Reading list
My general, for fun fiction:
Dark Ages (White Wolf Vampire series) Current
Vampire the Masquerade Clan Novel Trilogy
Classic works:
Le Morte d’Arthur Current
The Once and Future King
King Arthur and the Round Table
The Green Knight
The Pendragon Cycle
Conan the Barbarian (Complete Works)
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Philosophy:
Unbelievable? Complete
The Christian Delusion Current
The End of Christianity
Proving History
The Bible
Jesus From Outer Space
The Origins of Early Christian Literature
On the Historicity of Jesus
The Will to Power
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Being and Nothingness
Below here is the second old list, maintained mostly to keep track of the things I’ve finished:
Here is an explicit list of fiction books that I’m reading more for analysis and less for fun:
Various Ben Bova (Sam Gunn Forever, The Aftermath, The Starcrossed, The Dueling Machine, Voyagers, The Exiles Trilogy, The Astral Mirror, Privateers, Colony, The Trikon Deception (with Bill Pogue)) Complete
Niven and Pournelle, The Mote in God’s Eye and The Gripping Hand Complete
Here is a list of books (non-fiction)that I’m aiming to read/re-read/comment on over the next few months.
The first batch is more historical:
Gilbert, “The Holy Kingdom” Complete
Cantor, “The Last Knight” Complete
Gibbon, “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” Complete
Cawthorne, “History’s Greatest Battles” Complete
Roberts, “The Storm of War” Complete
Shirer, “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” Complete
Diamond, “Guns, Germs and Steel” Complete
This is the list of philosophy works that I want to look at. Note: This is not yet in order, and it may not be what I read next.
Marcus Aurelius, “The Emperor’s Handbook: A New Translation of the Meditations”
Hadot and Chase, “The Inner Citadel: The Mediations of Marcus Aurelius”
Hadot and Chase, “Plotinus or the Simplicity of Vision”
Lonergan, “Insight”
Lonergan, “Method in Theology”
Chomsky and Foucault, “Chomsky vs. Foucault: A Debate on Human Nature”
Pinker, “The Better Angels of Our Nature”
Parfit, “On What Matters”
Dennett, “Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking”
Descartes, “Discourse on Method and the Meditations”
Russell, “The Conquest of Happiness”
Berkeley, “A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge” and “Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous”
Kant, “Kant’s Critiques” Complete
Kant, “Critique of Pure Reason” Complete
Baron, “Kantian Ethics Without Apology” Complete
Hume, “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding” Complete
Hume, “Treatise of Human Nature” Complete
Augustine, “City of God”
Nietzsche, “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”
Nietzsche, “The Will to Power”
Sartre, “Being and Nothingness”
This is a list of more formal literature that I want to read.”
Tolkien, “The Hobbit” Complete
Tolkien, “The Lord of the Rings” Complete
Conan Doyle, Complete Sherlock Holmes Complete
Orwell, “1984”
Swift, “Gulliver’s Travels”
Bradbury, “Farenheit 451” Complete
Lovecraft, Complete Works. Complete
Dante, “The Divine Comedy” Complete
Shakespeare, Complete Works. Complete
Adams, “Watership Down” Complete
Austen, “Pride and Prejudice” Complete
Austen, “Emma” Complete
Austen, “Sense and Sensibility” Complete
Stoker, “Dracula” Complete
Stoker, “The Jewel of the Seven Stars”, “The Lady of the Shroud”, “The Lair of the White Worm” Complete
Dostoyevsky, “Crime and Punishment”
Tolstoy, “War and Peace” Complete
Tolstoy, “Anna Karenina”
Stevenson, “Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde, and Other Strange Tales” Complete
Stoppard, “Rosencrantz and Guldenstern are Dead”
Sharpe, “Porterhouse Blue”
King, “The Stand” Complete
This is the old list, listing what I have finished over the past … 7+ years?!? Note that I’ve removed things that I’m now sorting into the other areas and things that I’m no longer planning on reading.
Polkinghorne and Beale, “Questions of Truth”. Complete
Polkinghorne, “The Polkinghorne Reader: Science, Faith, and the Search for Meaning ” Complete
Plantinga, “Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism” Complete
Dennett and Plantinga, “Science and Religion: Are They Compatible?” Complete
Feser, “Aquinas” Complete
Feser, “The Last Superstition” Complete
Kaufmann, “Critique of Religion and Philosophy” Complete
Grayling, “The God Argument” Complete
Churchland, “Braintrust” Complete
Nagel, “Mind and Cosmos” Complete
Damasio, “Self Comes to Mind” Complete
Rand, “The Virtue of Selfishness” Complete
Rand, “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal” Complete
Philipse, “God in the Age of Science?” Complete
Loftus, “The Outsider Test For Faith” Complete
Shirer, “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” Complete
Coyne, “Faith vs Fact” Complete
Rosenberg, “The Atheist’s Guide to Reality” Complete
Sagan, “The Varieties of Scientific Experience” Complete
The Verbose Stoic 
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