Tradition in evolution.

In most classes I teach, at some point the conversation gets around to reading. Here's an abbreviated list of novels and non-fiction books I enjoyed. There's a more complete list, which I'm updating frequently, here.

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• Population 485 by Michael Perry. Also his books Truck: A Love Story and Coop. And anything else he writes.
  
• Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs and this entire series of mystery novels set in Britain in the aftermath of the Great War. Thank you, Diane, for this recommendation!
  
• Sweeping Beauty: Contemporary Women Poets Do Housework by Pamela Gemin (editor)
  
• Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser
  
• Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire. And don't miss Son of a Witch and A Lion Among Men.
  
• A Man Without A Country by Kurt Vonnegut
  
• The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz
  
• Everyday Sacred: A Woman's Journey Home by Sue Bender
  
• Shop Class As Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into The Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford
  
• How Art Made The World by Nigel Spivey
  
• The Alphabet Versus The Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image by Leonard Shlain
  
• Collapse by Jared Diamond
  
• Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
  
• The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan