Recommended Reading

"Show me the books he loves, and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends." -Dawn Adams

Fiction:

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
The House of the Spirits, by Isabel Allende
The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
If on a winter's night a traveler, by Italo Calvino
Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
The Thanatos Syndrome, by Walker Percy
The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien
Up the Down Staircase, by Bel Kaufman

Nonfiction:

All the President's Men, by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
Football Against the Enemy, by Simon Kuper
King Leopold's Ghost, by Adam Hochschild
This Is Your Brain on Music, by Daniel J. Levitin

Poetry:

Collins, Billy
Hirsch, Edward (see especially The Widening Sky)
Merwin, W.S.
Neruda, Pablo
Tennyson (see especially Ulysses)
Walker, Jeanne Murray (see especially Staying Power)
Weise, Jillian