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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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Sacco, Joe

Notes From a Defeatist

Fantagraphics
isbn 9781560975106
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finished 31 May 2010

Said, Kurban

Ali and Nino

Anchor Books
isbn 9780385720403
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finished 30 Oct 2008

Salinger, J.D.

Franny and Zooey

Turtleback Books
isbn 9780606288330
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finished 11 Jun 2007

Nine Stories

Little, Brown and Company
isbn 9780316767729
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finished 12 May 2008

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction

Back Bay Books
isbn 9780316766944
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finished 12 May 2008

The Catcher in the Rye

Back Bay Books
isbn 9780316769174
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finished 03 Mar 2008

Franny and Zooey

Back Bay Books
isbn 9780316769020
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finished 03 Mar 2008

Saunders, George

Liberation Day: Stories

Random House
isbn 9780525509615
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finished 24 Aug 2025

Lincoln in the Bardo

Random House
isbn 9780812995343
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finished 03 Jan 2019

Sax, David

The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter

PublicAffairs
isbn 9781610395717
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finished 12 Mar 2019

Schochet, Gordon J.

Patriarchalism in Pol Thought

Blackwell Publishers
isbn 9780631137801
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finished 15 Dec 2008

Scholz, Susanne

Body Narratives: Writing the Nation and Fashioning the Subject in Early Modern England

Palgrave Macmillan
isbn 9780312227838
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finished 07 Dec 2008

Schulz, Bruno

The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories

Penguin Books
isbn 9780143105145
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finished 15 May 2012

Scranton, Roy

Learning to Die in the Anthropocene

City Light Books
isbn 9780872866690
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finished 29 Jun 2020

I have grown to really appreciate concise, idea-packed writing. This book meets those criteria. It takes an existential view to the global climate crisis, asking us to confront the fact that it might already be too late to save what we have as a precondition to meaningful action. What I... more >> 

Made me think about:

  • Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
  • Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture

Seaver, Paul S.

Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London

Stanford University Press
isbn 9780804712675
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finished 15 Dec 2008

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky

Epistemology of the Closet

University of California Press
isbn 9780520078741
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finished 18 Feb 2009

Seidel, Katja, (ed.)

Reinventing Europe: The History of the European Union, 1945 to Present
Brigitte Leucht (ed.), Laurent Warlouzet (ed.)

Bloomsbury Academic
isbn 9781350213074
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finished 27 Aug 2023

Sennett, Richard

Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization

W. W. Norton Company
isbn 9780393313918
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finished 13 Jan 2019

Seth, Seth

It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken: A Picture Novella

Drawn and Quarterly
isbn 9781896597706
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finished 16 Aug 2011

Shariat, Jonathan

Tragic Design: The True Impact of Bad Design and How to Fix It

O'Reilly Media
isbn 9781491923610
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finished 31 May 2017

Shaw, Dash

Bottomless Belly Button

Fantagraphics
isbn 9781560979159
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finished 20 Nov 2008

Shilts, Randy

The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk

St. Martin's Griffin
isbn 9780312019006
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finished 20 Mar 2015

Shirky, Clay

Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

Penguin Press
isbn 9781594202537
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finished 19 Oct 2013

Silverstein, Shel

The Giving Tree

HarperCollins Publishers
isbn 9780060256654
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finished 05 May 2008

Sim, Dave

Church and State II (Cerebus, #4)

Aardvark Vanaheim
isbn 9780919359116
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finished 06 Mar 2009

Church and State I (Cerebus, #3)

Aardvark-Vanheim
isbn 9780919359093
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finished 30 Sep 2008

High Society (Cerebus, #2)

Aardvark-Vanaheim
isbn 9780919359079
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finished 01 Feb 2008

Cerebus (Cerebus, #1)

Aardvark-Vanaheim
isbn 9780919359086
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finished 03 Mar 2008

Simpson, Antony E.

The Maiden Tribute Of Modern Babylon: The Report Of The Secret Commission

True Bill Press
isbn 9780979111600
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finished 09 Jan 2010

Skinner, B.F.

Walden Two

Hackett Classics
isbn 9781603840361
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finished 01 Jan 2007

Made me think about:

  • Walden Two

Skloot, Rebecca

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Crown Publishing Group
isbn 9781400052189
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finished 28 Feb 2023

Slater, Michael

Charles Dickens

Yale University Press
isbn 9780300112078
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finished 01 May 2011

Smith, Jeff

RASL

Cartoon Books
isbn 9781888963373
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finished 08 Sep 2014

Bone: The Complete Edition

Cartoon Books
isbn 9781888963144
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finished 03 Mar 2008

Smith, Patti

Just Kids

Ecco
isbn 9780066211312
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finished 01 Jan 2017

Made me think about:

  • Lady Chatterley's Lover & A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover

Smith, Zadie

White Teeth

Vintage
isbn 9780375703867
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finished 10 Jul 2013

Snyder, Timothy

On Tyranny

Crown Publishing Group
isbn 9780804190114
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finished 07 Apr 2022

Srnicek, Nick

Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
Alex Williams

Verso
isbn 9781784786229
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finished 01 Nov 2016

Made me think about:

  • The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
  • Looking Backward 2000-1887

Standage, Tom

The Victorian Internet

Berkley Trade
isbn 9780425171691
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finished 15 Apr 2015

Standing, Guy

The Precariat: The Dangerous New Class

Bloomsbury Academic
isbn 9781474294164
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finished 03 Jul 2021

Steele, Alexander

Gotham Writers' Workshop: Writing Fiction: The Practical Guide From New York's Acclaimed Creative Writing School

Bloomsbury USA
isbn 9781582343303
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finished 12 May 2019

Steinbeck, John

Of Mice and Men

Penguin Books
isbn 9780142000670
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finished 03 Mar 2008

Stephenson, Eric

Nowhere Men, Vol. 1: Fates Worse Than Death

Image Comics
isbn 9781607066910
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finished 27 Mar 2014

Stephenson, Neal

Cryptonomicon

Avon
isbn 9780060512804
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finished 20 Jul 2012

Snow Crash

Bantam Books
isbn 9780553380958
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finished 02 Sep 2008

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

W. W. Norton & Company
isbn 9780393974652
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finished 16 Nov 2009

Stoker, Bram

Dracula

Norton
isbn 9780393970128
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finished 18 Apr 2009

Summers,Brandi Thompson

Black in Place

The University of North Carolina Press
isbn 9781469654010
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finished 14 Mar 2021

Made me think about:

  • Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City

Surowiecki, James

The Wisdom of Crowds

Anchor
isbn 9780385721707
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finished 23 May 2015

Sáenz, Benjamin Alire

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Simon & Schuster
isbn 9781442408937
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finished 14 Jun 2020

Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal de

The letters of Madame de Sévigné, with an introduction by A. Edward Newton, Volume 1 of 7

J.P. Horn & Company
isbn
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finished 31 Aug 2009

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