Reading

Books: on balance, I'm for them. These are most of the ones I've read since 2007 or so. The star ratings correspond more closely to "how worth my time this felt" than "how good this is."
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Abdurraqib, Hanif

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

worldcat | bookshop | 9781984801203

05 Apr 2025
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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

worldcat | bookshop | 9781937512651

02 Jan 2019
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Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest

worldcat | bookshop | 9781477316481

17 Oct 2019
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Adams, Douglas

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)

worldcat | bookshop | 9780671742515

24 Nov 2013
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Agamben, Giorgio

Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life

Made me think about:
- Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

worldcat | bookshop | 9780804732185

23 Jul 2021
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Ahmed, Sara

Complaint!

worldcat | bookshop | 9781478017714

24 Apr 2022
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Albom, Mitch

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

worldcat | bookshop | 9781401308582

05 May 2008
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Albrecht, Katherine

Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID

Made me think about:
- Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

worldcat | bookshop | 9781595550200

01 Jun 2009
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Alexie, Sherman

The Toughest Indian in the World

worldcat | bookshop | 9780802138002

05 May 2008
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Reservation Blues

worldcat | bookshop | 9780802141903

05 May 2008
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

worldcat | bookshop | 9780802141675

05 May 2008
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Allen, Brooke A.

A Home for Mr. Easter

worldcat | bookshop | 9781561635801

20 Sep 2011
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Allende, Isabel

Portrait in Sepia

worldcat | bookshop | 9780060898489

05 May 2008
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Allred, Mike

Madman Volume 3

worldcat | bookshop | 9781582408934

26 May 2008
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Madman Adventures Collection

worldcat | bookshop | 9780878163144

03 Mar 2008
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Amis, Kingsley

Lucky Jim

worldcat | bookshop | 9780140186307

01 Feb 2008
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Amis, Martin

The War against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000

worldcat | bookshop | 9780375727160

01 Feb 2008
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Arata, Stephen

Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siècle: Identity and Empire

worldcat | bookshop | 9780521101271

10 Jan 2010
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Arendt, Hannah

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Made me think about:
- A Hero of Our Time

worldcat | bookshop | 9780143039884

23 Jan 2023
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The Origins of Totalitarianism

Made me think about:
- Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture
- Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

worldcat | bookshop | 9781433206634

18 Jun 2021
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Aronson, Marc

Art Attack: A Brief Cultural History of the Avant-Garde

worldcat | bookshop | 9780395797297

26 Feb 2020
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Asano, Inio

Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 1

worldcat | bookshop | 9781421586205

19 Mar 2019
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Asimov, Isaac

Second Foundation (Foundation #3)

worldcat | bookshop | 9780553803730

01 Mar 2008
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Foundation and Empire (Foundation #2)

worldcat | bookshop | 9780553803723

01 Mar 2008
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Foundation (Foundation, #1)

worldcat | bookshop | 9780553293357

01 Feb 2008
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Atwood, Margaret

The Handmaid's Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)

worldcat | bookshop | 9780385490818

25 Aug 2011
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Aurelius,Marcus

The Meditations: A New Translation (Revised)
Gregory Hays (trans.)

Made me think about:
- The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
- Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way

worldcat | bookshop | 9780812968255

10 Sep 2023
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Austen, Jane

Northanger Abbey

Made me think about:
- The Parasol Against the Axe

worldcat | bookshop | 9781593082642

19 Mar 2009
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