. Lytle
  • My Life as a Political Prisoner (1963) by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
  • How to Make Money in Wall Street (1976) by Louis Rukeyser
  • Best Evidence: Disguise and Deception in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy (1980) by David S. Lifton
  • Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In (1981) by Roger Fisher and William Ury
  • The Cry of the People: The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America - The Catholic Church in Conflict with U.S. Policy (1980) by Penny Lernoux
  • Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (2004) by John Perkins
  • The Secret History of the American Empire (2007) by John Perkins
  • Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail (1977) by Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward
  • Trading the Future: Farm Exports and the Concentration of Economic Power in Our Food System (1983) by James Wessel with Mort Hantman
  • The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth (1978) by M. Scott Peck, MD
  • The Only Dance There Is (1973) by Ram Dass
  • Grist for the Mill (1976) by Ram Dass
  • The Art of Loving (1956) by Erich Fromm
  • Coming Into the Country (1976) by John McPhee
  • The Faith of a Heretic (1960) by Walter Kaufmann
  • A Male's Guide to Women's Liberation (1972) by Gene Marine
  • The Final Days (1976) by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
  • Cheyenne Autumn (1953) by Mari Sandoz
  • Deschooling Society (1970) by Ivan Illich
  • Worlds in Collision (1950) by Immanuel Velikovsky
  • Star Signs for Lovers (1980) by Liz Greene
  • UFO Crash Roswell (1991) by Kevin D. Randle & Donald R. Schmitt
  • Bridges Not Walls: A Book About Interpersonal Communication, 3rd Ed. (1982) edited by John Stewart
  • One Union in Wood: A Political History of the International Woodworkers of America (1984) by Jerry Lembcke & William M Tattam
  • The Public's Business: The Politics and Practices of Government Corporations (1978) by Annmarie Hauck Walsh
  • Citizens Over Corporations: A Brief History of Democracy in Ohio and Challenges to Freedom in the Future (1999) by Ohio Committee on Corporations, Law and Democracy
  • Against All Odds: the Green Transformation of American Politics (1999) by John Rensenbrink
  • Fundamental Accounting Principals (1972) by William W. Pyle and John Arch White
  • A Walk Across America (1979) by Peter Jenkins
  • The Walk West (1981) by Peter Jenkins
  • Blue Highways (1982) by William Least Heat Moon
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People (1937) by Andrew Carnegie
  • Travels with Charley: In Search of America (1962) by John Steinbeck

Fiction

  • One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970) by Gabriel García Márquez
  • Manhattan Transfer (1953) by John Dos Passos
  • Topaz (1967) by Leon Uris
  • Exodus (1958) by Leon Uris
  • Mila 18 (1961) by Leon Uris
  • The Angry Hills (1955) by Leon Uris
  • The Prize (1962) by Irving Wallace
  • The Chapman Report (1961) by Irving Wallace
  • The Man (1964) by Irving Wallace
  • The Seven Minutes (1969) by Irving Wallace
  • The Word (1972) by Irving Wallace
  • Inherit the Wind (1955) by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
  • All the King's Men (1946) by Robert Penn Warren
  • A Place To Come To (1977) by Robert Penn Warren
  • On the Road (1956) by Jack Kerouac
  • Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen
  • Go Tell It On the Mountain (1953) by James Baldwin
  • Another Country (1962) by James Baldwin
  • Herzog (1964) by Saul Bellow
  • The Red Badge of Courage (1895) by Stephen Crane
  • Invisible Man (1953) by Ralph Ellison
  • Jude the Obscure (1895) by Thomas Hardy
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) by James Joyce
  • Moby Dick (1851) by Herman Melville
  • Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell
  • The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J. D. Salinger
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) by Mark Twain
  • The Last Picture Show (1966) by Larry McMurtry
  • Cadillac Jack (1982) by Larry McMurtry
  • Lonesome Dove (1986) by Larry McMurtry
  • Texasville (1987) by Larry McMurtry
  • Slaughterhouse Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Brave New World (1932) by Alduous Huxley
  • The Time Machine (1895) by H. G. Wells
  • The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) by H. G. Wells
  • The Invisible Man (1897) by H. G. Wells
  • The War of the Worlds (1898) by H. G. Well
  • The Glass Bead Game also published as Magister Ludi (1943) by Hermann Hesse
  • Flowers for Algernon (1966) by Daniel Keyes
  • Something Happened (1974) by Joseph Heller
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) by Oscar Wilde
  • The Arrangement (1967) by Elia Kazan
  • One Day of Life (1983) by Manliio Argueta
  • The Angry Hills (1955) by Leon Uris
  • Papillon (1970) by Henri Charrière
  • Black Boy (1945) by Richard Wright
  • The Outsider (1953) by Richard Wright
  • Black Like Me (1960) by James Griffin
  • A Flag for Sunrise (1981) by Robert Stone
  • The Idiot (1869) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • The House of the Dead (1859) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Notes from the Underground (1864) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Crime and Punishment (1866) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • The Possessed (1872) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Manchild in the Promised Land (1965) by Claude Brown
  • Robinson Crusoe (1719) by Daniel Defoe
  • Beau Geste (1924) by P. C. Wren
  • A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1871) by Jules Verne
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1872) by Jules Verne
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (1875) by Jules Verne
  • The Red Pony (1933) by John Steinbeck
  • Tortilla Flats (1935) by John Steinbeck
  • Of Mice and Men (1937) by John Steinbeck
  • Cannery Row (1945) by John Steinbeck
  • The Wayward Bus (1947) by John Steinbeck
  • The Pearl (1947) by John Steinbeck
  • East of Eden (1952) by John Steinbeck
  • Sweet Thursday (1954) by John Steinbeck
  • The Winter of Our Discontent (1961) by John Steinbeck
  • The Tropic of Cancer (1934) by Henry Miller
  • The Tropic of Capricorn (1939) by Henry Miller
  • Black Spring (1936) by Henry Miller
  • The Rosy Crucifixion: Sexus (1949), Plexus (1953), Nexus (1960) by Henry Miller
  • Warday (1984) by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka
  • The Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens
  • Great Expectations (1861) by Charles Dickens
  • To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee
  • White Lotus (1964) by John Hersey
  • Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) by D. H. Lawrence
  • Sons and Lovers (1913) by D. H. Lawrence
  • Women in Love (1920) by D. H. Lawrence
  • The Well of Loneliness (1928) by Radclyffe Hall
  • Tai-Pan (1966) by James Clavell
  • King Rat (1962) by James Clavell
  • Lincoln (1984) by Gore Vidal
  • Burr (1973) by Gore Vidal
  • The Source (1965) by James Michener
  • Chesapeake (1978) by James Michener
  • Nine Tomorrows (1959) by Isaac Asimov

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