All Books
by Kurt Vonnegut
If Vonnegut were a turnip, this book would be his last few drops of blood. Lap it up. Savor it.
by Richard K. Morgan
Hard-boiled sci-fi thriller about a dead man in a temporary body investigating an apparent suicide, which the person who killed himself (restored from a backup copy) denies he would ever do.
by Francis Fukuyama
Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy. Fukuyama writes readable books that can really teach you something about policy and economics.
by Helena Norberg-Hodge
Subtitled, Learning From Ladakh. A favorite book of mine about the Himalayan culture of Ladakh and the foolishness of a one size fits all monoculture.
by Sesshu Foster
Alternate history where modern Aztecs reign over America and have visions of a Hell much like our own world.
by Barbara Ehrenreich
The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream. Author of Nickel and Dimed attempts to study middle class, but never gets past the unemployment stage.
by Myla Goldberg
Story of Eliza Naumann whose low expectations are challenged by an incredible facility for spelling bees.
by Alexander M Smith
Seventh book in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series. I don’t read many serial mystery books, but the setting (Botswana) and characters have piqued my interest.
by Seyeong O
Korean graphic novel (or manhwa.) Great artwork and stories covering a wide range of topics and styles.
by Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson
Everything You Don’t Want to Know about Fast Food. Author of Fast Food Nation brings his message to the kids in an easily digestible form.
by Jane Kenyon
The collected poems of my favorite poet. I need this since I’ve given most of her books away.
by Jeff Lindsay
A good serial killer tracks down a bad serial killer, hoping all the while that he’s not hunting himself. You gotta have some juice to sell a book these days.
by Heather McGowan
A woman in Rome, after leaving her husband, is left looking after her lover’s half-brother.
by Derrick Jensen
The Problem of Civilization. A provocative call to end civilization before civilization ends us.
by Derrick Jensen
Resistance. Second volume of Endgame… uh, focuses on resistance I guess.
by Juliet Eilperin
How Partisanship Is Poisoning the House of Representatives. I think the subtitle says it all.
by Kazu Kibuishi
Flight gives online comics artists a full-color publication in which to show off their fancy, pantsy art skills. Let’s hope this goes on for many more volumes.
by Diana Wynne Jones
A complicated fantasy with surprises on every page including the last. A girl afflicted with a curse finds shelter in the moving castle belonging to a wizard with an evil reputation. I think I’ve found a favorite new author with +30 books to dig up.
by Lane Smith
Picture book by a modern master. A look at the Founding Fathers when they were little rascals.
by Lynn Margulis
Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution. Embrace your inner bacteria. Life on earth as an interconnected ecology of microbes.
by Philip Reeve
Book 1 of The Hungry City Chronicles. Sci-fi series about cities on giant wheels. The big cities eat little towns and grow stronger. The book almost writes itself.
by Kevin Clash
What Being Elmo Has Taught Me about Life, Love and Laughing Out Loud. Autobiography of the world’s most unknown celebrity. A must have for any Muppet fan, even those who hate Elmo.
by Dr. Jonathan Balcombe
Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good. I guess the subtitle says it all. Scientist writes about pleasure in the animal kingdom. Oh, and the cover has two cute pigs snuggling snouts. Cute pigs can sell science, ethics and all that.
by Laura O. Foster
Twenty Explorations in Parks and Neighborhoods. A travelogue on foot. You might say it’s out of step with modern life.
by David Brin
Sci-fi novel, 2nd and best in Brin’s Uplift Series. Space-faring dolphins vs. the galaxy.
by Daniel Gilbert
Buy this book, read it, and it will make you happy. Or will it? A psychologist examines imagination and its relationship to happiness.
by Laurie R. King
What happened after Sherlock Holmes’ last bow. First in a series of 8 (for now) books about Mary Russell, who meets Holmes (the beekeeper) and becomes his apprentice (as a detective.) This book won an Edgar.
by Jeanne Duprau
Post-apocalyptic children’s book along the lines of Logan’s Run, TXH 1138, or Plato’s Republic. Escape from underground city before the lights go out. First in a series.
by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
When I went vegan, what hurt most was giving up on my cookies, an art I had just started to master. Baking in general is one of those areas that vegans fear to tread. But maybe this book can help me expand my repertoire.
by J. William Lloyd
Or, Magnetation: The Art of Connubial Love. An out-of-print book found on the internet, the Karezza Method details how to have S-E-X without the big ‘O’. wink, wink.
by Michael Pollan
A Natural History of Four Meals. Modern food choices and their primative roots, why we eat what we eat.
by Jerome K. Jerome
(To Say Nothing of the Dog). An English comic novel from 1889, which I’ve begun to read online. As Mr. Bean himself has proven, there is nothing funnier than the English tourist. Except maybe three of them. And a dog.
by Scott Westerfeld
Part one of a sci-fi trilogy. One of those in a world where… books. Everyone gets cosmetic surgery on their 16th birthday and moves from Uglyville to New Pretty Town. One girl must betray her friend if she ever wants to get pretty.
by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero
The hosts of The Post Punk Kitchen and authors of two other great vegan cookbooks offer another sure-to-be-great cookery. Coming out in hardback October 28th.
by Sharon Creech
Awaiting this one via BookMooch. Girl on road trip with grandparents telling stories which resonate with her own search for her mother, who left Ohio for Idaho but didn’t return as promised.
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
From the author of The Little Prince, a pioneer aviator and a powerful writer. The only book on flying you ever need to read.
