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Books: on balance, I'm for them. These are most of the ones I've read since 2007 or so.
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Tales from Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #5)
Ursula K. Le Guin

Ace
isbn 9780441011247
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finished 01 Jan 2016

Tales of the TMNT: The Collected Books, Volume 1
Steve Murphy


isbn 9780978702908
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finished 28 Feb 2009

Tehanu (Earthsea Cycle, #4)
Ursula K. Le Guin

Pocket Books
isbn 9781416509639
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finished 01 Jan 2016

Tender is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Penguin Classics
isbn 9780141183596
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finished 12 May 2008

Terrorism in the Late Victorian Novel
Barbara Arnett Melchiori

Croom Helm
isbn 9780709935834
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finished 18 Sep 2009

Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times
Jasbir K. Puar

Duke University Press
isbn 9780822341147
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finished 15 May 2021

Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy

Penguin Classics
isbn 9780199537051
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finished 26 Mar 2007

The Abstract: Tales of Wickedness and Sorrow
Goodloe Byron

Brown Paper Publishing
isbn 6444437000000
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finished 11 Dec 2008

The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
Deidre Mask

St. Martin's Press
isbn 9781250134769
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finished 23 Feb 2022

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain

Penguin Classics
isbn 9780142437179
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finished 03 Mar 2008

The Aesthetics of Comics
David Carrier

Penn State University Press
isbn 9780271021881
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finished 07 Dec 2008

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff

Public Affairs
isbn 9781610395694
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finished 06 Aug 2020

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 Pragmatic Programmers
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finished 18 Sep 2011

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon

Picador USA
isbn 9780312282998
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finished 24 Aug 2008

The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)
Philip Pullman

Laurel Leaf
isbn 9780440238157
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finished 10 May 2014

The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in Victorian England
Harriet Ritvo

Harvard University Press
isbn 9780674037076
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finished 17 May 2010

The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft

Dell
isbn 9780440506607
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finished 29 Jun 2008

The Ant King and Other Stories
Benjamin Rosenbaum

Small Beer Press
isbn 9781931520539
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finished 10 Sep 2021

Made me think about:

  • Unlikely Stories, Mostly

The Assommoir
Émile Zola, Brian Nelson (trans.)

Oxford University Press
isbn 9780198828563
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finished 29 Jun 2024

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
James Weldon Johnson

Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
isbn 9780809000326
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finished 07 Mar 2009

The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999
Misha Glenny

Penguin
isbn 9780140233773
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finished 08 Dec 2019

The Beat: Go-Go Music from Washington, D.C.
Kip Lornell

University Press of Mississippi
isbn 9781604732412
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finished 27 Jan 2011

The Beauty, Vol. 1
Jeremy Haun

Image Comics
isbn 9781632155504
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finished 02 Sep 2019

The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath


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finished 26 Feb 2018

The Belly of Paris
Émile Zola

Oxford University Press
isbn 9780199555840
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finished 19 Jun 2021

Made me think about:

  • The Parasol Against the Axe

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019
Carmen Maria Machado (ed.)

Mariner Books
isbn 9781328604378
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finished 16 Jan 2021

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024
Hugh (ed.) Howey

Mariner Books
isbn 9780063315785
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finished 31 May 2025

The Best American Short Stories 1988
Shannon Ravenel

Houghton Mifflin
isbn 9780395442579
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finished 07 Feb 2011

The Best American Short Stories 2004
Lorrie Moore

Mariner Books
isbn 9780618197354
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finished 12 May 2008

The Best American Short Stories: 2024
Lauren (ed.) Groff

Mariner Books
isbn 9780063275959
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finished 21 May 2025

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Random House
isbn 9781400063512
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finished 19 Feb 2011

The Book of Evidence
John Banville

Vintage
isbn 9780375725234
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finished 30 Mar 2022

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera

HarperPerennial Modern Classics
isbn 9780060932145
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finished 05 May 2008

The Border of Paradise
Esmé Weijun Wang

Unnamed Press
isbn 9781939419699
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finished 20 Dec 2021

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz

Riverhead Books
isbn 9781594489587
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finished 01 Nov 2010

The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
isbn 9780374528379
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finished 07 Feb 2007

The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle
Gail Marshall

Cambridge University Press
isbn 9780521615617
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finished 27 Mar 2010

The Castle of Otranto
Horace Walpole

Oxford University Press
isbn 9780192834409
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finished 12 Jan 2009

The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger

Back Bay Books
isbn 9780316769174
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finished 03 Mar 2008

The Chronology of Water
Lidia Yuknavitch

Hawthorne Books
isbn 9780979018831
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finished 03 Jun 2012

The City & the City
China Miéville

Del Rey
isbn 9780345497512
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finished 21 Jan 2014

Made me think about:

  • Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning
Le Corbusier

Dover Publications
isbn 9780486253329
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finished 02 Jan 2017

The City We Became
N.K. Jemisin

Orbit
isbn 9780316509848
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finished 10 Oct 2020

Made me think about:

  • The Parasol Against the Axe

The Claw: The Terrible, Beautiful Claw (Flamingo Diamond Sseries #2)
Marc Pearson


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finished 02 Dec 2019

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
Esmé Weijun Wang

Graywolf Press
isbn 9781555978273
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finished 28 Nov 2021

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein

Liveright
isbn 9781631492853
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finished 10 Jul 2019

The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness
Donna J. Haraway

Prickly Paradigm Press
isbn 9780971757585
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finished 17 May 2010

The Complete Buddy Bradley Stories from Hate Comics, Vol. 1: Buddy Does Seattle, 1990-1994
Peter Bagge

Fantagraphics
isbn 9781560976233
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finished 20 Nov 2008

The Complete Buddy Bradley Stories from Hate Comics, Vol. 2: Buddy Does Jersey, 1994-1998
Peter Bagge

Fantagraphics
isbn 9781560978374
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finished 01 Feb 2009

The Complete Crumb Comics, Vol. 11: Mr. Natural Committed to a Mental Institution!
Robert Crumb

Fantagraphics
isbn 9781560971726
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finished 10 Mar 2009

The Complete Crumb Comics, Vol. 1: The Early Years of Bitter Struggle
Robert Crumb

Fantagraphics Books
isbn 9780930193423
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finished 30 Oct 2008

The Complete Crumb Comics, Vol. 8: Featuring the Death of Fritz the Cat
Robert Crumb

Fantagraphics
isbn 9781560970767
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finished 20 Nov 2008

The Complete Joy of Homebrewing
Charles Papazian

William Morrow Paperbacks
isbn 9780060531058
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finished 15 Jul 2008

The Conquest of Plassans
Émile Zola

Oxford University Press
isbn 9780199664788
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finished 31 Jul 2022

The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen

Fourth Estate Paperbacks
isbn 9781841156736
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finished 15 Jul 2008

The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
Cormac McCarthy

Knopf Publishing Group
isbn 9780394574752
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finished 05 Jan 2015

The Crow
James O'Barr

Gallery Books
isbn 9781451627251
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finished 29 Jul 2024

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

Harper Perennial
isbn 9780060913076
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finished 31 May 2009

The Cult of the Constitution
Mary Anne Franks

Stanford University Press
isbn 9781503614987
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finished 18 Mar 2022

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon

Vintage
isbn 9781400032716
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finished 03 Mar 2008

The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs

Random House
isbn 9780375508738
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finished 01 Mar 2019

The Death of Artemio Cruz
Carlos Fuentes

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
isbn 9780374522834
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finished 10 Jun 2011

The Dharma Bums
Jack Kerouac

Penguin Books
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finished 04 Dec 2009

The Difference Engine
William Gibson

Spectra Books
isbn 9780553294613
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finished 15 Mar 2012

The Dog Stars
Peter Heller

Knopf
isbn 9780307959942
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finished 16 Nov 2013

The Doll's House (The Sandman, #2)
Neil Gaiman

Vertigo
isbn 9781563892257
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finished 01 Dec 2009

The Dragon Reborn (The Wheel of Time, #3)
Robert Jordan

Tor Books
isbn 9780765305114
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finished 11 Oct 2013

The Elementary Particles
Michel Houellebecq

Vintage
isbn 9780375727016
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finished 11 Sep 2009

The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths
Mariana Mazzucato

PublicAffairs
isbn 9780593656938
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finished 03 Jan 2019

The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
Robert Jordan

Tor Books
isbn 9780812511819
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finished 11 Jul 2013

The Farthest Shore (Earthsea Cycle, #3)
Ursula K. Le Guin

Gallery Books
isbn 9781416509646
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finished 01 Jan 2016

The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
J.R.R. Tolkien

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
isbn 9780618346257
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finished 14 Aug 2012

The Fifth Season
N.K. Jemisin

Orbit
isbn 9780316229296
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finished 26 Sep 2021

Made me think about:

  • Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume--Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions

The First Men in the Moon
H.G. Wells

Dover
isbn 9780486414188
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finished 15 Jun 2022

The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Mitch Albom

Hyperion
isbn 9781401308582
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finished 05 May 2008

The Flamingo Diamond
Marc Pearson


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finished 02 Dec 2019

The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political
Judith Butler

Verso
isbn 9781788732765
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finished 03 May 2020

Made me think about:

  • Intersectionality

The Fortune of the Rougons
Émile Zola

Oxford University Press
isbn 9780199560998
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finished 10 Apr 2021

The foundation for an open source city
Jason Hibbets

Lulu
isbn 9781300923176
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finished 11 Aug 2013

The French Lieutenant's Woman
John Fowles

Vintage
isbn 9780099478331
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finished 05 May 2008

The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
Lawrence Lessig

Vintage
isbn 9780375726446
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finished 08 Aug 2009

The Gardens of Democracy: A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government
Eric Liu

Sasquatch Books
isbn 9781570618239
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finished 04 Jan 2014

The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
Serhii Plokhy

Basic Books
isbn 9780465094868
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finished 21 Nov 2020

The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins

Riverhead Books
isbn 9781594634024
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finished 04 Feb 2022

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)
Stieg Larsson

Knopf
isbn 9780307269997
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finished 31 Dec 2014

The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2)
Stieg Larsson

Alfred A. Knopf
isbn 9780307269980
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finished 17 Dec 2014

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
Stieg Larsson

Knopf
isbn 9780307454546
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finished 04 Dec 2014

The Giving Tree
Shel Silverstein

HarperCollins Publishers
isbn 9780060256654
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finished 05 May 2008

The Globalizing Cities Reader
Xuefei Ren, Roger Keil

Routledge
isbn 9781138923690
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finished 11 Jun 2019

The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
Philip Pullman

Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
isbn 9780679879244
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finished 15 Apr 2014

The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Scribner
isbn 9780743273565
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finished 03 Mar 2008

The Great Hunt (The Wheel of Time, #2)
Robert Jordan

Tor Books
isbn 9780812517729
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finished 01 Aug 2013

The Guermantes Way (In Search of Lost Time, #3)
Marcel Proust

Penguin Classics
isbn 9780143039228
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finished 26 May 2009

The Handmaid's Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
Margaret Atwood

Anchor Books
isbn 9780385490818
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finished 25 Aug 2011

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers

Mariner Books
isbn 9780618084746
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finished 15 May 2009

The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century
Thant Myint-U

W.W. Norton & Company
isbn 9781324003298
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finished 07 Sep 2020

The History of Love
Nicole Krauss

Norton
isbn 9780393328622
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finished 16 Jan 2009

The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Michel Foucault

Vintage
isbn 9780679724698
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finished 10 Sep 2008

The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton

Virago
isbn 9781844082933
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finished 23 Mar 2009

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot

Crown Publishing Group
isbn 9781400052189
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finished 28 Feb 2023

The Imperfectionists
Tom Rachman

The Dial Press
isbn 9780385343664
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finished 20 Apr 2011

The Incredible Hulk: Planet Hulk
Greg Pak

Marvel
isbn 9780785122456
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finished 16 Oct 2008

The Incredible Hulk: Prelude To Planet Hulk
Daniel Way

Marvel
isbn 9780785119531
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finished 10 Sep 2008

The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption
Clay A. Johnson

O'Reilly
isbn 9781449304683
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finished 14 Feb 2013

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
James Gleick

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
isbn 9780375423727
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finished 14 Jun 2019

The Internet of Garbage
Sarah Jeong

Vox Media
isbn 9781508018865
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finished 12 Oct 2020

The Invisible Man
H.G. Wells

McFarland & Company
isbn 9780786404100
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finished 07 Nov 2009

The Island of Dr Moreau
H.G. Wells

Penguin
isbn 9780141441023
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finished 03 Jul 2022

The Issue At Hand: Essays On Buddhist Mindfulness Practice
Gil Fronsdal

Insight Meditation Center
isbn 9780615162867
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finished 21 Oct 2023

A thoughtful and practical guide to American Buddhist mindfulness and meditation practices more >> 

The Journals of Lewis and Clark
William Clark Meriwether Lewis

anboco
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finished 19 Oct 2018

The Kill: La Curée
Émile Zola

Oxford University Press
isbn 9780199536924
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finished 22 May 2021

The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini

Riverhead Books
isbn
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finished 03 Mar 2008

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1
Alan Moore

America's Best Comics
isbn 9781563898587
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finished 18 Oct 2009

The Left Hand of Darkness (Hainish Cycle #4)
Ursula K. Le Guin

Ace
isbn 9780441478125
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finished 01 Sep 2016

The letters of Madame de Sévigné, with an introduction by A. Edward Newton, Volume 1 of 7
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal de Sévigné

J.P. Horn & Company
isbn
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finished 31 Aug 2009

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Sherman Alexie

Grove Press
isbn 9780802141675
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finished 05 May 2008

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)
Douglas Adams

Pocket Books
isbn 9780671742515
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finished 24 Nov 2013

The Long Take
Robin Robertson

Picador Poetry
isbn 9781509846887
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finished 27 Nov 2020

The Lost World (Jurassic Park #2)
Michael Crichton

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
isbn 9780752224411
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finished 03 Mar 2008

The Lowland
Jhumpa Lahiri

Knopf
isbn 9780307278265
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finished 08 Oct 2017

The Lurker at the Threshold
August Derleth

Running Press
isbn 9780786711888
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finished 23 May 2010

The Maiden Tribute Of Modern Babylon: The Report Of The Secret Commission
Antony E. Simpson

True Bill Press
isbn 9780979111600
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finished 09 Jan 2010

The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State
Philip Bowring

Bloomsbury Academic
isbn 9781350427884
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finished 18 May 2025

The Man Who Saw Seconds
 Boldizar

Clash Books
isbn 9781960988072
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finished 01 Nov 2025

The Martian
Andy Weir

Crown
isbn 9780804139021
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finished 15 Aug 2015

Made me think about:

  • Red Mars

The Maxx, Vol. 1
Sam Kieth

Wildstorm
isbn 9781401201241
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finished 02 Jun 2008

The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
Randy Shilts

St. Martin's Griffin
isbn 9780312019006
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finished 20 Mar 2015

The Meditations: A New Translation (Revised)
Marcus Aurelius, Gregory Hays (trans.)

Modern Library
isbn 9780812968255
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finished 10 Sep 2023

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

Barnes Noble Classics
isbn 9781593080297
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finished 09 Sep 2011

The Monk
Matthew Gregory Lewis

Penguin Classics
isbn 9780140436037
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finished 21 Feb 2009

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein

Hodder & Stoughton
isbn 9780340837948
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finished 09 Oct 2014

Made me think about:

  • Red Mars

The Mother's Recompense
Edith Wharton

Scribner
isbn 9780684825311
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finished 12 May 2008

The Mysteries of Udolpho
Ann Radcliffe

Penguin Classics
isbn 9780140437591
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finished 09 Feb 2009

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Albert Camus, Justin O'Brien (trans.)

Recorded Books
isbn 9781980029106
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finished 22 Sep 2023

Made me think about:

  • The Meditations: A New Translation (Revised)

The North Water
Ian McGuire

Henry Holt and Co.
isbn 9781627795944
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finished 01 Feb 2017

The Obelisk Gate
N.K. Jemisin

Orbit
isbn 9780316229265
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finished 25 Oct 2021

The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman

William Morrow Books
isbn 9780062255655
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finished 17 Feb 2014

The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway

Scribner
isbn 9780684830490
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finished 05 May 2008

The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt

Blackstone Audiobooks
isbn 9781433206634
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finished 18 Jun 2021

Made me think about:

  • Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture
  • Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

The Overstory
Richard Powers

W.W. Norton & Company
isbn 9780393356687
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finished 09 Feb 2021

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

Harper Perennial
isbn 9780060515119
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finished 12 May 2008

The Pale King
David Foster Wallace

Little, Brown & Company
isbn 9780316074230
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finished 06 Apr 2013

The Palestinine Laboratory
Antony Loewenstein

Verso
isbn 9781839762086
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finished 11 Oct 2024

Made me think about:

  • Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence

The Parasol Against the Axe
Helen Oyeyemi

Riverhead Books
isbn 9780593192368
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finished 03 Jul 2025

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

Verso
isbn 9781786635167
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finished 29 Sep 2023

Made me think about:

  • Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
  • Looking Backward 2000-1887

The Peripheral (The Peripheral #1)
William Gibson

Berkley
isbn 9780399158445
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finished 18 May 2015

The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde

Random House: Modern Library
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finished 01 Aug 2010

The Popol Vuh
Michael Bazzett (trans.)

Milkweed Editions
isbn 9781571314680
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finished 01 Jun 2022

The Power and the Glory
Graham Greene

Penguin Books
isbn 9780142437308
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finished 13 May 2008

The Precariat: The Dangerous New Class
Guy Standing

Bloomsbury Academic
isbn 9781474294164
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finished 03 Jul 2021

The Prisoner and the Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time #5)
Marcel Proust

Penguin Classics
isbn 9780141180359
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finished 14 Feb 2013

The Professor's House
Willa Cather

Virago
isbn 9781844083763
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finished 04 Apr 2009

The Quick and the Dead
Louis L'Amour

Bantam
isbn 9780553280845
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finished 08 May 2014

The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde
Merlin Holland

Harper Perennial
isbn 9780007158058
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finished 28 Sep 2010

The Red Tent
Anita Diamant

St. Martin's Press
isbn 9780312353766
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finished 05 May 2008

The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia
Piers Vitebsky

Mariner Books
isbn 9780618773572
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finished 06 Apr 2019

The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro

Faber & Faber
isbn
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finished 04 Oct 2009

The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy

Modern Library
isbn 9780375757181
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finished 03 Mar 2008

The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter
David Sax

PublicAffairs
isbn 9781610395717
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finished 12 Mar 2019

The Rey Chow Reader
Rey Chow, Paul Bowman (ed.)

Columbia University Press
isbn 9780231149952
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finished 01 Oct 2022

The Road
Cormac McCarthy

Alfred A. Knopf
isbn 9780307265432
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finished 18 Feb 2014

The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes 30th Anniversary Edition
Neil Gaiman, Sam Keith

Vertigo
isbn 9781401284770
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finished 03 Feb 2023

Made me think about:

  • The Crow

The Sandman Vol. 2: The Doll's House 30th Anniversary Edition
Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg

Vertigo
isbn 9781401285067
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finished 04 Feb 2023

The Sandman Vol. 3: Dream Country 30th Anniversary Edition
Neil Gaiman, Kelley Jones

Vertigo
isbn 9781401285487
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finished 08 Feb 2023

The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie

Random House
isbn 9780812976717
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finished 25 Jul 2023

Made me think about:

  • The Parasol Against the Axe

The Saturated World: Aesthetic Meaning, Intimate Objects, Women?s Lives, 1890?1940
Beverly Gordon

Univ Tennessee Press
isbn 9781572335424
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finished 17 Mar 2009

The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolaño

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
isbn 9780374191481
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finished 01 Oct 2014

The Sea Wolf
Jack London

Alan Rodgers Books
isbn 9781598184310
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finished 01 Mar 2014

The Sea
John Banville

Vintage
isbn 9781400097029
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finished 05 Feb 2018

The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad

Oxford University Press
isbn 9780192801692
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finished 20 Jan 2010

The Secret Ninja Cucumber Scrolls
David de Florinier


isbn
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finished 26 Oct 2011

The Secret to Superhuman Strength
Alison Bechdel

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
isbn 9780544387652
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finished 17 Jan 2022

The Sense of Order (Wrightsman Lectures 9)
E.H. Gombrich

Phaidon Press
isbn 9780714822594
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finished 02 Apr 2020

The Serious Pleasures of Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt
Caroline Levine

University of Virginia Press
isbn 9780813922171
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finished 20 Jan 2010

The Sin of Abbe Mouret
Émile Zola, Valerie Pearson Minogue (trans.)

Oxford University Press
isbn 9780198736639
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finished 06 Dec 2022

The Skating Rink
Roberto Bolaño

New Directions
isbn 9780811217132
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finished 12 Apr 2012

The Social Construction of American Realism
Amy Kaplan

University of Chicago Press
isbn 9780226424309
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finished 11 Mar 2009

The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors
David George Haskell

Viking
isbn 9780525427520
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finished 28 Apr 2019

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

Wildside Press
isbn 9780809594047
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finished 09 Feb 2009

The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Sam Greenlee

Wayne State University Press
isbn 9780814322468
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finished 08 Jul 2020

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
John Le Carré

Penguin
isbn 9780143124757
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finished 16 Dec 2023

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

Anchor Books
isbn 9780307947307
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finished 30 Jan 2022

The Stone Sky
N.K. Jemisin

Orbit
isbn 9780316229241
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finished 20 Nov 2021

The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories
Bruno Schulz

Penguin Books
isbn 9780143105145
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finished 15 May 2012

The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)
Philip Pullman

Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
isbn 9780679879251
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finished 01 May 2014

The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway

Pan Books
isbn
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finished 03 Mar 2008

The Surrogates
Robert Venditti

Top Shelf Productions
isbn 9781891830877
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finished 02 Aug 2010

The Terraformers
Annalee Newitz

Tor Books
isbn 9781250228017
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finished 23 Sep 2023

Made me think about:

  • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past #1)
Liu Cixin

Tor Books
isbn 9780765377067
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finished 06 Apr 2019

The Time Machine
H.G. Wells

Penguin Books
isbn 9780141439976
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finished 01 Jun 2022

The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)
Ursula K. Le Guin

Gallery / Saga Press
isbn 9780689845369
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finished 01 Jan 2016

The Toughest Indian in the World
Sherman Alexie

Grove Press
isbn 9780802138002
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finished 05 May 2008

The Ultimates, Volume 1: Super-Human
Mark Millar

Marvel
isbn 9780785109600
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finished 10 Sep 2008

The Ultimates, Volume 2: Homeland Security
Mark Millar

Marvel
isbn 9780785110781
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finished 23 May 2009

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera

Harper Perennial
isbn 9780571224388
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finished 03 Mar 2008

The Unraveling
Benjamin Rosenbaum

Erewhon
isbn 9781645660019
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finished 20 Mar 2022

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

Melville House
isbn 9781612195186
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finished 30 Mar 2025

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

McFarland & Company
isbn 9780786446056
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finished 13 Aug 2010

Made me think about:

  • Looking Backward 2000-1887

The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett

Riverhead Books
isbn 9780525536291
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finished 30 Jan 2021

The Victorian Internet
Tom Standage

Berkley Trade
isbn 9780425171691
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finished 15 Apr 2015

The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye
Robert Kirkman

Image Comics
isbn 9781582406725
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finished 01 Aug 2010

The Walking Dead, Vol. 2: Miles Behind Us
Robert Kirkman

Image Comics
isbn 9781582404134
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finished 01 Aug 2010

The Walking Dead, Vol. 3: Safety Behind Bars
Robert Kirkman

Image Comics
isbn 9781582404875
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finished 01 Aug 2010

The Walking Dead, Vol. 4: The Heart's Desire
Robert Kirkman

Image Comics
isbn 9781582405308
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finished 01 Aug 2010

The Walking Dead, Vol. 5: The Best Defense
Robert Kirkman

Image Comics
isbn 9781582406121
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finished 01 Aug 2010

The Walking Dead, Vol. 6: This Sorrowful Life
Robert Kirkman

Image Comics
isbn 9781582406848
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finished 01 Aug 2010

The Walking Dead, Vol. 7: The Calm Before
Robert Kirkman

Image Comics
isbn 9781582408286
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finished 01 Aug 2010

The Walking Dead, Vol. 8: Made to Suffer
Robert Kirkman

Image Comics
isbn 9781582408835
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finished 01 Aug 2010

The War against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
Martin Amis

Vintage
isbn 9780375727160
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finished 01 Feb 2008

The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
Richard Preston

Random House (NY)
isbn 9781400064892
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finished 03 Jan 2009

Made me think about:

  • The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami

Knopf
isbn 9780965341981
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finished 07 Feb 2014

The Wisdom of Crowds
James Surowiecki

Anchor
isbn 9780385721707
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finished 23 May 2015

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Thomas L. Friedman

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (NY)
isbn 9780374292799
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finished 05 May 2008

The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion

Vintage
isbn 9781400078431
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finished 13 Sep 2024

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 >> 

Made me think about:

  • Stag's Leap

The_Future_is_Now / Neon_Rising (v2.3)
Josan Gonzalez

Citadel 9
isbn 9788494608438
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finished 13 Jun 2021

Then and Now: Safe House Short Stories
Simone Haysom, Beatrice Lamwaka, Neema Komba, Chike Frankie Edozien

Dundrum Press
isbn 9781459738058
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finished 25 Dec 2021

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
Hanif Abdurraqib

Two Dollar Radio
isbn 9781937512651
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finished 02 Jan 2019

Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
Sigmund Freud

Basic Books
isbn 9780465097081
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finished 20 Sep 2008

Time Travel: A History
James Gleick

Vintage
isbn 9780804168922
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finished 01 Apr 2017

To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee

Harper Perennial Modern Classics
isbn 9780060935467
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finished 05 May 2008

Tokyo Ueno Station
Yu Miri, Morgan Giles (trans.)

Riverhead Books
isbn 9780593187524
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finished 08 Oct 2022

Tokyo Year Zero (Tokyo Trilogy, #1)
David Peace

Knopf
isbn 9780307263742
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finished 17 Jul 2010

Tour de France: The Complete History of the World's Greatest Cycle Race
Marguerite Lazell

Carlton
isbn 9781780974897
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finished 03 Jan 2019

Tragic Design: The True Impact of Bad Design and How to Fix It
Jonathan Shariat

O'Reilly Media
isbn 9781491923610
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finished 31 May 2017

Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street
Warren Ellis

Vertigo
isbn 9781563894459
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finished 14 Oct 2009

Transmetropolitan, Vol. 2: Lust for Life
Warren Ellis

Vertigo
isbn 9781563894817
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finished 09 May 2011

Transmetropolitan, Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard
Warren Ellis

Vertigo
isbn 9781563895685
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finished 15 Mar 2014

Transmetropolitan, Vol. 4: The New Scum
Warren Ellis

Vertigo
isbn 9781563896279
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finished 01 Apr 2014

True Biz
Sarah Nović

Random House
isbn 9780593241509
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finished 14 Feb 2023

True Confessions
John Gregory Dunne

Da Capo Press
isbn 9781560258155
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finished 08 Oct 2024

True Grit
Charles Portis

Harry N. Abrams
isbn 9781585673698
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finished 07 Jul 2014

Trump Sky Alpha
Mark Doten

Graywolf Press
isbn 9781555978280
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finished 21 May 2019

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

Yale University Press
isbn 9780300002393
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finished 18 Sep 2008

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