BOOK LIST
Below is a sampling of books that have influenced me as a reader and storyteller, but most importantly, as a person. The are arranged by publication year in descending order.
The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich (2024)
The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy (2024)
All Friends Are Necessary by Tomas Moniz (2024)
Still: The Art of Noticing by Mary Jo Hoffman (2024)
It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood (2022)
Boys and Oil by Taylor Brorby (2022)
How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell (2019)
The Overstory by Richard Powers (2018)
Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year by Linda LeGarde Grover (2017)
Unflattening by Nick Sousanis (2015)
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz (2014)
East of West by Jonathan Hickman & Nick Dragotta (2013)
Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe (2012)
The Perfect Machine by Lance Letcsher (2010)
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein (2007)
All-Star Superman by Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely (2006)
The Will to Change by bell hooks (2003)
Spider-man: Blue by Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale (2002)
Word Freak by Stefan Fatsis (2002)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (2000)
American Pastoral by Philip Roth (1997)
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (1993)
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (1992)
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman (1985)
Swamp Thing #34 "Rite of Spring" by Alan Moore & Stephen Bissette (1985)
The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich (1984)
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (1980)
Night Shift by Stephen King (1978)
Inverted World by Christopher Priest (1974)
Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan (1967)
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck (1943)