Books to Read
- Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women.
- Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States.
- Fuentes, Carlos. The Death of Artemio Cruz.
- Herman, Edward S. & Noam Chomsky. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media.
- Kushner, Rachel. The Mars Room.
- Lee, Min Jin. Pachinko.
- McPhee, John. Assembling California.
- 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.
- Smith, Patti. Just Kids.
- Steinbeck, John. In Dubious Battle.
- Stephenson, Wen. What We’re Fighting For Now is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice.
- Walker, Alice. The Color Purple.
- Zinn, Howard. A People’s History of the United States.
The Backlog: Books I Need to Finish
- Brown, Daniel James. Boys in the Boat.
- Drew, Ronnie. Ronnie.
- Gooley, Tristan. How to Read Water.
- Le Guin, Ursala K. The Dispossessed.
- Talbot, David. Season of the Witch.
- Taylor, Roger C. The Elements of Seamanship.
- White, Jonathan. Tides.
Books to Acquire (not available at Green Apple Books)
- Iselin, Josie. An Ocean Garden: The Secret Life of Seaweed.
- Schwarz, Charles. The Anarchist’s Design Book: Expanded Edition.
The Old Books to Read List (pre-7/23/2019)
- Agee, James & Walker Evans. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.
- 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.
- Bortolotti, Dan. Wild Blue.
- Casey, Susan. Voices in the Ocean.
- Covington, Dennis. Salvation on Sand Mountain.
- Dylan, Bob. Chronicles.
- Estabrook, Barry. Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit.
- Greenberg, Paul. Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food.
- Gregory, Lua & Shana Higgins eds). Information Literacy and Social Justice: Radical Professional Praxis.
- Hawley, Noah. A Conspiracy of Tall Men.
- James, Marlon. A Brief History of Seven Killings.
- Jepsen, Tara. Like a Dog.
- Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior.
- Klein, Naomi. No Logo.
- Le Guin, Ursula K. The Left Hand of Darkness.
- Lewis, Alison M. Questioning Library Neutrality: Essays from Progressive Librarian.
- London, Jack. The Cruise of the Snark.
- 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.
- Noble, Safiya Umoja. Algorithms of Oppression.
- O’Connor, Cailin. The Misinformation Age: How False Ideas Spread.
- 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.
- Sanders, Ed. Tales of Beatnik Glory.
- Saulitis, Eva. Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss Among Vanishing Orcas.
- Savoy, Lauret. Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape.
- Steinbeck & Ricketts. Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research.
- Turner, Fred. From Counterculture to Cyberculture : Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism.
- Wallace, David Rains. Mountains and Marshes: Exploring the Bay Area’s Natural History.
- White, Christopher. Skipjack.
- Zuboff, Shoshana. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.