Books I want to Read
Here are some books I’d like to read, grouped roughly by genre:
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Fiction
| title | author | publisher | genre | Where I heard about it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Witnesses are Gone | Joel Lane | Influx Press | weird fiction | M. John Harrison’s blog |
| Leech | Hiron Ennes | Tor | weird fiction | The Minister of Intrigue |
| Agents of Dreamland | Caitlin Kiernan | Tor | horror | ??? |
| Eutopia:A Novel of Terrible Optimism | David Nickle | Open Road Media | horror | BoingBoing |
| The Graveyard Apartment | Mariko Koike | Thomas Dunne Books | horror | ??? |
| The Ceremonies | T.E.D. Klein | PS Publishing | horror | ??? |
| Conjure Wife | Fritz Leiber | Anpan Publications | horror | ??? |
| No Gods, No Monsters | Cadwell Turnbull | Blackstone Publishing | horror | The Minister of Intrigue |
| Experimental Film | Gemma Files | Open Road Media | horror | ??? |
| Hex | Thomas Olde Heuvelt | Tor | horror | ??? |
| The Anomaly | Michael Rutger | Grand Central Publishing | horror | ??? |
| Freedom & Necessity | Steven Brust & Emma Bull | Orb Books | historical fantasy | China Mieville’s socialist sci-fi list |
| Hide Me Among the Graves | Tim Powers | William Morrow | historical thriller | BoingBoing |
| Angelmaker | Nick Harkaway | Vintage | thriller | ??? |
| The Waterworks | E.L. Doctorow | Random House | fiction | Ta Nehisi Coates sang its praises, but also, Ragtime was really influential on me |
| Peace | Gene Wolfe | Orb Books | science fiction | The Minister of Intrigue |
| Haunted | Chuck Palahniuk | Anchor | fiction | ??? |
| The Crooked God Machine | Autumn Christian | Never Sleep Again Press | science fiction | The Minister of Intrigue |
| The Gone World | Tom Sweterlitsch | G.P. Putnams Sons | science fiction | The Minister of Intrigue |
| Redshirts | John Scalzi | Tor | Science Fiction | Boingboing |
| The Grimscribe’s Puppets | Joseph Pulber Sr. (ed.) | Miskatonic River Press | Horror | I like the contributors |
| What the Hell Did I just Read (John Dies at the End 3) | David Wong | St. Martin’s Press | Horror | Finishing the Series |
| Neptune’s Brood | Charles Stross | Ace | science fiction | ??? |
| The Factory Witches of Lowell | C.S. Malerich | Tor | historical fantasy | Our Opinions Are Correct |
| The Castle Omnibus | Steph Swainston | Gollancz | weird fiction | ??? |
| Slow Birds and other Stories | Ian Watson | Gateway | weird fiction | ??? |
| The Light Brigade | Kameron Hurley | Gallery/ Saga Press | science fiction | Love her stuff |
| Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea | Sarah Pinsker | Small Beer Press | weird fiction | ??? |
| The Freeze-Frame Revolution | Peter Watts | Tachyon Publications | science fiction | Boingboing |
| Beneath the World, a Sea | Chris Beckett | Corvus | weird fiction | ??? |
| The Changeling | Joy Williams | Tin House Books | weird fiction | ??? |
| The Only Good Indians | Stephen Graham Jones | Gallery/Saga Press | horror | Love his books |
| The Border Keeper | Kerstin Hall | Tor | weird fiction | ??? |
| Threats | Amelia Gray | FSG Originals | horror | ??? |
| Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore | Robin Sloan | Farrar, Strauss and Giroux | fiction | boingboing |
| The Wide Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies | John Langan | Hippocampus Press | horror | Laird Barron,who I love, wrote the afterword |
| Constellation Games | Leonard Richardson | Candlemark & Gleam | science fiction | ??? |
| Those Across the River | Christopher Buehlman | Berkley | horror | ??? |
| Six Stories: A thriller | Matt Weslowski | Orenda Books | fiction | ??? |
| The Apparition Phase | Will Maclean | Cornerstone Digital | horror | recommended by Gabe Moshenska |
| The New Weird | Ann and Jeff Vandermeer | Tachyon Publications | weird fiction | It’s legendary and the contributors are all awesome |
| A Snake Falls to Earth | Darcy Little Badger | Levine Querido | Young Adult | Recommended by Thor |
| The Lodgers | Holly Pester | Granta Press | literary fiction | Great review by M. John Harrison |
| Cahokia Jazz | Francis Spufford | Simon & Schuster | alt-history | Saw it in a B&N |
| Creation Lake | Rachel Kushner | Scribner | Literary Fiction | Great Review by M. John Harrison |
| The Knave of Graves | S.J. Shank | Carthago Nova Press | Fantasy | Recommended by Nick Mamatas |
| The Book of the Most Precious Substance | Sara Gran | Dreamland Books | Thriller | I have liked or loved everything Gran has written |
| The Great When | Alan Moore | Bloomsbury Publishing | Fantasy | IRAHW |
| The Starry Wisdom Library | Nate Pederson, Liv Rainey-Smith | PS Publishing | Horror | The Dagon Collection was great |
| Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles | Gerald Vizenor | U of Minnesota | Fiction | A classic of Nat. Am literature |
| Continental Drift | Russell Banks | HarperPerennial | Fiction | Books about Upstate NY |
| Help the Witch | Tom Cox | Unbound | Fiction | Funny folk horror |
| The Mountain in the Sea | Ray Nayler | MCD | Fiction | ????? |
| Primitive People | Francine Prose | Open Road Media | Fiction | a Race-conscious Hudson-river gothic? yes! |
Non-Fiction
| title | author | publisher | genre | Where I heard about it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stayin Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class | Jefferson Cowie | The New Press | history | ??? |
| The Rise and Fall of the White Republic: Class Politics and Mass Culture in Nineteenth Century America | Alexander Saxton | Verso | history | ??? |
| Floating Poverty: The Poor in Eighteenth Century Massachusetts | Nian-Sheng Huang | Self-Published? | history | ??? |
| Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray | Rosalind Rosenberg | Oxford University Press | biography | ??? |
| No Laughing Matter: Rationale of the Dirty Joke | G. Legman | Random House | humor | the Aristocrats! |
| Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason | David Harvey | Oxford University Press | politics | I’ll read anything he’s written |
| On History | Eric Hobsbawm | The New Press | history | I’ll read anything he’s written |
| The Book of Legendary Lands | Umberto Eco | MacLehose Press | literary studies | ??? |
| Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War | Vincent Brown | Belknap Press | ??? | |
| Sellout: The Major Label Feeding Frenzy that Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994-2007) | Dan Ozzi | Dey Street Books | music history | Dan Patterson |
| The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America | Gabriel Winant | Harvard University Press | politics | Know Your Enemy |
| A Natural History of Empty Lots | Christopher Brown | Timber Press | Non-Ficiton | I loved Tropic of Kansas and this sounds amazing |
| Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier | Robert Parkinson | WW Norton & Co | History | Corey McCall rec. |
| Plantation Goods: A material history of American Slavery | Seth Rockman | U of Chicago | History | ???? |
| Dilla Time | Dan Charnas | Picador Paper | Biography/Music | ???? |
| The Enigma of Clarence Thomas | Corey Robin | Picador | Biography | Reactionary Mind was fascinating |
| The History of EC Comics | Grant Giessman | Taschen | Art History | ???? |
| EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest | Qiana Whitted | Rutgers U | Cultural Studies | ????? |
| Kill All Normies | Angela Nagle | Zer0 Books | Cultural Studies | Maybe Ed G-T? |
| Capital (Vol 1) | Karl Marx | Princeton U | Politics | A new translation that looks really enlightening |
| Illiberal America: A History | Steven Hahn | WW Norton & Co | History | Sam Adler-Bell’s Review |
| Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World | Christopher Clark | Crown | History | IRAHW |
| Predator: A Memoir, A Movie, An Obsession | Ander Monson | Graywolf Press | Media Crit | Brian Evenson recc' |
| Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Space and Time in the Nineteenth Century | Wolfgang Schivelbusch | U. of California Press | History | ????? |
Comics
| title | author | publisher | genre | Where I heard about it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aliens Epic Collection: The Original Years Vol. 1 | Mark Verheiden | Marvel | Comics | Comics |
| The Night Eaters Vol 1 | Marjorie Liu, Sana Takeda | Harry N Abrams | Comics | Minister of Intrigue |
| Witch Doctor Vol. 1 | Brandon Seifert, Lukas Ketner | Boom | Comics | ????? |
| Clean Room Vol 2 | Gail Simone, Jon Davis-Hunt | Image | Comics | Great series |
