My Reading List

2009

  1. The Wordy Shipmates – Sarah Vowell
  2. Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist – Sharman Apt Russell
  3. The American Dream – Harmon Leon
  4. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
  5. Ani’s Raw Food Kitchen – Ani Phyo
  6. Breakdowns – Art Spiegleman
  7. Blue Pills: A positive love story – Frederick Peeters
  8. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - Jared Diamond
  9. Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
  10. God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian - Kurt Vonnegut
  11. Animal Farm – George Orwell
  12. The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century – Thomas Friedman
  13. Not in My Classroom: A Teacher’s Guide to Effective Classroom Management - Frederick Wootan
  14. Teach Like Your Hair’s On Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56 – Rafe Esquith
  15. Chicken With Plums – Marjane Satrapi
  16. American Widow – Alissa Torres
  17. Jobnik!: An American Girl’s Adventures in the Israeli Army – Miriam Libicki
  18. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism – Naomi Klein
  19. The Joy of Keeping Chickens – Jennifer Megyesi
  20. Teach With Your Heart: Lessons I Learned from the Freedom Writers – Erin Gruwell
  21. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom – bell hooks
  22. Outliers: The Story of Success – Malcolm Gladwell
  23. The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City – Kelly Coyne
  24. Twilight – Stephanie Meyers
  25. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J.K. Rowling
  26. The China Study – T. Colin Campbell
  27. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim – David Sedaris
  28. Running with Scissors – Augusten Burroughs
  29. Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer
  30. The Shiniest Jewel: a family love story – Marian Henley
  31. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Egenides
  32. New Moon – Stephanie Meyers
  33. The Mother Tongue: English and how it got that way – Bill Bryson
  34. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
  35. Revolutionary Road – Richard Yates
  36. Hey Kidz! Buy this Book: A radical primer on corporate and governmental propaganda and artistic activism for shoty people – Anne Elizabeth Moore
  37. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks – E. Lockhart
  38. Dramarama – E. Lockhart
  39. The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University – Kevin Roose
  40. Adolescents at School: Perspectives on Youth, Identity, and Education – Ed. Michael Sadowski
  41. What Every Middle School Teacher Should Know – Dave Brown, Trudy Knowles
  42. Perspectives on Learning – D.C. Phillips, Jonas F. Soltis
  43. Critical Pedagogy: Notes from the Real World – Joan Wink
  44. Jesus Land – Julia Scheeres
  45. Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert
  46. Eclipse – Stephanie Meyers
  47. 90 Classic Books for People in a Hurry - Henrik Lange
  48. Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation – Tim Hamilton
  49. The Survival Guide for Kids with LD – Fisher & Cummings
  50. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong- James W. Loewen
  51. Wintergirls - Laurie Halse Anderson
  52. Walking on Water: Reading, writing, and revolution — Derrick Jensen
  53. The 14th Dalai Lama — Tetsu Saiwai
  54. Other People’s Children: Cultural conflict in the classroom — Lisa Delpit
  55. As the World Burns: 50 simple things you can do to stay in denial — Derrick Jensen & Stephanie McMillian
  56. Breaking Dawn – Stephanie Meyers
  57. The Metamorphosis — Graphic Adaptation by Peter Kuper
  58. What We Leave Behind – Derrick Jensen & Aric McBay
  59. A Few Perfect Hours…and other stories from Southeast Asia & Central Europe – Josh Neufeld
  60. Stuffed! – Glenn Eichler & Nick Bertozzi
  61. Eating Animals — Jonathan Safran Foer
And documentaries…

  1. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts – Spike Lee
  2. Mississippi Son: A Filmmaker’s Journey Home – Don Wilson
  3. The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg – Jerry Aronson
  4. Black Coffee – Irene Angelico
  5. The Hobart Shakespeareans – Mel Stuart
  6. Examined Life – Astra Taylor
  7. Food Inc.
  8. The First Year
  9. The Boys of Baraka – Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady


1 Comment Add your own

  • 1. Jaime & Margarita  |  October 21, 2009 at 5:10 pm

    How do you have time to read sooo much??? This is a very good list of books

    Reply

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