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 2022

  1. All The Stars Aflame by Malik Abduh

  2. The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting A Writer’s Life in Prison by Pen America

  3. The Devil Finds Work by James Baldwin

  4. Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood by Donald Bogle

  5. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges

  6. The Total Library: Non Fiction 1922-1986 by Jorge Luis Borges

  7. The Book of Sand by Jorge Luis Borges

  8. On Mysticism by Jorge Luis Borges

  9. The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges

  10. Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns

  11. Violent Order: Essays On The Nature of Police by David Correia

  12. If It’s Tuesday This Must Be Walla Walla: The Wacky History of Adrenalin OD by Dave Scott Schwartzman

  13. Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy by Ben Davis

  14. Watch My Smoke: The Eric Dickerson Story by Eric Dickerson

  15. The Black Agenda by Glen Ford

  16. All Hail Megatron Volume Four by Simon Furman

  17. Transformers 84’ Secrets and Lies by Simon Furman

  18. Transformers: Devastation by Simon Furman

  19. Ask Iwata: Words of Wisdom from Satoru Iwata by Satoru Iwata

  20. See You Soon by Mariame Kaba

  21. Notes From Childhood by Norah Lange

  22. People In The Room by Norah Lange

  23. Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men Volume Two by Stan Lee

  24. Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class by Catherine Liu

  25. Butts In Seats: The Tony Schiavone Story by Dirk Manning

  26. Transformers 84’ Legends and Rumors by Bill Mantio

  27. All Hail Megatron Volume Three by Shane McCarthy

  28. There Are Trans People Here by H. Melt

  29. We Will Win the Day: The Civil Rights Movement, the Black Athlete, and the Quest for Equality by Louis Moore

  30. Sula by Toni Morrison

  31. The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings by Octavio Paz

  32. Transformers: The Wreckers Saga by Nick Roche

  33. Seven Conversations With Jorge Luis Borges by Fernando Sorrentino

  34. Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  35. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  36. Unveiling Kate Chopin by Emily Toth

  37. Godzilla On My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters by William Tsutsui

  38. Soundtrack to a Movement: African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism by Richard Brent Turner

  39. The Joker: A Celebration of 75 Years

  40. Batman: A Celebration of 75 Years

  41. The Aesthetic of Our Anger by Mike Dines

  42. The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World by Dave Zirin

  43. The Poems of Hesiod

  44. The Cambridge Guide To Women’s Writing In English by Lorna Sage

Malcolm X

““I’ve seen black musicians when they’d be jamming at a jam session with white musicians—a whole lot of difference. The white musician can jam on something that he’s heard before. If he’s heard it, then he can duplicate it or he can imitate it or he can read it.

But the black musician, he picks up his horn and starts blowing some sounds that he never thought of before. He improvises, he creates, it comes from within. It’s his soul, it’s that soul music. It’s the only area on the American scene where the black man has been free to create. And he has mastered it. He has shown that he can come up with something that nobody ever thought of on his own before.

Well, likewise he can do the same thing if given intellectual independence. He can come up with a new philosophy. He can come up with a philosophy that nobody has heard of yet. He can invent a society, a social system, an economic system, a political system, that is different from anything that exists or has ever existed anywhere on this earth. He will improvise; he’ll bring it from within himself. And this is what you and I want.””

Malcolm X, Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (1964)