Vigil – George Saunders
I don’t know who should be more ashamed of this book, Saunders, his editors, the publishing company, or anyone who complimented it.
Inventing The Renaissance – Ada Palmer
When we think of history, is what appears in our heads just a cospaly of modern times?
The Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett
A very popular novel about the building of a cathedral. Except its not about the building of a cathedral
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.
