Interests
Faves
- Chester A. Arthur Conspiracy, William Wiegand
- Paradise Alley, Kevin Baker
- A Million Nightingales - Susan Straight
- Becky: The Life and Times of Becky Thatcher - Lenore Hart
- Fire Bell in the Night - Geoffrey Edwards
- Mayflower – Nathaniel Philbrick
- Someone Knows My Name - Lawrence Hill
- Song Yet Sung - James McBride
- The Anatomy of Deception - Lawrence Goldstone
- The Black Dove - Steve Hockensmith
- The Devil in the White City – Erik Larson
- Thunderstruck – Erick Larson
- The Expeditions – Karl Iagnemma
- The Night Birds – Thomas Maltman
- The Shanghai Tunnel – Sharan Newman
- The Whiskey Rebels – David Liss
Folk Art
In addition to reading and writing related activities Jim Duggins collects Mexican Folk Art and is a frequent contributor of such work to museums in the United States including the:
- Heffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
- International Museum of Folk Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Museum of Man, San Diego, California
- National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago Illinois
- San Francisco Mexican Museum, San Francisco, California
- Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, California
- San Francisco Mexican Museum of Art, San Francisco, California
- Palm Springs Museum of Art
