My summer Reading List

I am not sure that I am going to have much of my summer to read what I want but here is my summer reading list as it is shaping up should I manage to get myself fired so that I can just read what I am interested in. Grin. I am working on developing a course on the Middle East if you are interested in knowing more about why all the books pertaining to that subject are there. I will be presenting a workshop on Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye in the Fall so I am interested in reading more of her books.

Sailing Home: Using The Wisdom of Homer's Odyssey to Navigate Life's Perils and Pitfalls by Norman Fischer,
Elmer McCurdy by Mark Svenvold
The Shia Revival by Vali Nasr
Ahmadinejad by Kaaa Naji
The War of Ideas: Jihadism Against Democracy by Walid Phares
Gross National Happiness by Arthur c. Brooks
Gusher of Lies by Robert Bryce
Muqtada by Patrick Cockburn
True Enough by Farhad Manjoo
The Much Too Promised Land by Aaron David Miller
The Sistine Secrets
Predictably Irrational by Dan Arielly
Song of Solomon and Beloved by Toni Morrison
This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel Levitin
and some Billy Collins poetry