1) Into Thin Air – Jon Krakauer
2) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas* – Hunter S. Thompson
3) True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa – Michael Finkel
4) A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers
5) On Writing – Stephen King
6) The Joke’s Over – Ralph Steadman
7) Mentor – Tom Grimes
8) The Snow Leopard – Peter Matthiessen
9) Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer
10) Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself – David Lipsky
11) The Sheltering Sky* – Paul Bowles
12) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert Pirsig
13) In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
14) Outlaw Journalist – William McKeen
15) Last American Man – Elizabeth Gilbert
All the President’s Men – Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, The End of Faith – Sam Harris, In Patagonia – Bruce Chatwin, The Boys on the Bus – Timothy Crouse, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 – Hunter S. Thompson, The Colossus of Marousi – Henry Miller, Running with Scissors – Augusten Burroughs
I love lists. I think I’ll make a list of my own. Although my list will probably be 10 books, since I don’t read as much as you do.
Good stuff.
Thanks man! Yeah, I love lists too. I’m always finding out new stuff to either read or buy via people’s lists. I’ll be on the lookout for yours!