January 2018
I made a list of some things I've read that I like. No one really asks me what I read, but here you go!
FICTION
Rula Jebreel
Miral
Susan Abulhawa
Mornings In Jenin
The Blue Between Sky and Water- haven't
read yet
Elif Shafak
Bastard of Istanbul
Orhan Pamuk
*Museum of Innocence
Snow
Zoe Ferraris
Finding Nouf – series
Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart
Haruki Murakami
The Strange Library
*The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years
of Pilgrimage
Norwegian Wood
After Dark
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant
Never Let Me Go
Pale View of the Hills
*Artist of the Floating World
The Remains of the Day
John Irving
*A Prayer For Owen Meany
The World According to Garp
Barbara Kingsolver
*Poisonwood Bible
Monique Truong
Bitter In the Mouth A girl who tastes
words.
David Guterson
Snow Falling on Cedars
Umberto Eco
Island of the Day Before
Nabokov
Invitation to a Beheading
Lolita
Jack Butler
Jujitsu For Christ
Halldor Laxness
Under the Glacier
Iceland’s Bell
Independent People
Iceland’s Bell
Independent People
Madame Bovary
D.H. Lawrence
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Albert Camus
The Stranger
Stanislaw Lem
Cyberiad
Star Diaries
Solaris
Henry Miller
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn
Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid’s Tale
Blind Assassin
Karel Ĉapek
War with the Newts
Philip Roth
Portnoy’s Complaint
American Pastoral
I Married A Communist - haven't read yet, how did I miss that?
Human Stain
Thomas Pynchon
Gravity’s Rainbow
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment
Lebov Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
Voltaire
Candide
Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions
Deadeye Dick
2BR02B
Player Piano
Cat’s Cradle
Slaughterhouse-five
Galapagos
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NATURAL HISTORY, SCIENCE, RELIGION
Mark Kurlansky Cod
Tom Holland Rubicon
Bart Ehrman Jesus Interrupted, Misquoting Jesus, Jesus Before the Gospels, How Jesus Became God
Edward Abbey Desert Solitaire
Raja Shehadeh Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
Richard Dawkins The God Delusion
Christopher Hitchens God is Not Great
Vonnegut A Man Without A Country, Letters
Ernst Mayr One Long Argument
Stephen J. Gould
Mismeasure of Man
Full House
Bully For Brontosaurus
Wonderful Life
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Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey
RACE
Michelle Alexander
The New Jim Crow
Timothy Tyson
Blood Done Sign My Name
The Blood of Emmett Till
Trevor Noah
Born a Crime
Bryan Shih
The Black Panthers: Portraits from an
Unfinished Revolution
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Between the World and Me
| Angela Y. Davis Freedom Is A Constant Struggle ********** ********** ********** PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT, SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE? Susan Jacoby Freethinkers Steven Waldman Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America Jeff Sharlet The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power Amy Goodman Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America Naomi Klein Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate ********** ********** ********** FEMINISM Lynn Povich The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace |
Read together- two views of the foundation of the feminist movement
My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
In Our Time by Susan Brownmiller
Irin Carmon
Notorious RBG
Jilll Lapore
The Secret History of Wonder Woman
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We Should All Be Feminists
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Loree Rackstraw
Love As Always, Kurt (love correspondence with Vonnegut)
Philip Weiss
American Taboo
Jon Krakauer
Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way
Neil White
In the Sanctuary of Outcasts
J.H. Hatfield
Najla Said
Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family
Laura Ling
Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home
Roxana Saberi
Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran
Jennifer Steil
The Woman Who Fell From the Sky Woman teaching journalism in Yemen.
Jillian Lauren
Some Girls: My Life In a Harem
Kim Barnes
In the Kingdom of Men
Blair Tindall
Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music
Azar Nafisi
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Ghada Karmi
In Search of Fatima
Married to Another Man
Read these two together, they have different memory/ rendering of certain historical events:
Jehan Sedat My Hope For Peace
and
Queen Nur Leap of Faith
Diane Rehm !!!
Finding My Voice
Helen Thomas
Thanks for the Memories Mr. President
Victor Ostrovsky
By Way of Deception: The Making of a Mossad Officer
Firoozeh Dumas
Funny in Farsi
Azadeh Moaveni
Lipstick Jihad
Kai Bird
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs & Israelis 1956-78
Emma Williams
It's Easier To Reach Heaven Than The End Of The Street: A Jerusalem Memoir
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ABOUT THE OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE
Illan Pappe
Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Jean Zaru
Occupied with Nonviolence: A Palestinian Woman Speaks
Suad Amiry- you'll forget you're reading nonfiction and about horrible tragedy
Sharon and My Mother in Law
Raja Shehadeh
When the Birds Stopped Singing: Life in Ramallah Under Siege
Strangers In the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine
Omar Barghouti
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights
Edward Said
Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question
Paul Findley – former Senator, helped me understand some of the problem early on
Silent No More: Confronting America's False Images of Islam
Seymour M. Hersh
The Samson Option About Israel and nukes. Old but good.
Jimmy Carter
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid Maybe not the best work on the conflict, but good to hear something other than Israel worship from an American leader.
Sandy Tolan
The Lemon Tree
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TO READ:
Edward Abbey – fiction
Salinger
Gogol
James Baldwin
Flannery O’Connor
William Manchester A World Lit Only By Fire
Mary Beard SPQR
Sarah Jaffe
Mychal Denzel Smith
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MEMOIR AND JOURNALISM
Loree Rackstraw
Love As Always, Kurt (love correspondence with Vonnegut)
Philip Weiss
American Taboo
Jon Krakauer
Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way
Neil White
In the Sanctuary of Outcasts
J.H. Hatfield
Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the
Making of an American President
Najla Said
Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family
Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home
Roxana Saberi
Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran
Jennifer Steil
The Woman Who Fell From the Sky Woman teaching journalism in Yemen.
Jillian Lauren
Some Girls: My Life In a Harem
Kim Barnes
In the Kingdom of Men
Blair Tindall
Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music
Azar Nafisi
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Ghada Karmi
In Search of Fatima
Married to Another Man
Read these two together, they have different memory/ rendering of certain historical events:
Jehan Sedat My Hope For Peace
and
Queen Nur Leap of Faith
Diane Rehm !!!
Finding My Voice
Helen Thomas
Thanks for the Memories Mr. President
Victor Ostrovsky
By Way of Deception: The Making of a Mossad Officer
Firoozeh Dumas
Funny in Farsi
Azadeh Moaveni
Lipstick Jihad
Kai Bird
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs & Israelis 1956-78
Emma Williams
It's Easier To Reach Heaven Than The End Of The Street: A Jerusalem Memoir
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ABOUT THE OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE
Illan Pappe
Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Jean Zaru
Occupied with Nonviolence: A Palestinian Woman Speaks
Suad Amiry- you'll forget you're reading nonfiction and about horrible tragedy
Sharon and My Mother in Law
Raja Shehadeh
When the Birds Stopped Singing: Life in Ramallah Under Siege
Strangers In the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine
Omar Barghouti
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights
Edward Said
Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question
Paul Findley – former Senator, helped me understand some of the problem early on
Silent No More: Confronting America's False Images of Islam
Seymour M. Hersh
The Samson Option About Israel and nukes. Old but good.
Jimmy Carter
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid Maybe not the best work on the conflict, but good to hear something other than Israel worship from an American leader.
Sandy Tolan
The Lemon Tree
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TO READ:
Edward Abbey – fiction
Salinger
Gogol
James Baldwin
Flannery O’Connor
William Manchester A World Lit Only By Fire
Mary Beard SPQR
Sarah Jaffe
Mychal Denzel Smith
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