Books I have enjoyed and that have influenced me:

As a teen/high school:

Douglas Adams: Hitchhiker's Guide Trilogy
Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions and others
John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men
Sinclair Lewis: Babbitt
Flannery O'Connor: Greenleaf; Everything That Rises Must Converge; and other short stories *** truly awesome, appreciated critically but not as widely appreciated popularly as she should be

College:
More Flannery O'Connor
T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland
Tom Morris (my favorite philosophy professor): The Concept of God

I haven't done much reading since college, unless comic books and medical journals count. The books I have read have been light, like the Harry Potter series and books by comedians that are basically edited collections of their stand-up material: George Carlin and Lewis Black are my favorites there.

My wife is the avid reader in the family and has told me I need to read Fritjof Capra, especially The Web of Life.


Bears, beets, Battlestar Galactica.