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Fiction

The Diamond As Big As The Ritz and Other Stories
by F. Scott Fitzgerald


Dalva
a novel by Jim Harrison

Sometimes A Great Notion
a novel by Ken Kesey
Visit my page on Kesey

Nothing but Blue Skies
a novel by Thomas McGuane

Chicana Falsa and Other Stories of Death, Identity and Oxnard
by Michele Serros

Close Range: Wyoming Stories
by Annie Proulx

Waltzing the Cat
stories by Pam Houston

Cathedral
stories by Raymond Carver

Ham On Rye
a novel by Charles Bukowski

Breakfast of Champions
a novel by Kurt Vonnegut

Moving On
stories by Jane Candia Coleman

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
a novel by Carson McCullers

The Sound and the Fury
a novel by William Faulkner

Everything That Rises Must Converge
stories by Flannery O'Connor

Rock Springs
stories by Richard Ford

Love Medicine
a novel by Louise Erdrich

The Stories of John Cheever
by John Cheever

Stripping and Other Stories
by Pagan Kennedy

Bright Lights Big City
a novel by Jay McInerney

All the Little Live Things
a novel by Wallace Stegner

Small Craft Warnings
stories by Kate Braverman

The Secret History
a novel by Donna Tartt

The Day of the Locust
a novel by Nathaniel West

Pugilist At Rest
stories by Thom Jones

My Antonia
a novel by Willa Cather

The Sun Also Rises
a novel by Ernest Hemingway
Read my essay on this work

Tropic of Capricorn
a novel by Henry Miller

Gravity's Rainbow
a novel by Thomas Pynchon

Stone Junction: An Alchemical Pot Bolier
by Jim Dodge

The Dharma Bums
an auotbiographical novel by Jack Kerouac

The Sport of the Gods
by Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
by James Weldon Johnson
Read my brief essay on Johnson's book

Passing
by Nella Larsen

Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston

Maud Martha
by Gwendolyn Brooks

Go Tell It On The Mountain
by James Baldwin

Corregidora
by Gayl Jones
Read my term paper on this novel.

Jazz
by Toni Morrison

Dirty Bird Blues
by Clarence Major

Social History

Race Matters
by Cornel West

The Cornel West Reader
by Cornel West

In The Spirit of Crazy Horse
nonfiction by Peter Matthiessen

Catch A Fire: The Life of Bob Marley
biography by Timothy White

A People's History of the Unites States
history by Howard Zinn

Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD
by Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
"new journalism" by Tom Wolfe

Slouching Towards Bethlehem
essays by Joan Didion

The Greening of America
by Charles Reich

Garcia: A Signpost To New Space
by Charles Reich, Jann Wenner and Jerry Garcia

Ringolevio
autobiography by Emmett Grogan

Natural History

Refuge
nonfiction by Terry Tempest Williams

Old Jules
biography by Mari Sandoz

The Solace of Open Spaces
by Gretel Ehrlich

Desert Solitaire
nonfiction by Edward Abbey

Encounters With The Archdruid
essays by John McPhee

Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape
natural history by Barry Lopez

Spiritual Texts

Autobiography of a Yogi
by Paramahansa Yogananda

Bringers of the Dawn: Teachings from the Pleiadians
channeled by Barbara Marciniak

Siddhartha
a novel by Hermann Hesse, translated by Hilda Rosner

Conversations With Dog: An Uncommon Dogalog of Canine Wisdom
by Kate Solisti-Mattelon
Read my interview with Kate

Medicine Cards: The Discovery of Power Through the Ways of Animals
by Jamie Sams and David Carson, illustrated by Angela C. Werneke

Poetry

The Captain's Verses
poems by Pablo Neruda

Turtle Island
poems by Gary Snyder

The Woman Who Fell From The Sky
poems by Joy Harjo

The Gold Cell
poems by Sharon Olds

Howl and Other Poems
by Allen Ginsberg

Collected Poems of Robert Service
by Robert Service

News From Down to the Cafe
poems by David Lee

Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
poems by William Butler Yeats

New and Collected Poems
by Richard Wilbur

Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
by Wallace Stevens