Two weeks ago we did an informal poll of Nation writers and editors asking them what they were reading this summer. The survey produced some interesting results [1] but not nearly as interesting as the reading suggestions tendered by our readers.
Reading lists from coast to coast poured in to our website, our Facebook page [2], our Twitter feed [3] and our own Nation social network [4]. The result is below—an invaluable summer reading list for the rest of this season and then for about the next fifty summers after that!
As you'll see, the choices range from progressive standards like Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn to obscure historical and philosophical tracts; from a strong Stieg Larsson faction to a raft of Christopher Hitchens readers; from numerous Tolstoy buffs to a passionate Issac Babel fan, the list is an eclectic litany of more intellectual currents then we can catalog.
Go forward and learn, as we did!
Mary Krook, Duluth MN
Endgame [5] by Derrick Jensen
Highly recommend it for anyone interested in having a historic perspective on the times we are living in.
Nancy Spafford, Mobile AL
The Passage [6] by Justin Cronin
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night [7] by Mark Haddon
Making Rounds with Oscar [8] by David Dosa
Karim Walker, Scotch Plains, New Jersey
Jazz [9] by Toni Morrison
Michele Shea, Butte, MT
The American Way of War [10] by Eugene Jarecki
Carl Keys, Pittsburgh, PA
The Sociopath Next Door [11] by Martha Stout, Ph.D.
Jeff Rine, Madison MS
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals [12] by Michael Pollan
Karen Chapman, Chula Vista, CA
How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthrough Findings from a Leading Neuroscientist [13] by Andrew Newberg, M.D., (co-author of Why God Won't Go Away [14]), and Mark Robert Waldman
Ayesha Hasan, Karachi, Pakistan
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest [15] by Stieg Larsson.
Matthew Wills, Brooklyn, NY
Ill Fares the Land [16] by Tony Judt
Njal's Saga [17] (R.Cook translation)
Scott Judd, San Jose, CA
I'm in the middle of four books right now, and by the way, I wish I had the time to read a book a week, but anyway:
2666 [18] by Roberto Bolano
Amazing is all I can say.
In Search of the Old Ones [19] by David Roberts
Interesting read about the ancient Anasazi and the southwest canyon lands.
Reading Like a Writer [20] by Francine Prose
Really enjoying the way she deftly illuminates the words of so many great authors.
Coleman Barks translation of The Essential Rumi [21]
And of course The Nation [22] magazine every week.
Karen A. Johnson, Salt Lake City, UT
I'm reading five books. I'm reading some books that I've had on my list for a number of years. These include: Democracy Matters [23] by Cornel West; The World Is a Ghetto: Race and Democracy Since World War II [24] by Howard Winant; An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President [25] by Randall Robinson. The fiction books are Anthills of the Savannah [26] by Chinua Achebe & Babylon Sisters [27] by Pearl Cleage.
Deb Hoskins, Houston, MN
How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching [28] by Susan Ambrose, et als
Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson [29] by Blair L.M. Kelley
Regenesis [30] by C.J. Cherryh for grins!
Caterina Nelson, Boston, MA
Their Finest Hour, The Grand Alliance, Closing the Ring [31] by Winston Churchill
Point Counter Point [32] by Aldous Huxley
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest [15] and The Girl Who Played with Fire [33] by Stieg Larsson
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe [34] by Douglas Adams
A Star Called Henry [35] by Roddy Doyle
Through the Looking Glass [36] by Lewis Carroll
Robyn Andrews, Greenvile, SC
Finished up The Millennium Trilogy [37] by Larsson. Just finished The Case of the Missing Servant [38] by Tarquin Hall set in India. Getting ready for either The Imperfectionists [39] by Tom Rachman OR The redeemer [40] by norwegian author, Jo Nesbo. Also looking forward to reading the second In the Johannes Cabal Series [41].
Btw, I am reading both paper and ebooks on a kindle and iPad.
Laura Newman, New York, NY
Highly recommend Zeitoun [42] by Dave Eggers. Next up, might beThe Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World [43] by Avi Shlaim, or Little Bee [44] by Chris Cleave, but I would like something a little more lightweight in between.
Nancy Clinton, Bennington, VT
The Closing of the Muslim Mind [45] by Reilly. A must read for all thoughtful adults
Never Enough [46] by Voegeli
How an Economy Grows [47] by Schiff
Chris Curtis, Denver, CO
Herzog [48] by Saul Bellow.
Jerry Simon, Seattle, WA
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court [49] by Jeffrey Toobin
Marc Silverman, Los Angeles, CA
The Savage Detectives [50] by Roberto Bolano
The Assassins' Gate [51] by George Packer
Inherent Vice [52] by Thomas Pynchon
The Sporting Club [53] and Nobody's Angel [54] by Thomas McGuane
Jude the Obscure [55] by Thomas Hardy
The Devil Rides Out [56] by Dennis Wheatley
Craig R. Loftin , San Antonio, TX (for now!)
So far, I've read two good novels this summer: Water, Inc. [57] by Varda Burnstyn and Blood Music [58] by Greg Bear. The first led me to the second, as often happens with good reads! Now I'm beginning the third in this string... summer is going well! If you are concerned with the environment and are concerned about the growing strengths and powers of corporations in America, give these books a serious look.
Larry Cooper, Plymouth, MI
Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews, Vol. 1: The False Messiah [59] by Alan Hart
Jane Duncan, Bellingham, WA
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest [15] by Stieg Larsson
Jim Small, Myrtle Beach, SC
Stieg Larsson trilogy:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [60]
The Girl Who Played with Fire [33]
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest [15]
Elizabeth Rose, Lisbon, ND
Michael Cunningham, Land's End [61]. I can't get to Provincetown this summer and miss it, so I'm enjoying it vicariously. Next up, Steven Mithen, The Singing Neanderthals [62] and Stephen King, Under the Dome [63] (now that the dome tome is in paperback).
Janette Rainwater, Pacific Palisades, CA
Jeepers! You guys must get advance copies of everything; I had not heard of any on the list! But I am sure to read Birth of a Psychedelic Culture [64], as I met Leary and Ram Dass when the latter was still wearing a business suit--- they spoke at a colloquium at UC's Cowell Hospital when I was post-doc fellow there.
But I digress! I am currently reading:
Germany 1945: From War to Peace [65] by Richard Bessel
Freedom Summer [66] by Bruce Watson
The Dead Hand [67] by David E. Hoffman
Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America's Future [68] by Stephen Kinzer
Every Patient Tells a Story [69] by Lisa Sanders
The Strangest Man [70] by Graham Farmelo
The Kirov Affair [71] by Adam Ulam
and whenever my places in the library Hold queue mature . . .
Spies of the Balkans [72] by Alan Furst
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest [15] by Stieg Larrson
Inside Out [73] by Barry Eisler
Debra Kruse, Iowa City, Iowa
Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town [74] by Nick Reding
Jay Carr, Grand Rapids MI
Duluth [75] by Gore Vidal
Richard A. McGregor, Saginaw, MI
The Republican Noise Machine [76] by David Brock
The Value of Nothing [77] by Raj Patel
Stuffed and Starved [78] by Raj Patel
Slavery by Another Name [79] by Douglas A. Blackmon
The Glass Rainbow [80] by James Lee Burke
Mary Bailey, New York City, NY
Agaat [81] a novel by Marlene van Niekerk, published by Tin House Books ($20) paper, is a story of South African exploitation during apartheid, and as the country moves towards reconciliation following apartheid the 50-year relationship between a farming woman and her black maid changes too. It's perhaps an allegory, but there is nothing abstract about the land and the lives lived there. It's a monstrously personal epic.
Jack Milton, Davis, CA
I tend to have several going at once:
The End of America [82] by Naomi Wolf
Into the Buzzsaw [83] edited by Kristina Borjesson, and
The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7: Why the Final Official Report About 9/11 Is Unscientific and False [84] by David Ray Griffin
Dawn Gray, Green Bay, WI
I am reading a little of everything :). The Sable Quean [85] by Brian Jacques; re-reading Little Brother [86] by Cory Doctorow; trying to get through Machiavelli's The Prince [87]; Dracula [88] by Bram Stoker and probably a bunch of urban fantasy and paranormal romance fluff things that will be spur of the moment choices.
David Goossen, Louisville, CO
After bailing out on War and Peace [89], I really enjoyed City of Thieves [90] by David Benioff. It was a much more enjoyable look at Russia at war. Thoroughly entertaining and very well written.
Rafael Zambrana, Houston, TX
Confronting Collapse [91] by Michael Ruppert
The Power of Now [92] by Eckhart Tolle
The Untied States of America [93] by Juan Enriquez
Jo Sippie-Gora, Kinnelon, NJ
This morning, I completed Einstein: His Life and Universe [94] by Walter Isaacson. The 18-CD, unabridged audio book was beautifully read by Edward Herrmann. Now I've begun American Pastoral [95], a Pulitzer Prize winner by a fellow Jerseyean, Philip Roth.
Lexine Mainwaring, Harpswell, ME
Just finished The Millennium Trilogy [37] by Stieg Larsson. Exciting and wonderful, but you already know that.
Earlier this summer I read The Shadow of the Wind [96] by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Mysterious, mystical, labyrinthine literature...Barcelona in the early 20th century. Excellent for summer.
Joseph Ball, Buffalo, NY
Genius on the Edge [97] by Gerald Imber, MD
Memoirs of a Beatnik [98] by Diane DiPrima
Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia [99] by Ahmed Rashid
A Sentimental Journey [100] by Laurence Sterne
You Are Not a Gadget [101] by Jaron Lanier
The Best of Dorothy Parker [102]
Known to Evil [103] by Walter Mosley
Cannery Row [104] by John Steinbeck
The Freak Brothers Omnibus [105] by Gilbert Shelton and others.
BG Kenley, Port Haywood, WA
Old Age in a New Age [106] by Beth Baker
What Are Old People For? [107] by William H. Thomas, M.D.
Patricia Thornton, Maplewood, NJ
Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent [108] by Robert F. Barsky
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition [109] by Daniel Okrent
Roy Nuffer, Fraser, MI
Nations Have the Right to Kill [110] by Richard Koenigsberg
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest [15] by Stieg Larsson
61 Hours [111] by Lee Child
The Third Option [112] by Vince Flynn
Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America [113] by John Avlon
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl [114] by Harriet Jacobs
The Varieties of Religious Experience [115] by William James
Joyce Barwick, Boulder, CO
Europe's Promise [116] by Steven Hill and The Vintage Caper [117] by Peter Mayle
Nicholas Galaday, Vernonia, OR
The Way of the World [118] by Ron Suskind
Hot, Flat, and Crowded [119] by Tom Friedman
The Republican War on Science [120] by Chris Mooney
Peter Wells Watkins, College Park, MD
Stalin's Romeo Spy [121] by Emil Draitser, also Shush! [122] by the same author; The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual--and the Modern Home Began [123] by Joan DeJean and Ill Fares the Land [16] by Tony Judt.
Davis Hooper, Silver Spring, MD
All Quiet On the Western Front [124] by Erich Remarque
The Gravedigger's Daughter [125] by Joyce Carol Oates
Anna Karenina [126] by Leo Tolstoy
Karl F. Albert, Shermans Dale, PA
Just finished Reason, Faith, and Revolution [127] by Terry Eagleton (very enjoyable) and To the Elephant Graveyard [128] by Tarquin Hall. Mr. Hall joined the hunt for a rogue elephant in the Assam area of India and captures the flavors, smells, strange mixtures of religions, and dangers of India and the wonderful intelligence and peronality of the elephants they ride through the jungle in search of the rogue. Inspired by his writing in that book I'm now reading his first novel: a delightfully humorous detective story, The Case of the Missing Servant [38]. Reading that has temporarily interrupted my reading of 2 other books: Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind [129] by Robert Richardson, and 36 Arguments for the Existence of God [130] by Rebecca Goldstein. Both books are very good.
Kathy Dzuck, Boise, ID
Savor the Moment [131] by Norah Roberts
Earl MacMillan, Hollywood, FL
Armed Madhouse [132] by Greg Palast, Ruffian [133] by Jane Schwartz, and East of Eden [134] by John Steinbeck. How's that for an eclectic mix?
Kim Chandler McDonald, Sydney
Right now I'm reading Medium Raw [135] by Anthony Bourdain. It's fantastic... I veer between hysterical laughter and raucous hunger with each chapter.
David E. Rohrer, Madison, WI
God Is Not Great [136] and Hitch-22 [137] by Christopher Hitchens and The Girl Who Played with Fire [33] by Stieg Larsson (finished) and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest [15] (soon) and Samuel Adams: A Life [138] by Ira Stoll (just finished). Thanks for asking.
Ronald H. Rodriguez, Chicago, IL
Culture of Corruption [139] by Michelle Malkin.
Niels Schulz, Cortland, NY
After the Ice: Life, Death, and Geopolitics in the New Arctic [140] by Alun Anderson
Eye opening research. You won't be able to put it down and will want to read it twice.
Catherine Louis, Chicago, IL
Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree [141] by Tariq Ali
Essays In Existentialism [142] by Jean-Paul Sartre
Frankenstein [143] by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Seymour H. Sargent, Vancouver, WA
Ten Technologies to Save the Planet [144] by Chris Goodall
Susan Addiss, Branford, CT
I recommend A Short History of Women [145] by Kate Walbert. This novel deals with several generations of women, descendants of a suffragist who starved herself to death for the cause. They all have their own issues, many of which resonate today. There is humor, sophisticated layering of the stories, and very good writing.
Inga Vickers, Houston, TX
Words Gone Wild [146] by Jim Bernhard; then I have picked up an oldie by Irwin Shaw: Short Stories, Five Decades; and Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin.
Gary L Herstein, Prescott, AZ
David Copperfield [147] by Charles Dickens.
Capital [148] by Karl Marx.
A Realistic Universe: An Introd. To Metaphysics [1916 ] [149] by John Elof Boodin.
(All on my Kindle.)
Tim B. McAlpin, Champaign, IL
I am currently reading The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule [150] by Frank Thomas
Doug Berman, Montclair NJ
Just finished Hitch-22 [137] by Christopher Hitchens
Jackie Kennedy, Davenport, FL
The Promise [151] by Jonathan Alter
Killer Politics [152] by Ed Schulz
Chet J.Dlugokinski, Winter Springs, FL
[153]Pretty Good Joke Book [154] by Prairie Home Companion
The Silent Sea [155] by Clive Cussler
The Spy [156] by Clive Cussler & Justin Scott
Lyn Purdie, Carrollton, GA
I'm currently reading The Second Bill of Rights: FDR's Unfinished Revolution--And Why We Need It More Than Ever [157] by Cass R. Sunstein.
Carole Heaster, Gordonville, NY
My reading diet this summer is just like my food diet: a see-saw! I fell in love with At the Back of the North Wind [158] by George MacDonald. Once the innocent boy climbed onto the back of the North Wind, I was hooked, as he held on for dear life! I am now a George MacDonald devotee. His work is ethereal.
The 'saw' in my reading see-saw landed on author Frank R. Stockton's trilogy of Rudder Grange [159], Pomona's Travels [160] and The Rudder Grangers Abroad And Other Stories [161]. Once on board the first Rudder Grange novel, worries were left on a sandbar, laughter floated, and hours after the first chapter, I was still chuckling to myself out loud, but I was in a very lonely grocery store.
Barbara Aria, NYC, NY
The Social Agent: A True Intrigue of Sex, Lies, and Heartbreak Behind the Iron Curtain [162] by Charles Laurence
Owen Cramer, Colorado Springs, CO
Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire [163] by William Rosen
The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II [164] by Fernand Braudel
Cyndy Storm, Columbia, SC
The Sea Lady [165]
John Clement, Danville, PA
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest [15] by Stieg Larson
Tom Sabel, Lakewood, CO
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl [166] by Timothy Egan
Lyon Seabury, Bethel, ME
Threshold: The Crisis of Western Culture [167] by Thom Hartmann
Six Questions of Socrates: A Modern-Day Journey of Discovery Through World Philosophy [168] by C. Phillips
A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present [169] by Howard Zinn
Linda Raiteri, Memphis, TN
I Curse the River of Time [170] by Per Petterson,
and, despite having no interest in swordfishing, Linda Greenaw's Seaworthy [171]: a swordboat captain returns to the sea. It was a gift and I find I am enjoying it.
William E. Stevens, Redford, MI
Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations [172]. Revolution doesn't happen when society adopts new technology, it happens when society adopts new behavior.
David Kleppe, Plymouth, MN
Some oldies besides the alluring new releases include . . .
Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago [173]
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground [174]
John Le Carre, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy [175]
St. Augustine, The City of God [176]
Hannah Arendt, Love and Saint Augustine [177]
F.F. Bruce, Paul Apostle of the Heart Set Free [178]
George Will, Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball [179]
Slightly more current, not hot off the press, but still warm . . .
Stephen Law, Philosophy [180]
Jason Holt (ed.), The Daily Show and Philosophy [181]
Jessamyn Conrad, What You Should Know About Politics...But Don't: A Nonpartisan Guide to the Issues [182]
John Lukacs, June 1941: Hitler and Stalin [183]
David Taub Bancroft, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Anarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements [184]; by George Woodcock
People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play [185]; by Dave Zirin
Thus Spoke Zarathustra [186]; by Friedrich Nietzsche
Conspiracy Theories: The Philosophical Debate [187]; edited by David Coady
William E. Rupel, Yakima, WA
I'm reading The Trial of Henry Kissinger [188], by Christopher Hitchens.
I hope to read The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution [189], by Richard Dawkins.
Paulette Sheflin, Parker, CO
Await Your Reply [190] by Dan Chaon. This book is a rare and pleasant find for me--it grabbed me from the opening line, and keeps getting better. It is a nice blend of philosophy, gritty story line, and just plain great writing. I will share this book with my daughters and my friends. Warning: Not beach reading.
Robin Nicholoff, Hotchkiss, CO
I recently finished The Windup Girl [191] by Paolo Bacigalupi. It lays out a grim but plausible dystopia that is the result of our collective failures to deal global climate change, GMO's, and corporate hegemony. Looking forward to more books by him.
Beverly Harmon, Springfield, MO
David Baldacci's Deliver Us from Evil [192]. If you like a good mystery it's a great summer read.
John H. M. Lucas, Columbia, SC
Since the July 4th holiday, I've read The Baseball Codes [193] and The Professor and the Madman [194] by Simon Winchester, two totally different reads, and both delightful. Although they couldn't be more dissimilar, both books were absolute page-turners and difficult to put down.
I'm currently re-reading the biography Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson, originally published in 2003. As evidenced by the critical acclaim it received when published, this is an intensely personal, in-depth look at perhaps the quintessential "American," including his strengths, weaknesses and sometimes strange familial relationships. It's a superb and very revealing portrait of the practical, curious, energetic, industrious, inventive, brilliant man who was very probably the most down-to-earth of all the Founding Fathers and arguably the most important man of the 18th century.
Beverly Smith, Cottonwood, AZ
The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel [195] by Isaac Babel (with a forward by Lionel Trilling).
I found this used book, and as I'd been TRYING for years to read him, I was now finally able to experience his writing. He's more than just a wonderful writer-- his use of words is phenomenal. He will use an action word, rather than a descriptive one, for instance, to describe the physique of a horse. Sounds simple, yes? Well, he works magic with WORDS!!!!! I shall now try to find MORE books and stories by him.
Lorraine Lee, Norristown, PA
The Ascent of Money [196] by Niall Ferguson
The Origin Of Species [197] by Charles Darwin
What's the Matter with Kansas? [198] by Thomas Frank
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War [199] by Tony Horowitz
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train [200] by Howard Zinn
Noelle Gillies, San Jose, CA
The Constant Gardener [201] by John Le Carre
Brandi Gardner, Warsaw, IN
Currently I am reading The Lightning Thief [202]Vampirates Blood Captain [203] by Justin Somper, and rereading House of Stairs [204] by William Sleator. I'm in college pursuing a career as a YA librarian. I am impatiently waiting for Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins. These are all books readers of science fiction and fantasy would enjoy.
Diane Offineer, Canon City, CO
The Empathic Civilization [205] by Jeremy Rifkin
Impulse [206]
Read Ann Brontes The Tenant of Wildfell Hall [207]
And loved The Other Brain [208] by Douglas Fields
Kathleen Conway, Tempe, AZ
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury [209]
Burnis E. Tuck, Fresno, CA
I'm nearing the end of a wonderful long, mesmerizing post-apocalyptic vampire novel by Justin Cronin, The Passage [6]. This after having read Russ Baker's extremely disturbing Family of Secrets [210] about the odious Bush family doings.
Catherine Morency, Western Springs, IL
Ties That Bind [211] by Phillip Margolin
Marge, Avon, OH
Loved Killer Politics [152] by Big Ed Schultz. Currently reading The Promise [151] by Jonathan Alter.
Judith Keenan, San Francisco, CA
Being Upright [212] by Reb Anderson
Mindfulness and the 12 Steps [213] by Therese Jacobs Stewart
Imperial Ambitions [214]by Noam Chomsky
Screenwriting For Dummies [215] by Laura Schellhardt
Nancy S. Lovejoy, Wilbraham, MA
I'm reading too many books at once, but have been doing so for most of my almost 83 years - really love them all and have more to come:
John Dominic Crossan & Jonathan L. Reed, Excavating Jesus [216]
Karen Armstrong, The Bible: A Biography [217]
Shirley Rish, Mesa, AZ
The Promise [151] by Jonathan Alter
36 Arguments for the Existence of God [130] by Rebecca Newberger Goldsstein
Maimonides: A Guide for Today's Perplexed [218] by Kenneth Seeskin
John C. Pierson, Akron, OH
Nelson, Daniel, A Passion for the Land: John F. Seiberling and the Environment Movement [219]
Margaret Tatum, Kerrville, TX
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas [220]
Many of you also weighed in via The Nation's Facebook page [2]:
Pamela Hampton
The Dunwich Horror and Others [221] by HP Lovecraft
John Edgar Mihelic
Das Kapital [148] by Karl Marx
Martin Bakner
Nixonland [222] by Rick Perlstein
Plu Turner
The Code Book [223] by Simon Singh
Scott Judd
2666 [18] by Robert Bolano
Seraphim Winslow
Guide for the Perplexed [224] by EF Schumacher
Living in the End Times [225] by Slavoj Zizek
Elements of Refusal [226] by John Zerzan
Lauren Donovan Bradford
Watership Down [227] by Richard Adams
Carl Norman
Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson [228] by William McKeen
Dave Dornbush
A Case of Curiosities [229] by Allen Kurzweil
Religion Gone Bad [230] by Mel White
Final Crisis [231] by Greg Cox
Aurora Martinez
Nomad [232]
Scott Haycock
Decline and Fall [233] by Evelyn Waugh
Karl Marx [234] by Isaiah Berlin
Jan Karlsson
Hellhound on His Trail [235] by Hampton Sides
Clayton L. Magruder
The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel's Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship [236] by James Scott
The Woman Behind the New Deal [237] The Untold Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins -- Social Security, Unemployment Insurance and the Minimum Wage by Kirstin Downey
Lew A. Welge
The Secret Life of Bees [238] by Sue Monk Kidd
Reading Lolita in Tehran [239] by Azar Nafisi
Mark Gustafson
Swann's Way [240] by Marcel Proust, translated by Lydia Davs
Colin Marston
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness [241] by Michelle Alexander
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest [242] by Ken Kesey
Hopes and Prospects [243] by Noam Chomsky
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