Sourcery
The Scapegoat
Bone Bread
My Children Explain the Big Issues
Black Skin, White Masks
টং লিং
Autobiography of Red
Perfume and Pain
katabasis
Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies
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last updated: 2026-02-08 23:33:41.515981
Purchased: Zabriskie, Berlin DE ISBN: 9781916751354 Edition: And Other Stories, 2025 Page count: 350 Blurb: Shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award Akiwenzii is the old man and their will. Ninaatig is the maple tree; they are their lungs. Mindimooyenh is the old woman who holds it all together; she is their conscience. Sabe, the honest sasquatch, is the marrow in their bones. Adik is the caribou and their nervous system. Asin, human, is their eyes and ears; Lucy, human, their mind. Together they are Mashkawaji, our narrator, who may be frozen stiff but still remembers a time of connection everywhere. When Mashkawaji’s parts attempt to commune with the world around them, they find it’s a strange place, full of SpongeBob Band-Aids and branded coffee mugs. Exposing the unnatural solitude at the heart of settler-capitalism and fully grounded in Indigenous ways of being, Noopiming offers a moving and wickedly funny vision of what modern togetherness might look like – even as it breaks open the self to a world still alive with people, animals, ancestors, and spirits.
Notes from the Ginza Shihodo Stationery Shop
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
Ender's Game
Moby-Dick
Mort
Model Homes
Many Waters
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
The King of Elfland’s Daughter
I Hate Men
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last updated: 2026-02-06 22:14:34.245783
English translation. Original title, "Moi les hommes, je les déteste." Pg. 16
Shortcomings
Notes from Underground
Bite Back
The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction
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finished: 2026-02-06 06:51:39.878186
Detransition, Baby
Palestine and Feminist Liberation
The Garden of Heaven
Iron Goddess of Mercy
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness
Parable of the Sower
The Kingdom of Ordinary Time
Tulsa
What the Living Do
Wellwater
Collected Poems
The Original of Laura
The History and Topography of Ireland
Visual Methodologies
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
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last updated: 2026-02-06 02:31:49.459638
King Lear
The Magic Mountain
Infinite Jest
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
tender is the flesh
Blood Over Bright Haven
martyr!
Demon Copperhead
The Gloaming
White Fragility
There is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
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last updated: 2026-02-05 16:21:37.602394
Notes of a Native Son
Othello
For My Brother
Fablehaven
House of Leaves
The Pillow Book
Snuff
East of Eden
Things Fall Apart
The Plain Janes
Predatory "Capitalism of Globalization": A Result of Paranoid-Schizoid Dynamics? A Systemic View on Psychosocial Processes in the Phase of Flexible Capital Accumulation
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finished: 2026-02-03 15:18:35.582049
Orlanda
Orlando
Millennium Gothic: V1
Exit Note
The Putrescent Vein
hello, world?
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finished: 2026-02-02 21:48:37.832155
Purchased: rile books, Brussels ISBN: 978-1-63590-229-7 Edition: Semiotext(e), 2024 Page count: 374 Blurb: Seasonal begins writing sentences and thinking thoughts they never thought possible. They want to give László the pleasure of being nothing. The more they come to like him, to value his sensitivity, his sharp mind, his aesthetics, his ethics, and the more they want his respect, the easier it seems to become to think about destroying him. A new set of capacities which they had only dimly sensed are now coursing in their muscles, their cunt, their blood, their mind. Abandoned by their Dutch partner after giving up their home and their job to follow him to the Netherlands, humanities scholar Seasonal finds themself single in a strange place for the first time in a decade. Dipping into the rabbit hole of digital eroticism, Seasonal soon meets László, a male sub who volleys back their cerebral sexts and is seeking a dominant guide. His dating-app profile—a photo of Foucault and the ingenuous greeting “Hello, World?”—thinly veils his desire to be annihilated. It's a desire that Seasonal senses they can fulfill. But to do this means crossing the frightening gap between their desires and capacities. Seasonal and László embark on an experiment in remaking intimacy outside the Republic of Gender. But as it continues, the two realize they are staging separate confrontations with domination: Seasonal finds they must confront their own relation to the violence and anger that marked their upbringing in working-class, small-town Australia, while László stages his own confrontation with his decision to leave Viktor Orbán’s Hungary. As they attempt to improvise a theater of domination that opens up possibilities of reciprocity, the energies of their sexuality stalk this collaboration, threatening to give them exactly what they bargained or begged for. A feminist paean to perversity in the tradition of Pauline Réage’s Story of O and Anaïs Nin's Delta of Venus, Anna Poletti's hello, world? dares to fully inhabit female power, and to fully face the violence, beauty, and uncharted territories of human sexuality. “hello, world? is a stunning achievement that tells an electrifying story about the enigma of desire and surrender. In riveting and dynamic prose, Poletti takes us on a journey through the bewildering dynamics of sexuality and otherness, showing us a whole new world that beckons us to say hello.” —Dr. Gila Ashtor, Columbia University, author of Homo Psyche and Masochism: A Contemporary Introduction “hello, world? starts with that all too familiar scenario of uprooting one's life for a partner only to be let down by them. What Seasonal does then might also be familiar to many—they go on the apps, fuck around, find out. What they find are ways of engaging intimately with others that become experiments in the relation between the body and the body-politic under what we commonly call late capitalism and might wish to call late patriarchy. The violence of both call for forms of enactment, of selves in relation, that can provide some kind of figure for them, some way of figuring them out. The delight in this book is not just in how closely observed and felt these things are, but how closely thought as well.” —McKenzie Wark, author of Reverse Cowgirl
Let Them Eat Dirt
Um Prefácio para Olívia Guerra
From Here to the Great Unknown
Not to Disturb
Cadillac Desert
Pedro Páramo
Absalom Absalom
the storyteller essays
Great Granny Webster
either/or
The Idiot
Ghost Wall
The Listening House
Trans Girl Suicide Museum
Girl
The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee
A Mickey Mantel Koan
Heated Rivalry
Lolita
The Crucible
The Blunderer
A Suspension of Mercy
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Catching The Big Fish
The Orders Were to Rape You: Tigresses in the Tamil Eelam Struggle
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last updated: 2026-01-30 10:05:37.526316
In the Name of Democracy: J.P. Movement and the Emergency
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finished: 2026-01-30 10:02:00.271432
CAPS LOCK: How Capitalism Took Hold of Graphic Design, and How to Escape from It
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last updated: 2026-01-29 08:05:40.468330
Sunrise on the Reaping
The Art of Gathering
Catching The Big Fish
Sarahland
Murder by Family: The Incredible True Story of a Son's Treachery and a Father's Forgiveness
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last updated: 2026-01-28 20:36:21.031785
Deconstructing the Kimbell: An Essay on Meaning and Architecture
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last updated: 2026-01-28 17:58:53.763866
The Country that Made its Own Canon
The Snow Mare
communion
martyr!
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Book lists I think are interesting
Gamer Girl
A Thing Shared
Buckeye
The Fine Art of Sighing
The Body of Memory
सलाम
A Small Place
घुसपैठिये
Communion: the Female Search for Love
Zami
communion
The Dispossessed
assata: an autobiography
The Argonauts
Closer
Valencia
Americanah
Second Place
Play It as It Lays
Communion: the Female Search for Love
Getting Past No
How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets
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finished: 2026-01-26 00:19:33.168012
Communion: the Female Search for Love
rejection
Communion: the Female Search for Love
The Control of Nature
My Favorite Thing is Monsters: Book 2
My Favorite Thing is Monsters: Book 1
The End of Tragedy
The Cost of Living
The Sluts
The Andy Warhol Diaries
I Who Have Never Known Men
American Values and Organized Crime: Suckers and Wiseguys
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finished: 2026-01-24 14:45:44.015324
The Safekeep
existentialism is a humanism
Her Body and Other Parties
Wittgenstein: The Way Out of the Fly Bottle
The Phantom Tollbooth
Art as Experience
The Marquis de Sade: A Very Short Introduction
Twentieth-Century Artists on Art
The Golden Notebooks
Malevich: The Non-Objective World
Capitalist realism: is there no alternative?
what we talk about when we talk about love
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Paul Klee: the thinking eye
Shape
About Rothko
The New York School
A Children’s Bible
The Essential Rumi
Such Places as Memory
Pedagogical Sketchbook
The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918
Catching The Big Fish
Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly
Cathedral
The Last Song
Twisted
Thee Psychick Bible
The Library of Nag Hammadi
The Brown Book
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Nausea
Haunt
1984
Forbidden Colors
Blood Meridian
On The Road
The Metamorphosis
A Doll's House
Brave New World
Neuromancer
Our Lady of the Flowers
Tarantula
House of Leaves
Left Hand
The Soft Machine
Queer
Naked Lunch
Junky
A Clockwork Orange
Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
O Cortiço
Camera Lucida
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot
Magical Power for Beginners
Corpus Hermeticum Graecum
The Kybalion
The Book of Lilith
A Dictionary of Angels
Principia Discordia
The Book Of Law
What Is To Be Done
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Japanoise: Music At The Edge of Circulation
The Antichrist
Cyborg Manifesto
Chaosmosis
Thousand Plateaus
The Myth of Sisyphus
Anti Oedipus
Fallen Angels
Catcher in the Rye
Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business
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finished: 2026-01-23 15:26:16.860311
Heaven Official's Blessings: Vol. 6
Demons
Vinternoveller
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Nyår
Vladimir
Spent: A Comic Novel
Cannon
Graphic Medicine Manifesto
Rhetoric of Health & Medicine As/Is: Theories and Approaches for the Field
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last updated: 2026-01-22 21:14:55.170463
A Glossary of Literary Terms
Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
The Awakening
Passing
Cogewea
The Wolf of Wall Street
Trust
The Great Gatsby
Black Wall Street
Flashboys: a Wall Street Revolt
Opening Belle
This Boy's Life
All Tomorrows
Wall Street at Night
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finished: 2026-01-21 06:00:00
A short, descriptive poem on the environment of Wall Street in the 1920s. The 4th line of this poem specifically captured me. I think the air of liveliness from the café itself is interesting when comparing to the sullen mood of the rest of the poem. While this may not be intended as part of the interpretation I think that the use of a sparrow for comparison instead of another songbird is intriguing because of the fact that (house) sparrows were an invasive species at the time that this had been published - which may not be the intended meaning of the author, but even if it is unintentional I do think it says something about even just the unconscious encroachment of the values that Wall Street (& by extension, America) prioritizes and the cost of that which can be compared to an invasive species.
I Who Have Never Known Men
Flexible Use of a Multi-Purpose Tool by a Cow
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finished: 2026-01-22 06:00:00
COW TOOLS! very neat to me that Veronika (cow in question) has a preference for how she would like to be scratched in certain areas :-)
Demian
An African in Greenland
Sympathy Tower Tokyo
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finished: 2026-01-21 08:00:00
Format: Audiobook Rating: 0/5 on principle Thoughts: This book was really bizarre and felt quite pretentious and follows a very Japanese character arc and fiction style which I've grown quite tired of. It was already going to have a fairly low rating but I found out after finishing it that it was written with AI. While I knew that the characters here spoke of, and used their version of ChatGPT often and freely in the book, I didn't think that it was actually used to write it. Would not recommend in the slightest. Maybe this book was really not meant to be listened to, which is valid, HOWEVER, there were no chapters that were audibly discernible and the characters both lacked so much personality that it grew increasingly hard to follow. I don't wish to use this term lightly but it was borderline schizophrenic. This just really fell into the Japanese literary rabbit-hole of vague surrealism and nihilism that could only drive a reader to anger. WHY does every Japanese author write like this? WHY CAN MY PEOPLE NOT DO BETTER? I have had to swear off any Japanese literature in my home for years and this was my first venture back and I feel burned.
Teaching a Stone to Talk
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finished: 2026-01-21 08:00:00
Collection of essays by Annie Dillard who is quickly becoming one of my favorite writers. She makes sense of the world in a way that few others seem to manage All timers for me: - total eclipse - an expedition to the pole - on a hill far away - life on the rocks - acres and eights
Teaching a Stone to Talk
War Diary
Dear Tulsa
Epigram for Wall Street
days at the morisaki bookstore
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finished: 2026-01-21 19:21:54.206047
# 12 jan 2026 just started reading this today, got it with my friend when we went out yesterdayy. it's really calming so far, love seeing healing stories. just read the fifth chapter while chilling on the grass at the nearby garden # 13 jan 2026 oh my god i finished part 1? i feel like i don't read this book much but i'm like 70 pages in. it's such a sweet little read i'm enjoying it quite a bit. i love books about books man. im a poser # 21 jan 2026 i finished it! oh my god that was so nice. the ending felt a bit abrupt but i really like the journeys that the characters go on. it's also so comfy to read
Boy Proof
Push
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
If Beale Street Could Talk
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finished: 2026-01-10 08:00:00
</3 what may be the most devastating end to any book
Perfection
Martyr!: A Novel
The Emperor of Gladness
Mother Mary Comes To Me
Orlando
Experiential Avoidance Process Model: A Review of the Mechanism for the Generation and Maintenance of Avoidance Behavior
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finished: 2026-01-20 21:37:35.194132
night
Absalom, Absalom!
Operation Paperclip
What Kind of Paradise
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Take It From Me
Satantango
The Dharma Bums
The Essential Lovecraft
The Woodcutters
Gravity's Rainbow
shadow ticket
The Jakarta Method
H Is for Hawk
The Gift
Hamnet
Weather
Eeeee Eee Eeee
Crime and Punishment
Things I Don‘t Want to Know
Notes from Underground
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finished: 2025-09-09 16:00:00
i was so mad while reading this because i related to the narrator so much. i dont think thats a good thing cause i hated that guy i kept picturing him as nagito komaeda
The Demon of the Lonely Isle
The Golden Spruce
The Book of Difficult Fruit
The Ticking
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finished: 2009-01-16 00:00:00
i picked this up while shelving the fiction. i don't know why it's there because it's clearly a graphic novel. the cover was beautiful and it was a quick read, and the subject matter was disturbing yet beautiful. the pages consisted of simple text and etchings (they were poetic), about an eery tale of a deformed father and equally deformed son. i couldn't put it down. i definitely want this in my private collection!
A Outra Irmã
The Three Incestuous Sisters
The Glass Harmonica
New Moon
Twilight
Eclipse
Breaking Dawn
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finished: None
definitely the most intense and interesting book of the series. tried to suppress my annoyance with the terrible use of hyphenated words ("snow-cold lips" "sand-pale floors" or whatever; i even wondered if the hyphenated words began as temporary substitutes that the author had planned on getting back to but never did), and absurd amount of typos. some parts seemed tediously long, and i appreciated the occasional punch of humor. overall, the story was highly inventive and entertaining. i also liked the switch to jacob's voice during the middle, and the effort made to keep bella and jacob's voice distinct. (though the crazy contractions—wouldn't've—took some time for me to accept).
a clash of kings
a game of thrones
A Streetcar Named Desire
OKPsyche
A Kabbalistic Handbook for the Practicing Magician: A Course in the Theory and Practice of Western Magic
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last updated: 2026-01-16 22:53:45.772273
The Women
ulysses
Butter
No One Belongs Here More Than You
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finished: 2009-07-10 00:00:00
i had such a huge crush on miranda july after reading this. i also became greatly inspired to try my hand at writing short stories. although none of my current writing reflect it, this book was a huge influence. i have a better understanding of the way miranda july thinks and a greater appreciation for the movie "you and me and everyone we know," which i saw long before i read her work. i liked it, though found it strange.
Blankets
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finished: 2009-12-17 00:00:00
beautiful and heartfelt story. i loved the seamless transition from childhood to adolescence. it was like watching a movie. the illustrations were also painstakingly drawn, and i agree from one of the reviews, it's remarkable how much the artist recounted from his past. i love how he sheds his innocence and naivety, both as a person and as a christian. i feel like it was successful because it was so personal—the more details and nuances he could remember, the more i could relate to the narrator. because of my recent departure from adolescence, "blankets" warmed my nerves.
The Old Man and the Sea
Case File Compendium: V1
The Gift of Good Land
My Thoughts Exactly
knot body
The Reader On The 6.27
The Open Veins of Latin America
No Country for Old Men
Emerson: Collected Essays
Hi Score Girl
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finished: 2025-02-15 00:00:00
The anime was way better! The writing style makes the boy come off as super angry and aggressive. He’s just screaming and shouting all the time. But in the anime he’s way more chill. I didn’t enjoy it and I wouldn’t continue the series.
How the Water Feels to the Fishes
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finished: 2010-03-21 00:00:00
This is my first trip into the mind of Dave Eggers and it's definitely been interesting. I found some stories to be insightful, thought-provoking and even ingenious while others felt like a cop out or shameless revelation of the creative process. I had to read this book for an independent study so I scanned and pasted all of my favorite stories into a pdf for my teacher and included my reviews. I won't copy the stories down but I'll include the titles. "Once A Year" - The first story in the book which I liked. It’s only two sentences but it feels like a complete story. "The Commercials of Norway" - I thought this was funny. I’ve never read anything by Dave Eggers before this, and I can see that he has a way of explaining a state of being; the first one is explaining a feeling while this one is about the woman’s changing attitude as she gets drunker over the course of time. "The Horror" - I found this story humorous as well. It is a metaphor about life? How we freak out over nothing? Bad and scary things happen to a lot of people, but it may not happen to others. I feel like it’s a reminder to not freak out over stuff, as if this story is laughing at us. "How the Water Feels to the Fishes" - The story which gives its title to the title of this book. Really interesting and surreal how he gives the fish a tone of voice. I really like the ending of it too. "Go-Getters" - I thought this was another story that poked fun at society, this time photographers and artists. Writers too, maybe. It’s a literal representation of the creative process, and is almost double ironic, how she’s creating irony through her photograph while the writer writes about this or the sake of a story. "Deeper" - I don’t really understand the “deeper meaning” of this story (just occurred to me that the title is “Deeper” so, another bit of irony maybe? asking the reader to discover the deeper meaning of the story when there really isn’t any at all), but I enjoy the imagery it evokes and the observational detail about the personalities it describes. "Alberto" - This was probably the longest story in the book. Really enjoyed the backdrop he evoked, as well as the characters. Strange how the father wants to scare the mother than changes his mind abruptly, refusing to answer is son while Alberto persistently asks. Alberto’s reaction to this was unexpected. I expected him to scare the father, and I guess he does by cutting a frog into pieces. I feel likt this is revealing of his behavior too. I like that we don’t know why the father doesn’t want to scare the mom. Seems like something a parent does: tell you something than refuse to explain it further. "You Still Know That Boy" - This is just hilarious. My friend’s brother does that and he’s 20. The last sentence is a really funny way of putting it. "The Bounty" - I liked where this story was going until I got to the end. I guess I expected a better ending, but this feels too contrived like it was supposed to be funny but it isn’t. It felt like an afterthought, which made me wonder about his creative process—did he just give up? It made it more vulnerable and revealing than intended, but I could be wrong. "No One Knows" - I forgot why I liked this initially. Maybe I just found it amusing. "California Moved West" - This is funny too. And I hope that’s true, if that were to happen. "How the Air Feels to the Birds" - Thought this was a nice companion to the fish one. And how different it was—less detailed, entirely different tone. Enjoyed the ending. Concluding thought: This book took awhile to read! I thought I could get to it all at once, but since they’re individual stories, I wanted to digest everything properly and it was hard to just pick up and read onto the next story. It also makes me question what makes a story a story, since these were all really short. Most felt complete though, so I guess that’s what it takes to be a story—to be able to explain an idea in its entirety.
Asterios Polyp
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finished: 2010-04-03 00:00:00
Beautifully illustrated graphic novel with a provocative, philosophical, and heartfelt storyline. Made me wistful about love and relationships and life in general. Definitely deserves to be reread and owned. David Mazzucchelli must be a talented genius.
Love in Exile
O Retorno
Lavoura Arcaica
Kafka on the Shore
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finished: 2010-10-05 00:00:00
Trippy. Reminds me of Miyazaki films, like Spirited Away. Not for uncreative minds. It takes you to another world, your imagination to another level. Heart-wrenching in places, romantic for all the wrong reasons, and very heavy. Not for the faint of heart.
Skim
Bossypants
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Caricature
The Blacker the Berry
Black Hole
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
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finished: 2013-03-11 00:00:00
Aesop's Fables with a modern, cynical twist. Very entertaining.
Lost At Sea
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finished: 2013-07-13 00:00:00
This is about an eighteen year old who has no soul. I am a 25-year-old who relates completely. It's metaphorical, a little bit magical, and the feelings and emotions are completely real. It's a great coincidence that I finished this book within days of having similar conversations with friends. A comforting read.
Time Cat
Seconds
Fight Club
The Book of Other People
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finished: 2015-03-20 00:00:00
Was delighted to find this at my local thrift store years ago as this book held what I believed to be a winning combination: striking illustrated cover by Charles Burns, list of notable writers, and its association to one of my favorite charitable organizations. Instead, I found none of the stories to be memorable; I enjoyed 3 out of the 23. I will now donate this book to my local book swap shop, an ocean away from where I first picked it up.
About a Boy
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finished: 2015-07-09 00:00:00
"About A Boy" was a favorite movie of mine when I first watched it as a young teen. After reading the book as an adult, I really wish young me read this 10 years ago. I was worried that the movie would carry too much weight, but aside from hearing Hugh Grant and Nicholas Hoult's voices narrating the story, the book version was able to thoroughly get inside the two characters' heads, which is something that wasn't expressed as well on film. The story hit home for me in so many ways, from growing up as that socially awkward teenager, being raised by a single mother whose views were not so different from Fiona's—just swap hairy jumpers with ethnic-type jumpers, though I'm sure Fiona owned a couple of those herself; to the doldrums of dating and the existential crises that come with aging. This has been both a nostalgic and refreshing read; my past self colliding with the present. Would have given it five stars but took out one star for the one-too-many Nirvana references.
Killing and Dying: Stories
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Me Talk Pretty One Day
American Born Chinese
Boxers
Assata: An Autobiography
The Weird and the Eerie
The Weight of Snow
Kami no Fune de Nemuru
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Ender's Game
More Human than Human
I, Robot
Mortal Engines
Terra Ignota
The Bobiverse
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
Beyond the Gender Binary
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finished: 2021-03-18 00:00:00
Poetic, autobiographical account of the author coming into their queer identity.
Seventeen Poisoned Englishmen
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finished: 2025-02-16 00:00:00
I’ve never read anything by Marquez and I was impressed. The writing style is something I haven’t experienced, full of rich detail and almost abstract language. Some of the stories were confusing where I didn’t understand the meaning. The standout stories for me were Seventeen Poisoned Englishmen (rich storytelling) and I Came To Use the Phone (haunting). The last story, Light is Like Water, was also mysteriously creepy too. Will definitely read more books by him.
The Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
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finished: 2025-03-15 00:00:00
A self-help book on how to heal from emotionally immature parents, with self-reflective activities. This book will help you understand why you behave the way you are, and how you can foster a healthier relationship with yourself and spot emotionally immaturity in others.
The Joy Luck Club
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finished: 2025-06-28 00:00:00
Short stories told from the perspectives of several Chinese-American women. The viewpoints shift between mother and daughter, as each discuss their struggles with what it means to be a Chinese woman.
1984
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finished: 2026-01-07 00:00:00
This is a re-read. I first read it as a teen in high school and didn't really understand the full extent of it. Lately, due to the circumstances of the western world/media, I felt it useful to read again. There are problematic elements considering this book was written in the late 1940s, but a lot of ideas still hold up.
Desert Oracle: Volume 1
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finished: 2023-07-08 22:00:00
Bite-sized stories detailing the paranormal activity that tends to happen in the American Southwest.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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finished: 2022-07-02 22:00:00
An introspective insight on a first-generation Vietnamese-American’s relationship with his immigrant, refugee mother, as well as queerness in a conservative society.
The Darkness Outside of Us
The Western Wind
Isolation: The Horror Anthology
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finished: 2026-01-11 04:22:25.025355
Excellent collection of horror and speculative fiction
Rebecca
Battle Cry of Freedom
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finished: 2025-12-26 08:00:00
Honestly, this did a lot more for me than I expected. A chronicle of the entire US Civil War along with the immediate buildup (1846-1864)
Dungeons & Drama
The Laughing Vampire
BNHA - Manga
Stigmata
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
Fledgling
Sweet Home
Circe
Child of God
Full Metal Alchemist
The Haunted Self
Maeve Fly
A Light Most Hateful
Exocapitalism
In Plato's Cave
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last updated: 2026-01-09 16:55:13.711365
essay from sontag's book 'on photography'.
The Wretched of the Earth
The Jakarta Method
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last updated: 2026-01-09 16:54:59.819342
was scrolling through my calibre library on my laptop looking for books to add here & found this one from months ago only partially completed. reading anything about the history of communist movements is often far more difficult than i think it will be; i remember a only bit of the events described within (again, it’s been quite some time since i picked this up) but i can’t forget how sick with rage this made me. it is impossible to overstate the horror the imperial core has inflicted the whole world over
Capital Vol. 1
Psychiatric Hegemony: A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness
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last updated: 2026-01-09 16:54:21.990192
Giovanni's Room
dance night
New Mistakes
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finished: 2025-06-30 05:00:00
“in the pine’s humble o’piñon, the question itself was an issue”
Biography of X
Mobility
Game Changers
Terminal Boredom: Stories
Wings of Fire (Series)
The Twilight World
Beloved
Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
The Ballad of Black Tom
The Way of Kings
Back on the Street
Notes of a Native Son
Misogynoir Transformed
Go Tell It on the Mountain
A People's Guide to Capitalism
Stone Butch Blues
White Fragility
The Tale of Genji
The Aeneid
Adonis: Selected Poems
one punch man manga
jujutsu kaisen manga
Dead Cities
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finished: 2025-10-08 07:00:00
Mike Davis does it again. Collection of short essays, mostly on the American Southwest Favorites: "Las Vegas Versus Nature" - maybe the best takedown of sunbelt cities I've ever read "The Subway That Ate LA" - History of what is now the B Line in LA and how subway construction in many ways was a battle against bus riders, fascinating, not sure I agree with everything "The New Industrial Peonage" - The corruption scandals of Vernon and how it came to be (WILD)
The Living
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finished: 2025-12-01 08:00:00
A slow read but one of my favorites this year. Follows numerous families over decades as the Whatcom area is settled. Pulls you deep under and immerses more than any other historical fiction I've read recently. Feels properly a relic of the late 1800's despite being written a century later. Grateful for how soft our lives have become compared to the brutal and consequential existence of the era (true to the name of the book, being among 'the living' is no easy task).
Paul takes the form of a mortal girl
Building the Collective: Soviet Graphic Design 1917-1937
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last updated: 2026-01-07 10:07:09.015160
The MANIAC
The Hunting Wives
If on a Winter's Night A Traveler
The Open Veins of Latin America
The Stranger
The Transparency Society
Diverse Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Microbe-Inducing Male Killing in the Moth Homona magnanima
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finished: 2026-01-05 19:05:56.460369
A Male-killing Wolbachia Carries a Feminizing Factor and is Associated with Degradation of the Sex-Determining System of its Host
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finished: 2026-01-05 19:02:58.882183
East of Eden
The Dispossessed
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finished: 2026-01-04 08:00:00
Great book comparing two different societies under capitalism and Anarchism. It had me thinking about all the ways capitalism shapes our behaviours. Cool Quotes: "But all these people hurried along, on business, wanting no idle talk, no waste of their valuable time. Their hurry infected him. He must go somewhere, he thought, as he came out into the sunlight and the crowded magnificence of Moie Street." "You Urrasti have enough. Enough air, enough rain, grass, oceans, food, music, buildings, factories, machines, books, clothes, history. You are rich. you own. We are poor, we lack. You have, we do not have. Everything is beautiful here. Only not the faces. On Anarres nothing is beautiful, nothing but the faces. The other faces, the men and women. We have nothing but that, nothing but each other. Here you see the jewels, there you see the eyes. And in the eyes you see the splendor, the splendor of the human spirit. Because our men and women are free-possessing nothing, they are free. And you the possessors are possessed. You are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all I can see in your eyes-— the wall, the wall!"
Fight Club
That Was Then, This Is Now
Rumble Fish
Rage
Whipping Girl
Tex
Slaughterhouse-Five
Jailbird
Orlando
Mother Night
Cat’s Cradle
Indian Summer
The Invisible Man: A Firsthand Account of Homelessness in America
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finished: 2026-01-04 06:00:00
Important read that captures Fealey's struggle with homelessness and the social & systemic challenges that ensnare him. The accompanying photographs by Philip Montgomery of Patrick Fealey are also very memorable and fit the article well.
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
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last updated: 2026-01-05 01:00:20.723936
So far, the most interesting history/ anthropology books I've read and for sure a great antidote for Yuval Harari's "Sapiens" bullshit. The author really takes his time explaining concepts and different points of view. //December 12/2025
The Divided Self
House of Leaves
Is the Rectum a Grave?
A Separate Peace
Peace Breaks Out
Franny and Zooey
American Psycho
Perfume
After Delores
Dead in Long Beach, California
Nightwood
The Lamb
Big Swiss
White Oleander
Tranny
The Bell Jar
Glue
Skagboys
Porno
Trainspotting
Paradise Rot
Ponyboy
The Thirty Names of Night
To the Kennels
The Safekeep
The Owl Cries
Rat Bohemia
Last Words from Montmartre
Notes of a Crocodile
Milk Fed
Leash
City of Ash and Red
The Hawk in the Rain
Gaudete
The Cement Garden
Cool for You
Chelsea Girls
Bastard Out of Carolina
Black Aperture
Amsterdam
Atonement
Black Dogs
You Weren't Meant to be Human
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finished: 2025-11-27 06:00:00
Autistic transgender man navigating a worm-centric world full of shitty relationships that deprive him of agency. Mind the content warnings. Surprisingly difficult read for me considering my proclivity towards horror, but also comforting in a way that is difficult to describe. I don't know if I would recommend it exactly; it's not something I would openly suggest to anyone. It's repulsive, disgusting and deeply uncomfortable, and I do not regret reading it. Interesting commentary succeeding the overturning of Roe v Wade.
A Little Life
Stone Butch Blues
Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Marsha P. Johnson
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last updated: 2026-01-04 21:03:49.116461
Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
The World and All That It Holds
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Under the Banner of Heaven
No One is Talking About This
Little Constructions
Last Days
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
The Fisherman
The Fisherman
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Jungle
Nightbitch
Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement
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last updated: 2026-01-04 20:59:16.334820
Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy
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last updated: 2026-01-04 20:54:45.468356
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
Jumper
In Memoriam
Ilustrado
I Have More Souls Than One
I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream
The Grapes of Wrath
Exquisite Corpse
Convenience Store Woman
Coming of Age in Mississippi
Cold New World: Growing Up in Harder Country
Lolita
Boy Parts
Black Sunday
Between Two Fires: An Epic Tale of Medieval Horror
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last updated: 2026-01-04 20:48:04.103891
Touch Me Not
Radiance and Sunrise
Authority
The Auctioneer
American Psycho
All Quiet on the Western Front
All My Rage
African Town
Acceptance
Hijab Butch Blues
So Long, See You Tomorrow
What Would You Do Alone in a Cage with Nothing but Cocaine?: A Philosophy of Addiction
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last updated: 2026-01-04 20:31:40.928949
The Brothers Karamazov
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Trinity of Fundamentals
The Obscene Bird of Night
East of Eden
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Out
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Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narco-Trafficking and Culture in the US and Mexico
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last updated: 2026-01-04 20:25:51.309971
singer of tales
Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979
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last updated: 2026-01-04 15:30:27.119496
Edition: 2004 Duke University Press eISBN: 978-0-8223-8511-0
Malayland
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last updated: 2026-01-04 15:30:20.909688
Purchased from: Tintabudi — Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Edition: Paperback, Faction Press and Ethos Books (2024) ISBN: 9781913090111 Blurb: „What does it mean to be Malay in the 21st century? Especially in a country like Malaysia where identity politics is questioned on an almost daily basis, and policed by the state. 16 years later after the publication of I Am Muslim, Dina Zaman returns to write a memoir, writing about what it means to be Malay, and Muslim in the 21st century. The writer embarked on Malayland during the Covid pandemic, to understand the anger and frustrations of her fellow ethnic Malays who were fighting against (imagined) enemies and a new world order impacted by a virus that killed over seven million people globally. She grew up in a Malaysia that was seething with anger, bubbling underneath the many nightclubs Malaysia was famed for in the 1980s, that witnessed how secularism killed its Malay Muslim heritage. The 1998 Reformasi movement changed Malaysia and whether for the better, is left up to Malaysians to decide. Today race and faith are discussed and embraced frenetically, where hateful extremism is hidden under the guise of nationalism. Young Malaysians are asserting their political and birth identities through social media. And along the way, the sense of irony and humour that Malaysia is known for, has lost its way. Malayland is a reflective book: memories and flashbacks of a childhood filled with earthquakes, spooks and a sense of wonderment and curiosity about a country that is fighting for a desired identity.“
Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Otherlands
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last updated: 2026-01-04 15:30:09.974812
Gift to me from: My partner, DB Purchased from: Zabriskie — Berlin, Germany Edition: Paperback, Penguin (2023) ISBN: 9780141991146 Blurb: „This is the past as we've never seen it before. Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the worlds that were here before ours. Travelling back in time to the dawn of complex life, and across all seven continents, award-winning young palaeobiologist Thomas Halliday gives us a mesmerizing up close encounter with eras that are normally unimaginably distant. Halliday immerses us in a series of ancient landscapes, from the mammoth steppe in Ice Age Alaska to the lush rainforests of Eocene Antarctica, with its colonies of giant penguins, to Ediacaran Australia, where the moon is far brighter than ours today. We visit the birthplace of humanity; we hear the crashing of the highest waterfall the Earth has ever known; and we watch as life emerges again after the asteroid hits, and the age of the mammal dawns. These lost worlds seem fantastical and yet every description - whether the colour of a beetle's shell, the rhythm of pterosaurs in flight or the lingering smell of sulphur in the air - is grounded in the fossil record. Otherlands is a staggering imaginative feat: an emotional narrative that underscores the tenacity of life - yet also the fragility of seemingly permanent ecosystems, including our own. To read it is to see the last 500 million years not as an endless expanse of unfathomable time, but as a series of worlds, simultaneously fabulous and familiar.“
Girlbeast
Information Age
New Paltz, New Paltz
Real Estate
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Mockingjay
Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement
Understanding a Photograph
Flowers for Algernon
É assim que se perde a guerra do tempo
The Best of Isaac Asimov
Dalit Ecologies
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last updated: 2026-01-03 22:13:48.526874
a series of case studies exploring caste intersects with climate, technology, and labor
drive your plow over the bones of the dead
beware of pity
Madonna in a fur coat
The People We Meet on Vacation
black swans: stories
House of Leaves
Blood Meridian
War and Peace
The Stone Door
The Loft
I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Towards Darkness
Perspectives
The Hour of the Star
The Wall
Sense and Sensibility
The Book of Form and Emptiness
heated rivalry
The Dispossessed
A Tale for the Time Being
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
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finished: 2025-11-28 16:00:00
06.29.25 - 07.04.25 ❤︎❤︎❤︎ (3.5)
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
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finished: 2025-11-28 16:00:00
06.26.25 - 06.28.25 ❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎ (4.5)
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
The Traitor's Mercy
One Dark Window
Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands
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finished: 2025-11-30 16:00:00
04.15.25 - 04.19.25 ❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎ (4.0)
A Magical Girl Retires
She's Always Hungry
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
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finished: 2025-11-30 16:00:00
01.05.25 - 0.1.07.25 ❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎ (4.0)
Babel
The House in the Cerulean Sea
Whereabouts
The Bell Jar
The World Beyond Your Head
The Rings of Saturn
To The Lighthouse
So Long a Letter
Catching Fire
Salt Slow
On the Calculation of Volume (Book 3)
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finished: 2025-12-31 23:28:52.990882
These are becoming a tedious chore
Old Soul
The Dispossessed
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last updated: 2025-12-31 20:23:13.054937
Hooked. It took getting over the hump of the first chapter to get going, but once I did, I was all in.
Cursed Bunny
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finished: 2025-12-31 05:00:00
Of the two, I liked the Midnight Timetable more than I did Cursed Bunny. Don't get me wrong, it's still a great collection, I just found some of the stories to be forgettable.
Gliff
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finished: 2025-12-31 05:00:00
Gliff was just okay. I liked the beginning a lot, but felt that the rest of the book was lacking.
Babel
Midnight Timetable
Shuggie Bain
From Texts to Bodies: Sexes, Genders and Sexualities in Premodern Europe
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last updated: 2025-12-31 03:16:46.447032
Fiasco
Motor Racing, Tobacco Company Sponsorship, Barcodes and Alibi Marketing
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finished: 2025-12-31 02:02:36.149918
Details how tobacco company brands and sponsorships circumvent marketing laws [2005 European Union Tobacco Advertising Directive] by creating barcode designs and attaching them to non-tobacco products (this case being auto athlete gear and racing cars, namely in F1).
Demon Rum and a Dare: The Story of How Prohibition Inspired Stock Car Racing in the American South
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finished: 2025-12-30 06:00:00
Brief overview that contextualizes stock car racing's placement in history and its relationship to the identity and values of the American South in the 1920s.
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
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last updated: 2025-12-30 23:57:19.266247
Solaris
House of Leaves
A Head Full of Ghosts
We Used to Live Here
2666
Dawn (Lilith's Brood)
Unshame
Carolina Thunder: A Geography of Southern Stock Car Racing
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last updated: 2025-12-30 17:21:36.655949
Will NASCAR Have to Put on the Brakes?: The Constitutionality of the FDA's Ban on Brand-Name Tobacco Sponsorship in Motor Sports
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last updated: 2025-12-30 16:46:56.217700
The Physiology of Auto Racing: A Brief Review
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finished: 2025-12-30 06:00:00
Provides a thorough overview of a variety of general risks that auto athletes encounter during races, not including trauma or injury as a result of racing. Addressed risks: lack of recovery time, thermal stress, exposure to carbon monoxide, physical strain & fatigue, loss of hearing and metabolic demands.
How Dare We! Write
A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction
Let the Poets Govern
Lolita
Watership Down
The Seventies
The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis
Trust Kids! Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy
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last updated: 2025-12-30 00:35:39.711307
Hamlet
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
berlin alexanderplatz
slouching towards bethlehem
introducing kafka
james joyce's ulysses
the unabridged journals of sylvia plath
the famished road
Spread Me
Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
The School for Good and Evil
The Empire of Gold - The Daevabad Trilogy 3
The Kingdom of Copper - The Daevabad Trilogy 2
City of Brass - The Daevabad Trilogy 1
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
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finished: 2025-12-29 09:20:09.306641
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Orlando
Norwegian Wood
Poems
The Dhammapada
illuminations
The Hunger Games
Notes of a Native Son
Blood in My Eye
Butter
martyr!
From Dictatorship to Democracy
Technofeudalism
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the US
American Fascists
The Salt Grows Heavy
A Short Stay in Hell
Passin' Through
On Tyranny
The Land of Milk and Honey
It Lasts Forever, and Then It's Over
More Everything Forever
The Haunting of Hill House
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
Butter
the death and life of great american cities
Convenience Store Woman
Digital minimalism
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
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finished: 2025-12-24 12:26:15.605374
Deep Work
The vignelli canon
Chromorama: How Colour Changed Our Way of Seeing
The Truth About the Harry Quebert
Angels & Demons
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
ulysses
žižek’s jokes
If on a Winter's Night A Traveler
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Tjärdalen
Agua Viva
smothered in hugs
the third lie
Evicted
Slow Days, Fast Company
Read This When Things Fall Apart
Bestiary
Gods of Want
Why Do I Keep Doing This?
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
The Early Cases of Akechi Kogoro
Fahrenheit 451
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finished: 2025-08-12 16:00:00
need to reread this because everytime i think of it i just think of all the fanfic i've read of beatag
I Ching: The Book of Change
A Christmas Carol
Howl and Other Poems
Bluets
Exercises in Style
On the Calculation of Volume (Book 2)
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finished: 2025-12-19 21:16:48.734932
My curiosity remains but I am not emotionally engaged
Postcolonial Grief
Hyperobjects
Upstream
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Big Swiss
Ancestor Heart: A Short Story
Ballad for Black Cassandra
Landline: A Tor.com Original
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth Book 3)
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth Book 2)
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, 1)
Absolution (The Southern Reach Series, 4)
The City Born Great: A Tor.com Original
Operação Impensável
Solstitia Issue #2
Life Ceremony
How to Keep House While Drowning
The Natural Order of Things
We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics
Meander, Spiral, Explode
Fat Swim
Whidbey
The Night Parade
The Mobius Book
Easy Beauty
The Dry Season
Craft in the Real World
N=2 Supersymmetric Dynamics for Pedestrians
Large N Field Theories, String Theory, and Gravity
The Old Man and the Sea
Conformal Field Theory with Applications to String Theory
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finished: 2025-12-17 23:58:52.385378
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
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last updated: 2025-12-17 05:19:21.282006
Format: Paperback Started 10/17/2023 Rating: Thoughts:
The Third Gilmore Girl
How to Turn Into a Bird
Lessons in Chemistry
The Wretched of the Earth
life of pi
Dead Souls
The Unworthy
The Hole
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finished: 2025-12-14 23:37:18.528453
should i wait to read the last ~40 pages before i give my thoughts on the book? maybe… but why wait? this book would be right at home in the horror section. hiroko oyamada has a knack for making the monotony of everyday life feel really unsettling.
The Wall
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last updated: 2025-12-14 23:37:11.334277
This is book is not at all what I had anticipated. That being said, I am enjoying it quite a bit. I'm glad I went in completely blind, because I don't think I would have read this book otherwise.
Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird
Lost and Wanted
Zuckerman Bound
Faltas
Frankenstein
Franny and Zooey
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
Beloved
The Transsexual Empire
The Jakarta Method
Chaos
Sethian Gnosticism and the Platonic Tradition
Sexual Personae
Red Star Over China
The Books of Jacob
The Franchiser
Slow Days, Fast Company
Exercises in Style
story as sharp as a knife
The Bloody Chamber
Tokyo Ueno Station
man who mistook his wife for a hat
Oval
fat city
warlock
the go-between
mrs. dalloway
grand hotel
young man with a horn
donʼt look now
the invention of morel
the virgin suicides
pedro páramo
housekeeping
the house of the spirits
Blacksad: The Collected Stories
Mother Night
Jesus' Son
Train Dreams
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
The Screwtape Letters
Trouble Is What I Do
Satantango
The Events at Poroth Farm
Twelve Who Ruled
drive your plow over the bones of the dead
proofs and refutations
The Netanyahus
A charca
War and Money: The Imperialism of the Dollar
Tokyo Ueno Station
We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics
We
Siddhartha
Occult Features of Anarchism: With Attention to the Conspiracy of Kings and the Conspiracy of the Peoples
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finished: 2025-12-06 12:38:42.983761
an alle orte, die hinter uns liegen
Earnestly
Amor Cringe
in search of lost time
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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last updated: 2025-12-03 03:29:29.567447
Mexican Gothic
On the Calculation of Volume (Book 1)
Batman: Year One
Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory
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finished: 2025-12-02 18:55:04.932700
Labyrinths
Fictions
Frankenstein
Graffiti on No or Low Dollars
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Rings of Saturn
the proof
Quantum Physics for Poets
Crash
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last updated: 2025-12-02 17:38:20.732333
Love Ballard's poetics so far, incredible use of repetition and alliteration to not only create a sense of dread through the repetitive descriptions but to accelerate that feeling--we are all trapped in a car primed for a crash 12 / 205 pages
Gravity’s Rainbow
Enter Ghost
The Parisian, or Al-Barisi
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Babel
katabasis
knots
One River
Dear Committee Members
The Housekeeper and the Professor
Stoner
The Buddha and his Dhamma
The Holy Family
Satantango
Knowledge and Social Imagery
The Apple in the Dark
The German Ideology
Foucault's Pendulum
Bunny
Wish Her Safe at Home
bury our bones in the midnight soil
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finished: 2025-11-30 22:09:35.190348
after placing the hold in september, i finally picked it up last weekend. so far so good. v.e. schwab's writing is still good.
A Canticle for Lebowitz
Angle of Repose
Snow Falling on Cedars
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Draft No. 4
The Man Who Built the Sierra Club: A Life of David Brower
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last updated: 2025-11-30 02:33:44.928312
becoming
3001: The Final Odyssey
2061: Odyssey Three
Capitalist realism: is there no alternative?
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finished: 2025-11-29 08:00:00
Something we will need to reflect on and digest, but out the gate at least, feel deeply mixed on. We think there are so many very thought provoking threads in this book, but many of the assumptions or conclusions, particularly in the later half, feel rooted in a societal conservatism and puritanism that we are just fundamentally in opposition to. Like a lot of marxist writings, we find ourselves in agreement on so much, and yet in deep disappointment with many of the final conclusions arrived at, feeling like they were so close to hitting the mark, but instead landed at something fundamentally alienating, conservative, and imperialistic. We are going to more critically reread this and write down our thoughts as we do, to more precisely understand where our disagreements arise, but at least right now, I think most of it just comes down to us being too fundamentally anarchistic in our understandings of the world, and too materialistic in our anticapitalist analysis.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
in watermelon sugar
Will the Time Ever Come? A Tlingit Sourcebook
Collected Works by Emma Goldman
The Collected Works of Frederick Douglass
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe
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last updated: 2025-11-27 18:12:36.909906
The Weird and the Eerie
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
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last updated: 2025-11-27 18:06:01.923812
Unmasking Autism
Uzumaki
Ash's Cabin
The Conquest of Bread
Tess of the Road
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finished: 2025-11-27 08:00:00
Our favorite book as a teen, it meant a ton to us c:
Shadowscale
Seraphina
Middlemarch
The Books of Earthsea
Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of our Planetary Future
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last updated: 2025-11-27 17:51:47.181476
The Civil War in the United States
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis De Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
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last updated: 2025-11-27 17:50:13.819022
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women's Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan
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last updated: 2025-11-27 17:48:23.607493
Redwall
Humankind: solidarity with nonhuman people
Life of Maletesta
The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies
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last updated: 2025-11-27 17:43:07.147045
The Slave's Gamble: choosing sides in the war of 1812
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last updated: 2025-11-27 17:42:51.483853
The Light Eaters: How the unseen world of plant intelligence offers a new understanding of life on earth
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last updated: 2025-11-27 17:42:13.474295
Stone Butch Blues
Against The Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
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last updated: 2025-11-27 17:41:08.032488
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Transgender History: the roots of today's revolution
The New Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness
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finished: 2025-11-27 17:37:10.703114
An Indiginous People's History of the United States
a people's history of the united states
let this radicalize you
Watership Down
Twelve who ruled: the year of terror in the french revolution
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last updated: 2025-11-27 17:32:32.796617
The coming of the french revolution
The cause of all nations: an international history of the american civil war
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finished: 2025-11-27 11:59:37.974127
Unlearning Shame
Fatal purity: Robespierre and the french revolution
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last updated: 2025-11-27 11:47:57.718271
The giant of the french revolution: Danton, a life
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last updated: 2025-11-27 11:46:48.088003
Bullshit Jobs
The Dawn of Everything
Hamlet
Death Tractates
The Bright Sword
The Water Remembers
Tengautuli Atkuk / The Flying Parka
The Tainted Cup
Stay True
Nick and Charlie
troutfishing in america
The Tlingit in Russian America 1741-1867
The Communist Necessity
Be Ready When The Luck Happens
2010: Odyssey Two
Dark Tales
ordinary people, extraordinary burritos
Pappan och havet
För Lydia
Time Shelter
Den allvarsamma leken
the human condition
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth Trilogy #3)
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth Trilogy #2)
Jade Legacy (The Green Bone Saga #3)
To Save and To Destroy
Crime and Punishment
Le joueur d'échecs
La très catastrophique visite du zoo
The Moon Over the Mountain
Crime and Punishment
Latinísimo: Home Recipes from the Twenty-One Countries of Latin America (2023)
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last updated: 2025-11-18 19:46:44.345913
giovanni's room
the road
2001: A Space Oddysey
New Native Kitchen (2021)
A History of the World in Ten Dinners: 2,000 Years, 100 Recipes (2023)
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last updated: 2025-11-17 18:43:46.140575
The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen (2017)
Culture and Empire: Cooking in World History (2013)
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last updated: 2025-11-17 18:24:51.838138
Turtle Island: Foods and Traditions of the Indigenous Peoples of North America (2025)
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last updated: 2025-11-17 18:22:45.444234
Murder on the Orient Express
And Then There Were None
brothers karamazov
The Professional Chef, 9th Ed. (2011)
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last updated: 2025-11-16 00:41:24.703485
available via Internet Archive
Food, Farming, and Freedom: Sowing the Arab Spring (2011)
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last updated: 2025-11-16 00:39:02.714824
A Guide to Modern Cookery (1903)
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last updated: 2025-11-16 00:38:03.387548
available via Internet Archive
The Taste of Tomorrow: Dispatches From the Future of Food(2012)
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last updated: 2025-11-16 00:37:54.601687
available via Internet Archive
Blood, Bones, & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef (2001)
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last updated: 2025-11-15 22:14:00.513687
Kitchen Confidential (2000)
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Vol. 7: Foodways (1989)
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last updated: 2025-11-15 22:08:30.268122
Professional Cooking, 2nd Ed. (1989)
Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods (2023)
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last updated: 2025-11-15 21:48:17.083321
Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine (2016)
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last updated: 2025-11-15 21:47:35.015605
My Struggle, Book 3
Bearheart
The Picture of Dorian Gray
dead souls
if we were villains
The Secret History
Notes of a Native Son
Notes of a Crocodile
romance of the three kingdoms
Alice in Wonderland
memoirs of hadrian
the odyssey
Brave New World
The Divine Comedy
Equal Rites
Essays Against Publishing
Training for the Uphill Athlete
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finished: 2025-11-14 06:00:00
4.5/5 Vonnegut's ability to satirize American culture through characters that are both caricatures and believably grounded is unmatched. The fate of the Ghost Shirt Society, and the retrospective realization of the varied motivations of its founders, was also spectacular. Must-read for anyone struggling with the effects of automation on human dignity.
Player Piano
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finished: 2025-11-13 06:00:00
4.5/5 Vonnegut's ability to satirize American culture through characters that are both caricatures and believably grounded is unmatched. The fate of the Ghost Shirt Society, and the retrospective realization of the varied motivations of its founders, was also spectacular. Must-read for anyone struggling with the effects of automation on human dignity.
Fight Club
Devil’s Bargain: The History of the Faustian Bargain
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last updated: 2025-11-13 22:47:54.636983
Her Majesty’s Royal Coven
Mountain Light
A Portrait of the Arist As A Young Man
The Sellout
Liberation Day
Wherever You Go, There You Are
We Wish to Inform you that Tomorrow we Will be Killed with our Families
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last updated: 2025-11-13 19:51:32.077467
A Pattern Language
Strange Tale of Panorama Island
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finished: 2025-10-19 16:00:00
every single book this man writes always manages to make me go "what the fuck was that" atleast once
The Burnout Society
Midaq Alley
The Brothers Karamazov
The Black Lizard
The Great Gatsby
Plays and Petersburg Tales
The Fiend with Twenty Faces
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Moon Over the Mountain
Carmilla
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Hell Screen
Night on the Galactic Railroad
Open Throat
Harry Potter
Slaughterhouse-Five
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Scorch Trials
The Body Keeps The Score
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
Don Quixote
The Maze Runner
House of Leaves
the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lord of The Mysteries Side Stories
Lord of The Mysteries Volume 8: Fool
Lord of The Mysteries Volume 7: The Hanged Man
Lord of The Mysteries Volume 6: Lightseeker
Lord of The Mysteries Volume 5: Red Priest
Lord of The Mysteries Volume 4: Undying
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Purple Hibiscus
Thirst for Love
what we talk about when we talk about love
Heaven
Lord of The Mysteries Volume 3: Traveller
Lord of The Mysteries Volume 2: Faceless
Lord of The Mysteries Volume 1: Clown
the hamlet
series of of events
macbeth
a midsummer night's dream
the odyssey
the hunger games
the great gatsby
this side of paradise
do androids dream of electric sheep
lout of count's family (novel)
It All Ends With Me
Twiggy Woman
omniscient reader's viewpoint (novel)
Indigenous Toronto
Surviving the City
This Place
Moon of the Turning Leaves
The Circle
A Minor Chorus
The Setting Sun
No Longer Human
the aeneid
The Wisdom Of The Enneagram
the odyssey
Klara and the Sun
Giovanni's Room
the notebook
Perfume: The Story of A Murderer
Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts
Any Person Is The Only Self
The Emperor of Gladness
Teddy Bear Philosophy
A Responsibility to Awe
A Gorgeous Excitement: A Novel
Indian Film
vineland
Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
Doppelganger
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
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last updated: 2025-11-04 16:20:02.044250
The People's Republic of Walmart
American Exception
Adventure Capitalism
If We Burn
Radical Technologies
Wrong
High Conflict
The Gutenberg Parenthesis
Art and Technics
Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization
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last updated: 2025-11-04 16:15:08.817564
The Stack
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Seeing Like a State
Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
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last updated: 2025-11-04 16:11:58.924384
From Counterculture to Cyberculture
Against Platforms
The Expanse (Series)
rejection
Denison Avenue
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finished: 2025-11-04 05:00:00
A very beautiful well written. So much heart and joy and sorrow in these pages. Poetic interludes, lists of vignettes, very careful and minimal prose.
the sabbath
the art of giving and receiving
OpenGL Programming Guide
Modern C
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
Phaedra's Love
the notebook: a history of thinking on paper
exercises in style
4.48 Psychosis
The Melancholy of Resistance
The Collector
The Choice: Embrace the Possible
Blood and Guts in High School
Choices
Summer in Baden-Baden
the oracle of night
Where Research Begins
Salt Slow
Autobiography of Red
The Duchess of Malfi
The Book Eaters
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Jade War (The Green Bone Saga #2)
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
The Color of the End: Mission in the Apocalypse, Vol. 1
The Vegetarian
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
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finished: 2025-10-31 05:13:36.638502
The Picture of Dorian Gray
On The Calculation of Volume I
The Year of Magical Thinking
Notes of a Crocodile
The Bear and the Nightingale
The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape
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finished: 2025-10-31 05:12:07.171747
It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
Giovanni's Room
The Myth of Sisyphus
The Ethics of Ambiguity
Animal Farm
The Waste Land and Other Poems
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master's House
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finished: 2025-10-31 04:51:31.377135
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Dreaming of You
Dear Memory: Letters of Writing, Silence, and Grief
Stay True
The Catcher in The Rye
Frankenstein
The Age of Innocence
The Republic
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
the melancholy of resistance
we have always lived in the castle
south of the border, west of the sun
the tunnel
against the day
earthsea: the first four books
The Bell Jar
Redemption in Indigo
it
how to take a japanese bath
Summer in Baden-Baden
utilitarianism
Empire Maker
Evening Wind
Virgin Whore
Words Apart and Others
The Wolves of Eternity
Hyperion
Stung with Love
La carte et le territoire
La carte et le territoire
Fishflies
The Field
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finished: 2025-10-27 18:49:09.036448
Like all my favorite parts of Never Let Me Go, but amplified. The big and small cruelties of childhood rendered with clarity in comic form.
beloved
narrative of frederick douglass
revolutionary road
things fall apart
the things they carried
the fountainhead
the euthyphro
walden
gorgias
the bluest eye
the odyssey
catcher in the rye
jane eyre
frankenstein
song of myself
Pride and Prejudice
The Crying of Lot 49
Persuasion
The Order of Things
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
Radius: A Story of Feminist Revolution
Beloved
On Breathing: Care in a Time of Catastrophe
Palestine's Children: Returning to Haifa & Other Stories
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last updated: 2025-10-26 18:19:04.551981
A Heart So White
"Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide
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last updated: 2025-10-26 18:17:42.957623
Independent People
The Periodic Table
The Man Who Saw Everything
If Beale Street Could Talk
The Grapes of Wrath
Nightbitch
I Am the Brother of XX
This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving
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last updated: 2025-10-26 17:43:32.757497
Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism
A Fortune For Your Disaster
Devotions
Paradise Lost
approaching eye level
bluets
committed
little birds
closer baby closer
this is water
entangled life
mortal trash
females
a lover's discourse: fragments
dictee
walden
anti-semite and jew
the sluts
heart of a dog
lincoln in the bardo
blood and guts in high school
queer
heart of a dog
the emperor of gladness
lapvona
white noise
the river is waiting
harry potter and the deathly hallows
harry potter and the half-blood prince
the people in the trees
pulphead
sputnik sweetheart
my first book
closer
frisk
try
guide
period
Play It as It Lays
Blue Nights
Box Hill
the heart of the matter
The Color Out of Space
The Dreams in the Witch House
Gideon the Ninth
Frankenstein
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
strange pictures
Giovanni's Room
mythologies
flights
Ferdydurke
The Black Jacobins
Vineland
Woodworm
American Psycho
eunoia
letters to felice
gravity and grace
Crime and Punishment
The Savage Detectives
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
L'expérience des images
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Free
Maken
Snö
Indignity
Pontypool Changes Everything
apeirogon
Bitter Thorns
i wished
The Left Hand of Darkness
A Pale View of Hills
Agua Viva
Conjure Wife
Annihilation
Low Kill Shelter
Blow-Up and Other Stories
The Tokyo Zodiac Murders
Black Wings Has My Angel
edge of eternities
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last updated: 2025-10-17 01:45:27.664463
written by seth dickinson episode 1 ☑ episode 2 ☑ episode 3 ☑ episode 4 ☑ episode 5 ☑ episode 6 ☑ episode 7 ☑ episode 8 ☑
playworld
good talk
Accel World, Vol. 01: Kuroyukihime's Return
everything and less
These Precious Days
Ghost Wall
fieldwork
books v. cigarettes
swann's way
good old neon
Baron Bagge
Mrs. Dalloway
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finished: 2025-09-29 08:00:00
Kind of life changing. 5/5. "What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was."
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
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finished: 2025-10-06 08:00:00
A little sad, an easy read, not life changing but good.
The Emperor of Gladness
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finished: 2025-10-15 23:24:19.222566
Solid. 4/5. This book reads like a book adaptation of a movie. Liked it more than I thought I would at home.
the jewish prison
the oxford handbook of ritual and worship in the hebrew bible
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last updated: 2025-10-15 21:00:38.853742
Giovanni's Room
The Houseguest
Notes of a Crocodile
A Darker Shade of Magic
Pride and Prejudice
Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
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last updated: 2025-10-14 22:32:30.593704
Who Rules the World?
Nouvelles
dune messiah
grey dog
fieldwork
what we talk about when we talk about love
books v. cigarettes
big sur
kandinsky: incarnating beauty
compass
a gorgeous excitement
life a user's manual
nights at the circus
outline
intermezzo
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finished: 2025-01-17 05:00:00
first book of 2025! took a second lol. i like ivan so much & my respect for sally rooney grows with each page
angels in america
the lightness
vera, or faith
american bulk
happy-go-lucky
minor feelings
mysticism
dune
great expectations
invisible man
no longer human
The Fall of Robespierre
Water Music
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
The Glass Castle
station eleven
Playground
the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy
the idiot
The Covenant of Water
Intermezzo
The Sound and the Fury
Little Liar
klara and the sun
Babel
the things we cannot say
the gods of the woods b
the briar club
the frozen river
all the colors of the dark
the life impossible
the spanish daughter
all the broken places
wild dark shore
code name helene
Small Things Like These
the lion women of tehran
The Ministry of Time
Real Americans
And the mountains echoed
The Covenant of Water
on photography
Paradise Rot
Prokaryote Season
Parade
Kairos
If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose
Intermezzo
Khaki Shorts and Saffron Flags
Home Land
Playground
Eastbound
notes from underground
I Do Know Some Things
The Book of Ayn
Once in Berlin
Tauhou
The Cellar
Will There Ever Be Another You
Killers of the Flower Moon
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Shade
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Assembling California
Death Troopers: Star Wars Legends
strange pictures
LOTE
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finished: 2025-12-07 23:00:00
Purchased from: She Said — Berlin, Germany Edition: Paperback, Jacaranda Books (2020) ISBN: 9781913090111 Blurb: „Lush and frothy, incisive and witty, Shola von Reinhold's decadent queer literary debut immerses readers in the pursuit of aesthetics and beauty, while interrogating the removal and obscurement of Black figures from history. Solitary Mathilda has long been enamored with the 'Bright Young Things' of the 20s, and throughout her life, her attempts at reinvention have mirrored their extravagance and artfulness. After discovering a photograph of the forgotten Black modernist poet Hermia Druitt, who ran in the same circles as the Bright Young Things that she adores, Mathilda becomes transfixed and resolves to learn as much as she can about the mysterious figure. Her search brings her to a peculiar artists' residency in Dun, a small European town Hermia was known to have lived in during the 30s. The artists' residency throws her deeper into a lattice of secrets and secret societies that takes hold of her aesthetic imagination, but will she be able to break the thrall of her Transfixions?“
The King in Yellow
Nyarlathotep
The Dunwich Horror
House Of Leaves
I BIBLIOTECA H.P LOVECRAFT
House of Leaves
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finished: 2024-10-04 07:00:00
A book in which you too, add to the narrative. Has been the inspiration for so many weird media I love.
Neuromancer
Harrow the Ninth
Nona the Ninth
Time is a Mother
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finished: 2025-07-23 00:00:00
Read a poem from Voung's "Night Sky with Exit Wounds" and fell in love with his style in a college class, then found this one randomly and recognized the author. A collection full of grief and smothered by hope.
The Universe in Verse
Night Sky With Exit Wounds
Lady Death: And Other Poems Venerating Change
The Nameless
Ballad of Black Tom
Providence
Our Lady of the Flowers
Hell Followed With Us
Carmilla
Dracula
The elements of style
Black Skin White Masks
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Castle in the Air
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last updated: 2025-10-03 16:42:13.868905
About 15% of the way through. So far I like it less than Howl's Moving Castle, but I feel like I haven't gotten really into it yet.
Universality
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finished: 2025-09-27 08:00:00
I read this because I'm trying to read many of the Booker nominated books this year and I think this one is my favorite so far. I've heard many people critique this book as heavy-handed in its message, but I thought that was the whole point and what made the book fun. Like namely the billionaire character "Rich" was just iconic.
Tintin i nya världen
Man in the Dark
giovanni's room
we love you, bunny
bunny
another country
sea of tranquility
sea of tranquility
the three-body problem
the idiot
bliss montage
the dark forest
death's end
the stone gods
ball lightning
by nightfall
the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy
either/or
things i don't want to know
the starless sea
station eleven
the glass hotel
green dot
tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
babel
art objects: essays on ecstasy and effrontery
the inseparables
the wandering earth: classic science fiction collection
day
martyr!
lighthousekeeping
human acts
weight: the myth of atlas and heracles
the world and other places: stories
there are rivers in the sky
private citizens
sister snake
all fours
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finished: 2025-02-07 00:00:00
my god, i'm completely bowled over. indulging in this 5 star rating had made me feel kneejerk shame for over identifying with...what? this intense realness, this communal "some version of my revelation". grief is not the only outcome of desire, fulfilled or not. you can not only want what you want but have it too. golden light everywhere. book of the year for me (2025)
The Problem of the Rupee
good girl
the gap of time
i make envy on your disco
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finished: 2025-06-03 00:00:00
my fav genre is definitely mid life crisis > fucks off to someplace for a week > realises everything always becomes something else > falls in love > not figuring anything out at all except that you could live in any other way & they're all beautiful. i love that this book is really just a love letter to this berlin of 20 years ago. i love magda. i love that everything's universal. i make envy on your disco. whatever that means. whatever life means
the first bad man
on the calculation of volume i
rejection
my brilliant friend
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finished: 2025-07-23 00:00:00
i think about this book once in a while and consider if i should read its sequel. i love the intensity of the characters. kids /teens make amazing protagonists
katabasis
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finished: 2025-08-19 00:00:00
really wanted to like this because i enjoyed babel. but the writing was really not it for me - found the constant switch between the different voices (bad YA romance) (random concepts which i enjoyed actually) so jarring. the plot was fine but fell a bit flat for me - there were some parts of hell that made me go oooh but i just wasn't invested in the rest of it
piranesi
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finished: 2025-09-15 00:00:00
gave this a second chance & i finally saw the house thru piranesi's limpid eyes... what a perfect protagonist for a world that is made beautiful only thru his gaze. he's so steadfast & honest that im convinced the only state of being becomes one of reverence when you are equally compassionate & dutiful. i want to live like this!
the burnout society
the bee sting
Somewhere Beyond the Sea
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
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last updated: 2025-10-02 04:04:59.317652
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
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finished: 2025-10-02 02:50:29.709603
A Fire Upon The Deep
totempole
The Night Guest
Assembling California
Pologne, histoire d'une ambition
kitchen
the pale king
Nona the Ninth
Harrow the Ninth
Less
House in the Cerulean Sea
Song of Myself
Timon of Athens
A Walk in the Park
The Directors: Take Three
The Directors: Take One
I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream
Comedy of Errors
Sonic Life: A Memoir
Leave The World Behind
Aliène
Caps Lock: How Capitalism took hold of Graphic Design and how to escape from it
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last updated: 2025-09-28 11:53:20.415857
Portnoy's Complaint
The Story of a New Name
A Children’s Bible
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finished: 2025-09-27 13:01:23.817214
A page-turner with a somewhat simplistic message. Ending falls apart unfortunately.
Intermezzo
Growth of the Soil
Down and Out in Paris and London
Salomé
The Glass Castle
Lady Windermere's Fan
The Great Gatsby
Eros the Bittersweet
Norwegian Wood
Crying in H Mart
Inferno
A Room of One’s Own
Of Mice and Men
Girl in Pieces
Slaughterhouse-Five
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Normal People
The Virgin Suicides
Girl, Interrupted
No Longer Human
Tender is the Flesh
Dearest Father
The Yellow Wallpaper
The Metamorphosis
Little Fires Everywhere
A Doll's House
The Alchemist
Julius Caesar
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Animal Farm
Coraline
De Profundis
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Ariel
Night
Atomic Habits
Frankenstein
Dracula
Ender's Game
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Hamlet
Macbeth
Antigone
Oedipus the King
Oedipus at Colonus
The Bell Jar
To a God Unknown
In Dubious Battle
Empire of Wild
Carmilla
Station Eleven
The Tempest
Brave New World
notes from underground
notes from underground
The Stranger
The Bluest Eye
Too Late to Awaken: What Lies Ahead When There is no Future?
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last updated: 2025-09-26 21:40:35.353827
last night at the telegraph club
pachinko
To Selena, with Love
I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution
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last updated: 2025-09-25 23:46:44.393536
Hypermedia Systems
The Internet Con: How To Seize the Means of Computation
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last updated: 2025-09-25 23:42:26.711672
Death and Other Dances
Heavier Than Heaven
Push
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last updated: 2025-09-25 17:31:39.611495
A pregnant teenager in Harlem—grappling with abuse, poverty, and illiteracy—embarks on a harrowing journey of self-discovery and empowerment.
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
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last updated: 2025-09-25 17:31:11.745842
The Color Purple
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last updated: 2025-09-25 17:29:33.878720
A resilient African American woman in the early 20th-century American South overcomes decades of abuse and hardship through the transformative power of love, sisterhood, and self-discovery.
The Prodigies
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last updated: 2025-09-25 17:28:57.546364
A five-year-old genius with selective mutism and peculiar fainting spells is thrust into a secret academy for gifted children, where she navigates a harsh social hierarchy, fierce competition, and enigmatic disappearances.
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
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finished: 2025-09-25 17:24:28.828754
triangulation
orientation
declination
the bell at sealey head
bury our bones in the midnight soil
a game of thrones
queer as folklore
after evil: a politics of human rights
107 days
shadow ticket
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
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finished: 2025-09-24 00:02:56.789030
Dates read: 8/21/2025–9/23/2025 What an accomplishment. This was not an easy read. First off, let me say this novel had some of my favorite passages that I've ever read, mabve ever. Proust is a true artist the way he writes things which are ephemeral. The madeleine dipped in tea, the garden at night, the bois in autumn, the steeples in the countryside, Vinteuil's Sonata–I often found myself re-reading entire pages over and over because they were so complex, so beautiful, so nourishing, that I felt like I had to take them in again and again. I preferred part one to part two–I loved his romantic musings on Combray and the countryside of his childhood and his yearnings made me notice the beauty around me in my own life. Part two and Swann's epic love story, on the other hand, was maddening. As a rule, Proust loves a long sentence and extrapolates the hell out of everything he writes, which can feel like being swept away lost in thought, but can start to feel excruciatingly fastidious. By the end I was feeling impatient, and I think these stories could have been told in less than 600 pages while still preserving the charm of well thought out observations on everyday life and feelings. I will definitely read the other In Search of Lost Time volumes, but it might be a year or two before I pick the next one up. 4/5 stars
custom of the country
The Hundred Page Machine Learning Book
Under the Eye of the Big Bird
On the Calculation of Volume (Book 1)
Chain-Gang-All-Stars
The Little Book of Deep Learning
Chutney #4
Good Economics for Hard Times
A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders
Money: A Story of Humanity
Narrative Economics
Martyr!: A Novel
The Emperor of Gladness
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
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last updated: 2025-09-23 16:51:28.270202
A Little Devil in America
Information Access in the era of Generative AI
Chokepoint Capitalism
Empire of AI
The Oxford Handbook of AI Governance
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
Business Data Ethics: Emerging Models for Governing AI and Advanced Analytics
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finished: 2025-09-23 16:40:08.848668
Seven Days In June
Draft No. 4
Sunbringer
Godkiller
The Idiot
The Bright Sword
Fruit of the Dead
Sonny's Blues
Among the Burning Flowers
the others of edenwell
queer gothic
a feast for crows
a dance with dragons
a storm of swords
a clash of kings
areopagitica
ulysses
notes from underground
Notes from Underground
Briefly, a Delicious Life
Cassandra at The Wedding
there is nothing so whole as a broken heart
Angels
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
One Boat
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Notes of a Native Son
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finished: 2025-09-18 21:50:46.425662
A collection of ten essays tackling issues of race in America and Europe. PDF: https://angelthing.linkh.at/notes-nat-son
i gave you eyes and you looked toward darkness
the loser
the unnameable
the book of disquiet
elegy written in a country churchyard
autobiography of red
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finished: None
To deny the existence of red is to deny the existence of mystery. The soul which does so will one day go mad Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary Photography is a way of playing with perceptual relationships Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling
Gravity’s Rainbow
Orlando
A Room of One’s Own
All About Love
fairyland
Perfection
between existentialism and marxism
fairyland
aniara
the house of twenty thousand books
suppose a sentence
brothers karamazov
i am alien to life
the absence of myth
between existentialism and marxism
cafe gitane: 30 years
schattenfroh
the anti-social family
story of the eye
cane
corregidora
giovanni's room
ordinary people, extraordinary burritos
normal people
all fours
the road
mythocracy
the art of asking your boss for a raise
we have never been woke
the body in pain
on the calculation of volume i
the yiddish policemen's union
city of night
desolation angels
sons and daughters
blue hunger
heart of a dog
fair play
notes of a crocodile
pale fire
Discourse on colonialism
negative space
Wuthering Heights
this is water
blood and guts in high school
the master and margarita
QED: the strange theory of light and matter
man and his symbols
The Summer Book
Hangsaman
The Remains of the Day
Jesus' Son
Chess Story
Whatever
heartbreaker
Operation shylock
the intellectual maturation and ideological legacy of justice renquist
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the intellectual maturation and ideological legacy of justice renquist
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last updated: 2025-09-12 06:28:56.410959
lolita
atonement
Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting
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last updated: 2025-09-12 02:46:58.359665
like death
autobiography of red
inherent vice
v.
lolita
joseph and his brothers
satantango
dark rise
amidst clouds and bones
long live evil
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
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Another Country
Blood Meridian
A Strip of Velvet
In Praise of Shadows
Stuffed
What Moves the Dead
The Metamorphosis
Notes from Underground
Sagittarius
Between the World and Me
the omnivore's dilemma
a moveable feast
never let me go
elephant in the brain
Beloved
a gentleman in moscow
the blithedale romance
stoner
The Complete Cosmicomics
Go Tell It on the Mountain
The Trinity of Fundementals
Bear
Taking Care
The Rest Is Noise
Ms Ice Sandwich
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Heaven
Niemand in de stad
Naked Lunch
The Flowers of Buffoonery
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Kitchen
Goudvissen en beton
Convenience Store Woman
Le Mur
Don Quixote
Brideshead Revisited
The Sea, The Sea
Het tegenovergestelde van een mens
Piranesi
escape from freedom
One Hundred Years of Solitude
trial of socrates
W.
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finished: 2025-07-06 22:00:00
One of the easiest flowing books I've read in a long while. Incredible and moving debut.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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finished: 2025-08-08 22:00:00
Sometimes very crass representation of autistic people and, according to Haddon, how their mind works, but in the end the story was very endearing and emotional and won me over (maybe I am just a sucker for emotional storylines)
The Fellowship of the Ring
A Wizard of Earthsea
The Bell Jar
The Last Unicorn
Dubliners
Objects as Actors: Props and the Poetics of Performance in Greek Tragedy
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American Pastoral
Girl, 1983
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
southland tales: the complete saga
hot blonde girls with heavy eye makeup
miss julie 2020
leads house
empire waste
act like me
famous for nothing
pushing closer
beach house burning
lovetrust
Don Quixote
V.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
A Portrait of the Arist As A Young Man
Steppenwolf
White Noise
The Hearing Trumpet
Uncertain Sons and Other Stories
Antisocieties
Mrs. Dalloway
Affinity
The Tanners
The Sirens of Titan
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Froth on the Daydream
War and Peace
Walden
Dracula
Mouthful of Birds
Franny and Zooey
Gilead
Motorman
The Third Policeman
Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials
Invitation to a Beheading
Temple of Dawn
The Temple of the Golden Pavillion
Perdido Street Station
Moby Dick
Lonesome Dove
Suttree
Rebecca
The Moon and Sixpence
It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
The Magic Mountain
Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Third Realm
Metropole
The Vegitarian
The Trial
The Metamorphosis
An Artist in the Floating World
Mr. Norris Changes Trains
Berlin Stories
Les Miserables
The Sun Also Rises
The Old Man and the Sea
Light in August
Absalom, Absalom!
Last Days
A Collapse of Horses
The Sea Came at Midnight
Days Between Stations
The Name of the Rose
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Brothers Karamazov
Mount Analogue
Piranesi
Hebdomeros
The Vorrh
The Invention of Morel
Solenoid
Blinding
Invisible Cities
Void Corporation
The Master and Margarita
Nadja
Farenheit 451
The Savage Detectives
2666
The Etched City
The Idiot
Rashomon and Other Stories
Martyr!: A Novel
The Other City
The Golden Age
El Aleph
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(En español). No necesesita explicación, estoy practicando mi español y leyendo uno de los autores latinamericanos más famosos. Estoy luchando endender todo el vocabulario pero sigo adelante.
Fictions
The Winter of Our Discontent
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finished: 2025-09-07 04:00:00
07/30/2025 – 08/08/2025 – Best book I've read this year, and probably in my top five ever. I deeply connected with Ethan's moral integrity throughout the first half of the book. Turning down opportunities regardless of your situation because they don't align with you ethically is something I hope I would do. I also loved Ethan's inner voice musings and observations about the world. The second half, however, was a poignant portrait of what happens to a man who is downtrodden. His light burned out and his good humor became forced. Everyone got what they wanted, but at the expense of some people he cared about. The ending, even the last few pages, shook me to my core. It's not very often I close a book and feel the buzzing, burning in your chest sensation you get when you've truly been touched by something. I'm someone who loves books with memorable characters, good flow of dialogue, a gripping story, and beautiful exposition. This one had it all. This is my first Steinbeck so it's ironic that it was his last, but I can't wait to read more, maybe all of his works. 5/5 stars
If on a Winter's Night A Traveler
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finished: 2025-09-07 04:00:00
07/17/2025 – 07/28/2025 – I've never read anything quite like this one. Calvino continuously broke the rules weaving a complex conspiracy that moved in and out of the chapters like a web. I appreciated the alternating chapters of short stories and main narrative, although even this rule wasn't always honored. It felt like watching the X-Files and picking up on the "myth arc" vs. the "monster of the week" episodes. The language used throughout was beautiful and thought provoking–the short stories explored the deepest of sensations and the most subtle of experiences forming brilliant metaphors of life and they always built towards a genius (purposely) sudden ending. I loved the short story chapters, reading them made the book go by quickly for me. The reason I deducted a star was for the main narrative chapters, which I found to be more of a slog. I appreciated their insanity in challenging the way narrative fiction is written and understood, and I liked how they tied the stories all together in the end. I didn't even mind how speculative and strange the story became in the end. I suppose what I disliked is something I dislike in most modern/post-modern novels. The experimental writing left me feeling empty in the end. I didn't care about any of the characters, certain plot points were left unresolved, and I felt like the points Calvino was trying to make became a replacement for a solid, interesting story. By the end I was ready for it to be over, and I guess that's a bit of a shame. Still, it was a brilliant book and a great intro to Calvino's work. I imagine fans of this type of story telling wouldn't have the same complaints as me and would love this. I might try reading more of him sooner than later. 4/5 stars
The Communist Manifesto
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finished: 2025-09-07 04:00:00
07/04/2025-07/17/2025 – I decided to give this an honest read with notes considering its notoriety and the flippant use of the adjective "Communist" in contemporary politics. This particular edition is from the 60's and has a lengthy intro from Francis B Randall that I didn't particularly care for. It's immediately evident in his writing and point of view that he was an American man living in a time where the entire system was working rather well for people like him. He has this obsession with tying all of Marx's ideas, writings, and behaviors to Romanticism, which, isn't a completely moot point, but was overused in the intro and rather dismissive. The first chapter of the manifesto itself is perhaps the most relevant. It lays out the basis for the rest of the manifesto and does a good job of describing the class struggle. I found it especially interesting to read knowing it came from a mid 1850's context when the industrial revolution was in full swing, and that, while certain things like child labor are no longer as pertinent in the west today, the points Marx was making have become all the more relevant. I found myself reflecting on things that I hadn't before (except maybe when I read News From Nowhere by William Morris) such as the concentration of power in cities and its effect on rural people. Throughout this section I kept thinking "it's ironic that the modern right is so predominantly rural people, because this is written for people like them". Where the manifesto lost me is in chapter 2 when Marx starts to lay out what should be done about this. Things like heavy taxes, centralization of transportation, communication, and free education aren't totally irrelevant and are the focus of modern leftist views, but his ideas of abolishing private property, forming a central national bank, abolishing inheritance, and equal liability of labor, raise red flags for me in that I don't see how extensive violence and risk of corruption are to be avoided. I feel like the ideas are idealistic, but ignore human nature and its complications. I don't know what the answer is and I think these systems ought to be questioned and heavily regulated, but these interventions, in my opinion, aren't and shouldn't be in their final form. The rest of the manifesto is perhaps the least interesting. It is very contextual to when it was written and I didn't get a lot out of it. All in all, I'm glad I understand communism more and am interested in reading some of his other works (like Capital), and I know for a fact that I don't think capitalism in its current state deserves to continue to exist–but I am no communist and disagree with a lot of Marx's views. More people ought to read and understand this, especially with how much modern Americans don't understand what it actually means to be communist even though they are so deathly afraid of the label. 3/5 stars
The City & the City
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finished: 2025-09-07 04:00:00
06/02/2025 - 06/11/2025 – Easily my favorite book of the year so far. It was just what I was craving. Clever and intelligent, cryptic and mysterious with a gripping story, never boring, fascinating setting, memorable characters. The setting of a murder mystery crime novel but within the rules of Breach, crosshatching, unseeing, unsensing. Genius 5/5 stars
The Stranger
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finished: 2025-09-07 04:00:00
06/30/2025-07/03/2025 – Profound and yet short and sweet. There was something sad and helpless, yet somehow calming in this story. Meursault, in many ways, reminds me of myself. I too struggle with indifference and shortsightedness in many aspects of my life. I find it difficult at times to have a strong opinion about anything, and don't always think ahead in life. Not to the same degree as the protagonist, (I mean he couldn't even admit his love for his girlfriend and even killed a man with little remorse), but his passivity about his mothers death, his calm indifference at being incarcerated, it felt startlingly relatable to how I have weathered grief in my own life. I've always considered these qualities in to be virtues–they've allowed me to remain grounded and level-headed in times of turmoil–so to read of how these traits betrayed Meursault and how the prosecutors used his character against him in his trail to eventually condemn him to death, I found myself reexamining these traits and putting myself on trial, so to speak. This was a very existential read for me, and I'm grateful for it. 5/5 stars
Fifteen Dogs
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finished: 2025-09-07 04:00:00
5/17/2025 - 5/21/2025 – I expected this to be hilarious from the premise, which it was, but I didn't expect it to be so heart wrenching and beautiful, yet brutal at times. I loved the use of dogs as a lens to examine human behavior; emotion, love, sex, power, art, and of course language. This book really scratched an itch for me. 5/5 stars
Leviathan
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finished: 2025-09-07 04:00:00
04/15/2025 - 05/01/2025 – Quite the saga with memorable characters, Sachs in particular is easy to identify with regardless of his extremist approach to morality and justice. Everyone wants to believe in something. That said, I found the writing style to be bland and unremarkable, and the first 150 pages or so were pretty boring. If it weren't for the second half of the book, I wouldn't have liked it as much as I did in the end. Not sure I would recommend this, but I do think I'd try more of Auster's books. 3.5/5 stars
Breakfast of Champions
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finished: 2025-09-07 04:00:00
03/23/2025 - 04/05/2025 – Loved this one, not as much as Slaughter House 5, but much much more than Cat's Cradle. The entire thing was so delightfully stupid. Like just plain dumb (non-derogatory). It was such a nasty read on American culture and values, Vonnegut really didn't mince his words. I appreciated that the story was grounded in reality for the most part and found its humor in the characters. The narrative style was a lot of fun swapping between Dwayne and Kilgore and explaining everything as if its for someone completely unfamiliar with earth to understand. This especially drove home Vonnegut's classic bit of repetitive one-liners (i.e. leaks, random dick measurements, Sparky the dog who couldn't wag his tail so he had to fight all the time, etc.) I especially loved the random sudden insertion of himself in the story after chapter 19 that just completely derailed the entire thing. Like I've never seen someone give less of a shit about the seriousness of their book and it was just so fucking funny. 5/5.
Wuthering Heights
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finished: 2025-09-07 04:00:00
02/22/2025 - 03/16/2025 – Crazy book filled with awful people and suffering, thank god it has a happy(?) ending. I don’t know how Heathcliff can be described as an anti-hero, he was a terrible irredeemable villain. Also suprised this is always touted, especially in film adaptations, as a romance. The only romance present was in Heathcliff's sick and twisted love for Catherine, and even that was filled with abuse and manipulation. Everything could have been prevented or circumvented if anyone had a shred of patience and compassion, starting with and especially the Earnshaws with little Heathcliff when he was an adopted abandoned child. It was a hard and frustrating read and while it was really well written, I’m glad it’s over. I'd give it 3.5 stars
The Morning Star
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finished: 2025-09-07 04:00:00
1/24/2025–2/17/2025 – The Morning Star is a real page turner. 666 pages long (I see what you did there, Karl Ove) and yet a breeze to read. I really enjoyed the blend of personal narratives and characters, sometimes connecting with each other, sometimes only relating to each other thematically. I did have to return, occasionally, to previous chapters to remember who someone was, but by the end I was following along no problem. It's obvious this book was an excuse for the author to explore ideas of death and the afterlife, the final chapter literally being an essay on death under the name of one of the characters we followed throughout the book, (and I confess I did not enjoy it nor did I want it to be the final note to end on, especially after some of the exciting chapters leading up to it prior.) The style of predominant personal narrative with supernatural woven in was both fun and mysterious. I'm left with so many questions that I hope will be addressed in Wolves of Eternity and the Third Realm, but something tells me he'll cover a lot of the same ground while leaving the mysteries open-ended. Regarding the narratives of the characters, they almost all felt familiar to how Karl Ove Knausgaard writes about himself in "My Struggle". It felt like, in many ways, seeing his worst thoughts and feelings about himself leeching out into his characters. Many times I thought "very few people are this insecure and afraid to appear weak, that's a you thing, Karl Ove". Also, everyone is such an alcoholic, I can't believe the amount of drinks all these characters are putting away, Jesus. Anyway, I really really enjoyed this and am looking forward to reading the next book in the series sometime later this year. Knausgaard is a reliable pleasure-read author for me now and I find his style approachable and relatable. I give this a strong 4 stars.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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finished: 2025-09-07 04:00:00
12/30/2024–1/24/2025 – (Spoilers) Such a fun read, it scratched an itch I've been having for beautiful flowery writing, a Victorian setting, and supernatural mystery. There's something about reading a book over 100 years after it was written without knowing much about it and finding myself gasping at the twists in the plot, just like people probably did when it was written. Sybil Vane's suicide, James Vane's accidental death, Basil Hallward's graphic murder. I didn't see them coming. My only critiques, or qualms I should say, were the time jump in the middle of the book, and the abrupt end. I'm not usually a fan of time jumps because I want to see the plot unravel in real time, and this jump left some of the developments I was craving unsatisfied. As for the abrupt ending, similarly I could have read 200 more pages of Dorian's struggle with morality and vain (just now noticing the name Vane as maybe an intentional choice of symbolizing Dorian's own vain, hm...). An insane spiral could have made the story all the more impactful when Dorian drives the knife into his portrait killing himself on accident. Anyways, these are small critiques but I still give the book a 5/5. It was just so good.
My Struggle, Book 2
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finished: 2025-09-07 04:00:00
08/20/2024 – 10/08/2024 – My Struggle Book 1 was one of my favorite books of all time, and my second favorite this year. But book 2 was an absolute slog. There’s a lot of things I think factored into this. One, the main idea of this book is to focus on his relationship with his wife and his experiences becoming a father. It also revolves a lot around his friend Geir and their various conversations, as well as other adult friendships and conversations. I think I would have liked it more had I read this during a similar time of life, but his frustrations with fatherhood did not land well with me. Furthermore, reading about his strained day-to-day relationship with his wife Linda was very difficult for me. Honestly it felt like it heightened my own daily anxieties and dragged me down with him. Regarding Geir, I just do not like the guy. He’s arrogant, pessimistic and an asshole. He rants like a know-it-all and unfortunately, his rants took up a lot of real estate in this novel. It’s also boring to keep up with the constant exposition-less references and theories to other writings mentioned by the two. You just have to know to know. There were highlights, namely the face-cutting sequence and the portions of discovering his MIL is a secret alcoholic, but I eventually had to skim the last 100 pages after “struggling” with the book for over a month and a half. I still have a desire to read the other books (maybe next year sometime) because they go back and deal with his earlier life again, but I hesitate to recommend book 2 to anyone. I’d give it a 2.5/5 stars, so a weak 3/5.
Stoner
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finished: 2025-09-07 04:00:00
08/14/2024 – 8/19/2024 – Stoner is both simple yet rich in both its narrative and in its language. I found it incredibly easy to read despite it having some advanced vocabulary throughout. This is a read that I think I would have enjoyed more had I related more to it. Stoner was a man who lived his entire life both stoic and infuriatingly complacent. The way he simply settled for his situation without ever trying to make better of it made me upset. I know many love and resonate with this book because they see themselves in it, but I feel like I've spent my short life doing exactly the opposite of what Stoner did. On a subjective point, I generally struggle with novels dominated by a third person narrative and I find novels that tell decades of stories to be rushed and I struggle to connect with the characters and immerse myself in their experiences. Because of this, I give the book a 4/5, based on personal preference rather than on the quality of the book which was undoubtedly excellent. UPDATE: 8/20/2024 After some consideration, I've decided to bump this down a star. I still think I'd recommend this to certain readers, especially to people pursuing academy or people who are unhappy with the trajectory of their life, but in reflection, while Williams uses some big words throughout, the prose felt lacking and failed to make me feel very much, and I think that's a serious issue. The book is more elementary than people let on. It feels a bit overrated and I didn't find anything about it to be very memorable. Truthfully, I wanted to say and think it was excellent because of the way everyone else talks about it, but in my heart of hearts, I don't think it is.
Cat's Cradle
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finished: 2025-09-07 04:00:00
08/03/2024 - 08/14/2024 – Truly off the rails reading. The satire on religion, science, politics, it's all there in the most Vonnegut way possible. This was a great read for hopping on and off the train for a couple weeks in NYC, the chapters are in digestible 1-3 page chunks throughout, so it was easy (almost too easy) to just stop and go. I think if I were home I could've read this in just a couple days but instead it felt a bit dragged out. The humor is fun but the story telling is almost too off the rails to be very captivating. I didn't really care for a single character throughout. I'd give it 4/5 stars because of that.
My Struggle, Book 1
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finished: 2025-09-07 04:00:00
07/16/2024 – 08/03/2024 – Part one of this book brought back memories of my adolescence that I had completely forgotten, and not just the events that transpired there but also the emotions that I felt. Karl Ove is a master of putting these feelings and impressions into words. I felt myself relating to him, from his yearning desires of youth, to his insecurities and his musings of how one thinks they know so much when they really know so little. Part two where he jumps to the death of his father later post graduation from university filled me with a mixture of feelings of both pity and sorrow, sometimes making me contemplate my own complicated relationships with family. I love the way he anecdotally relates experiences or conveys personalities through art history or philosophy and poetically describes the beauties of the world and how unwilling we can be to notice them. This book was incredibly vulnerable, it made me want to write. One of my favorites in recent memory. 5 stars.
Norwegian Wood
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finished: 2025-09-07 04:00:00
07/10/2024 – 07/16/2024 – This was an interesting reading experience for me. My third Murakami, and one of his few if only books without supernatural undertones, I both really enjoyed this and was disappointed in this. I discussed my feelings with some folks online who've read Murakami as well, and it seems to be a common sentiment that the first Murakmi is the best, but as you read more of his novels, certain patterns and tropes become evident, including loser male protagonists who, somehow, have women throwing themselves at them, one-note love interests, strange and graphic sexual fantasies, often veering into the realms of hebephilia; I think it's kind of obvious that Murakami is inserting himself into his novels. Norwegian Wood had the elements that bring me back to his books, incredibly easy and charming to read. The experience is almost meditative, and its easy to get washed away. I found the themes to be difficult yet profound, often heart wrenching. Love and suicide. In the end, I'd say I enjoyed this, and I might even recommend it as a good first Murakami read depending on the person. But I also found myself rolling my eyes on the regular, and the main character might have been my least favorite so far. I give the book a 3.5/5.
As I Lay Dying
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finished: 2025-09-07 04:00:00
07/04/2024 — 07/09/2024 – My second time reading Faulkner, and while I feel like it was a good novel, it wasn't my favorite. The chapter to chapter narrative switching was an interesting way to give perspective to the situations. I loved how Darl was considered to be the crazy one but had the most beautiful and loquacious prose. Vardamon the youngest and his strange child-like thoughts "my mother is a fish". I hated Anse, he was so pathetic and manipulative always acting like he was the victim and borrowing everything while acting like he didn't want to burden anyone. In general, the characters weren't as interesting as I would've liked nor was anyone very likeable. The entire story was pretty miserable, with everything going wrong all the time, back dropped by the stench of the rotting mother in her casket. I give this book a 4/5.
The Sound and the Fury
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finished: 2025-09-07 04:00:00
06/23/2024 – 07/03/2024 – I have so much to say about this book. I’ve never read anything like it. Starting the book with Benjy’s perspective was fascinating. As an intellectually disabled man, his narrative style was jumpy, terse, and repetitive. “I cried. Mother told me to hush. I hushed. I cried again. Mother told me to hush. But I didn’t hush.” His narrative also jumping between timelines without warning, often in the middle of the sentence, really put me into his mind. It was discombobulating and confusing, but I really loved that about it. It wasn’t until the following chapter when we followed Quintin’s narrative that I really grasped how phenomenal of a write Faulker is. Some of the most beautiful passages I’ve ever read were here – I especially loved Quintin’s memories of what his father said about time. Blending these with his own tortured thoughts surrounding his broken pocket watch, his sister’s various tomultuous relationships, it was so rich. Faulkner also employed a fascinating technique of using italics to insert traumatic memories into the middle of the narrative, and would often change timelines mid-sentence, rushing on with no punctuation for pages at a time – it would make you feel as if you were in his confused and broken racing thoughts. I’ve never read anything from the point of view of a suicidal person that was so vivid, and yet never once did he acknowledge planning on killing himself, it was all contextual by his erratic actions and hints at writing and leaving letters for his roommates and family. When the story shifted into Jason’s story, the same run-on passages were instead employed to put us into his unhinged and angry and racing thoughts. His chapter was my least favorite, but mostly because it was so frustrating. Jason is a terrible, bitter, arrogant man and his self-important rants felt all too familiar to people I’ve known in my own life. The final chapter ending in the third person, starting with following Dilsey, the family’s black servant matriarch, was some of my favorite writing in the book. It was beautiful and romantic and yet it was describing someone treated, up to that point in the book, as someone unimportant, watching the Compson family from the outside. It really drove home the Compson’s ineptness and pathetic legacy lost, and the beautiful humility of the Gibson’s who stand aside and work hard, trying to do what they can for the Compson’s left behind. All in on, this book shattered my conceptions of narrative and gave me a whole new perspective on what it means to tell a story and put you in the mind of its characters. The prose was phenomenal, sometimes poetic and lush, sometimes simple, and even going as far to phonetically change the spelling of words to imitate an accent. The characters were interesting and memorable, the story was fascinating. I love when a book trusts its reader to understand things through context. This was one of the best books I’ve ever read. I give this book a 5/5 stars.
The Woman in the Dunes
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finished: 2025-09-07 04:00:00
06/19/2024 - 06/23/2024 – Fascinating book, I enjoyed it. I didn’t expect it to be what it was, almost a thriller vibe, very tense with moments of hopelessness, strange delirious ramblings and reflects through the lens of an educated scientist/entomologist, which was a fascinating way to view the situation. Very methodical and analytical, the protagonist’s way of planning his escape and survival through his mathematical understandings of how sand works and flows. I especially liked the ending, it feels allegorical to the drudgery and trappings of life and finding purpose within even when the purpose is mundane and enables the environment you’re trapped in to continue to exist. Still it was slow and repetitive at times and because of that I give it a 4/5 stars.
Slaughterhouse-Five
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finished: 2025-09-07 04:00:00
Dates read: 06/10/2024 - 06/13/2024 Amazing novel with an endlessly entertaining prose. The way Vonnegut describes the horrors of his experience in Dresden and the war through humor and wry sarcasm is relatable. I loved his descriptors and how he kept bringing back certain phrases throughout the book. "The dog barked like a bronze gong", "his feet blue and ivory", "smelled like roses and mustard gas", "So it goes", etc. I can't wait to read more of his work. It makes me wish I was more clever with my language
Kafka on the Shore
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finished: 2025-09-07 04:00:00
05/29/2024 – 06/09/2024 – A beautiful and moving novel with powerful themes of identity, acceptance, growth, change, loss, memory, reality, etc. I particularly adored the side characters in this one, especially Oshima and Hoshino. Oshima was so wise and every time he spoke and helped Kafka understand something through metaphor and literature, it made me feel so full of brightness; like I want to be that full of insight and knowledge. No book has ever made me want to read more than this (which is probably why I read 3/4 of it in 2 days). Hoshino on the other hand was so endearing, I loved seeing his character grow and go from "I don't like long stories" to being fascinated with Beethoven and Hadyn and dropping his life to help Nakata, as if paying back his grandfather by proxy. It was all so good. My only issue with this novel was the uncomfortable connections to the Oedipus complex. I wasn't thrilled to read about a 15 year old's sexual thoughts in such explicit detail, nor did I love reading about a 15 year old having sex with someone in their 50's as if it were fine and normal.
The Crying of Lot 49
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finished: 2025-09-07 04:00:00
05/13/2024 - 5/17/2024 – My introduction to Pynchon and damn, what a fever dream. All I knew about his books when I started was that he is considered one of the best living authors. At first I was impressed by the poetics, the entire thing from start to finish is so masterfully written. And then I was surprised by the humor. This is easily one of the funniest books I’ve read. The entire thing felt like a fever dream, or some port of psychotic episode. I know I’ll re-read this again in the future, I already know I’ll glean twice as much from it. But still, I had so much fun — and it was nice to have a read that was wrapped up in 162 pages.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
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finished: 2025-09-07 04:00:00
4/15/24-5/11/24 – Honestly this book was very good and well written but not for me. The way Hemingway captures the racing mind during love and fear and panic is amazing. I found myself spiraling with the characters and was alongside them as they plotted and wondered and carried out their missions. That said, I don’t think war is something I particularly care to read much about. It’s depressing and full of so much chaos and stupidity, blind obedience, cruelty. Hemingway captured that especially well, with characters feeling horrible after killing someone but suppressing it because it a necessity. I just don’t think I want to think too much about it. Because of this, I really slogged through this. I got caught for over a week on a single chapter because of how cyclical it was going into detail about random military operations.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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finished: 2025-09-07 04:00:00
03/27/2024 - 04/14/2024 – This was my first ever Murakami read and I loved it. I had no idea what to expect going in and the dreamlike surrealism of all the characters and their connection to Toru had me intrigued the entire time. I love this air of supernatural mystery and am craving more. So happy to have read this and I can't wait for the next one.
Dune Messiah
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finished: 2025-09-07 04:00:00
03/05/2024 - 03/24/2024 – First on this bookshelf that I probably didn't love. The ending was interesting and it was fun to see some of the characters develop from the first book, but I did not like the pacing or story telling in this one. Felt unnecessary.
Dune
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finished: 2025-09-07 04:00:00
01/23/2024 - 02/29/2024 – Read in spring of 2024 after finishing the LOTR trilogy, I adored this book. I was surprised by the exciting complexity of all moving parts, motives, and conflicts.
All the Pretty Horses
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finished: 2025-09-07 04:00:00
01/14/2024 - 0/22/2024 – I struggled at first with this book, maybe because the dialogue was overly familiar having grown up around cowboys and the prose felt more frustrating and terse than simple and charming. That said, by the end, I loved this story. The climaxes were invigorating and by the end, I was shaken to my core. A great introduction to McCarthy.
Return of the King
The Fellowship of the Ring
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finished: 2025-09-07 04:00:00
Read dates: 01/04/2024 - 01/15/2024 After years of not reading for pleasure, I picked up the Lord of the Rings in winter of 2023. Never in my life have I been so swept away by a story. Growing up on the films, it was so exciting to compare the two as I read and have the story expanded. One of my favorite books of all time.
The Two Towers
Dracula
Vicious
Fences and Windows
The Sense of an Ending
A month in the country
Tender is the Flesh
Demon Copperhead
I Who Have Never Known Men
our knowledge is not primitive
I Remember Lights
Sacred and Terrible Air
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
On Women
Discipline and Punish
House of Leaves
Tale of the Troika
Roadside Picnic
Grey Dog
Nights as Day, Days as Night
Satan in Goray
Anxious Bliss: A Case Study of Dissociation in a Mexican Nun
I, Little Asylum
Grandma Moses: My Life's History
Changing
No Siege is Absolute: Versions of Rene Char
Coeur de Lion
The Selected Writings
Spring Essence: The Poetry of Hô Xuân Huong
So There: Poems 1976-1983
The Lost Lunar Baedeker
Down Below
Mouchette
The Professor and the Siren
White Walls
Red Bird
The Gospel of Mary Magdalene
Seeing the Light
Remembering Anna O. A Century of Mystification
The Spiral Way: A Woman's Healing Journey
The Cassandra Complex Living with Disbelief A Modern Perspective on Hysteria
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finished: 2022-12-28 16:00:00
Agnes Martin: Writings / Schriften
The Lamb
When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth
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Starving Saints
My Darling Dreadful Thing
Indecent Theology
Braiding Sweetgrass
Burmese Days
Forgotten Journey
Choices
True Knowledge of the Christ: Theosophy and Rosicrucianism
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last updated: 2025-08-24 15:33:04.111354
Virgin Whore
Past Tense: The Cocteau Diaries Volume 1
Satan in Goray
Anxious Bliss: A Case Study of Dissociation in a Mexican Nun
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finished: 2025-08-24 15:26:01.754712
I, Little Asylum
Grandma Moses: My Life's History
No Siege is Absolute: Versions of Rene Char
Changing
The Selected Writings
Spring Essence: The Poetry of Hô Xuân Huong
So There: Poems 1976-1983
The Lost Lunar Baedeker
Down Below
Mouchette
The Professor and the Siren
White Walls
Red Bird
The Gospel of Mary Magdalene
Seeing the Light
Remembering Anna O. A Century of Mystification
The Spiral Way: A Woman's Healing Journey
The Cassandra Complex Living with Disbelief A Modern Perspective on Hysteria
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finished: 2023-01-01 00:00:00
Agnes Martin: Writings / Schriften
Parakeet
Binstead’s Safari
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finished: 2025-08-22 00:32:51.881471
Spectacular. Wit, adventure, magic, and men who get what they deserve
The Three-Body Problem
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
Todos os Homens São Mentirosos
Chuva de Jasmim
Gaza está em toda a parte
Earthlings
Walking Wounded
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finished: 2025-08-19 00:00:00
A story based on real events based on psychiatry from the 1940's, especially concerning leucotomy (aka. lobotomy) and other treatments on World War II soldiers, and the experiences of those from the Burma Campaign. I found the book to be engaging, with the push and pull of relationships that can happen with mentally disabled people, alongside its ups and downs. Even though it was rough, this 'strange' solidarity between everybody was bittersweet. At the same time, there was this hope and reassurance from the Daniel Carter, the psychiatrist and deuteragonist, when confronting the powers of the medical system and seeing him 'be human' too. Though, it did feel iffy when claiming to have given the patients a voice. Sure, he could be a proxy, but it would've been more meaningful if there was an instance of one or more patients actually voicing out their concerns besides the overall grumbling. Not even those in the main cast did that. It was an interesting choice to have the patient, David Reece, have a first-person narration while Daniel Carter was in third-person. Yet, the third-person was omniscient. I'm currently not too sure what to make of it, besides the possibility for us to be more into David's shoes when it comes to his inner psyche while we can feel this distance with Daniel that he has in his sessions. Maybe. But I'll simply have to look into that. The other highlight for me in this story was the strong presence of art, whether that'd be visual, written, or some other form, it being an expression and utility for therapy was really fascinating. One of the characters would've argued: "There’s no such thing as art therapy. […] All art is therapy". The ending ends on a cliffhanger. In most media that I've seen cliffhangers, it still had an element to it that made it still qualify as an ending to story arc it contained. The one in this book was one that ends in a way that doesn't necessarily make you want more, but exclaim: "Wait, that's it?". Not on a high note, and not on a low note either. There was an uncertainty to it - and I think that's the point. I've seen a few compare this to the Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker as lesser to it. Another on the reading list, perhaps?
The Hunters Guild: Red Hood
Ghibliotheque: Unofficial Guide to the Movies of Studio Ghibli
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Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
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finished: 2025-08-18 04:08:32.719995
A powerful collection of essays and speeches that intertwine the global fight for racial justice, feminist liberation, and revolutionary change, from Palestine to Ferguson. PDF: https://angelthing.linkh.at/freedom *While I do provide a free PDF link, I encourage those of you who are interested in reading this to BUY THIS BOOK to support the author, if you are able.
Negroes With Guns
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finished: 2025-08-18 04:08:21.514367
A radical journey of challenging racial injustice through armed self-defense, revealing the powerful and controversial role of Black militancy in the fight for civil rights during the turbulent 1950s and 1960s. PDF: https://angelthing.linkh.at/neg-w-guns
No Longer Human
Leonard and Hungry Paul
Walking Practice
Neuromancer
Dark Matter
Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America
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last updated: 2025-08-16 19:05:13.300072
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Husbands
The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)
We'll Prescribe You a Cat (We'll Prescribe You a Cat, #1)
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last updated: 2025-08-16 09:18:40.263606
The Electric State (Tales from the Loop, #3)
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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last updated: 2025-08-16 09:14:59.549370
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
Giovanni's Room
Earthlings
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
Sinophagia: A Celebration of Chinese Horror
The Memory Palace: True Short Stories of the Past
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Crying in H Mart
The Full Moon Coffee Shop (The Full Moon Coffee Shop, #1)
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last updated: 2025-08-16 08:35:26.049240
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Absolution (Southern Reach, #4)
The Restaurant of Lost Recipes (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #2)
The Night Circus
Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
Authority (Southern Reach, #2)
Stories of Your Life and Others
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
Exhalation
The Boat
The Virgin Suicides
Giovanni's Room
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Awakening
Jasper Jones
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
The Denial of Death
Fight Club
The Idiot
Never Let Me Go
East of Eden
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams
Tender is the Flesh
To The Lighthouse
The Road
Eileen
A Property of the Clan
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Kafka on the Shore
Girl, Interrupted
Rebecca
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The Color Purple
Swallow The Air
Playing Beatie Bow
Mrs. Dalloway
War and Peace
The Bell Jar
Utopia
Notes from Underground
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The Old Man and the Sea
Grocery List Poems
The Divine Comedy
Labyrinths
Sorcery and Small Magics
Monstrilio
Gjentakelsen
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finished: 2025-08-14 22:01:03.995020
(Note: this is part of a reading challenge) A look back into the past of a woman's childhood and how the effects of shame and secrecy affect not only one person's life, but those around as well. There are some parts about the effects of the imagined versus the truth, and how regardless if it's true or not, it would still alter one's perspective. This book does well in making the main character's perspective limited much like how we are limited in our own experiences of life. Though, looking a bit more in this book, it seems that this is also due to this being one of other entries that take place in the same world. Perhaps there is needed context? It did feel a bit underwhelming reading this, especially after having read Chiquitita who also had the main character looking back in their memory. Of course, this one is more straight-forward. I may need to reread this after some time to properly give its chance to shine for me.
Chiquitita
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finished: 2025-08-13 00:00:00
(Note: This was part of a reading challenge). A story of looking into the past of the childhood trauma of the painful process of escaping your country, grief over the life you had before, and the uncertainty of the now and later. It took a bit to get into it, as the Norwegian was more advanced than I am used to and realising that the writing is akin to that of a train of thought with a sprinkle of an active imagination from our protagonist and narrator. But, it also had repitition of certain details and motifs, clarifying them or exploring a different side to them. It can be a bit tired sometimes when it does so, but I recognise that aspect of going into such rabbit holes as someone who similarly ruminates a lot. Overall, it is a excellently written book with its traversing back and forth through memory - both the well-remembered to those that are nearly lost to time. There were also little tid-bits about how the role one has as a girl and eventually to a woman. The protagonist describing herself not really feeling like not actually feeling a grown-up woman and therefore still calling herself a girl was relatable.
Woodworm
Motherhood
My Brilliant Friend
The secret history
Threepenny Memoir
Please Look After Mom
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finished: 2025-08-12 04:31:22.707327
started on: 07.08.2025 finished on: 12.08.2025
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell
CAPS LOCK: How Capitalism Took Hold of Graphic Design, and How to Escape from It
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last updated: 2025-08-11 22:59:53.393610
Audition
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finished: 2025-08-11 20:48:27.251051
Captivating and uncomfortable, not an entirely pleasurable reading experience
record of ragnarok manga
1984
No Longer Human
The Piano Teacher
Stoner
No One is Talking About This
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finished: 2025-08-08 12:37:50.233509
This one took me by surprise. Both very funny and very sad.
From Lone Mountain
Instruction Manual for Lonely Mountains
Revelations of Divine Love
Persuasion
10:04
Jane Eyre
White Noise
Bound: A Memoir of Making and Remaking
The Buried Giant
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
Pissing Figures 1280-2014
Enter Ghost
The Topeka School
Weak Signals: New Narratives in Art and Technology
Middlemarch
Research for People Who (Think They) Would Rather Create
Convenience Store Woman
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finished: 2025-07-15 00:00:00
started on: 14.07.2025 finished on: 15.07.2025 everything and everyone was sooooo boring. i'm starting to dislike japanese literature
I Who Have Never Known Men
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finished: 2025-07-13 00:00:00
started on: 10.07.2025 finished on: 13.07.2025 this was an incredible reading. it makes me think a lot
Strange Houses
Bad Habit
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finished: 2025-07-08 03:00:00
started on: 04.07.2025 finished on: 08.07.2025 - dua lipa's book club. - challenge: one country, one book (#2 spain) one of my favourite readings this year. just love everything about it
Still Born
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finished: 2025-06-11 03:00:00
started on: finished on: 11.06.2025 - dua lipa's book club. it was okay, but a bit tedious...
Hamnet
A Study in Scarlet
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Drive your plow over the bones of the dead
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finished: None
started on: 03.01.2025 finished on: 22.01.2025 - dua lipa's book club - challenge: one country, one book (#1 poland)
The Tiller of Waters
A Bíblia
My Brilliant Friend
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last updated: 2025-08-07 23:00:00.939861
i really want to read this one in italian
Fresh Water for Flowers
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last updated: 2025-08-07 22:36:20.202490
started on: 19.07.2025 finished on: - progress: 35% currently paused
Felicidade clandestina
The Man Who Built the Sierra Club: A Life of David Brower
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finished: 2025-08-06 16:29:35.667350
The Carnivorous Lamb
Under the Skin
Shadows of Casacosa
Consent
The Passenger Seat
Paul takes the form of a mortal girl
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
When Breath Becomes Air
Educated
The Hamlet
The Prince
The Metamorphosis
The Hobbit
Chapterhouse: Dune
Heretics of Dune
God Emperor of Dune
Children of Dune
dune messiah
Dune
The Idiot
The Fixer
The Journalist and the Murderer
Meet Me in Atlantis
Don’t Think, Dear
Hayduke Lives!
Down the River
The Enchanted Life: Unlocking the Magic of the Everyday
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last updated: 2025-07-31 14:50:12.969754
Our Wives Under the Sea
Two Twisted Crowns
Brave New World
The Master and Margarita
Bury Your Gays
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finished: 2025-07-30 05:00:00
A closeted Hollywood writer is given a choice by the studio executives: Kill off his queer characters or drop their romance altogether. As he struggles to save his characters, his past comes back to haunt him... I enjoyed reading this, and while it felt a bit cheesy or on the nose at some points, it does a good job at leveraging horror tropes to get its point across. Overall, this was an interesting exploration of LGBTQ erasure in media, as well as some broader impacts of the "business" side of media on the creatives that uphold it.
Gideon the Ninth
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finished: 2025-07-30 05:00:00
Space fantasy, necromancy, and a mystery hidden in the ruins of a hollow empire! I really enjoyed reading through this! Given the necromancy element, make sure you're ok with descriptions of gore/bones/blood/etc. since those are kinda central to the book.
The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions
Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together
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finished: 2025-07-30 15:00:13.035263
Atoms Never Touch
Hijab Butch Blues
The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School
Loveless
Liminal Travel: The Spaces In Between: A Short Guide to More Fulfilling Travel and Life
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finished: 2025-07-30 14:56:58.725163
The Art of Frugal Hedonism: A Guide to Spending Less While Enjoying Everything More
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finished: 2025-07-30 14:56:20.629175
Lost Boi
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Off The Map
Blood in the Machine
Hello Bastar
Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials
Dealing with Dragons
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finished: 2025-07-29 20:20:52.521943
I read this book in 5th grade in Mrs. Basmaji's class. It still hits so hard. Very whimsical and comforting, but very embedded in the usual romance myths.
A Guest in the House
House of Leaves
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finished: 2025-01-21 20:00:00
the most beautiful & incredible thing i have ever read and probably ever will this had been on my to-read list forever. after a friend bought me a physical copy for my birthday it's since been passed around between my friends — i keep convincing people to read it and they keep loving it finished on the plane back to uni, just before it began to trundle forward
Invisible Cities
Low Life
To Your Eternity Vol.1
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finished: 2025-07-23 00:00:00
Another work made by the same writer behind A Silent Voice (2013). The story tells of a being of mystical or extraterrestrial power sending a shape-shifting entity unto the world, to simply "observe the results". At least as simple as it is now. Over time, this entity learns the functions and behaviors of the thing or being it replicates - though not necessarily understanding them (as far as I know). Horror may not be this series' main genre, but its implementation adds to the emotional atmosphere that covers this story. We even get a taste of powers beyond the characters' own knowledge and understanding at the current time, but even we are quite limited in that. Whether it be psychologically or physically, I just simply appreciate it. Now, here's me being perhaps a bit nit-picky. The art style is also pretty great, even the exaggerated proportions of March doesn't feel out of place. Though, Hayase's outfit does. Some visuals were a bit confusing but overall that's not an issue. And lastly, I was really put off by March's quite loud personality - which I can understand since she's a kid, though it still doesn't stop me from feeling that way. Still, I'm quite intrigued to see how it goes from here!
The Spirit of Science Fiction
The Cyberiad
Fair Play
Hvordan redde demokratiet fra kunstig intelligens
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finished: None
Jeg står fortsatt med mine meninger om bruk av KI. Men ved å lese denne boka, føler jeg at jeg har i hvertfall forsterket de, fant nye grunner for de, og fikk litt mer forståelse på hvorfor noen hadde ønsket å implementere bruk av KI - politisk i dette tilfellet. Selv om jeg er uenig med noen deler, så var det allikevel verdt å lese denne boka. Er ganske takknemlig at man blir introdusert til de forskjellige type KI som blir brukt, spesielt når folk bruker det som et generell begrep. Forståelse av teknologien er viktig selv om man ønsker ikke å bruke det - vit konsekvensene! I tillegg, så liker jeg da han nevnte på hvordan vi beskriver KI med "menneskelig trekk" og at det betyr ikke at det bokstavelig talt er det. Bruket av slike metaforer og hvordan folk har tolket det er noe som jeg har tenkt på mye. At kunsten mister verdien og bekymring av sannheten gitt av generert informasjon er også ting som jeg var veldig enig med. Mens han presenterte noen idéer på hvordan KI kan bli brukt politisk for selv-representasjon, kommunikasjon og fordøying av informasjon, endte jeg fortsatt med et dystert syn på dens bruk. Men å bruke det praktisk for data som f.eks. statistikk hadde vært bra - bare at problemet er at man jo må selv gi dataet og flere folk vil fortsatt ha privatliv samtidig. Hvor mye av vårt privatliv må vi gi? I tillegg, så må man tenke at dette informasjonen trenger fysisk plass. Har flere tanker på temaet, men oppdaterer det eventuelt (om jeg husker det LOL)
The Monkey Wrench Gang
Holy the Firm
Jangalnama
Crafting Interpreters
Cadillac Desert
The Scent Keeper
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finished: 2025-07-19 21:55:43.002320
Childish. Disturbingly white-washes kidnapping and abuse. Very interesting world of scents created, however.
Braiding Sweetgrass
Outline
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finished: 2025-07-19 16:54:21.814996
Recommended (and lent) to me by my housemate who was and remains a liberal arts college kid. So far, I'm only halfway through but it's made me cry 3 times. Cusk captures the 'human condition' or whatever very well: in a way where you don't even realize it's happening till it's done. Update: the second half of the book wasn't as touching as the first. I got a little tired of it, and the lack of plotline became frustrating. But still overall a good book
It's Lonely At the Centre of the Earth
Mrs Dalloway
Flight or Fright
Booth
The Devil’s Larder
The Wall
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
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last updated: 2025-07-17 13:57:31.424629
Bluets
Dream Work
One Dark Window
The Lathe of Heaven
Bliss Montage
A Short Stay in Hell
A Tale for the Time Being
In the House in the Dark of the Woods
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All, Vol 2
The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All, Vol. 1
The Dream of Reason
Infinite Jest
Mood Swings
The Hitchcock Hotel
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last updated: 2025-07-16 14:23:54.786038
DNF - uninteresting characters
The Exploration of the Colorado and It’s Canyons
A Separation
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last updated: 2025-07-15 20:48:57.667817
DNF. Can’t get into it, maybe at another time
O Céu de Lima
O manto da noite
Braiding Sweetgrass
Passage To Juneau
The Monkey Wrench Gang
Neuromancer
The Book of Disquiet
Standing Heavy
White on White
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finished: 2025-07-13 00:45:13.138281
Left me with a very unsettled, mysterious feeling. I’ll be chewing on this one for some time.
Brorskapet
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finished: 2025-07-10 22:00:00
(Note: This was part of a reading challenge) "[...] forandring aldri er vunnet for alltid, men bestandig må kjempes for. [...] Å nekte å plassere forbrytelsen i historiens kalde arkiver, fjernt fra den offentlige samtalen og bevisstheten, nagler oss til en forpliktelse om å sørge at det ikke skjer igjem. Såren må fremdeles holdes åpent." --- p. 303
The Master and Margarita
Sweet Days of Discipline
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last updated: 2025-07-11 14:38:20.511906
DNF. Loads of racist language
Lost in History: 1984 Reconstructed
Snow Falling on Cedars
The Mercy of Gods
Walking on the Ceiling
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finished: 2025-07-10 20:26:01.070971
Fascinating. Layers of memory and how our understanding of ourselves and our lives shift over time. This book gives and asks a lot emotionally.
1984: India's Guilty Secret
Castle Faggot
Wuthering Heights
Fascination
Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun
To Our Friends
Berg
In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way
12 Bytes
The Wallcreeper
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last updated: 2025-07-09 20:03:40.070857
DNF. Some hilarious passages but mostly too impressed with itself.
Eg Rissa desse Runene
Beyond the Wall
Desert Solitare
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Walden
Comrade Papa
Mammoth
Babel
When I Sing, Mountains Dance
I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Towards Darkness
All Fours
Thirst: A Novel
Martyr!: A Novel
Whale Fall
Molly
Bard, Kinetic
Letters to Nora
Outlander
H Is for Hawk
While England Sleeps
La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
We Were Witches
Laird of the Mist
Mothers, Fathers, and Others
Old Gods, New Enigmas: Marx's Lost Theory
The Tattoo Artist
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finished: 2025-07-07 02:38:53.811003
An adventure story that will stick with me for a long time. Thoroughly absorbing
Lud-in-the-Mist
We Could Be Rats
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finished: 2025-07-05 12:51:10.674064
Written for a younger audience I think but endearing characters as always. Therapeutic for me, as I related to both sisters’ struggles
We’ll Always Have Summer
james herriot's treasury for children: warm and joyful tales by the author of ‘every living thing’
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last updated: 2025-07-05 00:04:16.132375
the best of james herriot: the favorite stories of one of the most beloved writers of our time
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last updated: 2025-07-05 00:02:07.160565
Classical Chinese Tales of the Supernatural and the Fantastic
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finished: 2025-07-04 19:25:19.659226
Closer
It’s Not Summer Without You
Stone Yard Devotional
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finished: 2025-07-02 04:00:00
My favorite book of the year so far. It dares you not to look away
Night of the Living Rez
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finished: 2025-06-02 04:00:00
Excellent stories, all linked across different time periods. Some are a gut punch. (Morrin challenge: June)
Intermezzo
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finished: 2025-06-02 04:00:00
I didn’t fall in love with this one the way I did Normal People, but I enjoyed reading it. I wish the women characters were more 3D. I could spend more time with Ivan.
The Keep
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finished: 2025-06-02 04:00:00
I had put this one off forever but wow, I couldn’t put it down. It itched my brain in just the right way.
Hideous Kinky
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finished: 2025-06-02 04:00:00
I don’t remember the film well but it’s a strange experience to read about a self-absorbed neglectful mother from the perspective of a young child.
The Last Supper
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finished: 2025-06-02 04:00:00
I so wanted to enjoy this more. There are some remarkable passages and she has a unique style, but she’s an incredibly unlikable person and it shows too clearly in her writing
Havoc
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finished: 2025-06-02 04:00:00
Adored the locale and the characters, hated the cheap twist at the end
Old God’s Time
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finished: 2025-06-02 04:00:00
A stunner. The most human story I’ve read this year
They Said This Would Be Fun
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finished: 2025-02-02 05:00:00
Interesting perspectives from a black Canadian student, I hope more Canadians read her (Morrin challenge: February)
Little Crosses
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finished: 2025-03-02 05:00:00
This book will forever be entwined with my time in Desert Hot Springs and recovering from my visit with my parents. Beautiful, forthright writing that struck the balance of love for her vibrant mother and the pain of narcissistic abuse. (Morrin challenge: March, also Imagination Festival)
The Body in Question
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finished: 2025-05-02 04:00:00
Worth the purchase! My favorite kind of clear prose about interior life.
The Stranger in the Woods
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finished: 2025-05-02 04:00:00
Engaging story, not sure there’s enough for a full book. I enjoyed thinking about under what conditions I could be a hermit and I felt for this human who simply wanted to live on his own terms and couldn’t do so in our society. (Morrin challenge: May)
The Finishing School
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finished: 2025-06-02 04:00:00
Light and funny! Want to send this one to Claire
On the Hippie Trail
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finished: 2025-06-02 04:00:00
Excellent. You can hear his voice, even as a young man. And what a testament to getting out into the world.
Manikanetish
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finished: 2025-05-02 04:00:00
Perhaps I would have enjoyed this more in the original French
Perfection
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finished: 2025-05-02 04:00:00
This one grabbed me in a similar way as The Anthropologists - the little details that make up a life and yet the question of what’s it all for?
Dreaming of Elsewhere
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finished: 2025-04-02 04:00:00
Brief essay on home, belonging (Morrin challenge: April)
I Need You to Read This
Piranesi
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finished: 2025-04-02 04:00:00
A rare fantasy read for me. Beautiful and evocative, I loved the descriptions of scent. Quite moving.
The Coroner’s Lunch
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finished: 2025-04-02 04:00:00
Delightful! I’ve had this on my shelf since picking it up in Basel and loved the dry, cynical yet sincere characters. Hope to find more in the series
Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim
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finished: 2025-03-02 05:00:00
I can’t say I enjoyed this book but it’s interesting experiment that I haven’t encountered before. I could relate to the narrator’s self-conscious reflections.
The Turnout
The Plot
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finished: 2025-03-02 05:00:00
More clever than I gave it credit for when I started reading it. Very aware.
The Divergent Mind
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finished: 2025-02-02 05:00:00
So-so. Not up-to-date regarding out of use language such as “Asperger’s” and often read as summaries of other books. Very validating, however.
The Chamber
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finished: 2025-01-02 05:00:00
Liked the details of pressurized life, which was terrifying in itself. Disliked the twist. (Morrin challenge: January)
Us Fools
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finished: 2025-02-02 05:00:00
Tough work at times as it felt like many novels in one, but some parts were luminous
Elsewhere, California
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
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finished: 2025-01-02 05:00:00
Adored this. I love her characters
If We Burn
Hello Beautiful
Tales of Wonder
Lolly Willowes
If We Burn
All Fours
Girlfriends
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finished: 2025-06-27 07:00:00
this makes me so relieved I don’t live in New York or Ann Arbor
Little Fires Everywhere
TSITP
Hospital of Transfiguration
wicca
Eg rissa desse runene
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finished: 2025-06-27 17:03:33.291359
(Note: This was part of a reading challenge). This book is a collection of short stories inspired by runes from the years 1100-1200 in Norway. Research has been done so that the stories fit as nicely as possible with the conventions at the time said runes took place. I came in expecting a series of independant stories, but was pleasantly surprised and intrigued by the interconnectedness between them. It tells stories of the everyday life of the people who wrote these runes, both the good, the bad and especially the mundane. Some of them readers may even relate to; things that would resonate throughout time. Reading this felt like I was slowly exploring the town(s) these people live in. What an adventure!
Against Interpretation
Blood, Bread, and Roses
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
Considerations on Western Marxism
martyr!
Abolish the Family
You and Your Birth Chart
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
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finished: 2025-06-19 11:53:27.473103
The Invention of Science
The Light Fantastic
Carlo Acutis
Chainsaw Man
The Martian
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last updated: 2025-06-16 12:57:38.480384
21/05/25 I love this book so far! I love space and the way this book has handled the situation the protag is in so far is pretty good 17/06/25 had to hand the book back to the library since a lot of people had it on hold, which makes sense. So far though I enjoy the humor and the whit of Mark Watney a lot. It's a fun read and I already have it on hold for myself so I can continue reading it.
Project Hail Mary
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Psychiatric Hegemony: A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness
• unread
last updated: 2025-06-16 05:18:54.199124
Solaris
Desert Solitare
El beso de la mujer araña
• unread
last updated: 2025-06-13 17:44:13.754012
planeando releer en español.
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Value, Price and Profit
Wage Labour and Capital
Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
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last updated: 2025-06-13 14:50:40.026949
The Open Veins of Latin America
Ghosts
Selected Stories
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Book of Disquiet
The Colour of Magic
If Beale Street Could Talk
Poesie e lettere
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Hjerteskog Syđänmettä
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finished: 2025-06-09 20:02:47.233858
(Note: This was part of a reading challenge). The book contains pages of small but connected poems in relation to the author's Kven identity and its remnants within present Norway. Its theme is conveyed a lot through nature, animals and the contrast between the shadows and the light. While written mostly in Norwegian, some contain at least one Kven word. For my first read, I decided not to refer to the dictionary or a translator when it came to refreshing myself on some Norwegian words. But despite this small hindrance, I was nonetheless immersed into the bodymind experience of longing for that connection to one's identity while also feeling estranged by it as is expressed in the book. As much as I could at least - I can only sympathise. Two of many excerpts that stood out to me: "den sure sannheten blir trukket som råte fra et sår ut i dagen, det er ikke for sent selv om det er vondt tornen i strupen sitter dypt men barnefingre, tynne og følsomme kan nå langt nok inn for å grave den fram" --- p.29 "grenseland, igjen skyttergrav, men jeg vet ikke om det er bare denne eller om det ligger en annen gigur, krøket på andre siden av gjørmesletta - et meg som har trukket våpen og tror jeg må dø" --- p. 31
atmosphere
Bitstreams
Moby Dick
The Netanyahus
Mason & Dixon
The Post Office Girl
Watership Down
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finished: 2025-06-05 00:00:00
8/10 quite good, love the weaving of folklore and myth as derived from the stories of clever rabbits
They Both Die At The End
Wuthering Heights
Villette
Northanger Abbey
Frankenstein
Hurricane Season
Beyond the Wall
A Woman Appeared to Me
The Price of Salt
Stardust Bound
Fingersmith
The Well of Loneliness
Red Star Over China
Two Trees Make A Forest
Human, All Too Human
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last updated: 2025-06-02 04:34:13.856795
Neitzsche is funny. He's got beef with ascetics
The Monstrumologist
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finished: 2025-04-23 00:00:00
This is my friends favorite childhood book series, so I decided to pick it up! I love the gore and exploration of mentor/apprentice dynamic. I was such an edgy kid, I would've loved this!
The Curse of the Wendigo
A última ilusão
Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto
Stag Dance
Die Wahrheit der Lüge
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
Among Thieves
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last updated: 2025-05-31 09:57:06.797064
a book i pick up every now and then to read. it's gotten into the cycle of reading the first few chapters and getting bored re reading the same ones but also knowing i don't remember enough to skip them. hope i finish it this time... - 29 may 2025
The Testament of Gideon Mack
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finished: None
i read this book almost a year ago? and it was a bit confusing i think in what it was really trying to say. still a fairly enjoyable read and it has some weird twists and turns that confuse you but also are vaguely intriguing. do think i need to revisit what i initially thought about it when i finished it. - 31st may 2025
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
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finished: None
i wish i knew this book was written by a zionist when i first read it. it becomes obvious when you read it, a few chapters in. still, a fairly interesting read with some questionable politics here and there. it also does fall into books where i'm not sure what i was supposed to feel as i read it. it's a very complicated story with characters that are often frustrating to watch but eventually there's not much i can say about this other than the game dev aspect being interesting to read about (although i've heard some of the game ideas are kinda plagiarized so... rip?). i read this a year or so ago and hardly remember much other than my conflicting feelings on it. still an interesting read for the few things like the game dev aspect - 31st may 2025
Paragon Palance
Sputnik Sweetheart
The Forgotten Garden
Ammonite
A Tempest of Tea
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last updated: 2025-05-29 08:06:37.132681
been reading this for a while, pretty interesting but it has some weird romantic tendencies (ie having the mc feel attracted to characters for the smallest of things when she seems like the kind of person who's above it all) but for the most part i enjoy the fantasy setting, i always love worlds with the aesthetic that this one has - 29 may 2025
Les Fourmis
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
Dark Places
Como agua para chocolate
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last updated: 2025-05-26 13:18:26.425281
(Note: reading in Norwegian translation)
White Cat, Black Dog
The Sullivanians
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Just Kids
Real Estate
Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs
The Undertow
The Vanity Fair Diaries
No One is Talking About This
A Survivor's Education
Tribal Scars and Other Stories
War of the Foxes
Animated Film and Disability: Cripping Spectatorship
Recycled Images: The Art and Politics of Found Footage Films
Level 7
The Machine Stops
All Tomorrows
Witch Hat Atelier Vol.1
Limbo
Cain's Jawbone
The Corner That Held Them
The Life of Nuns
Maoists in India: Writings and Interviews
Missing Men
The Temple of the Golden Pavillion
Kashmir: Towards Insurgency
Perfecting Sound Forever
A Brief History of Intelligence
Atomic Habits
Unbelievable
30-Second Economics
Thinking Fast and Slow
The Liar's Club
warrior cats vol 1
jujutsu kaisen manga
shuumatsu no valkyrie manga
Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier
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finished: 2025-01-02 00:00:00
An interesting read for someone that bought into the Glossier hype during my early 20s.
The Left Hand of Darkness
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finished: 2025-04-01 05:00:00
Damn maybe I should be reading more sci-fi
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
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finished: 2025-04-13 00:00:00
My mom read this when she was in school.
Conclave
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finished: 2025-01-30 00:00:00
What if you were a Cardinal. And you were a tortured bisexual with a tendency for self flagellation
Critical Meme Reader: Global Mutations of the Viral Image
• unread
last updated: 2025-05-18 04:02:04.666967
Piranesi
A Void
Pale Fire
Tender is the Flesh
Intertwingled: The Work and Influence of Ted Nelson
• unread
last updated: 2025-05-16 20:41:17.247077
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales
The Wedding of Zein and Other Stories
A Sunny Place for Shady People
The Paradox of Getting Better
Islam and Anarchism. Relationships and Resonances
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last updated: 2025-05-15 19:36:30.485858
Wizard of the Crow
Literal Madness
The Dawn of Everything
Exquisite Corpse
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
• unread
last updated: 2025-05-14 15:48:21.750600
Pleasurable Kingdom
A Pale View of Hills
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finished: 2025-05-13 04:00:00
1.5/5. such a slog to get through. very boring to me but epic to others if you love ~vibes~
Season of Migration to the North
An Education in Malice
The Serviceberry
God, Sexuality, and the Self
The Sex Lives of Saints
The Wanderground
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finished: 2025-05-12 12:34:45.189984
3/5. an impactful read with concepts close to my heart but dense and at times confusing
Carmilla
Convenience Store Woman
Convenience Store Woman
All Fours
Sisters by a River
Marxism and the Oppression of Women
Medieval Ghost Stories
A Dreamer's Tales
Discourse on Colonialism
Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age
The Queer, the Quaint and the Quizzical
What If Fungi Win?
The Children's Crusade
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
The Hearing Trumpet
The Vet's Daughter
Las Invitadas
The Iguana
The Holy Sinner
The Magic Mountain
Randall's Round
The Empusium
The Books of Jacob
The Only Harmless Great Thing
The Bone Fire
A Luminous Republic
Human Acts
The Poisoners
The Were-Wolf
The Haunted Vintage
Frankenstein
Dracula
The Diary of a Resurrectionist
Sirius
Black Magic
The Magician
The Stone Dragon and Other Tragic Romances
Hadrian VII
Titus Groan
My Experiences as an Executioner
Lady Into Fox
Lilith
A Beleaguered City
Samalio Pardulus
The House of the Vampire
The Worshipper of the Image
The Gods of Pegāna
Eva Luna
Dark Places
Station Eleven
The Girl on the Train
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Giver
Braiding Sweetgrass
Jane Eyre
Gulliver's Travels
On The Beach
The Last Man
The Remains of the Day
The Handmaid's Tale
The Haunting of Hill House
Drive your plow over the bones of the dead
Never Let Me Go
The Power
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Buried Giant
The Dirty War in Kashmir
the things they carried
good old neon
Say Nothing
Colonising Kashmir
Meet Me in the Bathroom
One Dark Window
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
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finished: 2025-04-24 01:41:31.229125
A Pale View of Hills
A Mathematician's Apology
Kappa
Inheritance Game & Hawthorne Legacy
A Season in Hell
Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians
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last updated: 2025-04-23 16:22:11.828806
Agony of Eros
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Beware of Pity
House of Mirth
I’m Telling The Truth But I’m Lying
In the Tracks of Historical Materialism
The Traitor's Mercy
Entangled Life
Three Early Modern Utopias
The Final Girl Support Group
A Magical Girl Retires
Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands
Hangsaman
The House in the Cerulean Sea
The Song of Achilles
Babel
Bunny
Six of Crows
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
She's Always Hungry
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
lavinia
How To
A Country of Cities
The War of the Worlds
Fire and Fury
Snowcrash
What If?
Extreme Privacy
The Name of the Rose
Fire Season
A Promised Land
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is
Busy Doing Nothing
Wiktopher
The Hour of Land
Where The Crawdads Sing
Two Trees Make A Forest
Into The Wild
The Last Ranger
A Song For The River
All The Wrong Places
Murphy
Húmus
The Power
Mort
Planescape: Torment
Butter
Babel
The Dispossessed
Happy All The Time
Hierarchien der Solidarität: Hierarchies of Solidarity
The Picture of Dorian Gray
the bluest eye
Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune
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last updated: 2025-04-03 20:11:21.101367
Your Comrade, Avreml Broide: A Worker's Life Story
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finished: 2025-04-03 20:11:15.842962
solidarity forever
Dualities in 2+1 Dimensions
The Man in the Glass House
Blood, Sweat & Chrome
Seveneves
Reality is not what it seems
Health and Safety
A Picture-Feeling
Newcomer Can't Swim
Gateway
Deep End
The Ministry of Time
North Woods
the fire next time
The Loser
Blue Lard
The Waste Land
A Shining
A Silent Language
Livro do Desassossego
Butcher's Crossing
The Haunting of Hill House
Gossamer
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finished: 2024-10-05 07:00:00
“Everything that you're a part of. Your own story fills you.”
assata: an autobiography
Trans Girl Suicide Museum
Nox
The Snowball Effect
betting on the future
siddhartha
of human bondage
babel
march
hope in the dark
Endurance
Into Thin Air
Under the Banner of Heaven
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
Killers of the Flower Moon
The Power Broker
Human Acts
tales from watership down
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finished: 2025-03-21 05:00:00
ohhh yes oh yes my little bunnies and their little tales of lore and such i need more but alas
aquicorn cove
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Crime and Punishment
Difference and Repetition
james
I Kissed Shara Wheeler
the unbearable lightness of being
to paradise
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finished: 2025-03-17 16:43:27.271067
library book (due 2/4/25) i own a little life as i thought i'd enjoy it but surprisingly never really got into it.. i'm enjoying this novel a lot more! hoping to revisit a little life afterwards :-0
the fiery trial: abraham lincoln & american slavery
• unread
last updated: 2025-03-17 16:43:06.067212
Morning and Evening
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Alice in Wonderland
The Wealth of Nations
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
God's Bits of Wood
Xala
Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora?
Ousmane Sembene and the Politics of Culture
The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study
Sharp Objects
Catching The Big Fish
Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies
The History of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge
Unclaimed Harvest: An Oral History of the Tebhaga Women's Movement
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last updated: 2025-03-10 16:31:07.048437
Greek Lessons
We Do Not Part
The Morality of Freedom
On the Aesthetic Education of Man
Naturalism and Ontology
Contingency, Irony, Solidarity
The Birth of Biopolitics
Rawls
Watt
Fear & Trembling
Waiting for Godot
The Republic
testo junkie
yorùbá boy running
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finished: 2025-03-06 09:20:21.682541
definitely loses something towards the second half of the book, but this has been a common point considering the circumstances of the novel's publication. the most arresting parts of the novel are its 1st half - steeped in yoruba culture, with the singing of the drums, the ubiquity of the orisas and people's relationships to one another. the collision of religions in the early colonial period was also a point of interest. the work just *almost* starts to comment on ajayi's complicity in the english colonial project, but that's not what it's about. if anything it just brought out my ambivalence towards crowther as a figure. looking forwards to rereading this one. might grab the paperback
The Colour Curtain
Liberalism: A Counter History
The Jakarta Method
ultra-processed people
Septologien VII
Gwangju Uprising: The Rebellion for Democracy in South Korea
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last updated: 2025-03-03 04:28:09.646475
O Anjo Mudo
experiments in imagining otherwise
crude britannia: how oil shaped a nation
Trans Femme Futures
The Jakarta Method
Abolish the Family
Parable of the Sower
Parable of the Sower
paradise rot
The Life of a Stupid Man
Termush
虚の箱とゼロのマリア
Outliers
How to Read a Book
An Introduction to Dialectics
One Last Stop
Fun Home
The Redemption of Time
After Dark
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finished: 2025-02-24 08:00:00
I finished this in a little over a day and really loved it. I was completely immersed in the world of the story and loved the calm feeling it gave me while reading it. I also really loved the characters. Mari was relatable and I would love to be friends with Takahashi. All of the characters were interesting. The open-ended plot didn’t really bother me and I just enjoyed following around the characters and listening to their problems and opinions about life.
Slaughterhouse-Five
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finished: 2025-02-24 08:00:00
Objectively good, I can see why it’s a classic. Wasn’t a favorite for me though, maybe I’ll reread it in the future
Cat’s Cradle
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finished: 2025-02-24 08:00:00
The religious themes and criticism on searching for meaning stuck out to me as well as the questions about the ethics of scientific advancement it brought up. I wasn’t sure what I thought of it when I first finished it but I couldn’t stop thinking about it afterwards and realized that I did enjoy it. I also found it interesting that none of the characters were outright good or bad.
Kafka on the Shore
Parable of the Sower
A Wild Sheep Chase
Sirens of Titan
The Ends of the World
User Friendly
Anna Karenina
Wuthering Heights
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
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finished: 2025-02-21 16:14:00.821948
Abolish the Family
Experiments in Joy
on parole
the appe in the dark
botchan
klara and the sun
the passion according to g.h.
a personal matter
the remains of the day
The Hour of the Star
The Book of Questions
Kick the Latch
Stoner
Abandon
String Theory
Just for the Summer
Despair
Family Lexicon
33 1/3: The Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs
WipEout Futurism: The Graphic Archives
Annihilation
Authority
Acceptance
Absolution
Enemies and Neighbors
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
Dune
the year of magical thinking
recognizing the stranger: palestine and narrative
the critic as artist
swann's way
babel
Solenoid
Toxic Childhood Stress: The Legacy of Early Trauma and How to Heal
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last updated: 2025-02-14 05:15:57.535317
Broken Bonds: The bonds that tie.
No Exit and Three Other Plays
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finished: 2025-02-14 05:00:00
Finished on Feb 13th 2025 Dirty Hands was my favorite of the four plays. I liked all the "playing" between Jessica and Hugo.
The Thursday Murder Club
All About H. Hatterr
Basti
Samskara
Blue Lard
The Last Man
The Use of Photography
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
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finished: 2025-04-01 22:00:00
the style of writing is a turn off but oh boy how we need fantasy to make us see certain aspects of our reality!
Trans Femme Futures
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finished: 2025-02-11 23:00:00
despite the whole jargon of academic keywords, it had really nice chapters in the importance of political work on the left to be abolitionist! always nice to read fellow trans femmes wanting to hold hands while the world ends
Catcher in the Rye
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finished: 2025-02-12 14:19:48.442783
there is this episode of southpark where this book is mentioned, making me feel that this book might be such a doomed book and then a friend told me several serial killers and/or school shooters had mentioned this book that i was a bit scared?? but it's a book that resonates deeply with a sort of pessimistic take and depressed feeling...and it is so character driven, instead of plot driven, that you really can tell that it is a book that reads as a sort of hang out with someone that you wouldn't talk to possibly any other way
1984
A Short History of Trans Misogyny
the great gatsby
Lords of Uncreation
The Kurdish Women's Movement: History, Theory, Practice
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last updated: 2025-02-11 11:55:46.096170
Old Kiln
The Lantern Bearer
The Ruined City
Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea
Telluria
Shards of Earth
Eyes of the Void
The First Men in the Moon
Catcher in the Rye
Briefly Very Beautiful
Occultic;Nine Vol.1
Disappearance of Hatsune Miku
Last Quarter Vol.2
Last Quarter Vol.1
Migrations
Orbital
Brooklyn
Haven
The Memory of Animals
Never Let Me Go
The Space Between the Stars
After On: A Novel of Silicon Valley
The Harpy
If Cats Disappeared from the World
Exit West
Our Wives Under the Sea
Nona the Ninth
Harrow the Ninth
Beyond the Door of No Return
Building the Collective: Soviet Graphic Design 1917-1937
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finished: 2025-02-05 07:36:22.056134
Link: https://archive.org/details/buildingcollecti0000unse/
Blackouts
The Temptation to Exist
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
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finished: 2025-02-03 11:42:47.969297
R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
The Lure of Antiquity and the Cult of the Machine
Tanakh תָּנָ״ךְ
Lord of the Rings
A Wizard of Earthsea
Little Women
For The Time Being
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finished: 2025-02-02 22:29:43.207942
entrapped deep inside the force is evil there is a spark of goodness
click me!
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last updated: 2025-02-02 02:49:06.636716
hi im sophie :-) this is my 2025 book tracker, ill occasionally add longer stories/essays add me on storygraph: everythingeatsandiseaten
homesick
Sunburn
Hannah and Martin
Stone Butch Blues
the fourth state of matter
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finished: 2025-01-13 00:00:00
short story, the new yorker "when he looks over at me, it's with an expression i've seen before. it's the way he looks at the dog on the blanket."
Parable of the Talents
Socialist Reconstruction
The secret history
Parable of the Sower
The Three Musketeers
The Last Days of New Paris
The Scar
Merchants of Doubt
What is Life
The Experience Machine
The Unaccountability Machine
Invisible Cities
In the Skin of a Lion
At Night All Blood is Black
Maskerade
In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love
English Etiquette: The motivation behind the manners
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last updated: 2025-01-27 17:15:32.633565
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
De rerum natura
The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne
Escape: How a generation shaped, destroyed, and survived the Internet
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finished: 2025-01-27 17:00:44.135834
Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel
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finished: 2025-01-27 11:06:15.344963
Gwangju Diary: Beyond Death, Beyond the Darkness of the Age
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last updated: 2025-01-26 12:39:46.437120
Cultivation Chat Group
the st. alwynn girls at sea
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finished: 2025-01-25 05:00:00
short story, the new yorker "now she understood the truth: a boy was nothing but the boy you made up in your head."
Convenience Store Woman
Lectures on Solitons
Natural Wine: An introduction to organic and biodynamic wines made naturally
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last updated: 2025-01-24 23:37:30.904393
New American Bartender’s Handbook
A Tempest of Tea
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finished: 2025-01-23 00:00:00
- dnf at 50 pages lmao! - i couldn't resist looking at reviews and i fear my vibe check was correct all along... i lowkey disliked arthie, i couldn't connect to her and everyone sings high praises of her 'chaos'. pretty much 70% of the 50 pages i read was glazing arthie of how badass she is... with nothing to show for. her mind is all VENGEANCEEEE but her backstory didn't feel compelling to me. i didn't feel empathetic to her cause and belief. - unfortunately the teahouse, that was in the BLURB; the SELLING POINT, was only mentioned on the first part of the book until she set out on an adventure with her buddies, and idk you alr lost me there - the attraction b/w arthie and mateo felt really forced from the get-go. it was clear they want to check the 'enemies to lovers' off the trope checklist. - ANYWAY, for 50 pages I sure did have a lot to say! lmao i thought whether if i should continue cuz irdm reading below than my average personal preference BUT you know what's worse than a bad book? a boring book. but yeah i figured it's a dnf for me sawry - i really should stop falling for YA books. i feel like i've outgrown them... many years ago..,
Letters to a Young Poet
Madonna in a fur coat
Pride and Prejudice
Moonsoul
Daughter of the Moon Goddess
A breath of life
The Year of Magical Thinking
The Poppy War
Everything I know about love
An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures
Dear Dolly
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last updated: 2025-01-24 11:08:27.130788
- quick read on the plane - love the way she approaches each letter - as a late 20s girl still navigating life, i still pick up small nuggets of wisdom reading through each entry--even if i completely do not relate to them
Funny Story
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last updated: 2025-01-24 11:05:09.781123
- the self yearns for 2000s romcom tropes
Babel
About Me
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last updated: 2025-01-24 05:47:52.742891
Hi! Welcome to my bookshelf. I try to upload everything I'm currently reading here, including books, papers, and general gibberish. My portfolio: https://mattvredevoogd.com
Herscht 07769
The Melancholy of Resistance
Citizen
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last updated: 2025-01-23 05:45:03.717581
mai’s favorite book. poetry and prose about the black experience in america. author: claudia rankine
Paradise Rot
We Are Okay
Mr Salary
Considering Kate
the mothkeeper
mooncakes
none of this is true
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finished: 2025-01-22 06:00:00
white woman cooked with this one fire emoji fire emoji fire emoji tara smith core
negative space
we are okay
tender is the flesh
amygdalatropolis
the only good indians
this thing between us
maggie's grave
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finished: 2025-01-22 06:00:00
kids being stupid and triggering old dead witch. gore fest baby
the haar
visions
left hand
sara or the existence of fire
rainbear!!!!!!!!!
exquisite corpse
the sluts
universal harvester
pinky and pepper forever
the girl from the sea
galaxy: the prettiest star
920london
monster friends
crabapple trouble
false witness
the creative act
babel
What color is your parachute? 2022
Varieties of Fascism
In the Buddha's Words
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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finished: 2025-01-22 06:00:00
Incredible and important reading material for conceptualizing worldly-relationships
Negative Space
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finished: 2025-01-22 06:00:00
Horrifyingly immature horror tale, incredible psychedelic writing
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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last updated: 2025-01-22 17:05:29.431298
Formative thoughts about how city and civilization coexist
late stories
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last updated: 2025-01-21 23:09:40.604725
library book (due 2/4/25) interesting set of connected short stories
Cadillac Desert
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last updated: 2025-01-21 21:33:54.332500
Hard to finish, shits just too depressing
A Walk in the Park
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finished: 2025-01-21 21:32:42.700155
Can’t do hard things ‘off the couch’, get prepared. Great adventure book.
Crooked Plow
Wool
{Article} What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life?
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last updated: 2025-01-21 09:00:27.134561
{Article} Google shattered human connection
Intermezzo
Mrs. Dalloway
The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City
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last updated: 2025-01-21 04:56:25.436493
House of Mirth
Liberty, Equality, Fashion
the scarlet letter
A Slow Review of the AGT Correspondence
4d N=1 Dynamics
Objectivity
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About
Rouge
Dictée
Paradise Rot
Rontel
The Apple in the Dark
Angel
Brideshead Revisited
Sula
Slouching Toward Bethlehem
Annie John
Abigail
Intermezzo
Demon Copperhead
Do Less: A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Ambitious Women
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last updated: 2025-01-16 18:32:45.236243
The Emerald Mile
Rise of the Videogame Zinesters: How Freaks, Normals, Amateurs, Artists, Dreamers, Drop-outs, Queers, Housewives, and People Like You Are Taking Back an Art Form
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finished: 2025-01-15 21:55:11.310737
The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets
A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique
The King of Elfland’s Daughter
The Gods of Pegāna
Jellies: Living Art
I Am America (And So Can You!)
Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race
The Selfish Gene
The Illuminated Torah - Sefer Bereishis / The Book of Genesis
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last updated: 2025-01-15 21:38:08.524887
Settings of Silver: An Introduction to Judaism
The Importance of Living
Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
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last updated: 2025-01-15 21:31:13.229066
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
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last updated: 2025-01-15 18:32:26.863087
Wolf Hall
Crime and Punishment
Wuthering Heights
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finished: 2025-01-14 06:00:00
If I've ever seen emotions. I really have liked the raw rour de force of everyone in this book. Just how emotionally charged this thing is without feeling corny. Maybe I'll update this later but it was just an incredibly book. From the way it is narrated to the the characters and story. There is a reason this is a classic. Incredible.
Critiquing Brahminism
School of Fear
Yerba Buena
The Provence Cookbook
The Jewish Deli: An Illustrated Guide to the Chosen Food
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finished: 2025-01-13 19:46:25.694898
The New Joys of Yiddish: Completely Updated
The Mushroom at the End of the World
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
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last updated: 2025-01-13 15:37:28.317898
Eden, Eden, Eden
In Too Deep: A Jack Reacher Novel (29)
The Mother Tongue - English and How it Got That Way
The Great Gatsby
Brave New World
The Physiology of Taste: Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy with Recipes
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last updated: 2025-01-11 00:04:24.213195
American Psycho
The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers
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finished: 2016-01-09 00:00:00
My Life In Art
Melon's Guide to Homepage Web Craft
The Ten Commandments: The Significance of God's Laws in Everyday Life
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finished: 2025-01-09 06:00:00
The Remains of the Day
The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter
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last updated: 2025-01-09 15:38:38.332073
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
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last updated: 2025-01-09 15:38:06.845553
The Book of Eating: Adventures in Professional Gluttony
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last updated: 2025-01-09 12:15:29.641065
Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration
Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan
The Worm and His Kings
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
The Hour of the Star
Let Your Life Speak
The Travels
Kiss Her Once for Me
Mama
My Lobotomy
The Subject and the Scientist
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finished: 2025-01-07 05:00:00
My favourite book. Its about a scientist who clones his sick daughter to save her, using the clone as spares. His daughter dies and he is left with the clone.
Secrets for the Mad: Obsessions, Confessions, and Life Lessons
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finished: 2025-01-07 16:57:06.537557
Such a good book, sortve like an autobiography. Talks a lot about Dodie's experience being queer and such. Delves into DPDR, which hit close to home for me ahah. I totally recommend, even if you don't listen to her music! Includes some poems, lyric excerpts, and segments written by her friends
No Longer Human
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last updated: 2025-01-07 16:54:39.640491
Reading the manga version done by Junji Ito, Im really enjoying it so far!! will update when I finish.
Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again
Clean
Chemmeen
Caramel
A Mathematician's Lament
Anna Karenina
Watchmen
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
The Iron Flood
The Alchemist
Night Flight
The Little Prince
The Idiot
All Quiet on the Western Front
Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists
Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications
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finished: 2018-01-07 00:00:00
The Shock of the New
The Anti-Depressant Fact Book
Dealers
Solaris
How to Listen to and Understand Great Music
Dune
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
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finished: 2016-01-07 00:00:00
Night
Milkweed
The Diary of a Young Girl
I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941
The Little Prince
10 Stupid Things Women do to Mess Up Their Lives
The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands
Parenthood by Proxy: Don't have them if you don't want them
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finished: 2025-01-07 08:03:09.493374
The Ten Commandments
Settings of Silver
Woman Power
The Proper Care and Feeding of Marriage
Embracing Hygge Living
In Praise of Stay at Home Moms
Bad Childhood, Good Life
How to be the Parent Your Teenager Wants You to be
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last updated: 2025-01-07 07:59:25.810874
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
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finished: 2025-01-07 07:57:59.561042
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Stop Whining, Start Living
The Cat in the Hat
Food: A Cultural Culinary History
Magic Tree House #17: Tonight on the Titanic
Harry Potter
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Goosebumps: One Day at HorrorLand
Ladies Like Us
The Attention Recession: How inflation and the pandemic are reshaping entertainment
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finished: 2025-01-07 07:48:53.005357
A Cloud in Trousers
Goosebumps: My Hairiest Adventure
Tangi
Wolfsong
Goosebumps: My Best Friend is Invisible
The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
Goosebumps: Night of the Living Dummy
Time and Time Again
Goosebumps: The Cuckoo Clock of Doom
Braiding Sweetgrass
Goosebumps: Go Eat Worms!
Wind and Truth
Goosebumps: Be Careful What You Wish For…
Goosebumps: The Haunted Mask
Goosebumps: Say Cheese and Die!
Medieval Children
The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies
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finished: 2025-01-07 06:00:00
Peace Work
Goodbye Soldier
Where Have All the Bullets Gone?
Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall
Spike Milligan
“Rommel?” “Gunner Who?”: A Confrontation in the Desert
Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
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finished: 2025-01-07 07:19:52.844306
Sir Nobonk and the Terrible Dreadful Awful Naughty Nasty Dragon
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finished: 2025-01-07 07:18:42.304532
Badjelly the Witch
Goosebumps: Monster Blood
The Story of Human Language
American Colonies: The Settling of North America
Star Maker
Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future
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last updated: 2025-01-07 07:12:09.454506
Sirius
Timeline
Contact
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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finished: 2025-01-07 07:07:50.570394
The Modern Witchcraft Grimoire: Your Complete Guide to Creating Your Own Book of Shadows
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finished: 2025-01-07 07:06:50.774666
The Cat in the Hat
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
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finished: 2025-01-07 07:03:08.451744
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
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finished: 2025-01-07 07:01:22.516495
Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World
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finished: 2025-01-07 07:00:39.287949
Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Letters from the Earth
A Christmas Carol
Vanity Fair
The Sea Will Claim Everything
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
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finished: 2025-01-05 00:00:00
Chrysalis
Chrysalis
Annelida
Pájaros en la boca
As últimas crianças de Tóquio
Voladoras
O silência do mangue
Os perigos de se fumar na cama
The Beginning of Desire
Agua Viva
11/22/63
Ring
Out
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Lolita
Gone Girl
The Bell Jar
Annihilation
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
In the Miso Soup
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
1984
The War of the Worlds
The Metamorphosis
'Salems Lot
Frankenstein
Dracula
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
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last updated: 2025-01-05 22:37:29.394689
Man, Fuck This House
Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry
• unread
last updated: 2025-01-05 22:36:05.383826
War of the Daleks
The Library at Mount Char
The White Album
Shrine
Ancient Christian Ecopoetics: Cosmologies, Saints, Things
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last updated: 2025-01-05 22:28:03.465703
Way to Water: A Theopoetics Primer
Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unquiet Places
Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God
The Orchard
The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment
• unread
last updated: 2025-01-05 22:24:32.885135
Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad
Counting Descent
Don't Call Us Dead
The New Testament
Spring and All
The Tradition
Devil House
The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine
• unread
last updated: 2025-01-05 22:20:23.594446
The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors
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last updated: 2025-01-05 22:20:04.910081
Walk in Love: Episcopal Beliefs & Practices
The Spirit of the Quakers
Glory
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
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last updated: 2025-01-05 22:18:01.533015
How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity
• unread
last updated: 2025-01-05 22:17:28.310268
Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto
Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life
• unread
last updated: 2025-01-05 22:16:27.554226
Stone Butch Blues
The Seeker and the Monk: Everyday Conversations with Thomas Merton
• unread
last updated: 2025-01-05 22:15:18.829772
The Universal Christ
Dune
Twice Alive
Crossing and Dwelling: A Theory of Religion
When God Was a Bird
Story of a Poem
Failure to Comply
The Godman and the Sea
As a Driven Leaf
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
God With Us: The Meaning Of The Cross And Resurrection - Then And Now
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finished: 2025-01-05 22:08:55.187859
Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
Take Me Home: An Autobiography
Night Sky With Exit Wounds
The Name of the Rose
Dating God: Live and Love in the Way of St. Francis
Mutiny
A Small Place
Permanent Volta
A Doll's House
All the President's Men
A Separate Peace
Slaughterhouse-Five
Jane Eyre
Letters to a Young Poet
The Blue Rock Collection
Deaf Republic
Sympathetic Little Monster
The Hatred of Poetry
Why Poetry
I Swallow Turquoise for Courage
Siddhartha
There There
Homie
Homegoing
Anam Ċara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair
Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
Bluff: Poems
East of Eden
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Cryptonomicon
Atomic Habits
The Coaching Habit
intermezzo
A Tale of Two Cities
All Quiet on the Western Front
Kidnapped
The Sentinel: A Jack Reacher Novel (25)
Better Off Dead: A Jack Reacher Novel (26)
Of Mice and Men
Tarzan of the Apes
No Plan B: A Jack Reacher Novel (27)
The Secret: A Jack Reacher Novel (28)
Wind, sands and stars
The Self-taught Programmer
Spencer Gerhardt: Ticking Stripe
Blank Forms 05: Aspirations of Madness
Catherine Christer Hennix: Poësy Matters and Other Matters
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last updated: 2025-01-03 22:55:50.005654
Black Case Volume I & II: Return From Exile
The Gilda Stories
High Conflict
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Dream Work
The Brothers Karamazov
Les Miserables
A Walk in the Park
Poonachi
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Book of Pleasures
In the Margins
The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Leaning Toward Light
You Are Here
World of Wonders
Near to the Wild Heart
Letters to a Young Poet
Custodians of Wonder
The Lost Words
Upstream
The Serviceberry
The Wild Iris
Poetry as Survival
Devotions
After Dark
Anne of the Island
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last updated: 2024-12-27 05:15:19.096746
Author: L.M. Montgomery Format: Audiobook Rating: Thoughts:
Bright Young Women
In Watermelon Sugar
Wolf Children and the Problem of Human Nature
Riichi Book I
The Creative Act
Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between
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finished: 2024-12-20 20:18:37.363252
Frighten the Horses
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
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last updated: 2024-12-20 20:06:24.232920
The society of the spectacle
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
• unread
last updated: 2024-12-20 20:04:01.150860
Programming from the ground up
The Little Prince
Nineteen Eighty-Four
1Q84
Severance
Something That May Shock and Discredit You
Slaughterhouse-Five
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last updated: 2024-12-13 23:14:22.881207
20% done as of 12/13/2024 (i'm a slowish reader but also i'm just taking my time with this one)
The Things They Carried
How Music Works
• archive
last updated: 2024-12-13 23:11:55.018821
i don't think i've ever actually read this book cover to cover, but it's a fantastic shelf/reference book that i love to keep close
Disorientation
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
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last updated: 2024-12-13 23:10:48.036076
i started listening to this as an audio book. i really liked it, but audio books aren't really my thing, so i returned it before my loan expired so the next person could listen to it. my gf has a hardcover copy so maybe i'll borrow it from her sometime
Dark Spring
Help
Punk Suprematism
Diary of a Void: A Novel
To The Lighthouse: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition
• read
finished: 2024-12-10 21:39:35.462759
Carmelina : Figures
Gravity and Grace
Raving (Practices)
Keeping / the window open: Interviews, Statements, Alarms, Excursions
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finished: 2024-12-10 21:37:59.334152
No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body
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finished: 2024-12-10 21:37:49.018213
Top Stories
The Ceramics Bible Revised Edition
How to Start Writing (and When to Stop): Advice for Writers
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finished: 2024-12-10 21:34:36.198901
Terminal Boredom: Stories
Hit Parade of Tears: Stories
Slow Spatial Reader: Chronicles of Radical Affection
Lemon, Love & Olive Oil
Mina Stone: Cooking for Artists
Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein
The Ginny Suite
Rob Pruitt's eBay Flea Market: Year 1
Near, At
Dusty Pink
Cartoons
Rodin and Other Prose Pieces
Telephone
Walid Raad - Better Be Watching The Clouds / I Want To Be Able To Welcome My Father To My House
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finished: 2024-12-10 21:26:19.169821
Tripticks
Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat
An Apartment on Uranus: Chronicles of the Crossing
• unread
last updated: 2024-12-10 21:25:25.076946
Can the Monster Speak?: Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts
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finished: 2024-12-10 21:25:09.183134
Hole Studies
Decide Who You Are
The Reluctant Narrator: A Survey of Narrative Practices Across Media
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finished: 2024-12-10 21:24:13.043001
A Very Large Array: Selected Poems
O
Harm Eden
Stages: On Dying, Working, and Feeling
The New Fuck You
Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black
Rainbow Lilies Gangrene Blues
All That Beauty
Moosewood Restaurant New Classics
Trinh T. Minh-ha: The Twofold Commitment
Tender Noted
The Archive as a Productive Space of Conflict
Letters Home
Trans and Gender Diverse Voices in Libraries
The Fifth Wound
300 Arguments: Essays
Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels
Emporium
Abu Jildeh and Al-Armeet
Stuff: Instead of a Memoir
Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking: [AIRPORT NOVEL MUSICAL POEM PAINTING FILM PHOTO HALLUCINATION LANDSCAPE] (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
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finished: 2024-12-10 21:12:47.607741
The Fae Richards Photo Archive
Newspaper
Greer Lankton: Sketchbook, September 1977
The Superrationals
Publishing as Method : Ways of Working Together in Asia
Picasso's Assholes
Return to the Field
The Milk of Inquiry
Christopher Knowles: In a Word
Punks: New & Selected Poems
Simone Fattal: Works and Days
She Follows No Progression: A Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Reader
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finished: 2024-12-10 21:09:01.983080
A Rock, A River, A Street
An Eros Encyclopedia
Work Won't Love You Back
Loudermilk: Or, The Real Poet; Or, The Origin of the World
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finished: 2024-12-10 21:07:25.194258
Forget Me Not
Amy Sillman: Faux Pas: Selected Writings and Drawings
• unread
last updated: 2024-12-10 21:06:12.703354
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Defiant Pose: 25th Anniversary Edition
Untitled. (1-5)
Kaspar and Other Plays
The Ravickians
Iiu Susiraja: A style called a dead fish
Calamities
Sphinx
Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition
• unread
last updated: 2024-12-10 21:02:02.059681
Classification of a Spit Stain
Love and Loss: American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures
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finished: 2024-12-10 21:01:37.899458
Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion (The Complete Greek Tragedies)
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finished: 2024-12-10 21:01:25.335725
Digital Memory and the Archive (Volume 39) (Electronic Mediations)
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finished: 2024-12-10 21:01:11.853335
Exteriors
The Clearing
An Orange
In the Dark Room
Affinities: On Art and Fascination
Nova
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Index Cards: Selected Essays
Be Here Now
Navigation: A Publication for a Place without a Historical Center, Created Continuously Anew in Meetings and Events That Occur in Empowered Spaces, Simultaneously
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finished: 2024-12-10 20:56:59.000676
The Sluts
The Crystal Text
After Accountability: A Critical Genealogy of a Concept
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last updated: 2024-12-10 20:55:51.021928
The Formation of Calcium
The Book of Promethea
Condition of Secrecy
Dictee
Bakkhai
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
The Hearing Test: A Novel
Weaving Language I: Lexicon
Teststrip: a history of an artist-run space (1992-1997)
Molly
More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech
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finished: 2024-12-10 20:49:33.003156
Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Antwerp
The Hundreds
Visual Archives of Sex
Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah
Nightwood
Discipline Park
why letter ellipses
Elizabeth/The Story of Drone
Protest: The Aesthetics of Resistance
The Hare
In Memoriam to Identity
Witches Abroad
Tropic of Cancer
Good Omens
Where the Crawdads Sing
Braiding Sweetgrass
Wyrd Sisters
Thinking like a Parrot: Perspectives from the Wild
• unread
last updated: 2024-12-07 18:16:39.152909
Natural History of Vacant Lots
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
• unread
last updated: 2024-12-07 18:15:44.306974
The Bird Sisters
Eileen
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finished: 2024-11-29 00:00:00
Wow again amazing vibes and wonderfully terrible characters Rating: ★★★★★
Convenience Store Woman
Beasts
Fire is Your Water
How To Be Human
Commonwealth
Evergreen
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Billy Summers
Tom Lake
Hello Beautiful
Kindred
The Berry Pickers
The Bee Sting
Yellowface
James
The Girl With The Louding Voice
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A powerful book about a young girl in Nigeria, wants and education but is trapped in a life of servitude.
Calling a Wolf a Wolf
Whereas
Look
Ice Age
The Selfish Gene
The Defining Decade
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
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Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos
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Sunny
Ping Pong
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finished: 2024-11-26 15:28:47.802652
Makoto “Smile” Tsukimoto and his friend Yutaka “Peco” Hoshino have been playing table tennis since they were kids, but as they enter high school, they find that the game has changed. Seeing potential in them that they themselves don’t fully realize, the coach recruits them for the school team. Bringing out their best will mean challenging the top players from rival schools in the summer tournament, including an ace Chinese exchange student who almost made the Olympic team. With the pressure on, can Smile and Peco take the heat and make it into the finals?
Tekkonkinkreet: Black & White 30th Anniversary Edition
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finished: 2024-11-26 15:28:39.037400
The streets of Treasure Town are said to belong to "The Cats." They know everything that goes on in the city, and no one can stir up trouble without going through them first. In reality, The Cats are a pair of orphan boys called Black and White, who aren’t afraid of anything or anyone. But their rule of the streets is challenged when the Yakuza come to town and start making changes. The wild Black and the carefree White have no one to rely on but themselves to get their Treasure Town back to the way it was. But their bond is tested as they quickly realize going back to how things were may no longer be an option.
Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life
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Loud
Pineapple Street
The Long Walk
HHhH
Beautyland
Black Man in a White Coat
Exposure
The Amputee's Guide to Sex
All that Remains
Normal Life
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"Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law"
Ordinary Affects
The Message
Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age
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Wounded by Love
Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
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Everyday Saints and Other Stories
Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Intimacy and Its Dilemmas
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A Scatter of Light
I Who Have Never Known Men
Into the Wild
Superstring Theory: Vol II
String Theory: Vol I
Mathemtical Introduction to Conformal Field Theory
Bliss Montage
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finished: 2024-11-03 07:00:00
Finished this in one day which is the fastest I've read a book in a hot sec. A collection of short stories that are both grounded yet absurdist (a tightrope to walk to be sure - my closest analog for the style is maybe Michael DeForge?). Thuroughly enjoyable
No Longer Human
Past Tense: The Cocteau Diaries Volume 1
Portrait of a Thief
Dear Girls
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finished: 2022-01-26 00:00:00
borrowed from libby as an audiobook. a pretty lighthearted listen (from what i remember)
Tuesdays with Morrie
Surfing Through Hyperspace: Understanding Higher Universes in Six Easy Lessons
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finished: 2024-11-01 07:00:00
i finished reading this a couple years ago, but there were a lot of parts i kept going back to over and over again. i'd like to read it again in its entirety. recommended and sent to me by marlon :)
Einstein's Dreams
I'm Glad My Mom Died
Amerika
The Vegitarian
Before Brezhnev Died
The Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Bordism: Old and New
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D. Freed Application of bordism categories to topological quantum field theory
War and Peace
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finished: 2024-10-15 07:00:00
penguins classic version going in mostly blind, only knowing the book's reputation as something classic and massive, my first two realizations were a) it’s very hard to keep track of all the characters and b) it’s surprisingly readable? Tolstoy has clear characterization and tight chapters. The actual writing isn't bloated or obtuse and it felt more contemporary than I expected. It's a marathon but not a slog. Moments are evocative, crushing, sometimes hilarious. but man, somehow this 1300 page book feels twice that length. He admits this early on but it's not fully supposed to be a 'novel'. it's Tolstoy's rendering of an important moment in the history of Russia (1800-1812) that he spent years studying and researching (the book was written about 40 years later). The narration largely follows characters weaving in and out of historical events, but regularly step outside of fiction as Tolstoy describes historical context (the movement of armies, the philosophy of movement of masses, the fallacy of 'great individuals of history', etc). These gods-eye-view sidequests can last for 60+ pages at a time. The worst offender here is the epilogue (more than 100 dull pages long) which sucks any momentum the reader may have had going into the book's homestretch and replaces it with a 101 philosophy treatise of free will. I would go as far to say anyone reading War and Peace can skip it entirely and not miss a thing. War and Peace manages to be about everything. Love and loss and battle and nature and god and mundanity and nobility and peasantry and duels and economics and It's sweeping and massive but also specific, human scaled, and cares deeply about the experiences of individuals.
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
The Little Prince
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
The Handmaid's Tale
Kira-Kira
Alice in Wonderland
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finished: 2024-10-02 00:00:00
Journey with Alice down the rabbit hole into a world of wonder where oddities, logic and wordplay rule supreme. Encounter characters like the grinning Cheshire Cat who can vanish into thin air, the cryptic Mad Hatter who speaks in riddles and the harrowing Queen of Hearts obsessed with the phrase "Off with their heads!" This is a land where rules have no boundaries, eating mushrooms will make you grow or shrink, croquet is played with flamingos and hedgehogs, and exorbitant trials are held for the theft of tarts. Amidst these absurdities, Alice will have to find her own way home. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland began as a story told to three little girls in a rowboat, near Oxford. Ten year old Alice Liddell asked to have the story written down and two years later it was published with immediate success. Carroll's unique play on logic has undoubtedly led to its lasting appeal to adults, while remaining one of the most beloved children's tales of all time. Rating: ★★★☆☆
Comfort Woman: A Filipina's Story of Prostitution and Slavery under the Japanese Military
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Shoplifter
The Brothers Karamazov
Capitalism and Schizophrenia
The Ego and Its Own
Galatea
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Goodbye, Vitamin
Variations on the Right to Remain Silent
Funny Story
Tokyo These Days
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After 30 years as a manga editor, Kazuo Shiozawa suddenly quits. Although he feels early retirement is the only way to atone for his failures as an editor, the manga world isn't done with him. On his final day as an editor, Shiozawa takes a train he's ridden hundreds of times to impart some last advice to a manga creator whose work he used to edit. Later, he is drawn to return to a bookshop at the request of a junior editor who wants his help dealing with an incorrigible manga creator who used to be edited by Shiozawa and now refuses to work with anyone else. For Shiozawa, Tokyo these days is full of memory and is cocooned in the inescapable bonds among manga creators, their editors, art, and life itself. https://search.worldcat.org/en/title/1384415137
How It Works Out
Cartoons
Little Rot
The Wretched of the Earth
Notes from Walnut Tree Farm
The Screaming Sky: In pursuit of swifts
The Celebrants
The Pairing
It's Lonely At the Centre of the Earth
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finished: 2024-09-15 00:00:00
Cartoonist Zoe Thorogood records 6 months of her own life as it falls apart in a desperate attempt to put it back together again in the only way she knows how. IT'S LONELY AT THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH is an intimate and metanarrative look into the life of a selfish artist who must create for her own survival. https://search.worldcat.org/title/1306523951 Rating: ★★★★★
Plainwater
Paradise Rot
The Sluts
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finished: 2024-08-26 07:00:00
Some quotes I liked: “I used to be so into trying to understand myself, but now I just want to do things, and not understand them.” "Everyone seems to want this to end in some logical way. I started this whole thing because I wanted to know and feel something important, and when I eventually realized it wouldn't happen with Brad, I gave up. Of course I knew Brad, and you didn't. Brad was just your idea, and I guess you think he's a great idea. He may be a great idea, but Brad himself is just a kid who got drafted into the job of representing an idea. Now Brad is just a name. You don't even know who it belongs to anymore. The point is, this is your story and your ending, not Brad's and mine. I used to wish our story would end something like this. Maybe I still wish it had, but it didn't and it won't." “You're getting pretty heavy on me, and I don't really have a problem with that, but the whole thing for me is that you love me, and if you don't anymore, then I don't know what the fuck to do. If you love me, I'll do fucking anything you want, don't you know that? I fucking swear. I don't know what you want me to say about your rules. I feel like I don't know what answers you expect, and I'm bad when I don't know what people want, because I always make the wrong decision.”
Anything That Moves
Envelope Poems
Sleepless Nights
Punks
The Colossus
Bad Behavior
The Secret History
On Being Blue
Slow Days, Fast Company
Malina
The Brothers Karamazov
Ice
Notes of a Crocodile
I Fear My Pain Interests You
Talk
Boundless