USF SLIS: East Coast Connection

My absolute favorite part of my job is when some eager young reader asks me if I can recommend a good book. The problem is that sometimes I'm so surprised, I can't recall all of my favorites, so I'm going to start a list. I'm going to seed it right now with some of my favorites, but it will continue to evolve, so next time I'm asked, I'll just pull up my list, and try to find a proper match. For my list, I will have read most of the titles, but I'm going to add some titles that I want to read, and I haven't had a chance to, because the true purpose of the list is to connect people with good books, so I wouldn't want to not connect someone with the right book for them (every reader his/her book) just because I haven't read it.

(in no particular order)

• Fight Club--Chuck Palahniuk
• Rules of Attraction--Brett Easton Ellis
• Trainspotting--Irvine Welsh
• Pesepolis--Marjane Satrapi
• The Lord of the Rings-- J.R.R. Tolkien
• 1984--George Orwell
• Brave New World--Aldous Huxley
• One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest--Ken Keasey
• The Life of Pi--Yann Martel
• Evolution for Everyone--David Sloane Wilson
• The Canon--Natalie Angier
• In Defense of Food--Michael Pollan
• The Golden Compass--Phillip Pulman
• Breakfast of Champions--Kurt Vonnegut
• V for Vendetta--Alan Moore & David Lloyd
• Fahrenheit 451--Ray Bradbury
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep--Phillip K. Dick
• Another Roadside Attraction--Tom Robbins
• In the Miso Soup--Ryu Murakami
• The Elephant Vanishes--Haruki Murakami
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being--Milan Kundera
• The World is Flat--Thomas Friedman
• Dreams from my Father--Barack Obama

This is the first in a series of lists I will be working on. One side effect of the information age is being forced to externalize a large portion of our memory, because we have so much hard drive space, and such a finite amount of human memory, but I'm a human, and I can adapt, so I will make do with the tools I have, and become the Johnny Appleseed of hipness.