The virtual library

My friend Chris thinks I'm educated and/or well-read. She thinks I should make a list of everything I've read like she did. Boy is she gonna be disappointed. I have no idea how she managed to write her list, so I'll just start by looking hers over and note stuff that I've read too.

Guns, Germs, and Steel, the Fates of Human Societies- Jared Diamond
1984 - George Orwell
Angels and Demons- Dan Brown
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
DaVinci Code, The- Dan Brown
Grapes of Wrath, The - John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The - Douglas Adams
Hobbit, The – J.R.R. Tolkien
Outsiders, The – S.E. Hinton
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
An Insider’s View of Mormon Origins- Grant Palmer
Case for Christ, The- Lee Strobel
Keystone of Mormonism, The- Arza Evans
Lectures on Faith – Joseph Smith
Misquoting Jesus- Bart Ehrman
Lost Christianities- Bart Ehrman
Growing Up Brady - Barry Williams
Dress for Success - John T. Molloy
Big Trouble - Dave Barry
How to Win Frineds and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
Winning Through Intimidation - Robert J. Ringer
Salamander- Linda Sillitoe
Digital Fortress - Dan Brown's worst novel ever
Mormon Murders - Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith
Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
The Tao of Programming - Geoffrey James
The Zen of Programming - Geoffrey James
New Cowboy Poetry - ed. Hal Cannon
Under the Banner of Heaven- Jon Krakauer
Travels with Charlie- John Steinbeck
Cannery Row- John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men- John Steinbeck
Sweet Thursday- John Steinbeck
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
All Families are Psychotic - Douglas Coupland
Hey Nostradamus! - Douglas Coupland
Generation X - Douglas Coupland
Plane Insanity - Elliot Hester
Embraced by the Light - Betty J. Eadie
The Code Book - Simon Singh
Fermat's Enigma - Simon Singh
at this point no one should still be reading the list
Computer Wars - Ferguson & Morris
The Macintosh Way - Guy Kawasaki
The Fall of Japan - William Craig
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Bartleby the Scribner - Herman Melville
Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau
Walden - Henry David Thoreah
Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
'Tis - Frank McCourt
A Monk Swimming - Malachy McCourt
Singing My Him Song - Malachy McCourt
If Chins Could Kill - Bruce Campbell
In My Father's House - Dorothy Allred Solomon
Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity - John Stossel

Nearly everything by Donald E. Westlake
Half of everything by Isaac Asimov

and two computer reference books that I have read cover to cover.

Programming Perl by Larry Wall
and
The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie


I'm sure I'll remember more later. I haven't looked at the upstairs book case yet.