some books i loved this year and why you might want to read them
America is Not the Heart and How to Read Now
Have you ever really thought about Fremont? No? Why not?
An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873
Learn your blood-drenched history and mourn your courageous dead
Another Day in the Colony
Know that history is in no way done with us yet
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Comics aren’t supposed to make me cry (are they?)
Homage to Catalonia
Reread old novels now that you’re big enough to understand them
Nona the Ninth
Meet the soul of the earth
Outrageous Conduct: Art, Ego, and the Twilight Zone Case
Understand how power corrupts
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Consider alternatives
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred and The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking)
Drive from San Francisco to Joshua Tree thinking about deep space and social justice
The Years
…so that when Annie Ernaux wins the Nobel Prize you can say “oh yeah Annie, I call her Annie, she’s great”
