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The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards. —A. Jablokov

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Reading is Activism

Non-alphabetized list of fiction and non-fiction that interests me, in no particular order of importance and constantly updated.

Books found on the Great Books List: Classics, Eastern and Western Site.

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace R.I.P. (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) 1997 MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant”

Calyx A Journal of Art and Literature by Women

Fiction Writers Collective Two

Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight by Thom Hartmann

Endgame Vol 1 the Problem of Civilization by Derrick Jensen

Endgame Vol 2 Resistance by Derrick Jensen

The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession by Adam Leith Gollner

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

Resistance by Owen Sheers

Paranoia Switch: How Terror Rewires Our Brains and Reshapes Our Behavior–and How We Can Reclaim Our Courage by Martha Stout

The Bardo of Walking Life by Richard Grossinger

Pronoia is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings by Rob Brezsney

OurSpace: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture by Christine Harold

Cold Snap by Thom Jones

The Dead Fish Museum by Charles D’Ambrosio

Don’t Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate by George Lakoff

The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto

Trees of Greater Portland by Phyllis Reynolds

All the Man Booker Prize for Fiction Winners (a literary prize awarded each year since 1969 for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of either the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland.)

Year Author Country Title
1969 P. H. Newby United Kingdom Something to Answer For
1970 Bernice Rubens United Kingdom The Elected Member
1971 V. S. Naipaul Trinidad and Tobago/United Kingdom In a Free State
1972 John Berger United Kingdom G.
1973 J. G. Farrell United Kingdom The Siege of Krishnapur
1974 Nadine Gordimer
Stanley Middleton
South Africa
United Kingdom
The Conservationist
Holiday
1975 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala United Kingdom/Germany Heat and Dust
1976 David Storey United Kingdom Saville
1977 Paul Scott United Kingdom Staying On
1978 Iris Murdoch Ireland/United Kingdom The Sea, the Sea
1979 Penelope Fitzgerald United Kingdom Offshore
1980 William Golding United Kingdom Rites of Passage
1981 Salman Rushdie United Kingdom/India Midnight’s Children
1982 Thomas Keneally Australia Schindler’s Ark
1983 J. M. Coetzee South Africa/Australia Life & Times of Michael K
1984 Anita Brookner United Kingdom Hotel du Lac
1985 Keri Hulme New Zealand the bone people
1986 Kingsley Amis United Kingdom The Old Devils
1987 Penelope Lively United Kingdom Moon Tiger
1988 Peter Carey Australia Oscar and Lucinda
1989 Kazuo Ishiguro United Kingdom/Japan The Remains of the Day
1990 A. S. Byatt United Kingdom Possession: A Romance
1991 Ben Okri Nigeria The Famished Road
1992 Michael Ondaatje
Barry Unsworth
Sri Lanka/Canada
United Kingdom
The English Patient
Sacred Hunger
1993 Roddy Doyle Ireland Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
1994 James Kelman United Kingdom How Late It Was, How Late
1995 Pat Barker United Kingdom The Ghost Road
1996 Graham Swift United Kingdom Last Orders
1997 Arundhati Roy India The God of Small Things
1998 Ian McEwan United Kingdom Amsterdam
1999 J. M. Coetzee South Africa/Australia Disgrace
2000 Margaret Atwood Canada The Blind Assassin
2001 Peter Carey Australia True History of the Kelly Gang
2002 Yann Martel Canada Life of Pi
2003 DBC Pierre Australia/Mexico Vernon God Little
2004 Alan Hollinghurst United Kingdom The Line of Beauty
2005 John Banville Ireland The Sea
2006 Kiran Desai India The Inheritance of Loss
2007 Anne Enright Ireland The Gathering

Written by luminaria

July 15, 2008 at 11:40 am

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