RANDOMNALITY OF GALEN GREEN'S CURRENT FAVORITE BOOKS (all highly recommended):

WLT: A RADIO ROMANCE by Garrison Keillor
WHY IS SEX FUN? by Jared Diamond
WEST OF WICHITA by Craig Miner
WE'VE HAD A HUNDRED YEARS OF PSYCHOTHERAPY -- AND THE WORLD'S GETTING WORSE by James Hillman & Michael Ventura
UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN by Jon Krakauer
UNCLE TOM'S CABIN by Harriet Beecher Stowe
TRUMAN by David McCullough
THE WICHITA MYSTERIES by Gaylord Dold
THE TOOLMAKER'S OTHER SON (work-in-progress) by Galen Green
THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION by Will & Ariel Durant (especially the first 5 volumes)
THE SECOND FOUR BOOKS OF POEMS by W.S. Merwin
THE RAG AND BONE SHOP OF THE HEART (Poems for Men) edited by Robert Bly, James Hillman, and Michael Meade
THE POISONWOOD BIBLE by Barbara Kingsolver
THE PAINTED BIRD by Jerzy Kosinski
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA by Ernest Hemingway
THE NAKED APE (A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal) by Desmond Morris
THE MYTH OF MALE POWER (Why Men Are the Disposable Sex) by Warren Farrell, Ph.D.
THE MARCH OF FOLLY (From Troy to Vietnam) by Barbara Tuchman
THE MAKING OF A POEM (A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms) edited by Mark Strand & Eavan Boland
THE HUMAN STAIN, THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA & I MARRIED A COMMUNIST by Philip Roth
THE HOLY BIBLE (KJV)
THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
THE GODFATHER by Mario Puzo
THE GOD DELUSION by Richard Dawkins
THE GIFTS OF THE JEWS by Thomas Cahill
THE FUTURE OF FREEDOM: ILLIBERAL DEMOCRACY AT HOME AND ABROAD by Fareed Zakaria
THE ESSENTIAL HOLMES (Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.) edited and with an introduction by Richard A. Posner
THE END OF FAITH (Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason) by Sam Harris
THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS by Henry Adams
THE DEMON-HAUNTED WORLD by Carl Sagan
THE COMPLETE POEMS AND LYRICS by Joni Mitchell
THE CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR by Jean M. Auel
THE CENTER OF EVERYTHING by Laura Moriarty
The best poems of John Ashbery, W.S. Merwin, Elizabeth Spires, James Merrill, Robert Lowell, Mark Strand, James Tate, Albert Goldbarth, W.H. Auden, Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens and Galen Green
THE ALL-TRUE TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF LIDIE NEWTON by Jane Smiley
STRAW FOR THE FIRE (From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke: 1943-63) Selected and arranged by David Wagoner
STEALING JESUS (How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity) by Bruce Bawer
STATUS ANXIETY by Alain de Botton
SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY by Edgar Lee Masters
SLEEPWALKING THROUGH HISTORY (America in the Reagan Years) by Haynes Johnson
RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow
PUDD'NHEAD WILSON by Mark Twain
PIONEER WOMEN (Voices from the Kansas Frontier) by Joanna L. Stratton
PAUL: The Mind of the Apostle by A.N. Wilson
OUR KIND OF PEOPLE (Inside America's Black Upper Class) by Lawrence Otis Graham
NOT-KNOWING (The Essays and Interviews of Donald Barthelme) edited by Kim Herzinger (With an Introduction by John Barth)
NICKEL AND DIMED: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
MYTH AND MYTHMAKING ed. by Henry A Murray
MY LIFE by Bill Clinton
MOBY DICK by Herman Melville
LYRICS 1962--2001 by Bob Dylan
LAND OF IDOLS by Michael Parenti
KING LEOPOLD'S GHOST (A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa) by Adam Hochschild
JORGE LUIS BORGES' SELECTED POEMS ed. by Alexander Coleman (Spanish w/ English Translations)
HAMLET, KING LEAR, MACBETH, OTHELLO, THE TEMPEST, JULIUS CAESAR & RICHARD III by Shakespeare
GUNS, GERMS, and STEEL by Jared Diamond
FREUD: A Life for Our Time by Peter Gay
FREETHINKERS: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby
FOXE'S BOOK OF MARTYRS by John Foxe
FAMILY TERRORISTS & FEMALE TROUBLES by Antonya Nelson
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HERESIES AND HERETICS by Chas S. Clifton
EINSTEIN by Walter Isaacson
DISSENT IN WICHITA (The Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954-72) by Gretchen Cassel Eick
COLLAPSE by Jared Diamond
CHRONICLES (Volume One) by Bob Dylan
BABBITT & MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH by Al Gore
A WORLD LIT ONLY BY FIRE by William Manchester
A MAP OF THE WORLD by Jane Hamilton
A HISTORY OF BRITAIN by Simon Schama
A DISTANT MIRROR: THE CALAMITOUS 14th CENTURY by Barbara Tuchman
60 STORIES by Donald Barthelme
1491 by Charles C. Mann