Reading Together 2005-06
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Reading Together - Reading List

Many people have taken the time and thought to suggest possible Reading Together books. Following is a list of books suggested for the 2005-06 RT book selection.

Fatima Mernissi: Dreams of Trespass

Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things along with a selection of her essays, interviews, and lectures: Public Power in the Age of Empire

Gary Snyder: The Practice of the Wild

Louise Clifton: Mercy and Blessing the Boats

Charlotte and Harriet Childress: Clueless At The Top

James Welch: The Heartsong of Charging Elk

Haisla author Eden Robinson: Monkey Beach

Chanrithy Him (Eugene resident): When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khymer Rouge

Terry Tempest Williams: The Open Space of Democracy and Refuge

Jared Diamond: Guns Germs and Steel and Collapse

Anne Fadiman: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Max Depree : Leadership is an Art

Komives, Lucas and McMahon: Exploring Leadership

Paul Hawken: The Ecology of Commerce

Amory Lovins: Soft Energy Paths

Julia Alvarez: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent

Louise Erdrich: Tracks

Colum McCann: This Side of Brightness

Glazer, Nathan: We Are All Multiculturalists Now

Kennedy, Randall: Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption

Wilson, William Julius: The Bridge Over the Racial Divide

Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac

Roszak and Kanner: Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind (editors/anthology)

Winter and Koger: The Psychology of Environmental Problems

Howard Zinn: Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor’s Last Century

Octavia Butler: The Parable of the Sowers

books by Paule Marshall

Tracy Monk Kidd: The Secret Life of Bees

Eric Schlosser: Fast Food Nation

Barbara Kingsolver : Animal Dreams

Julie Anne Peters: Luna

edited by Mattilda, aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore: That's Revolting