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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


~gg 2025