I don't mean to nitpick, Tom, but is this really your plan?

Bathsheba Demuth, Floating Coast: ( people and animals' histories are linked )
Jared Farmer, Trees in Paradise: A California History: ( interesting way to tell the history )
Eric L. Goldstein, The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity: ( a lot to think about )

Guy Lawson, Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street’s Wildest Con: ( The con conned )
Jen Manion, Female Husbands: ( history of gender identification )
Wes Moore, Five Days: ( Baltimore protests )
Gordon H. Chang, Ghosts of Gold Mountain: ( the Chinese workers who built the railway )
Eula Biss, Having and Being Had: ( whiteness as property )
Tracy Campbell, The Year of Peril: ( 1942 )
Tim Harford, The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics: ( don't lie with statistics )

What do China’s internet censors actually censor? Collective action and porn. Criticize the government, except for censorship, all you like—but don’t organize for any purpose. Really interesting, and provides some perspective on Clay Shirky’s Cognitive Surplus and my thoughts on it.

Top ten differences between white terrorists and others: 5. White terrorists are part of a “fringe.” Other terrorists are apparently mainstream.

A surprising and frightening chart about high frequency trading.

Gotye remixes YouTube covers of Somebody That I Used to Know. Or, for humor, Batman Maybe!

Podfic of my SPN gen story Ugly Duckling by applegeuse. I love this concept so much and want every author to write a version.

( Marta Randall, George R.R. Martin )

( Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbie, Lost Girls ) I don’t want to pay for shipping on PaperbackSwap to get rid of these large and heavy volumes, but if you’re in the DC area and think you might have a different opinion of the books, I’ll happily give them to you.

I could spend hours at this site: the TV tropes wiki. The entry for Plot Tumor includes this gem: “Compare: Adaptation Decay, Flanderization, George Lucas Love Story, Jean Grey Escalation, and Motive Decay.” This is not a wiki about citation, but it does feature deep fanlove, though everyone tends to make fun of the fanworks that they don’t themselves consume. (Perhaps I should add an entry on My Kink Is Fine, Yours Is Bad—but the overall sense I get is that most people who contribute think Everyone’s Kinks Are Funny, so I actually didn’t feel attacked.)

( superheroes and a cyborg woman )