Reading (all at once, for reasons unknown:

Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything
Michael J. Rosen's Mirth of a Nation
Ricky Jay's Journal of Anomalies
Bentley Little's The Association
Charles M. Schulz's The complete Peanuts : 1953 to 1954

Read:

Thomas Frank's What's the Matter with Kansas? and the Thomas-Frank-edited Commodify Your Dissent.

Berkeley Breathed's Opus : 25 years of his Sunday best

Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers

Garrison Keillor's Homegrown democrat : a few plain thoughts from the heart of America

Charles M. Schulz's The complete Peanuts : 1950 to 1952