18 Books I’ve Been Meaning To Read

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1. 1. Song of Solomon
      By Toni Morrison
   2. The Shadow of the Wind
      By Carlos Ruiz Zafon
      Illustrated by Jessica Hische
      Translated by Lucia Graves
   3. Don Quixote
      By Miguel de Cervantes
      Introduction by A. J. Close
      Translated by P. A. Motteux
   4. The Picture of Dorian Gray
      By Oscar Wilde
      Illustrated by Coralie Bickford-Smith
      Introduction by Robert Mighall
      Edited by Robert Mighall
   5. The Liars’ Club
      A Memoir
      By Mary Karr
   6. Moby-Dick
      or, The Whale
      By Herman Melville
      Introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick and Rockwell Kent
   7. Gravity’s Rainbow
      By Thomas Pynchon
      Illustrated by Frank Miller
   8. We That Are Young
      by Preti Taneja
   9. Half Gods
      by Akil Kumarasamy
   10. Bless Me, Ultima
       by Rudolfo Anaya
   11. Heart of Darkness
       by Joseph Conrad
   12. Gilead
       by Marilynne Robinson
   13. Doña Barbara
       by Rómulo Gallegos (Author), Larry McMurtry (Foreword), Robert Malloy (Translator)
   14. The Intuitionist
       by Colson Whitehead
   15. The Pilgrim’s Progress
       by John Bunyan (Author), Roger Pooley (Editor)
   16. Siddhartha
       by Hermann Hesse
   17. The Sirens of Titan
       by Kurt Vonnegut
   18. Their Eyes Were Watching God
       by Zora Neale Hurston

47 Nominees for alternative Nobel prize for literature: The New Academy Award

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1. Adichie Chimamanda Ngozi – Nigeria
2. Anyuru Johannes – Sweden
3. Atwood Margaret – Canada
4. Auster Paul – US
5. Avallone Silvia – Italy
6. Bouraoui Nina – France
7. Carson Anne – Canada
8. Condé Maryse – Guadeloupe
9. DeLillo Don – US
10. Edelfeldt Inger – Sweden
11. Ekman Kerstin – Sweden
12. Ferrante Elena – Italy
13. Gaiman Neil – Great Britain
14. Ganman Jens – Sweden
15. Hustvedt Siri – US
16. Jägerfeld Jenny – Sweden
17. Khemiri Jonas Hassen – Sweden
18. Kincaid Jamaica – US
19. Levithan David – US
20. Louis Édouard – France
21. Lundell Ulf – Sweden
22. Lövestam Sara – Sweden
23. McCarthy Cormac – US
24. McEwan Ian – Great Britain
25. Murakami Haruki – Japan
26. Oates Joyce Carol – US
27. Okorafor Nnedi – US
28. Oksanen Sofi – Finland
29. Oz Amos – Israel
30. Paborn Sara – Sweden
31. Pleijel Agneta – Sweden
32. Pynchon Thomas – US
33. Robinson Marilynne – US
34. Rosoff Meg – US
35. Rowling J.K. – Great Britain
36. Roy Arundhati – India
37. Schiefauer Jessica – Sweden
38. Smith Patti – US
39. Smith Zadie – Great Britain
40. Stamm Peter – Switzerland
41. Stefánsson Jón Kalman – Iceland
42. Stridsberg Sara – Sweden
43. Tartt Donna – US
44. Thúy Kim – Canada
45. Tokarczuk Olga – Poland
46. wa Thiong’o Ngugi – Kenya
47. Winterson Jeanette – UK

NYT 2016 Best Book Picks

Thanks: New York Times Book Review

1. The Association of Small Bombs, Karan Mahajan, fiction. Review here.
2. The North Water, Ian McGuire, fiction. Review here.
3. The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead, fiction. Review here.
4. The Vegetarian, Han Kang, fiction. Review here.
5. War and Turpentine, Stefan Hertmans, fiction. Review here.
6. At the Existentialist Cafe, Sarah Bakewell, nonfiction. Review here.
7. Dark Money: The Hidden History of Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, Jane Mayer, nonfiction. Review here.
8. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond, nonfiction. Review here.
9. In the Darkroom, Susan Faludi, nonfiction. Review here.
10. The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between, Hisham Matar, nonfiction. Review here

25 Literary Classics

1. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
2. The Invisible Man
3. Common Sense
4. Paradise Lost
5. Daisy Miller
6. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
7. A Tale of Two Cities
8. The Red Badge of Courage
9. Heart of Darkness
10. Up From Slavery
11. On Liberty
12. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
13. The Jungle
14. Anthem
15. The Republic
16. Great Expectations
17. The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
18. Pride and Prejudice
19. The Call of the Wild
20. Leaves of Grass
21. Moby Dick
22. The Last of the Mohicans
23. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade)
24. The Scarlet Letter
25. Wuthering Heights

6 Scary Book Selections to Read from Library for September 2015

1. Robert Spencer’s The Complete Infidel’s Guide to ISIS

2. The Demographic Cliff: How To Survive And Prosper During The Great Deflation Of 2014-2019

Chapter 1	The Demographic Cliff Around the World
Chapter 2	Following Japan into a Coma Economy
Chapter 3	Why Real Estate Will Never Be the Same
Chapter 4	A Look at Public and Private Debt
Chapter 5	A Brief History of Financial Bubbles
Chapter 6	Commodity Prices: The Achilles’ Heel of Emerging Countries
Chapter 7	Investment Strategies for the Financial Crisis Ahead
Chapter 8	Business Strategies for the Winter Season
Chapter 9	Government Strategies for Facilitating Free Markets
Epilogue:	A Major Revolution Brews Every 250 Years

3. Humans Are Underrated by Geoff Colvin

• The Cleveland Clinic, which emphasizes empathy training of doctors and all employees to improve patient outcomes and lower medical costs.
• The U.S. Army, which has revolutionized its training to focus on human interaction, leading to stronger teams and greater success in real-world missions.
• Stanford Business School, which has overhauled its curriculum to teach interpersonal skills through human-to-human experiences.

4. The State We’re In: Maine Stories by Ann Beattie

• NY Times
• SF Gate
• Boston Globe
• Vogue

5. A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design by Frank Wilczek: History of mathematics

• Guardian
• FT
• PBS Nova Next “How Physics Will Change—and Change the World—in 100 Years”
• Slate

6. Let’s Be Less Stupid: An Attempt to Maintain My Mental Faculties by Patricia Marx

 

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Some Vital Books from 2014

Source: What to Read Now — Some Vital Books from 2014 | The American Poetry Review

1. ]Exclosures[, Emily Abendroth, Ahsahta Press, 2014
2. Veiled Spill: A Sequence, Jan Clausen, GenPop Books 2014
3. Ecodeviance: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness, CA Conrad, Wave Books 2014
4. The Poem She Didn’t Write and Other Poems, Olena Kalytiak Davis, Copper Canyon 2014
5. Blood Lyrics, Katie Ford, Graywolf Press, 2014
6. In a Landscape, John Gallaher, BOA Editions, 2014
7. The Arrow, Lauren Ireland, Coconut Books, 2014
8. Patter, Douglas Kearney, Red Hen, 2014
9. Red Juice, Hoa Nguyen, Wave Books, 2014
10. Citizen: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine, Graywolf, 2014
11. The Pedestrians, Rachel Zucker, Wave Books, 2014

Also Mentioned

• You Animal Machine: The Golden Greek, Eleni Sikelianos, Coffee House Press, 2014
• Gephryomania, TC Tolbert, Ahsahta, 2014
• MOTHERs, Rachel Zucker, Counterpath Press, 2014

National Book Critics Circle Finalists – 2014

Source: National Book Critics Circle: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCES FINALISTS; Sandrof Award to Toni Morrison – Critical Mass Blog

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

1. Blake Bailey, The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait (W.W. Norton & Co.)
2. Roz Chast, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (Bloomsbury)
3. Lacy M. Johnson, The Other Side (Tin House)
4. Gary Shteyngart, Little Failure (Random House)
5. Meline Toumani, There Was and There Was Not (Metropolitan Books)

 

BIOGRAPHY

1. Ezra Greenspan, William Wells Brown: An African American Life (W.W. Norton & Co.)
2. S.C. Gwynne, Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson (Scribner)
3. John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh (W.W. Norton & Co.)
4. Ian S. MacNiven, “Literchoor Is My Beat”: A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
5. Miriam Pawel, The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography (Bloomsbury)

 

CRITICISM

1. Eula Biss, On Immunity: An Innoculation (Graywolf Press)
2. Vikram Chandra, Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty (Graywolf Press)
3. Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press)
4. Lynne Tillman, What Would Lynne Tillman Do? (Red Lemonade)
5. Ellen Willis, The Essential Ellen Willis, edited by Nona Willis Aronowitz (University of Minnesota Press)

 

FICTION

1. Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman (Grove Press)
2. Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings (Riverhead Books)
3. Lily King, Euphoria (Atlantic Monthly Press)
4. Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea (Riverhead Books)
5. Marilynne Robinson, Lila (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

 

GENERAL NONFICTION

1. David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation (Alfred A. Knopf)
2. Peter Finn and Petra Couvee, The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book (Pantheon)
3. Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Henry Holt & Co.)
4. Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer (Belknap Press/Harvard University Press)
5. Hector Tobar, Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle that Set Them Free (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

POETRY

1. Saeed Jones, Prelude to Bruise (Coffee House Press)
2. Willie Perdomo, The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon (Penguin Books)
3. Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press)
4. Christian Wiman, Once in the West (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
5. Jake Adam York, Abide (Southern Illinois University Press)

 

NONA BALAKIAN CITATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN REVIEWING: Alexandra Schwartz

JOHN LEONARD PRIZE: Phil Klay, Redeployment (Penguin Press)

 

2014 Lannan Literary Awards and Fellowships: Author Recognitions by NYRB

Source: Literary Awards by Year – Lannan Foundation

1. Steve Erickson, 2014, Award, Lifetime
2. Mitchell S. Jackson, 2014, Fellowship, Fiction
3. Adrian Matejka, 2014, Fellowship, Poetry
4. Jamaal May, 2014, Fellowship, Poetry
5. Jill McDonough, 2014, Fellowship, Poetry
6. Claudia Rankine, 2014, Award, Poetry
7. Joseph Stroud, 2014, Award, Lifetime

Cultural Freedom awards and fellowships

• Bryan Stevenson, Cultural Freedom Prize
• Max Blumenthal awarded 2014 Cultural Freedom Award for An Especially Notable Book
• Dave Zirin awarded 2014 Cultural Freedom Fellowship
• Alexis Bonogofsky awarded 2014 Cultural Freedom Fellowship