before I began keeping a list


  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; L. Frank Baum
  • Invisible Man; Ralph Ellison
  • The Picture of Dorian Grey; Oscar Wilde
  • A Burnt Out Case; Graham Greene
  • Out of the Silent Planet; C.S. Lewis
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep; Philip K. Dick
  • Counter Clock World; Philip K. Dick
  • Fathers and Sons; Ivan Turgenev
  • Lady Chatterly’s Lover; D.H. Lawrence
  • A Room of One’s Own; Virginia Woolf
  • Galactic Pot Healer; Philip K. Dick
  • The Call of the Wild; Jack London
  • Into the Wild; Jon Krakauer
  • Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said; Philip K. Dick
  • Lakota Woman; Mary Crow Dog
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; Ken Kesey
  • A Canticle for Leibowitz; Walter Miller Junior
  • East of Eden; John Steinbeck
  • Frankenstein; Mary Shelley
  • The House of the Spirits; Isabelle Allende
  • The Island of Dr. Moreau; H.G. Wells
  • Brave New World; Aldous Huxley
  • War and Peace; Leo Tolstoy
  • Notes From Underground; Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • The Outsiders; S.E. Hinton
  • Very Far Away From Anywhere Else; Ursula K. LeGuin
  • The Left Hand of Darkness; Ursula K. LeGuin
  • Now Wait For Last Year; Philip K. Dick
  • A Scanner Darkly; Philip K. Dick
  • A Maze of Death; Philip K. Dick
  • Jude the Obscure; Thomas Hardy
  • Wiseblood; Flannery O’Connor
  • Confessions of a Crap Artist; Philip K. Dick
  • The Great Gatsby; F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Human Cycle; Colin M. Turnbull
  • The Cosmic Serpent; Jeremy Narby
  • Waterlily; Ella Cara Deloria
  • The Penultimate Truth; Philip K. Dick
  • The Old Man and the Sea; Ernest Hemingway
  • A Game of Thrones; George R.R. Martin
  • The Hobbit; J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Beast; A.E. Van Voght
  • The Martian Chronicles; Ray Bradbury
  • The Pearl; John Steinbeck
  • Papillion; Henri Charriere
  • Candide; Voltaire
  • The Transmigration of Timothy Archer; Philip K. Dick
  • Cat’s Cradle; Kurt Vonnegut
  • The Awakening; Kate Chopin
  • Barrabas; Par Lagerkvist
  • The Stranger; Albert Camus
  • Fools Crow; James Welch
  • Lame Deer Seeker of Visions; Lame Deer
  • The Passion; Jeanette Winterson
  • The World Jones Made; Philip K. Dick
  • UBIK; Philip K. Dick
  • Dr. Jeckle and Mr. Hyde; Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance; Robert Pirsig
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower; Stephen Chbosky
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; Douglass Adams
  • The Burial Brothers: From New York to Rio in a ’73 Cadillac Hearse; Simon Mayle
  • The Partner; John Grisham
  • Huckleberry Finn; Mark Twain
  • Eden Express; Mark Vonnegut
  • Chronicles Volume One; Bob Dylan
  • The Brave Cowboy; Edward Abbey
  • Blankets; Craig Thompson
  • Goodbye, Chunky Rice; Craig Thompson
  • Persepolis; Marjane Satrapi
  • Akiko: The Menace of Alia Relapor (Volume 1); Mark Crilley
  • Akiko: The Menace of Alia Relapor (Volume 2); Mark Crilley
  • Akiko: The Menace of Alia Relapor (Volume 3); Mark Crilley
  • Akiko: The Story Tree (Volume 4); Mark Crilley
  • Akiko: Bornstone’s Elixir (Volume 5); Mark Crilley
  • Elric of Melnibone; Michael Moorcock
  • The Sailor on the Seas of Fate; Michael Moorcock
  • Sanapia: Comanche Medicine Woman; David E. Jones