My Reading Life

After receiving a ton of positive responses about my student reading list, I have started listing books from my reading journey (starting summer of 2016). Along my travels I try to pick up a book that corresponds with the place and those have been denoted.
- In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
- The Boy Who Could Change the World - Aaron Swartz
- Cats Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
- Death of Santini - Pat Conroy
- Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans (Louisiana) - Gary Krist
- Rogue Republic: How Would-Be Patriots Waged the Shortest Revolution in American History (Louisiana) - William C. Davis
- The Story of Mobile (Alabama) - Caldwell Delaney
- How Children Fail - John Holt
- Dream State (Florida) - Diane Roberts
- The Little Professor of Piney Woods: The Story of Professor Laurence Jones (Mississippi) - Beth Day
- Tree of Justice (Texas) - Carroll Mart Sinclair
- Postmark Bayou Chene (Louisiana) - Gwen Roland
- Heavy Lifting - Jim Geraghty
- A Perfect Fit - Dr. Arnaud Prevot
- Land So Strange : The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca (Gulf Coast) - Andre Resendez
- Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut
- Youtility: Why Smart Marketing Is About Help Not Hype - Jay Baer
- The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade - Pietra Rivoli
- Lawful Interception - Corey Doctorow
- At Home: A Short History of Private Life - Bill Bryson
- The Last Comanche Chief: The Life and Times of Quanah Parker (Texas) - Bill Neeley
- Cannonballs and Courage: The Story of Port Gibson (Mississippi) - Mary Ellis
- Sanctuary (Mississippi) - William Faulkner
- A Place in Time: Twenty Stories of the Port William Membership (Kentucky) - Wendell Berry
- Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences (Pennsylvania) - Various Authors
- From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame - Mark Monmonier
- Mountain Spirits: A Chronicle of Corn Whiskey and the Southern Appalachian Moonshine Tradition (North Carolina) - Joseph Earl Dabney
- Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
- The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
- Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut
- Hamlet's BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age - William Powers
- Timequake - Kurt Vonnegut
- TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking - Chris Anderson
- A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail - Bill Bryson
- Favorite Huey Long Stories (Louisiana) - Dr. Hugh M. Blain
- Flags of Louisiana (Louisiana) - Jeanne Frois
- Bayou-Diversity: Nature and People in the Louisiana Bayou Country (Louisiana) - Kelby Ouchley
- A World Lost (Kentucky) - Wendell Berry
- One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression (Mississippi) - Eudora Welty
- Meat Market: Inside the Smash-Mouth World of College Football Recruiting (Mississippi) - Bruce Feldman
- Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking - Andy Sernovitz
- Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild - Lee Sandlin
- Linton Hall Military School Memories: One Cadet's Memoir - Linton Hall Cadet - This is a horrible book and I do not recommend it.
- Slapstick or Lonesome No More - Kurt Vonnegut
- The Anatomy of Buzz Revisited: Real-life Lessons in Word-of-Mouth Marketing - Emanuel Rosen
- Olmsted's Texas Journey: A Nineteenth-Century Survey of the Western Frontier (Texas) - Frederick Law Olmsted
- Jailbird - Kurt Vonnegut
- Inherit the Atchafalaya (Louisiana) - Greg Guirard & C. Ray Brassieur
- Every Man a King (Louisiana) - Huey Long
- A Place On Earth (Kentucky) - Wendell Berry
- Requiem for a Nun (Mississippi) - William Faulkner
- What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures - Malcolm Gladwell
- Armageddon in Retrospect - Kurt Vonnegut
- Cadets on Campus: History of Military Schools of the United States - Dr. John A. Coulter
- Bayou Sara - Used To Be (Louisiana) - Anne Butler & Helen Williams
- Concentration Camp Dachau 1933 - 1945 - Barbara Distel & Ruth Jakusch
- Everyday UX: 10 Successful UX Designers Share their Tales, Tools, and Tips for Success - Luke Chambers and Matthew Magain
- Honorable Treason: The Declaration of Independence and the Men Who Signed It - David Freeman Hawke
- God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut
- The Young Lions: Confederate Cadets at War - James Lee Conrad
- Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman
- Answered Prayers - Truman Capote
- While Mortals Sleep - Kurt Vonnegut
- Soldier Boy (New York) - Roy Eaton
- Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut
- Deadeye Dick - Kurt Vonnegut
- A Man Without a Country - Kurt Vonnegut
- Texas Military Institute: History of the Corps of Cadets - Dr. John A. Coulter
- So You Want To Be A Leader?: Advice and Counsel to Young Leaders - Colonel James Benson
- Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide - Charles Foster
- My Losing Season - Pat Conroy
- Hocus Pocus - Kurt Vonnegut
- Approaching Oblivion - Harlan Ellison
- Louisiana: A Bicentennial History (Louisiana) - Joe Gray Taylor
- Wampeters Foma and Granfalloons - Kurt Vonnegut
- Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game - Michael Lewis
- Born Digital: How Children Grow Up in a Digital Age (Revised) - John Palfery & Urs Gasser
- Unselfie: Why Emplathetic Kids Succeed in our All-About-Me World - Michele Borba
- A Pictorial History of the World War II Years - Edward Jablonski
- The Halo Effect: And the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers - Phil Rosenzweig
- The Resistance - Russell Miller
- William Faulkner of Oxford (Mississippi) - James Webb and A. Wigfall Green
- Bayou-Diversity 2: Nature and People in the Louisiana Bayou Country (Louisiana) - Kelby Ouchley
- Lafayette in the Somewhat United States - Sarah Vowell
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry - Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Palm Sunday - Kurt Vonnegut
- Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Ohio) - J.D. Vance
- The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible - Simon Winchester
- Fifty Years of Christian Education in a Baptist School: A Historical Record of Hargrave Military Academy (Virginia) - Aubrey Camden
- From Ashes To Excellence, 1950-1970 (Virginia) - Joseph Cosby
- Years of Change; Years of Growth: A History of Hargrave Military Academy, 1970-2003 (Virginia) - Mary Maner Tallent
- Ok: The Improbable Story Of America's Greatest Word - Allan Metcalf
- Executive Courage: Sometimes You Have to Walk Point - Colonel James Benson
- Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life - Tom Robbins
- Happy Birthday Wanda June - Kurt Vonnegut
- The Art of Selling to the Affluent: How to Attract, Service, and Retain Wealthy Customers and Clients for Life - Matt Oechsli
- How To Raise A Boy: The Power of Connection to Build Good Men - Michael Reichert
- On the Road - Jack Kerouac
- The Alligator (Louisiana) - C.C. Lockwood
- American Alligator: Ancient Predator in the Modern World (Louisiana) - Kelby Ouchley
- Go Set a Watchman (Alabama) - Harper Lee
- From the Chickasaw Cession to Yoknapatawpha: Historical and Literary Essays on North Mississippi (Mississippi) - Hubery H. McAlexander
- Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers (Red Dwarf) - Rob Grant & Doug Naylor
- Better than Life (Red Dwarf) - Rob Grant & Doug Naylor
- The Western Star - Craig Johnson
- Depth of Winter - Craig Johnson
- Courage, Honor, Conquer! The inspiring story of General Milton Grafly Baker and his legacy, the Valley Forge Military Academy (Pennsylvania) - Ronald E Tschiegg
- Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches - John Hodgman
- Yes Please - Amy Poehler
- The Geography of Genius: Lessons from the World's Most Creative Places - Eric Weiner
- Food: A Love Story - Jim Gaffigan
- Calypso - David Sedaris
- Makers - Corey Doctorow
- Bored of the Rings - Harvard Lampoon
- Mythos - Stephen Fry
- Technically Wrong - Sara Wachter Boettcher
- Unf#ck Your Brain: Getting Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs and Triggers with Science - Dr. Faith Harper
- We Are What We Pretend To Be - Kurt Vonnegut
- Bagombo Snuff Box - Kurt Vonnegut
- Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe - Bill Bryson
- Watch With Me: and Six Other Stories of the Yet-Remembered Ptolemy Proudfoot and His Wife, Miss Minnie, Nee Quinch - Wendell Berry
- Children of the Self-Absorbed: A Grown-Up's Guide to Getting Over Narcissistic Parents - Dr. Nina Brown
- Kurt Vonnegut Drawings - Nanette Vonnegut
- Unf#ck Your Intimacy: Using Science for Better Relationships, Sex, and Dating - Dr. Faith Harper
- Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away: Real Help for Desperate Hearts in Difficult Marriages - Dr. Gary Chapman
- Bluebeard - Kurt Vonnegut
- The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data - Kevin Mitnick
- The Telegraph: A History of Morse's Invention and Its Predecessors in the United States - Lewis Coe
- So, Anyway - John Cleese
- Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers - Maxwell King
- Stoneburner - William Gay
- The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee - Sarah Silverman
- The Path up the Mountain: What Military School Did for Me... This Is My Story - Skyler Chauff
- God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian - Kurt Vonnegut
- What If: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions - Randall Munroe
- Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior - Leonard Mlodinow
- Kurt Vonnegut's America - Jerome Klinkowitz
- What Would MacGyver Do? - Brendan Vaughan
- Kindness and Wonder: Why Mister Rogers Matters Now More than Ever - Gavin Edwards
- The Lost Country - William Gay
- True or Poo: The Definitive Field Guide to Filthy Animal Facts and Faslehoods - Nick Caruso and Dani Rabaiotti
- Look at the Birdie - Kurt Vonnegut
- How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems - Randall Munroe
- The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone - Olivia Laing
- Fates Worse than Death - Kurt Vonnengut
- Lake Wobegon U.S.A. - Garrison Keillor
- Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury (Performed by Tim Robbins)
- The Secret History - Donna Tartt
- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
- Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words - Randall Munroe
- Because Internet: Understanding how language is changing - Gretchen McCulloch
- Between Time and Timbuktu or Prometheus-5: A Space Fantasy - Kurt Vonnegut
- The Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart
- Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything - Dr. Lydia Kang & Nate Pedersen
- If This isn't Nice, What Is? - Kurt Vonnegut
- Like Shaking Hands with God - Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer
- The Secret Lives of Color - Kassia St. Clair
- A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
- Grand Central Winter: Stories From the Street - Lee Stringer
- The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic - Ginger Strand
- The Body: A Guide for Occupants - Bill Bryson
- The Nickle Boys - Colson Whitehead
- Good Omens; The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchet
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
- Extracts from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven - Mark Twain
- Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
- Wiped: The Curious History of Toilet Paper - Ronald Blumer
- Suckers Portfolio - Kurt Vonnegut
- Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States - Bill Bryson
- Turtles all the Way Down - John Green
- Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash - Edward Humes
- Carson Long Institute: A Seniors Journal 1972-1973 (Pennsylvania) - David McCoy
- Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Pennsylvania) - Benjamin Franklin
- A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
- Primordial Soup: The Least Worst Scripts (Red Dwarf) - Rob Grant & Doug Naylor
- The Mental Floss History of the World: An Irreverent Romp Through Civilization's Best Bits - Erik Sass and Steve Wiegand
- The Way I Heard It - Mike Rowe
- Backwards (Red Dwarf) - Rob Grant
- Last Human (Red Dwarf) - Doug Naylor
- The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses - Dan Carlin
- An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything - Chris Hadfield
- Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail - Ben Montgomery
- The Eden Express: A Personal Account of Schizophrenia - Mark Vonnegut
- A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning - Lemony Snicket
- The Great LIFE Photographers - The Editors of LIFE
- The Street Photographer's Manual - David Gibson
- Stephen Colbert's Midnight Confessions - Stephen Colbert
- Slaughterhouse-Five: The Graphic Novel - Ryan North
- Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography - Neil Patrick Harris
- The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir - Bill Bryson
- Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know - Malcolm Gladwell
- Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death - Caitlin Doughty
- Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street - Michael Davis
- The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race - Jon Stewart
- The Hidden History of the Main Line: From Philadelphia to Malvern (Pennsylvania) - Mark E. Dixon
- Just Ride: A Radically Practical Guide to Riding Your Bike - Grant Petersen
- In a Sunburned Country - Bill Bryson
- Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet - Will Hunt
- You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes: Photographs from the International Space Station - Chris Hadfield
- Life: America the Beautiful: A Photographic Journey, Coast to Coast-and Beyond - Editors of Life
- Here Is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History - Andrew Carroll
- The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood - James Gleick
- Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet - Claire L. Evans
- The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain - Bill Bryson
- Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail - Cheryl Strayed
- Is This Anything? - Jerry Seinfeld
- Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
- Encyclopedia of the Exquisite: An Anecdotal History of Elegant Delights - Jessica Kerwin Jenkins
- Alone on the Wall - Alex Honnold & David Roberts
- How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World - Steven Johnson
- Follow the Trail: A young persons guide to the great outdoors - Jessica Loy
- Rock climbing - Scott Wirdinger & Leslie Rapparlie
- ENIAC: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer - Scott McCartney
- Wilderness First Aid - William W. Forgey, MD
- User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play - Cliff Kuang
- Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002) - David Sedaris
- When to Rob a Bank: ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants - Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
- Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked - Adam Alter
- Ready Player Two - Ernest Cline
- The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey - Rinker Buck
- Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World - Reshma Saujani
- A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life - Brian Grazer & Charles Fishman
- Toproping: Rock Climbing for the Outdoor Beginner - Bob Gaines
- Rock Climbing Anchors, 2nd Edition: A Comprehensive Guide - Topher Donahue
- Rock Climbing: The AMGA Single Pitch Manual - Bob Gaines & Jason D. Martin
- The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design - Roman Mars & Kurt Kohlstedt
- Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving - Mo Rocca
- Growing Up Amish: A Memoir - Ira Wagler
- The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives - Leonard Mlodinow
- Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny - Brian Kilmeade & Don Yaeger
- The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy - Rainn Wilson
- The Outdoor Knots Book - Clyde Soles
- The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad - Mike Birbiglia
- You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington - Alexis Coe
- The Greatest Love Story Ever Told: An Oral History - Megan Millally & Nick Offerman
- Wanderlust, USA: An Uber-Curious Guide to Sassy American Pastimes - Flula Borg
- Rock Climbing, 2nd Edition: Mastering Basic Skills - Topher Donahue & Craig Luebben
- Don't Forget the Duct Tape: Tips & Tricks for Repairing & Maintaining Outdoor & Travel Gear - Kristin Hostetter
- Half Dome: The History of Yosemite's Iconic Mountain - Joe Reidhead
- Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel & Adventure - The American Poetry & Literacy Project
- Wild America: A Personal Celebration of the National Parks - David Muench & Roly Smith
- Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 - Garrison Keillor
- First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country - Thomas R. Ricks
- John Muirs Wild America - Tom Melham
- Dad Is Fat - Jim Gaffigan
- The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits - Tommy Caldwell
- The Desert: A Dirtbag Climbing Book - Luke Mehall
- Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything - Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
- Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever (Pennsylvania) - Kareem Rosser
- The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna - the World's Deadliest Peak - Ed Viesturs & David Roberts
- Stories - Garrison Keillor
- Napalm & Silly Putty - George Carlin
- The Color Purple - Alice Walker
- Trespassing Across America: One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland - Ken Ilgunas
- The Princess Diarist - Carrie Fisher
- The Confidence Code for Girls: Taking Risks, Messing Up, & Becoming Your Amazingly Imperfect, Totally Powerful Self - Katty Kayi & Claire Shipman
- If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't) - Betty White
- Based on a True Story: Not a Memoir - Norm Macdonald
- Canyoneering: A Guide to Techniques for Wet and Dry Canyons - David Black
- Sewing Machine Magic: Make the Most of Your Machine - Steffani Lincecum
- Paddling North: A Solo Adventure Along the Inside Passage - Audrey Sutherland
- Wildlands of the West: The story of the Bureau of Land Management - Leslie Allen
- Nerve: Adventures in the Science of Fear - Eva Holland
- Treasures of Alaska: The Last Great American Wilderness - Jeff Rennicke
- Blind Descent : The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth - James M. Tabor
- Time Travel: A History - James Gleick
- Rappelling: Rope Descending And Ascending Skills For Climbing, Caving, Canyoneering, and Rigging - Bob Gaines
- The Big Bento Box of Unuseless Japanese Inventions - Kenji Kawakami
- No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram - Sarah Frier
- I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on returning to America after 20 years away - Bill Bryson
- Greenlights - Matthew McConaughey
- Pennsylvania Caves & Other Rocky Roadside Wonders - Kevin Patrick
- A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R. R. Martin
- A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R. R. Martin
- A Child's Walk in the Wilderness : An 8-year-old boy and his father take on the Appalachian trail - Paul Molyneaux
- The Best of Me - David Sedaris
- This is Your Time - Ruby Bridges
- Building Wood Fires : Techniques and skills for stoking the flames both indoors and out - Annette McGivney
- Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors - Matt Parker
- Exploring America's Wild & Scenic Rivers - Douglas Chadwick
- Mud Rocks Blazes: Letting go on the Appalachian Trail - Heather "Anish" Anderson
- Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) - Tom Vanderbilt
- No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention - Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer
- All Rise: Audio Perambulation - Nick Offerman
- Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things - Josh Clark & Chuck Bryant
- Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America - John Waters
- The Wright Brothers - David McCullough