2020
Lim What the Fortuneteller Didn't Say
Lim Among the White Moon Faces
Matthews Re-Entry: Surviving Life after War
Li Where Reasons End
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2019
90 Pyle Strange Planet
Novic Girl at War
Eggers The Parade
Butler The New Me
Tagaq Split Tooth
Hempel Sing to It
Porter Grief is the Thing With Feathers
Wallace-Wells The Uninhabitable Earth: Life after Warming
Shafak 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
Thunberg No One is Too Small to Make a Difference
80Kenney Love Poems for Married People
Kirshebaum Rabbits for Food
Kaminsky The Deaf Republic
McEwan The Cockroach
Kuusisto Only Bread, Only Light
Scarpino Once Upon Wing Lake
Flynn I Will Destroy You
Scarpino Once, Then
Fernandez Space Invaders
Obejas The Tower of the Antilles
70 Menendez In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd
Tey The Daughter of Time
El-Mohtar This is How You Lost the Time War
Fish The First: How to Think Aboput Hate Speech, Campus Speech, Religious Speech, Fake News, Post-Truth, and Donald Trump
Hemon My Parents: An Introduction
Hemon This Does Not Belong to You
Atwood The Testaments
Rios The Theater of Night
Rios The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body
Kuusisto Letters to Borges
60 Kuusisto Have Dog, Will Travel
Winterson Frankissstein
Palmer Healing the Heart of Democracy
Kendi How to Be an Anti-Racist
Rushdie Quichotte
55 Ford Boys Will be Boys
Rooney Conversations with Friends
Braithwaite My Sister the Serial Killer
Lanchester The Wall
Thompson-Spires Heads of the Colored People
50 Clement Gun Love
Gumbiner The Boat Builder
Calloway The Indian World of George Washington
Rooney Normal People
DeLillo Mao II
Chang Ghosts of Gold Mountain
DeLillo The Body Artist
Coetzee The Childhood of Jesus
Saini Superior: The Return of Race Science
Danticat Krik!Krak!
40 Danticat Breath Eyes Memory
Mackintosh The Water Cure
Nussbaum Anger and Forgiveness
Stewart The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
Nussbaum Creating Capabilities
Gunaratne In Our Mad and Furious City
Nussbaum The New Religious Intolerance
Tawada The Emissary
Reed Indecency
Majok The Cost of Living
30 Kang The White Book
Coetzee Diary of a Bad Year
Hustvedt Memories of the Future
Elgin True Enough
Schweblin Mouthful of Birds
Nunez The Friend
DiAngelo White Fragility
Hayes American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin
Painter The History of White People
Krasznashorkai Satantango
Royce The Philosophy of Loyalty
20 Shaw The Science of Evil
Treuer The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
Robinson Climate Justice
Krasznashorkai War and War
Vasquez The Shape of the Ruins
Burns Milkman
Krasznahorkai The Last Wolf and Herman
Kushner The Mars Room
Krasznahorkai The Melancholy of Resistance
Davila The Houseguest and Other Stories
10 Wells All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries
Batuman The Idiot
Rohr The Divine Dance
O'Neill Good Trouble: Stories
Woodward Fear
Robertson The Long Take
Laymon Heavy
Schilthuizen Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
Krasznahorkai The World Goes On
Lee Afghanistan: a history from 1260-the present
2018
100 Anderson White Rage
Kakutani The Death of Truth
Chemerinsky We the People: a progressive reading of the Constitution for the twenty-first century
Powers The Overstory
Chabon Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces
Walker Taking the arrow out of the heart: poems
Molina Munoz In Her Absence
Knaausgard Inadvertent
Mckesson On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope
Giovanni Bicycles: Love Poems
90 Clifton Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems
Johnson Everything Under
Hurston Barracoon
Anderson One Person, No Vote
Munoz Molina Like a Fading Shadow
Chemaly Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
Drnaso Sabrina
Giovanni Shimmy, Shimmy, Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking at the Harlem Renaissance through Poems
Gorn Let the People See: The Story of Emmet Till
Blanco Looking for the Gulf Motel
80 Ed. Pinson The Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina
Erdrich Original Fire: New and Selected Poems
Giovanni Acolytes
Atwood Morning in the Burned House
Diaz In the Distance
Horace The Black and the Blue
Gladwell Blink
Johnson Thirteen Days in Ferguson
Dyson What Truth Sounds Like
Moore The Other Wes Moore
70 Flaubert Madame Bovary
Ugresic Fox
Nussbaum The Monarchy of Fear
Vargas Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
Appiah The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity
Gessen A Terrible Country
Emre The Personality Brokers: the Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing
Ondaatje Warlight
Tokarczuk Flights
Fukuyama Identity
60 Orange There, There
Albertalli Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens
Ryan From a Low and Quiet Sea
Tyson The Blood of Emmett Till
Luiselli Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
Klein No is Not Enough
LeGuin The Left Hand of Darkness
Fitzgerald The Evangelicals: the Struggle to Shape America
Sexton A Kind of Freedom
Ko The Leavers
50 Greer Less
Arendt The Origins of Totalitarianism
Vang Afterland: Poems
Gopal No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
Kasischke Where Now: New and Selected Poems
Ward Sing, Unburied, Sing
Batufman The Possessed
Westover Educated
Snyder The Road to Unfreedom
Forman, Jr. Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
40Machado Her Body and Other Parties
Pinker Enlightenment Now
Alarcon The King is Always Above the People
Haslett Imagine Me Gone
Mounk Democracy vs. the People: why our freedom is in danger and how to save it
Grann Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Gessen The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
Kohn The Opposite of Hate: a field guide tom repairing our humanity
Rothstein The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Long Soldier Whereas
Mishra Age of Anger: a History of the Present
30 Balasim The Corpse Exhibition and Other Stories of Iraq
Peterson 12 Rules for Life: an Antidote to Chaos
Ackerman Dark at the Crossing
MacLean Democracy in Chains: the Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
Harrison The Book of Endings
al-Saddawi Frankenstein in Baghdad
Bidart Half-Light: Collected Poems
Cole Open City
Fridlund The History of Wolves
Crane The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheist's Point of View
20 Mozley Elmet
Pope Turkey Unveiled: a history of modern Turkey
Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments: A Stone Reader
Charles Armed in America; a history of gun rights from colonial militias to concealed carry
Cole Known and Strange Things
Kinzer Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds
Smith Everything You Know About Indians is Wrong
Shepard The Lore of the Unicorn
Aveyard The Red Queen
Alexander The New Jim Crow
10 Ewing Electric Arches
Young Bunk
McCormack Solar Bones
Butler Chokehold
Smith Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
Joseph So Where Are We?
Erdrich Future Home of the Living God
Erian Towelhead
Bernstein Secrecy world : inside the Panama papers investigation of illicit money networks and the global elite
Binet The Seventh Function of Language
SUMMER and FALL 2017
100 Rushdie The Golden House
Cortazar Literature Class
Jones Then They Started Shooting: children of the Bosnian war and the adults they became
McCarthy The Road
Eugenides Fresh Complaint: Stories
Green Devil's Bargain
Tashiro Awkward: the science of why we're socially awkward and why that's awesome
Ahmet Endgame
Bartlett The Truth Matters: a citizen's guide to separating facts from lies and stopping fake news in its tracks
Coates We Were 8 Years in Power
90Erian The Brutal Language of Love
Pamuk The Red-Haired Woman
Bihalji-Nerin Bogomil Sculpture
Brandt The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World
Clinton What Happened
Drndic Belladonna
Mojzes Balkan genocides : holocaust and ethnic cleansing in the twentieth century
Taibbi I Can't Breathe: a killing on Bay Street
Baron-Cohen The Science of Evil
Loory Tales of Falling and Flying
80 Greenblatt Will in the World
Greenblatt Hamlet in Purgatory
Borzutsky The Performance of Being Human
Hustvedt The Blindfold
Mukherjee The Gene: An Intimate History
Grass Of All That Ends
Greenblatt The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
Morrison The Origin of Others
Matar The Return
Abu Jamal Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?
70 Sloman The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone
Davis Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter?
Lilla The Once and Future Liberal
Jackson Policing Ferguson, policing America : what really happened--and what the country can learn from it
Alexievich The Unwomanly Face of War
Alexie You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
Wu The Attention Merchants
Eugenides The Virgin Suicides
Morrison God Help the Child
Murray A Carnivore's Inquiry (lost interest 1/2 way through)
60Johnson Nitro Mountain
Murukami Men Without Women
Eisenger The ChickenShit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
Fawcett Liberalism
Tanovic-Miller Testimony of a Bosnian
Evil Doesn't Live Here: Posters of the Bosnian War
Ellis The Quartet
Hamid Exit West
Carson Float
Hustvedt The Summer Without Men
50Bosnian Genocide: The Essential Reference Guide
Corwin Dubious Mandate: a Memoir of the UN in Bosnia, Summer 1995
Grahovic While You Played, I Ran
Yan The Garlic Ballads
Walker The Ayn Rand Cult
Wright A.Lincoln
SPRING 2017
43 Jelinek The Piano Teacher
Berger In Praise of Doubt
Holiday Ego is the Enemy
Andersen White Rage
Grushin Forty Rooms
Fine Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science and Society
Weiner How Bad Writing Destroyed the World: Ayn Rand and the Literary Origins of the Financial Crisis
Desmond Evicted
Pelevin The Life of Insects
Sorokin The Blizzard
Kertesz Fateless
Burnet His Bloody Project
Grossman A Horse Walks into a Bar
Shishkin The Light and the Dark
Petrushevskaya There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back In
Worth A Rage for Order
Lioy Dust: the Inside Story of its Role in the September 11th Aftermath (sort of--slow read first 5 chapters, couldn't take it any more, speed read until the conclusion and slow read the conclusion)
Dombeck The Selfishness of Others
Hochschild Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Alameddine The Angel of History
Grushin The Dream Life of Sukhanov
Norwood Ferguson's Fault Lines
Young Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems
Mayer Dark Money
Kendi Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Hill The Nix
Hamid The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Bezmozgis Natasha and Other Stories
Saunders Lincoln in the Bardo
Warrick Black Flags: The Rise of Isis
Szalay All That Man Is
Akunin Winter Queen
Vasquez Lovers on All Saints' Day: Stories
Levy Hot Milk
Vance Hillbilly Elegy
Isenberg White Trash
Kadare Twilight of the Eastern Gods
Arudpragasam The Story of a Brief Marriage
Lowery They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement
Alexievich Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Resendez The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
McEwan Nutshell: A Novel
Kadare The Fall of the Stone City
FALL 2016
Cather My Antonia
Whitehead The Underground Railroad
Sag Harbor
Kadare The Accident
Saroyan The Human Comedy
Millhauser Dangerous Laughter
Millhauser Martin Dressler
Hill Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
Handey What I'd Say to the Martians and Other Stories
Millhauser The Knife Thrower and Other Stories
Bechdel Fun Home
Shteyngart Absurdistan
Rush Mating
Bachelder The Throwback Special
Trump Crippled America
Coetzee Disgrace
Graves I, Claudius
Atwood Hag-Seed
Klosterman But What if We're Wrong?
Amis Money
Kang The Vegetarian
Vasquez Reputations
Greenidge We Love You Charlie Freeman
Ward The Fire This Time
Zambra Multiple Choice
Rovelli Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Bakewell At the Existentialist Cafe
Mahajan The Maker of Small Bombs
2016 SUMMER:
Houellenbecq Elementary Particles
Houellenbecq The Map and the Territory
The Pilgrim Hawk by Glenway Wescott
Stevenson Just Mercy
That Night by Alice McDermott
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
Desperate Characters by Paula Fox
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
Highsmith The High Price of Salt
MLK The Radical King
Malerman Birdbox
Senna Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
Haddon A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
Fell off the grid for awhile. Here are some I remember from the summer 2015-November
Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath
Rushdie's new novel
Hoagland Twenty Little Poems that Could Save America and Other Essays
Beatty The Sellout
Coates Between the World and Me
Zink The Wallcreeper
The Martian
13 Reasons Why
We Were Liars
Poems by Nick Flynn, Dianne Seuss, Mary Jo Bang, Jane Miller, LiYoung Lee, Atwood, Hoagland, Nye
Still working my way through the Old Testament (up to Esther
Once again, Nora and Charlotte will be participating in the GOSt.Louis Read, Right, Run marathon. The goal is to read 26 books, do 26 good deeds and complete 25 miles running before the final 1.2 miles in April at Forest Park. Started last Wednesday.
2016 RRR
2014-15 School Year
Toulmin The Usage of Argument
Andric The Slave Girl and Other Stories
Andric The Woman from Sarajevo
Anzulovic Heavenly Serbia: From Myth to Genocide
Murakami Kafka on the Shore
Bernhard The Voice Imitator
Delillo White Noise
Davis Can't and Won't
Kane Collected Plays
Eggers A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Suzuki The Art of Zen (or something like that)
2014RRR
Ishiguro The Buried Giant
Lockwood Motherland, Fatherland, Homelandsexual
Carrere Liminov
Offil Dept. of Speculation
O'Neill The Dog
Goldstein The Teacher Wars
Jones Prelude to Bruise
Gluck Faithful and Virtuous Night
Weber The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Buffam The Irrationalist
Buffam Past Imperfect
Sabato The Tunnel
Zweig Kaleidoscope One
Rinehart The Dice Man
Hrabal Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age
Laymon Long Division
Laymon How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
Johnson Welcome to Braggsville
Ignatieff Warrior's Honor
2014 Summer
Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad
Shubin Your Inner Fish
Wittgenstein Collected Works
Baskailo Wounded I Am More Awake
O'Breht The Tiger's Wife
Atwood The Year of the Flood
Oe A Quiet Life
Lethem Amnesia Moon
Lethem Motherless Brooklyn
Dehaene Reading in the Brian
Atwood MaddAddams
Alexie What I've Stolen, What I've Earned
Oe The Changeling
Jennings Bosnia's Million Bones
Andric Bosnian Chronicle
Moravia The Conformist
Hiaasen Bad Monkey
Galloway The Cellist of Sarajevo
Malcolm Kosovo: A Short History
2013-14 school year:
Brkic Stillness and Other Stories
Trebincevic The Bosnia List
Foucault A History of Sexuality: Volume 1
Oliver A Thousand Mornings
Wolf Proust and the Squid
Hoagland's Poetry
James A**holes: A Theory
Calvino If on a Winter's Night
Hamilton The Book of Ruth
2013 RRR
Glenny The Balkans
Rhode Endgame
Rape Warfare
Drakulic They Would Never Hurt a Fly
Homecoming
Drakulic S.
Dostoevsky--A Raw Youth (a labor of love at this point)
Sedaris--the new one w/ owls in the title
Adichie Americanah
Heidegger--What is Called Thinking
Murakami Almost Transparent Blue
2013: Half of a Yellow Sun by Achidie
Joseph Anton: A Memoir by Salman Rushdie
Jose Saramago: The Lives of Things
Raised from the Ground
Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and the Damned
The Last Tycoon
Fountain's Billy Lynn's Halftime Walk
Camus--Journals
Resistance, Rebellion and Death
Sartre--The Words
Gaiman--American Gods
Schoenbaum Shakespeare: A Documentary Life
Card--Ender's Shadow
Pahluniak--Survivor
Fowles--The Collector
Mosley--White Butterfly
Maguire--Wicked
Baldwin--If Beale Street Could Talk
Hemon--The Book of My Lives
Love and Obstacles
Nowhere Man
The Lazarus Project
Saunders--In Persuasion Nation
--everything else Saunders has published in book form
Taleb--Antifragile
James--Psychology
Miller--Sexus (started but bailed after Part 1)
Erdrich--Shadow Tag
Ansary--Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
Death of a Red Heroine
A Raw Youth
Madame Bovary
James Psychology
Sparks Memento Mori
Burroughs Cities of the Red Night
Franzen--The Twenty-Seventh City
2012
All Things Shining--Kelley and Dryfus
Infinite Jest--Wallace
The Girl With Curious Hair--Wallace
The World is Flat--Friedman
This Side of Paradise--Fitzgerald
The Comedians--Graham Greene
Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda
Before Twilight: Selected Poems of Julio Cortazar
Black Betty--Walter Mosley
The History of Thought--Ferry
Moby Dick--Melville
started but bailed on Proust
started but bailed on The Slave Trade
*The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
forgot Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain--finishing Infinite Jest made me want to tackle another big "English teachers are supposed to read" book.
Summer:
Midnight's Children
Tender is the Night
Habermas--The Theory of Communicative Action Part One
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