Books to Read – Updated!

I own a lot of books. Probably somewhere around 400 or more books. And like so many other bibliophiles, I buy books at a much faster rate than I read them.

And since I love being organized, I’m compelled to keep a list of books I have not read. So I have just published such a list (I’ve kept a private list for years).

I’ll keep that static page updated but here’s what’s on it as of today:

Fiction

• The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide by Douglas Adams
• In the Name of Salome by Julia Alvarez
• Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
• The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
• Go Tell it On the Mountain by James Baldwin
• Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
• The Plague by Albert Camus
• O Pioneers! by Willa Sibert Cather
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Buying a Fishing Rod for my Grandfather & Stories by Gao Xingjian
• A Dictionary of Maqiao by Han Shaogong
• The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Turn of the Screw by Henry James
• Prodigal Summer: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
• Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life by Herman Melville
• Oxygen by Andrew Miller
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• Straight Man by Richard Russo
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin Or, Life Among the Lowly by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Monkey: Folk Novel of China by Wu Che’ng en

Non-Fiction

• The Path of the Dream Healer by Adam
• Growing Great Employees: Turning Ordinary People into Extraordinary Performers by Erika Andersen
• Roone: A Memoir by Roone Arledge
• Mind Over Matter: Why Intellectual Capital is the Chief Source of Wealth by Ronald J. Baker
• Travellers’ Wildlife Guides Hawaii by Leo Beletsky
• Our Bodies, Ourselves: A New Edition for a New Era by the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective
• Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
• How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie
• Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don’t by Ram Charan
• Becoming Japanese: Colonial Taiwan & the Politics of Identity Formation by Leo T. S. Ching
• Accelerate: 20 Practical Lessons to Boost Business Momentum by Dan Coughlin
• The Compassionate Life by His Holiness the Dalai Lama / Tenzin Gyatso
• The Obvious: All You Need to Know in Business. Period by James Dale
• Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues by Paul Farmer
• Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America by Thomas J. Fleming
• The Lucky Shopping Manual: Building and Improving Your Wardrobe Piece by Piece by Kim France and Andrea Linett
• The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
• True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership (J-B Warren Bennis Series) by Bill George
• Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
• The Votes that Counted: how the Court Decided the 2000 Presidential Election by Howard Gillman
• Personal History by Katharine Graham
• Life with Two Languages: an Introduction to Bilingualism by François Grosjean
• Cell-Level Healing: The Bridge from Soul to Cell by Joyce Whiteley Hawkes
• Manufacturing Consent: the Political Economy of Mass Media by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
• The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus
• Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires by Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks and Wayne Dyer
• Leviathan: Authoritative Text : Backgrounds Interpretations (Norton Critical Editions) by Thomas Hobbes
• Sisters and Strangers: Women in the Shanghai Cotton Mills, 1919-1949 by Emily Hoing
• Ka Lei Ha’Aheo: Beginning Hawaiian by Alberta Pualani Hopkins
• Ka Lei Ha’Aheo: Teachers Guide and Answer Key by Alberta Pualani Hopkins
• The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age by John Horgan
• The Spiral Road: Change in a Chinese Village Through the Eyes of a Communist Party Leader by Huang Shu-Min
• Family: The Compact Among Generations by James E. Hughes Jr.
• A People’s History of the Supreme Court by Peter Irons
• Exceeding Customer Expectations: What Enterprise, America’s #1 Car Rental Company, Can Teach You About Creating Lifetime Customers by Kirk Kazanjian
• What iI? The World’s Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been by Robert Cowley (editor)
• Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season by Stephen King and Stewart O’Nan
• The Dream Manager by Matthew Kelly
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: a Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World’s Largest Private Company by Charles G. Koch
• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
• Readings in Managerial Psychology by Harold J. Leavitt, Louis R. Pondy and David M. Boje
• The Future of Ideas: the Fate of the Commons in a Connected World by Lawrence Lessig
• The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe by Brian Levack
• Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
• Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen by Liliuokalani
• Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen
• The Best American Spiritual Writing 2005 by Barry Lopez (Introduction) and Philip Zaleski (Series Editor)
• High Tide: The Truth About Our Climate Crisis by Mark Lynas
• Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 by James Madison / United States Constitutional Convention
• Strategy and the Fat Smoker: Doing What’s Obvious But Not Easy by David H Maister
• Full of Bull: Do What Wall Street Does, Not What It Says, To Make Money in the Market by Stephen T. McClellan
• Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship by Jon Meacham
• Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters: From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire– Two Evolutionary Psychologists Explain Why We Do What We Do by Alan S. Miller & Satoshi Kanazawa
• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
• The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
• Common Sense by Thomas Paine
• The Pleasure Prescription by Paul Pearsall
• Writing Your Own Pleasure Prescription by Paul Pearsall
• Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China 1845-1945 by Elizabeth J. Perry
• The Templar Revelation by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince
• The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
• William Randolph Hearst: The Later Years, 1911-1951 by Ben Procter
• The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness by Yongey Rinpoche Mingyur
• The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche
• Environmental Politics and Policy by Walter A. Rosenbaum
• Basic Political Writings by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Selling Sucks: How to Stop Selling and Start Getting Prospects to Buy! by Frank J. Rumbauskas Jr.
• Being Good: Women’s Moral Values in Early America by Martha Saxton
• Naked by David Sedaris
• Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What’s at Stake for American Power by Mark Schapiro
• The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge
• West of Then by Tara Bray Smith
• Red Star Over China: the Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism by Edgar Snow
• Wanderlust: a History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit
• The Rhetoric of Empire: Colonial Discourse in Journalism, Travel Writing, and Imperial Administration by David Spurr
• Engaged Leadership: Building a Culture to Overcome Employee Disengagement by Clint Swindall
• Legal Negotiation in a Nutshell (Nutshell Series) by Larry L. Teply
• God In All Worlds: An Anthology of Contemporary Spiritual Writing by Lucinda Vardey
• Vatsyayana Kamasutra by Mallanaga Vatsyayana
• The Fall of Imperial China by Frederic Wakeman Jr.
• The Idea Factory: Learning to Think at MIT by Pepper White
• The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright
• Get Ahead by Going Abroad: A Woman’s Guide to Fast-track Career Success by C. Perry Yeatman & Stacie Nevadomski Berdan
• To the Storm: the Odyssey of a Revolutionary Chinese Woman by Daiyun Yue and Carolyn Wakeman

As for other lists I keep, you can always click the Currently Reading tab to see what I’m reading right now, the Books I’ve Read tab to read what I have read, or the Favorite Books tab to read what books I adore!

If you feel strongly about any of the books I own but have not read, let me know! I’d love to hear which of those books whether I absolutely must read now or shouldn’t bother with.