Reading Logs

I must admit, I don't read much, and I certainly don't read as much theory as I'd like to. I'm currently in the process of re-reading a lot of theory that I read a decade ago to brush up, but the siren song of the novel form calls to me.

A head of garlic [🧄] signifies a favourite,
A green apple [🍏] signifies a book I enjoyed,
And a raw tomato [🍅] signifies a book that irked me.

Many of these books are re-reads, but I'll leave which ones they are, to your imagination.

2025

• 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
• Liso 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

2024

• 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 and the Emergence of Science Fiction 🍏
• Octavia E. Butler, Imago
• Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life 🍅
• Octavia E. Butler, Adulthood Rites
• Octavia E. Butler, Dawn
• John Rieder, Science Fiction + the Mass Cultural Genre System 🍏
• Amy Thomson, Through Alien Eyes
• Amy Thomson, The Color of Distance
• Adania Shibli, Minor Detail 🍏