Member: eromsted

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About meCurrently reading:

About my libraryThere are really two different libraries here. One is my actual physical library, those books are in the "Your Library" collection. The other is aspirational, or rather (since I will never be able to buy all of these books) it is best seen as a personal bibliography of works of interest. I use it to decide what to buy next and to keep track of useful books as I run across them. These books are in the "wishlist" collection. There are also a number of books in the "Read but not Owned" collection which should be fairly self-explanatory.

My interests are eclectic, however they mainly lie in history, labor/class studies, radical politics and literature.

The library is meant to be viewed in LCCN order. I have completed a large tagging project, however, there are certainly errors and I make no pretense of completeness. Most books I've read have ratings with two stars as flawed, three as useful/good but not notable, four as very good/notable and five as excellent/classic.

Books I've read so far this year are here.
Books I plan to read soon are tagged up next. And my extended future reading plans are quixotically labeled StbR (Soon to be Read), it should only take a few years or so.

Suggestions, comments and questions are always appreciated.
(Prompt responses not guaranteed)

Thank you for your interest. Enjoy.

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Favorite authorsJames Baldwin, Samuel Beckett, Saul Bellow, William Faulkner, Eric Foner, Philip Sheldon Foner, William Gaddis, Günter Grass, E. J. Hobsbawm, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Gabriel García Márquez, C. Wright Mills, David Montgomery, Kim Moody, Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, Bertrand Russell, John Steinbeck, E. P. Thompson, Leo Tolstoy (Shared favorites)

VenuesFavorites | Visited

Favorite librariesArchibald S. Alexander Library, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Favorite listsThe 99% -- Most Readable Non-Fiction, Classics you know you should have read but probably haven't, Favourite Books, Great American Novels

MembershipTinyCat. https://www.librarycat.org/lib/eromsted

Real nameEric Romsted

LocationJersey City, NJ

Account typepublic

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Member sinceJul 7, 2006

Currently readingRabbit Angstrom: A Tetralogy: Rabbit Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit at Rest; with an Introduction by the Author by John Updike
Torture and Democracy by Darius M. Rejali
The Condition of the Working-class in England; From Personal Observation and Authentic Sources by Frederick Engels
Rise of the Red Engineers: The Cultural Revolution and the Origins of China's New Class by Joel Andreas
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
World in Crisis: Marxist Perspectives on Crash & Crisis by Guglielmo Carchedi
Russia Without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War by Tony Wood
Devil on the Cross by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
James Connolly: Selected Writings by James Connolly
Workshop Talks by James Connolly
The James Connolly Reader by James Connolly
Somersault by Kenzaburo Oe
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