Alt Lit = ORANGE is the New Gasbag Hack!

Here's the start of a gift list of Deconstructed Recommended Reading Titles for trump on his way out.

Add your own to the TBR Table:

Marianne started with A GROPING MAN IN MOSCOW

Joe cleverly upped it to Miss Ogyny's Home for Peculiar Republicans

M. added THE MIGRANT CUCKOOS or THE MIDTERM CUCKOOS

and DOLLARS FROM MY DADDY

Joe proceeded with: TO KILL A MOCKING DEM

INHERIT THE WINDBAG

A F**UCKWORK ORANGE

One Hundred Years in Solitary (c'mon Mueller!)

Adventures of Knuckledonnie Dim

The Naked and The Putin

A House for Mr. Dimwit

and the new favorite Classic = A FAREWELL TO BRAINS

>1 m.belljackson:

ALL THE MUELLER WE CANNOT SEE!

1001 Arabian Lies

Let's see, hmm.

Snide and Prejudiced

Great Expectorations (after the election)

The Perfect Stormy

The Age of Ignorance (Edith Wharton)

Democrats Shrugged (Ayn Rand)

The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

The Audacity of DOPES

LOL!

>6 jnwelch:

Born a Creep

50 Shades of Greed

Travels with Stormy

And, one you may well love:

A Brief History of Depravity

((Dear gods, please let it be brief))

Ha! Oh, you're getting good at this, Marianne. I did enjoy A Brief History of Depravity (I hope it's brief!) They're all topnotch, but Travels with Stormy particularly got me for some reason.

>8 jnwelch:

The Vanishing Act of Mexican Borders

Fear and Loathing in DC

The Day of the Jackass

>10 jessibud2:

The Day of the Jackass is another Classic!

Then comes:

Tweets of Darkness

Border a Crime

A Moron for All Seasons

Like Water, Forget It

The Essex Suck-ups

I love Day of the Jackass!

How about: The Hunt for Blue November....

Love these!! And thanks, I needed that. : )

>16 Berly: >15 jessibud2:

Thank you - your contributions will be welcome!!!

Still with some faint Blue Hope...

Little White Riding Hoods

Killing Democracy

>19 RBeffa:

Perfect and chilling.

Maybe the November 6th election will give us something...?

>20 m.belljackson: Tough to have hope these days. One more:

Edith Wharton's "The House of Mitch"

I'm enjoying these a LOT! I wish I had time and brain to submit a few, but alas....... not now.

>22 LizzieD: Thank You!

ELECTION DAY =

James and The Giant ImPeachment

OR

Let The Great World Sink

Mortal Comeback ?

Variation on Rushdie book list, suggested by my daughter:

Snatch-22

"Good as Sold:* the Secrets of ʻClosingʻ "

* a plug for the great Joseph Hellerʻs (perhaps neglected) Good as Gold

>26 rolandperkins:

Good to see our fun titles have reached Hawaii!

A fellow Astronomy teacher I met at a wonderful month long Astro Workshop in Flagstaff many years ago
lived her whole life in Hawaii
and dreamed every night of flying home and diving into the surf.

I'll look for Good as Gold and hope to see more.

(Related to Interesting Libraries, my review of ON TYRANNY is on this month's Non-Fiction Challenge.)

Born today in 1960 is Neil Gaiman, purported author of American Gawdawfuls

Snide,
Lied,
Denied,
AND
Prejudiced

Pence and Prejudice

Ha!

Having just read Anne Fadiman's book:

The Mueller Catches You and You Fall Down

Happy Thanksgiving to all readers!

(It's way more happy than it might have been.)

No variation on a book title this time, just a cue from Ronnie:

"Tear Down This Idiot!!!"

"To Eat Up an Impeachment" #*

# what the incoming senate would probably do

*In honor (?) of the great Calder Willlinghamʻs
often neglected "To Eat a Peach"

>31 jnwelch: I do believe this is my favorite.

All The President's Convicts

How about Richard Russo's "Imperial President Falls"

"Insecure Democracy: why DO we have an electoral college?" by Scary Gregorius

>36 richardderus:

Cannot happen too soon!

>37 rolandperkins:

Another eternal question, like:
why set the clocks back?
why have elections in November when blue state people can barely get to the polls?
why not let people vote to reduce the trillion dollar budget?

>38 m.belljackson: Amen. And we don't even need to mess with the title of Andrew Sean Greer's Pullet Surprise winner: Less.

That's what the Orange Shitgibbon is, pick a (non-avoirdupois) metric.

Saw your question in my thread - I don't know of any way to move a thread from one group to another. I'll ask The Powers That Be and let you know. As an alternate, you (or someone) could collect all the titles folks have posted and put them in the first (few) messages of a new thread in the 2019 group. Plus posting a link to this thread in the new thread - the 2018 group doesn't go away when we're done here.