I wrote last week about My Revolutions, Hari Kunzru's new novel, which is my January pick for our Significant Seven. And when poking around to learn more about him and the book, I came across his bare-bones home page, which features a larger version of the lovely bookshelf photo above, filled with what must have been his research materials for My Revolutions. I'm always fascinated by the process of research in writing fiction (how much to do it, when to stop and let imagination take over, etc.), but I nearly always despise those lengthy acknowledgments that often appear these days at the end (or worse, the beginning) of novels, explaining all the research materials used and thanking all those involved. It breaks the spell of the tale. My Revolutions does include such a note at the end, but it's written with some style and manages to still leave a great deal of mystery, so I didn't mind it. But even better is to see this jumbled shelf, raw and unexplained, as a hint of the sourcework that went into the story: the mystery of creation is for me not only retained, but deepened. And so in the spirit of the Omnivoracious annotated bookshelf, a partial listing of the books I can find in the photo (a treasure trove of Leftist theory and Sixties history) appears after the jump. --Tom

• SCUM Manifesto, Valerie Solanis


• Because They're Black, Derek Humphry and Gus John


• Baader Meinhof: Pictures on the Run 67-77, Astrid Proll


• Underground: The London Alternative Press, 1966-74, Nigel Fountain


• People Together, Clem Gorman


• The Squatters, Ron Bailey


• The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise, R.D. Laing


• The Divided Self, R.D. Laing


• Knots, R.D. Laing


• Communes in Britain, Andrew Rigby


• King Mob Echo, Tom Vague


• The Christie File, Stuart Christie


• The Left in Britain, David Widgery


• Bending the Bars: Prison Stories of an Angry Brigade Member, John Barker


• The New Left, Maurice Cranston


• Anarchy in the UK: The Angry Brigade, Tom Vague


• The New Radicals, Saul Jacobs and Paul Landau


• The Carlos Complex: A Study in Terror, Christopher Dobson and Ronald Payne


• Das Capital, Vol. 1, Karl Marx


• Grundrisse, Karl Marx


• Low Intensity Operations, Frank Kitson


• Bringing Down America: An FBI Informer with the Weathermen, Larry Grathwohl


• The Winter Soldier Investigation: An Inquiry into American War Crimes, Vietnam Veterans Against the War


• The Black Panthers Speak, Philip S. Foner, ed.


• Weatherman, Harold Jacobs


• The Tupamaro Guerrillas, Maria Esther Gilio


• I Am Curious (Yellow), Vilgot Sjoman


• I Am Curious (Blue), Vilgot Sjoman


• The Wretched of the Earth, Franz Fanon


• The Angry Brigade, Gordon Carr


• With the Weathermen, Susan Stern


• Diana: The Making of a Terrorist, Thomas Powers


• Strategy for Revolution, Regis Debray


• What Is to Be Done?, V.I. Lenin


• After the Revolution: Authority in a Good Society, Robert A. Dahl


• Memoirs of a Revolutionary, Victor Serge


• Deep Cover: An FBI Agent Infiltrates the Radical Underground, Cril Payne


• Ecrits, Jacques Lacan


• Armed Love, Elia Katz


• Media Manifestos, Regis Debray


• The Mass Psychology of Fascism, Wilhelm Reich


• On Violence, Hannah Arendt

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