Sunday, February 23, 2014

2014 Book List

Photograph copyright K. Smokey Cormier, used with permission.


Wut, you thought I'd given up publishing my yearly lists, or even shrunk them in shame? Fuck no. Not me. It's the usual unmanageable List of Thousands, well, OK, hundreds. I want pizza if I finish even one-third of the books on this list this year.


Book List 2014

  1. *50 Stories - Kay Boyle
  2. 130 Projects To Get You Into Filmmaking - Grove
  3. A Concise History of Indian Art - Roy C. Craven
  4. A History of India 1 - Romila Thapar
  5. A History of India 2 - Percival Spear
  6. A New History of India - Stanley Wolpert
  7. *A Short History of The Movies - Gerald Mast
  8. A Tale Of Millions: Bangladesh Liberation War - M. Rafiqul Islam
  9. Adventures in the Skin Trade - Dylan Thomas
  10. Akbar & the Jesuits - Pierre du Jarric
  11. An Advanced History of India - Majumdar, Raychaudhari, & Datta
  12. An Introduction to Indian Music - Chaitanya Deva
  13. *Art History - Marilyn Stokstad
  14. Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner
  15. *Asian Dragons & Green Trade - Simon Tay & Daniel Esty
  16. Bangladesh From Mujib to Ershad, an interpretive study - Lawrence Ziring
  17. Bergman on Bergman - Paul Britten Austin, transl.
  18. *Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott
  19. Burchett: Reporting The Other Side Of The World - Ben Kiernan
  20. Canyon Cinema - Scott McDonald
  21. Ceylon - S. Arasaratnam
  22. Cinema, Emergence, & The Films of Satyajit Roy - Keya Ganguly
  23. Cinnamon Shops - Bruno Schultz
  24. Clarissa - Samuel Richardson
  25. Colonial Masculinity - Mrinalini Sinha
  26. Crafts of West Bengal - Prabhas Sen
  27. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
  28. Daddyji - Ved Mehta
  29. Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
  30. Decolonizing the Mind - Ngugi wa Thiong'o
  31. Desis in the House - Sunaina Maira
  32. Dharma and Development - Joanna R. Macy
  33. Digital Filmmaking - Mike Figgis
  34. Digital Photography Master Class -
  35. Essentials of Screenwriting - Richard Walter
  36. *Finnegan's Wake - James Joyce
  37. First Person Singular - Joyce Carol Oates
  38. Folklore of Tamil Nadu - S.M.L. Lakshman Chettiar
  39. Frogs In A Well - Patricia Jaffrey
  40. From Word to Image - Marcie Begleiter
  41. Gandhi - Louis Fischer
  42. Gandhi's Truth — On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence - Erik H. Erikson
  43. Getting Organized - Stephanie Winston
  44. Giving Up Hope - Kalyani Mehta
  45. Gotta Have It - Spike Lee
  46. Grassroots Guide to PNG Pidgin - Bob Browne
  47. Handcrafted Indian Textiles - Rta Kapur Chishti & Rahul Jain
  48. Herzog - Saul Bellow
  49. Hinduism - Its Historical Development - Troy Wilson Organ
  50. *How To Get Control of Your Time & Your Life - Alan Lakein
  51. I Can Make You Thin - Paul McKenna
  52. Ikat Textiles of India - Chetna Desai
  53. Illustrated Historical Guide To Melaka -
  54. I'm Just Here For The Food - Alton Brown
  55. In The Blink of An Eye - Walter Murch
  56. India Wins Freedom - Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
  57. IsvarChandra Vidyasagar -
  58. Jews of the Raj - Mavis Hyman
  59. Kieslowski on Kieslowski - Darusia Stok, ed.
  60. Kiki: Ten Thousand Years In A Lifetime -
  61. Light in August - William Faulkner
  62. Light on Yoga - B.K.S. Iyengar
  63. Look Homeward Angel - Thomas Wolfe
  64. Making Documentary Films - Barry Hampe
  65. *Making Pictures: A Century of European Cinematography -
  66. Made In India - Suparna Bhaskaran
  67. Masters of Light - Schaefer & Salvato
  68. Medieval Mysticism of India - Ksitimohan Sen
  69. Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan - Melody Ermachild Chavis
  70. Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh - Amy Raphael, ed.
  71. Movies & Methods - Bill Nichols, ed.
  72. Movies & Methods II - Bill Nichols, ed.
  73. Music for Mohini - Bhabani Bhattacharya
  74. Musical Instruments of India - Ram Avtar Vir
  75. My Traitor's Heart - Rian Malan
  76. *Nakshi Kantha of Bengal - Sila Basak
  77. Notes on Directing - Walker
  78. Orientalism - Edward W. Said
  79. Our Films, Their Films - Satyajit Ray
  80. Our Lady of Controversy - Alma Lopez
  81. Ousmane Sembene - Gadjigo
  82. Procrastination - Burka & Yuen
  83. Punjabi Century 1857-1947 - Prakash Tandon
  84. Ravi Shankar: My Music, My Life - Ravi Shankar
  85. Reading Lolita In Teheran - Azar Nafisi
  86. Rebel Without A Crew - Robert Rodriguez
  87. Rosie - Anne Lamott
  88. Sacred Cows, Sacred Places - Deryck O. Lodrick
  89. Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye (The Biography Of A Master Film-Maker - Andrew Robinson
  90. Sayles on Sayles - Gavin Smith, ed.
  91. Screenwriting 434 - Lew Hunter
  92. Shoot Me - Simonelli & Frumkes
  93. Showdown - Jorge Amado
  94. Sitar & Sarod in the 18th & 19th centuries - Allyn Miner
  95. Some Trouble With Cows - Beth Roy
  96. Something Like An Autobiography - Kurosawa Akira
  97. Songs of Kabir - Rabindranath Tagore
  98. Srikanta - Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay
  99. The Ajanta Caves -
  100. The Argumentative Indian - Amartya Sen
  101. The Art of the Novel - Milan Kundera
  102. The Autobiography of An Unknown Indian - Nirad C. Chaudhary
  103. The Bengal Muslims 1871 - 1906 - Ahmed
  104. The Bhopal Tragedy - ARPEN Report
  105. The Central Structure of the Mughal Empire - Ibn Hasan
  106. The Declaration of Independent Filmmaking - Polish, Polish, & Sheldon
  107. The Dictionary of Hindustani Classical Music - Bimalakanta Roychaudhuri
  108. The Discovery of India - Jawaharlal Nehru
  109. The Encylopedia of the Indian Diaspora - Brij V. Lal
  110. The Films of Akira Kurosawa - Donald Richie
  111. The Forgotten Army (Indian Mutiny) - Peter Ward Fay
  112. The Gene Hunters Biotechnology and the scramble for seeds - Calestous Juma
  113. The Gesture Language of the Hindu Dance - La Meri
  114. The Great Hedge of India - Roy Moxham
  115. The Hill of Devi - E.M. Forster
  116. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
  117. The Men Who Ruled India Vol. I The Founders - Philip Woodruff
  118. The Men Who Ruled India, Vol. II The Guardians - Philip Woodruff
  119. The Mind's Eye - Douglas Hofstader
  120. The Politics of Sri Lanka - Robert N. Kearney
  121. The Rape of Bangladesh - Mascarenhas
  122. The Remembered Village - M.N. Srinivasan
  123. The Rig Veda - Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, transl
  124. The Sari - Linda Lynton
  125. The Story of Zahra - Hanan al-Shaykh
  126. Thinking Fast & Slow - Daniel Kahneman
  127. The Thirteen Principal Upanishads - Robert Ernest Hume
  128. Third World Filmmaking -
  129. Theory & Practice of Film Sound - Weis & Belton
  130. Theory of Indian Ragas - Ram Avtar Vir
  131. Visionary Film - P. Adams Sitney
  132. Wanted: Equality and Justice In The Muslim Family - Zainah Anwar, ed.
  133. Why Be Normal When You Could Be Happy - Jeanette Winterson
  134. Witness to an Era - Frank Moraes
  135. Writers' Workshop in a Book - Cheuse and Alvarez
  136. Yoga: Mastering the Basics - Sandra Anderson, Rolf Sovik
  137. Yonnondio - Tillie Olsen
  138. Zen & The Art of Screenwriting - W. Froug
  139. Wild - Cheryl Strayed
  140. Dread - The Rastafarians of Jamaica - Joseph Owens
  141. Folklore From Contemporary Jamaicans - Daryl C. Dance
  142. One Blood — The Jamaican Body - Elisa Janine Sobo
  143. Rasta & Resistance - Horace Campbell
  144. Rastafari Roots & Ideology - Barry Chevannes
  145. Roots of Rastafari - Virginia Lee Jacobs
  146. The Rastafarians - Leonard E. Barrett, Sr.
  147. La Vera Cucina Italiana - Donaldo Soviero
  148. The Classic Pasta Cookbook - Giuliano Hazan

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