Windows to a Memory Palace

Sexson's Recommended Reading List

Avatars of the World From Papyrus to Cyberspace by James J. O'Donnell
Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances A. Yates
History as an Art of Memory by Patrick H. Hutton
Learn to Remember by Dominic O'Brien
Memorize the Faith! And Most Anything Else: Using the Methods of the Great Catholic Medieval Memory Masters by Kevin Vost
Metaphors of Memory
Techgnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information by Erik Davis
The Alphabetization of the Popular Mind by Ivan Illich and Barry Sanders
The Book of Memory by Mary carruthers
The Brain That Changes Itself
The Castle of Crossed...by Italo Calvino
The Guttenberg Galaxy by Marshall McLuhan
The Oral Tradition of Common
The Singer of Tales by Albert B. Lord
Theatre of the World by Frances A. Yates
Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older: How Memory Shapes Our Past by Douwe Draalsma

My 50 Things: Top Children's Books

1. Charlotte's Web
2. Where the Wild Things Are
3. The Giving Tree
4. Green Eggs and Ham
5. Good Night Moon
6. I Love You Forever
7. Because of Winn Dixie
8. Oh! The Places You'll Go
9. The Little House
10. The Polar Express
11. Skippyjon Jones
12. Thank You Mr. Falker
13. The Cat in the Hat
14. The Lorax
15. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
16. The Mitten
17. Crunching Carrots, Not Candy
18. Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
19. Harry Potter Series
20. A Wrinkle in Time
21. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day
22. Are You My Mother?
23. Corduroy
24. Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse
25. Stellaluna
26. Tacky the Penguin
27. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
28. The Velveteen Rabbit
29. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
30. Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type
31. Harold and the Purple Crayon
32. Horton Hatches the Egg
33. Junie B. Jones
34. Little House in the Big Woods
35. Make Way For Ducklings
36. The Phantom Tollbooth
37. Piggie Pie
38. The Little Engine That Could
39. The Monster at the End of this Book
40. The Tale of Despereaux
41. A Bad Case of Stripes
42. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
43. From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
44. Inkheart
45. Maniac Magee
46. Officer Buckle and Gloria
47. Olivia
48. The BFG
49. The Kissing Hand
50. The Secret Garden