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."
Saga #1
Brian K. Vaughan
Saga, Vol. 1
Brian K. Vaughan
Saga, Vol. 2
Brian K. Vaughan
Saga, Vol. 3
Brian K. Vaughan
Saga, Vol. 4
Brian K. Vaughan
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture
Jenny Odell
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
Second Foundation (Foundation #3)
Isaac Asimov
Sector-Based Action Against Corruption: A Guide for Organisations and Professionals
Mark Pyman,
Paul M. Heywood
Shambhala Guide to Traditional Chinese Medicine
Daniel Reid
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
Sin City, Vol. 1: The Hard Goodbye (Sin City, #1)
Frank Miller
Made me think about:
- The Crow
Sin City, Vol. 2: A Dame to Kill For (Sin City, #2)
Frank Miller
Sin City, Vol. 4: That Yellow Bastard (Sin City, #4)
Frank Miller
Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser
Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism
Seyward Darby
Made me think about:
- White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America
Slade House
David Mitchell
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion
Made me think about:
- Grief is for People
Slow Food: The Case for Taste (Arts and Traditions of the Table)
Carlo Petrini
Made me think about:
- Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
Snow Falling on Cedars
David Guterson
Sodom and Gomorrah (In Search of Lost Time, #4)
Marcel Proust
Made me think about:
- The Parasol Against the Axe
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Green Town, #2)
Ray Bradbury
Sounds of Your Name
Nate Powell
Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov
Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov
Speaker for the Dead (Ender’s Saga, #2)
Orson Scott Card
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Marisha Pessl
Specimen Days
Michael Cunningham
Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID
Katherine Albrecht
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
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
Donna Haraway
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
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
Stray Bullets, Vol. 2: Somewhere Out West
David Lapham
Stray Bullets: Sunshine & Roses, Vol. 1
David Lapham
Superman: Red Son
Mark Millar
Survivor
Chuck Palahniuk
Swamp Thing, Vol. 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing
Alan Moore
Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
Marcel Proust