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