SGM Summer Reading List 2008

(... with a hearty thanks to Ron for providing some of the titles for this year's assignments)

Book reports due, as always, by August 30th!
No penalty for handing reports in early.

Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
Au: Neil Gabler

The Ten Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How it Changed America
Au: David Hadju

The Raw Shark Texts: A Novel
Au: Steven Hall

The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World
Au: Tim Harford

The Hammer Story: The Authorised History of Hammer Films
Au: Marcus Hearn & Alan Barnes

The Mammoth Book of Monsters
Ed: Stephen Jones

Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop: Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America
Au: Bakari Kitwana

Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction
Au: Nick Montfort

The Search for the Last Undiscovered Animals
Au: Karl P.N. Shuker

Muses, Madmen and Prophets: Rethinking the History, Science, and Meaning of Auditory Hallucination
Au: Daniel B. Smith