Unabomber’s Book List
This is an incomplete and unofficial list of books that were in Ted Kacynski’s cabin. This photo comes from the FBI file (WIkimedia.public domain). Admittedly I cannot recall the exact source from my original 2009 posting, but it didn’t come out of thin air.
Fiction
-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang, 1975.
-Ivo Andric, The Bridge on the Drina, 1945.
-Albert Camus, The Stranger, 1946.
-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent, 1907.
-James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer, 1823
-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1859 .
-Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems & Letters, 1959.
-Fyodor Dostoevski, Brothers Karamazov, 1878 .
-T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland, 1930.
-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, 1929.
-Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, 1874 .
-Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, 1987.
-Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha, 1951.
-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932.
-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artists as a Young Man, 1916.
-Franz Kafka, The Trial, 1925.
-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon, 1941.
-Richard Lattimore, The Revelation of John, 1962.
-Jack London, Martin Eden, 1913.
-W. Somerset Maugham, Razor’s Edge, 1944 .
-Eugene O’Neill, The Iceman Cometh, 1946.
-Alexandra Orme, Comes the Comrade!, 1949.
-George Orwell, 1984, 1949.
-Horacio Quiroga, The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories, 1935 .
-Ernest Seton-Thompson, Wild Animals I Have Known, 1898.
-William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, 1596.
-Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, 1906.
-John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, 1937 .
-Leo Tolstoy, The Cossacks and The Raid, 1862 .
-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons, 1862.
-Don Armando Palacio Valdes, Maximina, 1888 .
-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, 1898.
-Sloan Wilson, Ice Brothers, 1979.
Non-Fiction
-Arthur Bremer, An Assassin’s Diary, 1973.
-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, 1970.
-Allan R. Buss, Individual Differences: Traits and Factors, 197.
-FC, Industrial Society & Its Future, 1995 .
-Norman Cousin, Modern Man is Obsolete, 1945.
-Robert V. Daniels, Red October, The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, 1967.
-Charles Darwin, On the Origin of the Species, 1859.
-L. Sprague De Camp, Ancient Engineers, 1960 .
-Bernard DeVoto, The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1953.
-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, 1845.
-Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society, 1964 .
-H.J. Eysenck, Sense and Nonsense in Psychology, 1957 .
-Richard Flacks, Making History, 1988.
-George W. Scotter & Halle Flygare, Wildflowers of the Canadian Rockies, 1986.
-Food and Nutrition Board, Recommended Dietary Allowances, 1974 .
-Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, 1930.
-Euell Gibbons, Handbook of Edible Wild Plants, 1979 .
-Richard Gombin, The Radical Tradition, 1978.
-Paul Goodman, Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized.
-System, 1956.
-Al Gore, Earth in the Balance, 1992.
-Robert Gurr, Violence in America, Vol I & II, 1979, 1989 .
-Osborne Russell & Aubrey L. Haines, Journal of a Trapper, 1965 .
-William Least Heat-Moon, PrairyErth, 1993.
-Eric Hoffer, The True Believer, 1951 .
-Henry Jacobwitz, Electronics Made Simple, 1958 .
-Glen R. Johnson, Tracking Dog, 1975 .
-Kenneth Keniston, The Uncommitted: Alienated Youth in American Society, 1966.
-Horace Kephart, Camping and Woodcraft, 1988 .
-Irving Kohn, Meteorology for All, 1946 .
-R.W,B. Lewis, The American Adam: Innocence, Tragedy, & Tradition in 19th.
-Century America, 1955.
-Tom McIver, Anti-Evolution: A Reader’s Guide to Writings Before and After.
Karl Marx, Das Kapital, 1848.
Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America, 1964.
-Margaret Mead, Coming of Age in Samoa, 1928.
-Arthur P. Mendel, ed., Essential Works of Marxism, 1961 .
-Jules Michelet, History of the French Revolution, 1967 .
-Jean Baker Miller, Toward a New Psychology of Women, 1976 .
-David A. Conway and Ronald Munson, The Elements of Reasoning, 1990.
-National Rifle Association, The Basics of Rifle Shooting, 1987 .
-M.H.A. Newman, Elements of the Topology of Plane Sets of Points, 1964 .
-Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, all too Human, 1878.
-Vaslav Nijinsky, Diary of Vaslav Nijinski, 1937.
-Evan Hendricks, Trudy Hayden, and Jack D. Novik, Your Right to Privacy,1980 .
-Stephen B. Oates, To Purge This Land With Blood: A Biography of John Brown, 1970.
-Betty Owen, Typing for Beginners, 1976 .
-Anthony Gooch and Angela Garcia de Pareded, Spanish-English/.English-Spanish Dictionary, 1978 .
-Lila Pargment, Beginner’s Russian Reader, 1977 .
-William H. Prescott, History of the Conquest of Mexico, 1843.
-Richard Rhodes, The Inland Ground, 1969.
-Louise Dickinson Rich, We Took to the Woods, 1942.
-David Riesman, Abundance for What?, 1964 .
-Andrew Robinson, Lost Languages, 1957 .
-Theodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends, 1972.
-Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic, 1917.
-Jean Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism, 1947.
-J.W. Schultz, My Life as an Indian, 1935 .
-Robert Silverberg, The Pueblo Revolt, 1970
-Guide to North American Birds, 1966.
-Albert Speer, Spandau: The Secret Diaries, 1976.
-Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West, 1918.
-Micheal Spivak, Calculus On Manifolds, 1966.
-Walter Starkie, Raggle-Taggle: Adventures with a Fiddle in Hungary, 1933 .
-William Strunk, Jr., Elements of Style, 1959 .
-Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854.
-Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, 1883 .
-United States Department of Justice, The Science of Fingerprints, 1973 .
-Frank Waters, Book of Hopi, 1963.
-William Whyte, The Organization Man, 1956 .
-William Carlos Williams, In the American Grain, 1925.
-Colin Wilson, The Outsider, 1956.
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