Books I Have Loved or Enjoyed
In no particular order
(ok ... except for the first three)


The Little Prince, by Antoine Saint Exupery (sweet, poignant, and life inducing) Candide, by Voltairel (Yes, we must cultivate our garden) Palomar, by Italo Calvino (I'd like to become Palomar)
Toward a Psychology of Being, by Abraham Maslow (it self-actualized me) The Blank Slate, by Steven Pinker The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas (simply a great yarn)
Talks to Teachers, by William James (all you need know to be a fine teacher) The Sonnets, William Shakespeare (Two loves I have of comfort and despair) Poetry of e. e. cummings (love really is more thicker than forget, just as kisses are a better fate than wisdom)
Civilization and Its Discontents, by Sigmund Freud (it's about me) Creation, by Gore Vidal (a tour de force) This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (I went through a Fitzgerald phase)
Julian, by Gore Vidal (how I wish I'd been there ... I would have made a great hedonist ... did once) Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons (may happiness pursue you) Babylon Revisited and other stories, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (This was part of the phase)
Steppenwolf, by Herman Hesse (I also went through a Steppenwolf phase ... it involved long walks in the rain without an umbrella, which, when you wear glasses, is no picnic) Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino (without stones, there is no arch) Pedagogy of Freedom, by Paulo Freire
Goodbye, Mr. Chips, by James Hilton (not a great book, mind you, but it inspired me to become a teacher) El Arte de la Prudencia, by Baltasar Gracian (there are defects without defect) The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse (a powerful lesson for us all) Complete Poems of T. S. Eliot (LET us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky) Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger (but of course)
Anything by Enrique Jardiel Poncela Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce (my schooldays biography) Guidelines of the American Psychological Association (bringing order to a chaotic world)
Any book by John Le Carre Stories of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (I was a big fan) The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein (sigh ...)
A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway (I'm not really a Hemingway fan, but this was a lovely book) Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle Pragmatism, by William James (yes, he does go around the squirrell) The Stranger, by Albert Camus (I know how he felt)
Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant The Miser, by Moliere Some Thoughts Concerning Education, John Locke Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles
The Histories, Herodotus The Dubliners, by James Joyce The Ego and the Id, Sigmund Freud Principles of Psychology, by William James
Silas Marner, by George Elliot Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens Moby Dick, by Herman Melville (another great yarn - and I also loved Billy Budd) Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Propher, by Kahlil Gibran (Your children are not your children The Stories of Guy De Maupassant Will Durant's Stofy of Civilization (the whole series cover to cover, twice, and some volumes even more - with a name like William James Durant, how could he go wrong?) To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach Poetry of Garcia Lorca (verde, que te quiero verde) Any James Bong book, by Ian Fleming (I know, I know) Miss Lonelyhearts, by Nathaniel West (it was during a weird time in college, don't ask)
The Twelve Caesars, by Suetonius (delicious, and nutritious) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas Kuhn (he's not right about everything, and he's not clear about everything ... nonetheless, a wonderfully challenging read) The Story of O, by Pauline Reage (Yeah, like you wouldn't like it if you read it. If you haven't already. Gimme a break.) Anthem, by Ayn Rand (doesn't everyone go through an Ayn Rand phase in high school?)
Self-Reliance and Other Essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson) Poetry of Robert Frost (in fire, trust me) The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway On Phenomenology and Social Relations, by Alfred Schutz
The Graves of Academe, by Richard Mitchell (cute book, but we're such easy targets) No Exit, by Jean Paul Sartre (hell is other people ... now there's an insight) The Persian Boy, by Mary Renault (I went through an Alexander the Great phase ... and a Napoleon phase ... I wonder, I wonder) Seinlanguage, by Jerry Seinfeld (hilarious ... in another age, he would have been a philosopher)
A Room of One's Own (we all need one The Writings of Tailhard deChardin The Poetry of Stanley Kunitz (layers upon layers upon layers) The Poetry of Pablo Neruda (sucede que me canso de ser hombre)
Las Aventuras del Capitan Trueno (I grew up on this stuff - explains a lot don't it?) The Lord of the Rings, by J. R. R. Tolkien (storytelling at its best ... my little sister destroyed my collector's edition) chuckle, chuckle