The main point of the book-it list aside from assisting me with memory lapses is to analyze the relationships of fictitious books that I have read in a certain time frame. I have noticed that once I read a book I am typically drawn to other books of a similar style or theme. I should also note that I am not a person that plows through 50 books a year, so this is in no way a “look what I have read” list. It is more of a “if your have read ‘A’ you may want to consider ‘B'” list. Also if you have read ‘A’ and see that I enjoyed it, and would like to suggest a related book ‘C’ then feel free to do so. Eventually I plan to create a weird book-UML diagram representing these relationships and the tendencies of favoring specific genres and themes.
Read (Reverse chronological order)
- Sixty Meters to Anywhere, Brendan Leonard ****
- Mawson’s Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written, Lennard Bickel ****
- Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman ***
- How to Lie With Statistics, Darrell Huff ****
- Invisible Ink: A Practical Guide to Building Stories that Resonate , Brian McDonald ***
- Above the Clouds: How I Carved My Own Path to the Top of the World, Kilian Jornet ***
- The Bear, Andrew Krivak ****
- 9 Out of 10 Climbers Make the Same Mistakes, Dave MacLeod ****
- Eiger Dreams; Ventures Among Men and Mountains, Jon Krakauer ****
- Accidents in North American Mountaineering 2020, AAC ****
- Emergency Roping and Bouldering: Survival Roping, Rock-Climbing, and Knot Tying (Escape, Evasion, and Survival), Sam Fury ***
- Colorado 14er Disasters, Mark Scott Nash *****
- How Jack Lost Time, Stephanie Lapointe ****
- Ego is the Enemy, Ryan Holiday ****
- Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster, Jon Krakauer *****
- A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs, Ben Garrod ****
- Endure: Mind, Body, and Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance, Alex Hutchinson *****
- Lost in the Wild:Danger and Survival in the North Woods,Cary J. Griffith ****
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig *****
- The Crux: A Climber’s Search For Meaning In Sport, Death, and Change, Oswaldo Zuniga ****
- The Rock Warrior’s Way, Arno Ilgner *****
- Hangdog Days: Conflict, Change and the Race for 5.14, Jeff Smoot *****
- Conquistadors of the Useless, Lionel Terray *****
- This Land, Christopher Ketcham ***
- The Dark Tower I, Stephen King ***
- Artemis, Andy Weir ****
- Algorithms To Live By, Brian Christian, Tom Griffin *****
- The River, Peter Heller ****
- On Desperate Ground: The Marines at the Resevoir, the Korean War’s Greatest Battle, Hampton Sides *****
- Foundation, Isaac Asimov ****
- It’s All About The Bike, Robert Penn *****
- Dessert Solitaire: A Season In the Wilderness, Edward Abbey ****
- In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette, Hampton Sides *****
- Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West, Hampton Sides *****
- Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality, Manjit Kumar *****
- The Ledge: An Inspirational Story of Friendship and Survival, Jim Davidson *****
- Naked Statistics – Stripping the Dread From the Data, Charles Wheelan *****
- Pet Semetary, Stephen King **
- Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson ****
- What Doesn’t Kill Us: How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude, and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength, Scott Carney *****
- Buried In the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on
- K2’s Deadliest Day by Amanda Padoan, Perter Zuckerman ****
- Calypso by David Sedaris *****
- K2: Life and Death on the World’s Most Dangerous Mountain by Ed Viesturs *****
- Epic: Stories of Survival from the World’s Highest Peaks by Clint Willis ****
- Motel Chronicles by Sam Shephard ****
- The Calling: A Life Rocked by Mountains by Barry Blanchard ****
- The Push: A Climber’s Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits by Tommy Caldwell ****
- An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything by Chris Hadfield *****
- The Adventured of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain ****
- Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar *****
- Beyond The Mountain by Steve House ***
- No Shortcuts to The Top by Ed Viesturs ****
- Black Elk Speaks by John G. Neihardt ***
- The Lakota Way by Joseph M. Marshall III ****
- Astrophysics For People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson ***
- StarTalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond by Neil deGrasse Tyson ***
- Death By Black Hole by Neil deGrasse Tyson ****
- The Build: How the Masters Design Custom Motorcycles by Robert Hoekman Jr. ****
- The Journeyer by Gary Jennings ****
- The Once and Future King by T.H. White *****
- The Toa of Bill Murray by Gavin Edwards ***
- How to Build Your Own Spaceship by Piers Bizony ***
- Into the Wild by John Krakauer ****
- Pride Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith ***
- Stranger by Albert Camus ****
- Death a Life by George Pendle ***
- Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka ***
- Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde **
- Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster by Bobby Henderson ****
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig *****
- Catcher and the Rye by J.D. Salinger *****
- Strong Fathers Strong Daughters by Meg Meeker **
- Everything’s Eventual:1408 by Stephen King ***
- The girl who loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King **
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini ****
- Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini ****
- Winter in Kabul by Ann Jones ***
- Come Back to Afghanistan by Said Hyder Akbar ***
- Jupiter’s Travels by Ted Simon *****
- We Were Soldiers Once, and Young by Harold G. Moore ***
- Mole – The First Russian Spy to Become an American Counterspy by William Hood ***
- Shackleton’s Way by Margot Merrell ****
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac *****
- Shawshank Redemption (Different Seasons) by Stephen King ****
- House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski ***
- Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers *****
- The Beach by Alex Garland ***
- And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave *****
- Aztec Blood by Gary Jennings (partially) **
- Aztec Autum by Gary Jennings ***
- Aztec by Gary Jennings *****
- Cyrano de Burgerac by Edmond Rostand **
- Insomnia by Stephen King ****
- Tell no one by Harlan Coben ***
- Dark Deeds by Ken Welsh **
- Gerald’s Game by Stephen King ***
- The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy ***
- The Glass Managerie by Tennessee Williams ***
- Animal Farm by George Orwell ***
- A Seperate Peace by John Knowles ***
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare ***
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare ****
- Julius Ceasar by William Shakespeare ***
- Romio and Juliet by William Shakespeare **
Partially Read (Reverse chronological order)
- The Code Book by Simon Singh
- The Roadshow – Spangle By Gary Jennings
- Illuminati Trology by Robert Shea
- Crimson Tide by Richard P Henrick
- The NeverEnding Story by Michael Ende
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Jurrasic Park by Michael Crichton
- Cujo by Stephen King
- IT by Stephen King
Queued to read
- The Roadshow – Spangle By Gary Jennings
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- Falling Sideways by Tom Holt
- Rememberence of Things past by Marcel Proust
- The Code Book by Simon Singh
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Inferno by Dante
- Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov