1. joe wrote:

It’s been a busy summer of books (I am starting the reading list for my master’s in Hispanic Literature and trying to take a stab at various philosophical works). My most recent reads or books that I am currently reading:
Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
All the Names by Jose Saramago
Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
The Kingdom of this World by Alejo Carpentier
Anti-Oedipus by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari

2. MIss Dimples wrote:

“Giants: The Parallel lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln” by John Stauffer
“I Love Myself When I’m Laughing” by Zora Neale Hurston
“The Tipping Point” by Malcolm Gladwell

3. dcampbell wrote:

What I’m Reading:

“The Truth about Truth: De-confusing and Re-constructing the Postmodern World” Edited by Walter Truett Anderson

“Ancient Lives: The story of the Pharaohs’ Tombmakers” by John Romer

“Middlesex” by Jeffretg Eugenides (Oprah Bookcllub Pick)

4. Matthew Johnson wrote:

1. Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City by Elijah Anderson
2. The Development of Persistent Criminality by Joanne Savage

(I should admit that I am a criminologist: Summer reading for business and pleasure?!)

5. DCI74 wrote:

“Memory Power” Scott Hagwood

“The Brain Power Cookbook” Frank Lawlis

“Keep Your Brain Alive: 83 Neurobic Exercises” Lawrence Katz

“African-American Adolescents in the Urban Community: Social Services Policy and Practice Interventions” Judith Rozie-Battle

6. Tom Penn wrote:

“Can You Hear Me Now?” The Inspiration, Wisdom, and Insight of Michael Eric Dyson

“The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier’s Education” by Craig M. Mullaney

“Mao’s Last Revolution” by Roderick Mac Farquhar & Michael Schoenhals

“The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power” by David E. Sanger

“Al’ America: Travels Through America’s Arab and Islamic Roots” by Jonathan Curiel

“A Crime So Monstrous: Face-To-Face with Modern-Day Slavery” By E. Benjamin Skinner

“How Did American Slavery Begin?” By Edward Countryman

“The Hip Hop Wars” By Tricia Rose

“Race, Rock, and Elvis” by Michael T. Bertrand

Bill Clinton and Black America” by Dewayne Wickham

7. David wrote:

“The FairTax Book” by Neal Boortz

8. zak wrote:

I married a communist – Phillip Roth

and a gaggle of comic books

9. booklover17 wrote:

I am reading “Hot Flat and Crowded” by Thomas L. Friedman
I also just read “Kindred” by Octavia Butler again for my book club

10. X-ian wrote:

The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Midnight by Sister Souljah
The Michael Eric Dyson Reader
The Long Fall by Walter Mosley

11. Mario wrote:

“Souls of Black Folk” by W.E.B. Du Bois
“Narrative” by Fredrick Douglass
“Predictably Irrational:The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions” by Dan Ariely
“Community: The Structure of Belonging” by Peter Block

12. Sharon J wrote:

“Resilience: Faith, Focus, Triumph” a memoir by Alonzo Mourning

“A Journal for Jordan” by Dana Canedy

Those were topics of book discussions at my church. We got great conversations out of them. I have begun reading “The Shack” a novel by William Paul Young for our next discussion at the end of this month. So far, it’s very good.

13. ChgoSista wrote:

I’m gonna check out the book by Scott Brooks.

14. haey wrote:

“I’m Smarter Than You” By M.E.