Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Books Of 2007


Like my post Books Read 2006, this page will be updated as I continue to read and finish books. Last year I didn't quite reach my goal of 60 books (made it to #53) but perhaps I'll reach my target in 2007...and I figured a picture of Nietzsche would bring me luck. LOL. I'll be satisfied if I can at least read more books in 2007 than in 2006. So here goes...

  1. "Hara: The Vital Center of Man" by Karlfried Graf Durckheim
  2. "Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure" by Sarah Macdonald
  3. "The Only Dance There Is" by Ram Dass
  4. "How To Build A Better Buddha" by James Robbins
  5. "Training The Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness" by Chogyam Trungpa
  6. "Alice In Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll
  7. "Great Connections: Small Talk and Networking For Business People" by Anne Baber and Lynne Waymon
  8. "Dialogues With The Devil" by Taylor Caldwell
  9. "Of Love and Lust" by Theodor Reik
  10. "Regarding Oblivion" by Gregory Wm. Gunn (poetry)
  11. "The Gryphon" by Nick Bantock
  12. "Alexandria" by Nick Bantock
  13. "The Morningstar" by Nick Bantock
  14. "When Nietzsche Wept" by Irvin D. Yalom
  15. "The Reader" by Bernhard Schlink
  16. "The Untouched Key" by Alice Miller
  17. "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  18. "The Sphinx and The Rainbow" by David Loye
  19. "The Future of an Illusion" by Sigmund Freud
  20. "The Tenth Man" by Graham Greene
  21. "Moral Philosophy" by A.R.C. Duncan
  22. "The Art of Loving" by Erich Fromm
  23. "Slaughter-House Five" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
  24. "Nine And A Half Weeks: A Memoir Of A Love Affair" by Elaine McNeil
  25. "Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of Psychopaths Among Us" by Robert Hare
  26. "Appendix A:" by A. M. Homes
  27. "A Happy Death" by Albert Camus
  28. "Secrets Of The Heart" by Kahlil Gibran
  29. "Delta Of Venus" by Anais Nin
  30. "American Psycho" by Bret Easton Ellis
  31. "The Doors of Perception + Heaven and Hell" by Aldous Huxley
  32. "Veronika Decides To Die" by Paulo Coelho
  33. "1001 Pearls Of Buddhist Wisdom" selected by The Buddhist Society
  34. "Darkness At Noon" by Arthur Koestler
  35. "Why We Love : The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love" by Helen Fisher
  36. "The Stranger" by Albert Camus
  37. "The Facts Behind The Helsinki Roccamatios" by Yann Martel
  38. "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabakov
  39. "By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept" by Paulo Coelho
  40. "Beyond Theology: The Art of Godmanship" by Alan Watts
  41. "The Joy of Digital Photography" by Jeff Wignall
  42. "The Name Of The Rose" by Umberto Eco
  43. "The Roots of Coincidence" by Arthur Koestler
  44. "The Transposed Heads" by Thomas Mann
  45. "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
  46. "The Plague" by Albert Camus
  47. "Sex Crimes" by Jenefer Shute
  48. "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose" by Eckhart Tolle
  49. "The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana"
  50. "Eleven Minutes" by Paulo Coelho
  51. "Love and Will" by Rollo May

5 comments:

Miao 妙 said...

How do you find so much time to read? I can never complete so many books in one year!

Sphinx said...

How? 3 main things...
1) Reading takes the place of social activity,
2) it's one of my favourite things to do, so I tend to make alot of time for it, and
3) I read fast LOL

..Insane_Racounter.. said...

Doesn't come as a complete surprise but 53 :o , Fuck.. I Envy the pleasure of it..LOL.
yes, am gonna keep a count on mine this year, atleast to keep track of what's shaping my conscience,i think its a great thought..
Kudos \m/

Miao 妙 said...

I've been wanting to read book #35. Is it good?

And I hate Paulo Coelho.

Sphinx said...

Miao...
how can you hate Coelho? to each his own, I suppose... :)

#35 is excellent! You might also enjoy #9 and #22. Two other "must-reads" on the subject are:

-Philosophies of Love edited by David Norton and Mary Kille

...and most especially...
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-Love and Limerance by Dorothy Tennov
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Let me know if you end up reading any of these. I'd love to hear your opinions.