I wondered what my reading list would look like if I compressed it all into one, six second burst. Now, there were some problems. Namely, I read mostly ebooks now and they didn’t show up so well on the video.

Here’s a list of the books I was able to cram in:

1. Cattus Petasatus by Doctore Seuss (A Latin translation of The Cat in the Hat)
2. Fantastic Four #112 “Hulk vs Thing” (I own more than 500 issues)
3. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King (I own four versions of this: paper back, hard pack, audio, and a pop-up: shown here)
4. Pandora in the Congo by Albert Sánchez Piñol (A fantastic book)
5. Barlowe’s Guide to Fantasy by Wayne Douglas Barlowe (Had this book as a kid)
6. The Giver by Lois Lowry (Why this hasn’t become a movie yet is beyond me)
7. The Short Stories by Ernest Hemingway (His shorts are his best work)
8. Ulysses by James Joyce (I took a class in college where we simply read and analyzed this book. The only way to get through it.)
9. Holes by Louis Sachar (A genius piece of fiction)
10. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle (Loved it as a kid. Sparked my interest in dimensions.)
11. Howl by Allen Ginsberg (Saw this guy perform in person, not this poem though.)
12. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig (I’ve read this book several times)
13. Dracula by Bram Stoker (Surprisingly action packed for its time)
14. The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkein (The whole darn series needs to be in here)
15. Hell House by Richard Matheson (A superb tale of terror)
16. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (Such a stunning example of voice)
17. The Wave by Todd Strasser (I chanced upon this in a bookstore and then couldn’t stop reading)
18. Uglies by Scott Westerfeld (I have all these books either in my classroom or on audio. Therefore I had to pick up the graphic novel for the video)
19. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Read this in middle school. Then it haunted me until I could find it and read it again in my thirties)
20. Dune by Frank Herbert (Hits all the marks for great Science Fiction)
21. Dr. Grordbort presents Victory by Greg Broadmore (A cunning work of steampunk satire)
22. Wicked Bugs by Amy Stewart (I also own Wicked Plants)
23. The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges He pulls these creatures from mythology, but so great to read)
24. After Man: A Zoology of the Future by Douglas Dixon (This one really sparks the imagination)
25. You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense by Charles Bukowski (I own and have read multiple Bukowski books. This one simply had the most Post It notes attached.)
26. The Complete Poems of John Keats (My fav is Ode to a Nightingale)
27. Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (Yes, I love the dictionary)
28. The Elements by Theodore Gray (This makes science addictive)
29. The Changing Vampire of Film and Television (I had to slip my own book in there)
30. Olympians: Zeus by George O’Connor (Not only mythology, but written as a kick-butt graphic novel)
31. Wired Magazine (Okay, so not a book, but it’s the only magazine I read)
32. Hellboy by Mike Mignola (One day he’s going to take that crown)
33. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (The book is a work of philosophy mixed with horror)
34. Bag of Bones by Stephen King (Yes, he made the list twice)
35. The Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H. G. Wells (My Granddad gave this to me when was a tween. Loved the way the stories expanded my imagination.)
36. Cold Skin by Albert Sánchez Piñol (He also made the list twice. You should read his stuff.)

Happy Reading

Tim Kane