Recommended Readings

Here are some readings in three genre groupings, including author/poet/playwright/thinker, I would suggest to you. The works are not arranged in any particular order.

If you are already an aficionado of any of these works or authors, I would enjoy having a discussion with you about it, him, her, or them; simply click the link below to e-mail me. Your wit and/or sagacity will be appreciated. Your recommendations are also welcomed.

This page has already been lost once, unfortunately, so, as before, this page again will develop as memory serves and experience reveals.

Prose & Graphic Novels

• 300 by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley
• ELEKTRA LIVES AGAIN by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley
• BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS by Kurt Vonnegut
• MOTHER NIGHT by Kurt Vonnegut
• JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE NIGHT by Louis Ferdinand Celine
• DEATH ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN by Louis Ferdinand Celine
• ARTHUR RIMBAUD by Enid Starkie
• AMERICAN PSYCHO by Bret Easton Ellis
• THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD by Zora Neale Hurston
• HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
• DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? by Philip K. Dick
• THE STRANGER by Albert Camus
• A HAPPY DEATH by Albert Camus
• THE TRIAL by Franz Kafka
• THE BODY by Stephen King
• HAM ON RYE by Charles Bukowski
• ERECTIONS, EJACULATIONS, EXHIBITIONS, AND GENERAL TALES OF ORDINARY MADNESS by Charles Bukowski
• FIGHT CLUB by Chuck Palahniuk
• INVISIBLE MONSTERS by Chuck Palahniuk
• JOHN ELWAY: ARMED AND DANGEROUS by Clay Latimer
• THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
• UNWELCOME WORDS by Paul Bowles
• COLLECTED STORIES 1939-1976 by Paul Bowles
• DAREDEVIL VISIONARIES: FRANK MILLER Vols. 1-3
• THE DELICATE PREY by Paul Bowles
• THE METAMORPHOSIS by Franz Kafka
• THE HUNGER ARTIST by Franz Kafka
• EXILE AND THE KINGDOM by Albert Camus
• PRO QUARTERBACK, MY OWN STORY by John Unitas
• THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley
• THE KILLING JOKE by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland
• ARKHAM ASYLUM: A SERIOUS HOUSE ON SERIOUS EARTH by Grant Morrison and Dave McKean
• BATMAN: STRANGE APPARITIONS by Steve Englehart, Len Wein, Marshall Rogers, Walt Simonson, et al.
• THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
• THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE by Stephen Crane
• AN EPISODE OF WAR by Stephen Crane
• SPUNK: THREE TALES by Zora Neale Hurston
• THE READER by Bernhard Schlink
• THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF JACK THE RIPPER by Philip Sugden
• FROM HELL by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
• RONIN by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley
• BATMAN: YEAR ONE by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli
• BATMAN: HAUNTED KNIGHT by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale
• V FOR VENDETTA by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, et al.
• WATCHMEN by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, et al.
• SWAMP THING by Alan Moore, et. al (6 vols.)
• SIN CITY [The Hard Goodbye] by Frank Miller
• SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR by Frank Miller
• ELEKTRA: ASSASSIN by Frank Miller and Bill Sienkiewicz
• RIMBAUD AND JIM MORRISON: THE REBEL AS POET, A MEMOIR by Wallace Fowlie
• PRINCIPLES OF CHINESE PAINTING by George Rowley
• ANCIENT EGYPTIAN MAGIC by Bob Brier
• BEETHOVEN by Maynard Solomon
• BROUGHT TO LIGHT: A GRAPHIC DOCUDRAMA by Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz
• DADA: ART AND ANTI-ART by Hans Richter
• DAREDEVIL: THE MAN WITHOUT FEAR by Frank Miller and John Romita, Jr.
• SIN CITY: THE BABE WORE RED by Frank Miller
• MODERNISM--DADA--POSTMODERNISM by Richard Sheppard
• FAVRE: FOR THE RECORD by Brett Favre and Chris Havel
• SIN CITY: THE BIG FAT KILL by Frank Miller
• DK2: THE DARK KNIGHT STRIKES AGAIN by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley
• AGAINST ALL ENEMIES: INSIDE AMERICA'S WAR ON TERROR by Richard A. Clarke
• SIN CITY: SILENT NIGHT by Frank Miller
• SIN CITY: FAMILY VALUES by Frank Miller
• SIN CITY: THAT YELLOW BASTARD by Frank Miller
• SIN CITY: BOOZE, BROADS & BULLETS by Frank Miller
• EISNER/MILLER [Interview conducted by Charles Brownstein]
• TOP TEN: Books 1 & 2 by Alan Moore, Gene Ha, and Zander Cannon
• DAREDEVIL: LOVE & WAR by Frank Miller and Bill Sienkiewicz
• THE BEST OF THE SPIRIT by Will Eisner
• BATMAN BEGINS by Dennis O'Neil
• BATMAN: KNIGHTFALL by Dennis O'Neil
• BATMAN: BLIND JUSTICE by Sam Hamm, Denys Cowan, and Dick Giordano

Poetry & Drama

• ILLUMINATIONS by Arthur Rimbaud
• A SEASON IN HELL by Arthur Rimbaud
• THE FLOWERS OF EVIL by Charles Baudelaire
• CANE by Jean Toomer
• The works of John Donne
• PARADISE LOST by John Milton
• The works of William Blake
• The works of Thomas Hardy
• CALIGULA by Albert Camus
• LAZARUS LAUGHED by Eugene O'Neill
• LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT by Eugene O'Neill
• NO EXIT by Jean-Paul Sartre
• ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD by Tom Stoppard
• IMITATIONS by Robert Lowell
• THE LORDS: NOTES ON VISION by J. D. Morrison
• The works of Stephen Crane

Metaphysical

• THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS by Albert Camus
• THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY by Friedrich Nietzsche
• BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL by Friedrich Nietzsche
• THE DHAMMAPADA
• TAO TE CHING
• EXISTENTIALISM by Mary Warnock
• EXISTENTIALIST PHILOSOPHY: AN INTRODUCTION by L. Nathan Oaklander
• THE EUTHYPHRO by Plato
• THE BHAGAVAD GITA
• THE APOLOGY by Plato
• THE CRITO by Plato
• THE REPUBLIC by Plato
• THE ANTI-CHRIST by Friedrich Nietzsche
• TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS by Friedrich Nietzsche
• CRUEL SHOES by Steve Martin