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Things Written - Novels

Columbia: Reflections in Broken Glass (2008)
Farchrist Tales, Book 6: Sorrow (1997)
Farchrist Tales, Book 5: Crusader (1994)
Farchrist Tales, Book 4: The Price (1991)
Farchrist Tales, Book 3: The Undergod (1991)
Farchrist Tales, Book 2: The Forgotten Temple (1990)
Farchrist Tales, Book 1: Stone to Flesh (1990)

Things Written - Short Stories

River of Doubt (2003)
The Faerie Knave (1990)
The Stray (1990)
Masks (1990)
Transients (1990)
Things Happen (1989)
Power (1989)
The Rain Song (1989)
Ghost (1987)
Suicide Is Just a State of Mind (1987)
The Wizard's Revenge (1986)

Things Read - by Author

Adams, Douglas
Aeschylus
Albee, Edward
Ambrose, Stephen E.
Andera, Margaret
Aristophanes
Atwood, Margaret
Avalos, Hector
Badaracco, Joseph L.
Banks, Russell
Bass, Rick
Bellow, Saul
Berger, Thomas
Blatty, William Peter
Bloom, Harold
Boritt, Gabor S.
Bossidy, Larry
Bovard, Jim
Boyle, T. C.
Bradbury, Ray
Brands, H. W.
Brooks, Geraldine
Brown, Dan
Buck, Pearl S.
Buckingham, Marcus
Butterworth, Bill
Byers, Mary
Cairo, Peter C.
Canter, Rachelle J.
Capote, Truman
Carter, Jimmy
Carver, John
Cather, Willa
Chappell, Alexandra
Charan, Ram
Christopher, Jay
Clancy, Tom
Clark, Walter Van Tilburg
Clarke, Arthur C.
Coerver, Harrison
Coffman, Curt
Conrad, Joseph
Cooper Jr., William J.
Cooper, James Fenimore
Corcos, Alain F.
Coward, Rosalind
Curti, Merle
Daniel, Larry J.
Davis, Kenneth S.
Dawkins, Richard
DeCagna, Jeff
Diamond, Jared
Dickinson, Emily
Doidge, Norman
Dorin, Patrick C.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Dotlich, David L.
Dubus III, Andre
Dumas, Alexandre
Ellis, Joseph J.
Ellison, Ralph
Euripides
Fast, Howard
Faulkner, William
Finney, Jack
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Fleming, Thomas
Ford, Richard
Forester, C. S.
Franklin, Benjamin
Frazer, Sir James George
Galilei, Galileo
Gammel, David
George, Bill
Gichon, Mordechai
Gladwell, Malcolm
Gordinier, Jeff
Green, Miranda J.
Greenwald, Glenn
Grenny, Joseph
Grisham, John
Gutzman, Kevin R. C.
Haddon, Mark
Haley, Alex
Hardwick, Michael
Hardwick, Mollie
Harris, Sam
Harris, Thomas
Hattaway, Herman
Heinlein, Robert A.
Hemingway, Ernest
Herzog, Chain
Higgins, Jack
Hilton, Conrad
Hitchens, Christopher
Hoag, Tami
Hoving, Thomas
Hulston, Nancy J.
Hurston, Zora Neale
Huxley, Aldous
Hyde, Catherine Ryan
Irving, Washington
Jacobs, Jerald A.
Janson, H. W.
Jenkins, Jerry B.
Jenkins, Roy
Johnson, Chalmers
Johnston, Johanna
Jordan-Evans, Sharon
Kantor, MacKinlay
Kaye, Beverly
Keillor, Garrison
Kerouac, Jack
Kick, Russ
King, Stephen
Kirsch, Jonathan
Klemperer, Victor
Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth
LaHaye, Tim
Lalli, Nica
Lamb, Brian
Larsen, Lawrence H.
Lawrence, T. E.
Leckie, Ross
Lenardon, Robert J.
Lencioni, Patrick
Levi, Primo
Levin, Ira
Litman, Robert
Lovecraft, H. P.
Markoe, Merrill
Maugham, W. Somerset
McCarthy, Cormac
McCullough, David
McGeady, Sister Mary Rose
McGowan, Dale
McLaughlin, Mary Martin
McMillan, Ron
McMurtry, Larry
McPhee, Nancy
Melville, Herman
Menzel, Donald H.
Miller, Arthur
Moe, Richard
Moore, Christopher
Moore, Lorrie
Morford, Mark P. O.
Morris, Desmond
Morris, Edmund
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick
Murdoch, Iris
Nabokov, Vladimir
Notter, Jamie
O'Reilly, Bill
Oates, Stephen B.
Ossana, Diana
Ovid
Palin, Michael
Pasachoff, Jay M.
Patterson, James
Patterson, Kerry
Perry, Steve
Pfanz, Donald C.
Pfeffer, Jeffrey
Philbrick, Nathaniel
Pinker, Steven
Poe, Edgar Allan
Pullman, Philip
Randall, Alice
Ravikovich, Felix
Remarque, Erich Maria
Remini, Robert V.
Rhea, Gordon C.
Rice, Anne
Riggs, David F.
Robbins, Tom
Robinson, Marilynne
Rops, Mickie
Ross, James Bruce
Russell, Bertrand
Sagan, Carl
Sandford, John
Sargant, William
Schama, Simon
Schlosser, Eric
Scholtes, Peter R.
Sedaris, David
Shaara, Jeff
Shaw, George Bernard
Shephard, Ben
Silverman, David P.
Simpson, Brooks D.
Sinclair, Upton
Smiley, Jane
Smith, Amy
Sobel, Dava
Sophocles
Spring, Justin
Steinbeck, John
Surowiecki, James
Sutton, Robert I.
Switzler, Al
Tacitus
Tan, Amy
Tap, Bruce
Taylor, John
Taylor, Winnifred
Todd, Lewis Paul
Tolstoy, Leo
Trollope, Anthony
Tuchman, Barbara W.
Turgenev, Ivan
Twain, Mark
Updike, John
Vonnegut, Kurt
Warren, Rick
Watkins, Michael
Waugh, John C.
Wister, Owen
Wolfe, Tom
Woods, Thomas E.
Wright, Patricia
Wright, Robert
Zakaria, Fareed
Zappler, Lisbeth

Things Read - by Title

1776
2001: A Space Odyssey
Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The
Affliction
After Daybreak: The Liberation of Belsen, 1945
All Quiet on the Western Front
All the Pretty Horses
All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton, The
Allergy Shots
Ancestor's Tale, The
Ancient Egypt
Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire
Anna Karenina
Annals of Tacitus, The
Antic Hay
Art for Dummies
Association Law Handbook
Attention Deficit Democracy
Bag of Bones
Balancing Work and Life
Battle for the Mind
Battle of the Wilderness, The
Battles of the Bible
Be My Guest
Best of H. P. Lovecraft, The
Blank Slate, The
Blind Watchmaker, The
Blink
Blowback
Boards That Make a Difference
Bonesetter's Daughter, The
Book of Insults, The
Booknotes: Stories from American History
Boone's Lick
Boys from Brazil, The
Brain That Changes Itself, The
Brave New World
Brave New World Revisited
Cakes and Ale
Cat Who Walks Through Walls, The
Charles Dickens Encyclopedia, The
Churchill
City by the Bay: San Francisco in Art and Literature
Classical Mythology
Cold Harbor
Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson, The
Comanche Moon
Come to the Basement: How to Thrive as a Pampered Chef Spouse
Complete Idiot's Guide to Geocaching, The
Crossing, The
Crucial Confrontations
Crucible, The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The
Da Vinci Code, The
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Demon-Haunted World, The
Descent of Man
Devils of Loudun, The
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Dragon Complex, The: Strategies for Identifying and Conquering Workplace Abuse
Drop City
Dutch
East is East
Embattled Shrine: Jamestown in the Civil War
End of Biblical Studies, The
End of Faith, The
Essential Edward Hopper, The
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
Exorcist, The
FDR: The War President
Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales, The
Farewell to Arms, A
Fart Proudly
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Fathers and Sons
Female Desires
Field Guide to the Stars and Planets, A
First 90 Days, The: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels
First American, The
First, Break All the Rules
Five Temptations of a CEO, The
Flight of Eagles
Friend of the Earth, A
From Time to Time
Gettysburg Nobody Knows, The
Gilead
Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, The
God Delusion, The
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
God, Please Save Me
Golden Bough, The
Golden Compass, The
Good Earth, The
Goya
Greasy Lake and Other Stories
Guilty as Sin
Guns of August, The
Guns, Germs and Steel
Handmaid's Tale, The
Hannibal
Harlot by the Side of the Road, The
Heart of Darkness
Hearts in Atlantis
Hemingway's Chair
Herzog
History of Art
History of New York, A
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The
Holidays on Ice
Hour Before Daylight, An
House of Sand and Fog
I Will Bear Witness, Volume 1
Idiot, The
In Cold Blood
In the Heart of the Sea
Inner Circle, The
Interview with the Vampire
Jefferson Davis, American
Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine
John Adams
Juneteenth
Jungle, The
King Arthur, His Knights, and Their Ladies
Kiss the Girls
Knowing-Doing Gap, The
Lake Wobegon Summer 1956
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Last Full Meaure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers, The
Last Tycoon, The
Late Night with David Letterman: The Book
Leader's Handbook, The
Leading Quietly: An Unorthodox Guide to Doing the Right Thing
Left Behind
Letter to a Christian Nation
Little Big Man
Lonesome Dove
Long Remember
Longitude
Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay
Magnetic North: The Landscapes of Tom Uttech
Make the Right Career Move
Man and Superman
Man in Full, A
March
Martian Chronicles, The
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Metamorphoses, The
Moby-Dick
Moon and Sixpence, The
Moral Animal, The: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
My Antonia
Myth of Human Races, The
Naked Ape, The
Nature's Oddballs
No Country for Old Men
No Spin Zone, The
Nostromo
Nothing
Nothing Like It in the World
O Pioneers!
O. Henry Stories - Prize Stories 1989
Old Beauty and Others, The
On Death and Dying
On Writing
On the Road
Over Lincoln's Shoulder: The Committee on the Conduct of the War
Ox-Bow Incident, The
Pale Fire
Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids without Religion
Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams
Pay It Forward
Pendergast!
Pilot, The
Plot Against Asthma and Allergy Patients, The
Portable Medieval Reader, The
Post-American World, The
Problems and Other Stories
Professor's House, The
Purpose-Driven Life, The
Race for Relevance
Rainbow Six
Reelecting Lincoln: The Battle for the 1864 Presidency
Rembrandt's Eyes
Richard S. Ewell: A Soldier's Life
Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, The
Rise of the American Nation
Rise to Rebellion
Road to Wellville, The
Road, The
Roots
Rose Madder
Sanctuary
Secrecy
Secret Prey
Self-Help
Seven Famous Greek Plays
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Severed Head, A
Shades of Blue and Gray: An Introductory Military History of the Civil War
Shadows of the Empire
Shadows on the Rock
Shiloh
Silence of the Lambs, The
Sin Killer
Sink the Bismarck!
Slaughterhouse-Five
Soldiers' Pay
Spark of Independence, The
Spartacus by Howard Fast
Spy, The
Stand, The: The Complete and Uncut Edition
Streets of Laredo
Survival at Auschwitz
Tender Is the Night
Terms of Endearment
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Theodore Rex
Thousand Acres, A
Three Musketeers, The
Time to Kill, A
Tom Clancy's Op-Center
Tragic Legacy, A
Travels with Charley
True North
Truth About You, The
Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity
Virginian, The
Wandering Hill, The
Warden, The
We Have Always Done It That Way: 101 Things About Associations We Must Change
When This Cruel War Is Over
Where the Sea Used to Be
Whirlwind of War, The: Voices of the Storm, 1861-1865
Who Killed the Constitution?
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Why CEOs Fail
Why I Am Not a Christian
Why Is Sex Fun?
Wind Done Gone, The
Wisdom of Crowds, The
Women with Men
World of the Druids, The
X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft But Can Still Keep Everything From Sucking
You Are Being Lied To: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths
Zeke and Ned

Things Quoted

Aeschylus
Aldous Huxley
Alexander Hamilton
Andreas Capellanus
Benjamin Franklin
Bram Stoker
Catherine Beecher
Daniel Defoe
David Eddings
David Foster Wallace
Edgar Allan Poe
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Friedrich Nietzsche
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Han Suyin
Herman Melville
James Madison
James Michener
Jane Austen
John Steinbeck
Napoleon Bonaparte
Oscar Wilde
Pablo Picasso
Peter Damiani
William Faulkner

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