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
- The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick
- The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus
- Butcher’s Crossing - John Williams