My (tentative) to-read list for 2009

outtheother:

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

Sure, I’d love to mini-bookclub!