LPM: 2026

Reading List

Psalms (R. Alter’s HB; Norton) Jan 2026→
Michel Houellebecq – Platform (William Heinemann) Oct→
Emanuel Swedenborg – Heaven And Hell (Swedenborg Foundation) Sep→Nov 2026
Maggie Dunlap & Philip Best – Pure Evil, Pure Innocence: The Maggie Dunlap Story (Amphetamine Sulphate) Sep→Oct 2026
H.P. Lovecraft – Nyarlathotep, The Festival & The Haunter Of The Dark (in: The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales, Barnes & Noble) Oct 2026
Nguyễn Huy Thiệp – My Uncle Hoat & The Woodcutters (in: Crossing The River, Curbstone Books) Sep 2026
Vũ Trọng Phụng – From Theory To Practice, Overweening Pride & The Gold Teeth (in: Light Out And Modern Vietnamese Stories, 1930-1954, Northern Illinois University Press) Sep 2026
Carson McCullers – The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter (Century Hutchinson) Aug→Sep 2026
Yukio Mishima – Thirst For Love (Penguin) Jul 2026
Jacob Burckhardt – The Greeks And Greek Civilization (St. Martin’s Press) Apr→Jul 2026
New Juche – Heat Death, 2 (Gallows Fruit) Jun 2026
Jane Bowles – Camp Cataract (in: My Sister’s Hand In Mine, Ecco) Jun 2026
Paul Bowles – The Delicate Prey & Pages From Cold Point (in: Pages From Cold Point, Peter Owen) Jun 2026
New Juche – Study For A Portrait (link) May 2026 [3]
Matt Wallden – The Diaphragm – More Than An Inspired Design (Journal Of Bodywork & Movement Therapies, 21:342-349) May 2026 [3]
Nam Cao – A Full Meal (link) May 2026 [3]
Homer – The Odyssey (Penguin) Feb→Apr 2026
Paul Valéry – Monsieur Teste (New York Review Books) Feb 2026
Michael Salerno (ed.) – Kiddiepunk Collected 2011-2015 (Kiddiepunk) Feb 2026 [7]
Marguerite Duras – Practicalities (Collins) Dec 2025
Nam Cao – Bright Moon & The Eyes (in: Light Out And Modern Vietnamese Stories, 1930-1954, Northern Illinois University Press) Dec 2025
Chiến Quốc Trương – Translating Chí Phèo: A Journey Through The World Of Literary Translations (link) Dec 2025 [3]
Robert Bresson – Bresson On Bresson: Interviews, 1943-1983 (New York Review Books) Nov→Dec 2025
William Shakespeare – King Lear (Penguin) Nov→Dec 2025
J.M.G. Le Clézio – The Great Life (Chicago Review, 47(2): p. 13-38) Nov 2025 [3]
Yuri Slezkine – The Jewish Century (Princeton) Oct→Nov 2025
Nam Cao – Chí Phèo (link) Oct 2025 [3]
Rudyard Kipling – The Jungle Book (Macmillan) Sep→Oct 2025
Caroline Fraser – Murderland (Fleet) Aug→Sep 2025
Carson McCullers – Reflections In A Golden Eye (Houghton Mifflin) Aug 2025
Nam Cao – Old Man Crane (link) Aug 2025 [3]
Michael Tetley – Instinctive Sleeping And Resting Postures: An Anthropological And Zoological Approach To Treatment Of Low Back And Joint Paint (BMJ, 321: p. 1616-1618) Aug 2025 [3]
Thomas Moore – We’ll Never Be Fragile Again (Amphetamine Sulphate) Aug 2025
Adolf von Harnack – Marcion: The Gospel Of The Alien God (The Labyrinth Press) Jun→Jul 2025
Larry Clark – Return (Stanley/Barker) Jun 2025
Yukio Mishima – Confessions Of A Mask (Peter Owen) Jun 2025
Robert Frank – The Americans (Steidl) Jun 2025
The Upanishads (Penguin) May→Jun 2025
Robert A. Monroe – Journeys Out Of The Body (Doubleday) May 2025
Nguyễn Huy Thiệp – The General Retires, Without A King & Life’s So Fun (in: Crossing The River, Curbstone Books) May 2025
Fyodor Dostoyevsky – Crime And Punishment (Penguin) Mar→May 2025
Joachim Jeremias – Rediscovering The Parables (SCM) Feb→Mar 2025
Thomas Moore – I Ruined Your Life (Kiddiepunk) Mar 2025
Giorgio Bonsanti – Caravaggio (Scala) Feb 2025
Michel de Montaigne – The Complete Essays (Penguin) Mar 2024→Feb 2025
New Juche – Water Margin (Gallows Fruit) Feb 2025
Peter Sotos – Kee MacFarlane (Nine-Banded Books) Jan 2025 [6]
Peter Trawny – Freedom To Fail: Heidegger’s Anarchy (Polity) Dec 2024
Enzo Carli – Italian Primitives (Abrams) Dec 2024
Benedict Anderson – The Fate Of Rural Hell (Seagull Books) Nov 2024
Raymond Roussel – New Impressions Of Africa (Princeton University Press) Oct 2024
Dick Roughsey – The Giant Devil-Dingo (Macmillan) Oct 2024
Percy Trezise & Dick Roughsey – The Quinkins (Collins) Oct 2024
Thomas Moore – Hospital (Broken Blood Press) Oct 2024
Georges Bataille – Story Of The Eye (Penguin) Sep 2024
Ila Pop & Sailor Stephens – Venomous Feathers Split #2: The Telephone Diaries / Love Tap (Venomous Feathers) Sep 2024
Dennis Cooper – Flunker (Amphetamine Sulphate) Jul→Aug 2024
Percy Trezise & Dick Roughsey – Turramulli The Giant Quinkin (Gareth Stevens Publishing) Aug 2024
Tohby Riddle – Yahoo Creek: An Australian Mystery (Allen & Unwin) Jul 2024
Archie Fitzgerald & Joshua Mackie – Venomous Feathers Split #3: While You Were Sleeping… / Devotee Of Love (Venomous Feathers) Jul 2024
Jim Schutze – Bully: A True Story Of High School Revenge (Umbrella Entertainment) Jun→Jul 2024 [5]
Curzio Malaparte – The Skin (New York Review Books) Mar→Jun 2024
André de Troyer & Marc Estenne – Functional Anatomy Of The Respiratory Muscles (Clinics In Chest Medicine, 9(2): p. 175-192) Jun 2024 [3]
Fergus Nm (ed.) – A Thousand Years (Venomous Feathers) May 2024
John Milton – L’Allegro, Il Penseroso And Minor Poems (The Peter Pauper Press) Feb→Mar 2024
Martin Heidegger – The Self-Assertion Of The German University And The Recorate 1933/34: Facts And Thoughts (Review Of Metaphysics, 38(3): p. 467-502) Feb→Mar 2024 [3]
Charles Bukowski – Essential Bukowski: Poetry (Ecco) Jan→Feb 2024
Leon Chaitow, Dinah Bradley & Christopher Gilbert – 10: Self-Help Approaches (in Multidisciplinary Approaches To Breathing Pattern Disorders, Churchill Livingstone) Feb 2024 [3]
J.G. Ballard – The Voices Of Time (in: The Inner Landscape, Allison & Busby) Feb 2024
William Shakespeare – The Tempest (Penguin) Feb 2024
Martin Heidegger – “Only A God Can Save Us”: The Spiegel Interview (1966) (in Heidegger: The Man And The Thinker, Transaction Publishers) Feb 2024 [3]
Leon Chaitow, Dinah Bradley & Christopher Gilbert – 9: Other Breathing Issues (in Multidisciplinary Approaches To Breathing Pattern Disorders, Churchill Livingstone) Jan 2024 [3]
Fergus Nm (ed.) – Venomous Feathers, V.F. 01 (Venomous Feathers) Jan 2024
Henry James – The Turn Of The Screw (Penguin) Dec 2023
Bud Lee – The War Is Here (ZE Books) Dec 2023
Friedrich Nietzsche – Thus Spake Zarathustra (Notting Hill Editions) Aug→Dec 2023 [4]
New Juche – Heat Death, 1 (Gallows Fruit) Dec 2023
Martin Heidegger – Art And Space (Man And World, 6(1): p. 3-8) Nov 2023 [3]
Yoram Hazony – The Virtue Of Nationalism (Basic Books) Aug 2023
The First Book & Second Book Of Maccabees (JB; Darton, Longman & Todd) Jul→Aug 2023
H.F. Harlow, M.K. Harlow & S.J. Suomi – From Thought To Therapy: Lessons From A Primate Laboratory (American Scientist, 59: p. 538-549) Jun 2023 [3]
Thomas Moore – When People Die (Kiddiepunk) Jun 2023
Peter Sotos & Lionel Maunz – Lionel Maunz Peter Sotos (Amphetamine Sulphate & Nine-Banded Books) May→Jun 2023
The Pastoral Epistles (JB; Darton, Longman & Todd) May 2023
Yukio Mishima – Acts Of Worship (Kodansha) Apr→May 2023
Walt Whitman – Leaves Of Grass (Penguin) Apr 2023
The Epistles Of John (JB; Darton, Longman & Todd) Apr 2023
L.Ron Hubbard – Fear (New Era Publications) Mar 2023
Johannes Weiss – Jesus’ Proclamation Of The Kingdom Of God (SCM) Mar 2023
Thomas Moore – Skeleton Costumes (Kiddiepunk) Mar 2023
Régine Deforges – Confessions Of O (Viking Books) Mar 2023
Fernando Pessoa – A Little Larger Than The Entire Universe (Penguin) Sep 2022→Feb 2023
Marguerite Duras – The Lover (Flamingo) Feb 2023
J.G. Ballard – The Disaster Area (Panther) Dec 2022→Feb 2023
Saint Augustine – Confessions (Penguin, trans. Wills) Nov→Dec 2022
Erasmus / Otto Dix – Bellum (Imprint Society) Oct→Nov 2022
Daniel (R. Alter’s HB; Norton) Sep 2022
Daniel (JB; Darton, Longman & Todd) Sep 2022
William Shakespeare – The Sonnets (Penguin) Jun→Sep 2022
J.G. Ballard – Low-Flying Aircraft (Panther) Aug→Sep 2022
Edward Hussey – The Presocratics (Duckworth) Jul→Aug 2022
Jared Taylor – If We Do Nothing (New Century Books) Jun 2022
Fernando Pessoa – The Book Of Disquiet (Penguin) Feb 2021→Jun 2022
The Gospel According To Saint Luke & The Acts Of The Apostles (JB; Darton, Longman & Todd) May→Jun 2022
Adolf Harnack – What Is Christianity? (Harper) May 2022
Darian Leader – The New Black (Hamish Hamilton) Apr→May 2022
James Dickey – Deliverance (Hamish Hamilton) Apr 2022
Qohelet (Ecclesiastes) (R. Alter’s HB; Norton) Apr 2022
Ecclesiastes (JB; Darton, Longman & Todd) Apr 2022
Joseph Conrad – Lord Jim (Collins) Feb→Apr 2022
gea* – memoria foto graphic (Editions Unknown) Feb 2022
The Letter To The Hebrews (JB; Darton, Longman & Todd) Feb 2022
Rachel Kushner – The Hard Crowd (Jonathan Cape) Feb 2022
Raymond Roussel – The Alley Of Fireflies And Other Stories (The Song Cave) Jan 2022
Stevan Davies – The Gospel Of Thomas (Shambhala Library) Jan 2022
R. Crumb (illus.) – The Book Of Genesis (Jonathan Cape) Nov→Dec 2021
Steve Finbow (ed.) – Anthology (Infinity Land Press) Nov 2021
Genesis (JB; Darton, Longman & Todd) Oct→Nov 2021
C.H. Dodd – The Founder Of Christianity (Collins) Oct 2021
New Juche – Mountainhead (Nine-Banded Books) Sep→Oct 2021
Lore Segal & Maurice Sendak – The Juniper Tree And Other Tales From Grimm, Volume II (Farrar, Straus And Giroux) Sep 2021
Brian Evenson – The Glassy, Burning Floor Of Hell (Coffee House Press) Aug→Sep 2021
The Gospels According To Saints Matthew, Mark & John (JB; Darton, Longman & Todd) Aug 2021
New Juche – The Worm (Infinity Land Press) Jul 2021
Denton Welch – A Voice Through A Cloud (Readers Union) Jul 2021
Apostolikon & The Gospel According To Saint Luke (JB; Darton, Longman & Todd) Jun→Jul 2021 [2]
Ryszard Legutko – The Demon In Democracy (Encounter Books) May 2021
Evan S. Connell, Jr. – The Connoisseur (Knopf) May 2021
Eric Hoffer – The True Believer (Time-Life Books) Apr→May 2021
Lore Segal & Maurice Sendak – The Juniper Tree And Other Tales From Grimm, Volume I (Farrar, Straus And Giroux) Apr 2021
Ted Hughes – Crow (Faber And Faber) Mar→Apr 2021
Yukio Mishima – On Hagakure: The Samurai Ethic And Modern Japan (Penguin) Mar 2021
Yukio Mishima – Death In Midsummer (New Directions) Feb→Mar 2021
Yukio Mishima – The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion (Tuttle) Dec 2020→Feb 2021
Charlotte Yonge – The Little Duke (Oxford University Press) Nov 2020
Yukio Mishima – The Death Of A Man / Otoko No Shi (Rizzoli) Oct 2020
George Orwell – Burmese Days (Penguin) Sep→Oct 2020
Michel Houellebecq – In The Presence Of Schopenhauer (Polity) Sep 2020
William Strunk Jr. & E.B. White – The Elements Of Style (Allyn & Bacon) Jun→Jul 2020
H.P. Lovecraft – The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales (Barnes & Noble) May→Sep 2020 [1]
Thomas Nashe – The Unfortunate Traveller: Or, The Life Of Jack Wilton (John Lehmann) Apr→May 2020
John Cowper Powys – Wolf Solent (Penguin) Feb→Apr 2020
Michel Houellebecq – H.P. Lovecraft: Against The World, Against Life (Cernunnos) Feb 2020
New Juche – The Devils (Amphetamine Sulphate) Jan→Feb 2020

^{1. Read only the eight “great texts” identified by M. Houellebecq in his H.P. Lovecraft essay.}
^{2. Apostolikon are the 10 Pauline epistles in Marcion’s canon: link.}
^{3. My personal photocopy, printed scan, or other printout.}
^{4. Read this great—yet flawed—translation twice, primarily to correct all the typographical errors, but also for enjoyment.}
^{5. Hardback included with the Umbrella Entertainment Blu-ray of Bully.}
^{6. Including the accompanying note, Places, by Chip Smith.}
^{7. Skipped Ken Baumann’s short story.}

Wanted Books

A
Yonatan Adler – The Origins Of Judaism
Yonatan Adler – Between Yahwism And Judaism
Dante Alighieri – The Divine Comedy
Robert Ardrey – The Territorial Imperative
Aristotle – Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle – Politics
Aristotle – Metaphysics
Aristotle – Poetics
Saint Augustine – The City Of God (Hans Urs von Balthasar selections)
B
Isaac Babel – The Collected Stories Of Isaac Babel
J.G. Ballard – The Unlimited Dream Company
J.G. Ballard – The Terminal Beach
Djuna Barnes – Nightwood
Georges Bataille – My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man
Georges Bataille – Visions Of Excess
Jean Baudrillard – America
Walter Benjamin – Reflections
Walter Benjamin – The Origin Of German Tragic Drama
Walter Benjamin – Berlin Childhood Around 1900
Henri Bergson – Laughter
David Berman – A History Of Atheism In Britain
Thomas Bernhard – Woodcutters
Georges Bernanos – The Diary Of A Country Priest
Jack Black – You Can’t Win
Algernon Blackwood – Ancient Sorceries And Other Weird Stories
Paul Bowles – The Sheltering Sky
William S. Burroughs & Brion Gysin – The Third Man
William S. Burroughs – The Job
William S. Burroughs – The Western Lands
C
Truman Capote – In Cold Blood
Nam Cao – Chi Pheo And Other Stories
Emmanuel Carrère – The Adversary
Emmanuel Carrère – I Am Alive And You Are Dead
Carlos Castaneda – The Teachings Of Don Juan
Paul Celan – Selected Poems And Prose Of Paul Celan
Louis-Ferdinand Céline – London
Louis-Ferdinand Céline – North
Miguel de Cervantes – Don Quixote (trans. Edith Grossman)
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin – The Phenomenon Of Man
Gilbert K. Chesterton – Orthodoxy
Anton Chekhov – The Seagull
Thomas Childers – The Third Reich
John Cohen – Africa Addio
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
Auguste Comte – A Discourse On The Positive Spirit
Joseph Conrad – Under Western Eyes
Joseph Conrad – Nostromo
Dennis Cooper – God Jr.
D. Corydon Hammond (ed.) – Handbook Of Hypnotic Suggestions And Metaphors
James Cowan – Mysteries Of The Dream-Time
Stephen Crane – The Red Badge Of Courage
D
Salvador Dalí – The Secret Life Of Salvador Dalí
Mary Daly & Jane Caputi – Wickedary
Mary Daly & Jane Caputi – Gyn/Ecology
Leonardo Da Vinci – Notebooks
Guy Debord – The Society Of The Spectacle (trans. Fredy Perlman)
Don DeLillo – Underworld
Philip K. Dick – The Transmigration Of Timothy Archer
Philip K. Dick – Radio Free Albemuth
Philip K. Dick – The Exegesis Of Philip K. Dick
Linh Dinh (ed.) – Night, Again
C.H. Dodd – The Apostolic Preaching And Its Developments
E.R. Dodds – The Greeks And The Irrational
Fyodor Dosto[y]evsky – The Best Short Stories Of Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nguyễn Du – The Song Of Kiều (trans. Huỳnh Sanh Thông)
J.W. Dunne – An Experiment With Time
Marguerite Duras – The Ravishing Of Lol Stein
Marguerite Duras – The Sea Wall
Wilson Van Dusen – The Presence Of Other Worlds
Wilson Van Dusen – The Natural Depth In Man
Andrea Dworkin – Heartbreak
Andrea Dworkin – Mercy
E
T.S. Eliot – Collected Poems 1909-1962
Euripides – The Bacchae
Niles Eldredge – Fossils
F
A.B. Facey – A Fortunate Life
William Faulkner – As I Lay Dying
Gustave Flaubert – A Simple Heart
Frederick Forsyth – The Day Of The Jackal
George MacDonald Fraser – Quartered Safe Out Here
G
William Gaddis – The Recognitions
Jean Genet – Querelle Of Brest
Jean Genet – Prisoner Of Love
Kahlil Gibran – Jesus The Son Of Man
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Goethe’s Conversations With Eckerman
Nikolai Gogol – The Collected Tales
Nikolai Gogol – Dead Souls
Thomas Goodrich – Scalp Dance
Hermann Gunkel – Creation And Chaos In The Primeval Era And The Eschaton
H
Paul Ham – Sandakan
Knut Hamsun – Growth Of The Soil
Graham Hancock – Fingerprints Of The Gods
Phan Nhiên Hạo – Night, Fish, And Charlie Parker
Phan Nhiên Hạo – Paper Bells
Martin Heidegger – Contributions To Philosophy (From Enowning)
Heinrich Heine – Confessions (published with Tolstoy’s A Confession)
Werner Heisenberg – Physics And Philosophy
Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway – The Snows Of Kilimanjaro
Herodotus – The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories
Hesiod – Theogony, Works And Days, Testimonia
Tony Hillerman – The Blessing Way
Michael Holmes – The Apostolic Fathers
Milne Holton & Vasa D. Mihailovic – Songs Of The Serbian People
Homer – The Odyssey (T.E. Lawrence translation)
Homer – The Iliad (Robert Fagles translation)
Horace – Odes
Donald Horne – The Lucky Country
Mervyn Horton (ed.) – Art And Australia 13(3)
Victor Hugo – The Toilers Of The Sea
David Hume – Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
David Hume – The Natural History Of Religion
I
Ibsen – The Wild Duck
Ion L. Idriess – Headhunters Of The Coral Sea
J
Anthony Jacob – White Man, Think Again!
Neil L. Jamieson – Understanding Vietnam
Julian Jaynes – The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind
Gary Jennings – Aztec
Denis Johnson – Tree Of Smoke
Denis Johnson – The Largesse Of The Sea Maiden
Michael Jordan – Encyclopedia Of Gods
Josephus – The Jewish War (Martin Goodman translation)
James Joyce – Dubliners
Ernst Jünger – On The Marble Cliffs
Ernst Jünger – Approaches
K
Franz Kafka – The Complete Stories
John Keats – (a collection of odes)
Frank Kermode – Shakespeare’s Language
Omar Khayyám – The Rubáiyát Of Omar Khayyám
Stephen King – Different Seasons
Edward Kline – Songs Of The Ausbund Volume 1
John Knox – Marcion And The New Testament
Craig R. Koester – Revelation And The End Of All Things
Jack Kornfield – The Wise Heart
Donald B. Kraybill, Steven M. Nolt & David L. Weaver-Zercher – Amish Grace
L
Charles Lamb – Essays Of Elia
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa – The Leopard
Henry Lawson – The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories
Leopardi – Zibaldone
C.S. Lewis – The Space Trilogy
Norman Lewis – Naples ’44
Jonathan Littell – The Damp And The Dry
M. David Litwa – The Evil Creator
Christopher Logue – War Music: An Account Of Homer’s Iliad
Alfred Loisy – The Gospel And The Church
H.P. Lovecraft & Robert E. Howard – A Means To Freedom
Roger Luckhurst (ed.) – Late Victorian Gothic Tales
M
Norm Macdonald – Based On A True Story
J.L. Mackie – The Miracle Of Theism
Malcolm MacPherson – The Black Box
Paul Martin – Counting Sheep
Edgar Lee Masters – Spoon River Anthology
Cormac McCarthy – Suttree
Melito of Sardis – On Pascha
Herman Melville – Moby-Dick
Maurice Merleau-Ponty – Phenomenology Of Perception
John Milton – Paradise Lost
Yukio Mishima – Sun And Steel
Yukio Mishima – Spring Snow
Yukio Mishima – The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea
Anne Moir & David Jessel – Brain Sex
Ramona Morris & Desmond Morris – Men And Pandas
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Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin
Jean-Luc Nancy – God, Justice, Love, Beauty
Claudio Naranjo – Character And Neurosis
Barnett Newman – Selected Writings And Interviews
Charles Nicholl – Leonardo Da Vinci: Flights Of The Mind
Friedrich Nietzsche – The Gay Science
O
Joyce Carol Oates – Heat And Other Stories
Kenzaburō Ōe – A Personal Matter
J.C. O’Neill – Paul’s Letter To The Romans
George Orwell – A Collection Of Essays
P
M.H. Pappworth – Human Guinea Pigs
Nigel Pennick – The Pagan Book Of Days
Fernando Pessoa – Pessoa & Co.
Pindar – The Complete Odes (Anthony Verity translation)
Plato – Phaedrus
Hermann Heinrich Ploss, Max & Paul Bartels – Woman
Plutarch – Lives
Edgar Allan Poe – Great Tales And Poems Of Edgar Allan Poe
Robert M. Price – Moses And Minimalism
Carleton Putnam – Race And Reason
James Purdy – The Complete Short Stories Of James Purdy
Thomas Pynchon – Bleeding Edge
R
Ernest Renan – The Life Of Jesus
Henry Handel Richardson – The Fortunes Of Richard Mahony
Sidney Rosen (ed.) – My Voice Will Go With You
Dick Roughsey – Moon And Rainbow
S
Victoria Salley – Nature’s Artist: Plants And Animals By Albrecht Dürer
E.P. Sanders – Jesus And Judaism
E.P. Sanders – The Historical Figure Of Jesus
George Santayana – Interpretations Of Poetry And Religion
Gustave Schlegl – The Hung-League
Hugh J. Schonfield – The Original New Testament
Arthur Schopenhauer – The World As Will And Representation
Arthur Schopenhauer – On The Fourfold Root Of The Principle Of Sufficient Reason
Arthur Schopenhauer – On The Will In Nature
Arthur Schopenhauer – Parerga And Paralipomena
Myra Shackley – Still Living?
William Shakespeare – Measure For Measure
William Shakespeare – Macbeth
William Shakespeare – Hamlet
William Shakespeare – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Menno Simons – “Confession” And The New Birth
B.F. Skinner – Beyond Fredom & Dignity
Yuri Slezkine – Arctic Mirrors
S.A. Smith – The Russian Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
Sophocles – The Three Theban Plays
Virginia Sorensen – Plain Girl
Natsume Sōseki – Light And Dark
Oswald Spengler – The Decline Of The West
Starhawk – The Spiral Dance
Wallace Stevens – Harmonium
Stendhal – The Red And The Black
Laurence Sterne – The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Peter Straub – Koko
Peter Straub – The Throat
D.T. Suzuki – An Introduction To Zen Buddhism
Vincent de Swarte – Petit Bloï
Glendon Swarthout – The Shootist
Emanuel Swedenborg – The Lord
Emanuel Swedenborg – New Jerusalem
T
Jacob Taubes – The Political Theology Of Paul
Cory Taylor – Dying: A Memoir
Jared Taylor – Shadows Of The Rising Sun
Thucydides – The War Of The Peloponnesians And The Athenians
Marianne Meye Thompson – The God Of The Gospel Of John
Paul Tillich – The Dynamics Of Faith
Leo Tolstoy – The Death Of Ivan Ilyich
Michel Tournier – The Erl-King
Paul G. Tremblay – A Head Full Of Ghosts
Trevanian – Shibumi
Ivan Turgenev – First Love
V
Paul Valéry – Da Vinci’s Method: His Chiaroscuro
Giambattista Vico – New Science
Voltaire – Candide
W
Robert Walser – Selected Stories
Denton Welch – Maiden Voyage
H.G. Wells – The Time Machine
Nathanael West – The Day Of The Locust
Edmund White – Genet
Oscar Wilde – Intentions
Tom Wolfe – From Bauhaus To Our House
Tom Wolfe – The Painted Word
C. Leonard Woolley – The Sumerians
William Wordsworth – (a poetry collection)
Richard W. Wrangham & Dale Peterson – Demonic Males
X
Xenophon – The Shorter Socratic Writings
Y
John H. Yoder (ed.) – The Schleitheim Confession
Z
Zeami – On The Art Of The Nō Drama
Émile Zola – La Bête humaine

Wanted Music

B
Charlie Barnet And His Orchestra – Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie
Béla Bartók – Concerto For Orchestra / Music For Strings, Percussion And Celesta / Hungarian Sketches
Béla Bartók – Complete String Quartets (Végh Quartet)
Béla Bartók – Bluebeard’s Castle
Beanflipper – (anything)
Pierre Boulez – Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna
Rock Burwell – Obsession
The Byrds – Fifth Dimension (mono)
C
Charlie Christian – Genius Of The Electric Guitar
Eddie Cochrane – Legendary Masters Series Volume 1
John Coltrane – Expression
John Coltrane – Meditations
John Coltrane – Om
Corin Curschellas – Valdun Voices Of Rumantsch
D
Miles Davis – The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions
Miles Davis – Agharta
Miles Davis – Pangaea
Miles Davis – Birth Of The Cool
Deep Purple – Fireball
Deep Purple – In Concert
Bob Dylan – Shot Of Love
Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Volume 3
Bob Dylan – Under The Red Sky
Bob Dylan – Pure Dylan
E
Earth – The Bees Made Honey In The Lion’s Skull
Earth – Phase 3: Thrones And Dominions
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra – 1942–1944
Gil Evans – Into The Hot
F
Bill Frisell – Gone, Just Like A Train
Bill Frisell – East/West
G
Jerry Garcia – Garcia
Carlo Gesualdo – Madrigali A 5 Voci, Books 1-6 Complete (Quintetto Vocale Italiano)
Grateful Dead – Road Trips Vol. 4 No 5.
H
Humble Pie – Performance Rockin’ The Fillmore
J
The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra – The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra
Judas Priest – Unleashed In The East
K
Lee Konitz – Motion
Fela Kuti And Africa 70 – Monkey Banana / Excuse O
Fela Kuti And Africa 70 – Zombie
L
Little Feat – Waiting For Columbus
M
Herbie Mann – Push Push
Melvins – Ozma
Claudio Monteverdi – The Madrigals (Raymond Leppard)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – The String Quintets (Amadeus Quartet)
N
Ricky Nelson – The Ballads Of Ricky Nelson
Nirvana – From The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah
P
Pantera – The Great Southern Trendkill
Charlie Parker – Yardbird Suite
Charlie Parker – The Complete Dial Masters
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – The Live Anthology
Iggy Pop – Where The Faces Shine - Volume 1
Bud Powell – The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume 1
Q
Robert Quine / Fred Maher – Basic
R
Jimmy Reed – Mr. Luck (The Complete Vee-Jay Singles)
Lou Reed – Street Hassle
S
The Scorpions – Taken By Force
Rudolf Serkin – Schubert · Bach · Beethoven · Brahms · Mendelssohn
Bola Sete – Ocean
The Shadows – Shadows Are Go!
The Shadows – A’s B’s & EP’s
Igor Stravinsky – The Rite Of Spring (Boulez, 1991)
Sun Ra – Space Is The Place
Sun Ra – My Brother The Wind, Vol. 2
Swans – Forever Burned
Swans – Various Failures
T
Cecil Taylor – Garden (parts 1 & 2)
Ike Turner – I Like Ike! The Best Of Ike Turner
Lennie Tristano – Descent Into The Maelstrom
Robin Trower – Bridge Of Sighs
U
UFO – Strangers In The Night
V
[various artists] – Rocky IV OST
[various artists] – The Very Best Of Hugh Tracey
[various artists] – Till The Night Is Gone: A Tribute To Doc Pomus
[various artists] – Andres Segovia And His Contemporaries, Vol. 11: Guitarists Of The Rio De La Plata
[various artists] – The Thousand Incarnations Of The Rose
Van Halen – The Collection
Van Halen – The Collection II
Giuseppe Verdi – Simon Boccanegra (Claudio Abbado)
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Scott Walker – Pola X OST
The Who – Quadrophenia
The Who – Live At Leeds
Hugo Wolf – Spanisches Liederbuch (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerald Moore)

Pure Evil, Pure Innocence: Further Reading

ALCALA · The Dating Game Killer (2011) · ALPHABET MURDERS · Nightmare In Rochester (2018) · ANNE MARIE · Out Of The Shadows (1995) · ATLANTA CHILD MURDERS · The List (1983) · AVILA · Missy’s Murder (1991) · BABES IN THE WOODS · A Question Of Evidence (1991) · BAR-JONAH · Eat The Evidence (2014) · A Parasite In The Mind (2019) · There Is No Body (2019) · A Preponderance Of Evil (2024) · BAUTISTA · Such Good Boys (2005) · BEERS · “My Name Is Katherine” (1993) · Buried Memories (2013) · BELL · The Case Of Mary Bell (1972) · Cries Unheard (1998) · BELLFIELD · The Bus-Stop Killer (2011) · Predator (2011) · Manhunt (2018) · BERDELLA · Rites Of Burial (1992) · BERNARDO · Deadly Innocence (1995) · BIANCHI · The Hillside Strangler (1981) · BIBLE JOHN · Search For A Sadist (1980) · We All Go Into The Dark (2023) · BISHOP/DODD · The Mind Of The Devil (2015) · BLACK · The Murder Of Childhood (1995) · “Well Done, Boys” (1996) · The Face Of Evil (2017) · BLACK [2] · The Aesthetics Of Murder (1991) · BLACKOUT RIPPER · In The Dark (2006) · BONIN · Without Redemption: Creation & Deeds (2022) · BOSTON STRANGLER · Official Tape-Recorded Confessions (1967) · The Strangler! (1967) · BRADY · The Untold Story (2017) · BRIDGER · Pink Ribbons For April (2013) · BROWNE · The Devil’s Right-Hand Man (2007) · BRUDOS · Lust Killer (1983) · BRUECKNER · My Search For Madeleine (2021) · BUNDY · The Deliberate Stranger (1980) · The Phanton Prince (1981) · The Only Living Witness (1983) · Defending The Devil (1994) · The Trail: Digging Up The Untold Stories (2016) · Violent Mind: The 1976 Psychological Assessment (2017) · A 1976 Companion (2024) · BUNDY/KEPPEL/GREEN RIVER KILLER · The Riverman (1995) · BUNDY/LEACH · The Last Murder (2011) · BURRIDGE SISTERS · The Darkest Night (2008) · BUSS · When Love Is Not Enough (1998) · CANNOCK CHASE · Not The Moors Murders (1988) · CAPUTI · The Age Of Sex Crime (1987) · CASANOVA KILLER · 35 Dead One Survivor (2021)* · CHASE · The Dracula Killer (1992) · CHIKATILO · Comrade Chikatilo: Psychopathology (1993) · Hunting The Devil (1993) · CHRISTIE · John Christie Of Rillington Place (2013) · The Peepshow (2024) · COLLABORATIVE KILLERS · Team Killers (2001) · COLLINS · The Michigan Murders (1976) · COLORADO JANE DOE · Someone’s Daughter (2009) · CORLL · Mass Murder In Houston (1974) · Harvest Of Horror (1975) · The Scientist And The Serial Killer (2025) · CORONA · Burden Of Proof (1973) · The Road To Yuba City (1974) · COTTINGHAM · The Prostitute Murders (1983) · COURTROOM PSYCHIATRY · Alone With The Devil (1989) · CRIME SCENES · Murder In California: Topography Of Evil (2024) · DAHMER · The Man Who Could Not Kill Enough (1991) · The Milwaukee Murders (1991) · The Shrine (1993) · A Father’s Story (1994) · DEANGELO · Case Files Of The East Area Rapist (2017) · DEBARDELEBEN · Beyond Cruel (2007) · DELPHI · Down The Hill (2023) · The Man On The Bridge (2023) · DENNEHY · Love Of Blood (2015) · DE VRIES · Missing Sarah (2003) · DODD · Driven To Kill (1993) · When The Monster Comes Out Of The Closet (1994) · “Diary Of Death” (1995)* · Victorian-Renaissance Evidence: A Review For The Motive To Murder Children (2012) · DOLL · Broken Doll (2004) · DOMINIQUE · The Bayou Strangler (2017) · DOUBLE INITIAL MURDERS · Alphabet Killer (2010) · DOWLER · My Sister Milly (2017) · DOWNING · The Subject Of Murder (2013) · DUGARD · A Stolen Life (2011) · DUNKLE · The Boy Next Door (1999) · DUNLAP · True Crime (2022)* · DUTROUX · I Choose To Live (2005) · The Woman Who Fed The Dogs (2015) · EAR/ONS · Cold Case File: Sudden Terror (2010) · EICHMANN · Criminal Case 40/61 (1961) · EYLER · Freed To Kill (1990) · FAMILY MURDERS · Young Blood (2002) · FBI · The Unknown Darkness: Profiling The Predators (2003) · FISH · The Cannibal (1971) · FRANCOIS · Body Dump (2002) · The Spider And The Fly (2017) · FRANKLIN · Dark Soul Of The South (2011) · The Third Rainbow Girl (2020) · FUGATE · Caril (1974) · GACY · The Man Who Killed Boys (1980) · Buried Dreams (1986) · A Question Of Doubt (1993) · Boys Enter The House (2021) · Postmortem: What Survives (2025) · GALLEGO · All His Father’s Sins (1986) · A Venom In The Blood (1990) · The Sex Slave Murders (1996) · GAMBLE · Unlucky To The End (2007) · GECHT · Deadly Thrills (1995) · GECHT/WOODFIELD/NORRIS/GORE ET AL. · Serial Killer Letters (1998) · GENDRON MANIFESTO · You Wait For A Signal While Your People Wait For You (2022)* · GILMORE · Shot In The Heart (1994) · GLATMAN · Rope (1998) · GORE · Innocent Prey (1994) · GREEN · Blood Rush (1994) · GREEN RIVER · Biography Of An Unsuspecting Wife (2014) · GRETZLER/STEELMAN · Where Sadness Breathes: 17 People Murdered In The Autumn Of 1973 (2012) · GRIM SLEEPER · Lost Women Of South Central (2017) · HAIGH · Mind Of A Murderer (1973) · HALLIWELL · A Killer’s Confession (2019) · HANSEN · Butcher, Baker (1991) · Fair Game (1993) · HARRISON · By The Side Of The Road (2019) · HEATH · Notable British Trials Volume 75 (1951) · Rotten To The Core? (1988) · Handsome Brute (2013) · HEDDA & JOEL · Waverly Place (1989) · HEIDNIK · Cellar Of Horror (1989) · HEINRICH · Finding Jacob Wetterling (2016) · HEIRENS · “Before I Kill More…” (1955) · HENDERSON MANIFESTO · The West Has Fallen (2025)* · HENLEY JR. · The Serial Killer’s Apprentice (2024)* · HI-FI MURDERS · Victim (1982) · HIGHWAY KILLER · Killing Season (1994) · HILLSIDE STRANGLERS · Two Of A Kind (1985) · HIMEBAUGH · Where Is Mark? (2021)* · HINDLEY · One Of Your Own (2010) · HOLMES · The Devil In The White City (2003) · The True History Of The White City Devil (2019) · Murder Factory (2023) · HOMICIDAL FANTASIES · The Murderer Next Door (2005) · HOMOLKA · Karla’s Web: Blackout Edition (1994) · HORNBECK · Invisible Chains (2008) · HUBER · Cold Storage (1998) · HYBRISTOPHILIA · Prison Groupies (1993) · I-45/TEXAS KILLING FIELDS · Deliver Us (2015) · INTERROGATION OF THE MILWAUKEE CANNIBAL · Dahmer Detective (2016) · INTERSTATE KILLERS · Killer On The Road (2012) · INTERVIEWS · Through The Eyes Of Serial Killers (2015) · JACK THE RIPPER · The Victims (2007) · Location Photographs (2009) · JACK THE STRIPPER · Found Naked And Dead (1974) · Jack Of Jumps (2006) · JESPERSON · “I” (2002) · Shattered Silence (2009) · JONBENÉT · Perfect Murder Perfect Town (1999) · Presumed Guilty (1999) · The Death Of Innocence (2000) · JonBenét Murder Investigation (2000) · Police Files (2003) · Unsolved: 25 Years Later (2021) · JOUBERT · A Need To Kill (1990) · KALLINGER · The Shoemaker (1983) · The Door-To-Door Killer (1984) · KARLA · The Enigma Of A Violent Woman (2016) · KEARNEY · LA’s Deadliest Serial Killer (2018) · KEEPSAKE · Order Of Assassins (1975) · KEMPER · The Co-Ed Killer (1976) · KEMPER/FRAZIER/MULLIN · Urge To Kill (1974) · Murder And Madness (1976) · KEYES · American Predator (2019) · KING BROTHERS · A Perversion Of Justice (2004) · KLAAS · The Murder Of America’s Child (1995) · Who Killed Polly? (1995) · In Light Of All Darkness (2023) · KNOWLES · Killing Time (1979) · KRAFT · Angel Of Darkness (1991) · KÜRTEN · The Sadist (1945) · LAKE · Die For Me (2000) · LÉPINE · Montreal Massacre: Membership Categorization Analysis (2003) · Because They Were Women (2020) · LESLEY · If Only (2018) · LIBRARY OF AMERICA · True Crime: An American Anthology (2008) · LIKENS · The Basement: Meditations On A Human Sacrifice (1979) · LITTLE · Behold The Monster (2023) · LONG · Bobby Joe: In The Mind Of A Monster (1995) · Bound To Die (1995) · LONG ISLAND SERIAL KILLER(S) · Lost Girls (2013) · LUNNON/HOODLESS · Abducted (2009) · LYON SISTERS · The Last Stone (2019) · MANZIE · Innocent Victims (2001) · MASSEY · Born Bad (1996) · MAXWELL, HOGG & HARPER · Fear The Stranger (1994) · MAYNARD · The Girl In The Leaves (2013) · MCGINN · Blood Stains (2002) · MICHAUD/DAVEGGIO · Hunting Evil (2000) · Rope Burns (2001) · MIHALJEVIC · Amy (2006) · MOORE · The Man In Black (2013) · MOORS MURDERS · Beyond Belief (1967) · Return To Hell (1988) · For The Love Of Lesley (1989) · The Lost Boy (2007) · Depraved (2020) · MULLIN · The Die Song (1980) · NANCE · To Kill And Kill Again (1992) · NEESE · Pretty Little Killers (2014) · NEW BEDFORD HIGHWAY KILLER · Shallow Graves (2017) · NEW ENGLAND BOY MURDERS · Obsessed (2024)* · NICKELL · Murder On The Common (2004) · NICKEL MINES · Think No Evil (2009) · NILSEN · Killing For Company (1985) · NIU SHOOTER · Last Day On Earth (2011) · NSW CHILD MURDERS · Little Girls Lost (2003) · OBARA · People Who Eat Darkness (2011) · OCCK · Kill Jar (2018) · The Snow Killings (2020) · Guarded By Jackals – Color Edition (2024)* · OLSON · Where Shadows Linger (2000) · ORCHID · Lambs To The Slaughter (1993) · PAISNEL · The Beast Of Jersey (1972) · PARNELL · I Know My First Name Is Steven (1991) · PATZ · After Etan (2009) · PAYNE · A Mother’s Story (2004) · PERCY · Lambs To The Slaughter (2009) · PICKTON · Butcher (2009) · PICKTON/VANCOUVER · On The Farm (2010) · PIGS · Thrill Killers (1988) · PLACE · Tragodía: Statement Of Facts (2010)* · PLYMOUTH NURSERY · Vanessa (2010) · POND/GADDIS · The Missing Girls (2007) · PRAEGER EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY · Privileged Access To The Demons That Drive Extreme Violence (2011) · RADER · Wichita Eagle (2007) · Confession (2016) · RAMIREZ · The Night Stalker (1996) · RAWSON · A Serial Killer’s Daughter (2019) · RAY · Cries In The Desert (2002) · REES · The Sex Beast (2013) · REFERENCE · World Encyclopedia Of Serial Killers — 4 Vols. (2020) · REKER MURDERS · Two Sisters Missing (2017) · RESSLER · I Have Lived In The Monster (1997) · RHOADES · Roadside Prey (1996) · RIDGWAY · The Search For The Green River Killer (1991) · Green River, Running Red (2005) · Defending Gary (2006) · RIFKIN · Garden Of Graves (1993) · From The Mouth Of The Monster (2001) · RIGNALL · 29 Below (1979) · RIPPER VICTIMS · The Five (2019) · ROLLING · Beyond Murder (1994) · The Gainesville Ripper (1994) · A Summer’s Madness (1994)^† · Killer On Campus (1996) · The Making Of A Serial Killer (1996) · ROSE · “She Must Have Known” (1996) · ROSS · The Man In The Monster (2015) · ROUTIER · Bloodstained Justice (2017) · SAPP · Hometown Killer (2004) · SCHAEFER · American Ripper (2020) · SCHUESSLER/PETERSON · Three Boys Missing (2006) · SCHWARZ · “No One Can Hurt Him Anymore” (2005) · SEXUAL MURDER IN WEIMAR GERMANY · Lustmord (1995) · SHARER · Cruel Sacrifice (1994) · Little Lost Angel (1995) · SHASTA · Stolen In The Night (2009) · Letters From Jet (2021) · Fifth Nail — 4 Vols. (2022) · SHAWCROSS · The Genesee River Killer (1992) · Misbegotten Son (1993) · Letters (2018) · SINGLETON · The Mad Chopper (1999) · SMITH · Beyond All Reason (1995) · SONIA · Voices From An Evil God (1992) · SORIA SR. & JR. · Like Father, Like Son (2002) · SPEARS · My Sweet Angel (2016) · SPECK · Born To Raise Hell (1967) · STAGG · Pariah (2007) · STANO · Blind Fury (1993) · STAYNER · Yosemite Murders (2000) · STEINBERG · Lisa, Hedda & Joel (1989) · What Lisa Knew (1990) · STUTZMAN · Abandoned Prayers (1990) · SUFF · The Riverside Killer (1996) · Cat And Mouse: Mind Games (1997) · SURLES · Through The Window (2003) · 13½: Twelve Jurors, One Judge And A Half-Assed Chance (2008)* · SUTCLIFFE · I’m Jack (1980) · Deliver Us From Evil (1981) · Yorkshire Ripper Story (1981) · “Somebody’s Husband, Somebody’s Son” (1984) · The Streetcleaner (1986) · Wicked Beyond Belief (2003) · Somebody’s Mother, Somebody’s Daughter (2019) · Final Investigation (2023) · Full Crimes (2024) · TABLOIDS · Jack The Ripper And The London Press (2001) · Frenzy! Heath, Haigh And Christie (2011) · TATE · Genette Is Missing (1979) · TATE, FABB, MARKHAM & BOYLE · End Of Innocence (2022) · TEXTBOOK · Extreme Killing, 5th Ed. (2023) · THÉRIAULT · Savage Messiah (1993) · TRACE · Missing, Presumed (2014) · TRAFFICKING · Children In Chains (1981) · Eye Of The Chickenhawk (2023) · TRUE DETECTIVE FILES · Killer Teens (1994) · UNTERWEGER · Entering Hades (2007) · VANCOUVER · Bad Date (2001) · VAN DAM · Rush To Judgement (2011) · Death Row Files: David Westerfield (2023) · VENABLES/THOMPSON · The Sleep Of Reason (1994) · WEST · An Evil Love (1996) · Happy Like Murderers (1998) · WETTERLING · Striving To Be The Best (2010) · Dear Jacob (2023) · WILDER · The Beauty Queen Killer (1984) · WILLIAMS · Camouflaged Killer (2011) · A New Kind Of Monster (2011) · WM3 · Blood Of Innocents (1995) · WOMAN KILLING · Femicide (1992) · WOODFIELD · The I-5 Killer (1984) · WOURNOS · Dear Dawn (2012) · WRIGHT · Hunting Evil (2008) · WRITINGS AND ARTIFACTS OF MURDERERS · Lustmord (1996) · YATES · Body Count (2002) · ZODIAC · Motor Spirit (2022) ☰

The above list appears in the book Pure Evil, Pure Innocence: The Maggie Dunlap Story, published by Amphetamine Sulphate in 2025. I have reshuffled the list slightly and provided Open Library links where available. Titles missing from Open Library are marked with an asterisk and an apparent duplicate in the list is marked with a dagger.

Game Day

Videos to help H.P. on his soccer journey with Dianella White Eagles SC.