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
Dr. Andrew Joseph Pegoda 