Recommended Reading List
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BIOGRAPHY
Arafat: The Biography (Tony Walker and Andrew Gowers)
Little Girl Lost (Drew Barrymore w/Todd Gold)
Fidel: A Critical Portrait (Tad Szulc)
My Life (Bill Clinton)
Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain (Charles R. Cross)
E.A.R.L.: The Autobiography of DMX (as told to Smokey D. Fontaine)
Gandhi: An Autobiography
Gretzky: An Autobiography (w/ Rick Reilly)
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life (Jon Lee Anderson)
Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling (Bret Hart)
Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix (Charles R. Cross)
Mein Kampf (Adolf Hitler)
Madonna Unauthorized (Christopher Andersen)
Long Walk To Freedom (Nelson Mandela)
Michael Jackson Unauthorized (Christopher Andersen)
Jagger Unauthorized (Christopher Andersen)
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise And Fall Of Jack Johnson
Scar Tissue (Anthony Kiedis with Larry Sloman)
The Long Hard Road Out Of Hell (Marilyn Manson w/ Neil Strauss)
Catch A Fire: The Life Of Bob Marley (Peter White)
Motley Crue: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Band (Tommy Lee,
Mick Mars, Vince Neil, and Niki Sixx w/Neil Strauss)
Don't Try This At Home (Dave Navarro and Neil Strauss)
Keith Richards: The Biography (Victor Bockris)
Slash (Slash w/Anthony Bozza)
Stalin (Edvard Radzinsky)
Outside Is America: U2 in the U.S. (Alan Carter)
Van Halen-- A Visual History: 1978-1984 (Neil Zlowzower)
Woody And His Women (Tim Carrol)
The Autobiography Of Malcolm X (as told to Alex Haley)
HISTORY/POLITICAL SCIENCE
The African Dream: The Diaries of the Revolutionary War in the Congo
(Ernesto Che Guevara)
Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (Laurent
Dubois)
Back On the Road: A Journey Through Latin America (Ernesto Che Guevara)
Basta! Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas (George A. Collier)
Capital, Volume One (Karl Marx)
Censored: The News that Didn't Make the Newspapers and Why (Carl Jensen)
The Common Good (Noam Chomsky)
The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx)
Deterring Democracy (Noam Chomsky)
Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians (Noam
Chomsky)
Fidel and Religion: Conversations With frei Betto (Frei Betto)
The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress: China's Search for Security (Andrew
J. Nathan and Robert S. Ross)
Guerilla Warfare (Ernesto Guevara)
History Will Absolve Me: Speech at the Court of Appeals of Santiago de
Cuba, October 16, 1953 (Fidel Castro)
Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII (John Cornwell)
Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America (Walter Lafeber)
International Terrorism and the CIA (Mumia Abu-Jamal)
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Edward
S. Herman and Noam Chomsky)
The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey Around South America (Ernesto Che Guevara)
Moving the Center: The Struggle For Cultural Freedoms (Ngugi Wa Thiang'o)
The Myth of the Good War: America in the Second World War (Jacques Pauwels)
9-11 (Noam Chomsky)
The Rise And Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (William
L. Shirer)
Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey (Fergal Keane)
The Big Red Machine: How the Liberal Party Dominates Canadian Politics
(Stephen Clarkson)
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Naomi Klein)
The State And Revolution (V.I. Lenin)
The Vanishing Country: Is it Too Late to Save Canada? (Mel Hurtig)
Water (Marq de Villiers)
What Uncle Sam Really Wants (Noam Chomsky)
The Wretched of the Earth (Franz Fanon)
Zapata of Mexico (Peter E. Newell)
LITERATURE/FICTION
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Catcher In The Rye (J.D. Salinger)
Dante's Infero (Dante Aligheri)
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems
The First Folio of Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories and Tragedies (Neil
Freeman)
The Importance Of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
In the Skin of a Lion (Michael Ondaatje)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Natasha And Other Stories (David Bezmozgis)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
Obasan (Joy Kogawa)
On The Road (Jack Road)
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Pride And Prejudice (Jane Austen)
To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
The Dictionary of Classical Mythology (Pierre Grimal)
The Lord of The Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Virgin Suicides (Jeffrey Eugenides)
SCIENCE/RELIGION/PHILOSOPHY/NATURE
A Nietzsche Reader (Harmondsworth: Penguin)
Beyond Good And Evil (Freidrich Nietzsche)
Buddhism Plain & Simple: Practice of Being Aware, Right Now, Every Day
(Steve Hagen)
Essays In Existentialism (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Ideas and Opinions (Albert Einstein)
Mein Kampf (Adolf Hitler)
The God Delusion (Richard Dawkins)
The Mismeasure of Man (Stephen Gould and Ernesto Guevara)
Modern Times: Selected Non-Fiction (Jean-Paul Sartre)
The Origin of Species (Charles Darwin)
The Pagan Christ: Rediscovering The Lost Light (Tom Harpur)
The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals (Jefrrey
Mousaiff Masson)
World Changing: A User's Guide For the 21st Century (Edited by Alex Steffen)
SOCIAL ISSUES/CURRENT EVENTS
Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women (Elizabeth Wurtzel)
The Black Panthers Speak (Phillip S. Foner, Editor)
Blown Away: The Rolling Stones and the Death of the Sixties (A.E. Hotchner)
The Challenge of Local Feminisms: Women Movements in Global Perspective
(Amrita Basu)
Color Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada 1900-1950 (Constance
Backhouse)
The Courage of Children: My Life With the World's Poorest Kids (Peter
Dalglish
Fences and Windows: Dispatches From The Front Lines Of The Globalization
Debate (Naomi Klein)
Fight The Power: Rap, Race, And Reality (Chuck D)
Food Fight: The Inside Story of the Food Industry, America's Obesity Crisis,
and What We Can Do About It (Kelly D. Brownell)
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of a Gay World (George
Chauncey)
I Have A Dream: Writings and Speeches that Changed the World (Martin Luther
King, Jr.)
Kids In The Jail: Why Our Young Offenders Do The Things They Do (Paul
Vasey)
Lies (And the lying Liars Who Tell Them): A Fair and Balanced Look at
the Right (Al Franken)
Live From Death Row (Mumia Abu-Jamal)
Malcolm X Speaks- Selected Speeches and Statements (George Breitman)
Media Virus! Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture (Douglas Rushkoff)
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (Naomi Klein)
Pay The Rent Or Feed The Kids: The Tragedy and Disgrace of Poverty in
Canada (Mel Hurtig)
Power At Play: Sports and the Problem of Masculinity (Michael A. Messner)
Race For Justice: Mumia Abu-Jamal's Fight Against the Death Penalty (Leonard
Weinglass)
Soul On Ice (Eldridige Cleaver)
Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps (Barbara and Allan Pease)
The Wild Girls Club: Tales From below the Belt (Anka Radakovich)
Women, Race, And Class (Angela Y. Davis)
SPORTS
Cinderella Man: James J. Braddock, Max Baer, And The Greatest Upset In
Boxing History (Jeremy Schaap)
Facing Ali (Stephen Brunt)
Golden Boy: The Fame, Money, And Mystery of Oscar De La Hoya (Tim Kawakami)
Gretzky: An Autobiography (w/ Rick Reilly)
Gretzky (Gretzky and Taylor)
Heros Without A Country: America's Betrayal Of Joe Louis And Jesse Owens
(Donald McRae)
The John Kordic Story (Mark Zwolinski)
The Sports Book: The Games. The Rules. The Tactics. The Techniques. (DK
Publishing)
King Of The World: Muhammad Ali And The Rise Of An American Hero (David
Remnick)
Marion Jones: Life In The Fast Lane (an illustrated autobiography by Marion
Jones with Kate Sekules)
The 12 Greatest Rounds Of Boxing (Ferdie Pacheco, M.D.)
SELF HELP
The Art Of Seduction (Robert Greene)
The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide (David J.Miklowitz, PhD)
The 48 Laws of Power (Robert Greene)
Freedom From Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (Jonathan Grayson)
Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill (Matthieu
Ricard)
Night Falls Fast: understanding suicide (Kay Redfielld Jamison)
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (Jack Rachman)
POETRY
The Illiad (Homer w/translation by Robert Fagles)
The Odyssey (Homer w/translation by Robert Fagles)
Fully Empowered (Pablo Neruda)
Collected Poems of Raymond Souster: Volume 10, 1996-2000) (Raymond Souster)
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