Notes to self for future reading. Recommendations welcome, appreciated, and quite often actually followed.
- Four Souls (Erdrich), per Don;
- Waiting on a Train: The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service–A Year Spent Riding across America (McCommons), per Kerri and Tim;
- Food Security for the Faint of Heart (Wheeler), per Jerry;
- Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America (Taibbi), per Joseph;
- The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching (Hanh), per Steven;
- Penguin by Design: A Cover Story 1935-2005 (Baines)– gifted!– and Delusions of Gender (Fine), per Lobstergirl;
- An American Tragedy (Dreiser), per Reese– purchased!;
- Memoir of a Russian Punk (Liminov), per Matt;– dammit, this is hard to find.
- Returning to Earth (Harrison) and The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World (Weiner), per Sue;– purchased!
- Redburn (Melville), per Jesse;– purchased!
- Neuromancer (Gibson), per Jay, Shawn, and pretty much everyone;– purchased!
- The Complete Manual of Suicide (Tsurumi);– unavailable, too controversial for American eyes
- Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (Goethe);
- and I might give Don Quixote de la Mancha (de Cervantes Saavedra) another shot, per kG.

