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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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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
isbn
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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
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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

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
isbn
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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 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 >> 

The_Future_is_Now / Neon_Rising (v2.3)
Josan Gonzalez

Citadel 9
isbn 9788494608438
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more info

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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