read all the books on my reading list

My mom gave me this list of books off of the internet a long time ago: http://www.actoneprogram.com/100MostInfluentialNovels.htm

And I’ve wanted to read them all, but I forgot all about it. So I’ve decided to start up again. So far I’ve gotten through 25. It’s really nice cause a lot of these books I’ve had to read for my classes. The next one I’m going to read is Paradise Lost.

Nonfiction Theory Reading List

- Sontag – regarding the pain of others

- Heidegger – Being and Time
- something by Kant (even an intro)

- Materialism of Culture – Raymond Willians – partially read
- Butler – Psychic Life of Power, Precarious Life, Frames of War, Who Sings the Nation-State?
- Return of the Political – reread
- Foucault
—- Beginning of Biopower
—- Security Territory Population
—- last chapter of Society Must Be Defended
- Derrida – Writing and Difference
- Derrida – Spectres of Marx
- Two Zizek books (Sublime Object of Ideology / Looking Awry) – something where you understand real/symbolic/imaginary

- Totality and Infinity / Of Hospitality once again
- Concept of the Political
- Walter Benjamin – Illuminations and the other selected writings
- Metapolitics – Alain Badiou
- Hannah Arendt – On Violence, Promise of Politics, Responsibility & Judgement
- Visual Culture Reader
- Cultural Studies Reader
- Agamben – Homo Sacer

- Chow – The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism
- Chow – Age of the World Target
- Marx – revisit “selected writings”
- Wendy Brown – States of Injury and perhaps newer works
- First Wave of Critical Legal Studies
- Sedgewick – Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity
- Elisabeth Ellsworth – Teaching Positions: Difference, Pedagogy, and the Power of Address; Places of Learning: Media, Architecture, Pedagogy

Science

Scientific Literacy book

Anarchist/Political

The Conquest of Bread – Peter Kropotkin
People’s History of the World – Chris Harman

Fiction Reading List

The broom of the system – David Foster Wallace
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer
Ladies and Gentlemen the Bible! – Jonathan Goldstein- done

Eragon is done, Five plus one left.

I purchased a few books all at once. I did this partly because I had to purchase the one trilogy as a set, and partly because the others were on sale and I am a sucker for a bargain, so I would like to read all of them and not procrastenate, like I am doing since I am still on book one. The books I have are Eragon (currently reading), Eldest, The Whitby trilogy and the boy in the striped pyjamas. And there is the self help book a friend leant me, If I am so wonderful why am I still single? So I really want to read all of those

Book list:
1. Cormac McCarthy: “The Road”
2. Ernest Hemingway “The Sun Also Rises”
3. Haruki Murakami “Kafka on the Shore”
4. Eric Weiner “Geography of Bliss”
5. Richard Florida “The Rise of the Creative Class” (in progress)
6. Paul Bowles “Sheltering Sky”
7. Henry Miller “Tropic of Cancer”
9. Jhumpa Lahiri “The Namesake”
10.Jhumpa Lahiri “Interpreter of Maladies”
11. Junot Diaz “The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao” (read)
12. Jesse Ball “Samedi the Deafness”
13. Ishmael Beah “A Long Way Gone” (read)
14. Anonymous “Diary of an Oxygen Thief”
15. Don Delillo “Falling Man”
16. Salaman Rushdie “The Satanic Verses”
17. Phillip Roth “American Pastoral”
18. Mark Haddon “Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”
19. Martin Amis “Einstein’s Monsters”
20. Mario Livio “The Golden Ratio”
21. Jean-Paul Sartre “Nausea”
22. Thomas Pynchon “The Crying of Lot 49”
23. Phillip K. Dick “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”
24. Aldous Huxley “Brave New World”
25. Jeffrey Eugenides “Middlesex”
26. Kiran Desai “Inheritance of Loss”
27. Orhan Pamuk “Snow”
28. Ayn Rand “Atlas Shrugged”
29. James Joyce “A Portrait of the Artist as Young Man”
30. Robert Pirsig “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”
31. Jonathan Lethem “Motherless Brooklyn”
32. Jose Saramago “Blindness”
33. Kazuo Ishiguro “Never Let Me Go”
34. Nick Hornby “High Fidelity”
35. Denis Johnson “Jesus’ Son”
36. Richard Florida “Who’s Your City?”
37. Daniel Pink “A Whole New Mind”

I don’t get around to it enough! I’m currently reading Secret History, the Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, Infinite Jest, and two 33 1/3 books.

I did read most of them, last year, but there were some I just didn’t want to finish or didn’t have time to read. This year I have been doing really well but I don’t think I need to keep this as a goal anymore.

Right now there are 245 books on my list and I’ve read 101 of them. It seems I’ve added more books to the list then I’ve read. A wonderful thing for my progress on completing the goal ;)

Hmm…realistic and depressing play about a household of people and their lives over several years as they become two households and lose and gain members.

I read this long poem of several parts and I wasn’t too impressed, I didn’t have any immediate thoughts upon it. I think I’ll have to Google it before the lecture so that I can get some ideas on it to think about.