The Ever-Expanding List

Here is a list of books I'd like to read, with links to the Kindle edition or the Amazon marketplace, depending on availability. I can read books on my cell phone through the Kindle app, but for most of these I'll either wait until I get a Kindle reader for Christmas or head over to the library. Right now I'm reading The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross on my phone. Because the amount of text on each page is small, the book has around 14,000 pages. I'm halfway there.

I've heard in order to write well, one should read well. By that standard, I'm in a world of hurt. I usually read fiction at a horrendously slow pace. I made sure to list shorter fiction in a separate category from longer works, and put non-fiction material at the very top of the list. Learning new things about the real world is a big bonus for me. No poems here: I'm focusing on books with paragraphs to widen my reading horizon, or at least lengthen my attention span.

Non-Fiction/History/Science 

Common Sense by Thomas Paine
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddharta Mukherjee
The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
Without Conscience by Robert D. Hare
The Synaptic Self by Joseph LeDoux
NurtureShock by Bronson and Merryman
Brain Rules by John Medina
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist
A General Theory of Love by Lewis, Amini and Lannon
The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
Parasite Rex by Carl Zimmer
The Beekeeper's Lament by Hannah Nordhaus
Biophilia by Edward Wilson
Bonk by Mary Roach
Four Fish by Paul Greenberg
Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes
Freakonomics by Leavitt and Dubner
The Invisible Gorilla by Chabris and Simons
The Information by James Gleick
The Filter Bubble by Eli Pariser
Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin
Written in Stone by Brian Switek
Lost to the West Lars Brownworth
1491 by Charles C. Mann
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

Shorter Fiction (mainly ~250 pgs. or less) 

Post Office by Charles Bukowski
The Bride Wore Black by Cornell Woolrich
The Search for Delicious by Natalie Babbitt
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Rootabaga Stories by Carl Sandburg
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Florence of Arabia by Christopher Buckley
The Mammy by Brendan O'Carroll
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice
Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter
The Tent by Margaret Atwood
Stories by Anton Chekhov
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsyn
The Definitive H.P. Lovecraft by H.P. Lovecraft
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
Candide by Voltaire
The Wild Geese by Ogai Mori
Hunger by Knut Hamsun 

Literature & Science Fiction 

East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
Independent People by Halldor Laxness
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway
A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
Max Havelaar by Multatuli
The Metamorphoses by Ovid - tr. Horace Gregory
Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
The Children of Húrin by J.R.R.Tolkien
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Fourth Awakening by Pennington and Martin
Good Omens by Pratchett and Gaiman
Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk

Some of the Kindle titles listed above are free, and some cheap. Most are either $9.99 or $11.99. I have a bunch of the free titles on my phone already. This e-book idea might be a good thing for me. I need to give some of the paper books in my collection away, so I have room to walk around.