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Once or twice, in the past, I’ve sorted out and organized all the books in my library so that they were together by topic and author. Within a couple of years they’d be all mixed up again. I like the library better when it’s all mixed up. It can be entertaining just to scan the titles. If any of these are part of your experience too, we can sit down and compare notes.
Here’s some of the things that have intrigued me over the years.
Till We Have Faces - C.S. Lewis
Tehanu - Ursula Le Guin
Iron John - Robert Bly
In Search of a Corporate Soul - Roger M. D’Aprix
The Book of J - Bloom and Rosenberg
Windows++ - Paul DiLascia
Sense and Sensibilia - J.L. Austin
Philosophical Investigations - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Naming and Necessity - Saul Kripke
Enter the Saint - Leslie Charteris
Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs : Niklaus Wirth
Orthodoxy - G.K. Chesterton
The entire series of Spenser novels - Robert Parker
Johann Sebastian Bach - Philip Spitta
Towards a Cosmic Music - Karlheinz Stockhausen
The Fifth Discipline - Peter M. Senge
Mind Children - Hans Moravec
O Taste and See - Denise Levertov
The Emperor’s New Mind - Roger Penrose
Advanced C++ Programming - James Coplien
The Far Field - Theodore Roethke
The Zen of Assembly Language - Michael Abrash
The Forge of God - Greg Bear
Little, Big - John Crowley
Bach Interpretation: Articulation Marks in the Primary Sources
of J.S.Bach - John Butt
Set Theory and its Logic - Willard Van Orman Quine
What Work Is - Phillip Levine
Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
All Hallows’ Eve - Charles Williams
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
The Book of Margery Kempe - Margery Kempe
Computer Power and Human Reason - Joseph Weizenbaum
Descartes’ Dream - Davis and Hersh
Chaos - James Gleick
Alvin Maker - Orson Scott Card
Leadership and the New Science - Margaret Wheatley
Of course there are lots more. I’ve chosen this short list to be representative. In 1990, when I began theBachWorks, I sold several thousand books on the assumption that, since I was going to be spending all my spare time with synthesizers, I would have no further use for the books. I wish now I hadn’t done that. Like to hear from you.