& 17 users
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Author: Ian McEwan
2006-09-22
& 19 users
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Author: Craig Thompson
Tags: love god graphic_novel teenage midwest
2006-04-07
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Author: Tere Stouffer Drenth
Tags: fitness exercise running
Description: An excellent resource for recreational runners -- even if you don't plan to run a marathon....
2005-10-09
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Author: Osha Gray Davidson
Tags: poverty farming rural class
Description: The title is corny, but it's a good book.
2005-10-07
& 5 users
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Author: Jane Smiley
Tags: family farming dysfunction
2005-10-07
Type: special
Status: I recommend
Author: Moosewood Collective
Tags: cooking food diet vegetarian
Description: I accidentally bought a low-fat cookbook, and it turned out to be pretty good.
2005-10-07
& 7 users
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Author: Ha Jin
Tags: relationships love china marriage
Description: A slooooooow, but lovely, book.
2005-10-03
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Author: Sanyika Shakur
Tags: crime prison gang african-american los_angeles
Description: Another memoir from a former L.A. gangster.
2005-10-03
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Author: Luis J. Rodriguez
Tags: memoir crime chicano gang los_angeles
Description: An ex-gangster's memoir. As good as Monster, but less well-known.
2005-10-03
& 32 users
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Author: Eric Schlosser
Tags: journalism food vegetarian mcdonald's muckraking
2005-10-03
& 6 users
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Author: Kalle Lasn
Tags: shopping activism consumerism adbusters
Description: For those interested in culture jamming and critiquing overconsumption.
2005-10-03
& 33 users
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Author: John Irving
Tags: new_england
Description: Unnecessarily long, but entertaining and sometimes touching.
2005-10-03
