Wanted Books

Just a personal list of things I want to add to my already overstuffed library. No particular order. Not all books, either.

  • The Defense, Nabokov
  • Tintin stuff
  • The Glass Bead Game, Hesse
  • Crime and Punishment, Doestoevsky (obtained)
  • Gig, Word.com
  • The PC Is Not A Typewriter, Robin Williams
  • The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz
  • Getting Things Done, David Allen (obtained)
  • The Life of Pi
  • Catcher in the Rye (obtained)
  • Iliad/Odyssey (very good translation, preferrably in verse)
  • Life In Hell – Matt Groening
  • Homicide: Life and Death on the Street – Dave Simon (obtained)
  • Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago – Eric Klinenberg
  • Childhood’s End, Arthur C. Clarke (obtained)
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion – Larry Nemecek
  • The Pesthouse, Being Dead – Jim Crace
  • Q-Squared (obtained), Terok Nor trilogy, Fearful Symmetry, A Stitch in Time, Chain of Attack, The Final Nexus, Mere Mortals (pulp Trek Novels)
  • History of the World – J.M. Roberts (not the abridged version)
  • All three HP Lovecraft Penguin Editions (notes by ST Joshi)
  • The Dark Knight – Frank Miller
  • Soon, I Will Be Invincible! -
  • Nam – Mark Baker
  • Heart of Gold, Gottleib (about a quadraplegiac, autobio)
  • Winning Chess Tactics by Yasser Seirawan
  • Hunter Thompson. Haven’t read anything but Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas so far. (british-print omnibus obtained on the cheap)
  • anything having to do with Maakies – Tony Millionaire (have a couple of these already)
  • Ships of the Line (Star Trek ships, hell yeah) -  ISBN 1416532439
  • Hero With A Thousand Faces – Joseph Campbell – largely discredited but nonetheless interesting examination of myths and tall folktales
  • Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction (Hardcover) by Nick Montfort
  • Generation Me – on the bullshit of self-esteem teaching
  • Race – Studs Terkel
  • Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
  • Old-style lettering book
  • more Heinlein
  • The Castle – Kafka
  • The Plague Dogs, Watership Down – Richard Adams
  • Romance of the Three Kingdoms – Moss Roberts (trans, unabridged)
  • Tacitus (Histories, Annals) (Roman history, post-Augustus)
  • John Cheever – The Stories of John Cheever
  • Pathologic (game) (obtained)
  • Bill Shatner’s Autobiography
  • Les Enfants Terribles (The Holy Terrors) – Jean Cocteau
  • The Lucifer Principle – Harold Bloom
  • Dazzling Mazes – Ulrich Koch
  • Color Theory (Watson-Guptill Artist’s Library) (Paperback) – Jose Parramon
  • Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying – Wolfgang Langewiesche
  • Focus (DVD) Focus: The Collected Filmstrips of Brian Dewan (Volume 1) – http://www.amazon.com/Focus-Collected-Filmstrips-Brian-Dewan/dp/B001HHMJSG
  • The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
  • The Fifty Minute Hour – Robert Lindner
  • The Elements of Color – Johannes Itten
  • The Annals of Imperial Rome – Tacitus
  • The Toon Treasury of Children’s Comics – Art Spiegelman, ed.
  • Thomas Jefferson: Writings (Library of America Edition) link
  • Twinkie, Deconstructed: My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are Grown, Mined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated into What America Eats – Steve Ettlinger

Other Wanted Things that Are Not Books or Other Similar Consumable Media

Leave a Reply