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 [ð§] signifies a favourite, a green apple [ð] signifies a book I enjoyed, and a raw tomato [ð ] 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
| Author | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Umberto Eco | Foucault's Pendulum | |
| Arthur C. Clarke | 30001: 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 | ð |
| Erik Barnouw + S. Krishnaswamy | Indian Film | ð |
| 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 | ð§ |
| B.R. Ambedkar | The Problem of the Rupee | ð |
| Harlan Ellison | I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream | ð |
| 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 | ð§ |
| Michel Faber | Under the Skin | |
| D. Thin (Editor) | Shadows of Caracosa | |
| Stanislaw Lem | The Cyberiad | ð§ |
| Satnam | Jangalnama | |
| GauZ' | Standing Heavy | |
| Gunisha Kaur | Lost in History: 1984 Reconstructed | |
| Stanislaw Lem | Hospital of Transfiguration | ð |
| Maryse Conde | I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem | ð |
| Perry Anderson | Considerations on Western Marxism | |
| Silvia Frederici | Caliban and the Witch | ð |
| Terry Pratchett | The Light Fantastic | |
| Stanislaw Lem | Solaris | ð§ |
| Terry Pratchett | The Colour of Magic | |
| Stefan Zweig | The Post-Office Girl | |
| Fernanda Melchior | Hurrican Season | ð |
| Alexander Lernet-Holenia | Baron Bagge | |
| Jessica J. Lee | Two Trees Make a Forest | |
| Ousmane Sembene | Tribal Scars and Other Stories | ð |
| Yukio Mishima | The Temple of the Golden Pavilion | |
| Balraj Puri | Kashmir, Towards Insurgency | ð |
| Agustina Bazterrica | Tender is the Flesh | |
| Tayeb Salih | The Wedding of Zein and Other Stories | ð |
| Mariana Enriquez | A Sunny Place for Shady People | |
| Lise Vogel | Marxism and the Oppression of Women | ð |
| Aime Cesare | Discourse on Colonialism | ð |
| 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 | ð§ |
| Ursula K. LeGuin | The Dispossessed | |
| Frederik Pohl | Gateway | |
| Han Kang | Human Acts | ð§ |
| 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 | ð |
| Vincent Bevins | The Jakarta Method | ð |
| Sven Holm | Termush | ð |
| Ousmane Sembene | Xala | ð§ |
| Baoshu | The Redemption of Time | |
| Sophie Lewis | Abolish the Family | |
| Vladimir Nabokov | Despair | |
| Essar Batool + et al. | Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora? | ð |
| 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 | ð |
| Italo Calvino | Invisible Cities | ð |
| David Diop | At Night All Blood is Black | ð§ |
| Azad Essa | Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel | ð |
| Itamar Viera Junior | Crooked Plow | ð |
| Lorraine Daston + Peter Galison | Objectivity | ð |
| Anna Tsing | The Mushroom at the End of the World | |
| Bret Easton Ellis | American Psycho | ð |
| Thakazi Sivsankar Pillai | Chemmeen | ð |
| Alia Trabuco Zeran | Clean | |
| Katherine Angel | Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again |
2024
| Author | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Leo Tolstoy | The Death of Ivan Ilyich | |
| Jonathan Crary | Scorched Earth | |
| D.N. Jha | The Myth of the Holy Cow | ð§ |
| 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 | ð§ |
| Ursula K. LeGuin | Rocannon's World | |
| Han Kang | The Vegetarian | ð |
| Frederik Pohl | Man Plus | |
| Jeff Vandermeer | Absolution | |
| Edwin A. Abbott | Flatland | |
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| 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 | ð |
| 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 | ð |
| Karel Capek | Rossum's Universal Robots | |
| Jeff Vandermeer | Annihilation | ð§ |
| 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 | ð |
| Karl Marx + Frederick Engels | The Civil War in France | |
| Becky Chambers | A Prayer for the Crown Shy | ð |
| Ann Leckie | Translation State | |
| Philip K. Dick | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | |
| Becky Chambers | A Psalm for the Wild Built | ð |
| Karl Marx | The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte | |
| Chi Ta-Wei | The Membranes | ð§ |
| Olga Ravn | The Employees | ð |
| 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 | ð |
| Bama | Karukku | |
| Vladimir Lenin | Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism | ð |
| E.M. Forster | The Machine Stops | |
| Karl Marx | Wage Labour Price and Capital + Value, Price, and Profit | |
| Emily St. John Mandel | Sea of Tranquility | ð |
| Dougal Dixon | Man after Man | |
| Frederick Engels | Principles of Communism | |
| Aijaz Ahmad | India: Liberal Democracy + the Extreme Right | |
| Frederick Engels | Anti-Duhring | ð |
| Hanya Yanagihara | The People in the Trees | ð |
| Ousmane Sembene | Xala | ð§ |
| Aijaz Ahmad | In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures | ð§ |
| Toni Morrison | The Bluest Eye | ð |
| Irmgard Keun | After Midnight | |
| Dan Kavanagh | Duffy | |
| John Rieder | Colonialism + the Emergence of Science Fiction | ð |
| Octavia E. Butler | Imago | |
| Octavia E. Butler | Adulthood Rites | |
| Octavia E. Butler | Dawn | |
| Hanya Yanagihara | A Little Life | ð |
| John Rieder | Science Fiction + the Mass Cultural Genre System | ð |
| Amy Thomson | Through Alien Eyes | |
| Amy Thomson | The Color of Distance | |
| Adania Shibli | Minor Detail | ð |