Thursday, July 2, 2009

Non-school books I've been reading over the past year.

From a list I keep:

*1) Joan Baez's "Daybreak".

2) Sister Claudette Marie Muhammed's "Memories".

3) James Randi's "Flim-Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns and Other Delusions".

4) Tim Reiterman with John Jacobs's "Raven: The Untold Story of the Reverend Jones and His People".

5) John Edward's "Crossing Over: The Story Behind the Stories".

6) David Lynch's "Catch the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity".

7) Lucy Rooney and Robert Faricy's "Medjugorje Up Close: Mary Speaks to the World".

8) John Hubner and Lindsey Groson's "Monkey on a Stick: Murder, Madness, and the Hare Krishnas".

9) Eileen Barker's "The Making of a Moonie".

10) Susan and Anne Swatland's "Escape from the Moonies".

11) Christopher Isherwood's "My Guru and His Disciple".

12) Christopher Isherwood's "Ramakrishna and His Disciples".

13) Roberto Saviano's "Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System".

*14) Lawrence Edwards's "Lover: The Confessions of a One-Night Stand".

15) Simon Baatz's "For The Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder that Shocked Chicago".

16) Suzanne Finstad's "Child Bride: The Untold Story of Priscilla Beaulieu Presley".

17) Carlos Castaneda's "The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge".

*18) His Eastern and Western Disciples's "The Life of Swami Vivekananda".

*19) Joe Edward Barnhart's "The Southern Baptist Holy War".

*20) Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet".

*21) Heather Haneman aka Feathers Handlesmen's "Big Wigs: Stories of a Straight Girl in a Drag Queen's World".

*22) Pope John XXIII's "Journal of a Soul".

*23) Helen Keller's "My Religion".

*24) Arthur Henley's "Demon in My View: The Dramatic Documentary of One Man's Remarkable Efforts to Help the Kids Nobody Wants".

*25) A.S. Jackson's "Gentleman Pimp: The Autobiography of Andrew Stonewall Jackson".

*26) Swami Shraddhananda's "Seeing God Everywhere: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Living".

*27 Linda Davis's "How to be the Happy Wife of an Unsaved Husband".

(* = not finished reading it through yet)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

non-school books???

el blogador said...

All I do for school is study and read books all day, so I don't count those in my list. This list is my recreational reading.

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