Read Ahead
Fiction
[In Reverse Chronological Order]:
Charles Yu – Interior Chinatown
Madeline Miller – Circe
Andrew Sean Greer – Less
Colson Whitehead – The Underground Railroad
Harper Lee – Go Set a Watchman
Viet Thanh Nguyen – The Sympathizer
Phil Klay – Redeployment
Jason Mott – The Returned
Salman Rushdie – Joseph Anton: A Memoir
Gillian Flynn – Gone Girl
Stephen King – 11/22/63
Jess Walter – The Financial Lives of the Poets
John Updike – Terrorist
Jeff Lindsay – Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Jen Banbury – Like a Hole in the Head
Norman Mailer – The Gospel According to the Son
Ethan Hawke – The Hottest State
Mona Simpson – A Regular Guy
David Foster Wallace – Infinite Jest
John Updike – Rabbit at Rest
Salman Rushdie – The Satanic Verses
Toni Morrison – Beloved
Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale
Bret Easton Ellis – Less Than Zero
John Updike – Rabbit Is Rich
Norman Mailer – The Executioner’s Song
Stephen King – The Shining
John Updike – Rabbit Redux
Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse-Five
Norman Mailer – An American Dream
Jack Kerouac – Big Sur
Philip K. Dick – The Man in the High Castle
John Updike – Rabbit, Run
Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
Jack Kerouac – On the Road
James Baldwin – Go Tell It on the Mountain
J. D. Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye
Ernest Hemingway – For Whom the Bell Tolls
James Joyce – Finnegans Wake
John Steinbeck – The Grapes of Wrath
J. R. R. Tolkien – The Hobbit
Ernest Hemingway – A Farewell to Arms
Virginia Woolf – To the Lighthouse
Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises
F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
James Joyce – Ulysses
James Joyce – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
D.H. Lawrence – The Rainbow
Arthur Conan Doyle – The Hound of the Baskervilles
Joseph Conrad – Lord Jim
Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mark Twain – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace
Louisa May Alcott – Little Women
Fyodor Dostoyevsky – Crime and Punishment
Charles Dickens – Great Expectations
Charles Dickens – A Tale of Two Cities
Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels
John Bunyan – The Pilgrim’s Progress
Non-Fiction
[In Reverse Chronological Order]:
Barack Obama – A Promised Land
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio – The Undocumented Americans
Edward Snowden – Permanent Record
Michelle Obama – Becoming
Bob Woodward – Fear: Trump in the White House
Ta-Nehisi Coates – We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
Bernie Sanders – Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution
Neil deGrasse Tyson – Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Timothy Snyder – On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Michael Eric Dyson – Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White People
Bernie Sanders – Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In
J. D. Vance – Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Alice Y. Walker – Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, & the Foundations of a Movement
Gloria Steinem – My Life on the Road
Bernie Sanders- Outsider in the White House
Ta-Nehisi Coates – Between the World and Me
David McCullough – The Wright Brothers
David Axelrod – Believer: My Forty Years in Politics
Bryan Stevenson – Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Suki Kim – Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea’s Elite
Naomi Klein – This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Hillary Clinton – Hard Choices: A Memoir
Elizabeth Warren – A Fighting Chance
Michael Lewis – Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
Doris Kearns Goodwin – The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt and the Golden Age of Journalism
Malala Yousafzai – I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Malcolm Gladwell – David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
Reza Aslan – Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Ray Kurzweil – How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
Nate Silver – The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – but Some Don’t
Rachel Maddow – Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
Jon Ronson – The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
Bill Clinton – Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy
Walter Issacson – Steve Jobs
Philip Dray – There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America
Michelle Alexander – The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Bill Simmons – The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy
Edward M. Kennedy – True Compass: A Memoir
Fareed Zakaria – The Post-American World
Thomas L. Friedman – Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America
David Plouffe – The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama’s Historic Victory
Malcolm Gladwell – Outliers: The Story of Success
Scott McClellan – What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception
Naomi Klein – The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Barack Obama – The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Doris Kearns Goodwin – Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Ray Kurzweil – The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
Marcus J. Borg – The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith
Hillary Clinton – Living History
John Feinstein – The Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever
John Wooden – They Call Me Coach
Alan Dershowitz – Supreme Injustice: How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000
William Shaw – Westside: Young Men and Hip Hop in L.A.
Jennifer Harbury – Bridge of Courage: Life Stories of the Guatemalan CompaƱeros and CompaƱeras
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. – A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
Barack Obama – Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Joyce Johnson – Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
Howard Zinn – A People’s History of the United States
Eduardo Galleano – Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Saul D. Alinsky – Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals
Abbie Hoffman – Steal This Book
Alex Haley & Malcolm X – The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Martin Luther King, Jr. – Why We Can’t Wait
Frederick Douglass – Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Thomas Jefferson – Notes on the State of Virginia
Poetry
[In Reverse Chronological Order]:
Kevin Coval – A People’s History of Chicago
Tyehimba Jess – Olio
Tony Hoagland – Application for Release from the Dream
Amy Gerstler – Scattered at Sea
Peter Balakian – Ozone Journal
James Franco – Directing Herbert White: Poems
Rae Armantrout – Money Shot
Charles Bukowski – The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems
Saul Williams – Said the Shotgun to the Head
Frank Marshall Davis – Black Moods: Collected Poems
Tupac Shakur – The Rose that Grew from Concrete
Donald Hall – Without: Poems
Maya Angelou – And Still I Rise
Jack Kerouac – Heaven and Other Poems
Seamus Heaney – North
Shel Silverstein – Where the Sidewalk Ends
Maya Angelou – Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘fore I Diiie
Gary Snyder – The Back Country
Sylvia Plath – The Colossus and Other Poems
Allen Ginsberg – Howl and Other Poems
T.S. Eliot – Four Quartets
Fernando Pessoa – Poesia Inglesa (1)
Ezra Pound – Personae
Alfred Tennyson – Idylls of the King
Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass
Edgar Allan Poe – The Raven
George Gordon Byron – Don Juan
William Blake – Songs of Innocence and Experience
Phillis Wheatley – Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
John Milton – Paradise Lost
William Shakespeare – Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Homer – The Odyssey
Homer – The Iliad