The Reading Preferences of Randy Regier
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
The Volcano Lover by Susan Sontag
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C. Dennett
The Forger’s Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century by Edward Dolnick
The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World by Lewis Hyde
On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
Longitude by Dava Sobel
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
33 Artists in 3 Acts by Sarah Thornton
The Object Reader by Fiona Candlin and Raiford Guins
Of Ourselves and of Our Origins: Subjects of Art by Peter Schjeldahl
Red Weather by Pauls Toutonghi
Reflections on the Art of Living: A Joseph Campbell Companion by Joseph Campbell
The Re-enchantment of Everyday Life by Thomas Moore
Private Myths: Dreams and Dreaming by Anthony Stevens
Toy Medium: Materialism and Modern Lyric by Daniel Tiffany
Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element In Culture by Johan Huizinga
Finite And Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James P. Carse
On Beauty And Being Just by Elaine Scarry
The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty by Dave Hickey
Art [Objects]: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery by Jeanette Winterson
Travels In Hyperreality by Umberto Eco
Raids On The Unspeakable by Thomas Merton
Fidelity: Five Stories by Wendell Berry
Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy by Dave Hickey
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
The Shape Of Time: Remarks On The History Of Things by George Kubler
The Future As History: The historic currents of our time and the direction in which they are taking America by Robert L. Heilbroner (1960)
Pandora’s Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies by Bruno Latour
Dinosaurs in the Attic: An Excursion into the American Museum of Natural History by Douglas J. Preston
Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond by Larry McMurtry
Killing the White Man’s Indian: Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century by Fergus M. Bordewich
A Japanese in Kansas: A Man Captivated by Glass by Misugi Ohno
Godzilla On My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters by William Tsutsui
Beyond Belief: Theoaesthetics or Just Old-Time Religion? Ronald R. Bernier, Ed.
Re-Thinking History by Keith Jenkins
Encounters with Merton by Henri J.M. Nouwen
Exuberance: The Passion for Life by Kay Redfield Jamison
The Evolution of Useful Things by Henry Petroski
The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure and Human Evolution by Denis Dutton
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life by Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi
Responsibility and Judgement by Hannah Arendt
In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America by Alice Kessler-Harris
In the Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Art by Linda Weintraub
The Language of Things: Understanding the World of Desirable Objects by Deyan Sudjic
The Shape of Content by Ben Shan
Real and Imagined Worlds: The Novel and Social Science by Morroe Berger
Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut
Don’t Ask by Philip Levine
Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman by Peter Korn
Culture Gulch: Notes on Art and Its Public in the 1960’s by John Canaday
Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Living by Fiction by Annie Dillard
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Eds. Jennings, Eiland and Smith
The Ecstasy of Influence by Jonathan Lethem
Thin Ice: Saved by the American Dream by Bruce McCall
Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth by Andrew Smith
Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base by Annie Jacobsen
Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs by Ted Morgan
Evel: The High-Flying Life of Evel Knievel: American Showman, Daredevil and Legend by Leigh Montville
Saul Steinberg: A Biography by Deirdre Bair
Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination by Anne Allison
Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology, And Education by Neil Postman
Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future by Neil Postman