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.
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)
- 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
- Joe Keenan - Blue Heaven
Comic Books / Graphic Novels
- Sam Sharpe - Viewotron #2
- 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 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
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
- Michael Kerrisk - The Linux Programming Interface
- Jens Gustedt - Modern C