My work involves quite a bit of reading, which means i have a very complicated relationship with it — distinguishing between reading for work and reading for pleasure is practically impossible. This is futher compounded by the fact that i really want to read more theory, and never end up reading as much as i'd like to, because i keep getting sidetracked by novels.

Regardless, i've decided to keep a log of the books i've been reading and i've compiled a list stretching back to 2024. Prior to '24, the list was mostly essays and parts of academic monographs, which is a bit of a pain to catalog. There were books in there somewhere, but i wasn't really keeping track.

Some of these books are re-reads, i have a terrible memory, even for my favourite books. Which is why i inevitably end up reading Xala almost every year

Key:

  • 🧄 means, this book is a favourite.
  • 🍏 means, i really enjoyed this book.
  • 🍅 means, this book irked me.
Author Title Notes
Leo Zeilig Frantz Fanon: A Political Biography
Stefan Zweig Chess
Virginia Woolf Orlando
Frantz Fanon Black Skins, White Masks 🍏
লীলা মজুমদার টং লিং
Terry Pratchett Sourcery 🍅
Terry Pratchett Mort
Samuel R. Delany The Jewel-Hinged Jaw
Muriel Spark Not to Disturb
Bipan Chandra In the Name of Democracy: JP Movement and the Emergency
Jamaica Kincaid A Small Place 🍏
ओमप्रकाश वाल्मीकि घुसपैठिये 🍏
Tete-Michel Kpomassie An African in Greenland 🍏
Eduardo Galeano Open Veins of Latin America
Author Title Notes
Mariama Ba So Long a Letter
Stanislaw Lem Fiasco 🧄
Wilfred Owen Poems 🍏
Valerie Roebuck The Dhammapada
Sayaka Murata Convenience Store Woman
Frantz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth 🧄
Umberto Eco Foucault's Pendulum
Arthur C. Clarke 3001: The Final Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke 2061: Odyssey Three
Arthur C. Clarke 2010: Osyssey Two
Arthur C. Clarke 2001: A Space Odyssey
J. Moufawad Paul The Communist Necessity
Terry Pratchett Equal Rites
Jamie Berrout Essays Against Publishing 🍏
Erik Barnouw + S. Krishnaswamy Indian Film 🍏
Sappho Stung with Love
Tony Burgess Pontypool Changes Everything
Amparo Davila The Houseguest
Qiu Miaojin Notes of A Crocodile
Sumit Sarkar + et al. Khaki Shorts and Saffron Flags 🧄
B.R. Ambedkar The Problem of the Rupee 🍏
Harlan Ellison I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream 🍅
Arkady Strugatsky + Boris Strugatsky Tale of the Troika
Karl Marx + Frederick Engels Wage Labour and Capital
George Orwell Burmese Days
Arkady Strugatsky + Boris Strugatsky Roadside Picnic 🧄
Michel Faber Under the Skin
D. Thin (Editor) Shadows of Caracosa
Stanislaw Lem The Cyberiad 🧄
Satnam Jangalnama
GauZ' Standing Heavy
Gunisha Kaur Lost in History: 1984 Reconstructed
Stanislaw Lem Hospital of Transfiguration 🍏
Maryse Conde I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem 🍏
Perry Anderson Considerations on Western Marxism
Silvia Frederici Caliban and the Witch 🍅
Terry Pratchett The Light Fantastic
Stanislaw Lem Solaris 🧄
Terry Pratchett The Colour of Magic
Stefan Zweig The Post-Office Girl
Fernanda Melchior Hurrican Season 🍏
Alexander Lernet-Holenia Baron Bagge
Jessica J. Lee Two Trees Make a Forest
Ousmane Sembene Tribal Scars and Other Stories 🍏
Yukio Mishima The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Balraj Puri Kashmir, Towards Insurgency 🍅
Agustina Bazterrica Tender is the Flesh
Tayeb Salih The Wedding of Zein and Other Stories 🍏
Mariana Enriquez A Sunny Place for Shady People
Lise Vogel Marxism and the Oppression of Women 🍏
Aime Cesare Discourse on Colonialism 🍏
Shujaat Bukhari The Dirty War in Kashmir
Sarah Wynn-Williams Careless People
Perry Anderson In the Tracks of Historical Materialism
Tayeb Salih Season of Migration to the North 🧄
Ursula K. LeGuin The Dispossessed
Frederik Pohl Gateway
Han Kang Human Acts 🧄
Fred Moten + Stefano Harney The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study
Michel Foucault The History of Sexuality I: The Will to Knowledge
Han Kang We Do Not Part 🍏
Vincent Bevins The Jakarta Method 🍏
Sven Holm Termush 🍅
Ousmane Sembene Xala 🧄
Baoshu The Redemption of Time
Sophie Lewis Abolish the Family
Vladimir Nabokov Despair
Essar Batool + et al. Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora? 🍏
H.G. Wells The First Men in the Moon
David Diop Beyond the Doors of No Return
Leah Dickerman Building the Collective: Soviet Graphic Design 1917-1937 🍏
Italo Calvino Invisible Cities 🍅
David Diop At Night All Blood is Black 🧄
Azad Essa Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel 🍏
Itamar Viera Junior Crooked Plow 🍏
Lorraine Daston + Peter Galison Objectivity 🍏
Anna Tsing The Mushroom at the End of the World
Bret Easton Ellis American Psycho 🍏
Thakazi Sivsankar Pillai Chemmeen 🍏
Alia Trabuco Zeran Clean
Katherine Angel Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again
Author Title Notes
Leo Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Jonathan Crary Scorched Earth
D.N. Jha The Myth of the Holy Cow 🧄
Agustina Bazterrica Tender is the Flesh
Katty Baird Meetings with Moths
Georg Lukacs Lenin: A Study in the Unity of His Thought
Alok Rai Hindi Nationalism 🧄
Ursula K. LeGuin Rocannon's World
Han Kang The Vegetarian 🍏
Frederik Pohl Man Plus
Jeff Vandermeer Absolution
Edwin A. Abbott Flatland
লীলা মজুমদার পদিপিসির বর্মিবাক্স
Vijay Prasad Red Star Over the Third World
Jeff Vandermeer Authority
Olga Tokarczuk Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Becky Chambers To Be Taught, if Fortunate 🍅
Ursula K. LeGuin The Left Hand of Darkness
Mikhail Bulgakov Heart of a Dog
Frederick Engels Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy 🍏
Karel Capek Rossum's Universal Robots
Jeff Vandermeer Annihilation 🧄
Osamu Dazai No Longer Human
Alexander Bogdanov Red Star
Ernst Junger The Glass Bees
Anindita Bannerjee We Modern People
William Gibson Neuromancer
Frederick Engels Dialectics of Nature
Stanislaw Lem The Futurological Congress 🍏
Karl Marx + Frederick Engels The Civil War in France
Becky Chambers A Prayer for the Crown Shy 🍅
Ann Leckie Translation State
Philip K. Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Becky Chambers A Psalm for the Wild Built 🍅
Karl Marx The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Chi Ta-Wei The Membranes 🧄
Olga Ravn The Employees 🍏
Arthur C. Clarke Childhood's End
T. Kingfisher What Moves the Dead
Hiroko Oyamada The Factory
Hiroko Oyamada The Hole
Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution 🍏
Bama Karukku
Vladimir Lenin Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism 🍏
E.M. Forster The Machine Stops
Karl Marx Wage Labour Price and Capital + Value, Price, and Profit
Emily St. John Mandel Sea of Tranquility 🍅
Dougal Dixon Man after Man
Frederick Engels Principles of Communism
Aijaz Ahmad India: Liberal Democracy + the Extreme Right
Frederick Engels Anti-Duhring 🍏
Hanya Yanagihara The People in the Trees 🍅
Ousmane Sembene Xala 🧄
Aijaz Ahmad In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures 🧄
Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye 🍏
Irmgard Keun After Midnight
Dan Kavanagh Duffy
John Rieder Colonialism + the Emergence of Science Fiction 🍏
Octavia E. Butler Imago
Octavia E. Butler Adulthood Rites
Octavia E. Butler Dawn
Hanya Yanagihara A Little Life 🍅
John Rieder Science Fiction + the Mass Cultural Genre System 🍏
Amy Thomson Through Alien Eyes
Amy Thomson The Color of Distance
Adania Shibli Minor Detail 🍏