Occupy Wall Street Reading List: Your Suggestions

Lindsay Beyerstein October 12, 2011

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.hillmanfoundation.org/hillmanblog), a publication of the Sidney Hillman Foundation, a non-profit that honors journalism in the public interest.