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."
Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City
Derek S. Hyra
Made me think about:
- Black in Place
The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia
Piers Vitebsky
In Our Time
Ernest Hemingway
Imago (Xenogenesis, #3)
Octavia E. Butler
Architect or Bee?: The Human/Technology Relationship
Mike Cooley
Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization
Richard Sennett
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths
Mariana Mazzucato
Tour de France: The Complete History of the World's Greatest Cycle Race
Marguerite Lazell
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
Hanif Abdurraqib
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Christopher McDougall
The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999
Misha Glenny
Mist from the Geyser (The Flamingo Diamond Series)
Marc Pearson
The Claw: The Terrible, Beautiful Claw (Flamingo Diamond Sseries #2)
Marc Pearson
The Flamingo Diamond
Marc Pearson
How Music Works
David Byrne
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest
Hanif Abdurraqib
And Then the World Blew Up
Mr. Fish
Made me think about:
- Trump Sky Alpha
The Beauty, Vol. 1
Jeremy Haun
A Savage Order: How the World's Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security
Rachel Kleinfeld
Electoral Politics in Africa Since 1990: Continuity in Change
Jaimie Bleck
My Struggle: Book Three
Karl Ove Knausgård
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
John Perkins
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Adrienne Maree Brown
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
James Gleick
The Globalizing Cities Reader
Xuefei Ren,
Roger Keil
Stray Bullets, Vol. 2: Somewhere Out West
David Lapham
Stray Bullets: Sunshine & Roses, Vol. 1
David Lapham
Trump Sky Alpha
Mark Doten
Made me think about:
- And Then the World Blew Up
Gotham Writers' Workshop: Writing Fiction: The Practical Guide From New York's Acclaimed Creative Writing School
Alexander Steele
State-Building in Kosovo: Democracy, Corruption and the EU in the Balkans
Andrea Lorenzo Capussela
The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors
David George Haskell
Made me think about:
- Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture
- The Overstory
- The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
- The Overstory
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past #1)
Liu Cixin
Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov
Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 1
Inio Asano
Intersectionality
Patricia Hill Collins
Made me think about:
- When Species Meet
- Critical Trauma Studies: Understanding Violence, Conflict, and Memory in Everyday Life
- The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political
- Necropolitics
Leaf Supply: A Guide to Keeping Happy House Plants
Lauren Camilleri
The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter
David Sax
When Species Meet
Donna J. Haraway
Made me think about:
- Intersectionality
- How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs
Why Not Eat Insects?
Vincent M. Holt
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
Geoffrey B. West
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites
Peter Morville
Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)
Octavia E. Butler
Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
Octavia E. Butler
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders