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Notable Books

04 Jan 2018 - Berkeley, CA

Notable Author(s) - Fiction

Cormac McCarthy
John Steinbeck
Irving Washington

Notable Author(s) - Journalism

Hunter S. Thompson

Notable Author(s) - Philosophy

Alain Badiou
Karen Barad (philosopher-physicist)
Slavoj Žižek

Notable Book(s)

101 Things I Learned in * School series by multiple authors (e.g., Business School by Michael W. Preis; Engineering School by John Kuprenas and Matthew Frederick; Law School By Vibeke Norgaard Martin)
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Very Short Introduction series by multiple authors (e.g., Thermodynamics by Peter Atkins)
Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
Devil in the White City by by Erik Larson
Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir by Werner Herzog
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang
Heart of Darkness by Novella by Joseph Conrad
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
One Flew Over the Cookoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
Reconstructing Earth by Braden R. Allenby
Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
Tim - The Official Biography of Avicii by Måns Mosesson
The Art of Living by Epictetus (retold by Sharon Lebell)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X
The Comedians by Graham Greene
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
The Gate of Heavenly Peace by Jonathan Spence
The Mythical Person-Month by Fred Brooks
The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams
The Plague by Albert Camus
The Proud Highway by Hunter S. Thompson
The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County by Cyra McFadden
The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
The Unwritten Laws of Engineering by W.J. King (revised by James G. Skakoon) (a related trade edition was published as The Unwritten Laws of Business)
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Why Does the World Exist? by Jim Holt
You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryū Suzuki (author) and Trudy Dixon (RIP) & Richard Baker (editors) (ok)
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis

Notable Comics

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson