Reading Lists

This used to be a what I’m reading now list. Now, it’s a list of books

I’ve enjoyed and would like to recommend by subject.

Updated now & forever.

Literature

Fiction

Italo Calvino - If on a Winter’s Night A Traveler

Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote (the 2003 translation by Edith

Grossman is lots of fun)

Voltaire - Candide

Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha

Umberto Eco - Foucault’s Pendulum

Astrid Lindgren - Pippi Longstocking, Pippi Goes on Board, Pippi in

the South Seas

Mary Ann Evans - Middlemarch

Comic Books / Graphic Novels

Sam Sharpe - Viewotron #2

John Pound - Ran Dum

Alex Robinson - Box Office Poison

Alex Robinson - Tricked

Philosophy / Mythology / Critical Theory

R. K. Narayan - The Ramayana

J. A. B. Van Buitenen - The Mahabharata, Volume 1

Richard Harland - Superstructuralism

Peter Kropotkin - The Conquest of Bread

Robert A. F. Thurman - The Holy Teaching of Vimalakīrti

Michel Foucault - The History of Sexuality, Volume 1

Harischandra Kaviratna - Dhammapada

Si Kahn - How People Get Power: Organizing Oppressed Communities for

Action

David Ogilvy - Confessions of an Advertising Man

Sigmund Freud - The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious

Robert Paul Wolff - In Defense of Anarchism

Frederic Jameson - Postmodernism or, the Cultural Logic of Late

Capitalism

History

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United

States

Howard Zinn - A People’s History of the United States

Biography / Travelogue / Personal Essays

Tim Mackintosh-Smith - Yemen

David Revill - The Roaring Silence

Music

Music History / Theory / Practice

James Tenney - META / HODOS and META Meta / Hodos

Curtis Roads - Composers and the Computer

Annette Vande Gorne - Treatise on Writing Acousmatic Music on Fixed

Media

Technical

Computer Music / DSP / Math / Physics / Electronics

Edward R. Scheinerman - Mathematical Notation - A Guide for Engineers

and Scientists

Hermann Helmholtz - On the Sensations of Tone

Programming / Computer Science

Michael Kerrisk - The Linux Programming Interface

Jens Gustedt - Modern C