Today is December 31st, so it's time for another rundown of the books I read (or mostly read, or listened to) throughout the past twelve months. As has been an increasing trend of mine the majority are audio books or audio versions of published lectures, and the list is once again dominated by Chomsky. PM Press published new audio versions of many of his older lectures this year, so I binge listened to these while working. The list also includes some local works, such as my friend Sheldon's book about Winnipeg's music scene, Red River College graduate Adam Campbell's short graphic retelling of the Winnipeg General Strike, and the University of Winnipeg Institute of Urban Studies' study of income inequality (which I contributed photos to). While composing this list I realized that I only read two works of fiction, Animal Farm, which I reread after seeing some reference to it in a movie or something, and Aurora, which admittedly I haven't actually finished though I'm loving it so far.
Missing Like Teeth: An Oral History of Winnipeg Underground Rock 1990-2001 - Sheldon Birnie
Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel - Max Blumenthal
Kill the Messengers: Stephen Harper's Assault on Your Right to Know - Mark Bourrie
Bloody Saturday - Adam Campbell
Masters of Photography: Henri Cartier-Bresson - Clément Chéroux
Fateful Triangle - Noam Chomsky
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Domination - Noam Chomsky
Intervention - Noam Chomsky
Magna Carta: Then & Now - Noam Chomsky
On Iran - Noam Chomsky
On Palestine - Noam Chomsky & Ilan Pappé
Terrorism: The Politics of Language - Noam Chomsky
The Threat of Democracy - Noam Chomsky
The Tyranny of Corporations - Noam Chomsky
U.S. Media as Propaganda System - Noam Chomsky
When Elites Fail - Noam Chomsky
Year 501: The Conquest Continues - Noam Chomsky
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Meaning of Freedom - Angela Davis
The Prison Industrial Complex - Angela Davis
The Divided Prairie City: Income Inequality Among Winnipeg's Neighbourhoods, 1970-2010 - Jino Distasio & Andrew Kaufman
War, Journalism and the Middle East - Robert Fisk
Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg
Roots - Alex Haley
Power to the People - Fred Hampton
Direct Action: Reflections on Armed Resistance and the Squamish Five - Ann Hansen
Now This War Has Two Sides - Derrick Jensen
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs - Johann Hari
Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib - Seymour M. Hersh
The Anthology 1957 - 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr.
LSD - Timothy Leary
Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge, A Radial History of Plants, Drugs and Human Evolution - Terence McKenna
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Collected Essays - George Orwell
Indigenous Nationhood: Empowering Grassroots Citizens - Pamela Palmater
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinen - Ilan Pappé
Aurora - Kim Stanley Robinson
Revolts & Rebellions - Arundhati Roy
Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice - Rudolph Rocker
Culture and Imperialism - Edward W. Said
Blackwater: Mercenary Army - Jeremy Scahill
Undoing Border Imperialism - Harsha Walia
Dark Alliance: The CIA, The Contras and the Crack Cocaine Explosion - Gary Webb
The Case of Sacco & Vanzetti - Howard Zinn
Confronting Government Lies - Howard Zinn
Democracy, Dissent and Disobedience - Howard Zinn
Emma Goldman, Anarchism and War Resistance - Howard Zinn
History Matters - Howard Zinn
Just and Unjust Wars - Howard Zinn
Three Holy Wars - Howard Zinn