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.

1. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
2. The Boy Who Could Change the World - Aaron Swartz
3. Cats Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
4. Death of Santini - Pat Conroy
5. Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans (Louisiana) - Gary Krist
6. Rogue Republic: How Would-Be Patriots Waged the Shortest Revolution in American History (Louisiana) - William C. Davis
7. The Story of Mobile (Alabama) - Caldwell Delaney
8. How Children Fail - John Holt
9. Dream State (Florida) - Diane Roberts
10. The Little Professor of Piney Woods: The Story of Professor Laurence Jones (Mississippi) - Beth Day
11. Tree of Justice (Texas) - Carroll Mart Sinclair
12. Postmark Bayou Chene (Louisiana) - Gwen Roland
13. Heavy Lifting - Jim Geraghty
14. A Perfect Fit - Dr. Arnaud Prevot
15. Land So Strange : The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca (Gulf Coast) - Andre Resendez
16. Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut
17. Youtility: Why Smart Marketing Is About Help Not Hype - Jay Baer
18. The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade - Pietra Rivoli
19. Lawful Interception - Corey Doctorow
20. At Home: A Short History of Private Life - Bill Bryson
21. The Last Comanche Chief: The Life and Times of Quanah Parker (Texas) - Bill Neeley
22. Cannonballs and Courage: The Story of Port Gibson (Mississippi) - Mary Ellis
23. Sanctuary (Mississippi) - William Faulkner
24. A Place in Time: Twenty Stories of the Port William Membership (Kentucky) - Wendell Berry
25. Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences (Pennsylvania) - Various Authors
26. From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame - Mark Monmonier
27. Mountain Spirits: A Chronicle of Corn Whiskey and the Southern Appalachian Moonshine Tradition (North Carolina) - Joseph Earl Dabney
28. Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
29. The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
30. Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut
31. Hamlet's BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age - William Powers
32. Timequake - Kurt Vonnegut
33. TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking - Chris Anderson
34. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail - Bill Bryson
35. Favorite Huey Long Stories (Louisiana) - Dr. Hugh M. Blain
36. Flags of Louisiana (Louisiana) - Jeanne Frois
37. Bayou-Diversity: Nature and People in the Louisiana Bayou Country (Louisiana) - Kelby Ouchley
38. A World Lost (Kentucky) - Wendell Berry
39. One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression (Mississippi) - Eudora Welty
40. Meat Market: Inside the Smash-Mouth World of College Football Recruiting (Mississippi) - Bruce Feldman
41. Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking - Andy Sernovitz
42. Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild - Lee Sandlin
43. Linton Hall Military School Memories: One Cadet's Memoir - Linton Hall Cadet - This is a horrible book and I do not recommend it.
44. Slapstick or Lonesome No More - Kurt Vonnegut
45. The Anatomy of Buzz Revisited: Real-life Lessons in Word-of-Mouth Marketing - Emanuel Rosen
46. Olmsted's Texas Journey: A Nineteenth-Century Survey of the Western Frontier (Texas) - Frederick Law Olmsted
47. Jailbird - Kurt Vonnegut
48. Inherit the Atchafalaya (Louisiana) - Greg Guirard & C. Ray Brassieur
49. Every Man a King (Louisiana) - Huey Long
50. A Place On Earth (Kentucky) - Wendell Berry
51. Requiem for a Nun (Mississippi) - William Faulkner
52. What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures - Malcolm Gladwell
53. Armageddon in Retrospect - Kurt Vonnegut
54. Cadets on Campus: History of Military Schools of the United States - Dr. John A. Coulter
55. Bayou Sara - Used To Be (Louisiana) - Anne Butler & Helen Williams
56. Concentration Camp Dachau 1933 - 1945 - Barbara Distel & Ruth Jakusch
57. Everyday UX: 10 Successful UX Designers Share their Tales, Tools, and Tips for Success - Luke Chambers and Matthew Magain
58. Honorable Treason: The Declaration of Independence and the Men Who Signed It - David Freeman Hawke
59. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut
60. The Young Lions: Confederate Cadets at War - James Lee Conrad
61. Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman
62. Answered Prayers - Truman Capote
63. While Mortals Sleep - Kurt Vonnegut
64. Soldier Boy (New York) - Roy Eaton
65. Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut
66. Deadeye Dick - Kurt Vonnegut
67. A Man Without a Country - Kurt Vonnegut
68. Texas Military Institute: History of the Corps of Cadets - Dr. John A. Coulter
69. So You Want To Be A Leader?: Advice and Counsel to Young Leaders - Colonel James Benson
70. Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide - Charles Foster
71. My Losing Season - Pat Conroy
72. Hocus Pocus - Kurt Vonnegut
73. Approaching Oblivion - Harlan Ellison
74. Louisiana: A Bicentennial History (Louisiana) - Joe Gray Taylor
75. Wampeters Foma and Granfalloons - Kurt Vonnegut
76. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game - Michael Lewis
77. Born Digital: How Children Grow Up in a Digital Age (Revised) - John Palfery & Urs Gasser
78. Unselfie: Why Emplathetic Kids Succeed in our All-About-Me World - Michele Borba
79. A Pictorial History of the World War II Years - Edward Jablonski
80. The Halo Effect: And the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers - Phil Rosenzweig
81. The Resistance - Russell Miller
82. William Faulkner of Oxford (Mississippi) - James Webb and A. Wigfall Green
83. Bayou-Diversity 2: Nature and People in the Louisiana Bayou Country (Louisiana) - Kelby Ouchley
84. Lafayette in the Somewhat United States - Sarah Vowell
85. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry - Neil deGrasse Tyson
86. Palm Sunday - Kurt Vonnegut
87. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Ohio) - J.D. Vance
88. The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible - Simon Winchester
89. Fifty Years of Christian Education in a Baptist School: A Historical Record of Hargrave Military Academy (Virginia) - Aubrey Camden
90. From Ashes To Excellence, 1950-1970 (Virginia) - Joseph Cosby
91. Years of Change; Years of Growth: A History of Hargrave Military Academy, 1970-2003 (Virginia) - Mary Maner Tallent
92. Ok: The Improbable Story Of America's Greatest Word - Allan Metcalf
93. Executive Courage: Sometimes You Have to Walk Point - Colonel James Benson
94. Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life - Tom Robbins
95. Happy Birthday Wanda June - Kurt Vonnegut
96. The Art of Selling to the Affluent: How to Attract, Service, and Retain Wealthy Customers and Clients for Life - Matt Oechsli
97. How To Raise A Boy: The Power of Connection to Build Good Men - Michael Reichert
98. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
99. The Alligator (Louisiana) - C.C. Lockwood
100. American Alligator: Ancient Predator in the Modern World (Louisiana) - Kelby Ouchley
101. Go Set a Watchman (Alabama) - Harper Lee
102. From the Chickasaw Cession to Yoknapatawpha: Historical and Literary Essays on North Mississippi (Mississippi) - Hubery H. McAlexander
103. Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers (Red Dwarf) - Rob Grant & Doug Naylor
104. Better than Life (Red Dwarf) - Rob Grant & Doug Naylor
105. The Western Star - Craig Johnson
106. Depth of Winter - Craig Johnson
107. Courage, Honor, Conquer! The inspiring story of General Milton Grafly Baker and his legacy, the Valley Forge Military Academy (Pennsylvania) - Ronald E Tschiegg
108. Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches - John Hodgman
109. Yes Please - Amy Poehler
110. The Geography of Genius: Lessons from the World's Most Creative Places - Eric Weiner
111. Food: A Love Story - Jim Gaffigan
112. Calypso - David Sedaris
113. Makers - Corey Doctorow
114. Bored of the Rings - Harvard Lampoon
115. Mythos - Stephen Fry
116. Technically Wrong - Sara Wachter Boettcher
117. Unf#ck Your Brain: Getting Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs and Triggers with Science - Dr. Faith Harper
118. We Are What We Pretend To Be - Kurt Vonnegut
119. Bagombo Snuff Box - Kurt Vonnegut
120. Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe - Bill Bryson
121. Watch With Me: and Six Other Stories of the Yet-Remembered Ptolemy Proudfoot and His Wife, Miss Minnie, Nee Quinch - Wendell Berry
122. Children of the Self-Absorbed: A Grown-Up's Guide to Getting Over Narcissistic Parents - Dr. Nina Brown
123. Kurt Vonnegut Drawings - Nanette Vonnegut
124. Unf#ck Your Intimacy: Using Science for Better Relationships, Sex, and Dating - Dr. Faith Harper
125. Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away: Real Help for Desperate Hearts in Difficult Marriages - Dr. Gary Chapman
126. Bluebeard - Kurt Vonnegut
127. 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
128. The Telegraph: A History of Morse's Invention and Its Predecessors in the United States - Lewis Coe
129. So, Anyway - John Cleese
130. Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers - Maxwell King
131. Stoneburner - William Gay
132. The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee - Sarah Silverman
133. The Path up the Mountain: What Military School Did for Me... This Is My Story - Skyler Chauff
134. God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian - Kurt Vonnegut
135. What If: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions - Randall Munroe
136. Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior - Leonard Mlodinow
137. Kurt Vonnegut's America - Jerome Klinkowitz
138. What Would MacGyver Do? - Brendan Vaughan
139. Kindness and Wonder: Why Mister Rogers Matters Now More than Ever - Gavin Edwards
140. The Lost Country - William Gay
141. True or Poo: The Definitive Field Guide to Filthy Animal Facts and Faslehoods - Nick Caruso and Dani Rabaiotti
142. Look at the Birdie - Kurt Vonnegut
143. How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems - Randall Munroe
144. The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone - Olivia Laing
145. Fates Worse than Death - Kurt Vonnengut
146. Lake Wobegon U.S.A. - Garrison Keillor
147. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury (Performed by Tim Robbins)
148. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
149. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
150. Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words - Randall Munroe
151. Because Internet: Understanding how language is changing - Gretchen McCulloch
152. Between Time and Timbuktu or Prometheus-5: A Space Fantasy - Kurt Vonnegut
153. The Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart
154. Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything - Dr. Lydia Kang & Nate Pedersen
155. If This isn't Nice, What Is? - Kurt Vonnegut
156. Like Shaking Hands with God - Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer
157. The Secret Lives of Color - Kassia St. Clair
158. A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
159. Grand Central Winter: Stories From the Street - Lee Stringer
160. The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic - Ginger Strand
161. The Body: A Guide for Occupants - Bill Bryson
162. The Nickle Boys - Colson Whitehead
163. Good Omens; The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchet
164. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
165. Extracts from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven - Mark Twain
166. Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
167. Wiped: The Curious History of Toilet Paper - Ronald Blumer
168. Suckers Portfolio - Kurt Vonnegut
169. Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States - Bill Bryson
170. Turtles all the Way Down - John Green
171. Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash - Edward Humes
172. Carson Long Institute: A Seniors Journal 1972-1973 (Pennsylvania) - David McCoy
173. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Pennsylvania) - Benjamin Franklin
174. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
175. Primordial Soup: The Least Worst Scripts (Red Dwarf) - Rob Grant & Doug Naylor
176. The Mental Floss History of the World: An Irreverent Romp Through Civilization's Best Bits - Erik Sass and Steve Wiegand
177. The Way I Heard It - Mike Rowe
178. Backwards (Red Dwarf) - Rob Grant
179. Last Human (Red Dwarf) - Doug Naylor
180. The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses - Dan Carlin
181. An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything - Chris Hadfield
182. Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail - Ben Montgomery
183. The Eden Express: A Personal Account of Schizophrenia - Mark Vonnegut
184. A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning - Lemony Snicket
185. The Great LIFE Photographers - The Editors of LIFE
186. The Street Photographer's Manual - David Gibson
187. Stephen Colbert's Midnight Confessions - Stephen Colbert
188. Slaughterhouse-Five: The Graphic Novel - Ryan North
189. Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography - Neil Patrick Harris
190. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir - Bill Bryson
191. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know - Malcolm Gladwell
192. Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death - Caitlin Doughty
193. Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street - Michael Davis
194. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race - Jon Stewart
195. The Hidden History of the Main Line: From Philadelphia to Malvern (Pennsylvania) - Mark E. Dixon
196. Just Ride: A Radically Practical Guide to Riding Your Bike - Grant Petersen
197. In a Sunburned Country - Bill Bryson
198. Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet - Will Hunt
199. You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes: Photographs from the International Space Station - Chris Hadfield
200. Life: America the Beautiful: A Photographic Journey, Coast to Coast-and Beyond - Editors of Life
201. Here Is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History - Andrew Carroll
202. The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood - James Gleick
203. Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet - Claire L. Evans
204. The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain - Bill Bryson
205. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail - Cheryl Strayed
206. Is This Anything? - Jerry Seinfeld
207. Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
208. Encyclopedia of the Exquisite: An Anecdotal History of Elegant Delights - Jessica Kerwin Jenkins
209. Alone on the Wall - Alex Honnold & David Roberts
210. How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World - Steven Johnson
211. Follow the Trail: A young persons guide to the great outdoors - Jessica Loy
212. Rock climbing - Scott Wirdinger & Leslie Rapparlie
213. ENIAC: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer - Scott McCartney
214. Wilderness First Aid - William W. Forgey, MD
215. User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play - Cliff Kuang
216. Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002) - David Sedaris
217. When to Rob a Bank: ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants - Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
218. Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked - Adam Alter
219. Ready Player Two - Ernest Cline
220. The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey - Rinker Buck
221. Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World - Reshma Saujani
222. A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life - Brian Grazer & Charles Fishman
223. Toproping: Rock Climbing for the Outdoor Beginner - Bob Gaines
224. Rock Climbing Anchors, 2nd Edition: A Comprehensive Guide - Topher Donahue
225. Rock Climbing: The AMGA Single Pitch Manual - Bob Gaines & Jason D. Martin
226. The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design - Roman Mars & Kurt Kohlstedt
227. Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving - Mo Rocca
228. Growing Up Amish: A Memoir - Ira Wagler
229. The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives - Leonard Mlodinow
230. Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny - Brian Kilmeade & Don Yaeger
231. The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy - Rainn Wilson
232. The Outdoor Knots Book - Clyde Soles
233. The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad - Mike Birbiglia
234. You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington - Alexis Coe
235. The Greatest Love Story Ever Told: An Oral History - Megan Millally & Nick Offerman
236. Wanderlust, USA: An Uber-Curious Guide to Sassy American Pastimes - Flula Borg
237. Rock Climbing, 2nd Edition: Mastering Basic Skills - Topher Donahue & Craig Luebben
238. Don't Forget the Duct Tape: Tips & Tricks for Repairing & Maintaining Outdoor & Travel Gear - Kristin Hostetter
239. Half Dome: The History of Yosemite's Iconic Mountain - Joe Reidhead
240. Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel & Adventure - The American Poetry & Literacy Project
241. Wild America: A Personal Celebration of the National Parks - David Muench & Roly Smith
242. Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 - Garrison Keillor
243. First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country - Thomas R. Ricks
244. John Muirs Wild America - Tom Melham
245. Dad Is Fat - Jim Gaffigan
246. The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits - Tommy Caldwell
247. The Desert: A Dirtbag Climbing Book - Luke Mehall
248. Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything - Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
249. Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever (Pennsylvania) - Kareem Rosser
250. The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna - the World's Deadliest Peak - Ed Viesturs & David Roberts
251. Stories - Garrison Keillor
252. Napalm & Silly Putty - George Carlin
253. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
254. Trespassing Across America: One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland - Ken Ilgunas
255. The Princess Diarist - Carrie Fisher
256. The Confidence Code for Girls: Taking Risks, Messing Up, & Becoming Your Amazingly Imperfect, Totally Powerful Self - Katty Kayi & Claire Shipman
257. If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't) - Betty White
258. Based on a True Story: Not a Memoir - Norm Macdonald
259. Canyoneering: A Guide to Techniques for Wet and Dry Canyons - David Black
260. Sewing Machine Magic: Make the Most of Your Machine - Steffani Lincecum
261. Paddling North: A Solo Adventure Along the Inside Passage - Audrey Sutherland
262. Wildlands of the West: The story of the Bureau of Land Management - Leslie Allen
263. Nerve: Adventures in the Science of Fear - Eva Holland
264. Treasures of Alaska: The Last Great American Wilderness - Jeff Rennicke
265. Blind Descent : The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth - James M. Tabor
266. Time Travel: A History - James Gleick
267. Rappelling: Rope Descending And Ascending Skills For Climbing, Caving, Canyoneering, and Rigging - Bob Gaines
268. The Big Bento Box of Unuseless Japanese Inventions - Kenji Kawakami
269. No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram - Sarah Frier
270. I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on returning to America after 20 years away - Bill Bryson
271. Greenlights - Matthew McConaughey
272. Pennsylvania Caves & Other Rocky Roadside Wonders - Kevin Patrick
273. A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R. R. Martin
274. A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R. R. Martin
275. A Child's Walk in the Wilderness : An 8-year-old boy and his father take on the Appalachian trail - Paul Molyneaux
276. The Best of Me - David Sedaris
277. This is Your Time - Ruby Bridges
278. Building Wood Fires : Techniques and skills for stoking the flames both indoors and out - Annette McGivney
279. Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors - Matt Parker
280. Exploring America's Wild & Scenic Rivers - Douglas Chadwick
281. Mud Rocks Blazes: Letting go on the Appalachian Trail - Heather "Anish" Anderson
282. Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) - Tom Vanderbilt
283. No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention - Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer
284. All Rise: Audio Perambulation - Nick Offerman
285. Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things - Josh Clark & Chuck Bryant
286. Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America - John Waters
287. The Wright Brothers - David McCullough