King Dork Has a Reading List Too

On a blog about a reading list, it’s only right that we highlight another reading list… and one that’s inspired from a book on Robin’s List no less.

To back track, I just discovered a feature of Amazon called Listmania. From what I can gather, it’s an area of the website where people can create their own reading lists.

Frank Portman, author of King Dork and the man in that dashing picture to the right, created one of these lists. However, this is hardly a list of Portman’s favorite reads. Instead, it’s a list from the perspective of King Dork and the main character, Tom Henderson. You see, in the novel, Tom finds a collection of his deceased father’s books and decides to read them. Sound familiar?

For a taste of King Dork and the books mentioned within it, check out the King Dork Reading List:

1. King Dork by Frank Portman
2. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
3. Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
4. The Doors of Percept & Heaven and Hell: Two Complete Nonfiction Works by Aldous Huxley
5. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
6. The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition by Norman Mailer
7. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung by Tse-Tung Mao
8. Revolutation for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a 5 Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial by Abbie Hoffman
9. The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
10. Journal of ALbion Moonlight by Kenneth Patchen
11. La peste (Folio Series) (French Edition) by Albert Camus
12. Lord of the Flies by Mary Hartley
13. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
14. The Jerusalem Bible: Reader’s Edition by Alexander Johnes
15. Slan: A Novel by A. E. Van Vogt

Not exactly similar to Robin’s Reading List, but to each their own…