(Editor's note: In 1988, after high school but before college, I spent a year living as an exchange student in Australia. That year was Australia's bicentennial, and I learned a lot about the country's history, from its harsh origins as a British penal colony to the Australian government's theft of the entire continent from the Aboriginal natives who were already living there, a racist land grab that parallels the U.S. experience of ripping off the Native Americans. This is a reading list I compiled of books I saw on various folks' bookshelves during my year there that I hadn't yet read but wanted to.)
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
The First Circle; One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; For The Good of The Cause - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Future Shock; The Eco-Spasm Report - Alvin Toffler
If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him! - Sheldon Kopp
They're a Weird Mob - Nino Culotta
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
Lost In The Funhouse - John Barth
The Conquest of Happiness; Authority and the Individual - Bertrand Russell
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
The Backroom Boys - Noam Chomsky
Celebration of Awareness; Tools for Conviviality; Toward a History of Needs; Energy And Equity - Ivan Illich
Word Play: What Happens When People Talk - Peter Farb
The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley
Instead of Education - John Holt
The Naked Ape; The Human Zoo - Desmond Morris
The Sociological Imagination; The Marxists - C. Wright Mills
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
The Crack Up - F. Scott Fitzgerald
School Is Dead - Everett Reimer
Grapefruit - Yoko Ono
Growth To Freedom - Jim Cairns
The Social Construction of Reality - Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann
Know Yourself - Dr. Eustace Chesser
Peoplemaking - Virginia Satir
Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
Loon Lake - E. L. Doctorow
The Australian Ugliness - Robin Boyd
The Diary of Che Guevara - Robert Scheer (editor)
Catch-22; They Bombed In New Haven; Good As Gold - Joseph Heller
The Boys From Brazil - Ira Levin
Damned Whores and God's Police - Anne Summers
The Women's Room - Marilyn French
The Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart
The Killing Fields - Christopher Hudson
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
The Divided Self; The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise; The Politics of the Family - R.D. Laing
Mind Games - Robert Masters and Jean Houston
The Australian American Alliance - H.G. Gelber
To America With Love: Letters From The Underground - Abbie Hoffman
The Supreme Court of the United States of America; The Politics of Ecstasy - Timothy Leary
The Whole World is Watching - Todd Gitlin
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein
Black Panther Leaders Speak/Revolution In the Congo - Eldridge Cleaver
Primal Scream - Arthur Janov
The Revolution on Trial - Regis Debray
Terror or Love? - Michael Baumann
I Write What I Like - Steve Biko
The Lucky Country - Donald Horne
Seize The Time; Lonely Rage - Bobby Seale