General Reading List

General Non-Fiction

• The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith, 1776.
• Fear On Trial, John Henry Faulk, University of Texas Press, Austin, 1963.
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, Richard P. Feynman, W.W. Norton & Co., 1985.
• The Deming Management Method, Mary Walton, Perigee Book, 1986.

  Recommended to anyone interested in Quality Control. W. Edward Deming “helped Japan build its foundation by which the level of Japan's product quality has been recognized as the highest in the world”.

• The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brian, Broadway Books, 1990.
• Rain of Gold, Victor Villaseñor, 1991.
• Taguchi Techniques for Quality Engineering: Second Edition, Phillip J. Ross, McGraw-Hill, 1996, 1988.
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Jared Diamond, W. W. Norton & Company, 1999, 1997.
• Django:The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend, Michael Dregni, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Clapton's Guitar: Watching Wayne Henderson Build the Perfect Instrument, Allen St. John, Free Press, 2005.

History

• My Bondage and My Freedom, Frederic Douglass, 1855.
• We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher, E.C. Abbott (“Teddy Blue”) and Helena Huntington Smith, c.1939.
• Heroshima, John Hersey, Vintage Books, 1943.
• The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest, Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., University of Nebraska Press, 1965.
• The Strange Career of Jim Crow, C. Vann Woodward, Oxford University Press, 1966.
• Hitler, John Toland, Wordsworth Editions, 1976.
• King Leopold's Ghost:A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, Adam Hochschild, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998.

  Murder and mayhem in the Congo, brought to you by Belgium's King Leopold II, aided by Henry Morgan Stanley, and a cast of thousands of Europeans with some help from America.

• How Israel Was Won, Baylis Thomas, Lexington Books, 1999.
• Jeannette Rankin: America's Conscience, Norma Smith, Montana Historical Society Press, Helena, 2002.

  First woman elected to the U. S. Congress. And it happened three years before women had the right to vote! She managed to vote against the The War to End All Wars and WWII. Montana has claim to Big Skies and Jeannette Rankin.

• A Decent Orderly Lynching: The Montana Vigilantes, Frederick Allen, University of Oklahoma Press: Norman, 2004.

  This book gives a more balanced look at the Montana vigilanes of the 1860's than does Thomas Dimsdale in his book, “The Vigilantes of Montana”. Many believe Dimsdale was a secret member of the vigilanes.

Philosophy

• A Theory of Justice: Revised Edition, John Rawls, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971, 1999.
• The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2001.

Politics

• The Other Path, Hernando De Soto, Basic Books, 1989.
• The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, Hernando De Soto, Basic Books, 2000.
• Tomorrow's Biodirersity, Vandana Shiva, Thames & Hudson, 2000.
• Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply, Vandana Shiva, South End Press, 2000.
• 9-11, Noam Chomsky, Seven Stories Press, New York, 2001.
• Power Politics, Arundhati Roy, South End Press, 2001.
• War Talk, Arundhati Roy, South End Press, 2003.

Fiction

• The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad, 1907.
• Jurgen, James Branch Cabell, 1919.
• All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque, 1928 (German edition - Im Western Nichts Neues).
• Nineteen Nineteen, John Dos Passos, 1932.
• Grendel, John Gardner, Vintage Books, 1989 (1971).

  Grendel's life and death at the hands of the Geat stranger, Beowulf, as told by Gredel.

• Café Europa, Slavenka Drakulić, Penguin Press, 1996.
• Beowulf: Bilingual Edition, Translation by Seamus Heaney, W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.

Fiction, Dystopian

• We, Yevgeny Zamyatin, (Translation by Clarence Brown, 1993) Penguin Books, 1920.
• The Iron Heel, Jack London, 1908.
• Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited, Aldous Huxley, Harper Perennial, 1932 and 1958, respectively.
• Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell, 1949.
• Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban, Summit Books, 1980.

Fiction, Science

• I, Robot, Isaac Asimov, 1950.
  

  Read the book; forget the movie.

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Philip K. Dick, 1968.
  

  “Blade Runner”, the book.

• Neuromancer, William Gibson, 1984.
• Zeitgeist, Bruce Sterling, 2000.