During 2017, I read about 5,500 student writing assignments, a few thousand articles (some of the best can be found here), and 56 books. In addition, I “read” and studied hundreds of songs and around fifty or sixty films.
The books I read are listed below.
50 Voices of Disbelief: Why we are Atheists
AIDS and it’s Metaphors
American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Atheists in America
Beauty and the Beast: Classic Tales About Animal Brides and Grooms from Around the World
Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945
Becoming Nicole: Transformation of an American Family
Beyond El Barrio: Everyday life in Latina/o America
Beyond Monogamy: Polyamory and the Future of Polyqueer Sexualities
Blitzed: Drugs in the third Reich
Creepiness
Cross and the Lynching Tree
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
Devil’s Highway: A True Story
Drink Cultura: Chicanismo
Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Freedom’s Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal
House on Mango Street
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
Illness as a Metaphor
Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality
Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu
Letter to Christian Nation
Liberation Theologies in the United States: An Introduction
Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and and How All Men Can Help
Mississippi Praying: Southern White Evangelicals and the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1975
MLA Handbook
Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction
No More Work: Why Full Employment is a Bad Idea
Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men
Now I Know: The Revealing Stories Behind the World’s Most Interesting Facts
Occupied America: A History of Chicanos
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist’s Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics
Professor is in: The Essential Guide To Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job
Queer History of the United States
Reading the Bible from the Margins
Ready: Why Women Are Embracing the New Later Motherhood
Rise of the Nones: Understanding and Reaching the Religiously Unaffiliated
Satanic Bible
Seven Laws of Magical Thinking
Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent
Social Construction of Reality
SuperSense: How the Developing Brain Creates Supernatural Beliefs
This Means This, This Means That: A User’s Guide to Semiotics
True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas
Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History
Water Tossing Boulders: How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools in the Jim Crow South
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speaks to Believers In Exile
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Here’s to another great year of reading in 2018! Please tell me about your reading habits this year in the comments! 🙂
Dr. Andrew Joseph Pegoda
Categories: Thoughts and Perspectives
So many words!! How long were those assignments?
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Around half (probably) were one page responses. I have students do short reading responses and short in-class responses regularly. But, there were plenty of major essay pages to read! It’s worth it but does take time.
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That is so much writing!! I hope they really appreciate you
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The titles of what you had read showed how eclectic your reading tastes are. I guess, like me, you’ll try to read anything! Mango Street is one of my favorites, and I’m glad you loaned me Devil’s Highway. I’m reading Reading the Bible from the Margins now.
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