THIS LIST OF BOOKS IS IN THE ORDER TERRY HAS READ THEM – THE MOST RECENTLY READ IS AT THE TOP OF THE LIST, AND BOOKS TERRY READ IN HIS HIGH SCHOOL YEARS ARE AT THE BOTTOM. THESE ARE ALL BOOKS TERRY DOES NOT CURRENTLY “LIKE” (FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTHER):

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*A Clockwork Orange [by Anthony Burgess] [The almost non-stop slang (called “nadsat”) deployed in this novel resulted in an impressively written book! However, if Terry had not seen the Stanley Kubrick movie so many times – there would’ve been COUNTLESS times in the novel that Terry wouldn’t have understood what was happening (because the narrator’s heavy usage of nadsat was virtually incomprehensible). Also, Terry was displeased that the protagonist reforms (at the end of the novel).]

*The Most Dangerous Game [by Richard Connell]

*Starship Troopers [by Robert A. Heinlein]

*On the Road (The Original Scroll) [by Jack Kerouac]

*1982 [by Jian Ghomeshi]

*Love and Marriage [by Bill Cosby]

*What’s to Become of the Boy? or: Something to Do With Books [by Heinrich Böll, translated by Leila Vennewitz]

*History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics [by György Lukács, translated by Rodney Livingstone] [Terry usually struggles with philosophy books – as this is. Properly comprehending this great book requires a familiarity with the work of Karl Marx (which Terry has), as well as a long list of the works of numerous (what Mr. Lukács brands) “bourgeois philosophers” (which Terry has not). That said, Terry enjoyed reading most of the essays in this book (even though in later life, Mr. Lukács had harsh criticism for errors he made in the writing of this book)! However, in this book Mr. Lukács argues IN FAVOUR of what would later become known as “Marxism-Leninism” – so in the end, Terry disapproves of this otherwise impressive book.]

*The Wealth of Nations (Books I-V) [aka An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations] [all five books unabridged – by Adam Smith, edited by Andrew Skinner]

*And Then There Were None [by Agatha Christie]

*SeinLanguage [by Jerry Seinfeld]

*Naked Lunch (The Restored Text) [by William S. Burroughs, edited by James Grauerholz and Barry Miles]

*The Theory of Moral Sentiments [by Adam Smith, edited by Ryan Patrick Hanley] [While this book shows Adam Smith was never the champion of selfishness some of his fanboys assume he was, Terry still disliked the book overall (though Terry did enjoy some parts, such as when Mr. Smith was harshly criticizing Bernard Mandeville).]

*The Lenin Anthology [a collection of excerpts by Vladimir Lenin, edited by Robert C. Tucker]

*“Left-Wing” Communism: An Infantile Disorder [by Vladimir Lenin]

*The State and Revolution: The Marxist Theory of the State and the Tasks of the Proletariat in the Revolution [by Vladimir Lenin]

*The Hellbound Heart [by Clive Barker]

*The Unconscious Civilization [by John Ralston Saul]

*Che Guevara Speaks [a collection of Che Guevara’s writings]

*Mein Kampf [by Adolf Hitler, translated by Ralph Manheim]

*The Antichrist [by Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Walter Kaufmann]

*The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion [by a fabricator(s)]

*The Turner Diaries [by William Luther Pierce (aka “Andrew Macdonald”)]

*The Lost Art of Good Conversation: A Mindful Way to Connect with Others and Enrich Everyday Life [by Sakyong Mipham]

*The Bankers: The Next Generation [by Martin Mayer]

*Karl Marx [by Karl Korsch]

*Tropic of Cancer [by Henry Miller]

*Face the Music: A Life Exposed [by Paul Stanley]

*The Prince [by Niccolò Machiavelli, translated by George Bull]

*Dharma Punx [by Noah Levine]

*Statism and Anarchy [by Mikhail Bakunin, edited by J. Frank Harrison, translated by CH Plummer]

*The Crisis of Democracy: On the Governability of Democracies [a report by Michel Crozier, Samuel P. Huntington, and Joji Watanuki for the Trilateral Commission]

*Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 [by Karl Marx, edited by Dirk J. Struik, translated by Martin Milligan]

*Grass: The Paged Experience [a book based on the documentary by Ron Mann]

*Portnoy’s Complaint [by Philip Roth]

*The History of Last Night’s Dream: Discovering the Hidden Path to the Soul [by Rodger Kamenetz]

*The Anarchists [by James Joll]

*The Satanic Bible [by Anton LaVey]

*Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era [by Zbigniew Brzezinski]

*Endgame (Volumes I-II) [by Derrick Jensen] [For a while, Terry was an anarcho-primitivist – after being exposed to Mr. Jensen’s work. So Terry will always feel a degree of sentimentality for the two volumes of Endgame – and the anarcho-primitivist “critique of civilization”, which shook Terry out of many years of political apathy. But when Terry later embraced anarcho-communism – he was no longer anti-civilization. Anarcho-communists are pro-civilization!]

*Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth [by Chris Ware]

*Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs [by John Lydon (aka “Johnny Rotten”), Keith Zimmerman, and Kent Zimmerman] [After seeing Mr. Lydon in various interviews over the years – Terry concluded that guy can NOT be trusted to talk about himself.]

*How to Make Love Like a Pornstar: A Cautionary Tale [by Neil Strauss and Jenna Jameson]

*The Anglo-American Establishment: From Rhodes to Cliveden [by Carroll Quigley]

*Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows [by JK Rowling]

*The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History (Second Revised and Updated Edition) [by Don Oberdorfer]

*Necronomicon Spellbook [“edited” by “Simon”]

*Flowers for Algernon [by Daniel Keyes]

*The Nostradamus Code [by David Ovason]

*Gods of the New Millennium [by Alan F. Alford]

*Necronomicon [aka the “Simon Necronomicon”] [“edited” by “Simon”]

*Each Man’s Son [by Hugh MacLennan]

*Prince of Darkness: Antichrist and the New World Order [by Grant R. Jeffrey] [To Mr. Jeffrey’s credit, he wasn’t an anti-Semite (and Terry wasn’t either, which seems typical for many believers in some of the forms of the “New World Order” conspiracy theory). But Mr. Jeffrey was a first-rate idiot, and this is the most ahistorical (and embarrassing) book Terry has ever read – as you would expect from a book about Bible prophecy that examines geopolitics through an evangelical Christian lens. Unfortunately for Terry, when he was in high school – Terry thought “If it’s in a non-fiction book, it must be true!” During Terry’s university years, Terry stopped believing in all varieties of the New World Order conspiracy theory.]

*To Kill a Mockingbird [by Harper Lee]

*The Pearl [by John Steinbeck]

*The Outsiders [by SE Hinton]