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 Not all of the works listed here are present because I agree with or endorse their contents. Many are, but several are here in a "know your enemy" capacity, so to speak. Where applicable, I have assigned such entries an estimated "spiciness" rating. Not all of the works listed here are present because I agree with or endorse their contents. Many are, but several are here in a "know your enemy" capacity, so to speak. Where applicable, I have assigned such entries an estimated "spiciness" rating.
  
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-===== To read ===== +===== Future =====
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-<datatables paging="false"> +===== Past =====
-^ Title ^ Author ^ Description ^ +
-| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou | | +
-| [[The Origins of Totalitarianism]] | Hannah Arendt | I've been meaning to read some of Arendt's work. This is as good a place to start as any other (not least because I now have a copy). | +
-| [[The Bell Jar]] | Sylvia Plath | | +
-| [[Authority]] | Jeff VanderMeer | | +
-| [[Acceptance]] | Jeff VanderMeer | | +
-| [[Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents]] | Lindsey Gibson | | +
-| [[Folklorn]] | Hur | I'll be honest, I picked this up because of the cover endorsement from Celeste Ng. | +
-| [[The Histories]] | Herodotus | This seems like one of those essential reads, right? I've heard plenty //about// it, and I think it's time I actually read it. | +
-| [[Danubia]] | Winder | A history of Habsburg rule of Europe. (I probably thought I was getting the author's other book, //Germania//. I'll start with this one and look into the other later.) | +
-| [[The Coming of the Third Reich]] | Richard J. Evans | The first in his //Third Reich Trilogy// and likely to be the one I find most useful today. I'd like to take particular care to compare it against //The Death of Democracy//. | +
-| [[The Third Reich in Power]] | Richard J. Evans | | +
-| [[The Third Reich at War]] | Richard J. Evans | | +
-| [[The Civil War as a Theological Crisis]] | Noll | An examination of Civil War-era theological schisms resulting from American slavery. I suspect/hope it will provide an interesting perspective on the "queer question" in today's church. | +
-| [[New England and the Bavarian Illuminati]] | Vernon J. Stauffer | Not at all what it sounds like, I swear. It's a doctoral thesis on the history of the original group calling themselves the Illuminati, and according to Hofstadter, it's "the most vivid account of the hysteria over revolution and infidelity that followed the French Revolution." | +
-| [[Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain]] | Gerard | A discussion of cryptocurrency from a decidedly critical angle. Takes the position that the story of cryptocurrency is more psychological than technological. | +
-| [[Libra Shrugged]] | Gerard | The story of Facebook's short-lived Libra project. | +
-| [[Topology]] | James Munkres | A thorough dive into general and algebraic topology. | +
-| [[All About Love]] | bell hooks | | +
-| [[Our Missing Hearts]] | Celeste Ng | Set to be released in October 2022. I enjoyed Ng's two previous novels, so I expect I will like this one. | +
-| [[Bullshit Jobs]] | David Graeber | | +
-| [[The Great Risk Shift]] | Hacker | | +
-| [[Applied Abstract Algebra]] | Lidl & Pilz | | +
-| [[How Democracies Die]] | Levitsky & Ziblatt | Examines the falls of several liberal democracies across the globe and promises insights into the future of ours. This was written in the midst of the Trump presidency, and while I do agree with the authors that he was no good, I am hoping for more of substance from their recommendations than "Trump bad, electoralism good". | +
-| [[A Libertarian Walks into a Bear]] | Hongoltz-Hetling | Possibly a tiny bit spicy. I have doubts that the author fully grasps the ideological deficiencies of right libertarianism. We shall see. | +
-| [[Neoreaction]] | Sandifer | | +
-| [[Neuromancer]] | William Gibson | | +
-| The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich | Shirer | Yet another account of Nazi Germany. While popularly acclaimed, it has been panned by professional historians for its entire existence. | +
-| Eichmann in Jerusalem | Hannah Arendt | | +
-| On Revolution | Hannah Arendt | | +
-| Ur-Fascism | Umberto Eco | | +
-| Laziness Does Not Exist | Price | Examines the paradox of modern work: people today work far more than most have historically, yet they still feel insufficiently productive. | +
-| The Ethical Slut | Easton & Liszt | Supposedly a foundational work on polyamory, which is a topic I wish to better understand. | +
-| Anti-Semite and Jew | Sartre | | +
-| Terror, Love, and Brainwashing | Alexandra Stein | | +
-| The Reactionary Mind | Corey Robin | An examination of the history of conservatism. A major theme is that conservatism does not exist without a liberatory movement to oppose. The conception of politics as a venture in which the average citizen //could// participate only emerged from the ashes of absolute monarchy. A monarch's authority is tautologically justified: he is the king because he is the king. Only when the populace began to challenge this notion was something more substantial needed, and thus was born what we know today as conservatism. \\ \\ Similar dynamics are at play today. As marginalized voices receive greater attention, reactionary movements rise to uphold the status quo. This is not to say that movements for equality are to blame for conservatism; rather, reactionaries view gains for egalitarianism as threats to their own positions. | +
-| The Age of Surveillance Capitalism | Zuboff | Just a tiny dash of spice: Zuboff believes that capitalism would be fine if not for the surveillance capitalists. I strongly disagree, but I am sure the book contains many other valuable insights. | +
-| Slaughterhouse Five | Kurt Vonnegut | | +
-| Understanding Analysis, 2ed | Stephen Abbott | I bought this largely because I didn't pay enough attention during my two (!) semesters of real analysis --- which used this as their text --- and want to prove to myself that I can do better. | +
-| Only Revolutions | Mark Z. Danielewski | As with all of [[writing:mzd|Danielewski's work]], //Only Revolutions// will take some effort to get through. Initial passes give the flavor of //Finnegan's Wake//, only with a greater proportion of English.| +
-| The Divine Comedy | Dante | I need to read this. | +
-| Wonderbook | Jeff VanderMeer | | +
-| Von Menschen und Mensch*innen | Fabian Payr | This one might be a tad spicy. Judging by the subtitle (//20 Gute Gründe, mit dem Gendern Aufzuhören//) and a few snippets I picked up while skimming it, the author wishes to do away with gender-neutral conventions like the gender star. I haven't read far enough into it to know whether he proposes an equitable alternative or simply wants to halt efforts of linguistic inclusion. Only one way to find out! | +
-| Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said | Phillip K. Dick | | +
-| Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell | | +
-| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | | +
-| I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream | Harlan Ellison | I've heard it described as "a tone poem, where the tone is 'poison'." | +
-| The Fourth Political Theory | Dugin | Very spicy. Supposedly Dugin's works have informed much of Russia's current policy. | +
-| [[Alt-Ameria]] | David Neiwert | I may need to start this one again unless I can locate my original notes. | +
-| American Conspiracy Theories | Parent & Uscinski | | +
-| A Culture of Conspiracy | Barkun | | +
-| Ugly War, Pretty Package | Jaramillo | | +
-| Beyond Fear | Schneier | | +
-| God's Own Party | Williams | | +
-| The Pol Pot Regime | Kiernan | | +
-| The Heyday of American Communism | Klehr | | +
-| The Myths That Made America | Heike | | +
-| Unit Operations | Ian Bogost | | +
-| Quiverfull | Joyce | | +
-| American Corrections | Clear, Cole, & Reisig | No idea how spicy this might be. | +
-| [[The Elements of Computing Systems]] | Nisan & Schocken | | +
-| The Elements of Statistical Learning | Friedman, Hastie, & Tibshirani | | +
-| Special Relativity | Woodhouse | I may actually have studied enough mathematics to understand this. | +
-| Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics | Serway & Jewett | | +
-| Ordered Sets | Schröder | | +
-| Corsets and Crinolines | Waugh | | +
-| Not Without My Sister | Jones, Jones, & Buhring | | +
-| Islands of Abandonment | Flyn | | +
-| Are Prisons Obsolete | Davis | | +
-| The Evangelicals | Fitzgerald | | +
-| Final Destination: Disaster | Jehn | The fall of Eastern Airlines. | +
-| Brief History of Neoliberalism | Harvey | | +
-| The Giver | Lowry | | +
-| The History of White People | Painter | | +
-| Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria | | | +
-| I'm Thinking of Ending Things | Reid | | +
-| How to Read Donald Duck | | | +
-| All the President's Men | Woodward & Bernstein | | +
-| Against the Fascist Creep | Ross | | +
-| And the Band Played On | Shilts | | +
-| Accelerando | Charles Stross | | +
-| The City & The City | China Miéville | | +
-| As Nature Made Him | Colapinto | | +
-| Black Skin, White Masks | Franz Fanon | | +
-| Bowling Alone | Putnam | | +
-| The Computer Boys Take Over | Ensmenger | Hopefully this covers the roles of women in early computing and their eventual displacement. | +
-| Conservatives without Conscience | Dean | Should be somewhat spicy along the same lines as the end of //The Authoritarians//: "conservatism would be fine if not for a few weirdos!" | +
-| Cringeworthy | Dahl | I forget why I originally wanted to read this. | +
-| The Darkest Web | Ormsby | | +
-| The Death of Expertise | Nichols | Should be an interesting companion to //Anti-Intellectualism in American Life//. | +
-| Debt | Graeber | | +
-| [[Ratfucked]] | Daley | | +
-| Embassytown | China Miéville | | +
-| The Demon-Haunted World | Carl Sagan | | +
-| Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism | Case & Deaton | | +
-| Democracy in Chains | MacLean | | +
-| The Entrepreneurial State | Mazzucato | Promises to debunk the myth that the private sector is the only innovator. | +
-| Manufacturing Consent | Herman & Chomsky | | +
-| The Forest and the Trees | Johnson | | +
-| Failed States | Chomsky | | +
-| How to Survive a Plague | France | Covers the AIDS epidemic. | +
-| An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States | Dunbar-Ortiz | | +
-| Messengers of the Right | Hemmer | | +
-| Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) | Tavris | | +
-| Nixonland | Perlstein | | +
-| Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers | Faderman | | +
-| The Plutonium Files | Welsome | | +
-| Prairie Fires | Fraser | | +
-| Orphans of the Sky | Heinlein | | +
-| Postcapitalism | Mason | | +
-| Profit over People | Chomsky | | +
-| A Queer History of the United States | Bronski | | +
-| A Scanner Darkly | Phillip K. Dick | | +
-| The Shock Doctrine | Naomi Klein | | +
-| Sisters in Hate | Darby | A profile of women in the alt-right. | +
-| Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory | Bob-Waksberg | | +
-| Stonewall | Duberman | | +
-| Suburban Nation | Duany | | +
-| This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed | Cobb | | +
-| Troll Nation | Marcotte | Hard to say how spicy this will be. | +
-| The Utopia of Rules | Graeber | | +
-| When Prophecy Fails | Festinger, Schacter, Riecken, & Aronson | | +
-| The Will to Change | bell hooks | | +
-| Witches of America | Mar | | +
-| A Wizard of Earthsea | Ursula LeGuin | The first in the Earthsea series. | +
-| Dune | Frank Herbert | I keep seeing references to this franchise, so I'll need to read some of it eventually. | +
-| [[Stamped from the Beginning]] | Ibram X. Kendi | A history of the development of racism in America. | +
-| Raising Racists | | | +
-</datatables> +
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-===== Read =====+
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