My Bookshelf

What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
– Carl Sagan, Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)

2024

  • Chapters - Tim Key - Finished
  • Deadhouse Gates - Steven Erikson - In Progress
  • Road to Nowhere: What Silicon valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation - Paris Marx - Finished

2023

  • Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler - Finished
  • The Daughter of Odren - Ursula K. Le Guin - Finished
  • Palestine: A Socialist Introduction - nan - In Progress
  • Still Life: The Books of Elsewhere Volume Five - Jacqueline West - Finished
  • The Ministry For the Future - Kim Stanley Robinson - Gave Up
  • The Strangers: The Books of Elsewhere Volume Four - Jacqueline West - Finished
  • Half a War - Joe Abercrombie - Finished
  • The Second Spy: The Books of Elsewhere Volume Three - Jacqueline West - Finished
  • Gardens of the Moon - Steven Erikson - Finished
  • Warren the 13th and the All Seeing Eye - Tania Del Rio - Finished
  • A Deadly Education - Naomi Novik - Gave Up
  • Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies - Leslie Kern - Gave Up
  • Daddy Issues: Love and Hate in the Time of Patriarchy - Katherine Angel - Finished
  • Spellbound: The Books of Elsewhere Volume Two - Jacqueline West - Finished
  • The Shadows: The Books of Elsewhere Volume One - Jacqueline West - Finished
  • The Stardust Thief - Chelsea Abdullah - Finished
  • The Demon Notebook - Erika McGann - Finished
  • The Russian Revolution - Rosa Luxemburg - Finished
  • Abolish the Family: A manifesto for care and liberation - Sophie Lewis - Finished
  • The Thief - Meghan Whalen Turner - Finished
  • One Man's Terrorist: A Political History of the IRA - Daniel Finn - Finished
  • A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin - Finished
  • Half the World - Joe Abercrombie - Finished
  • Half a King - Joe Abercrombie - Finished

2022

  • The Care Manifesto - The Care Collective - Gave Up
  • Charlie and the Grandmothers - Katy Towell - Finished
  • Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead - Gave Up
  • Health Communism - Beatrice Adler-Bolton; Artie Vierkant - Finished
  • The Last Days of New Paris - China Miéville - Finished
  • Ten Myths About Israel - Ilan Pappe - Finished
  • Underwater: loss, flood insurance, and the moral economy - Rebecca Elliot - Finished
  • Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now - Jenny Brown - Finished
  • Overtime: Why we need a shorter working week - Will Strong; Kyle Lewis - Finished
  • The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making - Catherynne M. Valente - Finished
  • Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change, and Pandemics - Troy Vettese; Drew Pendergrass - Finished
  • The Fifth Season - N. K. Jemisin - Gave Up
  • Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush - Tim Key - Finished
  • The City & the City - China Miéville - Finished
  • How to Blow up a Pipeline - Andreas Malm - Finished
  • Feminism or Death - Françoise D'Eaubonne - Finished
  • The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin - Finished
  • All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr - Finished
  • Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates - Finished
  • A World Without Police - Geo Maher - Finished
  • Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) - Dean Spade - Finished

2021

  • Harry Potter y el Misterio del Principe - J.K. Rowling - Finished
  • No one is illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexican Border - Justin Akers Chacón; Mike Davis - Finished
  • How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - Walter Rodney - Finished
  • The End of Policing - Alex Vitale - Finished
  • Hard Times - Charles Dickens - Finished
  • The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas - Finished
  • He Used Thought As A Wife - Tim Key - Finished
  • Contacts - Mark Watson - Finished
  • What is Property? - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - Gave Up
  • On Anarchism - Noam Chomsky - Finished
  • Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World - Jason Hickel - Finished
  • The Conquest of Bread - kniaz Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin (Peter Kropotkin) - Finished
  • Post Growth: Life After Capitalism - Tim Jackson - Finished
  • Good Omens - Neil Gaiman; Terry Pratchett - Finished
  • The Book Thief - Markus Zusak - Finished
  • Four Futures: Life After Capitalism - Peter Frase - Finished
  • Degrowth - Giorgos Kallis - Finished
  • The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy - Stephanie Kelton - Finished
  • The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Finished

2020

  • A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - George R. R. Martin - Finished
  • Shopping our way to safety: how we changed from protecting the environment to protecting ourselves - Andrew Szasz - Finished
  • American Catch: The Fight for Our Local Seafood - Paul Greenburg - Finished
  • Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi - Finished
  • Exit West - Moshin Hamid - Finished
  • Harry Potter y la Orden del Fenix - J.K. Rowling - Finished
  • To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - Finished
  • The New World Order - H.G. Wells - Finished
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien - Finished
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien - Finished
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien - Finished
  • Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet - Karen Armstrong - Finished

2019

  • Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Finished
  • The Giver - Lois Lowry - Finished
  • A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - Finished
  • Open Heart - Elie Wiesel - Finished
  • Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut - Finished
  • Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty - Muhammad Yunus - Finished
  • Harry Potter y el Caliz de Fuego - J.K. Rowling - Finished
  • A Dance with Dragons - George R. R. Martin - Finished
  • Born a Crime - Trevor Noah - Finished
  • Harry Potter y la Prisionero de Azkaban - J.K. Rowling - Finished
  • A Feast for Crows - George R. R. Martin - Finished
  • A Storm of Swords - George R. R. Martin - Finished
  • Harry Potter y la Camara Secreta - J.K. Rowling - Finished

2018

  • Harry Potter y la Piedra Filosofal - J.K. Rowling - Finished
  • Cuatro Dias de Enero - Jordi Sierra - Finished
  • The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemmingway - Finished
  • Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - Finished
  • The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho - Finished
  • La Sombra del Viento - Carlos Ruiz Zafon - Finished