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Recommended Reading

The Farmer's Handbook, poems by Wendell Berry
Oryx and Crake and the Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood - both too arresting to put down, and terrifyingly realistic
The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman - if you want to learn a lot of fun facts and be incredibly depressed
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan
Deep Economy, by Bill McKibben - this book is awesome. Everyone should read it.
Epitaph for a Peach, by David Mas Masumoto
The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy
The Maytrees, by Annie Dillard
Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro ... if you want something bizarre that you can't stop reading
Anything by Barbara Kingsolver - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Animal Dreams, Prodigal Summer, Small Wonders, Pigs in Heaven ...
Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
Jarhead, by Anthony Swofford
Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut
Brief Encounters with Che Guevara, by Ben Fountain
Reasons to Live, by Amy Hempel
Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey, by Chuck Palahniuk
At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, by Amy Hempel
Monster of God, by David Quammen