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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."
Years | Authors | Titles
2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007

Hyperbole and a Half
Allie Brosh

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781451666175

24 Dec 2020
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The Long Take
Robin Robertson

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781509846887

27 Nov 2020
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The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
Serhii Plokhy

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780465094868

21 Nov 2020
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Agency (Jackpot #2)
William Gibson

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781101986936

30 Oct 2020
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Dare to Speak
Suzanne Nossel

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780062966032

20 Oct 2020
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The Internet of Garbage
Sarah Jeong

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781508018865

12 Oct 2020
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The City We Became
N.K. Jemisin

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780316509848

10 Oct 2020
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Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything
David Bellos

Made me think about:
- Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780865478763

02 Oct 2020
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Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781538732182

27 Sep 2020
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Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women's Work
Jenny Brown

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781629636382

24 Sep 2020
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The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century
Thant Myint-U

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781324003298

07 Sep 2020
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Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America
Dana Luciano

Made me think about:
- Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture
- Grief is for People

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780814752234

20 Aug 2020
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Hieronymus Bosch: Garden of Earthly Delights
Hans Belting

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9783791333205

08 Aug 2020
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff

Made me think about:
- Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781610395694

06 Aug 2020
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Here For It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America; Essays
R. Eric Thomas

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780525621034

31 Jul 2020
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Inventing Human Rights
Lynn Hunt

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780393331998

26 Jul 2020
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The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Sam Greenlee

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780814322468

08 Jul 2020
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Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Anand Giridharadas

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780451493248

03 Jul 2020
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Learning to Die in the Anthropocene
Roy Scranton

I have grown to really appreciate concise, idea-packed writing. This book meets those criteria. It takes an existential view to the global climate crisis, asking us to confront the fact that it might already be too late to save what we have as a precondition to meaningful action. What I... more >> 

Made me think about:
- Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
- Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780872866690

29 Jun 2020
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Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780679723394

19 Jun 2020
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Benjamin Alire Sáenz

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781442408937

14 Jun 2020
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Critical Trauma Studies: Understanding Violence, Conflict, and Memory in Everyday Life
Monica J. Capser (ed.), Eric Wertheimer (ed.)

I’ve been thinking a lot about individual and collective trauma recently. Given the extremity of our experiences - the pandemic, historic and ongoing U.S. racism and racial violence, the displacements and escalating disasters of the climate crisis, and so on, how can we begin to approach the ways that trauma... more >> 

Made me think about:
- Intersectionality

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781479822515

13 Jun 2020
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Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
Sasha Costanza-Chock

Design Justice is a an extremely useful book. The word ‘design’ has a long history behind it and over the last several decades it has become predominantly associated in most people’s minds with the work of mid-century modern product designers, and more recently with Apple and Silicon Valley-flavored human centered... more >> 

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780262043458

29 May 2020
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Captive Prince (Captive Prince #1)
C.S. Pacat

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780425274262

20 May 2020
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Dientes de Dragón
Michael Crichton, Gabriel Dols Gallardo (trans.)

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9789506444662

12 May 2020
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The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political
Judith Butler

Made me think about:
- Intersectionality

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781788732765

03 May 2020
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The Sense of Order (Wrightsman Lectures 9)
E.H. Gombrich

A very thoughtful and comprehensive read on the global (!) history and cultural functioning and evolution of decoration and design. As Gombrich says, "the historian is not a critic and should not aspire to be one," but the book did at times become discursive and hard to follow due to its lack of a strong unifying framework. Very worth the time; I will never look at wallpaper or picture frames the same way again.

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780714822594

02 Apr 2020
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White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America
Joan C. Williams

Made me think about:
- Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781633693784

23 Mar 2020
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Despair
Vladimir Nabokov

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780679723431

23 Mar 2020
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Art Attack: A Brief Cultural History of the Avant-Garde
Marc Aronson

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780395797297

26 Feb 2020
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Pnin
Vladimir Nabokov, David Lodge

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781400041985

21 Jan 2020
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2020 total: 31
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