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With my recent discovery of the free audiobook website, I have downloaded nearly 8GBs of new material in the past couple days, and I just spent the past couple hours organizing it all nicely into my iTunes. Phew. (That 8GB translates into roughly 12 days of material.)

Since my last post, I’ve gotten through the following books:

• The entire Harry Potter series (J. K. Rowling)
• The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
• Outliers (Malcolm Gladwell)
• The Black Swan (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
• I Am Legend (Richard Matheson)
• Dracula (Bram Stoker) *
• Oil! (Upton Sinclair) *

* I’m part of the way through these, but will have them finished soon-ish.

I kept thinking/meaning to write an entire post about Harry Potter, but never had the energy to do it. I can sum it up pretty easily though: life-changing. Nearly on par with the amazing-ness of The Lord of the Rings. Seriously, the last three books are Truly Epic, and the series as a whole is just incredible. Read them.

Here is the updated, super-long list. Since a lot of these are on audiobook, I expect to get through them relatively quickly:

• Oil! (Upton Sinclair)
• Dracula (Bram Stoker)
• Hamilton’s Curse (Thomas DiLorenzo)
• For A New Liberty (Murray Rothbard)
• Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
• Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift)
• Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
• The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
• A Letter Concerning Toleration (John Locke)
• Two Treatises of Civil Government (John Locke)
• Peter Pan (J. M. Barrie)
• The Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling)
• The Man Who Would Be King (Rudyard Kipling)
• Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
• Through the Looking-glass (Lewis Carroll)
• A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
• A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
• Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
• Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
• Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
• Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
• Emma (Jane Austen)
• Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
• Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
• Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)
• Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
• David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
• Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
• The Case Against the Fed (Murray Rothbard)
• Man, Economy and State (Murray Rothbard)
• Human Action (Ludwig von Mises)
• Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (Ayn Rand)
• Loopholes of the Rich (Diane Kennedy)
• Real Estate Investing for Dummies (Tyson and Griswold)
• Options Made Easy (Guy Cohen)
• Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
• Homage to Catalonia (George Orwell)
• A Foreign Policy of Freedom (Ron Paul)
• Reaganism and the Death of Representative Democracy (Williams)
• People’s History of the United States (Howard Zinn)
• Guns, Germs, and Steel (Jared Diamond)
• Saying Yes (Jacob Sullum)
• What to Eat (Marion Nestle)
• Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
• The Fellowship of the Ring (1)(J. R. R. Tolkien)
• The Two Towers (2)(J. R. R. Tolkien)
• The Return of the King (3)(J. R. R. Tolkien)
• The Lucifer Effect (Philip Zimbardo)
• Last Child in the Woods (Richard Louv)
• Havana Nocturne (T. J. English)
• The Demolished Man (Alfred Bester)

Check Amazon if you want to find out about any of the books. Also, feel free to make suggestions and tell me where I should stick them into the list. I’m not sure how long it will take me to get through this, and I’m assuming I’ll amend the list as I go along, sticking in titles I want to read sooner than others. One goal I have is to have the Twilight series and Harry Potter series read before their respective movies are released (by the way, I have very very low expectations for these series — I’m sure I’ll blog about it in the future after I’ve read them). Anyway, I think it’ll be possible to read them before their movies come out with the use of audiobooks. Another goal is to read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy (again) about six months to a year before The Hobbit comes out. So… Here’s the list:

• The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas)
• Investing for Dummies (Tyson)
• Real Estate Investing for Dummies (Tyson and Griswold)
• Oil! (Upton Sinclair)
• Homage to Catalonia (George Orwell)
• The Myth of the Rational Voter (Bryan Caplan)
• Loopholes of the Rich (Diane Kennedy)
• Twilight (1)(Stephanie Meyer)
• New Moon (2)(Stephanie Meyer)
• Eclipse (3)(Stephanie Meyer)
• Breaking Dawn (4)(Stephanie Meyer)
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (1)(J. K. Rowling)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2)(J. K. Rowling)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (3)(J. K. Rowling)
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (4)(J. K. Rowling)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (5)(J. K. Rowling)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (6)(J. K. Rowling)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (7)(J. K. Rowling)
• Dracula (Bram Stoker)
• The Case Against the Fed (Rothbard)
• Human Action (Ludwig von Mises)
• The Road to Serfdom (Hayek)
• Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (Ayn Rand)
• Options Made Easy (Guy Cohen)
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
• Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
• A Foreign Policy of Freedom (Ron Paul)
• The American Presidency (compilation encyclopedia-like book Shilo gave me)
• Reaganism and the Death of Representative Democracy (Williams)
• People’s History of the United States (Howard Zinn)
• Saying Yes (Jacob Sullum)
• What to Eat (Marion Nestle)
• Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
• I Am Legend (Richard Matheson)
• The Hobbit (1)(J. R. R. Tolkien)
• The Fellowship of the Ring (2)(J. R. R. Tolkien)
• The Two Towers (3)(J. R. R. Tolkien)
• The Return of the King (4)(J. R. R. Tolkien)
• The Lucifer Effect (Philip Zimbardo)
• Last Child in the Woods (Richard Louv)
• Havana Nocturne (T. J. English)