The best way for you to get to know me is to see what books I read.

Leslie's Reading List

The following are authors and titles of some books I have read since Dec. 96:
Robert Hughes. The Fatal Shore
Robin Lane Fox. Pagans and Christians
Carl G. Jung. Man and His Symbols
* Ken Brady and Jeremy Solomon, Eds. The Wit & Wisdom of George Bush
* Daniel J. Boorstin. The Discoverers
Rev. Montague Summers, Trans. & Ed. The Malleus Maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger
The following are authors and titles of books I hope to read sometime in my life:
Every book Isaac Asimov ever wrote.
The following are the books I have read since I started this list on April 4, 1997:
Date doneAuthor/Title
4/7/1997J. Froyland. Introduction to Chaos and Coherence
4/9/1997James Gleick. Introduction to Chaos
5/2/1997Houp, Pearsall, Tebeaux. Reporting Technical Information, Eighth Edition
5/26/1997Timothy Ferris, ed. The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics
5/27/1997Chris Keledjian, ed. Ports of Entry: William S. Burroughs and the Arts
5/28/1997Dr. Andrew Weil, MD. Spontaneous Healing
5/29/1997Steven Foster/James A. Duke. Peterson Field Guides Eastern/Central Medicinal Plants
6/4/1997Kay Redfield Jamison. Touched With Fire: Manic Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperment
6/18/1997D. Michael Denny. How To Get A Cat To Sit In Your Lap
6/18/1997Patricia Curtis. The Indoor Cat
6/19/1997Stanley Schuler. Gardens Are For Eating
6/20/1997Poul Anderson. Harvest Of Stars
6/25/1997Alexander Jablokov. Nimbus
7/2/1997* Heather Busch and Burton Silver. Why Cats Paint: A theory of feline aesthetics
7/14/1997Daniel J. Boorstin. The Creators
7/15/1997Frederik Pohl. The Voices of Heaven
7/15/1997* Mary Stewart. The Crystal Cave: Book One of the Arthurian Saga
7/16/1997Mary Stewart. The Hollow Hills
7/17/1997Mary Stewart. The Last Enchantment
7/18/1997Mary Stewart. The Wicked Day
8/4/1997John Milton. Complete Poetry and Selected Prose
8/6/1997Jack Kerouac. Mexico City Blues (242 Choruses)
9/17/1997Frederick K. Goodwin and Kay Redfield Jamison. Manic-Depressive Illness
9/19/1997* Wilson Bryan Key, PhD. The Clam-Plate Orgy and other Other Subliminals the Media Use to Manipulate Your Behavior
9/20/1997Vance Packard. The Hidden Persuaders
9/21/1997* Edward T. Hall. The Hidden Dimension
9/22/1997Colin M. Turnbull. The Mountain People
9/24/1997* Colin M. Turnbull. The Forest People
9/27/1997* Oliver Sacks. Awakenings/A Leg to Stand On/The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat/Seeing Voices. Special Edition
9/27/1997* Beatrice Trum Hunter's Fact/Book on Food Additives and Your Health
10/2/1997Phil Farrand. The Nitpicker's Guide for Next Generation Trekkers
10/3/1997Phil Farrand. The Nitpicker's Guide for Next Generation Trekkers Volume II
10/1997Irving Ribner, Ed. The Complete Plays of Christopher Marlowe
11/1997Scott Adams. The Dilbert Principle
1/3/1998Anais Nin. A Spy in the House of Love
1/24/1998Scott Adams. Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook
1/31/1998* Gary Zukav. The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics
3/7/1998Julieta Ramos-Elorduy, Ph.D. Creepy Crawly Cuisine: The Gourmet Guide to Edible Insects
4/1998Naomi Wolf. Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood
6/21/1998* Herman Hesse. Siddhartha
?/1998* Stella Kramrisch. Manifestations of Shiva
?/1998* Karlis Osis, Ph.D., Erlendur Haraldsson, Ph.D. At the Hour of Death
?/1998* T. B. Pawlicki. How to Build a Flying Saucer and Other Proposals in Speculative Engineering
1998Philip Terpestra. Electric Vehicle Structures & Components
1/3/1999John Donne. Selected Poetry
1/5/1999Daniel J. Boorstin. The Seekers
1/7/1999Daniel Odier. The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs
4/11/1999* A. Alvarez. Night
4/11/1999Lewis Thomas. The Fragile Species
5/1999Francine Shapiro. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
6/1999Tina Goss. The Dilemma
11/1999Francis Mark Mondimore, MD. Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for Patients and Families.
12/1999Dimetri Papalos and Janet Papolos. The Bipolar Child: The Definitive and Reassuring Guide to One of Childhood's Most Misunderstood Disorders.
12/1999Paul Shepard. The Others: How Animals Made Us Human
1999Anne Sexton. Transformations
1999Isaac Asimov. The Early Asimov, Book Two
1999Isaac Asimov. Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of letters
1999Ben, Catherine, and John Still. A Field Guide to Little-known & Seldom-seen Birds of North America
1/2000Walt Stoll, MD. Saving Yourself from the Disease-Care Crisis
1/7/2000Andrew Oram & Steve Talbott. Managing Projects with Make
1/9/2000Tom Clancy. Executive Orders
A sampling of books I read between 1/2000 and 7/2002:
2000* Benjamin Hoff. The Tao of Pooh
2000Benjamin Hoff. The Te of Piglet
2000Harold Davis. Red Hat Linux 6
2000Linux for Dummies, 2nd ed.
2000Ferdinand P. Beer, E. Russell Johnston, Jr. Vector Mechanics for Engineers
2000Winona LaDuke. All Our Relations
2000National Geographic: Cat Shots
2000Dan Gookin. C for Dummies
2000William E. Mayo, Martin Cwiakala. Schaum's Outlines: Programming with F77
2000Steven Foster, James A. Duke. Peterson Field Guides: Eastern/Central Medicinal Plants
2000Bilal M. Ayyub, Richard H. McCuen. Numerical Methods for Engineers
2000John F. Lucas. Introduction to Abstract Mathematics, Second Edition
2000Donald G. Newman, Jerome P. Lavelle. Engineering Economic Analysis, Seventh Edition
2000Eeyore's Gloomy Little Instruction Book
2000Arthur Kroker. Spasm
2000Autobiography of a Creek: The Pennypack
2000John P. Uyemura. A First Course in Digital Systems Design
2000Tom Negrino, Dori Smith. JavaScript for the World Wide Web
2000Karen Pryor. Don't Shoot the Dog The New Art of Teaching and Training
2000Andrew Edney, B.V.M. ASPCA Complete Cat Care Manual
2000Anne Sexton. The Complete Poems
2000Samuel French Morse, Ed. Poems by Wallace Stevens
2000Richard Lederer. Traditional Reiki For Our Times
9/2001Norman Rosenthal, with Michael Archer... [et al.]. Apocalypse: Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art
2001Stephen LaBerge, PhD, Howard Rheingold. Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming
2001Mircea Eliade. Myth And Reality
2001Mitzi Walsh. Bipolar Disorders: A Guide to Helping Children and Adolescents
2001The Selected Poems of Li Po
2002Aurealia Nelson. Musings of a Mad Madam
2002Betty Lehan Harrigan. Games Your Mother Never Taught You
2002Kay Redfield Jamison, PhD. Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
2002Tara Elgin Holley with Joe Holley. My Mother's Keeper
2002Diane Stein. Essential Reiki: A Complete Guide to an Ancient Healing Art
2002Richard Rhodes. The Making of the Atomic Bomb
2002* Department of the Army Pamphlet No. 39-3. The Effects of Nuclear Weapons (with "Nuclear Bomb Effects Computer" based on the book)
2002Daniel Goleman. Emotional Intelligence
2002Arthur Furst. Anne Sexton: The Last Summer
2002Marc Okrand. The Klingon Dictionary
2002Joseph Campbell. Myths to Live By
3/2002Scott Adams. The Joy of Work: DILBERT'S Guide to Finding Happiness at the Expense of Your Co-Workers
2002Denise Dellarosa Cummins, Colin Allen. The Evolution of Mind
2002Cynthia Olsen. Australian Tea Tree Oil
2002Alison Daniels. Feng Shui for You and Your Cat
2002Jim Meuninick. Edible Wild Plants & Useful Herbs
11/2002* Eeyore's Gloomy Little Instruction Book
12/2002Helen J. Haberly. REIKI: Hawayo Takata's Story
2003* Benjamin Hoff. The Tao of Pooh
2003* Benjamin Hoff. The Te of Piglet
1/2003James Joyce. Finnegan's Wake
2003-? Not enough time to write down what I've been reading because I'm working in NJ again:
1/2004* Jack Kerouac. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0802130607/qid=1106011342/pendulumresource/" target=resource>Mexico City Blues (242 Choruses)
I/PBarry Sears PhD. The Soy Zone
I/PRichard Restak. The New Brain: How the Modern Age Is Rewiring Your Mind
I/PJ.G. Bennett. Values
2005 I've begun including audio books.
1/2005Daniel G. Amen, MD. Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsiveness
1/2005Gregory Maguire. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
1/2005
1/2005
1/2005
*= I've read these books before.

Modified January 17, 2005.