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A list of Book, Novellas and Novelettes I've read this year.

Last Update: 23 November 2020

In Progress

• The Ministry for the Future – Kim Stanley Robinson

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

Up Next

• Capitalism & Disability – Keith Rosenthal
• The Once and Future Witches – Alix E. Harrow
• Black Power Afterlives – Fujino, Harmachis
• Unflattering Photos of Fascists: Authoritarianism in Trump’s America