
Reading List
Books, short stories, manga, etc. occasionally accompanied by thoughts. Rating books is hard, so maybe not a lot of that.
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Ficciones

The Killing Joke

Batman: Year One

A Guest in the House

Codebreaking: A Practical Guide

Batman: Wayne Family Adventures

Framed Ink 2: Frame Format, Energy, and Composition for Visual Storytellers

Framed Ink: Drawing and Composition for Visual Storytellers

The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy At All

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Hum

Of Thunder and Lightning

The Heroic Legend of Arslan (Arslan Senki)

Amongst Us

11/22/63

The Secret History

Pet Sematary

The Princess Diaries

Red, White & Royal Blue

The Fall of the House of Usher

How to Sell a Haunted House

Dune

Bleach

Naruto

Boruto: Naruto Next Generations

Spy × Family

The Sympathizer
Sonny inherited the utter sense of conviction that motivated his honorable grandfather, who I am sure was insufferable, as most men of utter conviction are.
Ever the industrious student, I had read the screenplay in a few hours and then reread and written notes for several more hours, all under the misguided idea my work mattered.
…I had no doubt that in the Auteur's egomaniacal imagination he meant that his work of art, now, was more important than the three or four or six million dead who composed the real meaning of the war. They cannot represent themselves; they must be represented.
…the whisper of a dewy lover saying the most seductive words in our language, anh oi
You must claim America, she said. America will not give itself to you. If you do not claim America, if America is not in your heart, America will throw you into a concentration camp or a reservation or a plantation. And then, if you have not claimed America, where will you go?

Project Hail Mary

The Three-Body Problem

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Sometimes, a person reaches a point in their life when it becomes absolutely essential to get the fuck out of the city.

Destiny Comic Collection (vol. 1)

The Paradox Hotel

How High We Go in the Dark

Flux

The Writer & the Witch

7 Seeds

Dead Silence

Field Notes on Science & Nature
by recommendation of: James Somers, More people should write

Making Comics

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

And Then There Were None

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Death on the Nile

Murder on the Orient Express

Brave New World

Cultish: The Language of Fanatacism

The Magnolia Palace

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

The Wake
by recommendation of: Alex

New Waves

Manhattan Beach

Remember It!: The Names of People You Meet, All of Your Passwords, Where You Left Your Keys, and Everything Else You Tend to Forget

Women Talking
I am already aware of that, says Mejal. Aren’t we all?We are aware of many things, instinctively, says Ona quietly, but to have them articulated in a certain narrative way is pleasing and fun.
— Our freedom and safety are the ultimate goals, and it is men who prevent us from achieving those goals.But not all men, says Mejal.
Ona clarifies: Perhaps not men, per se, but a pernicious ideology that has been allowed to take hold of men’s hearts and minds.

Dark Matter

The Underground Railroad

This is How You Lose the Time War
I wanted to say, your letter lives inside me in the most literal way possible, but didn’t—

Frankissstein: A Love Story

Recursion

White Tears

Wilder Girls

Regarding the Pain of Others
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question is what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated.
I think this is an applicable question to any number of things—I now know about x injustice, so what will I do? It is not enough to have the knowledge. This was originally published in 2001 and updated in 2004; there is probably something new to be said about the scale of how news spreads today.

Version Control
by recommendation of: Shirley

Commonwealth

Hawkeye

Fascism: A Warning

My Sister, the Serial Killer

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Borne

Jurassic Park

The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
nay: no one is likeable, some incredibly awful fatphobia, the ending phase is pretty convoluted (on top of everything else), sometimes overly dramatic in prose

Persepolis

i love this part

The Girl on the Train

A Stranger in the House

The Martian

Behind Her Eyes

Watchmen

The Song of Achilles
i want to give this 3.5 stars. i think i would give it more if there were more space to watch them be in love. that was what i came here for. but there was a lot of ground to cover—10 years of war! and childhood!—and this was a quick, easy read (albeit sad) to fill the gaps that the troy tv show did not.
also: best of the myrmidons!!! i think this was written very well

The Shining

Acceptance

A Clockwork Orange

Authority

Annihilation

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

How Did We Get into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature

Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change
