28 September 2009

Let's pull out the books

My (periodically updated) reading list
Last updated 23 Jan. 10


For pleasure

  • On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  • A mind of my own by Chris Costner Sizenmore
  • Goddesses in every woman: a new psychology of women by Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D
  • Zen Training by Katsuki Sekida
  • The Quran translated by M.H. Shakir
  • Aimée & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943 by Erica Fischer
Interesting assigned reading

  • [Conflict and Peacemaking] The Irresistible Revolution: living as an ordinary radical by Shane Claiborne
  • [World Literature] The Norton Anthology: Western Literature (currently: Tartuffe by Moliere) edited by Lawall, Thalmann, Patterson, James and Spacks
Needing to finish, but not currently reading

  • Glancing fires edited by Lesley Saunders
  • The collected poems of Audre Lorde
  • The Pink Triangle by Richard Plant
  • Do they hear you when you cry? by Fauziya Kassindja and Layli Miller Bashir
  • Christianity and homosexuality: some Seventh-day Adventist perspectives edited by David Ferguson, Fritz Guy and David Larson
  • Sexism and language edited by Alleen Pace Nilson, Haig Bosmajian, H. Lee Gershuny, Julia P. Stanley

Recently Read
  • Watchmen by Alan Moore
  • The City Who Fought by Anne McCaffrey and S.M. Stirling
  • Sapphira and the slave girl by Willa Cather
  • Paradise by Toni Morrison
  • Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros
  • The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
  • American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Sa
  • Background readings for teachers American literature edited by Venetria K. Patton
  • The rhetorical power of popular culture: considering mediated texts by Deanna D. Sellnow
  • Nonviolence: the history of a dangerous idea by Mark Kurlansky with forward by His Holiness the Dalai Lama 
  • The Norton Anthology: Western Literature (selections: Tartuffe by Moliere, A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift, Emile by Jean-Jacque Rousseau, part of A Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination by Mary Robinson, An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope) edited by Lawall, Thalmann, Patterson, James and Spacks





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