Books Read 2023

Graphic Novels

A lot of rereads because I picked up print copies…

• Superman: A Celebration of 75 Years

  Lois Lane: A Celebration of 75 Years

• Wonder Woman: A Celebration of 75 Years

• The Love and Rockets Companion: 30 Years

• Alias Omnibus by Brian Michael Bendis

• Batman Adventures: Mad Love Deluxe Edition by Paul Dini

• Transformers : Evolutions - Hearts of Steel by Chuck Dixon

• Batman: The Brave & the Bold: The Bronze Age Vol. 1 by Bob Haney

• Love and Rockets: The Covers by Gilbert Hernández

• Penny Century by Jaime Hernández

• Maggie the Mechanic by Jaime Hernández

• Esperanza: A Love and Rockets Book by Jaime Hernández

• Tonta by Jaime Hernández

• Angels And Magpies by Jaime Hernández

• Perla la Loca by Jaime Hernández

• The Girl from H.O.P.P.E.R.S. by Jaime Hernández

• Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? The Deluxe Edition by Alan Moore

• Transformers: Lost Light, Vol. 1 by James Roberts,

• Marvel Masterworks: the X-men 3 by Roy Thomas

• Marvel Masterworks: the X-men 4 by Roy Thomas

Gaming

• Dungeons and Desktops: The History of Computer Role-Playing Games by Matt Barton

• Boss Fight Books #28 Final Fantasy VI by Sebastian Deken

• Hardcore Gaming 101 Presents: Castlevania by Kurt Kalata

• The Secret History of Mac Gaming by Richard Moss

• The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal by Laine Nooney

• Super Nes Works Volume I: 1991 by Jeremy Parish

• NES Works Volume III: 1987 by Jeremy Parish

• 50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon by Aaron A. Reed

Fiction

Again, some rereads because I picked up print copies…

• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

• Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene

• Sweeney Astray by Seamus Heaney

• The Midnight Verdict: Translations from the Irish of Brian Merriman and from the Metamorphoses of Ovid by Seamus Heaney

• The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables Robert Henryson, Seamus Heaney (Translator)

• The Translations of Seamus Heaney

• The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Dark Tales by H.P. Lovecraft

• A Doll's House and Other Plays (Penguin) by Henrik Ibsen

• Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

• The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

Non-Fiction

• The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years: From The Next Generation to J. J. Abrams: The Complete, Uncensored, and Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek

• Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire (edited by Jehad Abusalim)

• The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction: 1948–1985 by James Baldwin

• Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights by Omar Barghouti

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Norton Critical Edition (translated by Marie Borroff)

• Confronting Authority: Reflections of an Ardent Protester by Derrick A. Bell

• Frames of War: When is Life Grievable? by Judith Butler

• Life Against Dementia: Essays, Reviews, Interviews 1975-2011 by Joe Carducci

• Abolition. Feminism. Now. (Edited by Angela Y. Davis)

• Cinema 1: The Movement-Image by Gilles Deleuze

• Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball by Luke Epplin

• Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle by Silvia Federici

• Silence is No Reaction: Forty Years of Subhumans by Ian Glasper

• Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone by Sarah Jaffe

• Superheroes, Movies, and the State: How the U.S. Government Shapes Cinematic Universes by Tricia Jenkins

• Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones

• The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors by Dan Jones

• Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future without Policing & Prisons (edited by Colin Kaepernick)

• Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies (edited by Colin Kaepernick)

• Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution by Neil Lanctot

• The Ninety-Five Theses and Other Writings by Martin Luther

• Knowledge Socialism: The Rise of Peer Production: Collegiality, Collaboration, and Collective Intelligence (edited by Michael A. Peters)

• Daily Life in the Medieval Islamic World by James E. Lindsay

• Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Premilla Nadasen

• Jean Arthur: The Actress Nobody Knew by John Oller

• Revelations of Divine Love (Penguin) by Julian of Norwich

• Cities of Ladies: Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 12-1565 by Walter Simons

• Making It So: A Memoir by Patrick Stewart

• The Hours Have Lost Their Clock: The Politics of Nostalgia by Grafton Tanner

• Wages for Housework: A History of an International Feminist Movement, 1972-77 by Louise Toupin

• As Serious As Your Life: Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, 1957–1977 by Val Wilmer

• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and A Vindication of the Rights of Men (Oxford) by Mary Wollstonecraft

Books Read 2021

• Green Arrow: A Celebration of 75 Years

• Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold

• Palestine: A Socialist Introduction by Sumaya Awad

• Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America by Russ Baker

• Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte

• Small Magic: Short Fiction, 1977-2020 by Terry Brooks

• The Last Druid by Terry Brooks

• I Remember Death By Its Proximity to What I Love by Mahogany L. Browne

• Star Trek: Alien Spotlight by John Byrne

• The Watcher and Other Stories by Italo Calvino

• Into The War by Italo Calvino

• The Road To San Giovanni by Italo Calvino

• Marcovaldo by Italo Calvino

• Under The Jaguar Sun by Italo Calvino

• If I Were Another by Mahmoud Darwish

• Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas by Henry Dumas

• Knees of a Natural Man: The Selected Poetry of Henry Dumas by Henry Dumas

• Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd

• Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice by Jesse Hagopian

• Ibsen's Selected Plays by Henrik Ibsen

• They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie Jones-Rogers

• We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Abolitionist Papers) by Mariame Kaba

• Transformers: The Manga Volume Three by Masumi Kaneda

• Eternals: The Complete Collection by Jack Kirby

• The Battle For Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists by Naomi Klein

• Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin

• Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language by Seth Lerer

• Legends of Localization: The Legend of Zelda by Clyde Mandelin

• Transformers: All Hail Megatron Volume 1 by Shane McCarthy

• Transformers: All Hail Megatron Volume 2 by Shane McCarthy

• Transformers Historia by Chris MxFeely

• Thick: And Other Essays by Tressiue McMillan Cottom

• The Wrestling Observer Yearbook '93: The Year of Major Beginnings and Major Endings (Wrestling Observer Newsletter) by Dave Meltzer

• The Wrestling Observer Yearbook '97: The Last Time WWF Was Number Two by Dave Meltzer

• The Major Works by John Milton

• Strong In The Rain: Selected Poems by Kenji Miyazawa

• Milky Way Railroad by Kenji Miyazawa

• Night On The Galactic Railroad and Other Stories by Kenji Miyazawa

• Night On The Milky Way Train by Kenji Miyazawa

• Once and Forever: The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa by Kenji Miyazawa

• Growing Up with Manos: The Hands of Fate: How I was the Child Star of the Worst Movie Ever Made and Lived to Tell the Story by Jackey Newman

• Only the Ball Was White: A History of Legendary Black Players and All-Black Professional Teams by Robert Peterson

• River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey by Sister Helen Prejean

• Straight Edge: A Clear-Headed Hardcore Punk History by Tony Rettman

• Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing by Stuart Schrader

• The Monsters and the Critics: And Other Essays. J.R.R. Tolkien

• Star Trek: Way Point by Dayton Ward

• Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism by Jillian York

• Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Books Read In 2018

1. The Conversations by Cesar Aira

2. Culture & Anarchy by Matthew Arnold

3. Transformers Volume 7: Combiner Wars by John Barber

4. Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett

5. The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason by Chapo Trape House

6. Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet by Ta-Nehisi Coates

7. Break Out: How the Apple II Launched the PC Gaming Revolution by David L. Craddock

8. Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America by Cathy Davidson

9. Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

10. The Oxford Companion To Shakespeare by Michael Dobson

11. White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race by Stephen Duncombe

12. Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse by Annette Fuentes

13. The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene Victor Debs by Ray Ginger

14. The Day the Country Died: A History of Anarcho Punk 1980–1984 by Ian Glasper

15. Classic GI Joe Volume One by Steven Grant

16. More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing by Jesse Hagopian

17. Long Shot: The Triumphs and Struggles of an NBA Freedom Fighter by Craig Hodges

18. The Odyssey by Homer (Barry Powell translation)

19. The Odyssey by Homer (Emily Wilson translation)

20. Going Underground: American Punk 1979-1989 by George Hurchalla

21. Pillars of Society by Henrik Ibsen

22. When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History Of Racial Inequality In Twentieth Century America by Ira Katznelson

23. All Labor Has Dignity by Martin Luther King Jr.

24. Bad Girls: Young Women, Sex, and Rebellion before the Sixties by Amanda Littauer

25. The People of the Abyss by Jack London

26. Liberalism: A Counter History by Domenico Losurdo

27. How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain’s Most Ineligible Bachelor and his Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate by Wendy Moore

28. The Mosaic of Islam by Suleiman Mourad

29. The Law of the Father? Patriarchy in the Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism by Mary Murray

30. Crazy Like A Fox: The Definitive Chronicle of Brian Pillman 20 Years Later by Liam O'Rourke

31. Good Nintentions: 30 Years of NES: An Unofficial Survey of the Nintendo Entertainment System by Jeremy Parish

32. Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England by Mary Poovey

33. Black Panther: The Complete Collection Volume One by Christopher Priest

34. The Death of WCW (10th Anniversary Edition) by RD Deynolds

35. Cosmos by Carl Sagan

36. Transformers: Combiner Wars by Mairghread Scott

37. Shakespeare's Hamlet: Manga Edition by William Shakespeare

38. A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 by James Shapiro

39. Nabakov's Shakespeare by Samuel Schuman

40. Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals by Jonathan Smucker

41. Space Is The Place: The Lives & Times Of Sun Ra by John F. Szwed

42. Shakespeare, Dissent, and the Cold War by Alfred Thomas

43. Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Fool's Gold by David Tipton

44. English Novel in History, 1895-1920 (The Novel in History) by David Trotter

45. The Illogic of Kassel by Enrique Vila-Matas

46. Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England by Garthine Walker

47. The New Atheist Threat: The Dangerous Rise of Secular Extremists by CJ Werleman

48. Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer

49. Citizens to Lords: A Social History of Western Political Thought from Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages by Ellen Meiksins Wood

Books Read 2017

1. The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism by Trevor Aaronson
2. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown, Simon Armitage (Translator)
3. Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Volume 1 by John Barber
4. Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Volume 2 by John Barber
5. Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Volume 3 by John Barber
6. Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Volume 4 by John Barber
7. Transformers: Robots In Disguise Volume 5 by John Barber
8. Transformers: Robots in Disguise Volume 6 by John Barber
9. Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman by Harold Bloom
10. The Black Elfstone (The Fall of Shannara, #1) by Terry Brooks
11. Enter Naomi: SST, L.A. and All That... by Joe Carducci
12. The Nonexistent Knight by Italo Calvino
13. The Awakening and Selected Stories by Kate Chopin
14. 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep by Jonathan Crary
15. Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto by Jessa Crispin
16. Captain Marvel (Marvel NOW!) #1 by Kelly Sue DeConnick
17. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
18. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
19. Star Trek: Harlan Ellison's The City on the Edge of Forever: The Original Teleplay by Harlan Ellison
20. The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition by Friedrich Engels
21. Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings by Manny Farber
22. Essays, Speeches & Public Letters by William Faulkner
23. The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life by Tim Ferriss
24. When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group that Predicted the Destruction of the World by Leon Festinger
25. Clinton in Haiti: The 1994 US Invasion of Haiti by Philippe Girard
26. Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980-1984 by Ian Glasper
27. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
28. A Philosophy of Tragedy by Christopher Hamilton
29. Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation by Blake J. Harris
30. A People's History of the French Revolution by Eric Hazan
31. Film After Film: (Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?) by J. Hoberman
32. Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign by Michael K. Honey
33. Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies by bell hooks
34. An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
35. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
36. Perpetual Peace and Other Essays by Immanuel Kant
37. The Future is Queer: A Science Fiction Anthology by Richard Labonté
38. Engaging the Past: Mass Culture and the Production of Historical Knowledge by Alison Landsberg
39. The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and the Stories by Nella Larsen
40. Wellsprings by Mario Vargas Llosa
41. Identity Crisis by Brad Meltzer
42. My Damage: The Story of a Punk Rock Survivor by Keith Morris
43. Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore by Albert Mudrian
44. A Year at the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey by Kevin Murphy
45. Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right by Angela Nagle
46. Employee of the Month and Other Big Deals by Mary Jo Pehl
47. Visual Storytellling: An Illustrated Reader by Todd James Pierce
48. Why Be Something That You're Not: Detroit Hardcore 1979-1985 by Tony Rettman
49. Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson
50. Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution by Heather Rogers
51. Get In The Van: On The Road With Black Flag (Second Edition) by Henry Rollins
52. American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath by Carl Rollyson
53. Lazarus, Vol. 1: Family by Greg Rucka
54. Der Mond: The Art of Neon Genesis Evangelion by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
55. Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat by J. Sakai
56. A New Companion to Digital Humanities by Susan Schreibman
57. The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power by Jeff Sharlet
58. Change Agent by Daniel Suarez
59. Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings by Mark Twain
60. Saga, Vol. 1 (Saga, #1) by Brian K. Vaughan
61. Saga, Vol. 2 (Saga, #2) by Brian K. Vaughan
62. A Brief History of Portable Literature by Enrique Vila-Matas
63. Dublinesque by Enrique Vila-Matas
64. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson
65. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 2: Generation Why by G. Willow Wilson
66. The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople by Susan Wise Bauer
67. How Fiction Works by James Wood
68. No Slam Dancing, No Stage Diving, No Spikes: An Oral History of the Legendary City Gardens by Amy Yates Wuelfing
69. What's My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States by Dave Zirin

Books Read In 2015

1. The Battle for Justice in Palestine by Ali Abunimah
2. The Doubt Factory by Paolo Bacigalupi
3. Jennifer Government by Max Barry
4. Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature by Jorge Luis Borges
5. Borges at Eighty: Conversations by Jorge Luis Borges
6. Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
7. The Darkling Child: The Defenders of Shannara by Terry Brooks
8. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex by Judith Butler
9. Lilith's Brood by Octavia E. Butler
10. Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday by Italo Calvino
11. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
12. You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost): A Memoir by Felicia Day
13. Replay: The History of Video Games by Tristan Donovan
14. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
15. The Peripheral by William Gibson
16. Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work by Melissa Gira Grant
17. Death in Classical Hollywood Cinema by Boaz Hagin
18. The Odyssey by Homer
19. A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
20. The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan
21. Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime-from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door by Brian Krebs
22. One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America by Kevin M. Kruse
23. The Muslims Are Coming: Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror by Arun Kundnani
24. Passing by Nella Larsen
25. The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector
26. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
27. The CIA in Iran: The 1953 Coup and the Origins of the US-Iran Divide by Christopher Petherick
28. The Foundation Pit by Andrey Platonov
29. Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye Volume 1 by James Roberts
30. Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye Volume 2 by James Roberts
31. Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye Volume 3 by James Roberts
32. Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye Volume 4 by James Roberts
33. Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye Volume 5 by James Roberts
34. Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye Volume 6 by James Roberts
35. The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made by Greg Sestero
36. The Oxford Shakespeare: Othello: The Moor of Venice (The Oxford Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
37. The Squared Circle: Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling by David Shoemaker
38. Against Interpretation: And Other Essays by Susan Sontag
39. Automate This: How Algorithms Took Over Our Markets, Our Jobs, and the World by Christopher Steiner
40. The Epic Struggle for the Internet of Things by Bruce Sterling
41. Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution by Neil deGrasse Tyson
42. The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women by Jessica Valenti
43. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Summer 2008 Papers

The only paper of note I wrote in the seminar I took on tragedy in the summer of 2008 was my seminar paper on how patriarchy affects how characters can "come home" in plays. My discussion include Pinter, Aeschylus, Ibsen, and Maraini.

Books Read In 2012

1. Being A Green Mother by Piers Anthony
2. The Tent by Margaret Atwood
3. New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
4. Racing The Beam: The Atari Video Computer System by Ian Bogost and Nick Montfort
5. Amulet by Roberto Bolano
6. Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
7. The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
8. The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
9. The Mind of Italo Calvino by Dan Cavallaro
10. The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin
11. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
12. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
13. Crossed by Ally Condie
14. Noir by Robert Coover
15. Down & Out In The Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
16. The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow by Cory Doctorow
17. The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities by Frank Donoghue
18. Football The First Hundred Years The Untold Story by Adrian Harvey
19. My Mother Was A Computer: Digital Subjects & Literary Texts by N. Katherine Hayles
20. The Map & The Territory by Michel Houllebecq
21. Quests: Design, Theory, and History in Games and Narratives by Jeff Howard
22. Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
23. Fifty Shades Darker by E. L. James
24. Fifty Shades Freed by E. L. James
25. Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
26. The Life & Morals of Jesus of Nazareth by Thomas Jefferson
27. Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
28. Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
29. The Lost Books of The Odyssey by Zachary Mason
30. Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make us Better and How they Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal
31. Batman The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
32. Batman Year One by Frank Miller
33. Those Guys Have All The Fun: Inside The World of ESPN by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales
34. Paradise Lost by John Milton
35. Batman-The Killing Joke by Alan Moore
36. V For Vendetta by Alan Moore
37. The Watchmen by Alan Moore
38. Speak Memory by Vladimir Nabakov
39. King Lear by William Shakespeare
40. Authors In Context: Virginia Woolf by Michael Whitworth
41. The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer
42. The Quran (Sher Ali Holy translation)
43. Sir Gawain & The Green Knight
44. The Tel Quel Reader