Rex Stout - The Nero Wolfe series
Edgar Allan Poe
Dick Francis
Janet Evanovich - The Stephanie Plum series
Patrick F. McManus - His website
Carl Hiaasen
P.J. O'Rourke
Dave Barry
Robert B. Parker
Doug Allyn
When I'm not working on my own writing, I'm reading:
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
The Strand magazine
and I'm working my way through the "stack" of books queued up in my Kindle.
This stack can be as many as 90 books but has never dipped below 70.
LIFE IS SHORT - READ FAST
A couple of books stand out in my memory from my earliest reading days. One was The Mystery of the Witch's Bridge by Barbee Oliver Carleton. This book has the song Danny Boy featured throughout, and as I'm supposed to be named for that song, it stuck in my mind. The other was Dominic by William Stieg, a book my grandfather LeBoeuf gave me that I still have.
"I guess there are never enough books" - John Steinbeck
“Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it.” | Atlas Shrugged
Posted by Ayn Rand on Sunday, September 13, 2015
This Perfect Day - Ira Levin
Animal Farm - George Orwell
1984 - George Orwell
The Road to Serfdom - Friedrich von Hayek
The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Daniel LeBoeuf
The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw - Patrick F. McManus. The essay "Sequences" should be required reading for every person on earth.
Chesapeake; Caribbean; Hawaii - all 3 by James Michener
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe, and Everything - Douglas Adams
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish - Douglas Adams
Fall of Giants - Ken Follett
Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
World Without End - Ken Follett
Dave Barry Does Japan - Dave Barry
Proof - Dick Francis
The Alex McKnight series by Stephen Hamilton
The Wine Bible - Karen McNeil (a life changing book for me)
Anthem - Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Crowning the Customer - Feargal Quinn
History of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
The Holy Bible
The Quran
Parliament of Whores - P.J. O'Rourke
The Federalist Papers
The Anti-Federalist Papers
Human Capability - Eliott Jaques (link here to see Jaques' work in action today)
A General Theory of Bureaucracy - Eliott Jaques