I've uploaded most of the books I've written to The Internet Archive where you can access and download them for free. I've never really written for money except when I was doing contract writing as either a commercial copywriter, a ghostwriter, or in one case when I wrote two semesters worth of papers for a rich kid in college that couldn't be bothered or wasn't able to do the work but had a trust fund and was willing to pay me to do it. He got A's. That's how it goes. While I've always had the dream of getting rich from my novel and book writing (or at least making a living at it), I don't have the patience or the time to go to publisher after publisher trying to convince them I've written a book that can be profitable. I've written books. I think some of them are particularly good. Here they are. If you enjoy them, then I have fulfilled some purpose in life.
Books Recommended
This is not really a possible list for me to make exhaustively. I've read so many books and been affected by so many. Certainly I've forgotten far more than I remember. With that in mind, I'll list some of those that had the greatest impact. I'll try to limit it to one book per author but in general, if I list a book - all of the books by that author are probably worth reading. There may be exceptions to that rule...
- The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K Leguin
- Zeek: The Art of Shen Ku
- The Book of the Subgenius
- The Tao Te Ching
- Roughing It by Mark Twain
- Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
- The Iron Heel by Jack London
- Down and Out in Paris and London by Geroge Orwell
- The Art of Seeing by Aldous Huxley
- The Notebook of Elbert Hubbard
- Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Vagabonding In Europe and North Africa by John Buryn
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Life Ahead by J. Krishnamurti
- Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
- Team Human by Douglas Rushkoff
- Crime and Punishment by Leo Tolstoy
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
- 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
- Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre
- Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
- Common Sense by Thomas Paine
- My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
- Alif Lyla wa Lyla translated by Richard Francis Burton
- Junkie by William S. Burroughs
- The Spider's House by Paul Bowles
- Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
- The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
- News from Nowhere by William Morris
- The Plague by Albert Camus
- Time Enough For Love by Robert A. Heinlein
- The Poem's of Rumi by Jalaludin Rumi
- Kim by Rudyard Kipling
- Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman
- Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
- The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea
- Black Spring by Henry Miller
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
- A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
- Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
- Candide by Voltaire