Contact Carl Sagan
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
Isabel Allende
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Kurt Vonnegut
Salman Rushdie
Jonathan Safran Foer
Latin America/Argentina/Guerra Sucia
Imagining Argentina Lawrence Thornton
The Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival Alicia Partnoy
A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture Marguerite Feitlowitz
Criminal Justice/Prisons
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander
History
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes Amin Maalouf
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, as Told to Alex Haley
1491 - New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Charles C. Mann
Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America Thomas James Fleming
Philosophy/Essay
The Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus
Richard Rodriguez
James Baldwin
Poetry
Jorge Luis Borges
Rainer Maria Rilke (I'll probably be carrying around Letters to a Young Poet like a Bible - if anyone has not read it, it is my NUMBER ONE RECOMMENDATION, and it only takes about forty minutes to read... the first time - you will be compelled to read it more than once, I promise)
Also: My goodreads account is under bryan.zubay@gmail.com! We could all become friends on there as well?
ALSO: I wrote this draft before I even read Kim's draft and so many of her recommendations are on here! I'm so exciteddddd. I also watched "Rabbit Hole" a few weeks ago. The scene with Nicole Kidman and her mother in the basement?! Gahh, I die.
SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS!
Bryan!!! This is great! I see a theme, perhaps? An embrace of the multiplicity of perspectives? Not taking things at face value, because that face value came from one place? I love it all, esp. excited about #3!!
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Bryan!!! I LOVE YOUR LIST!
ReplyDeletei didn't even know you could read my draft? Cool!
anyways
the end scene in the basement is possibly the most moving scene in a movie i have ever seen
i think we need one more scene/seen in that sentence
anyways.
GREAT
im going to actually post my list now