Reading is cool.
Since Jul 2007; newest first.
–The Secret Life of the Universe, Nathalie Cabrol
–A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
–‘salem’s Lot, Stephen King
–A Promised Land, Barack Obama
–Everyman, Philip Roth
–All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
–The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L. Shirer
–Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (Translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky)
–The Man With Two Left Feet, P.G. Wodehouse
–The Church of Baseball, Ron Shelton
–Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
–Childhood’s End, Arthur C. Clarke
–The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
–The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
–Here, Richard McGuire
–The Sandman, Vol 1, Neil Gaiman
–Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
–The Watchmen, Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
–Early Days in Escondido, Frances Beven Ryan & Lewis C. Ryan
–Island and Other Stories, Alastair MacLeod
–This Is All a Dream We Dreamed, Blair Jackson
–Legacy of Ashes, Tim Weiner
–Will, Will Smith
–A Little Devil in America, Hanif Abdurraqib
–The Ministry of the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson
–Born on the Fourth of July, Ron Kovic
–The Final Revival of Opal and Nev, Dawnie Walton
–A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
–Jim Henson, Brian Jay Jones
–The Sum of Us, Heather McGhee
–Me, Elton John
–Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
–The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
–2034, Elliot Ackerman & Admiral James Stavridis
–The Go-Giver, Bob Burg & John David Mann
–This is How They Tell Me the World Ends, Nicole Perlroth
–Deacon King Kong, James McBride
–Dear America, Jose Antonio Vargas
–The Teammates, David Halberstam
–How to be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
–Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
–Uncanny Valley, Anna Wiener
–Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance
–How Music Works, David Byrne
–The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, William Kamkwamba
–The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson
–Tree of Smoke, Denis Johnson
–Mystery Train, Greil Marcus
–The Stand, Stephen King
–American Heiress, Jeffrey Toobin
–Becoming, Michelle Obama
–Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari
–Lab Girl, Hope Jahren
–When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, Patrisse Cullors and asha bandele
–Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, Carrie Brownstein
–Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney
–Girl in a Band, Kim Gordon
–The End of the Affair, Graham Greene
–Room, Emma Donoghue
–Fox 8, George Saunders
–The Overstory, Richard Powers
–Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown
–Once More We Saw Stars, Jayson Greene
–Please Kill Me, Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain
–The Heart of Understanding, Thich Nhat Hanh
–A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit
–The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
On Writing, Stephen King
–There There, Tommy Orange
–Lord of the Flies, William Golding
–Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
–They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, Hanif Abdurraqib
–Assembling California, John McPhee
–Operating Instructions, Ann Lamott
–Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times, Florynce Kennedy
–Devotion, Patti Smith
–The Daily Show (The Book): An Oral History, Chris Smith
–Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie
–Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
–My Life on the Road, Gloria Steinem
–We Should All Be Feminists, Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie
–American Pastoral, Philip Roth
–If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
–Empire Falls, Richard Russo
–The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams
–Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
–The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
–The Color Purple, Alice Walker
–Wonderful Tonight, Pattie Boyd
–How Can I Keep From Singing?, David King Dunaway
–Bird By Bird, Anne Lamott
–Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
–Born a Crime, Trevor Noah
–They Call Me Supermensch, Shep Gordon
–A Visit From The Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
–The Plague, Albert Camus
–Ain’t I a Woman, bell hooks
–Willie, Willie Nelson & Bud Shrake
–Tenth of December, George Saunders
–Kindred, Octavia Butler
–Jubilee Hitchiker, William Hjortsberg
–The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, Amy Hempel
–Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
–Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen
–Hope In The Dark, Rebecca Solnit
–Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit
–Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
–Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism, Bob Edwards
–The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
–Arborists’ Cerification Study Guide, Sharon J. Lilly
–It’s Not Cancer, It’s Brain Slugs, Matthew R. Scarbrough
–Anton Chekov’s Short Stories, Anton Chekov
–The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
–Portnoy’s Complaint, Philip Roth
–A Lost Lady, Willa Cather
–Wild, Cheryl Strayed
–Shop Class as Soulcraft, Michael B. Crawford
–Beloved, Toni Morrison
–Open City, Teju Cole
–Drinking in America, Susan Cheever
–Cairo, Ahdaf Soueif
–Between the World and Me, Ta Na-hesi Coates
–Kafka On The Shore, Haruki Murakami
–The Stench of Honolulu, Jack Handey
–A Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
–The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Morris
–Everyday Zen, Charlotte Joko Beck
–The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God, Etgar Keret
–In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
–Satchel Paige’s America, William Price Fox
–Bossypants, Tina Fey
–Sex at Dawn, Christopher Ryan & Cacilda Jetha
–Rabbit Run, John Updike
–This Is How You Lose Her, Junot Diaz
–Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish, David Rakoff
–The Savage Detectives, Roberto Bolaño
–The World Until Yesterday, Jared Diamond
–Steal Like An Artist, Austin Kleon
–Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
–I’m a Stranger Here Myself, Bill Bryson
–Memos From Purgatory, Harlan Ellison
–Our Band Could Be your Life, Michael Axelrod
–Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
–Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste, Lester Bangs
–Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut
–The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyesvky
–The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories, Charles Bukowski
–Shakey: Neil Young’s Biography, Jimmy McDonough
–Traffic: Why We Drive The Way We Do, Tom Vanderbilt
–Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life, Carol Sklenicka
–Searching For The Sound, Phil Lesh
–Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safron Foer
–A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
–A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
–Miles: The Autobiography, Miles Davis
–Dissonant Identities, Barry Shank
–The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes, Neil Gaiman
–Catch 22, Joseph Heller
–The Tokyo-Montana Express, Richard Brautigan
–Mayor of MacDougal Street, Dave Van Ronk
–Dragonslippers, Roasalind B. Penfold
–Tribes, Seth Godin
–Made to Stick, Chip Heath & Dan Heath
–Being Peace, Thich Nhat Hanh
–Ghettonation, Cora Daniels
–White Teeth, Zadie Smith
–Life, Keith Richards
–Linchpin, Seth Godin
–Weinland Park Evaluation Project, Tamar M. Forrest, Ph.D. & Howard Goldstein, Ph.D.
–Einstein’s Dream, Alan Lightman
–Where I’m Calling From, Raymond Carver
–Just Kids, Patti Smith
–The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
–The Giver, Lois Lowry
–The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran
–Jackson Falls, Terry Bowman
–On The Road (Original Scroll), Jack Kerouac
–Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
–The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
–Gonzo Papers, Vol. 1, Hunter S. Thompson
–Please Kill Me, Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain
–The Lost Weekend, Charles Jackson
–Born Standing Up, Steve Martin
–Zen And Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
–Ham On Rye, Charles Bukowski
–Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, Tom Robbins
–The Happy Hooker, Xaviera Hollander
–Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me, Richard Farina
–The Political Mind, George Lakoff
–Positively 4th Street, David Hajdu
–The Essential Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi
–The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan
–The Road, Cormac Macarthy
–The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
–The Armies of the Night, Norman Mailer
–A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
–Ralph the Duck, Frederick Busch
–The Unabomber’s Manifesto, Theodore Kaczynski
–What Is The What, Dave Eggers
–The Human Comedy, William Saroyan
–Down and Out In Paris and London, George Orwell
–Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
–Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor
–Chronicles, Vol. 1, Bob Dylan
–Bound for Glory, Woody Guthrie
–The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
–Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
–Disposable People, Kevin Bales
–WordPress for Dummies, Lisa Sabin-Wilson
–Gig, ed. John Bowe, Marisa Bowe, and Sabin Streeter
–A Lovely Love Story, Edward Monkton
–Born to Run, Christoper McDougall
–Jesus’ Son, Denis Johnson
–Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut
–Massive Change, Bruce Mau
–Atop an Underwood, Jack Kerouac
–Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
–Love is a Mix Tape, Rob Sheffield
–Blessed Unrest, Paul Hawken
–Planet of the Apes, Pierre Boulle
–The Yage Letters, William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg
–Walden, Henry David Thoreau
–The Pocket Buddha Reader, ed. by Anne Bancroft
–Revenge of the Lawn, Richard Brautigan
–Franny & Zooey, JD Salinger
–Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse
–Still Life With Woodpecker, Tom Robbins
–God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
–Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me, Richard Fariña
–The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
–One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
–The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
–You Can’t Win, Jack Black
–Shopgirl, Steve Martin
–High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
–Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safron Foer
–Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
–Animal Farm, George Orwell
–Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
–We, Yevgeny Zamyatin
–The Secret Sharer, Joseph Conrad
–A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
–Running With Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
–The Body, Stephen King
–Going After Cacciato, Tim O’Brien
–Nine Stories, JD Salinger