June 30, 2005

Summer reading list

In no particular order. Any thoughts/suggestions?

  • Marcus Borg, The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith
  • Burt Solomon, The Washington Century: Three Families and the Shaping of the Nation's Capital
  • Thomas Frank, What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
  • Benjamin Barber, Fear's Empire: War, Terrorism, and Democracy
  • Cornel West, Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
  • John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America
  • Roy Mattahedeh, The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran
  • John Howard Yoder, The Politics of Jesus and/or Jean-Marie Paupert, The Politics of the Gospel
  • Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
  • Danny Hoch, Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop and Some People
  • Gabriel García Márquez, A Hundred Years of Solitude (re-read)
  • Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine (re-read)
  • Frank Herbert, Dune
  • Maybe some Steinbeck or Hemingway?
Posted by Michael at June 30, 2005 05:06 AM | TrackBack
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Summer's almost over, but I'd add:

Ray Raphael, The First American Revolution
and
C.D. Lummis, Radical Democracy
and finally
Emspak, Labor's Untold Story (published by U.E.)

These three are must reads. I give them to friends all the time.

Posted by: Ben Manski at August 23, 2005 09:50 PM
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