Community Reading List: 2018 Complete List

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Life in North Korea by Barbara Demick

Life the Movie by Neal Gabler

Industrial Society and its Future / The Unabomber Manifesto by Theodore John Kaczynski

Saturday by Ian McEwan

Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country - a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the ideas she famously champions, Hochschild nevertheless finds common ground and quickly warms to the people she meets, people whose concerns are actually ones that all Americans share: the desire for community, the embrace of family, and hopes for their children.

Anger and Forgiveness by Martha C. Nussbaum

Radical Technologies by Adam Greenfield

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond Based on years of embedded fieldwork and painstakingly gathered data, this masterful book transforms our understanding of extreme poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving a devastating, uniquely American problem. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible.

How Everything Became War by Rosa Brooks

Barkskins by Annie Proulx

The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy A story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the "Love Laws" prevalent in 1960s Kerala, India.

My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent

La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman

The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar

The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

Transgender History by Susan Stryker

Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel

The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald; Michael Hulse (Translator)

Orientalism by Edward W. Said Orientalism is a 1978 book by Edward W. Said, in which the author discusses Orientalism, defined as the West's patronizing representations of "The East"—the societies and peoples who inhabit the places of Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East.

Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud Too: the Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman by Anne Helen Petersen

News of the World by Paulette Jiles

All That Man Is by David Szalay

Sharp Stars by Sharon Bryan

Magdalene by Marie Howe

Afterland by Mai Der Vang

The Eternonaut by Héctor Germán Oesterheld; Francisco Solano Lopez

Violet Energy Ingots by Hoa Nguyen

Desire/Love by Lauren Berlant

The Wages of Whiteness by David R. Roediger; Kathleen Cleaver (Introduction by); Michael Sprinker (Contribution by); Mike Davis (Contribution by)

Tropic of Chaos by Christian Parenti

The Art of Rivalry by Sebastian Smee

Tender Buttons by Seth Perlow (Editor); Juliana Spahr (Afterword by); Gertrude Stein

Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable by Samuel Beckett

Symmetry by Marcus Du Sautoy

Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck; Susan Bernofsky

House of Names by Colm Tóibín

Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson; Linda Lear (Introduction by); Edward O. Wilson (Afterword by)

Swimming Studies by Leanne Shapton

All We Know by Lisa Cohen

Love and Summer by William Trevor

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

Iphigenia in Forest Hills by Janet Malcolm

Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar

There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé by Morgan Parker

Hard Child by Natalie Shapero

Semiautomatic by Evie Shockley

The Trouble with Reality by Brooke Gladstone

Broadcasting Freedom by Barbara Dianne Savage

Beyond Objecthood by James Timothy Voorhies

Elaine Lustig Cohen by Aaris Sherin; Elaine Lustig Cohen

The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Dexterity by Douglas Bauer

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque; Arthur Wesley Wheen (Translator)