nocko.se

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

1. Lifestyle Anarchism or Social Anarchism – Murray Bookchin
2. The Once and Future Witches – Alix E. Harrow
3. The Ministry for the Future – Kim Stanley Robinson
4. The Inconvenient Indian – Thomas King
5. Debt – David Graeber
6. Over the Woodward Wall – A. Deborah Baker
7. The Brother You Choose – Susie Day
8. Come Tumbling Down – Seanan McGuire
9. The Conquest of Bread – Pëtr Kropotkin
10. A People's Guide to Capitalism – Hadas Thier
11. Anarchism and the Black Revolution – Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin
12. Anarchism: From Theory to Practice – Daniel Guérin
13. Anarchist Communism: Its Basis and Principles
14. Anarchy in Action – Colin Ward
15. The City in the Middle of Night – Charlie Jane Anders
16. The Deep – Rivers Solomon
17. The Haunting of Tram Car 015 – P. Djèlí Clark
18. In an Absent Dream – Seanan McGuire
19. The Light Brigade – Kameron Hurley
20. This is How You Lose the Time War – Amal El-Mohtar
21. To Be Taught, if Fortunate – Becky Chambers
22. And Now His Lordship is Laughing – Shiv Ramdas
23. The Anachronology of Love – Caroline M Yoachim
24. As the Last I May Know – S. L. Huang
25. Away with the Wolves – Sarah Gailey
26. Blood is Another Word for Hunger – Rivers Solomon
27. The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye – Sarah Pinsker
28. A Catalog of Storms – Fran Wilde
29. Do Not Look Back, My Lion – Alix E. Harrow
30. Emergency Skin – N. K. Jemisin
31. For He Can Creep – Siobhan Carroll
32. Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography – Nibedita Sen
33. Are Prisons Obsolete – Angela Davis
34. The End of Policing – Alex S. Vitale
35. Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?
36. Kramer vs. Kramer – Avery Corman
37. Sophie's Choice – William Styron
38. Red Plenty – Francis Spufford
39. Beneath the Sugar Sky – Seanan McGuire
40. Every Heart a Doorway – Seanan McGuire
41. A Memory Called Empire – Arkady Martine
42. Harrow the Ninth – Tamsyn Muir
43. Sparrow Hill Road – Seanan McGuire
44. The Night Masquerade – Nnedi Okorafor
45. Home – Nnedi Okorafor
46. Binti – Nnedi Okorafor
47. Agency – William Gibson
48. They Said This Would Be Fun – Eternity Martis
49. Down Among the Sticks and Bones – Seanan McGuire
50. Gideon the Ninth – Tamsyn Muir
51. The Ten Thousand Doors of January – Alix E. Harrow
52. Middlegame – Seanan McGuire
53. The Memory Police – Yoko Ogawa
54. Funny, You Don't Look Autistic – Michael McCreary
55. The Ashes of Worlds – Kevin J. Anderson
56. Fall – Neal Stephenson
57. Of Fire and Night – Kevin J. Anderson
58. Metal Swarm – Kevin J. Anderson
59. Scattered Suns – Kevin J. Anderson
60. Horizon Storms – Kevin J. Anderson
61. The Obesity Code – Jason Fung
62. Unsettling Canada – Arthur Manuel
63. A Forest of Stars – Kevin J. Anderson
64. Digital Minimalism – Cal Newport
65. Hidden Empire – Kevin J. Anderson

Up Next

• Capitalism & Disability – Keith Rosenthal
• Unflattering Photos of Fascists: Authoritarianism in Trump’s America