What’s On My Bookshelf

Although I love to write fiction, you’ll find in this list an eclectic assortment of fiction and non-fiction, including history, religion, philosophy, and science. Much like my creative process, the books are presented in no particular order. Where I care to, I’ve included a short summary of the book, some with links to my review of the book.

***Note: This page is currently being revised and updated.  3/7/2024***

1984 by George Orwell

11/22/1963 by Stephen King

1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History by Jay Winik

2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke

2061: Odyssey Three by Arthur C. Clarke

3001: The Final Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

A History of the Devil by Gerald Messadié

A History of the Jewish People by Haim Hillel Ben-Sasson

A Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin: The Chilling True Story of the S-Bahn Murderer by Scott Andrew Selby

Adolf Hitler by John Toland

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition by Mark Twain

Bag of Bones by Stephen King

Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse

Blockade Billy by Stephen King

New World / Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley

Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by Dr. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

Carrie by Stephen King

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Chariots of the Gods by Erich Von Daniken

Ding Hao: America’s Air War in China, 1937-1945 by Wanda Cornelius

Doctor Sleep by Stephen King

Dreamcatcher by Stephen King

Duma Key by Stephen King

Dune by Frank Herbert

Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson

Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden Review

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Fascism: A Reader’s Guide – Analyses, Interpretations, Bibliography by Walter Laqueur (Editor)

Fire Angels: A Southern Novel Joseph Richardson Review

Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams

From a Buick 8 by Stephen King

From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne

Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture by Stephen H. Segal

Gerald’s Game by Stephen King

Giants: The Dwarfs of Auschwitz by Yehuda Koren

God’s Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World by Cullen Murphy

Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai by Tsunetomo Yamamoto

Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power by Andrew Nagorski

Hung, Drawn, and Quartered: the story of execution through the ages by Jonathan J Moore

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

Icon of Evil: Hitler’s Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam by David G. Dalin

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

It by Stephen King

Jaws by Peter Benchley

Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

The Lost World by Michael Crichton

Lisey’s Story by Stephen King

Looking Far West by Frank Bergon

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Luther’s Works, Volumes 1 – 55 by Martin Luther

Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer by Peter Turchi

Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

Murder for Christmas: 26 Tales of Seasonal Malice by Thomas Godfrey

Needful Things by Stephen King

Night Shift by Stephen King

NIV Study Bible by Zondervan

Of Pure Blood by Marc Hillel

On War by Carl von Clausewitz

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

Pet Sematary by Stephen King

Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality by Manjit Kumar

Quotations from Chairman Mao (LIttle Red Book) by Mao Tse-Tung

Red Dragon by Thomas Harris

Hannibal by Thomas Harris

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris

Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die: Musings from the Road by Willie Nelson

Shanghai Express: A Thirties Novel by Zhang Henshui

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing, and Dying by Sönke Neitzel

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

Chuang Tzu: The Inner Chapters by David Hinton

Taoism by John Blofeld

The 12-Year Reich: A Social History of Nazi Germany 1933-1945 by Richard Grunberger

The 47 Ronin Story by John Allyn

The Art Of War by Sun Tzu

The Aryan myth: A history of racist and nationalist ideas in Europe by Leon Poliakov

The Bible from 26 Translations by Curtis Vaughan (Editor)

The Bondage of the Will by Martin Luther

The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling

The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Dead Zone by Stephen King

The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II by Charles Glass Review:

The Dictionary of Imaginary Places: The Newly Updated and Expanded Classic by Alberto Manguel

The Encyclopedia of Military History from 3500 B.C. to the Present by Richard Ernest Dupuy & Trevor N. Dupuy

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

The Lord of the Rings trilogy/The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King

The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King

The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis

The Malleus Maleficarum by Montague Summers

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury

The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden by World Bible Publishers, Inc.

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Goering, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII by Jack El-Hai

The Order of the Death’s Head: The Story of Hitler’s SS by Heinz Höhne

The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan Possibly the dullest book I have ever read.

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson

The Psychopathic God by Robert G.L. Waite

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Satanic Bible by Anton Szandor LaVey

The Satanic Rituals: Companion to The Satanic Bible by Anton Szandor LaVey

The Shining by Stephen King

The SS: Alibi Of A Nation, 1922-1945 by Gerald Reitlinger

The Stand by Stephen King

The Tao of Bill Murray: Real-Life Stories of Joy, Enlightenment, and Party Crashing by Gavin Edwards.

The Theory and Practice of Hell: The German Concentration Camps and the System Behind Them by Eugen Kogon

The Tunnels of Cu Chi: A Harrowing Account of America’s Tunnel Rats in the Underground Battlefields of Vietnam by Tom Mangold

The War Against the Jews: 1933-1945 by Lucy S. Dawidowicz

The Wind Through the Keyhole: The Dark Tower IV-1/2 by Stephen King

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Thinner by Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman)

This Kind of War by T.R. Fehrenbach

Thru the Bible (5 Volume Set) by J. Vernon McGee

Under the Dome by Stephen King

Vietnam: A History by Stanley Karnow

War In The Shadows: The Guerrilla In History by Robert Asprey

Wednesday’s Child by Alan Zendell Review

Wenn alle Brüder schweigen: Grosser Bildband über die Waffen-SS
by Bundesverband der Soldaten der ehemmaligen Waffeen-SS e. V.

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