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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."
Years | Authors | Titles
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Machado, Carmen Maria, (ed.)

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781328604378

January 16 2021
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Maguire, Gregory

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
w/ Douglas Smith

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780060987107

March 03 2008
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Mandel, Emily St. John

Station Eleven

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780385353304

October 08 2017
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Mann, Charles C.

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (2nd ed.)

Made me think about:
- Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781400032051

August 07 2021
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Marshall, Gail

The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780521615617

March 27 2010
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Martel, Yann

Life of Pi

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780770430078

March 03 2008
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Mask,Deidre

The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781250134769

February 23 2022
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Massumi, Brian

Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780822328971

November 15 2021
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Maturin, Charles Robert

Melmoth the Wanderer
w/ Victor Sage

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780140447613

March 31 2009
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Mazzucato, Mariana

The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths

worldcat | bookshop | isbn

January 03 2019
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Mbembe, Achille

Necropolitics

Made me think about:
- Intersectionality

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781478006510

October 12 2021
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McCarthy, Cormac

Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780679747192

February 01 2016
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780394574752

January 05 2015
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All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780679744399

November 05 2014
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No Country for Old Men

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780375706677

October 15 2014
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Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

worldcat | bookshop | isbn

June 01 2014
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The Road

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780307265432

February 18 2014
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All the Pretty Horses

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780739412534

May 12 2008
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McCloud, Scott

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780060976255

June 27 2009
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McCullers, Carson

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780618084746

May 15 2009
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McDougall, Christopher

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780307266309

December 11 2019
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McGuire, Ian

The North Water

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781627795944

February 01 2017
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Meany, Edmond S.

History of the State of Washington

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781230314402

July 06 2014
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Medina, Eden

Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile

Made me think about:
- Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780262525961

April 09 2024
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Melchiori, Barbara Arnett

Terrorism in the Late Victorian Novel

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780709935834

September 18 2009
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Melville, Herman

Moby-Dick or, the Whale
w/ Andrew Delbanco, Tom Quirk

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780142437247

January 01 2016
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Mignola, Mike

Hellboy, Vol. 3: The Chained Coffin and Others

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781593070915

May 31 2009
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Hellboy, Vol. 2: Wake the Devil

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781593070953

September 16 2008
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Hellboy, Vol. 1: Seed of Destruction
w/ John Byrne

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781593070946

May 01 2008
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Millar, Mark

The Ultimates, Volume 2: Homeland Security
w/ Bryan Hitch, Paul Neary, Andrew Currie

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780785110781

May 23 2009
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The Ultimates, Volume 1: Super-Human
w/ Bryan Hitch, Andrew Currie

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780785109600

September 10 2008
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Superman: Red Son
w/ Kilian Plunkett, Andrew C. Robinson, Walden Wong, Dave Johnson, Paul Mounts, Ken Lopez

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781401201913

May 05 2008
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Miller, Frank

Sin City, Vol. 4: That Yellow Bastard (Sin City, #4)

This volume isn't as strong as vols. 1-3, but the art is consistently amazing, as expected.

worldcat | bookshop | isbn

May 19 2009
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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
w/ Klaus Janson, Lynn Varley

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781563893414

July 29 2008
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Sin City, Vol. 2: A Dame to Kill For (Sin City, #2)

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781593072940

April 25 2008
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Sin City, Vol. 1: The Hard Goodbye (Sin City, #1)

Made me think about:
- The Crow

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781593072933

March 03 2008
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Minogue, Valerie Pearson, (trans.)

The Sin of Abbe Mouret
w/ Émile Zola,

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780198736639

December 06 2022
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Miri, Yu

Tokyo Ueno Station
w/ Morgan Giles (trans.)

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780593187524

October 08 2022
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Mitchell, David

Slade House

worldcat | bookshop | isbn

March 18 2017
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Miéville, China

Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780345459404

December 29 2016
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The City & the City

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

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780345497512

January 21 2014
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Monaco, Nick

Bots
w/ Samuel Woolley

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781509543595

September 13 2022
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Moore, Alan

Promethea, Vol. 3
w/ J.H. Williams III, Mick Gray

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781401200947

December 21 2009
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Promethea, Vol. 4
w/ J.H. Williams III, Mick Gray

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781401200312

December 21 2009
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1
w/ Kevin O'Neill

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781563898587

October 18 2009
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Promethea, Vol. 2
w/ J.H. Williams III, Mick Gray

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781563899577

August 09 2009
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Promethea, Vol. 1
w/ J.H. Williams III, Mick Gray

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781563896675

December 21 2008
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Swamp Thing, Vol. 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing
w/ Stephen R. Bissette, John Totleben, Rick Veitch, Ramsey Campbell

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780930289225

September 20 2008
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Watchmen
w/ Dave Gibbons, John Higgins

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780930289232

September 01 2008
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Moore, Lorrie

The Best American Short Stories 2004
w/ Katrina Kenison

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780618197354

May 12 2008
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Morrison, Toni

Beloved

Beloved is every bit as heart-rending, beautiful, and erudite as I expected. It’s incredibly brilliant from a technical, writerly standpoint. I also appreciated its weaponization... more >> 

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781400033416

November 19 2023
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Morville, Peter

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites
w/ Louis Rosenfeld

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780596527341

February 12 2019

Moshfegh, Ottessa

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Made me think about:
- Grief is for People

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780525522133

August 05 2023
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Murakami, Haruki

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir

I don’t often re-read books, but this was a good choice. Murakami’s “running novelist” memoir turns out to also be a meditation on aging. This... more >> 

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780307389831

October 21 2023
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
w/ Philip Gabriel

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780307269195

August 10 2015
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1Q84
w/ Jay Rubin, Philip Gabriel

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780307593313

August 18 2014
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
w/ Jay Rubin

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780965341981

February 07 2014
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Murphy, Steve

Tales of the TMNT: The Collected Books, Volume 1
w/ Peter Laird, Jim Lawson, D'Israeli, Darío Brizuela, Diego Jourdan Pereira, Doug Rice

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780978702908

February 28 2009
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Muñoz, José Esteban

Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780816630158

October 19 2008
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Myint-U, Thant

The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781324003298

September 07 2020
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