“It might sound naive to suggest that whether you order a chicken patty or a veggie burger is a profoundly important decision. Then again, it certainly would've sounded fantastic if in the 1950s you were told that where you sat in a restaurant or on a bus could begin to uproot racism. It would have sounded equally fantastic to if you were told in the early 1970s, before Cesar Chavez's workers' rights campaigns, that refusing to eat grapes could begin to free farmworkers from slave-like conditions. It might sound fantastic, but when we bother to look, it's hard to deny that our day-to-day choices shape the world.”

—Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

Books 2012

001. The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
002. The Girl Who Played With Fire (Stieg Larsson)
003. Storm Front (Jim Butcher)
004. 99 francs (Frédéric Beigbeder)
005. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Stieg Larsson)
006. Emmaus (Alessandro Baricco)
007. Les États-Unis au temps de la prospérité, 1919-1929 (André Kaspi)
008. American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
009. Les Rivières pourpres (Jean-Christophe Grangé)
010. La confession d’un enfant du siècle (Alfred de Musset)
011. Henry IV (William Shakespeare)
012. Henry V (William Shakespeare)
013. A Dance with Dragons (George R. R. Martin)
014. Sharp Teeth (Toby Barlow)
015. How Not to Write a Screenplay: 101 Common Mistakes Most Screenwriters Make (Denny Martin Flinn)
016. The Grudge Affair (Sara DeMent)
017. The Death of the Author (Roland Barthes)
018. Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
019. The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler)
020. The Night Eternal (Guillermo del Toro)
021. Deathless (Catherynne M. Valente)
022. Nemesis (Lindsey Davis)
023. Venus in Furs (Leopold von Sacher-Masoch)
024. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
025. Questa Storia (Alessandro Baricco)

“... he wondered whether there was any love between human beings that did not rest upon some sort of self-delusion; ...”

-George Smiley

Excerpt from Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carré

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