Tupac’s Book List
Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member Written by: Sanyika Shakur
Assata: An Autobiography Written by: Assata Shakur
Ponder on This: A Compilation From the Writings of: Alice A Bailey & the Tibetan Master, Djwhal Khul
The Phenomenon of Man Written by: Teilhard de Chardin
Kabbalah Written by: Gersham Scholem
Thoughts and Meditations Written by: Kahlil Gibran
Telepathy Written by: Alice A Bailey
The Autobiography of Malcolm X As told to: Alex Haley
Ah, This! Written by: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Roots Written by: Alex Haley
The Tibetan Book of the Dead Written by: W.Y. Evans-Wentz
Black Like Me Written by: John Howard Griffin
Bhagavad-Gita As It Is Written by: A.C. Bhaktive-danta Swami Prabhupada
The Confessions of Nat Turner Written by: William Styron
The Psychedelic Experience- A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead
Written by: Timothy Leary, Ph.D, Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., Richard Alpert, Ph.D.
James Baldwin: The Legacy Edited by: Quincy Troupe
Initiation Written by: Elisabeth Haich
The Meaning of Masonry Written by: W.L. Wilmshurst
Social Essays Written by: LeRoi Jones
The Grapes of Wrath Written by: John Steinbeck
I Shall Not Be Moved Written by: Maya Angelou
And Still I Rise Written by: Maya Angelou
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Written by: Maya Angelou
Nature, Man and Woman Written by: Alan W. Watts
Linda Goodman’s Sun Signs Written by: Linda Goodman
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Written by: Robert M. Pirsig
A Raisin in the Sun Written by: Lorraine Hansberry
Native Son Written by: Richard Wright
The Practical Encyclopedia Of Natural Healing Written by: Mark Bricklin
The Complete Illustrated Book of the Psychic Sciences Written by: Walter B. Gibson and Litzka R. Gibson
1984 Written by: George Orwell
One Hundred Years of Solitude Written by: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Destiny of the Nations Written by: Alice A. Bailey
The Visionary Poetics of Allen Ginsberg Written by: Paul Portuges
The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy Written by: E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, James Trefil
The Diary of Anais Nin Edited and with a Preface by: Gunther Stuhlmann
The Souls of Black Folk Written by:W.E. Burghardt DuBois
The Psychic Realm Written by: Naomi A. Hintze and J. Gaither Pratt, Ph.D.
Tropic of Cancer Written by: Henry Miller
Nostradamus: The Millennium & Beyond Written by: Peter Lorie
The State of the World Atlas Written by: Michael Kidron and Ronald Segal
Catcher in the Rye Written by: J.D. Salinger
Sisterhood is Powerful: Anthology of Writings from the Women’s Liberation Movement
Written by: Robin Morgan
In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens Written by: Alice Walker
Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools Written by: Jonathan Kozol
At the Bottom of the River Written by: Jamaica Kincaid
Music of Black Americans: A History Written by: Eileen Southern
Moby Dick Written by: Herman Melville
Life and Words of Martin Luther King, Jr. Written by: Ira Peck
Art of War Written by: Sun Tzu
Interesting People: Black American History Makers Written by: George L. Lee
Blues People Written by: Amiri Baraka
All You Need to Know About the Music Business Written by: Donald Passman
All God’s Children: The Boskett Family and the American Tradition of Violence
Written by: Fox Butterfield
Black Sister: Poetry by Black American Women, 1746 to 1980 Edited by Earlene Stetson
The Harder We Run: Black Workers Since the Civil War Written by: William H. Harris
Makes Me Wanna Holler Written by: Nathan McCall
Great White Lie: Slavery, Emancipation and Changing Racial Attitudes Written by: Jack Gratus
Imitation of Christ Written by: Thomas a Kempis
Teachings of the Buddha Written by: Jack Kornfield
No Man Is an Island Written by: Thomas Merton
Mysticism Written by: Evelyn Underhill
Wisdom of Insecurity Written by: A.N. Watts
Secret Splendor Written by: Charles Essert
Life as Carola Written by: Joan Grant
Serving Humanity From the writings of: Alice A. Bailey
Here and Hereafter Written by: Ruth Montgomery
The Prince Written by: Niccolo Machiavelli
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13 years - 305 books
I am an avid reader and friends frequently ask me what I am reading. Here I will try and post a brief review of each book I read. To begin with here is a list of books I have read over the last 13 years. Feel free to ask me any questions.
2017: (22)
-Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
-Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
-Corporate Communication, Theory & Practice by Joep Cornelissen
-Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen
-Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
-A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
-Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
-Theorizing Crisis Communication by Timothy Sallow and Matthew Seeger
-Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism by Eric Burns
-The Global Public Relations Handbook by Krishnamurthy Sriramesh and Dejan Vercic
-The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
-When My Name was Keoko by Linda Sue Park
-The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
- Introducing Communication Research by Donald Treadwell
- We are never meeting in real life by Samantha Irby
- Ethics in Public Relations by Kathy Fitzpatrick and Carolyn Bronstein
- The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
- Origin by Dan Brown
- What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Social Media Communication by Jeremy Harris Lipshultz
- A Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
2016: (20)
-A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell
-Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
-The Underground Abductor by Nathan Hale
-Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
-The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
-The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
-The Speechwriter by Barton Swaim
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
-The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin
-The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
-But What If We're Wrong by Chuck Klosterman
-Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
-Brewster by Mark Slouka
-Rosemary The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson
-The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
-The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
-Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
-The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
-The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
-A Man Called Ove by Frederick Backman
2015: (29)
-All The Truth Is Out by Matt Bai
-Double Down by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann
-The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
-Dad is Fat by Jim Gaffigan
-Yes Please by Amy Poehler
-A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
-All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
-The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan
-The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
-To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
-In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
-A Country Doctor by Franz Kafka
-The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway
-Persuading Scientists by Hamid Ghanadan
-The Splendid Things We Planned by Blake Bailey
-Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
-A Heartbreaking Word of Staggering Genius by David Eggers
-Polio, An American Story by David Oshinsky
-The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
-Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee
-One Summer America, 1927 by Bill Bryson
-Brain on Fire by Susannah Catalan
-The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
-The Making of Modern Medicine by Michael Bliss
-People I Want to Punch in the Throat by Jen Mann
-Internal Medicine by Terrence Holt
-The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
-The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
-The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
2014: (10)
-David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell
-Why Grizzly Bears Should Wear Underpants by The Oatmeal
-Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
-Wild by Sheryl Strayed
-Stiff by Mary Roach
-An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
-Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
-Dataclysm by Christian Rudder
-Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracey Kidder
-Columbine by Dave Cullen
2013: (13)
-The Next Best Thing by Jennifer Weiner
-The Path Between The Seas by David McCullough
-Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
-I Wear the Black Hat by Chuck Klosterman
-Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
-A Hologram For The King by Dave Eggers
-Inferno by Dan Brown
-The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
-Heads in Beds by Jacob Tomsky
-Monkey Mind by Daniel Smith
-The Brief Wondrous Live of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
-Truth in Advertising by John Kenny
-The Cell Game by Alex Prud'Homme
2012: (16)
-Walden by Henry David Thoreau
-Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
-The Visible Man by Chuck Klosterman
-Overtreated By Shannon Brownlee
-Listen To Your Heart by Fern Michaels (TERRIBLE BOOK!)
-The Ten, Make That Nine Habits of Very Organized People. Make That Ten, by Steve Martin
-The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin
-Baby Proof by Emily Giffen
-Natural Experiments of History by Jared Diamond
-The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
-The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
-Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
-Secrets of The Baby Whisperer by Tracy Hogg
-A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
-The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
-Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
2011: (20)
-Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
-I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron
-Tinkers by Paul Harding
-How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
-What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell
-The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
-The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
-An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin
-Tea Time For the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith
-Bossypants by Tina Fey
-The Pearl by John Steinbeck
-Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
-Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillian and Al Switzler
-Beautiful Boy by David Sheff
-The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
-Of Thee I Zing by Laura Ingraham
-A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron
-Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
-The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
-Trust Me I'm Dr. Ozzy by Ozzy Osbourne
2010: (26)
- History's Worst Decisions and the people who made them by Stephen Weir
- Junky by William S. Burroughs
- One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell
- Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman
- Food Rules by Michael Pollan
- Noah's Compass by Anne Tyler
- Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
- Drive by Daniel Pink
-The Help by Kathryn Stockett
-The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
-US Americans Talk About Love Edited by John Bowe
-For You Mom, Finally by Ruth Reichl
-The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter
-Cowboys Are My Weakness by Pam Houston
-The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
-Barrel Fever by David Sedaris
-You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
-Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
-The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
-The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
-I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson
-The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent
-Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris and Ian Falconer
-Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
-A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel
2009: (22)
• Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
• Remember Me? By Sophie Kinsella
• A Long Way Gone, memoirs of a boy soldier by Ishmael Beah
• Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
• Slummy Mummy by Fiona Neill
• Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet
• Crawfish Mountain by Ken Wells
• My Horizontal Life by Chelsea Handler
• Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
• A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• Mistakes Were Made, by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
• Gertrude by Herman Hesse
• The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
- Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
- The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
- When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
- Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
- Bright-Sided by Barbara Ehrenreich
-The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
-Super Freakonomics by Levitt and Dubner
2008: (21)
• The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
• Inside the Minds, The Art of Public Relations by CEOs
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol
• The Pig Did It by Joseph Caldwell
• The Known World by Edward P. Jones
• Dark Roots by Cate Kennedy
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susan
• Wired by Bob Woodward
• One Pill Makes You Smaller by Lisa Dierbeck
• A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
• Secrets of the Baby Whisperer by Tracy Hogg
• Pound for Pound by F.X. Toole
• All the Way Home by David Giffels
• Bonk by Mary Roach
• In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
• Then We Came To The End by Joshua Ferris
• The Sea by John Banville
• Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman
• Female Chauvinist Pigs, Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy
2007: (28)
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• 1984 by George Orwell
• What Ifs? Of American History edited by Robert Cowley
• The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
• Rabbit, run by John Updike
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer
• Pigtopia by Kitty Fitzgerald
• FiSH by Stephen Lundin, Harry Paul and John Christensen
• The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories by Agatha Christie
• 1776 by David McCullough
• Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
• Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
• Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
• The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
• Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh
• A Dog Year by Jon Katz
• 1491 New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles Mann
• IV by Chuck Klosterman
• Devil in the Details by Jennifer Traig
• The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
• The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
• Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
• No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
2006: (27)
• Collapse, How societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared Diamond
• The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman
• Freakonomics by Levitt & Dubner
• Harry and Ike by Steve Neal
• State of Denial by Bob Woodward
• Crossroads in American History by James McPherson & Alan Brinkley
• The Lexus & The Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman
• The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant
• Strategery by Bill Sammon
• Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
• Japanese Canadian Redress, The Toronto Story
• The Untold Story of the Yom Kippur War by Howard Blum
• The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
• Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie
• Red Weather by Pauls Toutonghi
• Wifey by Judy Blume
• Frantic Transmissions to and from LA by Kate Braverman
• Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
• Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
• The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
• The Curious Incident of the dog in the Night-time by Mark Hadden
• A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
• Marley & Me by John Grogan
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• Lipstick Jungle by Candace Bushnell
• Boni y Tigre by Kathrin Sander
2005: (51)
• Guns, Germs, And Steel by Jared Diamond
• The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
• Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
• Sex, Drugs, And Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman
• The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
• A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
• Mary Magdalene by Lynn Picknett
• Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
• The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
• Bob Dylan Chronicles Volumn 1 by Bob Dylan
• Smashed by Koren Zailckas
• Culture Shock Costa Rica by Claire Wallerstein
• The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs
• Dress Your Family in Corduroy & Denim by David Sedaris
• Naked Pictures of Famous People by Jon Stewart
• All the President's Men by Bernstein & Woodward
• The Final Days by Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein
• The Secret Man by Bob Woodward
• Shadow (5 Pres. & the Legacy of Watergate by Bob Woodward
• All Politics is Local, by Tip O'Neill
• What's the Matter With Kansas? (How Conservatives Won the Heart of America) by Thomas Frank
• Don't think of an Elephant by George Lakoff
• Confessions of a Political Junkie by Hunter S. Thompson
• America The Book by Jon Stuart
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
• The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
• Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
• Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• The Call of the Wild and White Fang by Jack London
• Animal Farm by Goerge Orwell
• Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnecut
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• Empire Falls by Richard Russo
• The Great Fire by Shirly Hazzard
• A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• Skirt and the Fiddle by Tristian Egolf
• Drive Like Hell by Dallas Hudgens
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
• Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
• Deception Point by Dan Brown
• Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
• The Ship of Brides by Jojo Moyers
• Angry Housewives by Lorna Landvik
• The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
• Loving Che by Ana Menendez
• Wolves in Chic Clothing by Carrie Karasyov & Jill Kargman
• Citizen Girl by Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus
• And Sister by Sophie Kinsella
• Trading Up by Candace Bushnell
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