1001 BOOKS TO READ
BEFORE YOUR KINDLE BATTERY DIES
As a reviewer, I've dedicated my time and effort to helping readers sort through new books and other media, determining which are most worth their time. Then it occurred to me: as I help readers choose new books, I can also help readers select books worth their time, even among books that have circled the block a few times.
Maybe I'll reach my self-imposed 1001 target. At the current rate, I should have 1001 books around November of the year 2054. But more important than reaching the final number, I desire to encourage readers to look at the books I have presented, and decide which ones will improve their lives or keep them up past their bedtimes.
Not everyone loves every book, of course. Why should we? But every time we open ourselves to new opportunities, our horizons get that much wider. Hopefully, these books will help open the discussions we have and the experiences which make us worthy people. Please enjoy.
- We Are Marlow: Joseph Conrad's Modern Relevance
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - An American Where the Dead Walk
Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow - Sir Tom Stoppard's Maiden Voyage to Nowhere
Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Susanna Clarke's New Fantastic Tradition
Susanna Clarke, Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - The Day Freud Psychoanalyzed God
Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion - The Mormon Moment and the Everlasting Prophecy
Stephen Mansfield, The Mormonizing of America - Paolo Bacigalupi's Carbon-Soaked Apocalypse
Paolo Bacigalupi, The Windup Girl - Gatto's School of Immeasurable Meaning
John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling - In Praise of Routine Work
Barbara Garson, All the Livelong Day: the Meaning and Demeaning of Routine Work - High Noon for the Economic Assassins
Matt Taibbi, Griftopia, and Michael Lewis, Boomerang - The Australian Frontier and the Meaning of Justice
Chloe Hooper, Tall Man: the Death of Doomadgee - Slippery Rhymes and Fleeting Poetic Truths
A.E. Stallings, Olives: Poems - Catholic School as War Zone: John Patrick Shanley on Slippery Belief
John Patrick Shanley, Doubt: A Parable - Self-Sanctification in a Forgotten Sci-Fi Classic
Jerry J. Davis, Travels - The Right Fear at the Right Time
Barry Glassner, The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things - How To Work At Work
Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class As Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work - Deborah Landau and the Trouble With Silence
Deborah Landau, The Last Usable Hour
