Saturday, November 25, 2006

 

Books Diesel Has Already Read

This list is meant to help you avoid suggesting a book that Diesel has already read. Obviously this is not a comprehensive list; it's just a list of popular books he has read that people are likely to suggest. So it's possible you still might unknowingly suggest a book he has already read. That's ok; Diesel will let you know if that's the case, and you can suggest another one if you like.

Adams, Douglas - Hitchhiker’s “Trilogy”, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Asimov, Isaac - Foundation trilogy, various other stuff
Bradbury, Ray - Martian Chronicles, Dandelion Wine, Fahrenheit 451
Camus - The Stranger
Carroll, Lewis - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Chaucer - Canterbury Tales
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness, Secret Sharer
Darwin, Charles - Origin of the Species
Dick, Philip - Most of his better known stuff
Dostoevski, Feodor - Brothers Karamozov
Eco, Umberto - Foucault's Pendulum, Name of the Rose
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Gibson, William - Neuromancer, Count Zero
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
Grahame, Kenneth - The Wind in the Willows
Graves, Robert - I, Claudius
H.G. Wells - The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, War of the Worlds, History of the World
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
Harrison, Harry - Stainless Steel Rat books, West of Eden, a few others
Hawking, Stephen - A Brief History of Time
Heinlein, Robert - Friday, Job, Double Star, Red Planet, a few others
Hemingway, Ernest - The Sun Also Rises, Old Man and the Sea
Herbert, Frank - Dune books
Huxley, Aldus - Brave New World
Ibsen - Hedda Gabler
Irving, John - The World According to Garp
Joyce, James - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
LeCarre, John - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Lewis, C.S. - Narnia books, Mere Christianity, The Great Divorce, Screwtape Letters, Miracles
Machievelli - The Prince
Marx, Karl - Das Kapital and the Communist Manifesto
McCourt, Frank - Angela's Ashes
Miller, Arthur - The Crucible
Morrison, Toni - Sula
Niven, Larry - Ringworld, Ringworld Engineers, Lucifer's Hammer
Orwell, George - 1984, Animal Farm
Pirsig, Robert - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Rand, Ayn - The Fountainhead
Remarque, Erich Marie - All Quiet on the Western Front
Richard Dawkins - The Blind Watchmaker
Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Salinger, J.D. - Catcher in the Rye
Sartre - No Exit
Shakespeare - MacBeth
Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels
Tolkein, J.R.R. - Lord of the Rings
Twain, Mark - Huck Finn, Connecticut Yankee
Verne, Jules - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Voltaire - Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt - Sirens of Titan, Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions
Zelazny, Roger - Amber series

Diesel has also read an assortment of books or selections by various philosophers, including Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Augustine, Calvin, Hume, Kant, Locke, Hobbes, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Thomas Reid, Ayer, Sartre, DesCartes, Berkely, etc. He's too lazy to come up with a full list here.

Also, the Bible.

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