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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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Saga #1
Brian K. Vaughan

Image Comics
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finished 30 Mar 2015

Saga, Vol. 1
Brian K. Vaughan

Image Comics
isbn 9781607066019
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finished 20 Mar 2014

Saga, Vol. 2
Brian K. Vaughan

Image Comics
isbn 9781607066927
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finished 21 Mar 2014

Saga, Vol. 3
Brian K. Vaughan

Image Comics
isbn 9781607069317
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finished 22 Mar 2014

Saga, Vol. 4
Brian K. Vaughan

Image Comics
isbn 9781632150776
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finished 17 May 2015

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture
Jenny Odell

Random House Trade
isbn 9780593242728
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finished 31 Jul 2024

Made me think about:

  • The Origins of Totalitarianism
  • Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet
  • Red Mars
  • Slow Food: The Case for Taste (Arts and Traditions of the Table)
  • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
  • Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climate Regime
  • Learning to Die in the Anthropocene
  • 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (2nd ed.)
  • Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America
  • Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis
  • The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors
  • Lady Chatterley's Lover & A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover

Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
Geoffrey B. West

Penguin Press
isbn 9781594205583
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finished 12 Feb 2019

Second Foundation (Foundation #3)
Isaac Asimov

Bantam Spectra
isbn 9780553803730
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finished 01 Mar 2008

Sector-Based Action Against Corruption: A Guide for Organisations and Professionals
Mark Pyman, Paul M. Heywood

Palgrave Macmillan
isbn 9783031593369
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finished 30 May 2025

Semiosis
Sue Burke

Tor
isbn 9780765391360
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finished 14 Sep 2025

Made me think about:

  • Red Mars
  • Speaker for the Dead (Ender’s Saga, #2)
  • Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene

Shambhala Guide to Traditional Chinese Medicine
Daniel Reid

Shambhala
isbn 9781570621413
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finished 10 Jun 2012

Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse

Le Livre de Poche
isbn 9782253008484
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finished 03 Mar 2008

Sin City, Vol. 1: The Hard Goodbye (Sin City, #1)
Frank Miller

Dark Horse
isbn 9781593072933
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finished 03 Mar 2008

Made me think about:

  • The Crow

Sin City, Vol. 2: A Dame to Kill For (Sin City, #2)
Frank Miller

Dark Horse
isbn 9781593072940
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finished 25 Apr 2008

Sin City, Vol. 4: That Yellow Bastard (Sin City, #4)
Frank Miller

Dark Horse
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finished 19 May 2009

Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser

W. W. Norton & Company
isbn 9780393960426
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finished 02 Feb 2009

Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism
Seyward Darby

Little Brown and Company
isbn 9780316487771
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finished 28 Aug 2021

Made me think about:

  • White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America

Slade House
David Mitchell

Random House
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finished 18 Mar 2017

Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Dial Press
isbn 9780385333849
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finished 12 May 2008

Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
isbn 9780374531386
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finished 15 May 2024

Made me think about:

  • Grief is for People

Slow Food: The Case for Taste (Arts and Traditions of the Table)
Carlo Petrini

Columbia University Press
isbn 9780231128452
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finished 10 Sep 2008

Made me think about:

  • Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture

Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson

Bantam Books
isbn 9780553380958
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finished 02 Sep 2008

Snow Falling on Cedars
David Guterson

Vintage
isbn 9780679764021
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finished 20 Apr 2007

Sodom and Gomorrah (In Search of Lost Time, #4)
Marcel Proust

Penguin Classics
isbn 9780143039310
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finished 01 Jul 2010

Made me think about:

  • The Parasol Against the Axe

Something Wicked This Way Comes (Green Town, #2)
Ray Bradbury

Harper Voyager
isbn 9780380729401
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finished 10 Feb 2007

Sounds of Your Name
Nate Powell

Microcosm.
isbn 9780977055791
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finished 01 Aug 2009

Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov

Vintage
isbn 9780679723394
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finished 19 Jun 2020

Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov


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finished 19 Mar 2019

Speaker for the Dead (Ender’s Saga, #2)
Orson Scott Card

Tor Books
isbn 9780812550757
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finished 03 Mar 2008

Made me think about:

  • Semiosis

Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Marisha Pessl

Penguin Books Ltd
isbn 9780670037773
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finished 19 Mar 2011

Specimen Days
Michael Cunningham

Picador USA
isbn 9780312425029
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finished 09 Feb 2011

Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID
Katherine Albrecht

Thomas Nelson
isbn 9781595550200
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finished 01 Jun 2009

Made me think about:

  • Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

State-Building in Kosovo: Democracy, Corruption and the EU in the Balkans
Andrea Lorenzo Capussela

I.B. Tauris
isbn 9781780769158
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finished 05 May 2019

Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel

Knopf
isbn 9780385353304
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finished 08 Oct 2017

Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
Donna Haraway

Duke University Press
isbn 9780822362241
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finished 06 Nov 2023

Haraway is someone I turn to to remind me what reality is like. In this book she continues her journey from feminist cyborg to Significant Otherness to compost-human ecologies, and it does not disappoint! more >> 

Made me think about:

  • Learning to Die in the Anthropocene
  • Semiosis

Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang

Small Beer Press
isbn 9780330426640
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finished 01 Mar 2017

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Stray Bullets, Vol. 2: Somewhere Out West
David Lapham

El Capitan
isbn 9780972714570
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finished 08 Jun 2019

Stray Bullets: Sunshine & Roses, Vol. 1
David Lapham

Image Comics
isbn 9781534307995
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finished 07 Jun 2019

Superman: Red Son
Mark Millar

DC Comics
isbn 9781401201913
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finished 05 May 2008

Survivor
Chuck Palahniuk

Vintage
isbn 9780099282648
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finished 05 May 2008

Swamp Thing, Vol. 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing
Alan Moore

Vertigo
isbn 9780930289225
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finished 20 Sep 2008

Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
Marcel Proust

Penguin Classics
isbn 9780142437964
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finished 16 Jun 2008

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