Books I’ve Read

These are the books I’ve read since I started keeping track. The order is chronological.

Books in bold are strongly recommended. Books in italics are re-reads.

Books from before the Records that you should read anway

• The Art of Not Being Governed - James C Scott
• The Politics of Heroin - Alfred W McCoy
• Hothouse - Brian Aldiss
• Spinal Catastrophism - Thomas Moynihan

2021

• Who They Was - Gabriel Krauze
• City of Illusions - Ursula K Le Guin
• The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
• Bandits - Eric Hobsbawm
• Saga of the Volsungs
• The Meat Tree - Gwyneth Lewis
• Gilgamesh - Trans. Stuart Kendall
• The Eighth Tower - John A Keel
• Desert Oracle - Ken Layne
• Desert - Anon
• Beowulf - Thomas Meyer
• Tears of Autumn - Charles McCarry
• Railsea - China Mieville
• Department of Truth vol 1 - Tynion/Simmonds
• The House Jack Built - Jack Spicer
• SSOTBME Revised
• Outlaw Territories - Felicity D Scott
• Dagger Dagger - V/A
• You Died - MacDonald & Killingsworth
• Liquid City - Atkins & Sinclair
• Fingerless - Spugina
• Princess of the Infinite Castle - Shintaro Kago
• Land Without Justice - Milovan Djilas
• In Praise of Shadows - Junichiro Tanizaki
• Miernik Dossier - Charles McCarry
• The Brown Plague - Daniel Guerin
• The Ruined Map - Kobo Abe
• Desert Solitaire - Edward Abbey
• Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology - David Graeber
• Secret Rendezvous - Kobo Abe
• 42nd Parallel - John Dos Passos
• Sahara Unveiled - William Langewiesche
• Beowulf - Maria Dahvana Headley
• The Ark Sakura - Kobo Abe
• Terminal Boredom - Izumi Suziki
• Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• The Carpet Wars - Christopher Kremmer
• The Rinzai Zen Way - Meido Moore
• The City of Dreadful Night - James Thomson
• The English Heretic Collection - Andy Sharp
• Occult Features of Anarchism - Erica Lagalisse
• Walden - Henry David Thoreau
• Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk
• Another Day of Life - Ryszard Kapuscinski
• Season of Migration to the North - Tayed Salih
• The Soccer War - Ryszard Kapuscinski
• The Children of Hurin - JRR Tolkien
• Death in the Afternoon - Ernest Hemingway
• Entangled Life - Merlin Sheldrake
• Sculpting in Time - Andrey Tarkovsky
• Drippin’ - Laurence Engraver
• What About The Rapists?
• Savage Messiah - Laura Grace Ford
• The Night Manager - John Le Carre
• Fifty Fifty - Steve Cavanagh
• Nausea - Jean Paul Satre
• Design & Violence
• Black Gum - J David Osborne

2022

• The Puerto Rican War - John Vasquex Mejias
• The Hair Carpet Weavers - Andreas Eschbach
• Zoroasters Telescope
• Largemouths - Gabriel Delmas
• Jews Don’t Count - David Baddiel
• Grettir the Outlaw - S. Baring-Gould
• The House on the Borderlands - William Hope Hodgson
• The Only Good Indians - Stephen Graham Jones
• Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
• Sign of the Labrys - Margaret St Clair
• The United States of Paranoia - Jesse Walker
• Geopolitical Manipulation Through the Use of Fungi-Based Parasites on 186F - Lando
• The Four Reptiles of the Apocalypse - Lando
• The Illuminatus Trilogy - Rober Shea & Robert Anton Wilson
• The Uncomfortable Dead - Subcommandante Marcos & Paco Ignacio Taibo II
• A Perfect Vacuum - Stanislaw Lem
• The Games Ethic and Imperialism - JA Mangan
• Making - Tim Ingold
• Aberration in the Heartland of the Real - Wendy S Painting
• Moravagine - Blaise Cendrars
• Moby Dick - Herman Melville
• bolo’bolo - P.M.
• The Heavenly Table - Donald Ray Pollock
• Sand Talk -Tyson Yunkaporta
• Tao Te Ching - Trans. Addis, Lombardo
• After Lorca - Jack Spicer
• The Collected Works of Billy the Kid - Michael Ondaatje
• The Looking Glass War - John le Carre
• Children of Ruin - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• River Kings - Cat Jarman
• The First 49 Stories - Ernest Hemingway
• Shadow & Claw - Gene Wolfe
• Sword & Citadel - Gene Wolfe
• Carpe Jugulum - Terry Pratchett
• The Fisherman - John Langan
• Vampyroteuthis Infernalis - Vilem Flusser & Louis Bec
• Otherlands - Thomas Halliday
• Wandering Stone: Streets of Old Izola - Rick Harsch
• Wake Up, We’re Almost There - Chandler Brossard
• Oskar Submerges - Zachary Tanner
• Black Narcissus - Rumer Godden
• Providence Compendium - Alan Moore & Jacen Burrows
• There Is No Antimimetics Division - qntm
• Jaws - Peter Benchley
• A Kayak Full of Ghosts - Lawrence Millman

2023

• The Face of Battle - John Keegan
• The Gallows Pole - Benjamin Myers
• Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe
• Archaeology of Violence - Pierre Clastres
• The Passenger - Cormac McCarthy
• Stella Maris - Cormac McCarthy
• The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick
• The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus
• Butcher’s Crossing - John Williams
• Warlock - Oakley Hall
• Molloy - Samuel Beckett
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
• Across the River and Into the Trees - Ernest Hemingway
• The Experience of Pain - Carlo Emilio Gadda
• Vermis - Plastiboo/Nitri
• The Aswang Complex in Philippine Folklore - Maximo D. Ramos
• Giles Corey - Dan Barrett
• Supergod - Ellis/Gastonny
• Foucault’s Pendulum - Umberto Eco
• Consider Phlebas - Iain M Banks
• The Power of Ritual in Prehistory - Brian Hayden
• Sculpting in Time - Andrey Tarkovsky
• Termush - Sven Holm
• Lapvona - Ottessa Moshfegh
• The Word for World is Forest - Ursula K. Le Guin
• Thorgal #0 - Hamm/Rosinski
• Thorgal #1 - Hamm/Rosinski
• Thorgal #2 - Hamm/Rosinski
• Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
• The Order of Time - Carlo Rovelli
• Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
• The King Must Die - Mary Renault
• On Writing - Stephen King
• The Gunslinger - Stephen King
• The Drawing of the Three - Stephen King
• The Elements of Style - Strunk & White
• The White Goddess - Robert Graves
• The Wastelands - Stephen King
• Wizard and Glass - Stephen King
• The Cat’s Table - Michael Ondaatje
• Seven Pillars of Wisdom - T E Lawrence
• Dune - Frank Herbert
• Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert
• Children of Dune - Frank Herbert
• God Emperor of Dune - Frank Herbert
• Swastika Night - Katherine Burdekin
• One Game at a Time - Matt Hern
• Tonight It’s a World we Burn - Bill Peel
• Gore Capitalism - Sayak Valencia
• How to Blow Up a Pipeline - Andreas Malm
• Culture & Imperialism - Edward W. Said
• The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - Walter Benjamin
• The Tibetan Book of the Dead - t. W. Y. Evan-Wetz
• Pietr the Latvian - Georges Simenon
• The Outward Urge - John Wyndham
• Shadow of Heaven - Bob Shaw
• A Normal Life - Vassilis Palaiokostas
• Songs of a Dead Dreamer & Grimscribe - Thomas Ligotti
• Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
• Children of Memory - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• The Cormorant - Stephen Gregory
• War Songs - Antarah ibn Shaddad
• Crom Cruach - Valkyrie Loughcrewe
• Endurance - Alfred Lansing
• The Clandestinauts - Tim Sievert

2024

• Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
• Red Sorghum - Mo Yan
• Flesh & Blood - Reay Tannahill
• Agents of Dreamland - Caitlin R. Kiernan
• The Black Lizard - Edogawa Rampo
• Aberration in the Heartland of the Real - Wendy S. Painting
• In a Lonely Place - Dorothy B. Hughes
• The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu
• Orlando - Virginia Woolf
• The Book of Chuang Tzu - t. Martin Palmer
• The Sabres of Paradise - Lesley Blanch
• Tender is the Flesh - Agustina Bazterrica
• The Wretched of the Earth - Franz Fanon
• The Dark Forest - Cixin Liu
• Norweigan Wood - Haruki Murakami
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami
• The River Between - Ngugi wa Thiong’o
• I, The Sun - Janet Morris
• The Water Margin - Shih Nai-An
• The Etched City - K. J. Bishop
• Freshwater - Akwaeke Emezi
• Waste Tide - Chen Qiufan
• Dawn - Octavia E. Butler
• Airless Spaces - Sholanith Firestone
• What Moves the Dead - T. Kingfisher
• The Bullet Swallower - Elizabeth Gonzalez Jones
• Death’s End - Cixin Liu
• Beloved - Toni Morrison
• Palace Walk - Naguib Mahfouz
• War Trash - Ha Jin
• One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
• The Autumn of the Patriarch - Gabriel García Márquez
• Rashomon & 17 Other Stories - Ryunosuke Akutagawa
• In Evil Hour - Gabriel García Márquez

2025

• Cosmic Trigger I - Robert Anton Wilson
• Raton Pass - Tom W. Blackburn
• In Our Time - Ernest Hemingway
• The Hawkline Monster - Richard Brautigan
• The Road - Cormac McCarthy
• Life: A User’s Manual - Georges Perec
• Neuromancer - William Gibson
• The Creative Act - Rick Rubin
• A Maggot - John Fowles
• Stoner - John Williams
• The Resistance - Matthew Cobb
• The Sleeping Sorceress - Michael Moorcock
• Ugly Man - Dennis Cooper
• The Liminal Zone - Junji Ito
• No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
• How to Sharpen Pencils - David Rees
• Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
• All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
• The Crossing - Cormac McCarthy
• Cities of the Plain - Cormac McCarthy
• Terminal Park - Gary J. Shipley
• Sword at Sunset - Rosemary Sutcliffe
• Sagittarius Rising - Cecil Lewis
• Grey Seas Under - Farley Mowat
• The Gates of Janus - Ian Brady
• Light - M. John Harrison
• Blindsight - Peter Watts
• A Moment of War - Laurie Lee
• If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things - Jon McGregor
• The Jakarta Method - Vincent Bevins