2016 Reading List
Alex Ross – The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
Junot Diaz – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Bob Dylan – Tarantula
Haruki Murakami – The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Ian F Svenonius – Censorship Now!!
Henry Miller – Black Spring
James Joyce – Finnegans Wake
Jorge Luis Borges – A Universal History of Iniquity
Patricio Pron – My Fathers’ Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain
Haruki Murakami – A Wild Sheep Chase
Ruth Ozeki – A Tale For The Time Being
Tim O’Brien – The Things They Carried
Marcel Proust – Swann’s Way
Marilyn Monroe – Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters
Ernest Hemingway – A Farewell to Arms
Carl Wilson – Let’s Talk About Love (331/3 series)
Thomas Hobbes – Leviathan
Orlando Figes – A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924
Jorge Luis Borges – Ficciones
Hermann Hesse – Steppenwolf
Theodore M. Bernstein – The Careful Writer
David McCullough – The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
Raymond Carver – What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Cormac McCarthy – The Road
Kurt Vonnegut – Sucker’s Portfolio
Joan Didion – The White Album
Kurt Vonnegut – Fates Worse Than Death
Henry Miller – The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
Greil Marcus – Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock ‘n’ Roll
Kurt Vonnegut – Palm Sunday
Henry Miller – Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
Kurt Vonnegut – Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons
Mary Shelley – Frankenstein
Joseph Heller – Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man*
George Orwell – Down and Out in Paris and London*
Thomas Pynchon – V.
Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs – And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
James Baldwin – Go Tell It On The Mountain
John Milton – Paradise Lost
Steven Hyden – Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me: What Pop Music Rivalries Reveal About The Meaning Of Life
Kurt Vonnegut – Armageddon In Retrospect
Haruki Murakami – Kafka On The Shore
Henry Miller – The Cosmological Eye
Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary
David Sedaris – Naked
Anton Chekhov – The Essential Tales of Chekhov (edited by Richard Ford)
Jonathan Franzen – Freedom
George Saunders – CivilWarLand In Bad Decline
Bret Easton Ellis – American Psycho
Alex Ross – Listen To This
Bryan Waterman – Television’s Marquee Moon (33 1/3 Series)
Kurt Vonnegut – We Are What We Pretend To Be: The First and Last Works
F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Crack-Up
Kurt Vonnegut – While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction
Simon Rich – Ant Farm: And Other Desperate Situations
Jack Kerouac – Dharma Bums
Kurt Vonnegut – Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction
E.B. White – Essays of E.B. White
Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer – Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation About Writing
Sherwood Anderson – Winesburg, Ohio
Arthur Koestler – Darkness at Noon
Norman Mailer – The Naked and the Dead
Bill Bryson – A Shot History of Nearly Everything
J. Bradford Hipps – The Adventurist
Sara Marcus – Girls To The Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
John Szwed – Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World
Joe Klein – Woody Guthrie: A Life
John Darnielle – Wolf in White Van
Fyodor Dostoyevsky – Notes from Underground
Joe Harvard – The Velvet Underground And Nico (331/3 Series)
Bob Mehr – Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements
David Foster Wallace – Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
Jonathan Clements – Anime: A History
Ian Condry – The Soul of Anime
Patti Smith – M Train
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – The Little Prince
Paul Bowles – The Sheltering Sky
Raymond Queneau – Exercises in Style
Rob Sheffield – Love Is a Mix Tape
Mark Pendergrast – Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
William H. Ukers – All About Coffee
James Freeman, Caitlin Freeman, and Tara Duggan – The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee
Tom Gauld – Mooncop
T.R. Reid – The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
Elisabeth Askin, MD & Nathan Moore, MD – The Health Care Handbook: A Clear and Concise Guide to the American Health Care System
Clayton M. Christensen – The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care*
Jack Kerouac – Big Sur
David Goldhill – Catastrophic Care