Steve’s Recommendations
What to find if
You Want Terror Over Monsters & Gore
The Girl in a Swing
Richard Adams
1980 (used only)
House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski
2000
Dust
Charles Pellegrino
1998 (used only)
The Face of Another
Kobo Abe
1964
The Monk
Matthew Lewis
1796
Supernatural relationship terror
Linguistic geometric terror
Biological apocalypse terror
Self-identity social terror
Gothic demonic terror
Other Titles:
- William Peter Blatty: The Exorcist - scathing critique of Catholicism terror
- Stephen King: Misery - writerly terror
- Toni Morrison: Beloved – motherly terror
- Ray Bradbury: Something Wicked This Way Comes - dark vanity terror
- Dan Simmons: The Terror – historical terror
What to find if
You Want Some Provocative Labor Day Reading
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
Kate Moore
2018
Nobody's Fool
Richard Russo
1994
Germinal
Emile Zola
1885
Sometimes a Great Notion
Ken Kesey
1977
In Dubious Battle
John Steinbeck
1936
What to find if
You Want Some Philosophical Reads on Climate
What Climate Justice Means
Elizabeth Cripps
2022
Climate Justice
Mary Robinson
2019
Meat Me Half Way
Brian Kateman
2022
Letters from a Young Poet
1887 - 1895
Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
Bruno LaTour
2018
The Wild Iris
Louise Gluck
1993
What to find if
You Want Some Powerful Teacher Magazine Subscriptions
Green Teacher
Education for Planet Earth
https://greenteacher.com/
Yes! for Teachers
Solutions for a Better World
yesmagazine.org/education
ReThinking Schools
Social justice teaching and education activism
rethinkingschools.org
What if
You Want Some Reads with a Memorable Anti-Hero
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
20th Century Classic
Vanity Fair
William Thackeray
19th Century British
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Contemporary Vietnamese
Lord Foul's Bane
Stephen R Donaldson
20th Century Fantasy
Paradise Lost
John Milton
17th Century Epic Poetry
Cowboy Bebop
Hajime Yatate
1990s Anime
The Best Choices from
What I Read in 2021
What Noise Against the Cane
Desiree C Bailey
2021
Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake
Northrop Frye
1969
How To Be An AntiRacist
Ibram X. Kendi
2019
Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief
Maurice Leblanc
1906
Sitt Marie Rose
Etel Adnan
1977
Foucault's Pendulum
Umberto Eco
1989
What to find if
You Want Some Philosophical Reads
The Stranger
Albert Camus
20th Century Classic
Sophie's World
Jostein Gaarder
YA
Trans(re)Lating House One
Poupeh Missaghi
Contemporary
All About Love
bell hooks
Contemporary
Milkcow Blues Boogie
James Arnold / Elvis Presley
1955