In Which Amy Adds to the 'To-Read' List... (Myspace Blog)

I wish I had free time to read. Being in college, having two kids, a house to clean, animals to take care of, and chauffeuring to do makes it difficult to do the things I want to do - like read. (I hear those fellow college students saying "But you do get to read... textbooks!" That's just not the same...) My desire to read gets particularly strong when people tell me about other incredible books they have read. Especially when the books sound so good that I want to read them too. In order to solve my dilemma, I have decided to add to my 'To-Read' list. This list usually comes out only at the holidays, when my family gives me book after book as gifts. I can never choose which one to read first, so I put them on a list, then read them down the rows. My list has been empty for a while, since I finished the holiday books in May. But the time has come to add to it again. Here is what is on my 'To-Read' List right now: (*this is a book that I have in my possession) Richard Dawkins "The Selfish Gene" Richard Dawkins "The God Delusion" Jared Diamond "Guns, Germs, and Steel" Jared Diamond "Collapse" Sam Harris "A Christian Nation" Thomas L. Freedman "The World is Flat" something by Stephen J. Gould * Paulo Freire "Pedagogy of the Opressed" * bell hooks "Teaching Community" * Betsy Reed, ed. "Nothing Sacred: Women Respond to Religious Fundamentalism and Terror" * Cherrie Moraga, Gloria Anzaldua, eds. "This Bridge Called my Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color" * Kim Stanley Robinson "The Years of Rice and Salt" Hell, since my list is active anyway, I would love for you to add to it... What wonderful tomes of knowledge would you recommend for me to read? Nothing is off-limits: I think that I will read just about anything. But I would especially love to know which books shaped you or changed your thinking. And since we are recommending books, here are a few for you. Read them... because I said so. A. A. Milne "The Complete Winnie the Pooh" Isabel Allende "The House of the Spirits" "The Complete Kama Sutra" translated by whoever you want