All The Stars Aflame by Malik Abduh
The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting A Writer’s Life in Prison by Pen America
The Devil Finds Work by James Baldwin
Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood by Donald Bogle
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
The Total Library: Non Fiction 1922-1986 by Jorge Luis Borges
The Book of Sand by Jorge Luis Borges
On Mysticism by Jorge Luis Borges
The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges
Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns
Violent Order: Essays On The Nature of Police by David Correia
If It’s Tuesday This Must Be Walla Walla: The Wacky History of Adrenalin OD by Dave Scott Schwartzman
Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy by Ben Davis
Watch My Smoke: The Eric Dickerson Story by Eric Dickerson
The Black Agenda by Glen Ford
All Hail Megatron Volume Four by Simon Furman
Transformers 84’ Secrets and Lies by Simon Furman
Transformers: Devastation by Simon Furman
Ask Iwata: Words of Wisdom from Satoru Iwata by Satoru Iwata
See You Soon by Mariame Kaba
Notes From Childhood by Norah Lange
People In The Room by Norah Lange
Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men Volume Two by Stan Lee
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class by Catherine Liu
Butts In Seats: The Tony Schiavone Story by Dirk Manning
Transformers 84’ Legends and Rumors by Bill Mantio
All Hail Megatron Volume Three by Shane McCarthy
There Are Trans People Here by H. Melt
We Will Win the Day: The Civil Rights Movement, the Black Athlete, and the Quest for Equality by Louis Moore
Sula by Toni Morrison
The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings by Octavio Paz
Transformers: The Wreckers Saga by Nick Roche
Seven Conversations With Jorge Luis Borges by Fernando Sorrentino
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Unveiling Kate Chopin by Emily Toth
Godzilla On My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters by William Tsutsui
Soundtrack to a Movement: African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism by Richard Brent Turner
The Joker: A Celebration of 75 Years
Batman: A Celebration of 75 Years
The Aesthetic of Our Anger by Mike Dines
The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World by Dave Zirin
The Poems of Hesiod
The Cambridge Guide To Women’s Writing In English by Lorna Sage
Books Read 2017
- The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism by Trevor Aaronson
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown, Simon Armitage (Translator)
- Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Volume 1 by John Barber
- Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Volume 2 by John Barber
- Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Volume 3 by John Barber
- Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Volume 4 by John Barber
- Transformers: Robots In Disguise Volume 5 by John Barber
- Transformers: Robots in Disguise Volume 6 by John Barber
- Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman by Harold Bloom
- The Black Elfstone (The Fall of Shannara, #1) by Terry Brooks
- Enter Naomi: SST, L.A. and All That... by Joe Carducci
- The Nonexistent Knight by Italo Calvino
- The Awakening and Selected Stories by Kate Chopin
- 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep by Jonathan Crary
- Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto by Jessa Crispin
- Captain Marvel (Marvel NOW!) #1 by Kelly Sue DeConnick
- The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
- Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
- Star Trek: Harlan Ellison's The City on the Edge of Forever: The Original Teleplay by Harlan Ellison
- The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition by Friedrich Engels
- Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings by Manny Farber
- Essays, Speeches & Public Letters by William Faulkner
- The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life by Tim Ferriss
- When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group that Predicted the Destruction of the World by Leon Festinger
- Clinton in Haiti: The 1994 US Invasion of Haiti by Philippe Girard
- Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980-1984 by Ian Glasper
- The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- A Philosophy of Tragedy by Christopher Hamilton
- Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation by Blake J. Harris
- A People's History of the French Revolution by Eric Hazan
- Film After Film: (Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?) by J. Hoberman
- Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign by Michael K. Honey
- Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies by bell hooks
- An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
- Perpetual Peace and Other Essays by Immanuel Kant
- The Future is Queer: A Science Fiction Anthology by Richard Labonté
- Engaging the Past: Mass Culture and the Production of Historical Knowledge by Alison Landsberg
- The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and the Stories by Nella Larsen
- Wellsprings by Mario Vargas Llosa
- Identity Crisis by Brad Meltzer
- My Damage: The Story of a Punk Rock Survivor by Keith Morris
- Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore by Albert Mudrian
- A Year at the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey by Kevin Murphy
- Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right by Angela Nagle
- Employee of the Month and Other Big Deals by Mary Jo Pehl
- Visual Storytellling: An Illustrated Reader by Todd James Pierce
- Why Be Something That You're Not: Detroit Hardcore 1979-1985 by Tony Rettman
- Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson
- Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution by Heather Rogers
- Get In The Van: On The Road With Black Flag (Second Edition) by Henry Rollins
- American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath by Carl Rollyson
- Lazarus, Vol. 1: Family by Greg Rucka
- Der Mond: The Art of Neon Genesis Evangelion by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
- Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat by J. Sakai
- A New Companion to Digital Humanities by Susan Schreibman
- The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power by Jeff Sharlet
- Change Agent by Daniel Suarez
- Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings by Mark Twain
- Saga, Vol. 1 (Saga, #1) by Brian K. Vaughan
- Saga, Vol. 2 (Saga, #2) by Brian K. Vaughan
- A Brief History of Portable Literature by Enrique Vila-Matas
- Dublinesque by Enrique Vila-Matas
- Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson
- Ms. Marvel, Vol. 2: Generation Why by G. Willow Wilson
- The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople by Susan Wise Bauer
- How Fiction Works by James Wood
- No Slam Dancing, No Stage Diving, No Spikes: An Oral History of the Legendary City Gardens by Amy Yates Wuelfing
- What's My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States by Dave Zirin
Weekly Reader
Maria Popova on Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Dave Zirin on August Wilson.
Time Magazine interviews Emily Wilson about her translation of The Odyssey.