Autobiography
Remember 400-word autobiographies? I’m still collecting them. This one—a life in books—won my heart right away. It has narrative, pathos, plot and theme…and it’s just a list of the titles of books. Maybe it will inspire some spin-offs… —Ed.
by Paul Hellweg—Age 61—Frazier Park, CA
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes, edited by Watty Piper. Little Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault. The Three Pigs, adapted by Vivienne Benstead. The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper.
The Tower Treasure: Hardy Boys Mystery Stories by Franklin W. Dixon.
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
Silas Marner by George Eliot. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.
Barron’s Guide to Colleges, Barron’s Educational Series. How to Prepare for the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
For Whom the Bell Tolls and A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner.
Hell in a Very Small Place, Street Without Joy, and Last Reflections on a
War by Bernard B. Fall.
FM 21-76: Survival, Evasion, and Escape, Department of the Army Field
Manual. Handbook for US Forces in Vietnam, Military Assistance Command,
Vietnam.
How to Prepare for the GRE Test, Barron’s Educational Series.
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Trial by Franz Kafka. The Stranger by Albert Camus. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque.
How to Write a Winning Resume by Deborah P. Bloch.
On the Road by Jack Kerouac. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. An Introduction to Zen Buddhism by D.T. Suzuki. Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig.
What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and
Career-Changers by Richard Nelson Bolles.
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey. Walden by Henry David Thoreau. Of Men and Mountains by William O. Douglas. The Desert Year by Joseph Wood Krutch.
Outdoor Survival Skills by Larry Dean Olson. How to Stay Alive in the Woods by Bradford Angier.
Postal Exam Preparation Book by Norman Hall.
A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo. If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O’Brien. The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford. In Pharaoh’s Army: Memories of a Lost War by Tobias Wolff.
Final Exit by Derek Humphry.
Career Comeback: Eight Steps to Getting Back on Your Feet…, by Bradley
Richardson.
Lonely Planet Vietnam Guide by Mason Florence and Virginia Jealous.
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