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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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Labor Law for the Rank & Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law, Second Edition
Staughton Lynd, Daniel Gross

PM Press
isbn 9781604864199
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finished 19 Dec 2021

Lady Chatterley's Lover & A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover
D. H. Lawrence

Penguin
isbn 9780141441498
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finished 23 Nov 2024

Made me think about:

  • All Fours
  • Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture
  • Anthem
  • In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)
  • The Unraveling
  • Just Kids
  • No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive

Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions
John Fire Lame Deer

Simon Schuster
isbn 9780671888022
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finished 22 Apr 2010

Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
Lao Tzu, Ursula K. Le Guin

Shambala
isbn 9781611807240
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finished 12 Oct 2023

As a foundational text of human spirituality, philosophy, and politics, The Tao Te Ching is obviously worth reading on its own merits. Let alone that it’s beautiful and succinct. One thing I found especially interesting in reading this translation by noted badass Ursula K. Le Guin is that, as she... more >> 

Made me think about:

  • The Meditations: A New Translation (Revised)
  • Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis
  • Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything

Laughable Loves
Milan Kundera

Faber & Faber
isbn 9780571206926
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finished 20 Feb 2007

Law 101: Everything You Need to Know About American Law, 5th Edition
Jay M. Feinman

Oxford University Press
isbn 9780190866327
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finished 02 Apr 2021

Lazarus, Vol. 1: Family
Greg Rucka

Image Comics
isbn 9781607068099
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finished 15 Mar 2015

Lazarus, Vol. 2: Lift
Greg Rucka

Image Comics
isbn 9781607068716
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finished 16 Mar 2015

Lazarus, Vol. 3: Conclave
Greg Rucka

Image Comics
isbn 9781632152251
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finished 15 May 2015

Leaf Supply: A Guide to Keeping Happy House Plants
Lauren Camilleri

Smith Street Books
isbn 9781925418637
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finished 16 Mar 2019

Learning to Die in the Anthropocene
Roy Scranton

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

Liberation Day: Stories
George Saunders

Random House
isbn 9780525509615
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finished 24 Aug 2025

Life of Pi
Yann Martel

Seal Books
isbn 9780770430078
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finished 03 Mar 2008

Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders

Random House
isbn 9780812995343
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finished 03 Jan 2019

Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov

Penguin
isbn
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finished 01 Feb 2008

Looking Backward 2000-1887
Edward Bellamy

Oxford University Press
isbn 9780199552573
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finished 18 Aug 2025

Made me think about:

  • Creditworthy: A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America
  • Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
  • The Utopian Vision of H.G. Wells
  • Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile
  • Reflections on the Revolution in France
  • The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

Love Medicine
Louise Erdrich

Harper Perennial Modern Classics
isbn 9780060786465
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finished 12 May 2008

Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis

Penguin Classics
isbn 9780140186307
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finished 01 Feb 2008

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