08 May 2009

summer reading

:: Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusement (David Nasaw)
:: The Giver (Lois Lowry)
:: Finding Freedom: Writings from Death Row (Jarvis Jay Masters)
:: The Greengage Summer (Rumer Godden)
:: Nerds: Who They Are and Why We Need More of Them (David Anderegg)
:: A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
:: Up the Amazon Without a Paddle (Doug Lansky)
:: The Neon Bible (John Kennedy Toole)
:: Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Our Knowledge of Where Food Comes From and Why We Need to Get it Back (Ann Vileisis)
:: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Dave Eggers)
:: Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are (Rob Walker)
:: Reading in the Dark (Seamus Deane)
:: Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Ammendment (Anthony Lewis)
:: Locked in the Cabinet (Robert B. Reich)
:: Smarts: Are We Hardwired for Success? (Chuck Martin)
:: Memoirs (Pablo Neruda)
:: If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence, and Spirit (Brenda Ueland)
:: Up the Down Staircase (Bel Kaufman)
:: The Year of Magical Thinking (Joan Didion)
:: The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
:: We (Yevegeny Zamyatin)
:: A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson)
:: A Man For All Seasons (Robert Bolt)
:: My Name is Asher Lev (Chaim Potok)
:: Why We Hate Us: American Discontent in the New Millennium (Dick Meyer)

any suggestions?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The Paradox of American Power - Joseph Nye, Jr. (Favorite Political Science author)

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media - Naom Chomsky

The China Study - Campbell, Campbell, Lyman, & Robbins (will change what you want to eat forever)

Ghost Wars - Steve Coll (you will know more about the war on terror than anyone you know)

Dune - Frank Herbert (most classic science fiction novel ever written)