OK, this is a list of books I own that I want (need) to read before August.  There are a few themes going on here: books by faculty I will be studying under, topics I want to explore, communities defined by culture, and then religion and religious communities.

A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada by Mark A. Noll
Barrio Dreams: Puerto Ricans, Latinos, and the Neoliberal City by Arlene Davila
Cultures in Babylon: Black Britain and African America by Hazel V. Carby
Forgotten Kingdom: The Mormon Theocracy in the American West, 1847-1896 by David L. Bigler
Indian Women and French Men by Susan Sleeper-Smith
Learning from the Left: Children’s Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States by Julie L. Mickenberg
Methodism and the Southern Mind by Cynthia Lyerly
Sisters in Spirit: Mormon Women in Historical and Cultural Perspective edited by Maureen Ursenback Beecher and Lavine Fielding Anderson
The Second Goldrush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II by Marilynn S. Johnson
The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture by Neil Foley
Women, Family, and Utopia: Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons by Lawrence Foster

Next up:

Books I have read that I should review
Books that every graduate student MUST read before they begin US History…like I can really read all of these but I will try. I am thinking books that summarizes time periods using gender, race and class as major categories of analyses.

Ambitious much?