Here's a list of books I have read and liked, and books I plan to read. Mostly this is to remind myself, but maybe it will help you discover interesting books you haven't read. I love talking about literature, so email me if you wanna talk about any of the below or if you have a recommendation. L maintains a great list of movies we have watched over at Night Soil, I recommend checking it out.
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- Moby Dick | Herman Melville
- Bartleby the Scrivener | Herman Melville
- The Encantadas | Herman Melville
- The Confidence Man | Herman Melville
- Therese Raquin | Emile Zola
- Germinal | Emile Zola
- The Belly of Paris | Emile Zola
- The Masterpiece | Emile Zola
- The Ladies Paradise | Emile Zola
- Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
- Van Gogh, A Life | Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
- Jean Francois Millet, Peasant and Painter | Alfred Sensier
- Temple of the Golden Pavillion | Yukio Mishima
- Sea of Fertility Tetralogy | Yukio Mishima
- Confessions of a Mask | Yukio Mishima
- Beautiful Star | Yukio Mishima
- Life for Sale | Yukio Mishima
- Kappa | Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- Rashōmon and Other Stories | Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- The Life of a Stupid Man | Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China | Lu Xun
- Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert
- Frankenstein | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- The Possessed/Devils | Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Notes from Underground | Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Brother Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky
- House of the Dead | Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Hunger | Knut Hamsun
- The Oresteia | Aeschylus
- Medea | Euripides
- The Bacchae | Euripides
- The Theban Plays | Sophocles
- The Tragedy of Macbeth | William Shakespeare
- Hamlet | William Shakespeare
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Trial | Franz Kafka
- The Castle | Franz Kafka
- Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka
- Amerika, or The Missing Person | Franz Kafka
- 1984 | George Orwell
- Burmese Days | George Orwell
- Homage to Catalonia | George Orwell
- Coming up for Air | George Orwell
- Down and Out in Paris and London | George Orwell
- The Road to Wigan Pier | George Orwell
- Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again | David Foster Wallace
- The Pale King | David Foster Wallace
- Labryinths | Jorge Luis Borges
- A Room of One's Own | Virginia Woolf
- Dharma Bums | Jack Kerouac
- The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Lathe of Heaven | Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Word for World is Forest | Ursula K Le Guin
- The Dispossessed | Ursula K. Le Guin
- A Scanner Darkly | Phillip K. Dick
- The Man in the High Castle | Phillip K. Dick
- Gods of the Upper Air | Charles King
- Walden | Henry David Thoreau
- Civil Disobedience | Henry David Thoreau
- The Loss of the Whaleship Essex | Various
- Debt: The First 5000 Years | David Graeber
- Bullshit Jobs | David Graeber
- The Utopia of Rules | David Graeber
- The Dawn of Everything | David Wengrow, David Graeber
- Days of War, Nights of Love | Crimethinc
- From Democracy to Freedom | Crimethinc
- No Logo | Naomi Klein
- Doppelganger | Naomi Klien
- Design Anarchy | Kalle Lasn
- Permanent Record | Edward Snowden
- Caliban and the Witch | Sylvia Federici
- Society of the Spectacle | Guy Debord
- The Revolution of Everyday Life | Raoul Vaneigem
- Dead Souls | Nikolai Gogol
- Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil | Hannah Arendt
- Patterns of Culture | Ruth Benedict
- The True Believer | Eric Hoffer
- Hypersexual City | Nicole Kalm
- Our Band Could Be Your Life | Michael Azzerad
- The Art of Activism | Steven Duncombe & Steve Lambert
- The Managed Heart: Commercialisation of Human Feeling | Arlie Russell Hochschild
- Evasion | Anonymous
- Notes of a Native Sun | James Baldwin
- If We Burn | Vincent Bevins
- Against History, Against Leviathan | Fredy Perlman