Based on an entry from my friend the juice, I've put together a few short lists, related to my earlier post on the College Board 101 Books Your Child Should be Reading.
In no particular order ...
Ten Books I Wish I'd Never Read: (the second hardest category for me - after glad not to have read; because I've learned something from everything I've read - including some things I didn't want to learn)
Masks of the Illuminati -- Robert Anton Wilson
The Satanic Bible -- Anton LaVey
Just As I Am -- Billy Graham
Helter Skelter -- Vincent Bugliosi
The 21 Lessons of Merlin -- Douglas Monroe
Juliette -- Marquis de Sade
The Siege of Troy: A Modern Retelling of the Iliad -- Greg Tobin
Magick in Theory and Practice -- Aleister Crowley
Circle of Stones -- Anna Mae Waldo
Centennial -- James Michener
Ten Books I'm Ashamed to Say I've Never Read:
Ariel -- Sylvia Plath
Finnegans Wake -- James Joyce
The Federalist Papers -- Alexander Hamilton et al
Das Kapital -- Karl Marx
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee -- Dee Brown
In His Own Write -- John Lennon
The Bonfire of the Vanities -- Tom Wolfe
The Executioner's Song -- Norman Mailer
The Sun Also Rises -- Ernest Hemingway
Les Miserables -- Victor Hugo
Ten Books I'm Glad I've Never Read: (and this was the hardest one, because frankly there aren't really any books that I would refuse to attempt to read)
Mein Kampf -- Adolf Hitler
The Way Things Ought to Be -- Rush Limbaugh
The Confesions of Aleister Crowley -- Aleister Crowley
Teen Witch -- Silver Ravenwolf
Fight Club -- Chuck Palahniuk
Summa Theologica -- St. Thomas Aquinas
Summer of My German Soldier -- Bette Green
Warlock: A Novel of Ancient Egypt -- Wilbur Smith
The World of Rod McKuen -- Rod McKuen
Wilderness: The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison -- Jim Morrison
Ten Books I've Started But Probably Will Never Finish:
Beezlebub's Tales to His Grandson -- G.I. Gurdjieff
Prometheus Rising -- Robert Anton Wilson
The Decline of the Roman Empire, Vols. 2 and 3 -- Edward Gibbon
Confessions of St. Augustine -- St. Augustine
Walden, or Life in the Woods -- Henry David Thoreau
The Republic -- Plato
Critical Path -- R. Buckminister Fuller
Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh -- Vincent Van Gogh
Three Books of Occult Philosophy -- Cornelius Agrippa
Faust -- Johann Goethe
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