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My (tentative) to-read list for 2009

Hi Laura!  This Is Your Brain On Music is a great, great book - I read that one last year.

And maybe we should mini-bookclub Our Band Could Be Your Life - I’ve been wanting to read something at the same time as someone else, since it’s always fun to have someone to talk to about what you’re reading, and I haven’t done that since college!

letusread:

Hi, I’m Laura. I’ve really liked reading everyone’s lists so far. I read 36 books in 2008, and am in the middle of the 37th, so my goal is to read 40 books in 2009 (which I can probably do if I stop watching so much crappy TV). Here’s my tentative and incomplete to-read list, in no particular order:

1. Dombey and Son, by Charles Dickens (reading this one now, will carry into 2009)
2. The Third Policeman, Flann O’Brien
3. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, by Michael Pollan
4. The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, by Alex Ross
5. When Will There be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
6. The Toss of a Lemon, by Padma Viswanathan
7. Super Flat Times, by Matthew Derby
8. Brighton Rock, by Graham Greene (Hi, antitrance!)
9. Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
10. Such a Pretty Girl, Laura Wiess
11. For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder that Shocked Chicago, by Simon Baatz
12. Waste, Eugene Marten
13. The Man Who Shocked the World: The Life and Legacy of Stanley Milgram, by Thomas Blass
14. Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes, by Thomas Cathcart
15. Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Underground, 1981-1991, by Michael Azzerad (Hi, outtheother!)
16. Culture Jam, by Kalle Lasn
17. No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court, by Edward Humes
18. The Outsider, by Colin Wilson
19. The Interpretation of Murder, by Jed Rubenfeld
20. The Little Girl and the Cigarette, by Benoit Deteurtre
21. This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession, by Daniel J. Levitin
22. A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis, by David M. Friedman
23. The Consolations of Philosophy, by Alain de Botton
24. You Idiot! — The First Book, by Nate Gangelhoff
25. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of Robert Oppenheimer, by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
26. The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For, by Alison Bechdel
27. The Family Mashber, by Der Nister
28. How to Read a French Fry: And Other Intriguing Stories of Kitchen Science, by Russ Parsons
29. Jill, by Philip Larkin
30. Writings on an Ethical Life, by Peter Singer
31. How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read, by Pierre Bayard
32. True Crime: An American Anthology, by Harold Schechter