Reading
I've been recording the books I read for a couple of years now, and have found it a useful practice for thinking about what I've been reading. It's the page of this website that I update the most. A low effort, new line, title, author.
I keep my library organised and convert, edit and build books within Calibre. Recently I've also been using Zotero alongside this, for more focussed note making and collating bibliographies.
2025
- Pig Earth, John Berger
- A Half-Built Garden, Ruthanna Emrys
- Networked Disruption, Tatiana Bazzichelli,
- Work, Andrea Komlosy (translated by Loren Balhorn and Jacob Watson)
- Diary of a Man in Despair, Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen
- Hold Everything Dear, John Berger
- About Looking, John Berger
- Bento's Sketchbook, John Berger
- Parable of the Talents, Octavia E. Butler
- The Work of Art in The Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin
- Silas Marner, George Eliot
- Riot, Strike, Riot, Joshua Clover
- The Mechanic and The Luddite, Jathan Sadowski
- The Shape of a Pocket, John Berger
- Handmade Networks, Steffen Köhn, Nestor Siré
- The History of Disruption, Mehmet Dosemeci
- Pirate Care, Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars & Tomislav Medak
- The Book of Disappearance, Ibtisam Azem
2024
- Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
- Neuromancer, William Gibson
- The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Ilan Pappe
- Space Crone, Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
- Poor Artists, Gabrielle de la Puente, Zarina Muhammad
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk
- Unwrapping Cobol, Linda Hilfling Ritasdatter
- Parable of The Sower, Octavia E. Butler
- Lifehouse, Adam Greenfield
- Low power to the people, Christina Dunbar-Hester
- Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation, Joseph Weizenbaum
- We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I, Raja Shehadeh
- The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
- How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Andreas Malm
- The Wretched of the Screen, Hito Steyerl
- In The Blink Of An Eye, Walter Murch
- Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories, Ghassan Kanafani
- The Weird and The Eerie, Mark Fisher
- And Away..., Bob Mortimer
- The Delayed Present: Media-Induced Tempor(e)alities & Techno-traumatic Irritations of the Contemporary, Wolfgang Ernst
- The Eye of the Master:A Social History of Artificial Intelligence, Matteo Pasquinelli
- Mute Compulsion, Søren Mau (TMK book club)
- The Hearing Trumpet, Leonora Carrington
- The Red Tenda of Bologna, John Berger
- Tortilla Flat, John Steinbeck
- The Political Possibility of Sound, Salomé Voegelin
- Radical Technologies, Adam Greenfield
- Protocol, Alexander R. Galloway
2023
- Driftglass, Samuel R. Delany
- Burning Bright, John Steinbeck
- Blood in the Machine, Brian Merchant
- The Last Capitalist, Steve Cullen
- Caliban and The Witch, Silvia Federici
- Capitalist Realism, Mark Fisher
- Emphyrio, Jack Vance
- The Machine Stops, E.M. Forster
- A Deepness In The Sky, Vernor Vinge
- Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Cloudsplitter, Russell Banks
- Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
- Climbers, M. John Harrison
- Cobalt Red, Siddharth Kara
- The Gallows Pole, Benjamin Myers
- Flight from Nevèrÿon, Samuel R. Delany
- Neveryóna, Samuel R. Delany
- Nevèrÿon, Samuel R. Delany
- Exhalation: Stories, Ted Chiang
- Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
- Post-Growth Living, Kate Soper
- Quantum Listening, Pauline Oliveros
- The Living Mountain, Nan Shepherd
- The Passenger, Cormac McCarthy
2022
- Jonathan Crary, Scorched Earth
- Ned Ludd & Queen Mab, Peter Linebaugh
- Writings of the Luddites, Kevin Binfield
- The Internet Galaxy, Manuel Castells
- Machine Learners, Adrian Mackenzie
- Resisting AI, Dan McQuillan
- Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia, Samuel R. Delany
- Co-existence of times: A conversation with John Akomfrah, Johanne Løgstrup
- The Last Resident, Verina Gfader, with Victoria Browne, Rebecca carson, William Forsythe, Claire Hsu, William Kentridge, Mochu, Monica Narula, Palluvi Paul, Lea Porsager, Gerald Raunig, Sif, Lantian Xie
- There is No Now: An Archaeology of Contemporaneity, Knut Ebeling
- The Other Wind, Ursula K. Le Guin
- Tales from Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
- Tehanu, Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Farthest Shore, Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Tombs of Atuan, Ursula K. Le Guin
- A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
- Girl Online: A User Manual, Joanna Walsh
- Progress without People, David F. Noble
- Blood Music, Greg Bear
- The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Le Guin
- We Who Are About To..., Joanna Russ
- Fire on the Mountain, Terry Bisson
- Blindsight, Peter Watts
- Half-Earth Socialism, Troy Vettese & Drew Pendergrass
- News from Nowhere, William Morris
- Investigative Aesthetics, Matthew Fuller & Eyal Weizman
- The book of disquiet, Fernando Pessoa (translated by Margaret Jull Costa)
- How to Do Things with Sensors, Jennifer Gabrys
- Mechanisms, Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
- The Real World of Technology, Ursula M. Franklin
- Watership Down, Richard Adams
- Borderlands - La Frontera, Gloria Anzaldúa
- The Solutions Are Already Here, Peter Gelderloos
- When We Cease to Understand The World, Benjamin Labatut
- The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu
- We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself, Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan
- Palm Oil, Max Haiven
- The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut
- Geology of Media, Jussi Parikka
- Dismantlings, Matt Tierney
- The Drowned World, J.G. Ballard
- The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Hakim Bey
- The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, Ursula K. Le Guin
- Wild Seed, Octavia E. Butler
- A Brief History of Portable Literature, Enrique Vila-Matas
- I Can’t Sleep, Lionel Ruffel
- Art on my mind, bell hooks
- The Contemporary Condition: Whose Time Is It? Asocial Robots, Syncolonialism, and Artificial Chronological Intelligence, Stamatia Portanova
- Forget Photography, Andrew Dewdney
- Breaking Things at Work, Gavin Meuller
- The stack: on software and sovereignty, Benjamin H. Bratton
- Beloved, Toni Morrison
- Engineering Culture: On 'the author as (digital producer), edited by Geoff Cox & Joasia Krysa
- Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert
- Dune, Frank Herbert
- H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald
- Moby Dick, Herman Melville
2021
- The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz, Russell Hoban
- A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey, Jonathan Meiburg
- Woman on the Edge of Time, Marge Piercy
- The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber and David Wengrow
- Tools for Conviviality, Ivan Illich
- Afterlives, Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Beautiful World, Where Are You, Sally Rooney
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff
- Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, Samuel R. Delany
- Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, Richard Fariña
- The Futurological Congress, Stanisław Lem
- The Mushroom at the End of the World, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
- The City & The City, China Miéville
- Babel-17, Samuel R. Delany
- Staying With The Trouble, Donna J. Haraway (rr)
- Always Coming Home, Ursula K Le Guin
- A River Dies of Thirst, Mahmoud Darwish
- I, Robot, Isaac Asimov
- Race After Technology, Ruha Benjamin
- Neither Settler Nor Native, Mahmood Mamdani
- Mason & Dixon, Thomas Pynchon (r/ThomasPynchon group read)
- The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master’s House, Audre Lorde
- The Cancer Journals, Audre Lorde
- Consumed, David Cronenberg
- A People’s Guide to Capitalism, Hadas Thier
- Red Pill, Hari Kunzru
- We Are Bellingcat, Eliot Higgins
- The Dispossessed, Ursula K Le Guin
- Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany
- Extraterrestrial, Avi Loeb
- Economic Science Fictions, ed. William Davies
- The Man with the Compound Eyes, Wu Ming-Yi
- Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake
2020
- Blockchain Chicken Farm, Xiawei Wang
- Staying With The Trouble, Donna J. Haraway
- Jejuri, Arun Kolatka
- Mumbo Jumbo, Ishmael Reed
- Warlock, Oakley Hall
- Teaching Community, bell hooks
- The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde, Audre Lorde
- A People’s History of the World, Chris Harman
- The Topeka School, Ben Lerner
- Antkind, Charlie Kaufman
- State Machines: Reflections and Actions at the Edge of Digital Citizenship, Finance, and Art, ed. Yiannis Colakides, Marc Garrett, Inte Gloerich
- Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge
- Satantango, Laszlo Krasznahorkai
- New Dark Age, James Bridle
- Underland, Robert Macfarlane