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