As a lifelong bookworm with broad tastes, I often stumble across new treasures. Below is a partial list of my favorite recent reads, as well as some past favorites that happily haunt me to this day.
Science News
Economist
Scientific American
Technology Review
Khaled Hosseini:
Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Gabriella Garcia Marquez
(Especially in Spanish)
Love in the times of Cholera
A Hundred Years of Solitude
Of Love and Other Demons
Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children
Arundhati Roy
God of Small Things
Meryvn Peake
The Gormengast Novels
Moore and Gibbons
The Watchmen
A.R. Ammons
Garbage
Collected Poems 1951-1971
Pablo Neruda
Poems
Emily Dickinson
Poems and letters
Robin Hobb
Farseer Trilogy
Liveship Traders Trilogy
Tawny Man Trilogy
Roger Zalazny
The Amber Chronicles
C.J. Cherryh
Cyteen Trilogy
And classics:
William Shakespeare
Mark Twain
Homer
Jane Austin
Ernest Hemmingway
Ayn Rand
Jack Kerouac
Jack London
Charles Dickens
Arthur Conan Doyle
Louisa May Alcott
Virginia Woolf
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Agatha Christie
Truman Capote
Edgar Allen Poe
Elizabeth Bronte
J.R.R. Tolkein
and many others
Sharon Begley
Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves
Fareed Zakaria
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
Brian Wansink
Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think
Hal Edward Runkel
Screamfree Parenting: The Revolutionary Approach to Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool
Chip and Dan Heath
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Richard P. Feynman
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman
Six Easy Pieces
Six Not So Easy Pieces
Gary Provost
Make Your Words Work
Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth
Natalie Goldberg
Writing Down the Bones
Anne Lamott
Bird by Bird
Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat Pray Love
PICTURE BOOKS
Trina Paulus
Hope for the Flowers
Munroe Leaf
The Story of Ferdinand
John Muth
Zen Shorts
Ann and Paul Rand
Little One
Mark Shulman and Adam McCauley
Mom & Dad Are Palindromes
Simms Taback
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
Oliver Jeffers
The Incredible Book-Eating Boy
Daniel and David Kamish
The Night the Scary Beasties Popped Out of My Head
Zora Neale Hurston
Lies and Other Tall Tales
Maya Angelou
Life Doesn't Frighten Me
David Wiesner
Flotsam
Dr. Seuss
Lorax
The Sneetches
Yertle the Turtle
Butter Battle Book
Bartholomew and the Ooblek
Green Eggs and Ham
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Shel Silverstein
Where the Sidewalk Ends
A Light in the Attic
The Missing Piece
The Missing Piece Meets the Big O
CHAPTER BOOKS
Pat O'Shea
The Hounds of the Morrigan
Margery Williams
The Velveteen Rabbit
A.A. Milne
Winnie the Pooh
The House at Pooh Corner
Lloyd Alexander
The Westmark Trilogy
Chronicles of Prydain
C.S. Lewis
Chronicles of Narnia
Lewis Carrol
Alice in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass
J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter
Peter S. Beagle
The Last Unicorn
William Goldman
The Princess Bride
Paterson & Diamond
Bridge to Teribithia
Robin McKinley
Hero and the Crown
The Blue Sword
E.B. White
Charlotte's Web
