The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It’s Too Late – Judith Enck, Adam Mahoney
If I owned a bookstore there would be a whole bookshelf simply labeled “Doomerism non-fiction”
The Giver – Lois Lowry
Another book that feels like a patient zero for a whole genre.
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone
An honest look at the lives of the homeless. A really important read.
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Kill Decision – Daniel Suarez
Suarez once again wrote a nice little thriller that makes us say “oh, shit this could happen…
A People’s History of American Empire: A Graphic Adaptation – Howard Zinn, Mike Konopacki, Paul Buhle
Howard Zinn’s work is for the most part not too well known. Hopefully it will work
Children of Ruin, Children of Memory – Adrian Tchaikovsky
I think I have seen this show before
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Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece – Michael Benson
A much more focused and specific biographical work.
Call of the Wild – Jack London
A book that was probably revolutionary when it came out. Felt old hat to me
Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction – Alec Nevala-Lee
Ever wanted to read something gossip-columny about sci-fi authors? Yea, me neither…
Hatchet – Gary Paulsen
A book designed to teach kids how to read and enjoy novels.
Failures in Polymathy 