The Ultimate RAB book list - part 2, G-

This represents a summary of all books recommended, mostly in rec.arts.books, that I've saved the recommendation for. The list spans three years, and includes other book lists. The listings span the range from banned (or attempts made) books to those recommended for children, current bedside reading to books that changed someone's life. The only consistent feature of the books on this list is that someone posted on the net that they recommended it for some purpose. Almost all of the books present are ones I haven't read (which is probably what prompted me to save the note!) and some are books I've read and didn't like much. But, since others do, they're here. The list is somewhere over 1250 books long. You should be able to find something interesting here.

Authors A-F
Authors G-L
Authors M-Z

Robert Grumbine bobg@radix.net
Last Modified 4 February 1996.


Galeano, Eduardo          Century in the Wind
Galilei, Galileo          Two New Sciences
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel   Love in the Time of Cholera
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel   One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gardner, Craig Shaw       Ballad of Wuntvor Trilogy
Gardner, Craig Shaw       Cineverse Cycle
Gardner, Craig Shaw       Ebenezum Trilogy
Gardner, John             Grendel
Gardner, Martin           Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
George, Elizabeth         Well-Schooled in Murder
George, Jean Graighead    On the far side of the mountain
Geremek, Bronislaw        The Margins of Society in Late Medieval Paris 
Gibran, Kahlil            The Prophet
Gibson                    Mona Lisa Overdrive
Gibson, William           Burning Chrome 
Giere, Ronald             Explaining Science
Gies, Frances and Joseph  Life in a Medieval Castl
Gilbar, Steven            Good Books: A Book Lover's Companion
Gilbar, Steven            The Book Book
Gilbert + Grant	          Atlas of Ancient Jewish History
Gilchrist, Ellen          Drunk with Love 
Gilman, Richard           Decadence:  The History of an Epithet
Gleick, James             Chaos
Gleick, James             Genius, a Biography of Richard Feynman
Gluck, Louise             The Wild Iris
Godwin, Gail              Odd Woman
Goetzmann, William H. and Kay Sloan  Looking Far North: The Harriman Expedition to Alaska 1899
Gogol, Nikolai            Diary of a Madman
Golding, William          Lord of the Flies 
Goldman, Francisco        The Long Night of White Chickens
Goldman, William          The Princess Bride
Goldstein, Lisa           Red Magician
Gordimer, Nadine          Burger's Daughter
Gordon, Mary              Final Payments
Gorey, Edward             Amphigorey
Gorey, Edward             Amphigorey Also
Gorey, Edward             Amphigorey Too
Goswami, Amit and Maggie Goswami   The Cosmic Dancers : Exploring the Physics of Science Fiction
Gould, Stephen J.         Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes
Gould, Stephen J.         The Mismeasure of Man
Gould, Stephen J.         The Panda's Thumb
Gould, Stephen J.         Wonderful Life
Grafton, Sue              B is for Burglar
Grafton, Sue              H is for Homicide
Grant, Charles L.         The Pet
Graves, Richard           Watch the North Wind Rise
Graves, Robert            I, Claudius; Claudius, the God 
Gray, John                Post-Liberalism 
Greene + Lewis            Know your own mind
Greene, Graham            Monsignor Quixote
Greene, Graham            The Honorary Consul
Gregorich, Barbara        Women at Play: The Story of Women in Baseball
Gregory of Tours	      The history of the Franks
Gribben, John             In Search of Schrodinger's Cat
Griffith, Bill	          Are We having fun yet?
Grimes, Martha            The Old Silent
Grisham, John             The Firm
Gross, Gerald             Editors on Editing
Grudin, Robert            Book  
Grun, Bernard             The Timelines of History
Gunn, James               The Listeners 
Guthrie, A.B.             The Big Sky.
Hacker, Andrew            Two Nations
Haines, John Meade        The Stars, The Snow, The Fire: Twenty-Five Years in the Northern Wilderness
Hakluyt, Richard          The Principal Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries of the  English Nation 
Haldeman, Joe             All My sins Remembered
Haldeman, Joe             The Forever War
Hall, Parnell             Stanley Hastings (detective)
Hambly, Barbara	
Hamilton, Edith	          Mythology
Hamming, Richart          The Art of Probability
Hansberry, Lorraine       A Raisin in the Sun 
Hansel, C. E. M.          ESP, a Scientific Evaluation
Harding, Sandra           The Science Question in Feminism
Harding, Sandra           Whose Science? Whose Knowledge
Hardy, Thomas             Jude the Obscure
Hardy, Thomas             Return of the Native
Hardy, Thomas             Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Harris, Deborah Turner    The  Mages of Garillon
Harris, Liz	              Holy Days
Harris, Neil              Humbug 
Harris, Thomas            The Silence Of The Lambs 
Harrison, Barbara Grizzuti  Italian Days
Harrison, Harry	          Star-smashers of the Galaxy rangers
Hasek, Jaroslav           The Good Soldier Svejk
Havel, Vaclav             Disturbing The Peace
Hawking, Stephen          A Brief History of Time 
Haws	                  Ships and the sea
Hazel, Paul               Yearwood
Hazen, Marcella (?)       Classic Italian Cuisine 
Healy, Raymond J. and J. F. McComas (ed.)  Adventures in Time and Space
Hebert, Ernest            The Dogs of March
Heine
Heinlein, Robert A.       Double Star
Heinlein, Robert A.       Grumbles from the Grave
Heinlein, Robert A.       Stranger In A Strange Land
Heller, Joseph            Catch 22
Heller, Joseph            God Knows
Hemingway, Ernest         A Moveable Feast, 
Hemingway, Ernest         For Whom the Bell Tolls 
Hemingway, Ernest         The Sun Also Rises
Hemingway, Ernest         To Have and Have Not, 
Henderson, Zenna          The People: No Different Flesh
Herbert, F.               Jesus Incident
Herbert, Frank            Dune
Hermann, George           Krazy Kat
Herriot, James            If Only They Could Talk 
Hess, Joan                Claire Malloy (detective)
Hess, Joan                Maggody series (Arly Hanks (detective))
Hesse, Hermann            IF The WAR GOES ON...
Hesse, Hermann            Journey to the East  
Hesse, Hermann            Siddhartha
Hesse, Hermann            Steppenwolfe
Hesse, Hermann            Strange News From Another Star
Hijuelos, Oscar	          The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Hillerman, Tony           Dance Hall of the Dead
Hillerman, Tony           Fly on the Wall
Hillerman, Tony           Listening Woman
Hillerman, Tony           Skin Walkers
Hillerman, Tony	          Talking God
Hillerman, Tony           The Talking Gods
Hillman, James            Blue Fire (essays)  
Hinkley, Karen and Barbara American Best Sellers: A Readers Guide to Popular Fiction  
Hite, Molly               Class Porn
Hoban, Russell            Pilgermann 
Hodgson, William Hope     The House on the Borderland
Hoeg, Peter               Smilla's Sense of Snow 
Hofstadter, Douglas       Goedel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden  Braid
Hofstadter, Douglas       Metamagical Themas
Hogan, James P.           Endgame Enigma 
Holt, Robert              How to Publish, Promote & Sell Your Own Book
Holt, Tom	              Expecting Someone Taller (Wagner's ring cycle, with a nerd)
Holt, Tom                 Goatsong
Holt, Victoria            Snare of Serpents
Homer                     Odyssey
Hoover, Paul              Saigon, Illinois
Hornung, E. W.            The Complete Raffles 
Horowitz, Eve             Plain Jane
Houston, James            Spirit Wrestler
Howard + Barton           Thinking on paper
Howard, Donald            Chaucer - His life and times
Howe, Irving              World of Our Fathers
Hoyle, F.	              Ice
Huff, Tanya               Gate of darkness, circle of light
Hughart, Barry            The Story of the Stone 
Hughes, Richard           The Fatal Shore
Hugo, Victor              Les Miserables
Hugo, Victor              The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hulme, Keri               The Bone People
Hunt(s?)ford, Roland      Shackleton
Hunt(s?)ford, Roland      The Last Place on Earth
Hunt, William R.          Stef: A Biography of Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Canadian Arctic Explorer
Hunter, Stephen           Point of Impact 
Hurston, Zora Neale		  Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous            Brave New World
Huxley, Aldous            Point Counter Point 
Huxley, Aldous            The Perennial Philosophy  
Huysmans, Jorge-Karl      La-Bas (Down There)
Ionesco, E.               The Lesson [play]
Irving, John              A Prayer for Owen Meany
Irving, John              The World According to Garp
Isherwood, Christopher    Berlin Stories 
Ishiguro, Kasuo           An Artist of the Floating World	
Ishiguro, Kazuo           Remains of the Day
Jabbour, Hala Deeb        A Woman of Nazareth 
Jackson, Shirley          The Haunting Of Hill House
Jackson, Shirley          We Have Always Lived in the Castle 
James, Henry              A Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry              The Aspern Letters
James, P.D.               Death of an Expert Witness
James, Thomas             Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James
James, William            The Varities of Religous Experience
Jennings, Karla           The Devouring Fungus
Jensen, Carl              The 1993 PROJECT CENSORED YEARBOOK: The NEWS THAT DIDN'T MAKE The NEWS - AND WHY
Jeter, K. W.              Dr. Adder
Johnson, Robert A.        Inner Work: Using Dreams & Active Imagination for Personal Growth 
Johnston, Tracy           Shooting the Boh 
Jones, Diana Wynne        Archer's Goon, Time City, others
Jones, Kaylie             Quite the Other Way 
Joyce, James              Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Joyce, James              Ulysses
Kadohata, Cynthia         The Floating World
Kaestner, Erich           Emil und die Detektive, Der 35. Mai, etc.
Kafka, Franz              The Trial
Kahn	                  Kahn on Codes
Kaminsky, Stuart          Toby Peters series
Kandel, Michael           In between dragons 
Kanigel, Robert           The Man Who Knew Infinity (A Life of the Mathematician Ramanujan)
Kantor, McKinlay          Andersonville
Kazanzakis, Nikos (sp?)   Zorba The Greek
Kellerman, Faye           The Quality of Mercy 
Kelly, Amy                Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings
Kelly-Bootle, Stan and Bob Fowler	   The 68000, 68010, and 68030 Primer
Kelman, James             Greyhound for Breakfast 
Kemp, Anthony             The Estrangement from the Past
Kempf, J.                 Numerical Software tools in C
Kendall, Carol            The Gammage Cup.
Kennedy                   The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers 
Kennedy, William          Ironweed
Kennedy, William          Legs
Kerouac, Jack             The Dharma Bums
Kerr, Katherine           Polar city blues
Kessel (?russel), J.      Good news from outer space
Keyes, Daniel             Flowers for Algernon
Kidder, Tracy             Among Schoolchildren  
Kierkegaard, Soren        Treatise on Despair
Kincaid, Jamaica          Annie John
King, Jerry P.            The Art of Mathematics 
King, Stephen             Cujo
King, Stephen             Four Past Midnight
King, Stephen             It 
King, Stephen             Misery
King, Stephen             Salem's Lot 
King, Stephen             The Dark Half
King, Stephen             The Shining 
King, Stephen             The Stand
Kingsolver, Barbara       Bean Trees
Kingston, Maxine Hong     The Woman Warrior 
Kingston, Maxine Hong     Tripmaster Monkey
Kinsella, W.P.            Shoeless Joe
Kinsella, William         Fencepost Chronicles
Kinsolver, Barbara        The Bean Trees
Kipling, Rudyard          Stalky & Co.
Kirkland, Gelsey          Dancing on my Grave
Kizzia, Tom               Wake of the Unseen Object:  Among the Native Cultures of Bush Alaska
Klawans, H. L.            Toscanini's Fumble
Kleene                    Mathematical Logic (infinities)
Klima, Ivan               Judge On Trial
Kokoschka, Oskar          Oskar Kokoschka: Autobiography
Konner                    The Tangled Wing 
Konrad Lorenz             On Aggression
Koontz, Dean              Lightning
Koontz, Dean              Midnight
Koontz, Dean              The Bad Place
Koontz, Dean              Watchers
Kotlowitz, Alex           There Are No Children Here
Kotzwinkle, William       The Fan Man
Kozol, Jonathan           Rachel and Her Children
Kreidman, Ellen           Light Her Fire
Kress, Nancy              Brain rose
Kroetsch, Robert          The Studhorse Man
Kuhn, Thomas              Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Kundera, Milan            Immortality
Kundera, Milan            The Unbearable Lightness of Being 
Kurtz, Paul (ed)          A skeptics' guidebook to parapsychology
Kushner	                  When bad things happen to good people
Kushner, Ellen            Swordspoint
L'Engle, Madeleine        A Wrinkle in Time
L'Engle, Madeleine        Certain Women
L'Engle, Madeleine        Dragons in the Water
Lackey, Mercedes       
LaFarge, Oliver           Laughing Boy 
Lafferty, R. A.           Okla Hannali
Lakatos, Imre             Proofs and Refutations
Lakoff, George (?)        Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things 
Landau, Sidney            Dictionaries 
Landels	                  Engineering in the ancient world
Langer, Ellen             Mindfulness 
Langer, William	          Encyclopedia of World History
Langton, Jane             G-d in Concord 
Langton, Jane             Murder mysteries
Lanker, Brian             I Dream a World
Lapp, Danielle	          Don't forget
Laudan, Larry             Science and Relativism
Laurence, Margaret        A Jest of God
Lawrence, D. H.           Sons and Lovers
Lawrence, Jerome and Robert E. Lee    Inherit the Wind
Le Guin, Ursula           Dispossessed, etc.  
Le Guin, Ursula           Earthsea tetralogy, 
Le Guin, Ursula           The Left Hand of Darkness 
Leacock, Stephen          Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich
Leacock, Stephen          Nonsense Novels
Leacock, Stephen          Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Leavitt, David            The Lost Language of Cranes
LeCarre                   Russia House
LeCarre, John             The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Ledgard, Henry F. and Louis J. Chmura  Fortran With Style
Lee, Harper               To Kill a Mockingbird
Lee, Tanith               Sung in Shadow 
Lefcourt, Peter           The Dreyfus Affair (a Love Story)
Lefebre, Henri            The Production of Space 
Leffland, Ella            Rumors of Peace
Leiber, Fritz             The Knight and Knave of Swords
Leithauser, Brad          Hence 
Lem, Stanislaw            Inspection on the Spot  (?)
Lem, Stanislaw            Solaris
Lem, Stanislaw            The Cyberiad
Lemelin, Roger            The Plouffe Family
Leonard, Elmore           Glitz
Lessing, Doris            African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe
Levesque and Williamson   A guidebook to fortran on supercompters
Levi-Strauss              Tristes Tropiques
Levin, Michael            Alive and Kicking
Levine, Stephen           A Gradual Awakening
Lewin, Rober              Bones of Contention
Lewin, Roger              Complexity
Lewis + Greene	          Thinking Better
Lewis, C. S.              Surprised by Joy
Lewis, C. S.              The Chronicles of Narnia
Lewis, C. S.              The Great Divorce
Lewitt, S. N.             Songs of Chaos
Leyner, Mark              My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist 
Lieber, Fritz             Conjure Wife
Lieber, Lillian           The Education of T. C Mits.
Lieberman, Herbert        Crawlspace 
Lightman, Alan            Einstein's Dreams
Lindfors, Judith Wells    Children's Language and Learning
Link, Perry               Evening Chats in Beijing
Linklater, Eric           The Wind on the Moon
Lint, Charles             Mulenegro
Llosa                     Aunt Julia & the Scriptwriter  
Llosa, Mario Vargas       Conversation in the Cathedral
Lodge, David              Changing Places 
Lodge, David              Nice Work
Lodge, David              Small World 
Loewe, M.                 Everyday Life In imperial China
Lonsdale, Hugh Cecil Lowther  A Victorian Earl in the Arctic: The Travels and Collections of the Fifth Earl of Lonsdale 1888-89
Lopez, Barry              Arctic Dreams
Lopez, Barry H.           Crossing Open Ground
Louis, D.                 2201 Fascinating Facts
Lovecraft, H. P.          The Colour out of Spage
Lovecraft, H. P.          The Lurker at the Threshhold
Lovecraft, H. P.          The Strange Case Of Charles Dexter Ward 
Lovett, Margaret          The Great and terrible quest.
Loynes, Julian            The Origin of consciousness

Authors A-F
Authors G-L
Authors M-Z
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