Reading Lists

This used to be a what I’m reading now list. Now, it’s a list of books I’ve enjoyed and would like to recommend by subject.

Updated now & forever.

Literature

Fiction

• Italo Calvino - If on a Winter’s Night A Traveler
• Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote (the 2003 translation by Edith Grossman is lots of fun)
• Thomas More - Utopia
• Ray Bradbury - R is for Rocket
• Voltaire - Candide
• Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha
• Umberto Eco - Foucault’s Pendulum
• Astrid Lindgren - Pippi Longstocking, Pippi Goes on Board, Pippi in the South Seas
• Mary Ann Evans - Middlemarch

Comic Books / Graphic Novels

• John Pound - Ran Dum
• Alex Robinson - Box Office Poison
• Alex Robinson - Tricked

Philosophy / Mythology / Critical Theory

• R. K. Narayan - The Ramayana
• J. A. B. Van Buitenen - The Mahabharata, Volume 1
• Richard Harland - Superstructuralism
• Peter Kropotkin - The Conquest of Bread
• Robert A. F. Thurman - The Holy Teaching of Vimalakīrti
• Michel Foucault - The History of Sexuality, Volume 1
• Harischandra Kaviratna - Dhammapada
• Si Kahn - How People Get Power: Organizing Oppressed Communities for Action
• David Ogilvy - Confessions of an Advertising Man
• Sigmund Freud - The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious
• Robert Paul Wolff - In Defense of Anarchism
• Frederic Jameson - Postmodernism or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

History

• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
• Howard Zinn - A People’s History of the United States

Biography / Travelogue / Personal Essays

• Tim Mackintosh-Smith - Yemen
• David Revill - The Roaring Silence

Music

Music History / Theory / Practice

• James Tenney - META / HODOS and META Meta / Hodos
• Curtis Roads - Composers and the Computer
• Annette Vande Gorne - Treatise on Writing Acousmatic Music on Fixed Media

Technical

Computer Music / DSP / Math / Physics / Electronics

• Edward R. Scheinerman - Mathematical Notation - A Guide for Engineers and Scientists
• Hermann Helmholtz - On the Sensations of Tone

Programming / Computer Science

• Jens Gustedt - Modern C