Occupy Wall Street Reading List: Your Suggestions

Lindsay Beyerstein

On Sunday, I asked what books you’d recommend for the lending library in Zuccotti Park that serves the Occupy Wall Street protesters.

Henry Ferrell of Crooked Timber went above and beyond… Henry not only suggested reading material, he tracked down an address where you can send books for donation, and he has already mailed OWS a copy of Hacker and Pierson’s Winner Take All Politics”:

The UPS Store
Re: Occupy Wall Street
Attn: The People’s Library
118A Fulton St. #205
New York, NY 10038

Here are some other notable suggestions culled from comments, Twitter, Facebook and conversations with friends:

Nonfiction

  • Wall Street, by Doug Henwood (available for free download)
  • Wall Street: America’s Dream Palace, by Steve Fraser
  • The Shock Doctrine, by Naomi Klein
  • Author Jeff Sharlet dropped off a hefty intellectual care package including Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement by Kathryn Joyce, Changing the Script by Dan Schultz, and three of his own titles
  • Agenda For A New Economy, by David Korten
  • No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart, by Tom Slee
  • The Great Risk Shift, by Jacob Hacker
  • The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker, by Steven Greenhouse
  • Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin by John D’Emilio
  • Parting the Waters, by Taylor Branch

Fiction

  • The Dispossessed, by Ursula Le Guin (a very popular suggestion)
  • The Master and the Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Bonfire of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe
  • Iron Council by China Miéville
  • The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville (as a Crooked Timber commenter noted, wryly, Bartleby was the original occupier of Wall Street)
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Lindsay Beyerstein is an award-winning investigative journalist and In These Times staff writer who writes the blog Duly Noted. Her stories have appeared in Newsweek, Salon, Slate, The Nation, Ms. Magazine, and other publications. Her photographs have been published in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times’ City Room. She also blogs at The Hillman Blog (http://​www​.hill​man​foun​da​tion​.org/​h​i​l​l​m​a​nblog), a publication of the Sidney Hillman Foundation, a non-profit that honors journalism in the public interest.
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