Just proud of myself and wanted to brag, but I missed that post from a few days ago. AMA about any of these if you're curious:

books

January
Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey
Robert Nichols - Theft is Property!
Cixin Liu - The Three-Body Problem
Tom O'Neill - Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
Andre Alexis - Fifteen Dogs
Aph Ko - Racism as Zoological Witchcraft
Various Authors - Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Fiction
Jenny Chan, Mark Selden, & Pun Ngai - Dying for an iPhone
Ursula K. LeGuin - The Found and the Lost (13 novellas)
W. E. B. Du Bois - The Souls of Black Folk
Brian Moore - The Magician's Wife

February
Charles Taylor - Modern Social Imaginaries
Marcel Proust - Swann's Way
William Blum - Killing Hope
Michelle Good - Five Little Indians
Kristen J. Sollée - Witches, Sluts, Feminists

March
Catherine Hernandez - Scarborough
Jane Jacobs - The Life and Death of Great American Cities
Omar El Akkad - What Strange Paradise
Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols - The Rust Programming Language
Esi Edugyan - Washington Black

April
Clayton Thomas-Müeller - Life in the City of Dirty Water
Marcel Proust - In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
Aditya Bhargava - Grokking Algorithms
Cixin Liu - The Dark Forest

May
Karl Marx - Capital Vol. 3

June
Peter Watts - Blindsight
John P. Clark - Between Earth and Empire
Marcel Proust - Guermantes Way
Jessica Fern - Polysecure
Sara Collins - Confessions of Frannie Langton
G. W. F. Hegel - Introduction to the Philosophy of History

July
Xiran Jay Zhao - Iron Widow
Kim Moody - Tramps and Trade Union Travelers
Elena Ferrante - My Brilliant Friend
Itzik Ben-Gan - T-SQL Fundamentals

August
Homer - The Illiad
Keith Basso - Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache

September
Marcel Proust - Sodom and Gomorrah
Richard Lachmann - First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers

October
Marcel Proust - The Prisoner
James Ladyman and Don Ross - Every Thing Must Go

November
Marcel Proust - The Fugitive
Gabor Maté & Daniel Maté - The Myth of Normal
Nora Roberts - Origin in Death
Stephanie Kelton - The Deficit Myth

December
Marcel Proust - Finding Time Again
Tyler A. Shipley - Canada in the World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination
Adrienne Maree Brown - Grievers
Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus

  • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
    ·
    2 years ago

    What’s your favourite SFF?

    I like pretty mainstream stuff. Mainstream among people who are SFF fans, anyway. My tastes run towards tragedy and violence, so I like A Song of Ice and Fire, Joe Abercrombie's The First Law, Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings, and the various works of K.J. Parker. There's an online short story mag called Beneath Ceaseless Skies that bills itself as "literary adventure fantasy" and I tend to enjoy what I've read there, though their stories are only sometimes tragic and rarely violent.

    Definitely enjoying Graeber, this is the first thing I've read by him, but it won't be the last.

    • CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn [any]
      hexagon
      ·
      2 years ago

      Oh wow, I haven't seen K.J. Parker's name in a while. I really, really enjoyed the Scavenger Trilogy back when I read it in high school. Anything else you'd recommend by him?

      If you want more bite-sized Graeber, Possibilities is a great book of essays.