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."
Tales from Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #5)
Ursula K. Le Guin
Tales of the TMNT: The Collected Books, Volume 1
Steve Murphy
Tehanu (Earthsea Cycle, #4)
Ursula K. Le Guin
Tender is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Terrorism in the Late Victorian Novel
Barbara Arnett Melchiori
Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times
Jasbir K. Puar
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
The Abstract: Tales of Wickedness and Sorrow
Goodloe Byron
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
Deidre Mask
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
The Aesthetics of Comics
David Carrier
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff
Made me think about:
- Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence
The Agile Samurai: How Agile Masters Deliver Great Software
Jonathan Rasmusson
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon
The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)
Philip Pullman
The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in Victorian England
Harriet Ritvo
The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft
The Ant King and Other Stories
Benjamin Rosenbaum
Made me think about:
- Unlikely Stories, Mostly
The Assommoir
Émile Zola,
Brian Nelson (trans.)
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
James Weldon Johnson
The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999
Misha Glenny
The Beat: Go-Go Music from Washington, D.C.
Kip Lornell
The Beauty, Vol. 1
Jeremy Haun
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
The Belly of Paris
Émile Zola
Made me think about:
- The Parasol Against the Axe
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019
Carmen Maria Machado (ed.)
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024
Hugh (ed.) Howey
The Best American Short Stories 1988
Shannon Ravenel
The Best American Short Stories 2004
Lorrie Moore
The Best American Short Stories: 2024
Lauren (ed.) Groff
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Book of Evidence
John Banville
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera
The Border of Paradise
Esmé Weijun Wang
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle
Gail Marshall
The Castle of Otranto
Horace Walpole
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
The Chronology of Water
Lidia Yuknavitch
The City & the City
China Miéville
Made me think about:
- Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning
Le Corbusier
The City We Became
N.K. Jemisin
Made me think about:
- The Parasol Against the Axe
The Claw: The Terrible, Beautiful Claw (Flamingo Diamond Sseries #2)
Marc Pearson
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
Esmé Weijun Wang
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein
The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness
Donna J. Haraway
The Complete Buddy Bradley Stories from Hate Comics, Vol. 1: Buddy Does Seattle, 1990-1994
Peter Bagge
The Complete Buddy Bradley Stories from Hate Comics, Vol. 2: Buddy Does Jersey, 1994-1998
Peter Bagge
The Complete Crumb Comics, Vol. 11: Mr. Natural Committed to a Mental Institution!
Robert Crumb
The Complete Crumb Comics, Vol. 1: The Early Years of Bitter Struggle
Robert Crumb
The Complete Crumb Comics, Vol. 8: Featuring the Death of Fritz the Cat
Robert Crumb
The Complete Joy of Homebrewing
Charles Papazian
The Conquest of Plassans
Émile Zola
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
Cormac McCarthy
The Crow
James O'Barr
Made me think about:
- Grief is for People
- The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes 30th Anniversary Edition
- Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, #1)
- Sin City, Vol. 1: The Hard Goodbye (Sin City, #1)
- I Spit on Your Graves (Vernon Sullivan, #1)
The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon
The Cult of the Constitution
Mary Anne Franks
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs
The Death of Artemio Cruz
Carlos Fuentes
The Dharma Bums
Jack Kerouac
The Difference Engine
William Gibson
The Dog Stars
Peter Heller
The Doll's House (The Sandman, #2)
Neil Gaiman
The Dragon Reborn (The Wheel of Time, #3)
Robert Jordan
The Elementary Particles
Michel Houellebecq
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths
Mariana Mazzucato
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
Robert Jordan
The Farthest Shore (Earthsea Cycle, #3)
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fifth Season
N.K. Jemisin
The First Men in the Moon
H.G. Wells
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Mitch Albom
The Flamingo Diamond
Marc Pearson
The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political
Judith Butler
Made me think about:
- Intersectionality
The Fortune of the Rougons
Émile Zola
The foundation for an open source city
Jason Hibbets
The French Lieutenant's Woman
John Fowles
The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
Lawrence Lessig
The Gardens of Democracy: A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government
Eric Liu
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
Serhii Plokhy
The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)
Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2)
Stieg Larsson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
Stieg Larsson
The Giving Tree
Shel Silverstein
The Globalizing Cities Reader
Xuefei Ren,
Roger Keil
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
Philip Pullman
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Hunt (The Wheel of Time, #2)
Robert Jordan
The Guermantes Way (In Search of Lost Time, #3)
Marcel Proust
The Handmaid's Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
Margaret Atwood
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers
The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century
Thant Myint-U
The History of Love
Nicole Krauss
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Michel Foucault
The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
The Imperfectionists
Tom Rachman
The Incredible Hulk: Prelude To Planet Hulk
Daniel Way
The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption
Clay A. Johnson
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
James Gleick
The Internet of Garbage
Sarah Jeong
The Invisible Man
H.G. Wells
The Island of Dr Moreau
H.G. Wells
The Issue At Hand: Essays On Buddhist Mindfulness Practice
Gil Fronsdal
A thoughtful and practical guide to American Buddhist mindfulness and meditation practices more >>
The Journals of Lewis and Clark
William Clark Meriwether Lewis
The Kill: La Curée
Émile Zola
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1
Alan Moore
The Left Hand of Darkness (Hainish Cycle #4)
Ursula K. Le Guin
The letters of Madame de Sévigné, with an introduction by A. Edward Newton, Volume 1 of 7
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal de Sévigné
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Sherman Alexie
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)
Douglas Adams
The Long Take
Robin Robertson
The Lost World (Jurassic Park #2)
Michael Crichton
The Lowland
Jhumpa Lahiri
The Lurker at the Threshold
August Derleth
The Maiden Tribute Of Modern Babylon: The Report Of The Secret Commission
Antony E. Simpson
The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State
Philip Bowring
The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
Randy Shilts
The Meditations: A New Translation (Revised)
Marcus Aurelius,
Gregory Hays (trans.)
Made me think about:
- The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
- Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Franz Kafka
The Monk
Matthew Gregory Lewis
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein
Made me think about:
- Red Mars
The Mother's Recompense
Edith Wharton
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Ann Radcliffe
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Albert Camus,
Justin O'Brien (trans.)
Made me think about:
- The Meditations: A New Translation (Revised)
The North Water
Ian McGuire
The Obelisk Gate
N.K. Jemisin
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
Made me think about:
- Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture
- Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
The Overstory
Richard Powers
Made me think about:
- The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors
- The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors
The Painted Drum
Louise Erdrich
The Pale King
David Foster Wallace
The Palestinine Laboratory
Antony Loewenstein
Made me think about:
- Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence
The Parasol Against the Axe
Helen Oyeyemi
Made me think about:
- Sodom and Gomorrah (In Search of Lost Time, #4)
- The Belly of Paris
- The Satanic Verses
- The City We Became
- Northanger Abbey
The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
Leigh Phillips,
Michal Rozworski
Made me think about:
- Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
- Looking Backward 2000-1887
The Peripheral (The Peripheral #1)
William Gibson
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
The Popol Vuh
Michael Bazzett (trans.)
The Power and the Glory
Graham Greene
The Precariat: The Dangerous New Class
Guy Standing
The Prisoner and the Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time #5)
Marcel Proust
The Professor's House
Willa Cather
The Quick and the Dead
Louis L'Amour
The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde
Merlin Holland
The Red Tent
Anita Diamant
The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia
Piers Vitebsky
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy
The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter
David Sax
The Rey Chow Reader
Rey Chow,
Paul Bowman (ed.)
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes 30th Anniversary Edition
Neil Gaiman,
Sam Keith
Made me think about:
- The Crow
The Sandman Vol. 2: The Doll's House 30th Anniversary Edition
Neil Gaiman,
Mike Dringenberg
The Sandman Vol. 3: Dream Country 30th Anniversary Edition
Neil Gaiman,
Kelley Jones
The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie
Made me think about:
- The Parasol Against the Axe
The Saturated World: Aesthetic Meaning, Intimate Objects, Women?s Lives, 1890?1940
Beverly Gordon
The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolaño
The Sea Wolf
Jack London
The Sea
John Banville
The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad
The Secret Ninja Cucumber Scrolls
David de Florinier
The Secret to Superhuman Strength
Alison Bechdel
The Sense of Order (Wrightsman Lectures 9)
E.H. Gombrich
The Serious Pleasures of Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt
Caroline Levine
The Sin of Abbe Mouret
Émile Zola,
Valerie Pearson Minogue (trans.)
The Skating Rink
Roberto Bolaño
The Social Construction of American Realism
Amy Kaplan
The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors
David George Haskell
Made me think about:
- Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture
- The Overstory
- The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
- The Overstory
The Spoils of Poynton
Henry James
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Sam Greenlee
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
John Le Carré
A fun read, but. It’s interesting to read about Le Carré’s reception as the deliverer of a more “realistic” spy than James Bond at the time of publication. His anti-hero in this book is edgier but basically just reads like a nihilistic, alcoholic misogynist in largely the same mold through... more >>
The Stand
Stephen King
The Stone Sky
N.K. Jemisin
The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories
Bruno Schulz
The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)
Philip Pullman
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
The Surrogates
Robert Venditti
The Terraformers
Annalee Newitz
Made me think about:
- How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past #1)
Liu Cixin
The Time Machine
H.G. Wells
The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Toughest Indian in the World
Sherman Alexie
The Ultimates, Volume 1: Super-Human
Mark Millar
The Ultimates, Volume 2: Homeland Security
Mark Millar
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
The Unraveling
Benjamin Rosenbaum
Made me think about:
- Lady Chatterley's Lover & A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
David Graeber
Made me think about:
- Creditworthy: A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America
The Utopian Vision of H.G. Wells
Justin E.A. Busch
Made me think about:
- Looking Backward 2000-1887
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
The Victorian Internet
Tom Standage
The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye
Robert Kirkman
The Walking Dead, Vol. 2: Miles Behind Us
Robert Kirkman
The Walking Dead, Vol. 3: Safety Behind Bars
Robert Kirkman
The Walking Dead, Vol. 4: The Heart's Desire
Robert Kirkman
The Walking Dead, Vol. 5: The Best Defense
Robert Kirkman
The Walking Dead, Vol. 6: This Sorrowful Life
Robert Kirkman
The Walking Dead, Vol. 7: The Calm Before
Robert Kirkman
The Walking Dead, Vol. 8: Made to Suffer
Robert Kirkman
The War against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
Martin Amis
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
Richard Preston
Made me think about:
- The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
The Wisdom of Crowds
James Surowiecki
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Thomas L. Friedman
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion
I just finished reading Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking and of course it’s all the things the everyone says: direct, heartbreaking, wise, necessary. One review included at the end of the edition I read says that it is vital reading “for any one who has lost some one... more >>
The_Future_is_Now / Neon_Rising (v2.3)
Josan Gonzalez
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Then and Now: Safe House Short Stories
Simone Haysom,
Beatrice Lamwaka,
Neema Komba,
Chike Frankie Edozien
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
Hanif Abdurraqib
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
Sigmund Freud
Time Travel: A History
James Gleick
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Tokyo Ueno Station
Yu Miri,
Morgan Giles (trans.)
Tokyo Year Zero (Tokyo Trilogy, #1)
David Peace
Tour de France: The Complete History of the World's Greatest Cycle Race
Marguerite Lazell
Tragic Design: The True Impact of Bad Design and How to Fix It
Jonathan Shariat
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street
Warren Ellis
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 2: Lust for Life
Warren Ellis
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard
Warren Ellis
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 4: The New Scum
Warren Ellis
True Biz
Sarah Nović
True Confessions
John Gregory Dunne
True Grit
Charles Portis
Trump Sky Alpha
Mark Doten
Made me think about:
- And Then the World Blew Up
Two Early Tudor Lives: The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish, The Life of Sir Thomas More by William Roper
George Cavendish