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These items do not represent the best of any particular area, but my favorites (or least favorites, as noted). I also don't stick to 10 items per area; some more, some less. Get over it.Items are not in any ranked order; currently (at launch), the order is alphabetical. Click on any link to get that list with comments on each item listed.
Why am I doing this? No particular reason - because I can, because I'll learn something (code and intellect) by doing so, and because it will give readers an insight into what I like/dislike. So you can more easily decide if it's worth coming here or not.
Black Voices
- Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson
- The Sum Of Us, by Heather McGhee
- A Christmas Memory - Truman Capote
- A Mathmatician's Apology - G.H. Hardy
- A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
- Darkness Visible - William Styron
- Dear Theo - The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
- Night - Elie Wiesel
- Plainspeaking - Merle Miller
- Remembering Denny - Calvin Trillen
- The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
- A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
- Because It Is Bitter, Because It Is My Heart - Joyce Carol Oates
- Concluding Unscientific Postscipt - Soren Kierkegaard
- Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Goodbye - Cynthia Heimel
- Giving Good Weight - John McPhee
- How We Die - Sherwin B. Nuland
- Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
- Moments of Being - Virginia Woolf
- On Being Told That Her Second Husband Has Taken His First Lover - Tess Slessinger
- Other Voices, Other Rooms - Truman Capote
- The Last Worthless Evening - Andre Dubus
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks
- The Pugilist At Rest - Thom Jones
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
- Dynamic HTML - Danny Goodman
- Learning Perl - Randal L. Schwartz & Tom Christiansen
- Professional SQL Server 2000 Programming - Robert Vieira
- SQL for Dummies - Allen G. Taylor
- A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
- Essays of E.B. White - E.B. White
- Giving Good Weight - John McPhee
- How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed - Slavenka Drakulic
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks
- The Periodic Table - Primo Levi
- Catcher In the Rye - J.D. Salinger
- Centennial - James Michener
- Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
- Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Sophie's Choice - William Styron
- The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
- The Agony and the Ecstasy - Irving Stone
- The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer
- The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
- The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
- The Trial - Franz Kafka
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
- To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
- A Year in the Maine Woods - Bernd Heinrich
- Broadsides From the Other Orders - Sue Hubbell
- Civilization and Its Discontents - Sigmund Freud
- Coming Into the Country - John McPhee
- Lab Girl - Hope Jahren
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men - James Agee
- My Own Country - Abraham Verghese
- The Discoverers - Daniel Boorstin
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes
- The Mind of a Mnemonist - A.R. Luria
- The Song of the Dodo - David Quammen
- The Soul of a New Machine - Tracy Kidder
- Walden - Henry David Thoreau
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
- Certain Places - William Clift
- Diane Arbus: An Apeture Monograph - Diane Arbus
- Georgia O'Keeffe - A Portrait by Alfred Stieglitz
- Lost Chicago - David Lowe
- Mirrors Messages Manifestations - Minor White
- Pictures From the New World - Danny Lyon
- The Americans - Robert Frank
- The Family of Man - Edward Steichen, curator
- The World of Jan Saudek - Jan Saudek
- Yosemite and the Range of Light - Ansel Adams
- Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges
- Pricksongs and Descants - Roober Coover
- The Murphy Stories - Mark Costello
- The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction - R.V. Cassill, editor
- The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway - Ernest Hemingway
- The Stories of John Cheever - John Cheever
- Dr. Strangelove - Dr. Strangelove, Peter George
- Holly Golightly - Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote
- Ratso Rizzo - Midnight Cowboy
- Scratchy Wilson - "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," Stephen Crane
- Scrooge - A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
- Shylock - The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare
- Travis Bickle - Taxi Driver
- Murphy's Xmas, Murphy Stories - Mark Costello
- A & P - John Updike
- A Christmas Memory - Truman Capote
- A Map of the World - Jane Hamilton
- A River Runs Through It - Norman Maclean
- All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
- Anna Karenia - Leo Tolstoy
- Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen
- Guests of the Nation - Frank O'Connor
- Nevsky Prospect - Nikolai Gogol
- Notes From Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
- Rabbit Run - John Updike
- The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
- The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky - Stephen Crane
- The Country Husband - John Cheever
- The Dead - James Joyce
- The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
- The Stranger - Albert Camus
- The Trial - Franz Kafka
- Ulyssess - James Joyce
- All That Jazz
- Amadeus
- Casablanca
- Fantasia
- Godfather - Part II
- Good Will Hunting
- Manhattan
- Network
- Out of Africa
- The Candidate
- Wonder Boys
- Charlie Brown Christmas
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas
- Planes, Trains and Automobiles
- Scrooged
- White Chirstmas
- Yankee Doodle Dandy
- Fanfare For the Common Man/Rodeo/Appalachian Spring - Aaron Copland
- Late Symphonies - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Pictures At an Exhibition - Modest Mussorgsky
- Requiem (K.626) and Coronation Mass (K. 317) - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Rhapsody in Blue - George Gershwin
- Waltzes - Johann Strauss II
- Blood On the Tracks - Bob Dylan
- Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
- Late for the Sky - Jackson Browne
- Slow Turning - John Hiatt
- Who Knows Where the Time Goes? (Disc 3) - Sandy Denny
- Who's Next - The Who
- Bolero - Maurice Ravel
- Heroin - Lou Reed with the Velvet Underground
- Sweet Jane - As sung by the Cowboy Junkies on their Trinity Sessions CD
- Champagne and Reefer - Muddy Waters
- Heroin - Lou Reed/Velvet Underground
- Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - Beatles
- Needle and the Damage Done - Neil Young
- The Pusher
- White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
- "A & P" - John Updike
- "A Good Man is Hard to Find" - Flannery O'Connor
- "A Modest Proposal" - Johnathan Swift
- "Funes the Memorious" - Jorge Luis Borges
- "Guests of the Nation" - Frank O'Connor
- "Hills Like White Elephants" - Ernest Hemingway
- "Tell Me a Riddle" - Tillie Olsen
- "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" - Stephen Crane
- "The Country Husband" - John Cheever
- "The Dead" - James Joyce
- "The Waltz" - Dorothy Parker