2021 Reading List

The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945

John Toland

A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America

Michael Barkun

The Professor and the Madman

Simon Winchester

Whenever You’re Ready: How to Compose the Life of Your Dreams

Jeeyoon Kim

The Power of Myth

Joseph Campbell

Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece

Ashley Khan

Trinity: The Best-Kept Secret

Vallee & Harris

Soundtrack to a Movement: African American Islam, Jazz and Black Internationalism

Richard Brent Turner

The Medium, The Mystic, and the Physicist

Lawrence LeShan

The Voyeur’s Motel

Gay Talese

Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

Haruki Murakami

Rastafarian Mysticism: An Introduction to the Mysteries of Nyahbinghi

Ras Steven

The Anomalist: 2

edited by Huyghe & Stacy

The Anomalist: 1

edited by Huyghe & Stacy

Voices from the Edge: Conversations With Jerry Garcia, Ram Dass, Annie Sprinkle, Matthew Fox, Jaron Lanier, & Others

Brown & Novick

Loft Jazz: Improvising New York in the 1970s

Michael C. Heller

Message to Our Folks: The Art Ensemble of Chicago

Paul Steinbeck

Granta 76: Music

edited by Ian Jack

How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back

Jeff Tweedy

Check out other books I have read over the years, less diligently logged, on Goodreads.