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.