A longtime listener and participant here on the PEL blog wrote in to suggest that we share our current reading list. Seemed like a good idea, so here is mine.
I preface by saying that I typically have multiple texts to hand in different modalities (Kindle, Audible, actual book) on different topics and read/listen according to my mood and situation.
And so here's the list of books I've recently read, am reading, or plan to begin soon:
- Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide from Sparta to Darfur - Ben Kiernan
- The Authoritarian Personality - Theodor Adorno
- The Good Lord Bird: A Novel - James McBride
- May You Live in Interesting Times - Laraine Newman
- Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History - Michel-Rolph Trouillot
- Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know - Malcolm Gladwell
Seth
Thanks for sharing! These look so interesting! I loved Talking to Strangers.
Thanks Seth.
Have you come across The WEIRDest People in the World by Henrich? He traces out the rise of the Western notion of impartiality to strangers. He makes a strong case I think.