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nazi literature in the americas

Attensity!: A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement

Rin: Cursed by Blood

Slimer

The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China

The Brothers Karamazov

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Esperance

Walden

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Don't Leave Me High (don't leave me dry)

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Tokyo

The Vegetarian

Hijab Butch Blues

Kisah Kasih dari Dapur

The Art of Computer Designing

Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the Occult

Wassily Kandinsky

The Long Loneliness

How the World Made the West

There Is No Antimemetics Division

Murder on the Orient Express

The Count of Monte Cristo

The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life

Kallocain

Ya Leila

Bananrepubliken Sverige

The Hour of the Star

Sula

Forever Amber

Our Wives Under the Sea

On Sundays On Sundays She Picked Flowers

Her

The Deep

The Secret Garden

She's Always Hungry

My Darling Dreadful Thing

The Wax Child

The Employees

Severance

Martyr!: A Novel

Private Rites

Hardboiled & Hard Luck

The Scourge Between Stars

Astral Season, Beastly Season

Agnes Grey

Sorrowland

All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

Heaven

Klara and the Sun

Salt Slow

A Short Stay in Hell

Circe

Convenience Store Woman

Life Ceremony

The Wall

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Souls in Ruin

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The Control of Nature

Amusing Ourselves to Death

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Philosophical Essays

The Sacred Canopy

Does Writing Have a Future?

Medicine and the Reign of Technology

Movies Are Prayers

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

The Technological Bluff

Here: A Spirituality of Staying in a Culture of Leaving

On the Abolition of All Political Parties

Cultural Amnesia

A Manual of Eastern Orthodox Prayers

A Testament of Devotion

Roses Among Thorns

Gateway of Life

Reconceiving Infertility

The Uncontrollability of the World

Neurotheology

Love in the Ruins

Metaphors We Live By

The Shaping of Things to Come

Plutarch's Lives

Destroyer of the gods

Risk Society

Some of the Words Are Theirs

The Power of Babel

Walking on Water

The Mind of the Maker

We Survived the End of the World

The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays

Writing Creativity and Soul

A Prayer Journal

Voices from the Margin

Sweet Hunter

Wandering in Darkness

I SEE A NEW CITY

The End of Memory

The Way of Paradox

The Redeemed Reader

Children of the Book

Morning Knowledge

Walking to Martha's Vineyard

The Eighth Day: Selected Writings of Christian Bobin

River Flow: New & Selected Poems 1984-2007

Howard Thurman: The Mystic as Prophet

A Year with Rilke

The Crowded Dance of Modern Life

The Need for Roots

Technics and Human Development (The Myth of the Machine, Vol 1)

Is Peace Possible?

Alpha and Omega

Willard Gibbs: The Whole Is Simpler than Its Parts

Selected Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Introduction by Nicholas Boyle

The Nonviolent Alternative

Small Is Beautiful

Dust in the Blood: A Theology of Life with Depression

Catherine of Siena: The Dialogue

Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality

Presence in the Modern World: A New Translation

Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation

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Decreation: The Last Things of All Creatures

Meaning of the City

Not Exactly: in Praise of Vagueness

Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life

Writing for Art: The Aesthetics of Ekphrasis

Begotten or Made?: Human Procreation and Medical Technique

Wherever You Go, I Want You to Know...

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

I Write to Find Out What I Am Thinking

The Grace in Living: Recognize It, Trust It, Abide in It

Silence and Witness: The Quaker Tradition

The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth

The Body of This Death: Letters from the Last Archbishop of Lancaster

The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction

Digital Tarkovsky

The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet

Hints of Hope: Essays on Making Peace with the Proximate

Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading

Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much

Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software

Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading

Theaetetus

How to Make Art at the End of the World: A Manifesto for Research-Creation

The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering

In Praise of the Earth: A Journey into the Garden

On The Art of Reading

80,000 Hours: How to Have a Fulfilling Career That Does Good

Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age

Technology and Barbarism: Or: How Billionaires Will Save Us from the End of the World

The Way of Excellence: A Guide to True Greatness and Deep Satisfaction in a Chaotic World

Future Relic: Failures, Disasters, Detours, and How I Made a Career as an Artist

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Technology and the Lifeworld: From Garden to Earth (Philosophy of Technology)

Make Your Home in This Luminous Dark: Mysticism, Art, and the Path of Unknowing

Building 903

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

Bibliophobia

Things That Disappear

Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser

How I Became a Tree

Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

The Tender Bar: A Memoir

String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis

The Word for World is Forest (Hainish Cycle, #5)

The Fifth Sacred Thing (Maya Greenwood, #1)

Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data

The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

From Print to Ebooks: A Hybrid Publishing Toolkit for the Arts

E-flux Journal: The Internet Does Not Exist

How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human

A Field Companion for Wandering

Haptic Verse: in Imaging Vessels

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

The Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City

As You Wake, Break the Shell

Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life

Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City

The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

Now I Surrender

Difference and Repetition

Anything You Want

Making and Being: Embodiment, Collaboration, & Circulation in the Visual Arts

In Defense of Degrowth

The Waste Books

Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

Telling is listening : selected essays 1973-2014

Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise

The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading

Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story

A Little Theology of Exercise: Enjoying Christ in Body and Soul

The society of the spectacle

Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts

Deschooling Society

Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood and How It Shapes Men's Lives

The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI

Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word

First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Story About Anxiety

Why I Write

What To Do When It's Your Turn (and it's always your turn)

You Are What You Love

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

The Design of Everyday Things

Slaughterhouse-Five

Breakfast of Champions

The Sirens of Titan

Walden Two

Monk & Robot Series #1-2

The Song of Significance: A New Manifesto for Teams

A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

The Yearling

Bewilderment

Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces

Letters by a Modern Mystic: Excerpts From Letters Written To His Father

The Foundation Series

This is How You Lose the Time War

Interior Freedom

Becoming Human: Meditations on Christian Anthropology in Word and Image

I Want You to Be: On the God of Love

slouching towards bethlehem

If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice to the Young—The Graduation Speeches

Laurus

The Kingkiller Chronicles #1-2

Red Rising Saga #1-6

The Practice: Shipping Creative Work

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Bird by Bird

Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

The War of Art

The Agony and the Ecstasy

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property

Project Hail Mary

The Vegetarian

Sputnik Sweetheart

Nana (Vol. 1)

The Vegetarian

The Left Hand of Darkness

Vicious

There Is No Antimemetics Division

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Open Throat

Will There Ever Be Another You

Welcome to Night Vale (Novel)

Dungeon Crawler Carl

Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do

The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place

Sacred Rhythms: Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation

An Essay on Typography

Shadow Ticket

On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts

Stirring the Sheets

The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction

A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload

A Creative Minority: Influencing Culture Through Redemptive Participation

Living into Focus: Choosing What Matters in an Age of Distractions

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

Remembrance of Earth’s Past Trilogy

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Analogia: The Emergence of Technology Beyond Programmable Control

Fox & I

Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind

The Ministry for the Future

The Life We're Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World

Amusing Ourselves to Death

The Death of Vivek Oji

Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning

The New Yorker Book of Technology Cartoons (with CD-Rom)

Domestic Monastery: Creating Spiritual Life at Home

The Carbon Almanac: It's Not Too Late

Mother Night

Babel

The First Law Triology

Hyperion

Sacred Fire: A Vision for a Deeper Human and Christian Maturity

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

Never Let Me Go

The Didache

The Monkhood of All Believers: The Monastic Foundation of Christian Spirituality

The Phantom Tollbooth

The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man

Practicing the Way

The Creative Act

Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age

Abraham's Silence The Binding of Isaac, the Suffering of Job, and How to Talk Back to God

Women and the Gender of God

On the Incarnation

The Rule of Taize

The Medium is the Massage

The Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth

Julian of Norwich: The Showings: Uncovering the Face of the Feminine in Revelations of Divine Love

The Orthodox Way - Classics Series Vol. 2

Seeds of Contemplation

dune messiah

Dune

The Epic of Eden: A Christian Entry into the Old Testament

Interior Castle (The Essential Wisdom Library)

The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

Paul: A Biography

The Murderbot Diaries

Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

Dark Night of the Soul (Tan Classics)

One Hundred Years of Solitude

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

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How to Pray: A Simple Guide for Normal People

Things in Nature Merely Grow

Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart

Gentleman Bastard Sequence

Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

The Nurture Revolution: Grow Your Baby’s Brain and Transform Their Mental Health through the Art of Nurtured Parenting

Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry

Mistborn Era's #1-2

Scrolling Ourselves to Death: Reclaiming Life in a Digital Age

Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics

James

Bartleby the Scrivener

The Apostolic Fathers: Greek Texts and English Translations

Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation

The Will of the Many

Reading for the Love of God

Prayer Vol. 01

The Overstory

Project Hail Mary

Dungeon Crawler Carl

The Sun Eater Cycle

Meister Eckhart's Book of Secrets: Meditations on Letting Go and Finding True Freedom (Wisdom of Meister Eckhart)

The Book of Longings

The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion

Flannery O'Connor and the Scandal of Faith

St. Francis of Assisi: His Life, Teachings, and Practice (The Essential Wisdom Library)

klara and the sun

How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South

Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad

Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

Steal Like An Artist

Playground

Piranesi

The Graveyard Book

The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

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The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

Antonin Sertillanges

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finished: 2026-07-06 05:00:00

“Details are nothing: facts are nothing: the important things are the dependences, the transmissions of influence, the connecting links, the exchanges, which constitute the life of nature. Now, behind all these dependences, is the primal dependence; at the spot to which all connections converge is the supreme Bond; at the highest point of all transmissions, the Spring; beneath the exchanges the Gift; beneath the systole and diastole of the world, the Heart, the boundless Heart of Being. Must not the mind refer back to it unceasingly, and never for a minute lose touch with what is thus the All of all things, and consequently of all knowledge?” “When silence takes possession of you; when far from the racket of the human highway the sacred fire flames up in the stillness; when peace, which is the tranquillity of order, puts order in your thoughts, feelings, and investigations, you are in the supreme disposition for learning; you can bring your materials together; you can create; you are definitely at your working point; it is not the moment to dwell on wretched trifles, to half live while time runs by, and to sell heaven for nothings.” “The reward of a work is to have produced it; the reward of effort is to have grown by it.” "You want to produce an intellectual work? Start by creating within yourself a zone of silence, a habit of withdrawal, a will of dispossession, of detachment, that makes you entirely available for this work; acquire this state of soul, free from the weight of desire and one’s own will, which is the state of grace of the intellectual. Without this, you will not do anything; in any case, you will not do anything of value." "A chain compressed by narrow margins will go further. The discipline of a craft is a great school: it teaches the man of studies to expand his possibilities. Coerced, he concentrates more, learns the value of time, enthusiastically takes refuge in those rare hours when, duty fulfilled, he embraces his ideal, hours when he enjoys the chosen action, after the action imposed by harsh existence."

Hello Beautiful

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Babel

Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth

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Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth

Jennifer Banks

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finished: 2026-07-06 05:00:00

"The Holocaust was a consequence of a death drive that ran deep through Western societies, one that had propelled humanity into a fruitless, barren place… Locked in their own privacy, flying into their inner selves, they had lost faith in their ability to transform their worlds and to create new, plural realities through their actions and their speech…" "From the time we are born, we are being shaped by birth… Study birth always; it takes an entire lifetime to learn how to give birth or to come to terms with our having been born… The great philosophers are those who practice being born and birthing… Keep birth daily before your eyes… Birth is evidence of our freedom... The fundamental purpose of art is to process the strange, painful, and miraculous experience of childbirth…" "Although humans may have been created out of nothingness, the fact that they were made at all paradoxically negates all forms of nothingness. “Once called into existence,” Arendt writes, summarizing Augustine, “human life cannot turn into nothingness.”" "Birth and the miracle of our creative beginnings are what indelibly shape us and prove our capacity to creatively act in the world." "Birth confounds the binary. It is an experience of neither mastery nor powerlessness; it confronts us with our embodied, earthly creativity, with what we can control and with what we simply cannot control…" "Birth breaks down most of the dualisms humans use to structure reality: man/woman, mind/body, thought/experience, destruction/creation, self/other, creator/created, birth/death. In challenging those binaries, birth can be an act of nonconforming, and motherhood an expression of alterity. Therein lies the difficulty of talking about birth today: birth is both the norm and its transgression."

With All Its Teeth: Sex, Violence, Profanity, and the Death of Christian Art

An Ocean of Light: Contemplation, Transformation, and Liberation

A Little Life

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Suicide and the Communion of Saints

The Writing Life: The Classic Essay Collection on the Creative Process

Spirituality of the Psalms (Facets)

Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity

Collected Poems, 1909-1962

the burnout society

The Year of Magical Thinking

The Dance of the Dissident Daughter

Open

The Imitation of Christ

There Is No Antimemetics Division

The Crisis of Narration

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A Larger Reality

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A Larger Reality

Ursula K. Le Guin

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finished: 2026-07-06 05:00:00

"Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We'll need writers who can remember freedom-poets, visionaries- realists of a larger reality." "I create alternatives. I show that alternatives exist. Probably the sum total of my message to the world is that you do not have to do it one way." "I think art remains centrally important in any age, the best or the worst, because it doesn't lie. The hope it offers is not a false hope. And I think the novel is an important art because it talks about what we live by, other than bread. And I think science fiction is- well, no, not important, yet still worth talking about, because it is a promise of continued life of the imagination..." “I am not proposing a return to the Stone Age. My intent is not reactionary, nor even conservative, but simply subversive. It seems that the utopian imagination is trapped, like capitalism and industrialism and the human population, in a one-way future consisting only of growth. All I’m trying to do is figure out how to put a pig on the tracks.” "Nature is humanity's "Other." As an Other, nature is demonized, idealized, extolicized, subordinated, objectified, and distance is lessened in a hundred thousand ways. To the extent any of us participate in this Othering, we lock ourselves out of community with the species with whom we share this world. We lock ourselves into a tiny, tiny cell that defines what we mean by "us." Solitary."

Don't Call It Art: 10 Ways to Create Like a Kid Again

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After Amen: 50 Days of Poetry and Prayer

A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, #1-3)

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Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart

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Joining Creation's Praise: A Theological Ethic of Creatureliness

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The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry

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Indulekha

Lunatic Lover's

The Undying

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Athlete-In-Residence

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American Psycho

Mood Swings

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Salt Slow

Glass, Irony and God

Sky Daddy

Convenience Store Woman

All My Puny Sorrows

The Sirens of Titan

A Marvellous Light

Before They Are Hanged

The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook

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Carl’s Doomsday Scenario

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Everything is Tuberculosis

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Wild Grass

The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5)

The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)

The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)

The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)

The Heir

Cinderella is Dead

Open House

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Rajmohan's Wife

Glass, Irony and God

Mating in Captivity

Unease

Narcissus & Goldmund

Against the Machine

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the corner of beacon and joy

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where the yellow grass grows knee-high

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The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet

Lilacs

A Sexual History of the Internet

Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas

Den enda vägen är upp, baby

The SCUM Manifesto

Över floden in bland träden

Thursday Murder Club

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Love in a Fallen City

Lust, Caution

Dana Street: B-Sides

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Dana Street

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Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk

Giovanni's Room

Quantum Listening

The Second Self

Meaningful Technologies

Pandora's Hope

Computers as Theatre

Graphesis

Metaphors We Live By

Home Economics

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Select All

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straight-laced skates all tangled up together

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snapshots

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Shane Hollander: pride of Canada, terror of the Centaurs locker room

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Black Dog

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As The Romans Do

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Intrusive Thoughts

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thirty-five birthday gifts

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I Only Threw This Party for You

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oh, to be completely at your beck and call (how i long to be your dog)

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Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other

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So You Need a Place to Stay?

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Until You Breathe Again

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Competition Is Better With a Friend

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I Just Want To Be Good For You

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Hollanov, 2017

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Drop

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Stay

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Technically This Isn't Catfishing

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happy wife, happy life

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mistakes have been made

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Compulsion

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Only You (Could Ruin Me Like This)

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I'll always look for your face

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The Things They Carried

Direct Intimate Democracy

The Alchemist

Siddhartha

The Season of Migration to the North

The Hunger Artist

Deep Listening

Walkscapes

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Urban Smellscapes

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You are here NYC

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The Routledge Handbook of Mapping and Cartography

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Walking Methodologies in a More-than-Human World

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Slow Technology Reader

The Wilderness Journeys

Other Minds

This Way Up

Public Data Cultures

Alive: The Hidden Intelligence of the Living World

Designs for the Pluriverse

Critical Visualization

Ways of Being

Living in Data

All Data are Local

The Internet Does Not Exist | e-flux Journal

Red Rose, White Rose

The Earth is Falling

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The Earth is Falling

Carmen Pellegrino trans. Shaun Whiteside

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last updated: 2026-06-25 21:03:12.453733

ISBN: 978-1-913513-47-4 Edition: Prototype Publishing, 2021 Page count: 226 Blurb: The Earth is Falling is a haunting and magical novel based around the existence of an abandoned village outside Naples. The deserted houses that still stand there are peopled with ghosts who live in a perpetual present from which time has effectively been abolished. The village appears to be semi-alive; the landslide which ominously awaits and which will eventually lead to the abandonment of the place has yet to arrive (yet its rumbles are heard). Pellegrino peoples Alento with eccentrics, luminaries, an eternally optimistic town crier. In the closing pages, the narrator Estella summons the remaining ghosts for a final dinner. The overall effect is unsettling, haunting and uncanny, the trapped souls doomed to repeat their circumscribed daily life for ever, cut off from the world but dimly aware of its continued presence outside. The pervading mood of nostalgia and melancholy works in stark contrast with the inevitability of the impending catastrophe of the landslide that threatens to obliterate their world forever. ‘What people: so vibrant and vital, if ghosts can be described as such. What a place: precarious yet utterly certain in Carmen Pellegrino’s vivid, poetic rendering. And what a book: melancholy, elegant, original and in its own particular way, totally seductive.’ – Wendy Erskine ‘Comparisons to Juan Rulfo’s masterpiece Pedro Páramo will be inevitable, but Pellegrino’s “village of the dead” is its own brilliant creature.’ – Marius Kociejowski ‘Pellegrino is perhaps the most gifted prose-writer of her generation.’ – Massimo Onofri, Avvenire ‘an absolutely original and poetic vision’ – Elena Cambiaghi, La Sicilia Carmen Pellegrino is an Italian historian and writer. An eclectic scholar, she has focused her research on collective movements of dissidence, racism, social exclusion and the conditions of exploitation of migrants (including the essay ‘The Hours of my Day’, published in the anthology Qui and Fatigue: Stories, Tales and Reportage from the World of Work, 2010, winner of the Reportage Napoli Monitor award). Co-author of various collective works, in 2011 she co-edited with C. Zagaria the volume Not a Country for Women: Stories of Extraordinary Normality, in which she published an essay on Matilde Sorrentino. Among her most recent central themes of investigation is the study of uninhabited villages and the ruins of ancient settlements, through which she laid the foundations for a science of abandonment as a form of recovering awareness of the historical experience of places. In addition to The Earth is Falling (Cade la terra, 2015), which was shortlisted for the Campiello Prize, Pellegrino is the author of the novels If I Came Back This Evening Next (Se mi tornassi questa sera accanto, 2017) and The Happiness of Others (La felicità degli altri, 2021, also shortlisted for the Campiello prize). Shaun Whiteside is an award-winning translator from Italian, French, German and Dutch. Originally from Northern Ireland, he has translated many works of fiction and non-fiction as well as classical and philosophical texts, notably works by Freud and Nietzsche in Penguin Classics. His translation of To Die in Spring by Ralf Rothmann won the Sharpe Books HWA Gold Crown for History Writing in 2018 and his translation from the French of Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq was long-listed for the International Man Booker Prize in 2021. His reviews have appeared in the TLS, the New Statesman, Guardian, Observer, Irish Times and the Literary Review.

Slow Days, Fast Company

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The Arabian Nights

Sensuous Geographies

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A City Is Not A Computer

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An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris

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The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

Else/Where: Mapping

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Going Out: Walking, Listening, Soundmaking

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Walking from Scores

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Walking Art Practice

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Walking and Mapping: Artists as Cartographers

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Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-made World

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Diagrams of Power

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The Screaming Sky: In pursuit of swifts

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Notes from Walnut Tree Farm

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The Wretched of the Earth

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Wanderlust: A History of Walking

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Malayland

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Malayland

Dina Zaman

rowanallen • archive

last updated: 2026-06-25 11:52:41.866141

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.“

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Dooneen

Keith Ridgway

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ISBN: 9781804272459 Edition: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2026 Page count: 328 Blurb: Bartholomew Port, known to all as Mew, steps into the bushes in a London park and steps out of the bushes in a Dublin one. Not only that – there are no cars; there are moving footpaths; there is no church; everything seems quite queer. Mew has arrived in a Dublin that is alive with song, with rumour, with ghosts, and with an unmistakable sense of insurgency. In this suspiciously timeless city that breathes an old revolutionary air, Mew fiercely misses his beloved Mootie, back home in London. An unravelling, an impossibility, a gathering of voices and a single dream, Dooneen is the layered, allusive and wildly original new novel from Keith Ridgway, ‘one of Ireland’s best writers, in a country with no shortage of them’ (The Times). ‘It has an immersive quality that is hard to shake once you’ve emerged – and Ridgway’s line-by-line writing is as good as ever…. But where the book stands out most is Ridgway’s writing about love…. [W]hat Dooneen leaves us with, after its eccentricities and unfathomables, is a simple understanding, as expressed by Philip Larkin – that what will survive of us is love.’ — John Self, The Times ‘When I think of undervalued great writers, Keith Ridgway is one of the first names on my list…. His phrasing is memorable, his imagination extraordinary. He can be eerie, uncomfortable, hilarious, deranged and heartbreaking. Dooneen, which is all those things, takes place in a world like ours…. I found myself admiring its determination to leave the questions it poses unanswered – as well as casting doubt over what those questions could be. Dooneen steps outside consensus reality and goes deep into defamiliarization to convey just how weird and chaotic life feels right now.’ — Chris Power, Observer ‘The powerfully imagined world of Dooneen is a telling testimony not only to Ridgway’s compulsive interest in the possibilities of creative prose but also to the capacity of great writing to bear witness to the corrosive cant of the entitled and the subversive decencies of the maligned.’ — Michael Cronin, Irish Times ‘Comparisons become ridiculous at the level where Ridgway is working, but I will just say that for me there is a sense-memory of Kafka’s The Castle and Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled in my experience of the intimate and dreamlike Dooneen. The feeling is that of seeing fiction’s power of implication stretched before your eyes.’  — Jonathan Lethem   ‘Ridgway has written a near perfect dream – a rebellion against reality, against space and form – but the blood is real, the panic, the love and friendship are there in front of you, can almost be touched. They don’t like you to say “masterpiece” in the endorsements, but read it, and tell me, what else can you call it?’ — Ben Pester, author of The Expansion Project ‘A hugely accomplished, politically acute, and strangely, intensely touching novel. Ridgway shows us – again – how it’s done.’ — Isabel Waidner, author of As If ‘Dooneen is surreal and unsettling, and will subvert your understanding of what time and reality – and even consciousness – is. It is also a poignant love story, and is Beckettian in its melancholy, wit and – most especially – its humanity. Keith Ridgway is a writer whose primary concern is the suffering of others, and his great skill is how quietly and subtly he evokes psychic pain.’ — Mary Costello, author of A Beautiful Loan   ‘Dublin through-and-through but universal, timeless yet punctual to the world right now. Ridgway’s uniquely questioning, epigrammatic voice picks out the personal, the political, the absurd, the deeply serious, strobing away at how to read, how to write, the dangers of narrative and other oppressions, how to find meaning and how to resist, how to live. In this mysterious, miraculous novel Ridgway’s prose has the unarguable lucidity of genius.’  — Richard Beard, author of Sad Little Men   ‘Call it Ursula K. Le Guin’s speculative vision in the voice of Samuel Beckett amidst the Dublin housing crisis – or The Repossessed: An Ambiguous Dystopia. A love letter from the end of the world – and to the difficult possibilities after old worlds end.’  — So Mayer, author of Bad Language   ‘A strangely transporting fever-dream of a novel.‘  — Simon Okotie, author of After Absalon   ‘Dooneen is an engrossing queer-in-all-ways thriller, an insurgent near-future haunting of our present, a vivid reimagining of Dublin, and a love and loss story.’ — David Hayden, author of Darker with the Lights On  Keith Ridgway is a Dubliner living in London. His novels include A Shock, which won the 2021 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Goldsmith’s Prize; Hawthorn & Child; and Animals. His first novel The Long Falling was filmed by Martin Provost as Où Va La Nuit in 2011. He has been awarded the Prix Fémina Étranger and Premier Roman Étranger, the O Henry award and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Dooneen is published by Fitzcarraldo Editions and by New Directions.

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Heart of a Dog

Purgatory

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Inferno

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Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

Our Wives Under the Sea

Norwegian Wood

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Nausicaä 1

Lilium Terrarium

Isländische Lyrik

Hundert Freuden

Rites of Returning Home 1

Sanda 1

Rainbow 4

Girl on Girl

Love Me For Who I Am 2

Gundam the Origin 4

Her Tale of Shim Chong 2

Kagurabachi 1

Der Mond in einer Regennacht 9

Yamada und Kase-san 2

Unfinished Tales

Intermezzo

Persepolis

Haiku

But Everyone Feels This Way

Wellen

Unshrinking

Weiße Nächte

Demokratie und Revolution

Die Zuhörerin

A Nervous Breakdown

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Queering the Asian Diaspora

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Terminal Boredom: Stories

The Question of Palestine

London Falling

Beginning Middle End

Radiant Star

Notes of a Desolate Man

Heated Rivalry

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Silent Flames

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Failure to Match

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Darkness

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The Bodyguard

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In The Dream House

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Notes from Underground

The God of Small Things

Maeve Fly

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The Dead Hours of Night

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The Shots You Take

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Inlands

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I became a god in a horror game

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Sputnik Sweetheart

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The Oath of the Centenera

Call Me By Your Name

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More Happy Than Not

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Symptoms of Being Human

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Monsters of Men

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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Every Day

Fangirl

Carry On

Wayward Son

we are the ants

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

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At the Edge of the Universe

Release

The Ask and the Answer

The Knife of Never Letting Go

More Than This

History is All You Left Me

They Both Die At The End

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Song of Achilles

And Then There Were None

Last Words from Montmartre

Notes of a Crocodile

Letters to a Young Poet

White Noise

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American Psycho

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Interview with the Vampire

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Dracula

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

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The Stranger

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The Myth of Sisyphus

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Carmilla

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White Nights

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No Longer Human

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No Longer Human

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Fear and Trembling

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The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

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The Plague

The Count of Monte Cristo

The Master and Margarita

The Fall

Nausea

The Secret History

Notes from the Underground

Demons

The Brothers Karamazov

The Idiot

The Iliad

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The Death of Ivan Ilyich

The Trial

Fangs

Don Quixote

Metamorphoses

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

Erotic Poems

Beyond and good and evil

The Vampire Lestat

Either/Or

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The Communist Manifesto

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Zofloya; or, the Moor: A Romance of the Fifteenth Century

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Frankenstein

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An Ocean of Minutes

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Physics for Cats

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Taiwan Travelogue

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Almond

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Letters to a Young Poet

Notes of a Crocodile

Dust

Apna Morcha

Ek Chadar Maili Si

existentialism is a humanism

Inferno

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The Loneliness of Hira Barua

Complaint!

Celebrity Politics

The Radical in Ambedkar: Critical Reflections

Flowers on The Grave of Caste

Sanatan

The Vulgarity of Caste

The Obscene Madame D

It lasts forever then it’s over

Palestine +100

Johnny Got His Gun

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

How High We Go In The Dark

The Case of Comrade Tulayev

Children of Gebelawi

Amusing Ourselves to Death

The society of the spectacle

House of Leaves

Dune Series

The Southern Reach Series

Song of the Reed

Brave New World

Journey To The Center Of The Earth

Roadside Picnic

Recursion

Dark Matter

Voices of a Massacre

The King in Yellow

Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories

Sunrise on the Reaping

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Kafka on the Shore

Paper Towns

Looking For Alaska

The Fault In Our Stars

I Want To Die But I Still Want To Eat Tteokbokki

I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Convenience Store Woman

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days at the morisaki bookstore

Conversations With Friends

The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master's House

The Salt Grows Heavy

The Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Our Wives Under the Sea

Carmilla and Laura

Carmilla

Last Words from Montmartre

Annihilation of Caste

Tao of Physics

Tao: The Pathless Path

The Egyptian Book Of The Dead

Notes of a Crocodile

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Endurance

The Ape Who Guards the Balance

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The Divine Comedy

The King in Yellow

Blood Meridian

House of Leaves

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Alice in Wonderland

1984

The Birds & Other Stories

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The Teller of Small Fortunes

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Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home

Ghost Town

Hidden in Time

A Memory of Summer

Black Hellebore

The Undying King

There Is No Antimemetics Division

The Memory of the Ogisi

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The Alchymist's Cat

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Unassimilable: An Asian Diasporic Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century

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Heart Lamp

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The Love Hypothesis

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Our Last Resort

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[webnovel] lewdrooms

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Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)

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Piranesi

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American Spirits

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Blood Dark

The Melancholy of Resistance

Zephyr, Alabama

Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-century French Hermaphrodite

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The City and Its Uncertain Walls

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Yesteryear

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Collected Fiction Volume 1 (1905-1925): A Variorum Edition

Björk's Homogenic (33 1/3)

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Tokyo Express

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Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle #1)

The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)

The Tombs of Atuan (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 2)

Caçadores de bruxas (Dragões de Éter, #1)

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O Vampiro Que Descobriu O Brasil

A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

Rise of the Wolf (Wereworld, #1)

The Origin of Species

Douglas Adams 5 Books set: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life The Universe and Everything, So Long and Thanks for all the Fish, and Mostly Harmless

Doctor Who: City of Death

Shada (Doctor Who) The Lost Adventure

The Little Prince

His Dark Materials Trilogy: Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass

The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)

The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5)

The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)

The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)

Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

Fourth Wing (The Empyrean #1)

The Buried Giant

The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrún

Doctor Who: Eleven Doctors, Eleven Stories

The Sword of Summer (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, #1)

The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)

Seraphina

The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)

The Complete Stories, Novels, Poems, and Essays of Edgar Allan Poe

Al Azif - The Necronomicon

Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, Book #1)

The Dragonet Prophecy (Wings of Fire Book #1)

Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)

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A escolha do Verão

Cedro Carmesim

Kingdom on Fire (A Shadow Bright and Burning #1 )

Reawakened (Reawakened #1 )

Drachentochter (Eona, #1)

The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)

Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor (Zachary Ying, #1)

1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler's Life List

The Wolf King (The Wolf King, #1)

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Murder Bimbo

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The Theory of Everything Else

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Two Girls, Fat and Thin

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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

The Animators

Heart Lamp

Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-made World

Girl, Interrupted

Sihir Perempuan

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health

The Wild Iris

Felicity

The Colossus

Ariel

Landscape with Invisible Hand

Normal People

So Late in the Day

Foster

Agua Viva

Ms Ice Sandwich

All the Lovers in the Night

The Strange Library

Haruko/Love Poems

My Sister, the Serial Killer

When Breath Becomes Air

This is How You Lose the Time War

Sunburn

The Devotion of Suspect X

Kitchen Confidential

Conversations With Friends

Shy

The Gunners

Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Context

Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas

1984

Psychiatric Hegemony: A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness

Solo Levelling

Ecology of Fear

The Staircase in the Woods

Palestine and Feminist Liberation

Giovanni's Room

Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Context

Ways of Seeing

Through the Arc of the Rain Forest

Treasure Island

Armed Militias of South Asia: Fundamentalists, Maoists and Separatists

Veniss Underground

Dungeon Crawler Carl

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The Visitor

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Earthlings

The Return of Butch and Femme: A Phenomenon in Lesbian Sexuality of the 1980s and 1990s

Girls Like Girls

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Early Novels in India

Summer in Baden-Baden

half his age

Trotskyism: Counter-Revolution in Disguise

Partiledaren som klev in i kylan

Från folkhem till nytt klassamhälle: Ett högerspöke berättar

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The Deal

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The Great Gatsby

Summer in Baden-Baden

The White Rose

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The Lightening God's Wife

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Shadows Linger

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The Truth of the Aleke

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Darksight Dare

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The Black Company

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The Lies of the Ajungo

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Exalted

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augustus

a game of thrones

Eurydice

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Their Eyes Were Watching God

Cleat Cute

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The Invasion

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House of Leaves

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Picnic at Hanging Rock

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Travels in Hyperreality

Right-Wing Women

Siddhartha

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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Darkness Spoken

Tension Studies

The Barn at the End of the World

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Philosophical Trends in the Feminist Movement

My People Shall Live: The Autobiography of a Revolutionary

The Thorn and the Carnation

Our Wives Under the Sea

Tauhou

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son of nobody

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A Theory of Fun for Game Design

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

The Safekeep

Convenience Store Woman

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Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing

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Forest Euphoria

Spread Me

Paradise Kiss (20th Anniversary Edition)

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

Remnant Population

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The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

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Serpent’s Reach

Paradise Lost

Vigil

Lucy

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Yesteryear

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Heated Rivalry

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The Duke and I

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Stoner

Quem?

Selected Poems

O processo civilizacional da tourada : guerreiros, cortesãos, profissionais e…bárbaros?

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Devotion

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

The Art of War

It Begins with You: The 9 Hard Truths About Love That Will Change Your Life

Riddley Walker

Letters to Emma Bowlcut

Providence

Yesteryear

Leviathan Falls - The Expanse

Norwegian Wood

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Orfeo

The Correspondent

Housemates

A Little Luck

Arrangements in Blue

Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal

Our Wives Under the Sea

Notes of a Crocodile

Hardboiled & Hard Luck

All About Love

Norwegian Wood

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

Sputnik Sweetheart

Psychopathology Of Everyday Life

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Sputnik Sweetheart

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Short stories of Hercule Poirot

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Dune: Messiah

Ender's Game

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Fourth Wing

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The Great Gatsby

Solutions and Other Problems

Mort

Pattern Recognition

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Shades of Grey

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The Best of Isaac Asimov

Death Valley

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Perverts

When I Sing, Mountains Dance

Renascence and Other Poems

The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier

Chicago Poems

Dracula's Guest

The Butterfly Garden

The Stranger

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Everything is Tuberculosis

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life & times of michael K

The Marrow Thieves

24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

The Road

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Transgender History: the roots of today's revolution

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my fourth time, we drowned: seeking refuge on the world's deadliest migration route

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Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

Embers

The History of Bones: A Memoir

Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

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Catholicism: A Very Short Introduction

Blod er tykkere enn vann

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Twiggy Woman

The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis

Famesick

Yesteryear

Unexhausted Time

Eating in the Underworld

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How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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The Dry Heart

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Exquisite Corpse

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Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction And The Alt-Right

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Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction And The Alt-Right

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Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading

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The Metamorphosis

The BFG

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Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems and Drawings of Shel Silverstein

The Cay

My Favorite Thing is Monsters: Book 2

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The Laughter

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When You Are Engulfed in Flames

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Sex and Rage

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The Hanging Psalm

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The Faces of the Dead

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Paradise Logic

Eden

Memoirs Found in a Bathtub

Toward the African Revolution: Political Essays

To Walk A Pagan Path

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Leviathan

Eisenhorn: The Omnibus

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In A Lonely Place

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Five Decembers

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Application for Release from the Dream

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North Woods

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The Grapes of Wrath

Dune: Messiah

The Feather Thief

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The Employees

Crime and Punishment

Walking to Aldebaran

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Eurotrash

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24/7: late capitalism and the ends of sleep

Breasts and Eggs

24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

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The Marrow Thieves

Dune Messiah

Anne of Green Gables

Maniac Magee

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Godlike

Machines in the Head

Wrong Norma

Hyperpolitics

Jack the Modernist

Darkness Spoken

Complete Stories

Ghosts of My Life

Women Without Men

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

Waiting for Godot

The Stranger

Smell

The Coming Insurrection

I Wished

Colossal Youth

The City in the Middle of the Night

The Martian

Babel

All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

The Priory of the Orange Tree

The Raven Boys

Nona the Ninth

Harrow the Ninth

Gideon the Ninth

Wolf Worm

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The Road

So Long a Letter

At the Bottom of the River

Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas

Free

The Eye

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Somewhere in Time

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Viral Hit

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Crack of Dawn

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Omniscient reader's viewpoint (webtoon)

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Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

The Right to Oblivion: Privacy and the Good Life

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

The Secret History

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My Capricorn Friend (mnga)

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Gokurakugai (cont.)

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The Phantom of the Opera

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The Woman in White

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Dork Diaries

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Best Friends' Bakery

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White Nights (short story) (reread)

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Sherlock Holmes #1

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Before the Coffee Gets Cold (both books)

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The Call of the Wild (audiobook)

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Tuck Everlasting

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The Borrowed 13.67

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There Is No Antimemetics Division

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

Cabal

Weetzie Bat

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Piranesi

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

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The Metamorphosis

Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures

The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories

Wrong Norma

The Crying Book

A Truce That Is Not Peace

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Deluge

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Raymie Nightingale

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Train Dreams

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A Psalm for the Wild-Built

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The Outsiders

The Beekeeper of Aleppo

Catskull

Solo Levelling

Invisible Planets: 13 Visions of the Future from China

The Memory Police

Priestess of the Morrigan

A Handbook of Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Near East

The Complete Encyclopedia of Egyptian Deities

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House of Leaves

The Trial

Selected Poems

The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

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That Was Then, This Is Now

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The Cement Garden

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Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism

Paradise Rot

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House of Leaves

Vagina Obscura

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Perfume and Pain

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Wherever You Go, There You Are

How to Relax

A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg

Chronic City

Beautiful World, Where Are You

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

Interior Chinatown

Acid for the Children

97,196 Words

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist

Burn the Place

Uncanny Valley

The Undoing Project

How Much of These Hills Is Gold

An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace

Luster

A Promised Land

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Summer Solstice: An Essay

Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir

How to Hide an Empire

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Watchmen

The Plague

This Is Pleasure

The Forever War

Sabrina and Corina

Night Theater

A Death in the Family

Good Talk

Normal People

For Small Creatures Such As We: Finding Wonder and Meaning in Our Unlikely World

A Whole Life

The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

Heartburn

An American Marriage

Silence: In the Age of Noise

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

The Art of Gathering

Siddhartha

The Bonfire of the Vanities

Conversations With Friends

The Story of My Teeth

Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

Wabi-Sabi: Further Thoughts

Eileen

Absurdistan

Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011

Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews

Ways of Seeing

Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living

Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York

Insomniac City

Just Kids

Fates and Furies

Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning

The Prophet

Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

The Sellout

The Fight to Vote

Imagine Wanting Only This

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity

Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas

Reputations

Chronicles: Volume One

Revolutionaries Try Again

Swing Time

Hillbilly Elegy

Jesus' Son

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

Some Possible Solutions

On Trails

The Utopia of Rules

The Medium is the Massage

White Sands

The God of Small Things

Why I Came West

Slouching Toward Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

How I Tried to be a Good Person

On the Calculation of Volume (Book 1)

Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer

Martyr!

Mood Machine

Advocate: A Graphic Memoir of Family, Community, and the Fight for Environmental Justice

I Deliver Parcels in Beijing

The Last Sweet Bite: Stories and Recipes of Culinary Heritage Lost and Found

When We're in Charge: The Next Generation’s Guide to Leadership

Rejection

Alphabetical Diaries

Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Intermezzo

Abundance

World Within a Song

Health and Safety

But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz

Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World

Our Migrant Souls

All Fours

Short War

Monica

Homeland Elegies

The Guest

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

Crossroads

Biography of X

Trust

Solito

Dilla Time

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

Confronting Capitalism

Stay True

Couplets

Crying in H Mart

The Story of the Lost Child

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

No One is Talking About This

The Story of a New Name

Priestdaddy

My Brilliant Friend

Lost And Found: A Memoir

Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine

Think Little: Essays

No One Belongs Here More Than You

The People We Hate at the Wedding

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Abundance

All the Way to the River

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On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

Sunburn

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

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Open

A Court of Thorns and Roses

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A Court of Mist and Fury

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Glue

Porno

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Trainspotting

Skagboys

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Diary of an Oxygen Thief

A Negro Looks at Soviet Central Asia

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The Wax Child

Hangsaman

Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Beloved

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Killers of the Flower Moon

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Who They Was

Flowers for Algernon

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Braiding Sweetgrass

The Serviceberry

Half His Age

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The Weird and the Eerie

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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

A Psalm for the Wild-Built

Silver in the Wood

Entangled Life

Sacred Gender: Create Trans and Nonbinary Spiritual Connectedness

The Adventures of Sweet Gwendoline

The Ethical Slut

Maeve Fly

Pagan Portals: Thor

Loki: An Illustrated Guide to the Trickster God

The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine

Freyja: An Illustrated Guide to the Goddess of Magic, Love, and War

American Psycho

Pagan Portals: Hestia: Goddess of Hearth, Home & Community

Freyja, Lady, Vanadis: An Introduction to the Goddess

Bound in Flesh: An Anthology of Trans Body Horror

Religion and Ritual in Ancient Egypt

About A Place in the Kinki Region

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The Master and Margarita

Black Wall Street

Captivated, by You

Bluets

Letters to a Young Poet

The Battle of the Hemlines: Clothes and Illness in the Early Twentieth Century

The Great Gatsby

The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography

The Woodcutters

Piranesi

Somewhere Beyond the Sea

The Master and Margarita

Nona the Ninth

Holes

Pleasure Beach

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Pleasure Beach

Helen Palmer

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finished: 2026-03-24 00:00:00

Purchased: She Said, Berlin DE ISBN: 978-1-913513-44-3 Edition: Prototype Publishing, 2023 Page count: 342 Blurb: Pleasure Beach is a queer love story from the North West’s saucy seaside paradise, Blackpool, on one day: 16 June 1999. Written in multiple voices and styles, Pleasure Beach follows the interconnecting journeys and thoughts of three young women over the course of 24 hours and over 18 chapters which are structured and themed in the same way as James Joyce’s Ulysses. Hedonist and wannabe playwright Olga Adessi, 19, is struggling along the prom to get to her morning shift at the chippy with a monstrous hangover, trying to remember exactly what happened with Rachel Watkins, 19, a strange and fragile girl she had an encounter with the night before. Former gymnast and teenage mum Treesa Reynolds, 19, is off to the Sandcastle Waterpark with her mum Lou and daughter Lulu, looking forward to a sausage and egg McMuffin on the way. Pleasure Beach breathes and exhales the unique sea air, fish and chips, donuts and candyfloss scents of Blackpool, bringing to life everything the town is famous for, portraying the gritty magic and sheer unadulterated fun of the city and its people across a spectrum of sensory experiences and emotions. ‘Pleasure Beach is the alcopop-soaked, stylistically promiscuous Y2K queer seaside teenage experimental novel you never knew you needed – with its chorus of voices ranging from Jacques Lacan to the Vengaboys and an impossibly sweet central romance, it is funny, sexy, class-conscious and, as they used to say, intensely intense.’ – Owen Hatherley

Native Son

The Big Book of Pagan Prayer and Ritual

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The Melancholy of Resistance

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Taiwan Travelogue

The Pilgrim's Progress

I Hate Men

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Indian Summer

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Lord of the Rings

The Hobbit

Portrait of a Lady

The Price of Salt

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Project Hail Mary

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Children of Ruin

The Executioner and Her Way of Life

The Giver

House of Leaves

Infinite Jest

The Iliac Crest

What Strange Paradise

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Still Alice

Carmilla

The Way of Kings

Oathbringer

Words of Radiance

The Children of Hurin

Ethan Frome

The Europeans

Assassin's Apprentice

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In Plato's Cave

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Psychiatric Hegemony: A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness

In Praise of Ishtar

The Kurdish Women's Movement: History, Theory, Practice

The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

The Empathy Exams

in search of lost time: swann's way

ulysses

flesh

bluets

Caligula

La Nausée

Caligula

ShapeUp

Pale Fire

Crossing the Line: Violence and Sexual Assault in Canada's National Sport

Speedboat

Inside the Battle of Algiers

Qualia the Purple

Rashoumon

To Kill a Mockingbird

Notes of a Native Son

The House of The Scorpion

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either/or

Great Granny Webster

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Anarchy-In a Manner of Speaking

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Black Shirts and Reds

The Communist Manifesto

Crying in H Mart

Natural Beauty

Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

Tiny Pieces of Skull

Detransition, Baby

This Perfect Day

Childhood's End

Make Room! Make Room!

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Contact

The Hospital at the End of the World

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Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

Black Dogs

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Orlanda

Checkout 19

only dull people are brilliant at breakfast

the interpretation of dreams

the unabridged journals of sylvia plath

politigram & the post-left

animal farm

the kingdom

Passing

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Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies

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Panpsychism

Why? The purpose of the universe

The Golden Age

The Lovely Bones

The Great Gatsby

Infinite Jest

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Assata: An Autobiography

The Inner Lives of Animals

Stand as One: Spiritual Teachings of Keetoowah

Original Teachings: Early Keetoowah Teachings and Traditions

The wings

Leaving the Colonel

giovanni’s room

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The White Album

Hills Like White Elephants

Towards A Green Democratic Revolution: Left Populism and the Power of Affects

Vinternoveller

The Noble Savage in Labor; or, Claude Lévi-Strauss Has a Baby

The Medical Ethics of Dr J Marion Sims: a Fresh Look at the Historical Record

The Metamorphosis

Hell Screen

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Long Game

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Taking Down Statues: Reconsidering the Legacy of James Marion Sims, "Father of Gynecology"

In Defense of J Marion Sims

A Small Place

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Appropriation of Cultures

Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

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Lolly Willowes

Blood and Guts in High School

Vaikystės pabaiga

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Lakewood

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Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

The King of Elfland’s Daughter

Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book

Iron Goddess of Mercy

The Garden of Heaven

The Bells and Other Poems

Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People

The Hollow Man

Eintauchen und Schöpfen Eintauchen in Märchen

The Hellbound Heart

Where the Crawdads Sing

Night

Frantz Fanon: A Political Biography

Mama Day

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I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Towards Darkness

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Blue Highways

The Book of Nodd

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The Hobbit

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Book of the Subgenius

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Today's Mission

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Subahibi (VN)

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Stars Bleed

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Rewrite (VN)

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The Catcher in The Rye

Let the World Have You

Maurice

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Common Goal

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Role Model

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Great Big Beautiful Life

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The Tiger Flu

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The King in Yellow

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How to Be Gangstalked

How to Gangstalk

Principia Discordia

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Stargirl

Bearing Witness: Memories of Arkansas Slavery

The Buddha and his Dhamma

Chess

Killers of the Flower Moon

The Color of Law

Strangers from a Different Shore

A People's History of the United States

A Nation Under Our Feet

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Ring Shout

The Idiot

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Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

Animal Farm

Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles

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Frankenstein in Baghdad

A Pale View of Hills

Troubling Love

So Long a Letter

Small Country

Blue

War and Peace

Crime and Punishment

Train Dreams

A Gathering of Days

Slaughterhouse-Five

Beloved

great expectations

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Disalienation Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France

Frantz Fanon: A Portrait

Frantz Fanon: A Biography

Paradise Lost

Love

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White Magic

One Hundred Years of Solitude

A Brief and Fearful Star

Mild Vertigo

A Compass on the Navigable Sea: 100 Years of World Literature

The Queen's Necklace

The Three Musketeers

The Forty-Five Guardsmen

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

The Green Ray

The Tigers of Mompracem

Cogewea

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

Orlando

Two Medieval Outlaws: Eustace the Monk and Fouke Fitz Waryn

Come Closer

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Throne of Glass

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100 Boyfriends

Black Skin, White Masks

The Golden Spruce

I’m a Fan

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One

Ghost Light

A Schizoid at Smith

The Center Cannot Hold

Moby-Dick

The Happy Prince

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White Oleander

Blood Meridian

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The Lion's Grave: Dispatches from Afghanistan

To Lose a War: The Fall and Rise of the Taliban

The Fall of Baghdad

a game of thrones

Black Womanhood: Essence and its Treatment of Stereotypical Images of Black Women

Coils & Curls: A Mathematical Tapestry of Black Hair

Black Hair Haptics: Touch and Transgressing the Black Female Body

Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

Her Reckoning: A Young Interdisciplinary Academic Dissects the Exact Nature of Her Disease

Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry

Fast Food Nation

Revels in Madness: Insanity in Medicine and Literature

Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life

Social Darwinism and the Businessman

Vocabulary, Granularity, & Terministic Screens

Trust

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Demian

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Pappan och havet

Fatal purity: Robespierre and the french revolution

স্বাধীনতার স্বাদ

No Country for Old Men

The Metamorphosis

The Mill House Murders

The Catcher in The Rye

Demons

The Idiot

The Demon of the Lonely Isle

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The Early Cases of Akechi Kogoro

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The Three Lives of Cate Kay

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Strange Houses

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The Hunger Games

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

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Hamlet

The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn’t a Guy at All, Vol. 3

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On The Road

Sourcery

টং লিং

Mother Mary Comes To Me

Vladimir

A Life’s Work

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Tough Guy

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American Pastoral

pumpum

A Wrinkle in Time

The Gashlycrumb Tinies

In Cold Blood

The Dawn of Everything

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Teaching a Stone to Talk

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ruin their crops on the ground

Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories

The Scapegoat

Bone Bread

My Children Explain the Big Issues

Autobiography of Red

Perfume and Pain

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katabasis

Notes from the Ginza Shihodo Stationery Shop

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If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

Ender's Game

Mort

Model Homes

Many Waters

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

Shortcomings

Notes from Underground

Bite Back

The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction

Detransition, Baby

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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

King Lear

The Magic Mountain

Infinite Jest

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

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tender is the flesh

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Blood Over Bright Haven

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martyr!

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Demon Copperhead

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The Gloaming

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White Fragility

There is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

Notes of a Native Son

Othello

For My Brother

Fablehaven

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House of Leaves

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The Pillow Book

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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

Millennium Gothic: V1

Exit Note

The Putrescent Vein

hello, world?

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hello, world?

Anna Poletti

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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

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Um Prefácio para Olívia Guerra

From Here to the Great Unknown

Not to Disturb

Cadillac Desert

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Pedro Páramo

Absalom Absalom

the storyteller essays

Ghost Wall

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The Listening House

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Trans Girl Suicide Museum

Girl

The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee

A Mickey Mantel Koan

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

In the Name of Democracy: J.P. Movement and the Emergency

CAPS LOCK: How Capitalism Took Hold of Graphic Design, and How to Escape from It

Sunrise on the Reaping

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The Art of Gathering

Catching The Big Fish

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Sarahland

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Murder by Family: The Incredible True Story of a Son's Treachery and a Father's Forgiveness

Deconstructing the Kimbell: An Essay on Meaning and Architecture

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The Country that Made its Own Canon

The Snow Mare

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communion

martyr!

Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary

Bartleby, the Scrivener

Book lists I think are interesting

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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

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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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Communion: the Female Search for Love

rejection

Communion: the Female Search for Love

The Control of Nature

My Favorite Thing is Monsters: Book 1

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The End of Tragedy

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The Cost of Living

The Sluts

The Andy Warhol Diaries

I Who Have Never Known Men

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American Values and Organized Crime: Suckers and Wiseguys

The Safekeep

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existentialism is a humanism

Her Body and Other Parties

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Wittgenstein: The Way Out of the Fly Bottle

The Phantom Tollbooth

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Art as Experience

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The Marquis de Sade: A Very Short Introduction

Twentieth-Century Artists on Art

The Golden Notebooks

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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

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The Essential Rumi

Such Places as Memory

Pedagogical Sketchbook

The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

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Catching The Big Fish

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Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly

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Cathedral

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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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Heaven Official's Blessings: Vol. 6

Demons

Amusing Ourselves to Death

Nyår

Spent: A Comic Novel

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Cannon

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Graphic Medicine Manifesto

Rhetoric of Health & Medicine As/Is: Theories and Approaches for the Field

A Glossary of Literary Terms

Angels in America: Millennium Approaches

The Awakening

The Wolf of Wall Street

Flashboys: a Wall Street Revolt

Opening Belle

This Boy's Life

All Tomorrows

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Wall Street at Night

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I Who Have Never Known Men

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Flexible Use of a Multi-Purpose Tool by a Cow

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An African in Greenland

Sympathy Tower Tokyo

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Teaching a Stone to Talk

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War Diary

Dear Tulsa

Epigram for Wall Street

days at the morisaki bookstore

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Boy Proof

Push

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

If Beale Street Could Talk

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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

night

Absalom, Absalom!

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Operation Paperclip

What Kind of Paradise

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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

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Take It From Me

Satantango

The Dharma Bums

The Essential Lovecraft

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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The Book of Difficult Fruit

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The Ticking

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A Outra Irmã

The Three Incestuous Sisters

The Glass Harmonica

New Moon

Twilight

Eclipse

Breaking Dawn

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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

The Women

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Butter

No One Belongs Here More Than You

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Blankets

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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

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The Open Veins of Latin America

Emerson: Collected Essays

Hi Score Girl

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How the Water Feels to the Fishes

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How the Water Feels to the Fishes

Dave Eggers

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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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Love in Exile

O Retorno

Lavoura Arcaica

Kafka on the Shore

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Skim

Bossypants

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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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Lost At Sea

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Time Cat

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Seconds

Fight Club

The Book of Other People

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About a Boy

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Killing and Dying: Stories

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

Me Talk Pretty One Day

American Born Chinese

Boxers

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

[ ... ]

Seventeen Poisoned Englishmen

[ ... ]

The Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

[ ... ]

The Joy Luck Club

[ ... ]

1984

[ ... ]

Desert Oracle: Volume 1

[ ... ]

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

[ ... ]

The Darkness Outside of Us

The Western Wind

Isolation: The Horror Anthology

[ ... ]

Rebecca

Battle Cry of Freedom

[ ... ]

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

Giovanni's Room

[ ... ]

dance night

New Mistakes

[ ... ]

Biography of X

Mobility

Game Changers

[ ... ]

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

[ ... ]

The Living

[ ... ]

Paul takes the form of a mortal girl

[ ... ]

Building the Collective: Soviet Graphic Design 1917-1937

The MANIAC

The Hunting Wives

[ ... ]

If on a Winter's Night A Traveler

The Open Veins of Latin America

The Stranger

Diverse Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Microbe-Inducing Male Killing in the Moth Homona magnanima

A Male-killing Wolbachia Carries a Feminizing Factor and is Associated with Degradation of the Sex-Determining System of its Host

East of Eden

The Dispossessed

[ ... ]

Fight Club

Rumble Fish

Rage

Whipping Girl

Tex

Slaughterhouse-Five

Jailbird

Orlando

Mother Night

Cat’s Cradle

The Invisible Man: A Firsthand Account of Homelessness in America

[ ... ]

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

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

Cool for You

Chelsea Girls

Bastard Out of Carolina

Black Aperture

Amsterdam

Atonement

You Weren't Meant to be Human

[ ... ]

A Little Life

Stone Butch Blues

Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Marsha P. Johnson

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 Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Jungle

Nightbitch

Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement

Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy

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

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

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

2666

Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narco-Trafficking and Culture in the US and Mexico

singer of tales

Girlbeast

Information Age

New Paltz, New Paltz

Real Estate

Mockingjay

[ ... ]

Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement

Understanding a Photograph

Flowers for Algernon

The Best of Isaac Asimov

Dalit Ecologies

[ ... ]

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

[ ... ]

What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

[ ... ]

A Psalm for the Wild-Built

[ ... ]

The Traitor's Mercy

[ ... ]

One Dark Window

[ ... ]

Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands

[ ... ]

A Magical Girl Retires

[ ... ]

She's Always Hungry

[ ... ]

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

[ ... ]

Babel

The House in the Cerulean Sea

Whereabouts

[ ... ]

The Bell Jar

The World Beyond Your Head

The Rings of Saturn

To The Lighthouse

Catching Fire

[ ... ]

Salt Slow

[ ... ]

On the Calculation of Volume (Book 3)

[ ... ]

Old Soul

[ ... ]

The Dispossessed

[ ... ]

Cursed Bunny

[ ... ]

Gliff

[ ... ]

Babel

Midnight Timetable

[ ... ]

Shuggie Bain

[ ... ]

From Texts to Bodies: Sexes, Genders and Sexualities in Premodern Europe

Fiasco

Motor Racing, Tobacco Company Sponsorship, Barcodes and Alibi Marketing

[ ... ]

Demon Rum and a Dare: The Story of How Prohibition Inspired Stock Car Racing in the American South

[ ... ]

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

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

Will NASCAR Have to Put on the Brakes?: The Constitutionality of the FDA's Ban on Brand-Name Tobacco Sponsorship in Motor Sports

The Physiology of Auto Racing: A Brief Review

[ ... ]

How Dare We! Write

A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction

[ ... ]

Let the Poets Govern

Lolita

Watership Down

The Seventies

Trust Kids! Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy

berlin alexanderplatz

slouching towards bethlehem

introducing kafka

james joyce's ulysses

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

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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!

[ ... ]

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

[ ... ]

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

[ ... ]

Fahrenheit 451

[ ... ]

I Ching: The Book of Change

A Christmas Carol

Howl and Other Poems

Bluets

Exercises in Style

On the Calculation of Volume (Book 2)

[ ... ]

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

Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles

[ ... ]

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

[ ... ]

The Wall

[ ... ]

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

Siddhartha

Occult Features of Anarchism: With Attention to the Conspiracy of Kings and the Conspiracy of the Peoples

an alle orte, die hinter uns liegen

Earnestly

Amor Cringe

in search of lost time

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Mexican Gothic

On the Calculation of Volume (Book 1)

[ ... ]

Batman: Year One

Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory

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

[ ... ]

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 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

[ ... ]

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

becoming

3001: The Final Odyssey

2061: Odyssey Three

in watermelon sugar

Will the Time Ever Come? A Tlingit Sourcebook

The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe

The Weird and the Eerie

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

Unmasking Autism

Uzumaki

Ash's Cabin

The Conquest of Bread

Tess of the Road

[ ... ]

Shadowscale

Seraphina

Middlemarch

The Books of Earthsea

Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of our Planetary Future

The Civil War in the United States

Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis De Lafayette in the Age of Revolution

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women's Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan

Redwall

Humankind: solidarity with nonhuman people

Life of Maletesta

The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies

The Slave's Gamble: choosing sides in the war of 1812

Stone Butch Blues

Against The Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States

They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45

The Origins of Totalitarianism

The New Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness

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

The coming of the french revolution

The cause of all nations: an international history of the american civil war

Unlearning Shame

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

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)

[ ... ]

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)

[ ... ]

The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen (2017)

[ ... ]

Culture and Empire: Cooking in World History (2013)

[ ... ]

Turtle Island: Foods and Traditions of the Indigenous Peoples of North America (2025)

[ ... ]

Murder on the Orient Express

And Then There Were None

brothers karamazov

The Professional Chef, 9th Ed. (2011)

[ ... ]

Food, Farming, and Freedom: Sowing the Arab Spring (2011)

[ ... ]

A Guide to Modern Cookery (1903)

[ ... ]

The Taste of Tomorrow: Dispatches From the Future of Food(2012)

[ ... ]

Blood, Bones, & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef (2001)

[ ... ]

Kitchen Confidential (2000)

[ ... ]

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Vol. 7: Foodways (1989)

[ ... ]

Professional Cooking, 2nd Ed. (1989)

[ ... ]

Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods (2023)

[ ... ]

Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine (2016)

[ ... ]

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

[ ... ]

Player Piano

[ ... ]

Fight Club

Devil’s Bargain: The History of the Faustian Bargain

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

A Pattern Language

Strange Tale of Panorama Island

[ ... ]

The Burnout Society

Midaq Alley

The Brothers Karamazov

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

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

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

The Stack

Dialectic of Enlightenment

Seeing Like a State

Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism

From Counterculture to Cyberculture

Against Platforms

The Expanse (Series)

[ ... ]

rejection

Denison Avenue

[ ... ]

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fishflies

The Field

[ ... ]

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

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

A Heart So White

"Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide

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

[ ... ]

Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism

[ ... ]

A Fortune For Your Disaster

Devotions

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

[ ... ]

playworld

good talk

[ ... ]

Accel World, Vol. 01: Kuroyukihime's Return

everything and less

These Precious Days

[ ... ]

Ghost Wall

[ ... ]

fieldwork

books v. cigarettes

good old neon

Baron Bagge

Mrs. Dalloway

[ ... ]

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

[ ... ]

The Emperor of Gladness

[ ... ]

the jewish prison

the oxford handbook of ritual and worship in the hebrew bible

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

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

[ ... ]

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

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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

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Once in Berlin

The Cellar

Will There Ever Be Another You

Killers of the Flower Moon

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

Shade

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Picnic at Hanging Rock

Assembling California

Death Troopers: Star Wars Legends

strange pictures

LOTE

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The King in Yellow

Nyarlathotep

The Dunwich Horror

House Of Leaves

I BIBLIOTECA H.P LOVECRAFT

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House of Leaves

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Neuromancer

Harrow the Ninth

Nona the Ninth

Time is a Mother

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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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Universality

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Tintin i nya världen

Man in the Dark

giovanni's room

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we love you, bunny

bunny

another country

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

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all fours

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The Problem of the Rupee

good girl

the gap of time

i make envy on your disco

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the first bad man

on the calculation of volume i

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rejection

my brilliant friend

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katabasis

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piranesi

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the burnout society

the bee sting

Somewhere Beyond the Sea

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Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)

The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

A Fire Upon The Deep

totempole

The Night Guest

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Assembling California

Pologne, histoire d'une ambition

kitchen

the pale king

Harrow the Ninth

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Less

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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

Portnoy's Complaint

The Story of a New Name

A Children’s Bible

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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

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Norwegian Wood

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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

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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

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The Bell Jar

To a God Unknown

In Dubious Battle

Empire of Wild

Carmilla

Station Eleven

The Tempest

Brave New World

notes from underground

The Stranger

The Bluest Eye

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Too Late to Awaken: What Lies Ahead When There is no Future?

last night at the telegraph club

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pachinko

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To Selena, with Love

I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution

Hypermedia Systems

The Internet Con: How To Seize the Means of Computation

Death and Other Dances

Heavier Than Heaven

Push

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Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements

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The Color Purple

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The Prodigies

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Are Prisons Obsolete?

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Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

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triangulation

orientation

declination

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the bell at sealey head

bury our bones in the midnight soil

a game of thrones

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queer as folklore

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after evil: a politics of human rights

107 days

shadow ticket

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

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Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)

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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

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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

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

Seven Days In June

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Draft No. 4

Sunbringer

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Godkiller

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The Idiot

The Bright Sword

Fruit of the Dead

Sonny's Blues

Among the Burning Flowers

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the others of edenwell

queer gothic

a feast for crows

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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

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there is nothing so whole as a broken heart

Angels

Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity

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One Boat

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

Notes of a Native Son

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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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Gravity’s Rainbow

Orlando

A Room of One’s Own

All About Love

fairyland

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

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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

lolita

atonement

Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting

like death

autobiography of red

inherent vice

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

Another Country

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A Strip of Velvet

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In Praise of Shadows

Stuffed

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What Moves the Dead

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The Metamorphosis

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Notes from Underground

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Sagittarius

Between the World and Me

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the omnivore's dilemma

a moveable feast

never let me go

elephant in the brain

Beloved

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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

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The Sea, The Sea

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Het tegenovergestelde van een mens

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Piranesi

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escape from freedom

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

trial of socrates

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

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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

American Pastoral

Girl, 1983

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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

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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Fictions

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The Winter of Our Discontent

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If on a Winter's Night A Traveler

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If on a Winter's Night A Traveler

Italo Calvino

jakewelch • read

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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The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx and Frederick Engels

jakewelch • read

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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The Stranger

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Fifteen Dogs

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Leviathan

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Breakfast of Champions

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Wuthering Heights

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The Morning Star

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The Morning Star

Karl Ove Knausgaard

jakewelch • read

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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My Struggle, Book 2

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My Struggle, Book 2

Karl Ove Knausgaard

jakewelch • read

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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Stoner

John Williams

jakewelch • read

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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My Struggle, Book 1

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Norwegian Wood

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As I Lay Dying

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The Sound and the Fury

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The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner

jakewelch • read

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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Slaughterhouse-Five

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Kafka on the Shore

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The Crying of Lot 49

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For Whom the Bell Tolls

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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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Dune Messiah

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Dune

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All the Pretty Horses

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Return of the King

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The Fellowship of the Ring

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The Two Towers

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Dracula

Vicious

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Fences and Windows

The Sense of an Ending

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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

Discipline and Punish

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

Agnes Martin: Writings / Schriften

The Lamb

When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth

Starving Saints

My Darling Dreadful Thing

Indecent Theology

Braiding Sweetgrass

Burmese Days

Forgotten Journey

Choices

True Knowledge of the Christ: Theosophy and Rosicrucianism

Virgin Whore

Past Tense: The Cocteau Diaries Volume 1

Satan in Goray

Anxious Bliss: A Case Study of Dissociation in a Mexican Nun

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

Agnes Martin: Writings / Schriften

Parakeet

Binstead’s Safari

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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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Walking Wounded

Sheila Llewewllyn

Coconats • read

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?

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