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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."
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Machado, Carmen Maria, (ed.)

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019

Mariner Books
isbn 9781328604378
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finished 16 Jan 2021

Maguire, Gregory

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

William Morrow Paperbacks
isbn 9780060987107
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finished 03 Mar 2008

Mandel, Emily St. John

Station Eleven

Knopf
isbn 9780385353304
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finished 08 Oct 2017

Mann, Charles C.

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

Vintage
isbn 9781400032051
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finished 07 Aug 2021

Made me think about:

Marshall, Gail

The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle

Cambridge University Press
isbn 9780521615617
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finished 27 Mar 2010

Martel, Yann

Life of Pi

Seal Books
isbn 9780770430078
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finished 03 Mar 2008

Mask,Deidre

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

St. Martin's Press
isbn 9781250134769
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finished 23 Feb 2022

Massumi, Brian

Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation

Duke
isbn 9780822328971
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finished 15 Nov 2021

Maturin, Charles Robert

Melmoth the Wanderer

Penguin Books
isbn 9780140447613
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finished 31 Mar 2009

Mazzucato, Mariana

The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths

PublicAffairs
isbn 9780593656938
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finished 03 Jan 2019

Mbembe, Achille

Necropolitics

Duke University Press
isbn 9781478006510
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finished 12 Oct 2021

Made me think about:

McCarthy, Cormac

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

Vintage Books
isbn 9780679747192
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finished 01 Feb 2016

The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)

Knopf Publishing Group
isbn 9780394574752
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finished 05 Jan 2015

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

Vintage
isbn 9780679744399
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finished 05 Nov 2014

No Country for Old Men

Vintage
isbn 9780375706677
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finished 15 Oct 2014

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

Vintage Books
isbn
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finished 01 Jun 2014

The Road

Alfred A. Knopf
isbn 9780307265432
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finished 18 Feb 2014

All the Pretty Horses

Vintage
isbn 9780739412534
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finished 12 May 2008

McCloud, Scott

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

William Morrow Paperbacks
isbn 9780060976255
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finished 27 Jun 2009

Made me think about:

McCullers, Carson

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Mariner Books
isbn 9780618084746
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finished 15 May 2009

McDougall, Christopher

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

Knopf
isbn 9780307266309
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finished 11 Dec 2019

McGuire, Ian

The North Water

Henry Holt and Co.
isbn 9781627795944
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finished 01 Feb 2017

Meany, Edmond S.

History of the State of Washington

Theclassics.Us
isbn 9781230314402
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finished 06 Jul 2014

Medina, Eden

Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile

MIT Press
isbn 9780262525961
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finished 09 Apr 2024

Made me think about:

Melchiori, Barbara Arnett

Terrorism in the Late Victorian Novel

Croom Helm
isbn 9780709935834
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finished 18 Sep 2009

Melville, Herman

Moby-Dick or, the Whale

Penguin Classics
isbn 9780142437247
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finished 01 Jan 2016

Mignola, Mike

Hellboy, Vol. 3: The Chained Coffin and Others

Dark Horse
isbn 9781593070915
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finished 31 May 2009

Hellboy, Vol. 2: Wake the Devil

Dark Horse Books
isbn 9781593070953
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finished 16 Sep 2008

Hellboy, Vol. 1: Seed of Destruction

Dark Horse
isbn 9781593070946
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finished 01 May 2008

Millar, Mark

The Ultimates, Volume 2: Homeland Security

Marvel
isbn 9780785110781
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finished 23 May 2009

The Ultimates, Volume 1: Super-Human

Marvel
isbn 9780785109600
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finished 10 Sep 2008

Superman: Red Son

DC Comics
isbn 9781401201913
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finished 05 May 2008

Miller, Frank

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

Dark Horse
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finished 19 May 2009

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

DC Comics
isbn 9781563893414
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finished 29 Jul 2008

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

Dark Horse
isbn 9781593072940
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finished 25 Apr 2008

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

Dark Horse
isbn 9781593072933
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finished 03 Mar 2008

Made me think about:

Minogue, Valerie Pearson, (trans.)

The Sin of Abbe Mouret
Émile Zola,

Oxford University Press
isbn 9780198736639
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finished 06 Dec 2022

Miri, Yu

Tokyo Ueno Station
Morgan Giles (trans.)

Riverhead Books
isbn 9780593187524
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finished 08 Oct 2022

Mitchell, David

Slade House

Random House
isbn
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finished 18 Mar 2017

Miéville, China

Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)

Ballantine Del Rey
isbn 9780345459404
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finished 29 Dec 2016

The City & the City

Del Rey
isbn 9780345497512
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finished 21 Jan 2014

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Monaco, Nick

Bots
Samuel Woolley

Polity Press
isbn 9781509543595
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finished 13 Sep 2022

Moore, Alan

Promethea, Vol. 3

WildStorm
isbn 9781401200947
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finished 21 Dec 2009

Promethea, Vol. 4

WildStorm
isbn 9781401200312
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finished 21 Dec 2009

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1

America's Best Comics
isbn 9781563898587
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finished 18 Oct 2009

Promethea, Vol. 2

America's Best Comics
isbn 9781563899577
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finished 09 Aug 2009

Promethea, Vol. 1

America's Best Comics
isbn 9781563896675
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finished 21 Dec 2008

Swamp Thing, Vol. 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing

Vertigo
isbn 9780930289225
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finished 20 Sep 2008

Watchmen

DC Comics
isbn 9780930289232
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finished 01 Sep 2008

Moore, Lorrie

The Best American Short Stories 2004

Mariner Books
isbn 9780618197354
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finished 12 May 2008

Morrison, Toni

Beloved

Knopf
isbn 9781400033416
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finished 19 Nov 2023

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 of the gothic novel genre for racial justice and black feminist purposes. In the gothic novel of the 18th/19th centuries, we often see captured women... more >> 

Morville, Peter

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites

O'Reilly Media
isbn 9780596527341
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finished 12 Feb 2019

Moshfegh, Ottessa

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Penguin Books
isbn 9780525522133
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finished 05 Aug 2023

Made me think about:

Murakami, Haruki

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

Vintage
isbn 9780307389831
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finished 21 Oct 2023

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 is not something I picked up on when I first read it, even though it wasn’t all that long ago. Murakami discusses his simultaneous growth... more >> 

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Knopf Publishing Group
isbn 9780307269195
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finished 10 Aug 2015

1Q84

Knopf
isbn 9780307593313
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finished 18 Aug 2014

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Knopf
isbn 9780965341981
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finished 07 Feb 2014

Murphy, Steve

Tales of the TMNT: The Collected Books, Volume 1


isbn 9780978702908
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finished 28 Feb 2009

Muñoz, José Esteban

Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics

Univ Of Minnesota Press
isbn 9780816630158
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finished 19 Oct 2008

Myint-U, Thant

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

W.W. Norton & Company
isbn 9781324003298
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finished 07 Sep 2020