Jordan Rich Show Winter 2010 Book List

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Paul Stone's picks

Paul provided us with a terrific list of classics and books that made a difference in his life. Do check out his wonderful novel Or So It Seems

Paul’s Book List

Favorite Classic Fiction

• • Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
• • Dracula (Bram Stoker)
• • Shane (Jack Schaeffer)
• • Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (A.C. Doyle)
• • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie)
• • War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
• • Life On The Mississippi (Mark Twain)
• • The Autobiography of Mark Twain
• • Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
• • The Prisoner of Zenda (Anthony Hope)
• • To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
• • The Fish Can Sing (Haldor Laxness)
• • The Great Gatsby (F.S. Fitzgerald)
• • The Book of Ebenezer Le Page (G.B. Edwards)
• • Treasure Island (R.L. Stevenson)
• • Master of Ballantrae (R.L. Stevenson)
• • What Makes Sammy Run? (Budd Schulberg
• • The Ginger Man (J.P. Donleavy)
• • A Farewell To Arms (Ernest Heningway)
• • The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Heningway)
• • Scaramouche (Rafael Sabatini)
• • Captain Blood (Rafael Sabatini)
• • Bellarion (Rafael Sabatini)
• • Bang The Drum Slowly (Mark Harris)
• • The Southpaw (Mark Harris)
• • The Natural (Bernard Malamud)
• • The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler)
• • The Long Goodbye (Raymond Chandler)
• • The Maltese Falcon (Dashell Hammett)
• • The Thin Man (Dashell Hammett)
• • Anne Of Green Gables (M.L. Montgomery)
• • The Moonstone (Wilkie Collins)
• • Carry On Jeeves (P.G. Wodehouse)
• • Tales of O’Henry
• • Short Stories by Saki
• • From Here To Eternity (James Jones)
• • Trout Fishing In America (Richard Brautigan)
• • Maigret novels (Simenon)
• • Wind, Sand and Stars (Antoine De Saint Exupery)
• • French Lieutenant’s Woman (John Fowles)
• • A Bell For Adano (John Hersey)

Favorite Contemporary Novelists

• • Michael Connelly (The Poet)
• • Lee Child (Jack Reacher novels)
• • Ian Rankin (John Rebus crime novels)
• • Margaret Atwood (Blind Assassin)
• • Greg Matthews
• • William Lashner (Carl Victor novels)
• • Dean Koontz
• • Martin Cruz Smith
• • Jeffey Deaver (Lincoln Rhyme crime novels)
• • Robert Goddard
• • Peter Lovesey (Peter Diamond mysteries)
• • Richard Russo (Nobody’s Fool)
• • Colin Dexter
• • John LeCarre
• • Nick Hornsby (About A Boy, High Fidelity)
• • Henry Porter (A Spy’s Life)
• • John Irving (Cider House Rules, A Prayer For Owen Meany)
• • Oscar Hijuelos (The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love)
• • William Boyd (The Ice Cream War, The New Confessions)

Books That Change The Way You See Things

• • And There Was Light (Jacques Lusseyran)
• • Many Lives, Many Masters (Brian Weiss)
• • Journey of Souls (Michael Newton)
• • You Can Heal Your Life (Louise L. Hay)
• • The Power of Now (Eckhart Tolle)
• • Seat Of The Soul (Gary Zukav)
• • Be Here Now (Ram Dass)
• • Grist For The Mill (Ram Dass)
• • Tao Te Ching (Lao Tsu)
• • The Dhammapada (Buddha)

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Jordan's picks

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