Monday, May 24, 2010

LOST reading list


  • I became addicted to Lost this summer. I wanted to assemble a list of all the literary works it references. In all its glory, I present it here.

  • "Mt.Tianmu Ascended in Dreams" by: Li Bai
  • A Brief History of Time by: Stephen Hawking
  • A Christmas Carol by: Charles Dickens
  • A History of World Societies by: John P. McKay, John Buckler, Bennett D. Hill, Patricia Buckley Ebrey
  • A Separate Reality by: Carlos Castaneda
  • A Tale of Two Cities by: Charles Dickens
  • A Wrinkle in Time by: Madeleine L'Engle
  • After All These Years: A Novel by: Susan Isaacs
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by: Lewis Carroll
  • An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by: Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
  • Animal Farm by: George Orwell
  • Are You There God? It's Me Margaret by: Judy Blume
  • Bad Twin by: Gary Troup
  • Bluebeard by: Charles Perrault
  • Book of Laws by: Manu
  • Caravan of Dreams by: Idries Shah
  • Carrie by: Stephen King
  • Catch-22 by: Joseph Heller
  • Chains of Command by: William J. Caunitz
  • Civilization and Its Discontents by: Sigmund Freud
  • Dark Horse by: Tami Hoag
  • Dirty Work by: Stuart Woods
  • Domes of Fire by: David Eddings
  • Easy Prey by: John Sandford
  • Eleventh Hour by: Catherine Coulter
  • Everything That Rises Must Converge by: Flannery O'Connor
  • Evil under the Sun by: Agatha Christie
  • Fahrenheit 451 by: Ray Bradbury
  • Fear and Trembling by: Sören Kierkegaard
  • Fire in the Mind by: George Johnson
  • Flowers For Algernon by: Daniel Keyes
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales by: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
  • Haroun and the Sea of Stories by: Salman Rushdie
  • Harry Potter by: J. K. Rowling
  • Heart of Darkness by: Joseph Conrad
  • Hearts in Atlantis by: Stephen King
  • High Hand by: Gary Phillips
  • Hindsight by: Peter Wright
  • Holy Bible: King James Version
  • Hotel by: Arthur Hailey
  • I Ching
  • Island by: Aldous Huxley
  • Julius Caesar by: William Shakespeare
  • Jurassic Park by: Michael Crichton
  • Juvenal
  • Kings of Love: The Poetry and History of the Ni'Matullahi Sufi Order by: P. L. Wilson, Nasrollah Pourjavady
  • Lancelot by: Walker Percy
  • Laughter in the Dark by: Vladimir Nabokov
  • Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days (Left Behind #1) by: Tim F. LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins
  • Lord of the Flies by: William Golding
  • Lucan
  • Memoirs of a Geisha by: Arthur Golden
  • Moby-Dick by: Herman Melville
  • Mysteries of the Ancient Americas: The New World before Columbus By: Robert Dolezal
  • Nighttime is My Time by: Mary Higgins Clark
  • No Place Like Home by: Mary Higgins Clark
  • Notes from the Undergound by: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • O Pioneers! by: Willa Cather
  • Of Mice and Men by: John Steinbeck
  • On the Beginnings of Miss Rachel and Miss Pauline by: Alfred de Musset
  • On the Road by: Jack Kerouac
  • On Writing by: Stephen KIng
  • Our Mutual Friend by: Charles Dickens
  • Pale Horse Coming by: Stephen Hunter
  • Parker's Astrology by: Julia and Derek Parker
  • Plautus
  • Prey by: Michael Crichton
  • Rainbow Six by: Tom Clancy
  • Redemption by: Leon Uris
  • Roots by: Alex Haley
  • Scientific Genius by: Dean Kenneth Simonton
  • Skinny Dip by: Carl Hiaasen
  • Slaughterhouse-Five by: Kurt Vonnegut
  • Stranger in a Strange Land by: Robert A. Heinlein
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by: Mark Twain
  • The Annotated Alice by: Lewis Carroll
  • The Bailey Chronicles by: Catherine Cookson
  • The Brothers Karamazov by: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • The Chosen by: Chaim Potok
  • The Chronicles of Narnia by: C. S. Lewis
  • The Coalwood Way by: Homer Hickam
  • The Dark Tower series by: Stephen King
  • The Epic of Gilgamesh by: Anonymous
  • The Fountainhead by: Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff
  • The Greatest Generation by: Tom Brokaw
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by: Douglas Adams
  • The Holy Quran
  • The Invention of Morel by: Adolfo Bioy Casares
  • The Keep by: F. Paul Wilson
  • The Little Prince by: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • The Moon Pool by: A. Merritt
  • The Mysterious Island by: Jules Verne
  • The Oath by: John Lescroart
  • The Odyssey by: Homer
  • The Outsiders by: S. E. Hinton
  • The Pearl by: John Steinbeck
  • The Power of Beauty by: Nancy Friday
  • The Scottish Bride by: Catherine Coulter
  • The Shape of Things to Come by: H. G. Wells
  • The Sheltering Sky by: Paul Bowles
  • The Shining by: Stephen King
  • The Stand by: Stephen King
  • The Stone Leopard by: Colin Forbes
  • The Survivors of the Chancellor by: Jules Verne
  • The Third Policeman by: Flann O'Brien
  • The Turn of the Screw by: Henry James
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by: L. Frank Baum
  • Through The Looking Glass by: Lewis Carrol
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by: Harper Lee
  • Two Dollar Bill by: Stuart Woods
  • Ulysses by: James Joyce
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin by: Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Valhalla Rising by: Clive Cussler
  • Valis by: Philip K. Dick
  • Virgil
  • Watership Down by: Richard Adams
  • What Katy Did by: Susan Coolidge
  • Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned by: Brian K. Vaughan

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