The Beach

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1. zen_kernalOct 2026
   Robert Anton Wilson: Cosmic Trigger and Quantum Psychology Isaac Asimov: Beginnings Alex Garland: The Beach Buddha: The Dhammapada
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2. lamp_bookMar 2025
   You might enjoy The Beach by Alex Garland if you haven't already read it.
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3. ftudorDec 2014
   The Beach - Alex Garland ...I'm 42 now, but read this in my late twenties. If you are 18-32 this book will save your life.
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4. trentmbJun 2018
   > One thing that struck me is how much he reads. He had a list of suggested books to read in the back page, and there were probably hundreds

   Here's the list, from the ebook I have at least:

     - Abrahams, Peter: A Perfect Crime
     - Abrahams, Peter: Lights Out
     - Abrahams, Peter: Pressure Drop
     - Abrahams, Peter: Revolution #9
     - Agee, James: A Death in the Family
     - Bakis, Kirsten: Lives of the Monster Dogs
     - Barker, Pat: Regeneration
     - Barker, Pat: The Eye in the Door
     - Barker, Pat: The Ghost Road
     - Bausch, Richard: In the Night Season
     - Blauner, Peter: The Intruder
     - Bowles, Paul: The Sheltering Sky
     - Boyle, T. Coraghessan: The Tortilla Curtain
     - Bryson, Bill: A Walk in the Woods
     - Buckley, Christopher: Thank You for Smoking
     - Carver, Raymond: Where I’m Calling From
     - Chabon, Michael: Werewolves in Their Youth
     - Chorlton, Windsor: Latitude Zero
     - Connelly, Michael: The Poet
     - Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness
     - Constantine, K. C.: Family Values
     - DeLillo, Don: Underworld
     - DeMille, Nelson: Cathedral
     - DeMille, Nelson: The Gold Coast
     - Dickens, Charles: Oliver Twist
     - Dobyns, Stephen: Common Carnage
     - Dobyns, Stephen: The Church of Dead Girls
     - Doyle, Roddy: The Woman Who Walked into Doors
     - Elkin, Stanley: The Dick Gibson Show
     - Faulkner, William: As I Lay Dying
     - Garland, Alex: The Beach
     - George, Elizabeth: Deception on His Mind
     - Gerritsen, Tess: Gravity
     - Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
     - Gray, Muriel: Furnace
     - Greene, Graham: A Gun for Sale (aka This Gun for Hire)
     - Greene, Graham: Our Man in Havana
     - Halberstam, David: The Fifties
     - Hamill, Pete: Why Sinatra Matters
     - Harris, Thomas: Hannibal
     - Haruf, Kent: Plainsong
     - Hoeg, Peter: Smilla’s Sense of Snow
     - Hunter, Stephen: Dirty White Boys
     - Ignatius, David: A Firing Offense
     - Irving, John: A Widow for One Year
     - Joyce, Graham: The Tooth Fairy
     - Judd, Alan: The Devil’s Own Work
     - Kahn, Roger: Good Enough to Dream
     - Karr, Mary: The Liars’ Club
     - Ketchum, Jack: Right to Life
     - King, Tabitha: Survivor
     - King, Tabitha: The Sky in the Water (unpublished)
     - Kingsolver, Barbara: The Poisonwood Bible
     - Krakauer, Jon: Into Thin Air
     - Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
     - Lefkowitz, Bernard: Our Guys
     - Little, Bentley: The Ignored
     - Maclean, Norman: A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
     - Maugham, W. Somerset: The Moon and Sixpence
     - McCarthy, Cormac: Cities of the Plain
     - McCarthy, Cormac: The Crossing
     - McCourt, Frank: Angela’s Ashes
     - McDermott, Alice: Charming Billy
     - McDevitt, Jack: Ancient Shores
     - McEwan, Ian: Enduring Love
     - McEwan, Ian: The Cement Garden
     - McMurtry, Larry: Dead Man’s Walk
     - McMurtry, Larry, and Diana Ossana: Zeke and Ned
     - Miller, Walter M.: A Canticle for Leibowitz
     - Oates, Joyce Carol: Zombie
     - O’Brien, Tim: In the Lake of the Woods
     - O’Nan, Stewart: The Speed Queen
     - Ondaatje, Michael: The English Patient
     - Patterson, Richard North: No Safe Place
     - Price, Richard: Freedomland
     - Proulx, Annie: Close Range: Wyoming Stories
     - Proulx, Annie: The Shipping News
     - Quindlen, Anna: One True Thing
     - Rendell, Ruth: A Sight for Sore Eyes
     - Robinson, Frank M.: Waiting
     - Rowling, J. K.: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
     - Rowling, J. K.: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azakaban
     - Rowling, J. K.: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
     - Russo, Richard: Mohawk
     - Schwartz, John Burnham: Reservation Road
     - Seth, Vikram: A Suitable Boy
     - Shaw, Irwin: The Young Lions
     - Slotkin, Richard: The Crater
     - Smith, Dinitia: The Illusionist
     - Spencer, Scott: Men in Black
     - Stegner, Wallace: Joe Hill
     - Tartt, Donna: The Secret History
     - Tyler, Anne: A Patchwork Planet
     - Vonnegut, Kurt: Hocus Pocus
     - Waugh, Evelyn: Brideshead Revisited
     - Westlake, Donald E.: The Ax

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