Books I’ve Read

Be a Rebel.
Read a Chapter Book over ten years.
Read a Nonfiction Book in the same amount of time.
Read a poem, essay or a short story once or twice a month.
Read a life by Plutarch or Suetonius once a year.
Catch up on your mythology and fairy tales once or twice a year, too.
Read a random Encyclopedia or Dictionary Entry once or twice in a while.
Read a chapter of the Bible now and again.
Read an Epic Poem over a lifetime.
Just read... don't be afraid. It's not a contest.

The Bible More than Every Other Book, Probably Even Twice Combined
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy Twice
Anna Karenina By Leo Tolstoy Once
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway Twice
Steinbeck The Pearl Once
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Four Times
The Communist Manifesto Three Times
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Once
Jane Austen Mansfield Park Once
Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy Once
Machiavelli's Prince Once
True Believer Eric Hoffer Once
Frank Herbert Dune Trilogy Once
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Alexander Solzhenitsyn Once
Fredrick Douglass The Life of Fredrick Douglass Once 
Lois Lowry's The Giver Once
C. S. Lewis Mere Christianity Once
C. S. Lewis The Abolition of Man Three Times
C. S. Lewis The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Once
C. S. Lewis The Magician's Nephew Once
C. S. Lewis That Hideous Strength Once
C. S. Lewis Perelandra Once
C. S. Lewis Out of the Silent Planet Once
C. S. Lewis Dymer Once
1494 By Stephen R. Brown
Ray Bradbury Dandelion Wine Once
Ray Bradbury The Martian Chronicles Once
Ray Bradbury The Illustrated Man Once
Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 four times
Macbeth By Shakespeare Once
Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare Once
How to Win Friends and Influence People Dale Carnegie Twice
Julius Caesar by Shakespeare Once
Shakespearean Sonnets Once
Aristotle's Poetics Twice
The United States Constitution Five Times
United Nations Human Rights Charter Once
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Once
The Art of War by Sun Tsu Once
Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Once
George Orwell's 1984 Three Fourths
Brave New World Once
The Complete Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock T. S. Eliot
Sir Thomas Moore's Utopia Once
The Catcher in the Rye Three Fourths
Civil Disobedience By Thoreau once 
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird Four Times
Conquistador by Buddy Levy Once
The Case for Christmas Lee Strobel Twice
The Case for Easter Lee Strobel Twice
J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit Once
J. R. R. Tolkien's The Fall of Arthur Twice
John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress Once
Before and After Socrates by F. M. Cornford Once
St. Augustine's Confessions Once
Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn Once
Voltaire's Candide Once
Seamus Heaney's Translation of Beowulf Once
Paradise Lost Once 
George Orwell's Why I Write Twice
The Everlasting Man G. K. Chesterton Once
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Once 
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift Once
Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy Once
Animal Farm George Orwell Once
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Once
The Lotus Caves John Christopher Once
Complete Sayings of Ptahotep - Thrice


40 Poems by Wordsworth 

1. Lines Written in an Album

Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes
The Child of the Cavern Jules Verne

40 Poems by Wendell Berry
1 Essay by Wendell Berry
8 Poems by Robert Frost
30 Poems by Coleridge

1. Meditation on a Cataract
2. Religious Musings on Christmas Eve

20 Poems by Yeats
20 Poems by Keats

1. Hyperion 
2. The Fall of Hyperion

60 Poems by Walt Whitman
30 Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
15 Poems by Seamus Heaney
20 Poems by Horace

1. icci beatis

3 Short Stories by James Joyce
1 Short Story by Herman Melville
1 Short Story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
9 Full Canterbury Tales
Rousseau's First Discourse
60 Irish Poems and Fairy Tales by Various Authors

1. Babylon
2. The Burial of King Cormac
3. The Lament of Queen Maeve
4. The Banshee
5. The Children of Lir (Poem and Short Story)
6. The Bells of Shandon
7. Lament of Poets 1916
8.  The Exodus
9. The Famine Year
10. To Inishkea
11. To Maeve
12. The Herb Leech
13. Go Ploughman Plough

5 Complete Plutarch's Lives
8 T. S. Eliot Poems
5 Robert Southey Poems 
5 Meditations in the Tao Te Ching
10 Byron Poems

1. Prometheus 

4 Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
3 Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
1 Life by Suetonius (Nero) 
65 Grimm's Fairy Tales
22 Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales
4 Essays by Frédéric Bastiat
6 Essays by Sigmund Freud
2 Essays by Carl Jung
3 Dialogues of Plato
5 Short Stories from Great American Short Stories
30 Poems from A Treasury of Poems in the English Language
2 Short Stories by Charles Beaumont
30 Great Tales from Great Tales From English History by Robert Lacey 
1 Essay by Benjamin Franklin
15 Poems by John Donne
Thomas Paine's Letter to Quakers
4 Short Stories by Guy De Maupassant 
22 Essays from Michael Montaigne
50 Aesop's Fables
20 of the Most Influential Speeches
Washington's Farewell Address
Washington's Inaugural Speeches
Jefferson's Farewell Speech
The Declaration of Independence
6 Books of the Old Testament Apocrypha
12 Books of the New Testament Apocrypha 
12 Poems by Wallace Stevens
3 Stories in The True Fairyland of Old King Cole
10 Poems by Emily Dickinson
1 Essay by Francis Bacon

1. I Gave Myself to Him

12 Irish Legends
4 Welsh Legends
Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vaunaghut 
Many Egyptian Fables and Stories from its Mythology

20 Letters from the Founding Fathers

3 Poems by William Blake

1. A Prophecy of America

12 Eddas from the Elder Edda
Athanasian Creed 20xs
Apostles Creed 1000xs
Nicene Creed 300xs


*If A Poem is Set Aside and Numbered, It's One I Recurrently Read

Books I'm in the Process of Reading

Virgil's Aeneid
Ovid's Metamorphosis
Boethius' Consolations of Philosophy
Homer's Odyssey
Spencer's Fairy Queen
Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mozi's Meditations
Confucian Analects
La Rochefouchauld's Maxims and Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays and Poems
Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
Philip K. Dick 20 Short Stories
J. R. R. Tolkien's Silmarillion
Goethe's Faust
The Tale of Genjii Lady Murasaki
Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper
Caxton's Le Morte De Arthur
The Sayings of Mencius
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Romantic's Manifesto by Ayn Rand
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Dante's Inferno
Herodotus
Adam Smith's the Wealth of Nations
The Social Contract by Rene Decarte
Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica
Thomas Hobbes Leviathan
John Locke's Two Essays
The Federalist Papers
The Antifederalist Papers
The Complete Pythagoras
Globish by Robert McCrum
Fernand Braudel's A History of Civilization
For Whom the Bell Tolls Earnest Hemmingway
Brother's Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Writings of Martin Luther
Being Logical D. Q. McInery
On Tyranny Timothy Snyder
Edith Hamilton's Mythology
Thomas Bulfinch's Mythology
Memoires of Chateaubriand
Emma Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck
Child Harold's Pilgrimage Byron
Michelangelo by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  
The Horse and His Boy C. S. Lewis
Paper Towns by John Greene
Lucretius' On the Nature of Things
The City of God
Leibniz' Theodicy (One Snippet on Asymptotes Helped Me Completely Understand Calculus)


Compendiums I Refer To Often

Constitutional Law Casebook Fourteenth Edition
Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetic Terms
A New Handbook on Literary Terms - David Mikiks
Encarta Encyclopedia 2004
Euclid's Elements  from Green Lion Press
Evidence that Demands a Verdict - The McDowells 
2 Western History Textbooks from the 1980s and 2010s
Rules for Writers by Diana Hacker
A Reader's Digest of North American Birdlife
A Reader's Digest of North American Wildlife
Bulfinch and Edith Hamilton's Mythologies
Mythology A - Z  Annette Giesecke
Myths and Legends by William Doty and Jake Jackson
1978 Lutheran Hymnal
Barnes and Noble's Illuminated Book Edition The Constitution and Other Selected Writings of the Founding Fathers
Matthew Henry Commentary
World Mythology in Bite Sized Chunks by Mark Daniels
The Little Book of Mathematical Principles, Theories and Things by Robert Solomon 
Mathematics by Michael Willers

Scripture Translations I'm Familiar With

Dead Sea Scrolls Translated Into English
2 Hebrew Transliterations
1 Greek Transliteration
KJV
NASB
NRSV
NKJV
NIV
ESV
JPS
GNT 
TEV New Testament
Writings of the Apostolic Fathers, J. B, Lightfoot
Old Testament Apocrypha, NRSV
Strong's New and Old Testament Concordances

Children's Books I Read When In School

Iceberg Hermit Arthur J. Roth
Island of the Blue Dolphins Scott O'Dell
My Side of the Mountain Jean Craighead George
The Hatchet Gary Paulson
The Cay Theodore Taylor
Wacky Wednesday Dr. Seuss
Go Dog Go Dr. Seuss
The Foot Book Dr. Seuss
Green Eggs and Ham Dr. Seuss
The Best Nest Dr. Seuss
The Cat in the Hat Dr. Seuss
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Dr. Seuss 
Monsters Come in Many Colors Jim Henderson and Jocelyn Stevenson
Meet the Care Bears Ali Reich
Kids Fun Filled Question and Answer Book Jane Parker Resnick
The Beginner's Bible: Timeless Stories Karen Henley and Dennas Davis
Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes 
Killer Angels Michael Shara
Tuck Everlasting Natalie Babbit
The BFG Roald Dahl
James and the Giant Peach Roald Dahl
A Comprehensive Photo Book on Gettysburg
American Tall Tales Mary Pope Osborne