Booklist 2020
A list of Book, Novellas and Novelettes I've read this year.
Last Update: 31 December 2020
In Progress
- Black Power Afterlives – Fujino, Harmachis
Paused
What is Property – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
This is a very dense book. Elaborate in it's reasoning. There are some real gems in here, but I assume the translation leaves some concepts less clear and the flow suffers. There's quite a bit of direct referral to previous concepts which drags out the easy points, but the harder points seem often glossed over so quickly that one has to stop and reread a single sentence and extrapolate (and usually, very slow get what he was after). I will definitely finish this, but probably a chapter at a time interleaved with Sci-Fi.
How to Decide – Annie Duke
Each chapter is very short. There are many worksheets and lists. It very disjointed, like frequent jump-cuts in TV/Movie. There's some decent strategies in here, but I find it difficult to read in book form. It seems like a few blog posts (listicles) that ended up bound with padding. It was not a cheap book either. I'll likely finish it, but need a break.
Finished
- Lifestyle Anarchism or Social Anarchism – Murray Bookchin
- The Once and Future Witches – Alix E. Harrow
- The Ministry for the Future – Kim Stanley Robinson
- The Inconvenient Indian – Thomas King
- Debt – David Graeber
- Over the Woodward Wall – A. Deborah Baker
- The Brother You Choose – Susie Day
- Come Tumbling Down – Seanan McGuire
- The Conquest of Bread – Pëtr Kropotkin
- A People's Guide to Capitalism – Hadas Thier
- Anarchism and the Black Revolution – Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin
- Anarchism: From Theory to Practice – Daniel Guérin
- Anarchist Communism: Its Basis and Principles
- Anarchy in Action – Colin Ward
- The City in the Middle of Night – Charlie Jane Anders
- The Deep – Rivers Solomon
- The Haunting of Tram Car 015 – P. Djèlí Clark
- In an Absent Dream – Seanan McGuire
- The Light Brigade – Kameron Hurley
- This is How You Lose the Time War – Amal El-Mohtar
- To Be Taught, if Fortunate – Becky Chambers
- And Now His Lordship is Laughing – Shiv Ramdas
- The Anachronology of Love – Caroline M Yoachim
- As the Last I May Know – S. L. Huang
- Away with the Wolves – Sarah Gailey
- Blood is Another Word for Hunger – Rivers Solomon
- The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye – Sarah Pinsker
- A Catalog of Storms – Fran Wilde
- Do Not Look Back, My Lion – Alix E. Harrow
- Emergency Skin – N. K. Jemisin
- For He Can Creep – Siobhan Carroll
- Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography – Nibedita Sen
- Are Prisons Obsolete – Angela Davis
- The End of Policing – Alex S. Vitale
- Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?
- Kramer vs. Kramer – Avery Corman
- Sophie's Choice – William Styron
- Red Plenty – Francis Spufford
- Beneath the Sugar Sky – Seanan McGuire
- Every Heart a Doorway – Seanan McGuire
- A Memory Called Empire – Arkady Martine
- Harrow the Ninth – Tamsyn Muir
- Sparrow Hill Road – Seanan McGuire
- The Night Masquerade – Nnedi Okorafor
- Home – Nnedi Okorafor
- Binti – Nnedi Okorafor
- Agency – William Gibson
- They Said This Would Be Fun – Eternity Martis
- Down Among the Sticks and Bones – Seanan McGuire
- Gideon the Ninth – Tamsyn Muir
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January – Alix E. Harrow
- Middlegame – Seanan McGuire
- The Memory Police – Yoko Ogawa
- Funny, You Don't Look Autistic – Michael McCreary
- The Ashes of Worlds – Kevin J. Anderson
- Fall – Neal Stephenson
- Of Fire and Night – Kevin J. Anderson
- Metal Swarm – Kevin J. Anderson
- Scattered Suns – Kevin J. Anderson
- Horizon Storms – Kevin J. Anderson
- The Obesity Code – Jason Fung
- Unsettling Canada – Arthur Manuel
- A Forest of Stars – Kevin J. Anderson
- Digital Minimalism – Cal Newport
- Hidden Empire – Kevin J. Anderson
Up Next
- Capitalism & Disability – Keith Rosenthal
- Unflattering Photos of Fascists: Authoritarianism in Trump’s America