""You want to know a Jew's idea of heaven?"
his father had replied... "It's an endless succession of long
winter nights on which we get paid a fair wage to sit in a warm
room and read all the books ever written.... Not just the famous
ones, no every book, the stuff nobody gets around to reading,
forgotten plays, novels by people you never heard of. However, I
profoundly doubt such a place exists." ... he began transforming
his immediate environment, making it characteristic of heaven. The
whole glorious span of Dewey's decimal system soon filled the
lighthouse, book after book spiraling up the tower walls like
threads of DNA, delivering intellectual to Murray's mammalian
cortex and wondrous smells to the reptilian regions below--the
gluey tang of a library discard, the crisp plebeian aroma of a
yard-sale paperback, the pungent mustiness of a thrift-store
encyclopedia." -- James Morrow, Only Begotten Daughter
- Einstein's Monsters by Martin Amis
- The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
- Gospel by Wilton Barnhardt
- Giles Goat-Boy by John Barth
- The Fringes of Reason edited by Stewart Brand
- Les Escales de la Haute Nuit by Marcel Brion
- Hitler, a Study in Tyranny by Allan Bullock
- Tabloid Dreams by Robert Olen Butler
- The Third Culture by John Brockman
- Theology for Non-Theologians by James Cantelon
- A Rumor of War by Philip J. Caputo
- Horn of Africa by Philip J. Caputo
- And The Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave
- History of the English Speaking Peoples by Winston Churchill
- Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen
- The Cornish Trilogy by Robertson Davies
- Niebla by Miguel de Unamuno
- The Three
Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Ubik, Collected Short Stories Vol. 5 by Philip K. Dick
- Stone Junction by Dodge
- Notes From Underground by Dostoyevsky
- Les Chants de Maldoror by Isidore Ducasse (Lautreamont),
- Darwin among the machines by Dyson
- American Tabloid by James Ellroy
- Days Between Stations and Arc d'X by Steve Erickson
- Music study in Germany by Fay
- La Ville Vampire by Paul Feval
- Killing time by Feyerabend
- Nothing in there, but it's exactly how things are by Bob Frissell
- Christopher Unborn by Carlos Fuentes
- "Constancia." by Carlos Fuentes
- Views from the Oldest House by Richard Grant
- I, Claudius by Robert Graves
- Daybreak on a Different Mountain by Colin Greenland
- The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key by Hammett
- The Chess Garden by Brook Hansen
- Magister Ludi by H. Hesse
- Narcissus and Goldmund by H. Hesse
- Almost anything by E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Le Ton beau de Marot by Hofstadter
- French lessons by Kaplan
- Original Bliss by A.L. Kennedy
- Roots of Coincidence by Arthur Koestler
- Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things George Lakoff
- Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson
- Tinker, Tailer, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carre'
- The God Particle by Leon Lederman and Dick Teresi
- A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay
- Wordstruck by MacNeil
- Goodbye, Darkness by William Manchester
- The Last Lion by William Manchester
- Time of the Assassins by Henry Miller
- Mother London by Michael Moorcock
- Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Nietzsche
- A Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O'Nan
- In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
- Dreams of Reason by Heinz Pagels
- Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
- Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
- The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte
- How the Mind Works by Pinker
- The Green Child by Herbert Read
- Trapped in the Cabinet by Robert Reich
- Flicker by Theodore Roszak
- The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
- The Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz
- Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
- The Child Garden by Geoff Ryman
- Voltaire's Bastards by John Ralston Saul
- The Street of Crocodiles and
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Schulz
- The Sufis by Idres Shah
- Way Station by Clifford D. Simak
- Moo by Jane Smiley
- After Babel by Steiner
- Imagologies by Mark C. Taylor
- The Lost Traveller by Ruthven Todd
- Shibumi by Trevanian
- The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain
- Exodus by Leon Uris
- A History of Knowledge by Charles Van Doren
- Messiah by Gore Vidal
- The Outline of History by H.G. Wells
- Star of the Unborn by Franz Werfel
- Aristoi, Hardwired, Voice of the Whirlwind
Metropolitan,City on Fire,Angel Station by Walter John Williams
- Sex Diary of Gerald Sorme by Colin Wilson
- Limbo by Bernard Wolfe
- M-81 by Stephen Wright
- Upanishads
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