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."
A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers
A Hero of Our Time
Mikhail Lermontov
A History of Bangladesh
William van Schendel
Cambridge University Press
isbn 9781108473699
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A History of Rock Creek Park: Wilderness & Washington, D.C. (Landmarks)
Scott Einberger
A Home for Mr. Easter
Brooke A. Allen
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Hanif Abdurraqib
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah
A Man in Love
Karl Ove Knausgård
A Passage to India: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism
Betty Jay
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
A Savage Order: How the World's Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security
Rachel Kleinfeld
A Scanner Darkly
Philip K. Dick
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Gilles Deleuze
University of Minnesota Press
isbn 9780816614028
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A Visit From The Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Bill Bryson
A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle #1)
Ursula K. Le Guin
Absolution
Jeff VanderMeer
Acceptance (Southern Reach #3)
Jeff VanderMeer
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
isbn 9780374104115
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Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
Thomas Rid
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
isbn 9780374287269
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Ada & Zangemann: A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream
Matthias Kirschner,
Sandra Brandstätter (illus.)
No Starch Press
isbn 9781718503182
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Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)
Octavia E. Butler
After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World
A.N. Wilson
Agency (Jackpot #2)
William Gibson
Algorithms of Oppression
Safiya Umoja Noble
New York University Press
isbn 9781479837243
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Ali and Nino
Kurban Said
All Fours
Miranda July
All Systems Red
Martha Wells
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
Cormac McCarthy
All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy
American Elf: The Collected Sketchbook Diaries, Vol. 1
James Kochalka
Top Shelf Productions
isbn 9781891830495
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American Innovations
Rivka Galchen
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
isbn 9780374280475
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American Pastoral (The American Trilogy, #1)
Philip Roth
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis
Vintage Contemporaries / Random House
isbn 9780679735779
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Amphigorey Also (Amphigorey, #3)
Edward Gorey
An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures
Ann Cvetkovich
Duke University Press Books
isbn 9780822330882
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An Ugly Truth
Sheera Frenkel,
Cecilia Kang
Angela Davis: An Autobiography
Angela Y. Davis
Animal Dreams
Barbara Kingsolver
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Animosity, Vol. 1: The Wake
Marguerite Bennett
Annihilation (Southern Reach #1)
Jeff VanderMeer
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
isbn 9780374104092
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Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death
Judith Butler
Columbia University Press
isbn 9780231118958
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Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II
Marc Weidenbaum
Architect or Bee?: The Human/Technology Relationship
Mike Cooley
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America
Dana Luciano
New York University Press
isbn 9780814752234
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Art Attack: A Brief Cultural History of the Avant-Garde
Marc Aronson
Artificial Condition
Martha Wells
Atmospheric Disturbances
Rivka Galchen
Authority (Southern Reach #2)
Jeff VanderMeer
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
isbn 9780374104108
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition
Mark Twain
University of California Press
isbn 9780520267190
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Autonomous
Annalee Newitz
Avengers: Disassembled
Brian Michael Bendis