A Few of My Favorite Books

(This list is in desperate need of an update, but I still love all the books listed below.)

Alphabetical, by Author, and not inclusive:

• Sex at the Margins, Laura Maria Agustin

• All The Power: Revolution Without Illusion, Mark Andersen

• The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood

• The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin

• The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir

• Strip City, Lily Burana

• Aaron Cometbus:  Cometbus (punk rock zine),  Chicago Stories, Mixed Reviews, Despite Everything, I Wish There Was Something That I Could Quit

• The Hours, Michael Cunningham

• The Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work, Melissa Ditmore, editor

• Zines, Stephen Duncombe

• Intercourse, Andrea Dworkin

• Intimate Matters, John D’Emilio and Estelle Freedman

• The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon

• The Sound and The Fury, William Faulkner

• Michel Foucault: History of Sexuality, Birth of the Clinic,  Madness and Civilization, Discipline and Punish

• Grendel, John Gardner

• Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Women & Economics, Herland

• “Cyborg Manifesto”, Donna Haraway

• Marya Hornbacher: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia,  Madness: A Bipolar Life,  The Center of Winter, Sane: Addiction, Mental Illness, and the Twelve Steps

• Luce Irigaray: This Sex Which Is Not One,  Speculum of the Other Woman

• How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, Jenna Jameson

• An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison

• Spy Rock Road, How to Ruin a Record Label, Larry Livermore

• How To Be Invisible, J.J. Luna

• John Stuart Mill (and Harriet Taylor Mill): The Subjection of Women,  On Liberty

• How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America, Cristina Page

• Vindication of the Rights of Whores, Gail Pheterson

• Marge Piercy: Sex Wars; He, She, and It

• The Wisdom of Whores, Elisabeth Pisani

• Zeroes & Ones, Sadie Plant

• King Dork, Frank Portman

• Tracy Quan: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl, Diary of a Married Call Girl, Diary of a Jetsetting Call Girl

• The Story of O, Pauline Reage

• Good Morning, Midnight, Jean Rhys

• Woman at Point Zero, Nawal El Saadawi

• And The Band Played On, Rady Shilts

• Darcy Steinke: Jesus Saves, Suicide Blonde

• The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

• The End of America, Naomi Wolf

• Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own, Mrs. Dalloway