The Story Of Crass by George Berger
The Western Canon: The Books & Schools Of The Ages by Harold Bloom
The Stiehl Assassin by Terry Brooks
We Created Chavez: A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution by George Circcariello-Maher
A Penelopean Politics: Reweaving The Feminine In Homer's Odyssey by Barbara Clayton
Atari To Zelda: Japan's Video Games In Global Contexts by Mia Consalvo
The Odyssey of Political Theory: The Politics of Departure and Return by Patrick J. Deneen
Titan Screwed: Lost Smiles, Stunners, and Screwjobs by James Dixon
I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie by Roger Ebert
K-Punk: The Collected & Unpublished Writing Of Mark Fisher by Mark Fisher
Transformers: Regeneration One Volumes 1-4 by Simon Furman
Soccer In Sun & Shadows by Eduardo Galeano
Radioactive Man: Radioactive Repoository by Matt Groening
GI Joe Volumes 1-33 by Larry Hama
My Hero Academia Volume 1-3 by Kohei Horikoshi
Death Of The Territories: Expansion, Betrayal, and The War That Changed Pro Wrestling Forever by Tim Hornbaker
The New Testament As Literature by Kyle Keefer
Ajax, The Dutch, The War: Football In Europe During The Second World War by Simon Kuper
Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men Volume One by Stan Lee
Kill Shakespeare Volume One by Conor McCreery
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
One Piece Volume One by Eiichiro Oda
Mega Man 3 (Boss Fights) by Salvatore Pane
Football For A Buck: The Crazy Rise & Crazier Demise of the USFL by Jeff Pearlman
Shakespeare and the Middle Ages by Curtis Perry
Electronic Literature by Scott Rettberg
Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy
Where We Go From Here by Bernie Sanders
Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics by Richard Seymour
Essays by Wallace Shawn
Night Thoughts by Wallace Shawn
1923: A Great Depression Memoir by Harry Leslie Smith
Harry's Last Stand: How The World My Generation Built Is Falling Down and What We Can Do To Save It by Harry Leslie Smith
Love Among The Ruins: A Memoir of Life and Love in Hamburg, 1943 by Harry Leslie Smith
Strike For America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity by Micah Uetricht
The Unknown Odysseus: Alternate Worlds In Homer's Odyssey by Thomas Van Nortwick
Never Any End In Paris by Enrique Vila-Matas
The Future of Our Schools: Teachers Unions and Social Justice by Lois Weiner
A Politics of Love: A Handbook For A New American Revolution by Marianne Williamson
Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genuis of Dutch Soccer by David Winner
Books Read In 2014
- Breathing Machine, A Memoir of Computers by Leigh Alexander
- Clipping Through: One Mad Week In Video Games by Leigh Alexander
- And Eternity by Piers Anthony
- vN by Madeline Ashby
- The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
- The Boss by Abigail Barnette
- Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter by Tom Bissell
- Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003 by Roberto Bolano
- Fetish Sex: A Complete Guide to Sexual Fetishes by Violet Blue
- Borges On Writing by Jorge Luis Borges
- It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens by danah boyd
- The High Druid's Blade: The Defenders of Shannara by Terry Brooks
- Witch Wraith: The Dark Legacy of Shannara by Terry Brooks
- If On A Winter's Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- The Divine Comedy by Dante
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
- How To Read A Poem by Terry Eagleton
- A Case Of Hysteria by Sigmund Freud
- The Fear Of An Illusion by Sigmund Freud
- No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald
- Bootleg: The Secret History of the Other Recording Industry by Clinton Heylin
- Never Let Me Go by Kazou Ishiguro
- Devilish by Maureen Johnson
- Critique Of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
- Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil
- Collected Sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
- The Trial And Death Of Socrates by Plato
- Rouge Code by Mark Russinovich
- Trojan Horse by Mark Russinovich
- Zero Day by Mark Russinovich
- Dimension Of Miracles by Robert Sheckley
- Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser
- Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson
- Influx by Daniel Suarez
- Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves by Jill Walker Rettberg
- The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet by Neil Degrasse Tyson
- Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries by Neil Degrasse Tyson
- Conversations With Kurt Vonnegut by Kurt Vonnegut
- Palm Sunday by Kurt Vonnegut
- Pandora's Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal by Melanie Warner
- A Vindication Of The Rights Of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft
- Come To Our Show: Punk Show Flyers From DC To Down Under
Worth Reading Recently
- Haruki Murakami's Passion For Jazz.
- Jenny Trout on 50 Shades Of Grey and BDSM.
- The Millions on Italo Calvino's excellent novel Cosmicomics.
- A new interview with Edward Snowden from The Guardian.
- io9's review of the excellent episode of Adventure Time that Masaaki Yuasa did last month.
- An excerpt from Laurie Penny's new book Unspeakable Things.
- A conversation about Haiti and Dominican Republic between Edwidge Danticat and Junot Diaz.
- The Millions reviews Murakami's new novel.
- Wallace Shawn's amazing "translation" of "liberal Hollywood!!!!!"'s justification of slaughtering children in Gaza.
- Ugliness, empathy, and Octavia Butler.
Books Read In 2013
- Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson
- For Love Of Evil by Piers Anthony
- Amulet by Roberto Bolano
- Bloodfire Quest by Terry Brooks
- The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
- Homeland by Cory Doctorow
- Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow
- Falling Man by Don Delillo
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Carolyn Maddux
- 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
- Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill
- And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut, A Life by Charles Shields
- Freedom by Daniel Suarez
- Kill Decision by Daniel Duarez
- In Defense of Terror: Liberty or Death in The French Revolution by Sophie Wahnich
- The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I Will Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
- Conversations With David Foster Wallace
- Enemies: A History of the FBI by Tim Weiner
- Hacking the Academy: New Approaches to Scholarship and Teaching from Digital Humanities Anthology