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
Hawking, Stephen
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Twain, Mark
A Farewell to Arms
Hemingway, Ernest
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Eggers, Dave
A Hero of Our Time
Lermontov, Mikhail
Made me think about:
- Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
- Death and the Penguin
A History of Bangladesh
van Schendel, William
I appreciated the thoughtful and de-colonizing approach the author took to Bangladesh’s complex cultural and geopolitical histories. more >>
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A History of Rock Creek Park: Wilderness & Washington, D.C. (Landmarks)
Einberger, Scott
A Home for Mr. Easter
Allen, Brooke A.
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Beah, Ishmael
A Man in Love
Knausgård, Karl Ove
A Passage to India: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism
Jay, Betty
A People's History of the United States
Zinn, Howard
A Room of One's Own
Woolf, Virginia
A Savage Order: How the World's Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security
Kleinfeld, Rachel
A Scanner Darkly
Dick, Philip K.
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Deleuze, Gilles
A Visit From The Goon Squad
Egan, Jennifer
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Bryson, Bill
A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle #1)
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Acceptance (Southern Reach #3)
VanderMeer, Jeff
Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
Rid, Thomas
Ada & Zangemann: A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream
Kirschner, Matthias|Brandstätter, Sandra, (illus.)
I was lucky to get my hands on a physical copy of Ada & Zangemann: A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream, by Matthias Kirshner (President of Free Software Foundation Europe) and illustrator Sandra Brandstätter. It’s a lovely children’s book about the joy of tinkering, open and closed... more >>
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Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)
Butler, Octavia E.
After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World
Wilson, A.N.
Agency (Jackpot #2)
Gibson, William
Algorithms of Oppression
Noble, Safiya Umoja
Ali and Nino
Said, Kurban
All Fours
July, Miranda
Made me think about:
- Lady Chatterley's Lover & A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover
All Systems Red
Wells, Martha
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
McCarthy, Cormac
All the Pretty Horses
McCarthy, Cormac
American Elf: The Collected Sketchbook Diaries, Vol. 1
Kochalka, James
American Pastoral (The American Trilogy, #1)
Roth, Philip
American Psycho
Ellis, Bret Easton
Amphigorey Also (Amphigorey, #3)
Gorey, Edward
An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures
Cvetkovich, Ann
An Ugly Truth
Frenkel, Sheera|Kang, Cecilia
And Then the World Blew Up
Fish, Mr.
Made me think about:
- Trump Sky Alpha
Angela Davis: An Autobiography
Davis, Angela Y.
Animal Dreams
Kingsolver, Barbara
Animal Farm
Orwell, George
Animosity, Vol. 1: The Wake
Bennett, Marguerite
Annihilation (Southern Reach #1)
VanderMeer, Jeff
Anthem
Rand, Ayn
Made me think about:
- Lady Chatterley's Lover & A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover
Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death
Butler, Judith
Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II
Weidenbaum, Marc
Architect or Bee?: The Human/Technology Relationship
Cooley, Mike
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Sáenz, Benjamin Alire
Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America
Luciano, Dana
Made me think about:
- Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture
- Grief is for People
Art Attack: A Brief Cultural History of the Avant-Garde
Aronson, Marc
Artificial Condition
Wells, Martha
Atmospheric Disturbances
Galchen, Rivka
Authority (Southern Reach #2)
VanderMeer, Jeff
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition
Twain, Mark
Autonomous
Newitz, Annalee
Avengers: Disassembled
Bendis, Brian Michael