After some thinking and reading over blogs I love I decided to post my "to read" list that is becoming quite extensive.
Factory Girls
From Village to City in a Changing China
Leslie T. Chang
Letter to My Daughter
Maya Angelou
The Superorganism
The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies
Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson
Paradise; Beloved; A Mercy; Jazz
Toni Morrison
Sea of Poppies
Amitav Ghosh
Ecotopia
Ernest Callenbach
Unaccustomed Earth
Jhumpa Lahiri
2666
Roberto Bolano, translated by Natasha Wimmer
The Jewel of Medina
Sherry Jones
Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert
Hope’s Edge
The Next Diet for a Small Planet
Anna Lappe and Frances Moore Lappe
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Barbara Kingsolver
Orlando
Virginia Wolf
Poetry of Seamus Heaney
Zodiac
Neal Stephenson
Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor
Leonard Boff
How much should a person consume?
Ramachandra Guha
Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival
Dan Jaffe
Unbowed
Wangari Maathi
Shakti: Realm of the Divine Mother
Vanamali
Girls In Trucks
Katie Crouch
What You Call Winter
Nalini Jones
Identity Work in Social Movements
Eds: Jo Reger, Daniel J. Myers, and Rachel L. Einwohner
The Politics of Identity
Solidary Building among America’s Working Poor
Erin E. O’Brien
Sciences from Below
Feminisms, Poscolonialities, and Modernities
Sandra Harding
Women in American Journalism
A New History
Jan Whitt
Digital Media and Democracy
Tactics in Hard Times
Ed. Megan Boler
Tactical Biopolitics
Art, Activism, and Technoscience
Ed. Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip
The Wisdom of Whores
Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS
Elizabeth Pisani
Make A Zine!
When Words and Graphics Collide
Bill Brent and Joe Biel
Outliers
The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell
Bag Bazaar
25 Stylish Bags to Sew in an Afternoon
Megan Avery
The Aftermath of Feminism
Gender, Culture, and Social Change
Angela McRobbie
Taking Back God
American women rising up for religious equality
Leora Tanenbaum
Do you have any other recommendations? Please tell me and I'll add them to my list! You can also email me at liz.martin0518(at)gmail(dot)com.
