open book – list of candidates

list of candidates

In his Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life, Steve Leveen suggests keeping a “list of candidates”: books that interest you that you may later choose to read. Here’s mine.

last updated: 1 Nov 2007

comics
The Absolute Sandman Vol I and Vol 2, Neil Gaiman
Nine Horses: Poems, Billy Collins
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, Marjane Satrapi
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, Scott McCloud

community
Building Communities from the Inside Out, John Kretzman
The Community Building Companion, Lisa Frankfort
The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
Edens Lost and Found, Harry Wiland and Dale Bell
Food Not Lawns, Heather Flores
Garden Your City, Barbara Feldt
The Great Neighborhood Book, Jay Walljasper
Neighbor Power: Building Community The Seattle Way, Jim Diers
Relocalize Now, Julian Darley

ecology
Deep Economy, Bill McKibben
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change, Elizabeth Kolbert
Green Clean: The Environmentally Sound Guide to Cleaning Your Home, Linda Mason Hunter, Mikki Halpin
What Are People For?: Essays, Wendell Berry

education
Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community, Alfie Kohn
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, John Taylor Gatto
Homeschooling Our Children Unschooling Ourselves, Alison McKee
Learning All the Time, John Caldwell Holt
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, James Agee
The Modern Practice of Adult Education, Derek Briton
Writing Because We Love to: Homeschoolers at Work, Susannah Sheffer

farming
Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime, Kenneth Helphand
The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic America, Patricia Klindienst
The Encyclopedia of Country Living, Carla Emery
Farming: a hand book, Wendell Berry
Fields of Plenty: A Farmer’s Journey in Search of Real Food and the People Who Grow It, Michael Ableman
First Lessons in Beekeeping
Forever the Farm, Marion Nicholl Rawson
Pasture Management, Rick Bickford
Raising Milk Goats Successfully, Gail Luttmann
Wendell Berry: Life and Work, Jason Peters (Editor)

fiction
The Almost Moon, Alice Sebold
The Bingo Palace, Louise Erdich
Gods in Alabama, Joshilyn Jackson
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, Kim Edwards
Moral Disorder and Other Stories, Margaret Atwood
A Place on Earth, Wendell Berry
Run, Ann Patchett
The Secret of Lost Things, Sheridan Hay

food
Appetite, Nigel Slater
The Art of Simple Food, Alice Waters
The Busy Person’s Guide to Preserving Food, Janet Chadwick
Chez Panisse Vegetables, Alice L. Waters
The Ethical Gourmet, Jay Weinstein
Everything Tastes Better with Bacon: 70 Fabulous Recipes for Every Meal of the Day, Sara Perry
The First American Cookbook: A Facsimile of “American Cookery,” 1796, Amelia Simmons
Fresh from the Farmers’ Market: Year-Round Recipes for the Pick of the Crop, Janet Fletcher
Full Moon Feast: Food and the Hunger for Connection, Jessica Prentice
Gluten-Free Girl: How I Found the Food That Loves Me Back…And How You Can Too, Shauna James Ahern
Holy Cows And Hog Heaven: The Food Buyer’s Guide To Farm Friendly Food, Joel Salatin
Home Cheese Making: Recipes for 75 Delicious Cheeses, Ricki Carroll
Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, Peter Menzel, Faith D’Aluisio
The Improvisational Cook, Sally Schneider
Indian Home Cooking: A Fresh Introduction to Indian Food, Suvir Saran, Stephanie Lyness
Keeping It Living: Traditions Of Plant Use And Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America, Douglas Deur (Editor), Nancy J. Turner (Editor)
Learning to Cook with Marion Cunningham, Marion Cunningham
Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America’s Farmers’ Markets, Deborah Madison
Northwest (American Regional Cooking Library), Joyce Libal, Patricia Therrien
Nourishing Traditions, Sally Fallon
The Penguin Companion to Food, Alan Davidson
Putting Food By, Janet Greene
Recipes from a Kitchen Garden, Renee Shepherd, Fran Raboff
Renewing Salmon Nation’s Food Traditions, Gary Paul Nabhan (Editor)
Seasons: A Year of Great Tastes, DK Publishing
Simply the Best: The Art of Seasonal Cooking, Tamasin Day-Lewis
Southern Appalachian (American Regional Cooking Library), Joyce Libal, Patricia Therrien
Sunday Suppers at Lucques: Seasonal Recipes from Market to Table, Suzanne Goin, Teri Gelber
Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, Deborah Madison
Wandering & Feasting: A Washington Cookbook, Mary Houser Caditz
The Way We Ate: Pacific Northwest Cooking, 1843-1900, Jacqueline B. Williams
Where People Feast: An Indigenous People’s Cookbook, Dolly Watts, Annie Watts

justice
Navajo Nation Peacemaking: Living Traditional Justice, Marianne O. Nielsen (Editor), James W. Zion (Editor)
Peacemaking Circles: From Crime to Community, Kay Pranis

local life
Native Seattle, Coll Thrush
Seattle Past to Present, Roger Sale
Skid Road, Murray Cromwell Morgan

memoir
Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited, Elyse Schein, Paula Bernstein
Telling, Marion Winik

parenting
Becoming the Parent You Want To Be: A Sourcebook of Strategies for the First Five Years, Laura Davis
The Emotional Life of the Toddler, Alicia F. Lieberman
Growing a Girl: Seven Strategies for Raising a Strong, Spirited Daughter, Barbara Dr Mackoff
The Healthiest Kid in the Neighborhood: Ten Ways to Get Your Family on the Right Nutritional Track, William Sears
Living Joyfully With Children, Win Sweet, Bill Sweet
The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart, Jan Hunt
Positive Discipline for Preschoolers: For Their Early Years–Raising Children Who are Responsible, Respectful, and Resourceful, Jane Nelsen, Ed.D.
The Power of Play: How Spontaneous, Imaginative Activities Lead to Happier, Healthier Children, David Elkind
Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever, Mem Fox