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Below are the books I read in 2022. This year I realized how fun it is to keep this annual list and reflect back on these literary journeys. The list is organized in the order that I read them.
I always like to mix up contemporary works with classics. Some of the highlights of the year is reading Brave New World in January and then spending the entire year marveling at the clairvoyance of Aldous Huxley. It is a must-read for anyone in the 21st century. What a great book! I picked up Free People of Color of New Orleans : An Introduction. in New Orleans. It is a short book and illuminates how the issue of race is in the United States is complex, how various stories are rarely told – one being race and the City of New Orleans. I did read a few chapters of the 1619 Project but found that I already knew a lot of the material, so it became a bit of a slog. I was lucky to read No One Writes to the Colonel: And Other Stories while staying in Cali Colombia for a week. Way too fun! I read it twice.
This heat is enough to rust the screws in my head.
No One Writes to the Colonel: And Other Stories
Gabriel García Márquez
Books I Read 2022
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
HarperCollins
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Finding the Right Notes
Ron Carter
Petrack Production
After a couple of months on the road with the band, Herbie began to feel frustrated. He was copying all the other pianists but not allowing himself to come out from hiding. Finally that frustration came to a head. “I thought , I’ve just got to play, really play.” Herbie said. ” If that conflicts with Miles, I’ll just have to hear the consequences.” So at Sutherford Lounge in Chicago one night, I let it loose. I figured that Miles was going to fire me after the set, but he leaned over to me and said. “Why didn’t you play like that before?” That shocked me. Then it dawned on that that a copy is never as good as the original. Miles wanted to hear me. And so did Ron and Tony.
Finding the Right Notes
Ron Carter
Americanah
Ngozi Adiche
Anchor Books
Robots Men and Minds
Ludwig Von Bertalanffy
Brazziller
The Bomb
Howard Zinn
City Lights
Free People of Color of New Orleans : An Introduction
Mary Gehman
Margaret Media, Incorporated
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitxgerald
Scribner
Ladies Who Lunch
Joseph Woodard
Household Ink
The Septembers of Shiraz
Dalia Sofer
Harper Perenial
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
The Mark Twain Library
Witches Midwives & Nurses
Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English
The Feminist Press at CUNY; 2nd edition (July 1, 2010)
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Thomas Merton, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, And The Protection Of All Beings
Bill Morgan
Beatdom Press
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The Bomb
Howard Zinn
City Lights Books
No One Writes to the Colonel: And Other Stories
Gabriel García Márquez
Harper Perennial
The Manufacture of Madness
Thomas Szsasz
Harper and Row
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Skyblue the Badass
Dallas Weibe
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
David Sedaris
Little, Brown and Company
Gender Queer
Maia Kobabe
One Forge Publishing Group
A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
New Directions