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Rebecca Solnit's Reading List

The author, most recently, of the essay collection "Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises" keeps an eye on the "daily eruptions of the internet": "Like a lot of us, I'm hypervigilant about the crazy stuff going on."

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By the Book: Rebecca Solnit (2018)

NYT By the Book column (2018-08-16).

Source: www.nytimes.com

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Alexander Chee · Buy on Amazon
"Alexander Chee's "How to Write an Autobiographical Novel" is probably the most recently published thing in the stack, and it's wonderful."
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George Orwell · 1937 · Buy on Amazon
"It's a tossup between Orwell's "The Road to Wigan Pier" and Roxane Gay's "Hunger.""
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Roxane Gay · 2017 · Buy on Amazon
"It's a tossup between Orwell's "The Road to Wigan Pier" and Roxane Gay's "Hunger.""
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Jorge Luis Borges · Buy on Amazon
"More than any other book, Jorge Luis Borges's "Labyrinths," which I discovered when I was 15, showed me what was possible in short prose nonfiction."
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David Graeber · Buy on Amazon
"I'm sure some people have heard of David Graeber's thrilling "Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology," but I think it's relatively obscure."
L. A. Kauffman · Buy on Amazon
"L. A. Kauffman's "Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism" is the best overview of how protest works — when it does — and what it's achieved over the past 50 years."
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Lauren Markham · Buy on Amazon
"Lauren Markham's "The Far Away Brothers" is a beautiful book about two unaccompanied-minor refugees, why they left and what it means to be an undocumented immigrant in the United States."
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Jonathan Schell · Buy on Amazon
"Jonathan Schell's "The Unconquerable World" is a stirring history of the rise of nonviolence as a counterforce to state power and violence."
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Danielle L. McGuire · Buy on Amazon
"Danielle L. McGuire's "At the Dark End of the Street" is a feminist counter-history of Rosa Parks and the civil rights movement."
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Jeff Chang · Buy on Amazon
"Jeff Chang's "We Gon' Be Alright" is a brilliant update to what a lot of us assume is the state of cities and race in the United States."
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Charles F. Wilkinson · Buy on Amazon
"Charles F. Wilkinson's "Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations" is a surprisingly encouraging book about cultural revival and Native people making and taking power since World War II."
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Adam Hochschild · Buy on Amazon
"to write one of them I'd have to be the Adam Hochschild who wrote "Bury the Chains.""
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Willa Cather · Buy on Amazon
"to write one of them I'd have to be … the Willa Cather who wrote "Death Comes to the Archbishop.""

Favorite books (2023)

Favorite books recommended by Rebecca Solnit, as compiled by radicalreads.com. Source article: https://radicalreads.com/rebecca-solnit-favorite-books/.

Source: radicalreads.com

Henry David Thoreau · Buy on Amazon
Peter Freuchen · Buy on Amazon
George Stewart · Buy on Amazon
Rachel Carson (also rec’d by Jane Goodall ) · Buy on Amazon
Carolyn Merchant · Buy on Amazon
Leslie Marmon Silko · Buy on Amazon
Charles Bowden · Buy on Amazon
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Robyn Davidson · Buy on Amazon
Terry Tempest Williams · Buy on Amazon
Jaime de Angulo · Buy on Amazon
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Barry Lopez · Buy on Amazon
Richard K. Nelson · Buy on Amazon
Jamaica Kincaid · Buy on Amazon
William Kittredge · Buy on Amazon
Tom Killian & Gary Snyder · Buy on Amazon
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Annie Dillard (also rec’d by Laurie Anderson ) · Buy on Amazon
Bill McKibben · Buy on Amazon

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