Book List 2011
Autobiography/Biography:
Malcom X – The Autobiography of Malcom X
Pablo Neruda – Memoirs
Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka – The Autobiography Of Leroi Jones
J. Kirshnamurti – Star In The East
Haing S. Ngor - Survival in the Killing Fields
Non-Fiction / Essays & Critical Writing:
Ayi Kwei Armah – Remembering The Dismembered Continent
James Baldwin – The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin – Notes Of A Native Son
Edward Bernays – Propaganda
Mike Davis – Planet Of Slums
Charles Darwin – The Origin Of The Species
Paulo Freire – Pedagogue Of The Oppressed
John Gray – Straw Dogs
Michael Hallet – Private Prisons America: A Critical Race Perspective
Naomi Klein – The Shock Doctrine
John Newsinger – The Blood Never Dried: A Peoples History Of The British Empire
John Pilger – Freedom Next Time
Noam Chomsky – Was There An Alternative 9/11?
Andrea Smith – Conquest: Sexual Violence & American Indian Genocide
Kakuzo Okakura – The Book Of Tea
Junichiro Tanizaki – In Praise Of Shadows
Andrew Juniper – Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art Of Impermanence
Tim Wise – White Like Me
Mark Twain – King Leopold’s Soliloquy
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Self Reliance
Hendy David Theroux – Walden
Edward Said – Orientalism
George Orwell – Essays
History/African Studies:
Robin Walker – When We Ruled
Marimba Ani – Yurugu
Nell Irvin Painter – The History Of White People
Cheikh Anta Diop – The African Origin Of Civilisation: Myth or Reality?
Cheikh Anta Diop – Civilisation or Barbarism
Ivan Van Sertima – They Came Before Columbus
David Walker – The Appeal
Robert Bauval – Black Genesis
Peter Fryer – Black People In The British Empire
Walter Rodney – How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Theodore W. Allen – The Invention Of The White Race
Dee Brown – Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
Dee Brown – The American West
George G.M James – Stolen Legacy
C.F Volney _ The Ruins Of Empires
Howard Zinn – People’s History Of The United States
Philosophy:
Classical:
Plato – Republic
Plato – The Apology/ Last Days Of Socrates
Sun Tzu – The Art Of War
Niccolo Machiavelli – The Prince
Seneca – On The Shortness Of Life
Confucius – The Analects
Marcus Aurelius – Meditations
Contemporary:
Friedrich Nietzsche – Beyond Good And Evil
David Hume – A Treatise Of Human Nature
Michel Foucault – Abnormal
Michel Foucault – Madness and Civilisation
David Livingstone Smith – The Most Dangerous Animal
Alan Watts – The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
J. Krishanmurti – The Awakening Of Intelligence
J. Krishnamurti – Freedom From The Known
J. Krishnamurti – The Ending Of Time
Manjit Kumar – Quantum
Anthony De Mellow – Awareness
Poetry:
Rumi – Whispers Of The Beloved
Coleman Banks – The Soul Of Rumi
Kahlil Gibran – Complete Works (Everyman Edition)
William Shakespeare – The Sonnets
Langston Hughes – Selected Poems
Lord Byron – Complete Works (Don Juan)
T.S Elliot – Selected Poems (Faber and Faber; 80th anniversary edition)
W.B Yeats – Selected Poems (Faber and Faber; 80th anniversary edition)
R.S Thomas – Collected Later Poems (Bloodaxe Edition)
Walt Whitman – Leaves Of Grass
Theodore De Banville – The Poems Of Master Francis Villon Of Paris
Charles Bukowski – Pleasures Of The Damned
Charles Bukowski – What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through The Fire
Charles Bukowski – Love Is A Dog From Hell
Mayakovsky – Night Wraps The Sky
Arun Kolatkar – Collected Poems (Bloodaxe Edition)
Theodore Roethke – The Collected Poems Of Theodore Roethke
Adrian Mitchell – Tell Me Lies About Vitenam
Rainer Maria Rilke – The Essential Rilke
Arthur Rimbaud – Complete Works
Pablo Neruda – Twenty Love Poems & A Song Of Despair
Pablo Neruda – Residence On Earth
Pablo Neruda – Canto General
Pablo Neruda – Fully Empowered
Allen Ginsberg – Howl
E.E Cummings – Selected Poems
Garcia Lorca – Poems Of The Deep Song
Garcia Lorca – Poet In New York
John Keats – Complete Works
William Blake – Songs Of Innocence
Anis Mojani – The Feather Room
Naomi Shihab Nye – The Tender Spot
Tomas Transtromer – New Collected Poems (Bloodaxe)
Jim Carroll – Void Of Course
Octavio Paz – Selected Poems
Derek Walcott – Selected Poems
Poetry Anthologies:
Frank Chipasula - Bending The Bow: An Anthology Of African Love Poetry
The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry
Bloodaxe – Staying Alive
Poets Of The Nicaraguan Revolution
Poetry Like Bread
African Women’s Poetry (Heinemann)
Fiction:
Gabriel Garcia Marquez – One Hundred Years Of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Of Love And Other Demons
Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Love In Time Of Cholera
Ayn Rand – The Fountainhead
Hermann Hesse – Siddartha
Hermann Hesse – Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse – The Fairtytales Of Hermann Hesse
Gregory David Roberts – Shantaram
George Orwell – 1984
George Orwell – Animal Farm
Murakami – Norwegian Wood
Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
Albert Camus – The Outsider
Ayi Kwei Armah – Two Thousand Seasons
Junot Diaz – Drown
Jonathan Franzen – Freedom
James Baldwin – Another Country
Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451
Dostoevsky – Notes From The Underground
Joseph Conrad – The Heart Of Darkness
Robert Pirsig – Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance
Jack Kerouac – On The Road
Saki – The Best of Saki
Arundhati Roy – The God Of Small Things
Kafka – Metamorphosis
Kafka – Amerika
Mario Benedetti – Blood Pact and Other Stories
