Some Favorite Books

A few of my favorite books in no intended order.
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– Mike Swickey

- Confessions of a Philosopher, by Bryan Magee

- Writers At Work – Nine Volumes, by The Paris Review

- Coming Into Our Own, by Mark Gerzon

- The Bending Cross (Debs biography), by Ray Ginger

- Solitude: A Return To The Self, by Anthony Storr

- The Summing Up, by Somerset Maugham

- Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel, by Pascal Mercier

- The Courage To Write, by Ralph Keyes

- Why Does the World Exist? Jim Holt

- On Writing Well, by William Zinsser

- Working and Thinking on the Waterfront, by Eric Hoffer

- The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World, by Laurence Scott

- God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
  by Christopher Hitchens

- Commonplace Book, by E.M. Forster

- Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books, by Michael Dirda

- Staring At The Sun, by Irvin Yalom

- Strangers: A Novel, by Anita Brookner

- Lifecraft, by Forrest Church

- Jacques Barzun: Portrait of a Mind, by Michael Murray

- The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, by Selena Hastings

- A Life Worth Living (aka Legacy), by Barrie Sanford-Grieff

- Summer Meditations, by Vaclav Havel

- Stoner: A Novel, by John Williams

- At the Existentialist Café…, by Sarah Bakewell

- Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age, by William Powers

- Dreaming To Some Purpose, by Colin Wilson

- Love & Death, by Forrest Church

- Markings, by Dag Hammarskjöld

- The Story of Philosophy, by Will Durant

- A Writer’s Diary, Virginia Woolf

- Essays Of Montaigne, by Michel de Montaigne

- John Adams/1776/Truman, by David McCullough

- The Journal of Jules Renard, edited by Bogan/Roget

- Emerson: The Mind on Fire, by Robert D. Richardson

- If You Can Talk, You Can Write, by Joel Saltzman

- Finding Hope in the Age of Melancholy, by David S. Awbrey

- Mr. Bridge: A Novel, by Evan S. Connell

- Leaving a Trace: On Keeping a Journal…, by Alexandra Johnson

- Nothing To Be Frightened Of, by Julian Barnes

- William James: In The Maelstrom…, by Robert D. Richardson