My Other Pulpit

Ah, the reading list—a towering monument to good intentions and the triumph of ambition over reality. Behold my collection of literary masterpieces, curated with the precision of a museum curator and the enthusiasm of a kid in a candy store. It’s a veritable smorgasbord of genres, an eclectic mix that would make a librarian weep with pride. Yet, if books were trophies, my shelves would be filled with untapped potential and the silent judgment of unread pages. So, grab a cup of coffee (or three) and join me as I dive into the abyss of my literary aspirations, where the only thing thicker than the books is the irony of my ever-growing list.

(in no particalur order and updated almost semi-regularly)

• The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula LeGuin
• The Dispossessed, Ursula LeGuin
• 1984, Georg Orwell
• The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
• Travels with Charlie, John Steinbeck
• Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
• The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
• The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
• Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelly
• Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
• The Chrysalids, John Wyndham
• Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut
• Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
• Blood Meridian, Cormack McCarthy
• The Three Body Problem, Liu Cixin
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John Le Carré
• A Most Wanted Man, John Le Carré
• Confessions of an Economic Hitman, John Perkins
• We, Yevgeny Zamyatin
• Hard Rain Falling, Don Carpenter
• Dune, Frank Herbert