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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."
        
      
  
    
      Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
        
        
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                Ruha Benjamin
              
            
          
        
        
      
  
    
      Ada & Zangemann: A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream
        
        
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                Matthias Kirschner,
              
            
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                Sandra Brandstätter (illus.)
              
            
          
        
      No Starch Press
      
      isbn 9781718503182
      
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      Nigeria: A New History of a Turbulent Century
        
        
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                Richard Bourne
              
            
          
        
        
      
  
    
      A Visit From The Goon Squad
        
        
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                Jennifer Egan
              
            
          
        
      
  
    
      The Sin of Abbe Mouret
        
        
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                Émile Zola,
              
            
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                Valerie Pearson Minogue (trans.)
              
            
          
        
      Oxford University Press
      
      isbn 9780198736639
      
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      Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climate Regime
        
        
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                Bruno Latour
              
            
          
        
      
  
    
      Tokyo Ueno Station
        
        
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                Yu Miri,
              
            
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                Morgan Giles (trans.)
              
            
          
        
      
  
    
      The Rey Chow Reader
        
        
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                Rey Chow,
              
            
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                Paul Bowman (ed.)
              
            
          
        
      Columbia University Press
      
      isbn 9780231149952
      
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      Death and the Penguin
        
        
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                Andrey Kurkov,
              
            
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                George Bird (trans.)
              
            
          
        
      Melville House Publishing
      
      isbn 9781935554554
      
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      Fates and Furies
        
        
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                Lauren Groff
              
            
          
        
      
  
    
      Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
        
        
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                Adam Greenfield
              
            
          
        
      
  
    
      The Conquest of Plassans
        
        
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                Émile Zola
              
            
          
        
      Oxford University Press
      
      isbn 9780199664788
      
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      The Island of Dr Moreau
        
        
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                H.G. Wells
              
            
          
        
      
  
    
      Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis
        
        
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                Edgar Garcia
              
            
          
        
      University of Chicago Press
      
      isbn 9780226818597
      
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      The First Men in the Moon
        
        
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                H.G. Wells
              
            
          
        
      
  
    
      The Time Machine
        
        
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                H.G. Wells
              
            
          
        
      
  
    
      The Popol Vuh
        
        
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                Michael Bazzett (trans.)
              
            
          
        
        
      
  
    
      Algorithms of Oppression
        
        
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                Safiya Umoja Noble
              
            
          
        
      New York University Press
      
      isbn 9781479837243
      
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      Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
        
        
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                Tony Judt
              
            
          
        
        
      
  
    
      Complaint!
        
        
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                Sara Ahmed
              
            
          
        
      Duke University Press
      
      isbn 9781478017714
      
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      On Tyranny
        
        
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                Timothy Snyder
              
            
          
        
      Crown Publishing Group
      
      isbn 9780804190114
      
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      Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
        
        
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                Francis Fukuyama
              
            
          
        
      
  
    
      Electoral Integrity In America
        
        
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                Sarah Cameron (ed.),
              
            
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                Thomas Wynter (ed.)
              
            
          
        
      Oxford University Press
      
      isbn 9780190934163
      
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      The Book of Evidence
        
        
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                John Banville
              
            
          
        
        
      
  
    
      The Unraveling
        
        
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                Benjamin Rosenbaum
              
            
          
        
      
  
    
      The Cult of the Constitution
        
        
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                Mary Anne Franks
              
            
          
        
      Stanford University Press
      
      isbn 9781503614987
      
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      The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
        
        
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                Deidre Mask
              
            
          
        
      
  
    
      Riot Baby
        
        
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                Tochi Onyebuchi
              
            
          
        
      
  
    
      The Girl on the Train
        
        
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                Paula Hawkins
              
            
          
        
      
  
    
      The Stand
        
        
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                Stephen King
              
            
          
        
      
  
    
      Capital in the 21st Century
        
        
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                Thomas Piketty
              
            
          
        
      
  
    
      The Secret to Superhuman Strength
        
        
          
            
            
            
            
              
              
              
              
              
                Alison Bechdel
              
            
          
        
      Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
      
      isbn 9780544387652
      
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