Image: Dr Rubin Carter
Dr RUBIN CARTER's TOP TEN BOOKS (plus one!)
In Search of the Miraculous,
by P.D. Ouspensky
What Has Happened to Mankind,
by J. Krishnamurti
Man's Search For Meaning,
by Victor Frankl
The Old and the New Testament
The Bhagavad Gita
Autobiography of Malcolm X,
with Alex Haley
Manchild in the Promised Land,
by Claude Brown
Black Boy,
by Richard Wright
Native Son,
by Richard Wright
Makes Me Wanna Holler,
by Nathan McCall
and, finally, his own book:
Eye of the Hurricane: My Path From Darkness to Freedom,
by Dr. Rubin Carter with Ken Klonsky,
foreword by Nelson Mandela, 2011.
Rubin considers 'Eye of the Hurricane'
to be his last will and testament.
Please visit the website here:
rubinthehurricanecarter.com
Image: Tony Benn
"You see, there are two flames burning in the
human heart all the time. The flame of anger
against injustice, and the flame of hope that
you can build a better world. And my job...
is going round and fanning both flames...
because people need encouragement.
Everyone needs encouragement,
if you're going to do the best you can."
TONY BENN's TOP TEN BOOKS
1) The Bible
2) Das Kapital by Karl Marx
3) The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
4) Common Sense by Tom Paine
5) Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
6) Religion & the Rise of Capitalism by RH Tawney
7) In Place of Fear by Nye Bevan
8) The Making of the English Working Class by E P Thompson
9) Parliamentary Socialism by Ralph Miliband
10) The World Turned upside Down by Christopher Hill
TO GO TO EITHER TONY's BLOG SITE
OR THE "BENNITES" UNOFFICIAL SITE
PLEASE PRESS THE LINK(S) BELOW:
Image: Bruce Kent's Top Ten Books
BRUCE KENT's TOP TEN BOOKS
Top Ten Non Fiction Books:
1 The Periodic table
by Primo Levi
2 The Withered Garland
by Peter Johnson (Wartime Bomber Pilot)
3 The Psalms (especially Psalm 8)
The Bible
4 The Long Loneliness
by Dorothy Day (Catholic Worker founder)
5 In Solitary Witness
by Gordon Zahn (the Franz Jagerstatter story)
6 The Fourfold Vision
by Dr. Sherwood Taylor (Four roads to knowledge)
7 Praise of Folly
by Desiderus Erasmus
8 The United Nations Charter (especially the Preface)
9 Edmund Campion S.J.(Jesuit priest and martyr)
by Evelyn Waugh
10 Double Harness
by Robin Tanner (Quaker educationalist and artist)
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Top 10 Fiction Books
1 The Power and the Glory
by Graham Greene
2 A Suitable Boy
by Vikran Seth
3 South Riding
by Winifred Holtby
4 Black Beauty
by Anna Sewell
5 A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
6 Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
7 The Towers of Trebizond
by Rose Macauley
8 Put Out More Flags
by Evelyn Waugh
9 The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
10 Sarum
by Edward Rutherford
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William Wall, Poet (a mighty man!)
Email kirwall@eircom.net
www.williamwall.eu
WILLIAM WALL's TOP TWENTY (PLUS) BOOKS !
(in no particular order)
King Lear
by Shakespeare
The Trial and Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
The Inferno
by Dante
Ulysses
by James Joyce
Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
The Waste Land
by TS Eliot
At Swim Two Birds and The Third Policeman
by Flann O'Brien
The Barracks and That They May Face the Rising Sun
by John McGahern
Pedro Paramo
by Juan Rulfo
100 years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Communist Manifesto
by Marx and Engels
Empire
by M Hardt and A Negri
Collected Fiction
by Jorge Luis Borges
The Arcades Project
by Walter Benjamin
Famine
by Liam O'Flaherty
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
Austerlitz
by WG Sebald
The Tin Drum
by Gunther Grass
To The Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
How Green Was My Valley
by Richard Llewellyn
Image: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz' Top Ten Books
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz' Top Ten Books
Fiction top ten:
1. American Woman
by Susan Choi
2. A Person of Interest
by Susan Choi
3. Disgrace
by J.M. Coetzee
4. Tree of Smoke
by Denis Johnson
5. Almanac of the Dead
by Leslie Marmon Silko
6. The Knight, Death, and the Devil
by Ella Leffland
7. Blonde
by Joyce Carol Oates
8. Cloudsplitter
by Russell Banks
9. Four Hands: A Novel
by Paco Ignacio Taibo II
10. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
by Michael Ondaatje
Non-fiction top ten:
1. The Second Sex
by Simone de Beauvoir
2. About My Life and the Kept Woman: A Memoir
by John Rechy
3. One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race
by Scott Malcomson
4. Prison of Grass: Canada from a Native Point of View
by Howard Adams
5. The First Way of War: American War Making
on the Frontier, 1607-1814
by John Grenier
6. Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
7. Guevara, Also Known As Che
by Paco Ignacio Taiblo II
8. Get Up: A 12 Step Guide to Recovery
for Misfits, Freaks, and Weirdos
by Bucky Sinister
9. John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who
Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War and Seeded Civil Rights
by David S. Reynolds
10. Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier
in 20th Century America
by Richard Slotkin
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John Stanton has, for the last 17 months, been
writing on the US Army's Human Terrain System.
Nearly 100 sources, and 47 articles...
John's articles led to changes in the program.
JOHN STANTON's TOP TEN BOOKS:
1. 2666
by Roberto Bolano
2. Imperial
by William Vollman
3. Everything Flows
by Vasily Grossman
4. Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman
5. The Fall
by Albert Camus
6. One Dimensional Man
by Herbert Marcuse
7. The Island of Crimea
by Vasily Aksyonov
8. Death on the Installment Plan
by L.F. Celine
9. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
by F. Nietzsche
10. A Short History of Decay
by E.M. Cioran
10(b)The Spirit of the Laws
by Montesquieu
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CAGE INNOYE’S TOP TEN BOOKS
(WHICH INFLUENCED HIS DEVELOPMENT)
Andre Breton, Surrealist Manifesto, not a book,
but a statement, first piece ever read that I
really liked. After taking science and math
classes in college this was a WMD.
Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, it blew my mind
the first time I read it, I have since critiqued
the framework but still it has truths within. It
caused me to turn toward the study of economics.
Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the
Breakdown of the Bicameral mind, also blew my
mind and still does, if you are a right brain
person this book is intriguing.
Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels, powerful ideas,
explained well, very influential upon me.
Creative Evolution, Henri Bergson, here is a
worldview that seems quite obvious today
Prison Notebooks, Antonio Gramsci, a very
interesting analysis of politics, culture and power
Buddhist Logic, Volume 1, Theodor Stcherbatsky,
very informative, I learned much from it about
Eastern philosophy, but also the general issues
of all philosophy which were mirrored in India.
Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth, the concept
of myth was revolutionary to me and I learned
that personal myth supersedes all, and
incorporates all science and theory as just
a chapter within it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit,
a very fascinating thesis that unites ‘everything’
into one system, intellectually impressive.
Understanding the I Ching, Hellmut and Richard
Wilhelm, the world’s first philosophy piece and
it still holds up, many profound perceptions.
Image: James D Cockcroft's Top Books
JAMES COCKCROFT's TOP BOOKS
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie
Emma Goldman’s Autobiography
Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
Chekhov, Collected Short Stories
Walt Whitman, Collected Poems
Malcolm X Speaks
Luke Rhinehart, The Dice Man
The Communist Manifesto, by Marx and Engels
The Speeches of Fidel Castro
Che Guevara’s Essay on Man and Socialism in
almost any collection of his writings
Image: Stan Goff's Top Ten Books
STAN GOFF's TOP TEN BOOKS
"After Christendom,"
by Stanley Hauerwas
"Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale,"
by Maria Mies
"The Rivers North of the Future,"
by Ivan Illich, with David Cayley
"Bonds of Love,"
by Jessica Benjamin
"The Politics of Jesus,"
by John Howard Yoder
"The Sexual Contract,"
by Carole Pateman
"The Alchemy of Race and Rights,"
by Patricia Williams
"The Power of the Machine,"
by Alf Hornborg
"Money, Sex, and Power,"
by Nancy CM Hartsock
"Unbearable Weight,"
by Susan Bordo
Image: Stephen Lendman's Top Book
STEPHEN LENDMAN SAYS:
I'll share one crucially important one
- Ellen Brown's Web of Debt -
absolutely required reading.
Image: "The Iron Curtain Over America" by Col. John Beaty. free online.
To understand the depth of the problem in
the US, read this book free online:
"The Iron Curtain Over America" by Col. John Beaty.
Again, it's free online.
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STILL HERE !!!
Some of the South Wales Miners' huge library is
still available on line... at Swansea university:
http://www.swan.ac.uk/lis/historicalcollections/swml/
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