Not About The Buildings
Summer Reading
Ahh, summer reading. Whether it's by the beach, on an airplane, or in a cozy library, summer's the one time of year when everyone finally gets around to reading books for fun.
But what to read? We asked around for people to give us lists of books that they planned to pick up this summer, and also wanted to know what books they'd recommend to other people. Here are the lists we got. There's pretty much something here for everyone, from architecture to music history to detective novels, so feel free to use these recommendations next time you head to the library.
Danielle Blasczak plans to read:
Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Fran Liebowitz, Metropolitan Life
Jean Nathan, The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright
Simon Doonan, Nasty
Jean Cozzens suggests:
Hayao Miyazaki, Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
Ursula K Leguin, The Dispossessed
Robin Evans, Translations From Drawing to Building
Dr. Bernie Zilbergeld, PhD, Male Sexuality
Ann Cline, A Hut of One's Own: Life Outside the Circle of Architecture
Michel Houllebecq, Platform
Deb Dormody will be reading:
Keith Smith, Non-Adhesive Bindings Vol. 3: Exposed Spine Sewings
Elizabeth Smart, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
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Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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Wesli Dymoke plans to read:
Mark Saltzberg, Lying Awake
Lynda Barry, The Good Times Are Killing Me
Vikram Seth, The Golden Gate
William Katzwinkle, The Fan Man
Haruki Murikami, Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Shea'la Finch recommends:
Colette, The Ripening Seed
Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Roald Dahl, The Fantastic Mr Fox
Italo Calvino, if on a winter's night a traveler
Tove Jansson, Moominsummer Madness
Mckenzie Gould's list includes:
Douglas J Preston and Lincoln Child, Relic
Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma
Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Stephen King, ed., The Best American Short Stories 2007
Ghislaine Jean recommends:
John Crowley, Little Big
Octavia Butler, Clay's Ark
Joanna's list includes:
Marie Redonnet, Nevermore
Barbara Comyns, Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
Lynda Davis, The End of the Story
Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales
Dodie Bellamy, The Letters of Mina Harker
Alice Kellogg's list features:
Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities: Children In America's Schools
Shelby Steele, White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era
Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan
Tony Horwitz, Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
Lawrence Ritter, The Glory of Their Times: The Sotry of Baseball Told By The Men Who Played It
Jessica Kowal's list includes:
Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
CS Lewis, The Four Loves
Daniel J Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music
The Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
Matthew Lawrence plans to read:
Henning Mankell, The Dogs of Riga
Marion Nestle, What We Eat
Alan Bissett, The Incredible Adam Spark
Michelle Tea, ed., It's So You: 35 Women Write About Personal Expression Through Fashion & Style
Rachel Cohn, You Know Where To Find Me
Art Middleton's Fantastic Summer Magic Reading List includes:
John Crowley, Little Big
Octavia Butler, Clay's Ark
Samuel Delaney, Fall of the Towers
Kelly Link, Magic For Beginners
Jeanette Winterson, The Stone Gods
Alan Deniro, Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead
David Ohle, Motorman
Angela Carter, Burning Your Boats
Eli Milholland's list features:
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus
Brian Massumi, Users' Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Manuel De Landa, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History
Ilya Prigogine, Order Out of Chaos
John Mullarkey, Post Continental Philosophy
Jessica Murgo recommends:
Annie Dillard, Teaching A Stone To Talk
Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic
Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
AA Milne, The World of Christopher Robin: The Complete When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six
Maureen Reddy, Spelling Bee Champion, plans to read:
Patrick McCabe, Winterwood
Marcia Muller, The Ever Running Man
Janet Evanovich, Fearless Fourteen
David Sedaris, When You are Engulfed in Flames
Thomas Glave, ed., Our Caribbean: A Collection of Lesbian and Gay Writing
from the Antilles
Cynthia Reed recommends:
Donna Tartt, The Secret History
John Irving, The World According to Garp
Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven
Tim McCarney and Tom Deady, Surviving Grady: A Journal of Unhealthy Red Sox Obsession During the Greatest Season Ever
Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Ethan Robinson plans to read:
John Brunner, The Sheep Look Up
Patricia Campbell Hearst, Every Secret Thing
Clifford D. Simak, All Flesh Is Grass
Joanna Russ, We Who Are About To...
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (eek!)
and Ethan thinks that everyone else should read:
Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island
Georges Simenon, The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine
Ray Vukcevich, Meet Me in the Moon Room
Jo Walton, Farthing
Susan Schlesinger suggests:
Martin Miller, Lonely Werewolf Girl
Brock Clarke, AAn Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
Steven Hall, The Raw Shark Texts
Christopher Moore, You Suck: a Love Story
Sebastian Horsley, Dandy in the Underworld
Eric Simmons
recommends
his own novel, Days of the Meek
Julie Simpson plans to read:
Dave Eggers, What Is The What
Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Louside Erdrich, The Plague of Doves
Richard Russo, The Bridge of Sighs
Lorraine Adams, Harbor
Rachel Smith suggests:
Fenton Johnson, Geography of the Heart
Larissa Zuhoski recommends:
Marie C Wilson, If Women Ruled The World
Parker Palmer, The Active Life
Maria Shriver, Just Who Will You Be?
Georgene Lockwood, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Simple Living
Brian Coleman, Check The Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies
and finally, one anonymous reader's list features:
James Baldwin, Just Above My Head
Julia Serrano, Whipping Girl