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.
© Copyright 2017 by Kevin Fraleigh.
