Laura Miles' Big Adventure

Barbara Newman: God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages (Middle Ages Series)

Jonathan Culler: Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction
I kept this book in the bathroom and read it while soaking in the tub. It is very efficiently written, well organized, and professionally presented for the beginner. From a great series by Oxford University Press.

Paul Collins: Banvard's Folly: Tales of Reknowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity and Rotten Luck
As Dave Eggers writes, "A sublimely odd, frequently funny, and better yet, thrillingly factual book."

Harold David Roth: Original Tao
Also called 'Inward Training' or the "Nei-yeh." The oldest taoist text extant. Edited by an old professor of mine. The title tag line of this page is from this text.

Margery Kempe, ed. Barry Windeatt: Book of Margery Kempe
This edition is by my supervisor at Cambridge, Professor Barry Windeatt. A must-have: the first autobiography in the English language, it is full of sex, drugs, and rock n' roll in a distinctively religious 14th-century style.

Tom Clancy: Executive Orders
Ah, what a torrid love affair I have with government espionage. "David Duchovny, why don't you love me?"