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
Duke University Press
isbn 9780822341147
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy

The Abstract: Tales of Wickedness and Sorrow
Goodloe Byron
Brown Paper Publishing
isbn 6444437000000
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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
Penn State University Press
isbn 9780271021881
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff
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
Harvard University Press
isbn 9780674037076
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The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft

The Ant King and Other Stories
Benjamin Rosenbaum

The Assommoir
Émile Zola,
Brian Nelson (trans.)
Oxford University Press
isbn 9780198828563
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
James Weldon Johnson
Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
isbn 9780809000326
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The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999
Misha Glenny

The Beat: Go-Go Music from Washington, D.C.
Kip Lornell
University Press of Mississippi
isbn 9781604732412
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The Beauty, Vol. 1
Jeremy Haun
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath

The Belly of Paris
Émile Zola
Oxford University Press
isbn 9780199555840
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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
HarperPerennial Modern Classics
isbn 9780060932145
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The Border of Paradise
Esmé Weijun Wang

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz

The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
isbn 9780374528379
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The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle
Gail Marshall
Cambridge University Press
isbn 9780521615617
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The Castle of Otranto
Horace Walpole
Oxford University Press
isbn 9780192834409
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The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger

The Chronology of Water
Lidia Yuknavitch

The City & the City
China Miéville

The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning
Le Corbusier

The City We Became
N.K. Jemisin
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
Prickly Paradigm Press
isbn 9780971757585
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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
William Morrow Paperbacks
isbn 9780060531058
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The Conquest of Plassans
Émile Zola
Oxford University Press
isbn 9780199664788
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The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
Fourth Estate Paperbacks
isbn 9781841156736
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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
Cormac McCarthy
Knopf Publishing Group
isbn 9780394574752
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The Crow
James O'Barr

The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon

The Cult of the Constitution
Mary Anne Franks
Stanford University Press
isbn 9781503614987
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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
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
isbn 9780374522834
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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
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
isbn 9780618346257
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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

The Fortune of the Rougons
Émile Zola
Oxford University Press
isbn 9780199560998
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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
HarperCollins Publishers
isbn 9780060256654
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The Globalizing Cities Reader
Xuefei Ren,
Roger Keil

The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
Philip Pullman
Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
isbn 9780679879244
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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
W.W. Norton & Company
isbn 9781324003298
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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
Crown Publishing Group
isbn 9781400052189
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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
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
isbn 9780375423727
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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
Insight Meditation Center
isbn 9780615162867
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The Journals of Lewis and Clark
William Clark Meriwether Lewis

The Kill: La Curée
Émile Zola
Oxford University Press
isbn 9780199536924
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The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1
Alan Moore
America's Best Comics
isbn 9781563898587
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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
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
isbn 9780752224411
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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.)

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Franz Kafka
Barnes Noble Classics
isbn 9781593080297
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The Monk
Matthew Gregory Lewis

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein

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.)

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
Blackstone Audiobooks
isbn 9781433206634
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The Overstory
Richard Powers
W.W. Norton & Company
isbn 9780393356687
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The Painted Drum
Louise Erdrich

The Pale King
David Foster Wallace
Little, Brown & Company
isbn 9780316074230
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The Palestinine Laboratory
Antony Loewenstein

The Parasol Against the Axe
Helen Oyeyemi

The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
Leigh Phillips,
Michal Rozworski

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.)
Columbia University Press
isbn 9780231149952
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The Road
Cormac McCarthy

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

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

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

The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolaño
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
isbn 9780374191481
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The Sea Wolf
Jack London

The Sea
John Banville

The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad
Oxford University Press
isbn 9780192801692
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The Secret Ninja Cucumber Scrolls
David de Florinier

The Secret to Superhuman Strength
Alison Bechdel
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
isbn 9780544387652
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The Sense of Order (Wrightsman Lectures 9)
E.H. Gombrich

The Serious Pleasures of Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt
Caroline Levine
University of Virginia Press
isbn 9780813922171
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The Sin of Abbe Mouret
Émile Zola,
Valerie Pearson Minogue (trans.)
Oxford University Press
isbn 9780198736639
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The Skating Rink
Roberto Bolaño

The Social Construction of American Realism
Amy Kaplan
University of Chicago Press
isbn 9780226424309
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The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors
David George Haskell

The Spoils of Poynton
Henry James

The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Sam Greenlee
Wayne State University Press
isbn 9780814322468
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
John Le Carré

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
Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
isbn 9780679879251
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The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway

The Surrogates
Robert Venditti
Top Shelf Productions
isbn 9781891830877
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The Terraformers
Annalee Newitz

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

The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
David Graeber

The Utopian Vision of H.G. Wells
Justin E.A. Busch

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

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
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (NY)
isbn 9780374292799
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The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion

The_Future_is_Now / Neon_Rising (v2.3)
Josan Gonzalez

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
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
isbn 9780060935467
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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

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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