I have been compiling a list of books I want to read for a few years now. While I've gotten to a fair chunk of said list (all the books that are bolded near the bottom have been read, purchased, started or some combination of the above), the growth rate is much higher than the completion rate.
Below is the entire list; you should note there's no distinction between fact or fiction (or anything else).
In the last few months, I have read more for fun (i.e. fiction) than in a long time - probably since before college. I'm a much different person now, and I get both more and different things from reading.
One thing I've found myself feeling as a result of reading the books am I is hope for the possibility of change. This is both extremely gratifying and extremely surprising.
UPDATE: Of course I have also read plenty of books not on this list - including a big chunk from a friend who has made his personal library available to me. Considering his personal library is probably 1000+ books, this will take some time...
Feel free - encouraged, even - to leave your wanted book lists in comments.... and to talk about what you get out of reading. Or, perhaps, to give me suggestions.
Thanks in advance.
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A Thousand Plateaus - Deleuze & Guattari
The Stars My Destination/Tiger Tiger – Alfred Bester
Demolished Man – Alfred Bester
Stand on Zanzibar – John Brunner
Teaching Community – bell hooks
Sex on the Brain – Deborah Blum
Uprooting Racism - Paul Kivel
Refusing to be a Man: Essays on Sex and Justice - John Stoltenberg
Racial Formation in the United States - Michael Omi and Howard Winant
Zines – Stephen Duncombe
Velocities – Stephen Dobbins
Man of Reason – Genevieve Lloyd
Being and Time – Martin Heidegger
The Moral Equivalent of War – William James
The Death of Nature – Carolyn Merchant
Metaphors We Live By – George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (UO)
Geography of Nowhere: The Rise And Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape - Kunstler
Freakonomics – Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
Stigma - Erving Goffman
Cinderella’s Big Score – Maria Raha (Women of the Punk and Indie Underground)
Lipstick Traces – Greil Marcus
Mystery Trains – Greil Marcus
The Society of Spectacle – Guy Debord
The Revolution of Everyday Life – Raul Vaneigem
The Failures of Integration - Sheryll Cashin
Baltasar and Blimunda - Jose Saramago
Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy -
Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson (for AK)
Access All Areas – Ninjalicious (also Infiltration zine)
Russell Jacoby - The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe
Russell Jacoby - The End of Utopia: Politics and Culture in an Age of Apathy
Themepunks - Cory Doctorow
Eastern Standard Tribe – Cory Doctorow
Unembedded - Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Kael Alford, Thorne Anderson and Rita Leistner
Sundown Towns: a Hidden Dimension of Racism in America - James Loewen
The Fibromyalgia Story: Medical Authority And Women's Worlds Of Pain - Kristin K. Barker
Rhetorical Occasions: Essays on Humans and the Humanities – Michael Berube
The Republican War on Science, by Chris Mooney
The Singularity is Near, by Ray Kurzweil
A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History – Manuel DeLanda
Dog Days – Ana Marie Cox
Inclusive Pluralism – Naomi Zack
Letters from Young Activists: Today’s Rebels Speak Out - Edited by Dan Berger, Chesa Boudin, and Kenyon Farrow
Do You Suck as Well as Fuck? Totally Sexed Up Tales of J. Edgar Hoover's America – Ken Ichigawa
Neuromancer – William Gibson
Self-Made Man – Norah Vincent
Revealing Male Bodies - Nancy Tuana (Editor), William Cowling (Editor), Maurice Hamington (Editor), Greg Johnson (Editor), Terrance Macmullen (Editor)
Doorway into Summer – Robert Heinlein
Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories, Vol. 1
James Wolcott: The Catsitters
Inventing the University - David Bartholomae
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town - Cory Doctorow
The City of Joy - Dominique Lapierre
Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush – Eric Boehlert
Sun of Suns – Karl Schroeder
Ghost Brigade – John Scalzi
Old Man's War – John Scalzi
Learning to Labor - by Paul Willis
Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, Pacific Edge and Sixty Days and Counting – Kim Stanley Robinson
Radio On: A Listener's Diary (Paperback) by Sarah Vowell
Paul LaFargue, The Right to Be Lazy
Trapeze Collective; Do It Yourself, Pluto Press
Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories - Katha Pollitt
Rudy Rucker's new novel Postsingular
Charlie Stross's - Halting State
Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste - by John Waters
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism - Naomi Klein
Dude, You're A Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School – C.J. Pascoe
Norman Mailer - Miami and the Siege of Chicago and Armies of the Night and The Executioner's Song
What Are Journalists For? by Jay Rosen
IQ: A Smart History of a Failed Idea (Hardcover) by Stephen Murdoch
Interface – Neal Stephenson
Attack of the 50-Foot Mikhaela! Cartoons by Mikhaela B. Reid
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick.
David Graeber, Malagasy folktakes
Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse - (Anthology) John Joseph Adams
Robert Anton Wilson – Schrodinger's Cat
Ursula K. LeGuin – Left Hand of Darkness
Alfred Bester – Demolished Man
Alfred Bester – Stars My Destination
Alfred Bester – Virtual Unrealities
John(?) Brunner – Stand on Zanzibar
Ourspace – Christine Harold
Soldier of Sidon – Gene Wolfe
Soldier of Arete – Gene Wolfe
Soldier in the Mist – Gene Wolfe
Latro in the Mist – Gene Wolfe
Stardust – Neil Gaiman
American Gods – Neil Gaiman
Neverwhere- Nail Gaiman
The Dance of Gods – Mayer Brenner
Public Works, DMZ comics, Brian Wood
Transmetropolitan Vols. 1-10 (Transmetropolitan Collections) – Warren Ellis
Dave Eggers - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genuis
Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation – Isaac Asimov
Democracy Defended – Gerry Mackie
Out of the Sea and Into the Fire: Latin American-US Immigration
in the Global Age - Kari Lydersen
Savage Inequalities – Jonathan Kozol
The Way We Argue Now : A Study in the Cultures of Theory - Amanda Anderson
What’s Liberal About the Liberal Arts? Classroom Politics and “Bias” in Higher Education – Michael Berube
Crashing the Gate – Markos Moulitsas Zuniga & Jerome Armstrong
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Days of the Dead – Agnes Bushnell
The Fifth Sacred Thing – Starhawk
Magic Journey – John Nichols
The Postman – David Brin
Neal Stephenson – Snow Crash
How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization – Franklin Foer
Feminist Epistemology – Sharyn Clough
Fences and Windows – Naomi Klein
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs – Chuck Klosterman
Collapse – Jared Diamond
The Years of Rice and Salt – Kim Stanley Robinson
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
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Okay, a handful of those can be fixed by you borrowing stuff next time you're over (Omigod, you should read my collected Bester short stories and essays too, there is one specifically that skewers everyone and is just prime). I'm glad to see Left Hand of Darkness on there. Remember to find the essay she wrote years later too!
Also, I just finished Portrait of Dorian Grey and it's pretty lovely—though that isn't the word. "Floridly fantastic" might work.
Just browse our shelves next time you're over. We have literary works, fringe canon, photography books that will kill you with their perfectness and all the pulp you can choke on.
Ooh, also The Warriors, which is something you should watch as well. The book and movie are utterly different and each one is perfect.
The two most important things:
1. You have read books recently.
2. The to do list is longer than the done list. That's the sign of a healthy mind.
Freakanomics -- great read.
Sundown Towns: best skimmed rather than read.It's a bit repetitive. When you get ready to do some more investigative journalism, then we want you to go to city hall to find Lebanon's sundown ordinance. There was even a cross burning outside Lebanon in the 1960s.
Assassination Vacation -- Sarah Vowell. Absolutely hilarous.
Readers Rule!!!!!
Dog Days – Ana Marie Cox
I loved Wonkette When Ana Marie was there. It is not nearly as funny now that she's left.
That said,Dog Days left me a little disappointed. Perhaps a gift for snarky political commentary does carry over to novel writing. Cut 50 pages and this would be a much more enjoyable read.
Do You Suck as Well as Fuck? Totally Sexed Up Tales of J. Edgar Hoover's America – Ken Ichigawa
Never heard of it, but the title alone makes it worth buying.
LT-- I had no idea Lebanon had a sundown ordinance. I bet there is a great story behind that.
Bernstein,
If you miss the Ana Marie Cox Wonkette, you should try Jezebel.com - it's not quite the same, but it's pretty funny, if you can wade through lots and lots of what I consider fluff.
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