Pictured above are the books I've read in the last 3 years
There are a bunch of other books I've read in my lifetime but I don't see the point in going down that list. I try to read about 5 books a year.
I try to rotate between fiction and non-fiction. I've been making my way through classic literature because I wanted to know what all the hype was about. In HS I never took AP english or any of the classes where students read those type of books. I studying engineering in college so I didn't read them while at UCSC. If I hadn't decided to educate myself I would have never read any of these really cool books.
That said I always read books my whole life, just fiction like Steven King or Tolkien. It was only post-HS that I started to read classics.
Here's some of the
classic books I've read either during the Navy or after but not listed above (Thanks Amazon sort feature).
I didn't include anything I read in HS unless I re-read it later (ex. Animal Farm)
* Hunchback of Nortre Dam
* Les Miserables (unabridged of course, Pengwin classics is a good translation)
* The Count of Monte Cristo
* 1984
* Animal Farm
* Fahrenheit 451
* Tom Sawyer
* Huckleberry Finn
* A Tail of Two Cities
* The Time Machine
* The Invisible Man
* East of Eden
* The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
* Brave New World
* Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
* The Martian Chronicles
* Something Wicked This Way Comes
* The Illustrated Man
+ more I can't remember. This list and above basically covers 10 years of classics.
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