names of authors and books i've seen out and about that are interesting:

• The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, by Max Weber
• 1984, by George Orwell
• The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth
• Bridge of Sighs, by Richard Russo
• The Great Man, by Kate Christensen
• The History of the Snowman, by Bob Eckstein
• The Rest is Noise-Listening to the 20th Century, by Alex Ross
• Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
• The Garden of Last Days, by Andrew Dubus 3
• Catcher In The Rye, by J. D. Salinger
• Light In August, by William Faulkner
• Call It Sleep, by Henry Roth
• Sonic Youth, by John Case
• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
• Neuromancer, by William Gibson
• One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey
• Rabbit Run, by John Updike
• Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
• White Noise, by Don Delillo
• Appointment in Samarra, by John O'hara
• The Assistant, by Bernard Malamud
• A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
• The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen
• Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates
• Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
• Naked Lunch, by William Burroughs
• Valley of the dolls, by Jacqueline Susann
• Revolution At The Roots: Making Government Smaller, Better & Closer To Home, by Bill Eggers
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Lord Of The Flies, by William Golding
• Without Conscience The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us, by Robert D Hare
• The Adventures of Augie March, by Saul Bellow
• Herzog, by Saul Bellow
• The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman
• Wittgenstein Flies a Kite: A Story of Models of Wings and Models of the World, by Susan G. Sterrett
• The Complete Poetry and Prose, by William Blake
• What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng, by Dave Eggers
• Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Annie Rice
• James Joyce
• William Wordsworth
• Carl Sandburg's poems
• Homer's poems