Reading List

Selected list. Roughly in order of recency:

  1. All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists by Terry Gross
  2. The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges by Aatish Taseer
  3. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
  4. Living Words: Meaning Underdetermination and the Dynamic Lexicon by Peter Ludlow
  5. Slow Technology Reader: A Tool for Shaping Divergent Futures edited by Carolyn F. Strauss
  6. Morphology of the Folk Tale by Vladimir Propp
  7. The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
  8. Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II by Svetlana Alexievich
  9. Ukrainian Folk Tales translated by Marie Halun Bloch
  10. Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev
  11. The Tyranny of Algorithms by Miguel Benasayag
  12. Humans by Brandon Stanton
  13. Assembling a Black Counter Culture by DeForrest Brown, Jr.
  14. Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice by J.F. Martel
  15. Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton
  16. Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas about Race edited by H. Samy Alim, John R. Rickford, and Arnetha Ball
  17. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
  18. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
  19. Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett
  20. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
  21. Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy
  22. American Stopover by Greg Girard
  23. Snack Sakura: A Journey Through the Bars of Japan by Greg Girard
  24. "Signs and Symbols" by Vladimir Nabokov
  25. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  26. Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag
  27. On Photography by Susan Sontag
  28. Agua Viva by Clarice Lispector
  29. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe
  30. Van Nuys Boulevard 1972 by Rick McCloskey
  31. Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke
  32. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
  33. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
  34. Where I Was From by Joan Didion
  35. Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh
  36. Ways of Seeing by John Berger
  37. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
  38. Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux
  39. Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov edited by Robert Chandler
  40. Steinbeck and Film by Joseph Millichap
  41. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
  42. El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra by Tirso de Molina
  43. Sovietistan by Erika Fatland
  44. The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Sophy Roberts
  45. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  46. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
  47. "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg
  48. T-Bone Whacks and Caviar Snacks: Cooking with Two Texans in Siberia and the Russian Far East by Sharon Hudgins

My earlier reading list and favorite quotes from Russian literature live on my previous blog, Rhea's Slavic Adventures.