read all the books on my list

Okay, I’ve decided that I’m giving up trying to read all the things I think I have to read. Life is too short. Instead, I’ll just read what I want.

So, new list:

1. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
2. No god but God, Reza Aslan
3. Zeitoun, Dave Eggers
4. Acts of Faith, Eboo Patel
5. Innocent when You Dream: The Tom Waits Reader
6. Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, bell hooks
7. East of Eden, John Steinbeck

That’s the start of it anyway. I know there’s many more novels I want to add, but I can’t think of them right now. I also want to read more about writing and about human rights issues.

1.- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck-
2. A People’s History of the United States Howard Zinn
3. Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism Hernandez and Rehman
4. Bleak House Charles Dickens
5. My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro edited by Jeffrey Eugenides
6. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century Barbara W. Tuchman
7. The Second Sex Simone De Beauvoir
8. The Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio
9. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Marjane Satrapi
10. Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women Caroline Walker Bynum
11. The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
12. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald – I’ve actually read this when I was 16, but I want to reread it now that I actually know what it’s about.
13. The Jungle Upton Sinclair
14. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media Noam Chomsky
15. The Land Where the Blues Began Alan Lomax
16. Life is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally Patti Digh
17. The Devil in the White City Erik Larson
18. -In the Country of Men Hisham Matar-
19. Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson
20. The Culture of Defeat: On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery by Wolfgang Schivelbusch
21. Beloved by Toni Morrison
22. The Gangs of New York Herbert Asbury
23. The Color of Water James McBride
24. The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood Rashid Khalidi
25. The Diary of Anne Frank (I can’t believe I haven’t read this)

Now to actually read them…