The Aim: To list every book I have ever read, and to review the most influential, most enjoyable and most recent reads, for my own and others reference.
25-Oct-11: An update to my epic reading list (well I like it) in the form of listing alphabetically by author’s name. Literally doubled my own workload by writing them all with title first on attempt number one so several hours wasted wearing out my Ctrl, Shift, C, V, Home, and End buttons. Only a few books added at this juncture, no new shelves explored. Plans to read and review Orwell’s 1984, Murakami’s 1Q84 (everyone else seems to be) and another book written in ’84.
The Geeky Bit: Book count currently stands at 275. Trilogies counted as 3 books and each book in a Series counted. Eventually I’d like to house the list in a glorified table, so that I can sort by Author, Title, or other info I decide to add. Need to up my skills first!
Peter Parkorr’s Reading List – a work in progress
Aceto, Chris – Understanding Bodybuilding Nutrition & Training
Adams, Douglas – The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (series)
Adams, Douglas – The Salmon Of Doubt
Adiga, Aravind – The White Tiger
Andrews, Philip – The Digital Photography Manual
Asimov, Isaac – Magic
Asimov, Isaac – The Complete Stories, Vol. I & II
Bakan, Joel – The Corporation
Bannatyne, Duncan – Anyone Can Do It
Bean, Anita – The Complete Guide To Sports Massage
Bean, Anita – The Complete Guide To Sports Nutrition
Bean, Anita – The Complete Guide To Strength Training
Blackwood, Alan – The Kingdom Of The Blind
Branson, Richard – Screw It, Let’s Do It (Expanded)
Brewster & Broughton – Last Night a DJ Saved My Life
Brooks, Rodney A. – Robot
Brown, Dan – The Da Vinci Code (trilogy)
Bryson, Bill – A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bryson, Bill – Notes from a Small Island
Buckeridge, Anthony – Jennings Goes to School
Burgess, Anthony – A Clockwork Orange
Burns, Robbie – The Naked Trader
Byars, Betsy – The Night Swimmers
Caan, James – The Real Deal
Callard & Millis – Green Living
Camus, Albert – The Outsider
Carlo, Philip – The Ice Man
Carnegie, Dale – How to Win Friends and Influence People
Chang, Ha-Joon – 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism
Christensen, Loren W. – Fighter’s Fact Book
Christensen, Loren W. – Speed Training
Collins, Mick – All-Round Genius
Conrad, Joseph – Heart of Darkness
Cooney, Caroline B. – The Cheerleader
Cornwell, Patricia – Black Notice
Cornwell, Patricia – Cruel and Unusual
Cornwell, Patricia – The Last Precinct
Cribb, Billy – Tarmac Warrior
Cullen, Bill – It’s a Long Way from Penny Apples
Dahl, Roald – Every young persons book he ever wrote
Dahl, Roald – Someone Like You
Dawkins, Richard – The Greatest Show On Earth
de Bernieres, Louis – Birds Without Wings
de Bernieres, Louis – Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
de Bernieres, Louis – Red Dog
de Bernieres, Louis – Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord
de Bernieres, Louis – The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman
de Bernieres, Louis – The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts
de Bernieres, Louis – A Partisan’s Daughter
de Bono, Edward – The Mechanism of Mind
de Bono, Edward – The Use of Lateral Thinking
Deida, David – The Way of the Superior Man
Dick, Philip K. – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Dick, Philip K. – The Man in the High Castle
Dick, Philip K. – The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Dick, Philip K. – Ubik
Dick, Philip K. – Valis
Dunn, Mark – Ella Minnow Pea
Echanis – Knife Fighting, Knife Throwing for Combat
Ferris, Tim – The 4-Hour Work Week
Fry, Stephen – Moab is my Washpot
Gardner, Dan – Risk
Garner, Alan – The Moon of Gomrath
Garner, Alan – The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
Gerber, Michael E – The E-Myth Revisited
Gibbons, Stella – Cold Comfort Farm
Golding, William – Lord of the Flies
Guevara, Ernesto “Che” & Camiller, Patrick – The African Dream
Harrison, Ian – The Book of Inventions
Hawking, Stephen – A Brief History Of Time
Hawking,Stephen – Black Holes and Baby Universes
Hayes, Stephen – The Mystic Arts of the Ninja
Hearn, Lian – Tales of the Otori (trilogy)
Heller, Joseph – Catch-22 (the blog’s namesake!)
Hesse, Hermann – Siddhartha
Heyerdahl, Thor – The Kon-Tiki Expedition
Heyerdahl, Thor – The Ra Expeditions
Homer – The Odyssey
Hosseini, Khaled – The Kite Runner
Hyams, Joe – Zen In The Martial Arts
Ishikawa, Tetsuya – How I Caused The Credit Crunch
James – Ghost Stories
Janner, Greville – One Hand Alone Cannot Clap
Kafka, Franz – Metamorphosis
Kafka, Franz – The Trial
Kafka, Franz – The Castle
Katzenbach, John – Just Cause
Katzenbach, John – State Of Mind
Kent, Gordon – Night Trap
Kenyon, Michael – Brainbox and Bull
Kerouac, Jack – The Dharma Bums
Kim, Ashida – Ninja Secrets of Invisibility
King, Stephen – Firestarter
King, Stephen – On Writing
King, Stephen – Under The Dome
Kingsley, Charles – The Waterbabies
Kipling, Rudyard – The Jungle Book
Kohli-Bassi, S. – Children Of The Rainbow
Koontz, Dean – Mr Murder
Kotzwinkle, William – E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Le Bell, Gene – The Toughest Man Alive
Le Sueur, Alec – The Hotel on the Roof of the World
Lee, Bruce & Little, John – Bruce Lee, Artist of Life
Levitt & Dubner – Freakonomics
Lewis, C.S. – The Complete Chronicles of Narnia (series)
London, Jack – White Fang
Loupos, John – Tai Chi Connections
Mairowitz & Crumb – KAFKA Illustrated Novel
Mansfield, Peter – A History Of The Middle East
McCaffrey, Anne & Stirling, S.M. – The City Who Fought
McCaughren, Tom – Run to Earth
McCaughren, Tom – Run with the Wind
McClen Novick, Rebecca – Fundamentals of Tibetan Buddhism
McEvory, H.K. – Knife Throwing, A Practical Guide
McGrath, Alister – The Dawkins Delusion
McKenna, Paul – Change Your Life In 7 Days
McNab, Andy – Bravo Two Zero
McNab, Andy – Crisis Four
Mishra, Pankaj – An End To Suffering
Monkton, Edward – The Wonderful Man
Moore, Michael – Stupid White Men
Murakami, Haruki – Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Murakami, Haruki – Norwegian Wood
Murden, James – The Cosmic Verses
Musashi/Cleary – The Book of Five Rings
Nettleton, Nick – How To Design And Build The Coolest Website In Cyberspace
Noon, Jeff – Needle In The Groove
Noon, Jeff – Nymphomation
Ormerod, Paul – Why Most Things Fail
Orwell, George – Animal Farm
Paphitis, Theo – Enter The Dragon
Parsons, Tony – Man and Wife
Pelzer, David – A Boy Called It
Pelzer, Richard B. – A Brother’s Journey
Pinker, Steven – Robot
Potts, Rolf – Vagabonding
Powell, Goran – Waking Dragons
Pratchett, Terry – Absolutely everything he ever wrote, including the Discworld Series, and still to read Snuff (eagerly awaiting the paperback). My favourites are Guards! Guards! and The Dark Side of the Sun, but they are all brilliant.
Pratchett, Terry & Gaimen, Neil – Good Omens
Ptah, Heru – A Hip-Hop Story
Rankin, Ian – Hide & Seek
Rankin, Robert – Apocalypso
Rankin, Robert – The Greatest Show Off Earth
Ransome, Arthur – Swallows And Amazons
Reage, Pauline – The Story of O
Rowling, J.K. – Harry Potter (series)
Ryan, Chris – Tenth Man Down
Sartre, Jean Paul – Iron in the Soul
Sartre, Jean Paul – The Age of Reason
Sartre, Jean Paul – The Reprieve
Schultheis, Rob – Bone Games: Extreme Sports, Shamanism, Zen, and the Search for Transcendence
Sebold, Alice – The Lovely Bones
Sewell, Anna – Black Beauty
Shosan & Braverman – Warrior Of Zen
Sinclair & McKean – Slow Chocolate Autopsy
Skinner – Sports Photography
Snell, Gordon – Cruncher Sparrow’s Flying School
Southon, Mike & West, Chris – The Beermat Entrepreneur
Spanoghe, Ann – The Strongest Man in the World
Staig, Laurence – Digital Vampires
Stevenson, Robert Louis – Treasure Island
Stiglitz, Joesph – Globalization And Its Discontents
Surowiecki, James – The Wisdom Of Crowds
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas – Fooled By Randomness
Temperley, Mark – BTL Property Strategy for Long Term Success
Thomas, Bruce – Bruce Lee, Fighting Spirit
Ting, Dr Leung – Drunken Monkey Kungfu
Tolkien, J.R.R. – Farmer Giles of Ham
Tolkien, J.R.R. – The Hobbit
Tolkien, J.R.R. – The Lord Of The Rings (trilogy)
Tolstoy, Leo – The Kreutzer Sonata
Tom, Teri – The Straight Lead
Trungpa – Shambhala, The Sacred Path of the Warrior
vos Savant, Marilyn – Brain Power
Waite, Terry – Taken On Trust
Wallace, Danny – Yes Man
Wallace, David Foster – Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
Walsh, Peter – Gang War
Wells, Troth – The World Of Street Food
Wiley – Filipino Fighting Arts
Wilson – Ideals of the Samurai
Wilson, Tony – 24 Hour Party People
Winson/Sagan – Dirty Laundry, 100 Days in a Zen Monastery
Wyss, Johann David – The Swiss Family Robinson
SHOCK AND ORR 
Cataloging a lifetime of reading is quite the task! It’s going to be fun to prowl this list as it grows.
Thanks, altho its quite hard remembering what I’ve read if it isn’t on my bookshelf! (And the bookshelf is currently in a different country…)
Do you use librarything or goodreads? They really make cataloguing your books easy. My entire collection is online. And it allows for reviewing etc.
I have replied to your question. Thanks for dropping by.
Yes i found Goodreads and have the widget in my sidebar! 🙂 Very useful site. I have not got round to adding much yet tho, just some of my favourites. Thanks for checking out my blog too.
Not a problem.
Here’s my bookshelf if you are interested. I used a USB barcode scanner to catalog all of them. I recommend them if you have lots of books, especially if they are recent enough to have barcodes. Cheers.
I had a look at some of your books, but you have plenty! LibraryThing actually looks more like what I wanted so I may join there before adding everything. My books are in a different country for now tho, so it can wait 🙂
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Get onto some Douglas Coupland. He’s my favourite author to read and then ponder the absurdity, hilarity, and reality of each book over coffee. Also for humour try Christopher Moore.
Always nice to get recommendations and yet to check out Mr Copeland – Cheers!