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
Made me think about:
- Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
- Death and the Penguin
A History of Bangladesh
William van Schendel
I appreciated the thoughtful and de-colonizing approach the author took to Bangladesh’s complex cultural and geopolitical histories. more >>
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worldcat | bookshop | 9781108473699
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
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
Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
Thomas Rid
Ada & Zangemann: A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream
Matthias Kirschner,
Sandra Brandstätter (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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worldcat | bookshop | 9781718503182
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
Ali and Nino
Kurban Said
All Fours
Miranda July
Made me think about:
- Lady Chatterley's Lover & A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover
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
American Innovations
Rivka Galchen
American Pastoral (The American Trilogy, #1)
Philip Roth
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis
Amphigorey Also (Amphigorey, #3)
Edward Gorey
An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures
Ann Cvetkovich
An Ugly Truth
Sheera Frenkel,
Cecilia Kang
And Then the World Blew Up
Mr. Fish
Made me think about:
- Trump Sky Alpha
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
Anthem
Ayn Rand
Made me think about:
- Lady Chatterley's Lover & A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover
Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death
Judith Butler
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
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
Marc Aronson
Artificial Condition
Martha Wells
Atmospheric Disturbances
Rivka Galchen
Authority (Southern Reach #2)
Jeff VanderMeer
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition
Mark Twain
Autonomous
Annalee Newitz
Avengers: Disassembled
Brian Michael Bendis