Michael Hampton
Copywriter



Born in Winchester, MA.
Raised in Yokosuka, Ewa Beach, Okinawa, Naples, Monterey, Rota, and Mānoa.
Living in Portland, OR. 

Filipino-American.
Son of O’ahu.
Navy Brat. 
American Lean-er.
Mattress Tag Ripper-Offer. 
God’s Silliest Clown. 

Read List 2024

1. Dune *

2. Dune Messiah

3. Children of Dune

4. World Hypotheses: A Study in Evidence

5. Kitchen

6. Red Rising

7. Golden Son

8. Morning Star

9. Lolita

10. The Myth of Sisyphus

11. Life for Sale

12. God Emperor of Dune

13. Heretics of Dune

14. Chapterhouse: Dune

15. The Stranger *

16. A Moveable Feast

17. The Master and Margarita

18. How To Do Things with Words

19. Madness

20. A Clockwork Orange *

21. Neuromancer

22. Blood Meridian 

23. Ways of Seeing 

24. 2001: A Space Odyssey

25. Camp Concentration

26. Chain-Gang All-Stars

27. The Devastation of Baal

28. Hey Whipple, Squeeze This

29. Flight

30. The Defining Decade *

31. A Confederacy of Dunces

32. Drunk Tank Pink

33. Malarkoi

34. Ham on Rye

35. Norwegian Wood

36. The Hobbit 

37. The Fellowship of the Ring 

38. The Two Towers

39. The Return of the King

40. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

41. Childhood’s End
Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert

Stephen Pepper

Banana Yoshimoto

Pierce Brown

Pierce Brown

Pierce Brown

Vladimir Nabokov

Albert Camus

Yukio Mishima

Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert

Albert Camus

Ernest Hemingway

Mikhail Bulgakov

J.L. Austin

Roald Dahl

Anthony Burgess

William Gibson

Cormac McCarthy

John Berger

Arthur C. Clarke

Thomas M. Disch

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Guy Haley

Luke Sullivan

Sherman Alexie

Meg Jay

John Kennedy Toole

Adam Alter

Alex Pheby

Charles Bukowski

Haruki Murakami

J.R.R. Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien

Ken Kesey

Arthur C. Clarke

* = re-read

Read List 2023

William Faulkner

Gunnar Karlsson

Andrzej Sapkowski

David Sylvester

William Faulkner 

Stephen King

Poppy Z. Brite

Jeffrey Eugenides

Joseph Heller

Michael Crichton

Søren Kierkegaard

Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin


Alex Pheby

William S. Burroughs

Andrzej Sapkowski

William Faulkner

Bram Stoker

Svetlana Alexievich

Bret Easton Ellis

Andrzej Sapkowski

Christopher Hitchens

George Orwell

Stefan Zweig

Graham Greene

Haruki Murakami

Arkady & Boris Strugatsky

* = re-read 

Read List 2022

Graham Greene

George Orwell

Thomas E. Ricks

Donna Tartt

Jean-Paul Sartre

Graham Greene

Peter Hart

Don Carpenter

Yvon Chouinard

Kurt Vonnegut

Joost Meerlo, M.D.

* = re-read