Currently Reading:
The Disappearance of Childhood
- The Wanting Seed
- Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth; The Remedy
- How Music Works
- Darkness at Noon
- Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
- Brave New World
- You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Outside Over There
- Super Sad True Love Story (*)
- Sometimes a Great Notion
- Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
- At Home: A Short History of Private Life
- Tree of Codes
- Water for Elephants
- Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel
- Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
- If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This: Stories
- Angle of Repose
- The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
- Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (*)
- Zeitoun
- Into the Wild
- Moral Relativism
- From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
- Too Much Happiness
- Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century
- Eating Animals
- The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009
- Time
- The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
- Naked Lunch
- The Hagakure
- Half-Truths & One-&-a-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
- Wandering: Notes and Sketches
- Remember to Remember
- The Road
- The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
- The Song is You
- The Woman Destroyed
- Out Stealing Horses
- Gilead
- Noise: Fiction Inspired by Sonic Youth
- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
- Eeeee Eee Eeee
- Sometimes My Heart Pushes My Ribs
- The Handmaid's Tale
- At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom
- Unaccustomed Earth
- Now Is the Hour
- The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007
- Chronicles: Volume One
- Best Thought, Worst Thought: On Art, Sex, Work, and Death
- The Thing about Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
- Desolation Angels
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- The Year of Magical Thinking
- Interpreter of Maladies
- Imagining Argentina
- What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception
- Walden; Or, Life in the Woods
- What Would the Founders Do?
- Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
- The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter
- Democracy in America
- My Year of Meats
- A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968
- A Dying Colonialism
- Waterwalk: A Passage of Ghosts
- Catch-22 (*)
- The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace
- Morality and Contemporary Warfare
- The Outsider
- Slaughterhouse-Five (*)
- Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility
- On Truth
- The Prince
- The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
- Not on the Label: What Really Goes Into the Food on Your Plate (*)
- No One Belongs Here More Than You (*)
- The Wretched of the Earth (*)
- Franny and Zooey
- Letters to a Young Poet
- Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill (*)
- Kant: Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
- The Reasons of Love (*)
- Cult of the Mouse: Is Runaway Corporate Greed Killing Innovation in America?
- Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia
- Travels with Charley
- Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
- Lies My Teacher Told Me
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
- U.S.!
- I Remember Running: The Year I Got Everything I Ever Wanted - And ALS (*)
- The Catcher in the Rye
- All the King's Men
- The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR
- Goodbye, Columbus
- The Sheltering Sky
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
- Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
- Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Pop Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter
- The Timeless Way of Building
- Globalization and Its Discontents
- Lolita
- The Works: Anatomy of a City
- Big Sur
- Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions
- A Devil's Dictionary of Business
- Under the Volcano (*)
- Spring Snow
- Revolution for the Hell of It (*)
- The Jungle (*)
- Animal Farm (*)
- To the Lighthouse (*)
- Food, Inc.: Mendel to Monsanto - The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest
- How The Other Half Lives (*)
- Color: A Natural History Of The Palette (*)
- Linked: The New Science Of Networks
- Lost Lady
- The Decline Of Males: The First Look At An Unexpected New World For Men And Women
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
- Dry. A Memoir (*)
- In Dreams Begin Responsibilities And Other Stories (*)
- Lucy Gayheart
- Tropic Of Cancer (*)
- Hawk Moon: Short Stories, Poems And Monologues (*)
- Road Fever: A High-speed Travelogue (*)
- Alpha Beta: How Our Alphabet Shaped The Western World
- Eats, Shoots And Leaves (*)
- The Snow Leopard (*)
- People Before Profit: The New Globalization In An Age Of Terror, Big Money, And Economic Crisis (*)
- A Walk In The Woods: Rediscovering America On The Appalachian Trail (*)
- Nine-headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982 (*)
- The Corporation (*)
- Barrel Fever (*)
- Fences And Windows (*)
- Me Talk Pretty One Day (*)
* - book has a thought, perhaps relevant only to me