Words Read

2012

• A Storm of Swords, George R.R. Martin
• A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire, M. Sukru Hanioglu
• The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
• Eaarth, Bill McKibben
• “The White Savior Industrial Complex”, by Teju Cole. The Atlantic, March 21, 2012.
• “I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave”, by Mac McClelland. Mother Jones, March/April 2012.
• “Dear Dr. Husák”, by Václev Havel. Encounter, September 1975.
• LaBrava, Elmore Leonard
• A Short History of Cahiers du Cinema, Emilie Bickerton
• The Corporation, Joel Bakan

2011

• “Breaking Up Is Good to Do”, by Parag Khanna. Foreign Policy, January 13, 2011.
• “The Brutal Truth about Tunisia”, by Robert Fisk. The Independent, January 17, 2011.
• “How novels came to terms with the internet”, by Laura Miller. The Guardian, January 15, 2011.
• Ulysses, James Joyce
• The New Bloomsday Book, Harry Blamires
• “Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail?”, by Matt Taibbi. Rolling Stone, March 3, 2011.
• The Intergalactic Vending Machine Franchise, Peter Glassborow
• The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein
• “Revolution Without Violence”, by Brian Urquhart. The New York Review of Books, March 10, 2011.
• “Sword or Samovar”, by Tom Parfitt. Foreign Policy, February-April 2011.
• The City and The City, China Mieville
  
• A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul
• “A Murder Foretold”, by David Grann. The New Yorker, April 4, 2011.
• Revolution 1989, Victor Sebestyen
• A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
• Waiting for the Barbarians, JM Coetzee
• The King of Oil, Daniel Ammann
• 1984, George Orwell
• Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
• “Autumn of the Empire”, by Joshua Clover. Los Angeles Review of Books, July 18, 2011.
• Ubik, Philip K. Dick
• High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
• A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya, Anna Politkovskaya
• A Clash of Kings, George R.R. Martin
• “The Quiet Coup”, by Simon Johnson. The Atlantic, May 2009.
• Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
• We the Animals, Justin Torres
• Wendy and the Lost Boys, Julie Salamon
• Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
• “The Book of Jobs”, by Joseph Stiglitz. Vanity Fair, January 2012.
• “Reality Effects”, by James Woods. The New Yorker, 19 December 2011.

2010

• Dune, Frank Herbert
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
• Foundation, Isaac Asimov
• The Leopard, Giuseppe di Lampedusa
• “Shanghai Dreams,” by Brook Larmer. National Geographic, March 2010.
• “Complexity and Collapse,” by Niall Ferguson. Foreign Affairs, March/April 2010.
• The Bourne Identity, Robert Ludlum
• We, Yevgeny Zamyatin
• The Big Short, Michael Lewis
• “The Geography of Chinese Power,” by Robert D. Kaplan. Foreign Affairs, May/June 2010.
• The Iguana, Anna Maria Ortese
• Captains Courageous, Rudyard Kipling
• “Why Robespierre Chose Terror,” by John Kekes. City Journal, Spring 2006.
• “Prisoners of the Caucasus,” by Charles King and Rajan Menon. Foreign Affairs, July/August 2010.
• A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin
• Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
• “Algeria ‘Revisited’: Imperialism, Resistance, and the Dialectic of Violence in Mohammed Dib’s The Savage Night,” by John W. Maerhofer. College Literature, Winter 2010.
• “Letting Go,” by Atul Gawande. The New Yorker, August 2, 2010.

This is a list of books I have read & articles I found interesting. For my poor memory.