Books to Read

Books to Read

  • Agee, James & Walker Evans. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.
  • Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women.
  • Ambrose, Stephen E. Crazy Horse & Custer.
  • Baker, Nicholson. Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper.
  • Beatty, Paul. The Sellout.
  • Beiser, Vince. The World in a Grain of Sand: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization.
  • Bilton, Nick. American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road.
  • Bolaño, Roberto. The Savage Detectives.
  • Bortolotti, Dan. Wild Blue.
  • Casey, Susan. Voices in the Ocean.
  • Covington, Dennis. Salvation on Sand Mountain.
  • Duane, Daniel. Caught Inside: A Surfer’s Year on the California Coast.
  • Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States.
  • Dylan, Bob. Chronicles.
  • Estabrook, Barry. Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit.
  • Freed, Dolly. Possum Living: How to Live Well Without a Job and with (Almost) No Money.
  • Fuentes, Carlos. The Death of Artemio Cruz.
  • George, Jean Craighead. My Side of the Mountain.
  • Greenberg, Paul. Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food.
  • Gregory, Lua & Shana Higgins (eds). Information Literacy and Social Justice: Radical Professional Praxis.
  • Hartranft, Chip. The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali: A New Translation with Commentary.
  • Hawley, Noah. A Conspiracy of Tall Men.
  • The Heart Sutra.
  • Heat-Moon, William Least. Blue Highways: A Journey into America.
  • Hemingway, Ernest. Islands in the Stream.
  • Herman, Edward S. & Noam Chomsky. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media.
  • Hunt, Samantha. The Seas.
  • Iselin, Josie. The Curious World of Seaweed.
  • James, Marlon. A Brief History of Seven Killings.
  • Jepsen, Tara. Like a Dog.
  • Kendrick, Tom. Bluewater Gold Rush.
  • Kew, Michael. Crossings: Selected Travel Writings.
  • Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior.
  • Klein, Naomi. No Logo.
  • Kushner, Rachel. The Mars Room.
  • Le Guin, Ursula K. The Left Hand of Darkness.
  • Lee, Min Jin. Pachinko.
  • Lewis, Alison M. Questioning Library Neutrality: Essays from Progressive Librarian.
  • London, Jack. The Cruise of the Snark.
  • McPhee, John. Assembling California.
  • Morrone, Melissa (ed.). Informed Agitation: Library and Information Skills in Social Justice Movements and Beyond.
  • Nathanson, Andrew, Clayton Everline, and Mark Renneker. Surf Survival: The Surfer’s Health Handbook.
  • Nestor, James. Deep.
  • Nichols, Tom. The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters.
  • Noble, Safiya Umoja. Algorithms of Oppression.
  • Nunn, Kem. The Dogs of Winter.
  • O’Connor, Cailin. The Misinformation Age: How False Ideas Spread.
  • Odell, Jenny. How to Do Nothing.
  • Polin, Michael. How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence.
  • Pomerantsev, Peter. This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality.
  • Powers, Richard. The Overstory.
  • Ram Dass. Be Here Now.
  • Ranganathan, S.R. The Five Laws of Library Science.
  • Ricketts, Ed. Between Pacific Tides.
  • Rose, Mike. The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker.
  • Rytkheu, Yuri. When the Whales Leave.
  • Samson, Max. Just Was: Also Words for my Tombstone.
  • Sanders, Ed. Tales of Beatnik Glory.
  • Satchidananda, Sri Swami. Living Gita: The Complete Bhagavad Gita.
  • Saulitis, Eva. Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss Among Vanishing Orcas.
  • Savoy, Lauret. Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape.
  • Slocum, Joshua. Sailing Alone Around the World. 
    Smith, Patti. Just Kids.
  • Sorensen, Steve. A Branch of the Sky: Fifty Years of Adventure, Tragedy, and Restoration in the Sierra Nevada.
  • Sorensen, Steve. Heap of Bones: A Baja Surfer’s Chronicle.
  • Starr, Kevin. California: A History.
  • Steinbeck & Ricketts. Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research. 
  • Stephenson, Wen. What We’re Fighting For Now is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice.
  • Turner, Fred. From Counterculture to Cyberculture : Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism.
  • Walker, Alice. The Color Purple.
  • Wallace, David Rains. Mountains and Marshes: Exploring the Bay Area’s Natural History.
  • White, Christopher. Skipjack.
  • Zinn, Howard. A People’s History of the United States.
  • Zuboff, Shoshana. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.