So let's dive in, and please share you Summer Reading Program down in the comments. I'm always looking for more things to add to my list.
Books I've finished in recent months
- Smith of Wootton Major and Farmer Giles of Ham, by J.R.R. Tolkien
- From Bauhaus to Our House, by Tom Wolfe
- Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb, by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm
- Turning Japanese, by MariNaomi
- Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath, by Ted Koppel
- A Hundred Thousand Worlds, by Bob Proehl
- Making Hay, by Verlyn Klinkenborg
Currently reading
- Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation, by Edward Humes
- Restless Nights: Selected Stories, by Dino Buzzati, Lawrence Venuti (translator)
- The Avengers Omnibus, Vol. 1, by Stan Lee (writer), Jack Kirby (artist), Don Heck (artist), et al. [finally finishing this behemoth after many months]
- ongoing Secret Empire comics series by Nick Spencer
Just checked out from library
- Laika, by Nick Abadzis
- Last Harvest, by Witold Rybczynski
Enthusiastic about reading in coming months
- My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, by Emil Ferris
- Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann
- Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of Twenty Lost Buildings from the Tower of Babel to the Twin Towers, by James Crawford
- One for the Books, by Joe Queenan
- Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest, by Zeynep Tufekci
- Henchgirl, by Kristen Gudsnuk
- Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul, by Clara Bingham
- The Gallows Pole, by Benjamin Myers
- Mail-Order Mysteries: Real Stuff from Old Comic Book Ads, by Kirk Demarais
- and so many others...
A few links to articles and essays to read
on your lunch hour or during the weekend
- The New York Times: "The Car Was Repossessed, but the Debt Remains" by Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Michael Corkery
- USA Today: "Rigged: How trucking companies forced drivers into debt, worked them past exhaustion and left them destitute" by Brett Murphy
- The Washington Post: "No one lives on this remote Pacific island — but it’s covered in 38 million pieces of our trash" by Amy B. Wang
- Mother Jones: "The Truth About Meal-Kit Freezer Packs: They're big. They're filled with goo. And they're rapidly accumulating in a landfill near you," by Kiera Butler
- My Inside Voices: "On big sorrows and golden skies: Reflecting on the killing of Nabra Hassanen" by Susan Jennings
- Politico: "The lost genius of the Post Office" by Kevin Kosar
And if you just need a good laugh
- Esquire: "Finding Meaning in The Book of Henry, the Best Worst Movie of the Year" by Dave Holmes
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