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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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Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City
Derek S. Hyra

University of Chicago Press
isbn 9780226449531
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finished 11 Apr 2019

Made me think about:

  • Black in Place

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

Mariner Books
isbn 9780618773572
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finished 06 Apr 2019

In Our Time
Ernest Hemingway

Scribner
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finished 10 Feb 2019

Imago (Xenogenesis, #3)
Octavia E. Butler

Aspect
isbn 9780446603638
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finished 29 Jan 2019

Architect or Bee?: The Human/Technology Relationship
Mike Cooley

South End Press
isbn 9780896081314
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finished 21 Jan 2019

Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization
Richard Sennett

W. W. Norton Company
isbn 9780393313918
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finished 13 Jan 2019

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

PublicAffairs
isbn 9780593656938
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finished 03 Jan 2019

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

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

Two Dollar Radio
isbn 9781937512651
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finished 02 Jan 2019

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Christopher McDougall

Knopf
isbn 9780307266309
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finished 11 Dec 2019

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

Penguin
isbn 9780140233773
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finished 08 Dec 2019

Mist from the Geyser (The Flamingo Diamond Series)
Marc Pearson

Glom Press
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finished 02 Dec 2019

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


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finished 02 Dec 2019

The Flamingo Diamond
Marc Pearson


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finished 02 Dec 2019

How Music Works
David Byrne

McSweeney's
isbn 9781936365531
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finished 30 Nov 2019

Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest
Hanif Abdurraqib

University of Texas Press
isbn 9781477316481
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finished 17 Oct 2019

Vattu: The Name & the Mark
Evan Dahm

self published
isbn 2055528900000
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finished 23 Sep 2019

And Then the World Blew Up
Mr. Fish

Fantagraphics
isbn 9781683960423
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finished 02 Sep 2019

Made me think about:

  • Trump Sky Alpha

The Beauty, Vol. 1
Jeremy Haun

Image Comics
isbn 9781632155504
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finished 02 Sep 2019

A Savage Order: How the World's Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security
Rachel Kleinfeld

Brilliance Audio
isbn 9781978643215
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finished 26 Aug 2019

Electoral Politics in Africa Since 1990: Continuity in Change
Jaimie Bleck

Cambridge University Press
isbn 9781107162082
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finished 15 Aug 2019

My Struggle: Book Three
Karl Ove KnausgĂ¥rd

Archipelago
isbn 9781935744863
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finished 03 Aug 2019

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
John Perkins

Plume
isbn 9780452287082
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finished 20 Jul 2019

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

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Adrienne Maree Brown

A K Pr Distribution
isbn 9781849352604
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finished 05 Jul 2019

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 Globalizing Cities Reader
Xuefei Ren, Roger Keil

Routledge
isbn 9781138923690
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finished 11 Jun 2019

Stray Bullets, Vol. 2: Somewhere Out West
David Lapham

El Capitan
isbn 9780972714570
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finished 08 Jun 2019

Stray Bullets: Sunshine & Roses, Vol. 1
David Lapham

Image Comics
isbn 9781534307995
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finished 07 Jun 2019

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

Gotham Writers' Workshop: Writing Fiction: The Practical Guide From New York's Acclaimed Creative Writing School
Alexander Steele

Bloomsbury USA
isbn 9781582343303
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finished 12 May 2019

State-Building in Kosovo: Democracy, Corruption and the EU in the Balkans
Andrea Lorenzo Capussela

I.B. Tauris
isbn 9781780769158
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finished 05 May 2019

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

Tor Books
isbn 9780765377067
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finished 06 Apr 2019

Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov

Vintage
isbn 9780679723394
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finished 19 Mar 2019

Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 1
Inio Asano

VIZ Media LLC
isbn 9781421586205
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finished 19 Mar 2019

Intersectionality
Patricia Hill Collins

Polity Press
isbn 9780745684499
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finished 16 Mar 2019

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

Smith Street Books
isbn 9781925418637
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finished 16 Mar 2019

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

PublicAffairs
isbn 9781610395717
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finished 12 Mar 2019

When Species Meet
Donna J. Haraway

University of Minnesota Press
isbn 9780816650460
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finished 09 Mar 2019

Made me think about:

  • Intersectionality
  • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs

Random House
isbn 9780375508738
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finished 01 Mar 2019

Why Not Eat Insects?
Vincent M. Holt

Pryor Publications
isbn 9780946014125
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finished 14 Feb 2019

Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
Geoffrey B. West

Penguin Press
isbn 9781594205583
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finished 12 Feb 2019

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites
Peter Morville

O'Reilly Media
isbn 9780596527341
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finished 12 Feb 2019

Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)
Octavia E. Butler

Aspect
isbn 9780446603782
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finished 19 Jan 2019

Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
Octavia E. Butler

Warner Books
isbn 9780446603775
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finished 19 Jan 2019

Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders

Random House
isbn 9780812995343
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finished 03 Jan 2019

2019 total: 47
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