
by Jason Vigorito
Ridgewood NJ, I’ve been asked what my 2019 The Ridgewood Blog reading list consists of (here ya go, PJ). My goal is to complete 80 books. Here’s a little over half of the ones I aim to complete (several are re-reads):
Circe, by Madeline Miller
The Clockmaker’s Daughter, by Kate Morton
Magpie Murders, by Anthony Horowitz
The Night Tiger, by Yangsze Choo
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert A. Heinlein
The Library Book, by Susan Orleans
The Woman in the Window, by A.J. Finn
One Day in December, by Josie Silver
Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee
The Clockwork Dynasty, by Daniel H. Wilson
The Butterfly Garden, by Dot Hutchison
How To Stop Time, by Matt Haig
Pet Sematary, by Stephen King
Misery, by Stephen King
Rose Madder, by Stephen King
The Time-Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry
Cape Cod, by William Martin
Drood, by Dan Simmons
The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka
The Extreme Life of the Sea, by Stephen Palumbi
The Coddling of the American Mind, by Greg Lukianoff
Democracy: The God that Failed, by Han Herman-Hoppe
The Privatization of Roads & Highways, by Walter Block
The Case for Discrimination, by Walter Block
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas Kuhn
On Guard, by William Lane Craig
The Virtue of Selfishness, by Ayn Rand
Why We Can’t Wait, by Martin Luther King
Grant, by Ron Chernow
The Real Lincoln, by Thomas DeLorenzo
The Rise of Andrew Jackson, by David Heidler
Fool’s Errand, by Scott Horton
Genesis and the Power of True Assumptions, by John Rankin
The Visit, by Friedrich Durrenmatt
The Undiscovered Self, by C.G. Jung
The Ethics of Liberty, by Murray Rothbard
Debunking Utopia, by Nima Sanandaji
Choice, Cooperation, Enterprise, & Human Action, by Bob Murphy
Human Action, by Ludwig von Mises
The Problem of Political Authority, by Michael Huemer
Anarchy, State, & Utopia, by Robert Nozick
12 Rules for Life, by Jordan Peterson
Frederick Douglass, by David Blight
Poetry, Language, Thought, by Martin Heidegger
Jason Vigorito is a Purveyor of Incredible Miscellany; Peripatetic Gentleman by Literary Means; Biblio-Raconteur
Read The Overstory by Richard Powers. You will not look at a tree the same way again, and you will be standing in line at town meetings eager to tell Stupid Sedon why he needs to change his tree policy. The current one is doin nothin for the environment.
I recently finished “Grant”…what an unsung here that guy was….
Human Action should be mandatory reading for all college students