19 May 2009

Gavin's Reading List

Here are my selections, ranked by importance, those before the first break are most important, those after it are second, and those at the bottom are last. Some of these books contain views that are contradictory to my own, just a disclaimer.

1. The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich Hayek
2. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, by David Hume
3. The Complete Works of Shakespeare
4. The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith
5. The Theory of Moral Sentiments, By Adam Smith
6. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, by Joseph Schumpeter
7. Small Footprint, Big Handprint (A Book for Church)

8. The Nicomachean Ethics, by Aristotle
9. From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya
10. Cool It, by Bjorn Lomborg
11. The Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius
12. The Abolition of Man, by C. S. Lewis
13. On Liberty, by J. S. Mill
14. Invitation to Sociology (Sociology text)
15. Window on Humanity (Anthropology Text)
16. Democracy's Discontent, by Michael Sandel
17. Liberalism, by L. T. Hobhouse
18. Symposium, by Plato
19. On the Free Choice of Will, by Augustine
20. Discourse on Free Will, by Erasmus and Luther
21. The Religious Philosophy of Quakerism
22. On Law, Morality, and Politics, by Thomas Aquinas
23. Small Christian Communities Today
24. The Essence of Faith According to Luther, by Feuerbach
25. Wild at Heart, (I know, I know, but it's not that long and I'm curious)
26. Jeet Kune Do, by Bruce Lee
27. The Epicurus Reader
28. De Rerum Natura

29. Evil for Evil, by K. J. Parker
30. Escapement, by K. J. Parker
31. Turpentine, by Spring Warren
32. The Night Climbers, by Ivo Stourton
33. Illusions, by Richard Bach
34. Out of Egypt, by Anne Rice
35. The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler
36. Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier
37. All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren
38. Hard Times, by Charles Dickens
39. The Autumn of the Patriarch, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
40. 2010: Odyssey Two, by Arthur C. Clark
41. Prelude to Foundation, by Isaac Asimov
42. Pontius Pilate, by Paul Maier

Sorry for the length, I am clearly a bibliophile masochist.

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