Read:

The Ancestor’s Tale (Dawkins)
Kokoro (Soseki)
Barbara (Tezuka)
Message to Adolf, vol. 1 (Tezuka)
Independence – The Struggle to Set America Free (Ferling)
Ladyboys (Aldous and Sereemongkonpol)
Selected Writings of George Orwell (Ed: George Bott)
The Man Who Never Died (Adler)
Eldorado – The California Gold Rush (Walker)
The Meinertzhagen Mystery (Garfield)
The Worm Ouroboros (Eddison)
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behaviour (National Audubon Society)
Letter to a Christian Nation (Harris)
Free Will (Harris)
The Russian Empire 1801-1917 (Seton-Watson)
Lyckliga i alla sina dagar (Björk)
Evolutionary Parasitology (Schmid-Hempel)
Evolution: the History of an Idea (Bowler)
Dr. Seuss Goes to War (Minear)
Japanese Proverbs (Galef)

Finished 2013
A Rulebook for Arguments (Weston)
A Universe from Nothing (Krauss)
Unseen Academicals (Pratchett)
Limits of the Self (Tradeau)
Biology (Hoefnagel)
Down and Out in Paris and London (Orwell)
No Longer Human (Dazai)
All she was worth (Miyabe)
God and the State (Bakunin)
The Missionary Position: Mother Theresa in Theory and Practice (Hitchens)
Invasion: Earth (Harrison)
Out (Kirino)
Grotesque (Kirino)
Real World (Kirino)
A World on Fire (Foreman)
Masks (Enchi)
Botchan (Soseki)
Burmese Days (Orwell)
How non-violence protects the state (Gelderloos)
Intellectual Impostures (Sokal and Bricmont)
The Lion and the Unicorn (Orwell)
Inside the Whale (Orwell)
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Orwell)
Coming Up For Air (Orwell)
The Decline of the English Murder (Orwell)
Facing Unpleasant Facts (Orwell)
Books vs. Cigarettes (Orwell)
Some Thoughts on the Common Toad (Orwell)
Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan (Robertson)
Finn Family Moomintroll (Jansson)
Moomin Pappa’s Memoirs (Jansson)
Moominsummer Madness (Jansson)
Revelation Space (Reynolds)
Guns, Germs, and Steel (Diamond)
Barrow’s Boys (Fleming)
October the First is Too Late (Hoyle)
The Devotion of Suspect X (Higashino)
Salvation of a Saint (Higashino)

Finished 2014
The Species Seekers (Conniff)
How and Why Species Multiply (Grant and Grant)
Shades of Grey (Fforde)
Abandon the Old in Tokyo (Tatsumi)
Good-bye (Tatsumi)
Fallen Words (Tatsumi)
The Pushman and Other Stories (Tatsumi)
Lice in My Life (Emerson)
One Hundred Poems from the Japanese (ed. Rexroth)
One Hundred More Poems from the Japanese (ed. Rexroth)
Christianity – the First 3000 Years (McCullouch)
Rogue Moon (Budrys)
Slåss som en tjej (Takalo)
Alena (Andersson)
Science: Ruining Everything since 1543 (Weinersmith)
Napoleon III and his carnival Empire (Bierman)
The Eternal Frontier (Flannery)
The Adventures of Sir Patrick McNamarra (Skyman)
Elric of Melniboné (Moorcock)
Rituals of Infinity (Moorcock)
Return of a King (Dalrymple)
The Sailor on the Seas of Fate (Moorcock)
A Man Without a Country (Vonnegut)
Songs of the Distant Earth (Clarke)
The Weird of the White Wolf (Moorcock)
Challenging the Bible (Ingersoll; Ed.: Tipton)
The Devil’s Whisper (Miyabe)
The Vanishing Tower (Moorcock)
The Bane of the Black Sword (Moorcock)

Finished 2015
— January —
1. Dolt land (Korn)
2. Folk mot strömmen (Korn)
3. Shadow Family (Miyabe)
4. The Closing of the Western Mind (Freeman)
5. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (Bix)
6. The Blue World (Vance)
7. Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse (Otsuichi)
— February —
8. The Woman in the Dunes (Abe)
9. Animal Farm (Orwell)
10. Three Japanese Anarchists: Kotuku, Osugi, and Yamaga (Garcia)
11. Showboat World (Vance)
12. The Sultan’s Shadow (Bird)
13. City of the Chasch (Vance)
14. Last and First Men (Stapledon)
15. Men at Arms (Waugh)
16. Servants of the Wankh (Vance)
— March —
17. King Leopold’s Ghost (Hochschild)
18. Addicted to War (Andreas)
19. The Dirdir (Vance)
20. Pnume (Vance)
21. Against the God Emperor (Anarkowic)
22. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Presidents of America (Roper)
23. Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Graeber)
24. Naming Nature (Yoon)
— April —
25. The Utopia of Rules (Graeber)
26. We Who Are About To (Russ)
27. The Green Hills of Earth (Heinlein)
28. Orwell in Spain (Orwell)
29. The Jugurthene War + The Catiline Conspiracy (Sallust)
30. Iphigenia among the Taurians (Euripides)
31. The Five Golden Bands (Vance)
— May —
32. Marx in 90 Minutes (Strathern)
33. Civil Disobedience and other Essays (Thoreau)
34. On Anarchism (Chomsky)
35. Trullion: Alastor 2262 (Vance)
36. Marune: Alastor 933 (Vance)
37. Wyst: Alastor 1716 (Vance)
38. Eye (Herbert)
39. Ecofascism – Lessons from the German Experience (Biehl & Staudenmaier)
40. Animal Signalling (Maynard Smith & Harper)*
41. I, Robot (Asimov)
— June —
42. Eyes of the Overworld (Vance)
43. Cugel’s Saga (Vance)
44. Some Prefer Nettles (Tanizaki)
45. Stormbringer (Moorcock)
46. Revolutions in Reverse (Graeber)
47. Octavia’s Brood (anthology of various authors)
48. Twelve Angry Men (Rose)
— July —
49. Beyond the Beautiful Forevers (Boo)
50. Travels with Charley in Search of America (Steinbeck)
51. Älskade Fascism (Arnstad)
52. Militant Anti-Fascism (Testa)
53. Ludwig B Vol. 1 (Tezuka)
54. Ludwig B Vol. 2 (Tezuka)
55. Marx’s Das Kaptital for Beginners (Wayne)
56. Nation (Pratchett)
57. Fascism – Past, Present, Future (Laqueur)
58. Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck)
— August —
59. A scanner darkly (Dick)
60. Tunnel in the Sky (Heinlein)
61. Time for the Stars (Heinlein)
62. The Courtships of Sea Creatures (Otte)
— September —
63. The Grey Prince (Vance)
64. Shutting out the Sun (Zielenziger)
65. The Utopia of Rules (Graeber)
66. Big Planet (Vance)

— October —

67. All she was worth (Miyabe)

— November —

68. The Son of Tree / The Houses of Iszm (Vance)

— December —

69. The Martian Chronicles (Bradbury)

70. Grotesque (Kirino)

71. Parasitology – A Conceptual Approach (Loker & Hofkin)

72. The Missionary Position (Hitchens)

73. The Hindus — an alternative history (Doniger)

74. Owls — Our most Charming Birds (Sewell)

 

Finished 2016

1. In Praise of Japanese Love Poems (ed. Ryan)

2. Drawn from Paradise (Attenborough & Fuller)

3. 1491 — New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus (Mann)

4. The Penultimate Truth (Dick)

5. The Great Game — The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Hopkirk)

6. 1493 — Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (Mann)

7. Purple Hibiscus (Adiche)

8. Red — Passion and Patience in the Desert (Williams)

9. The Open Space of Democracy (Williams)

10. When Women Were Birds — Fifty-four Variations on Voice (Williams)

11. An Unspoken Hunger — Stories from the Field (Williams)

12. Rasmus and the Vagabond (Lindgren)

13. Star King (Vance)

14. The Killing Machine (Vance)

15. Einstein’s Dreams (Lightman)

16. The Palace of Love (Vance)

17. Rhialto the Marvelous (Vance)

18. The Face (Vance)

19. The Story of Tibet — Conversations with the Dalai Lama (Laird)

20. Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (Tiptree)

21. Constantine’s Sword — The Church and the Jews (Carroll)

22. If Then (de Abaitua)

23. Pieces of White Shell — A Journey to Navajoland (Williams)

24. Finding beauty in a broken world (Williams)

25. Between me and the world (Coates)

26. The book of dreams (Vance)

27. Ethan Frome (Wharton)

28. Fair Play (Jansson)

29. Shinto – The Way Home (Kasulis)

30. Zuñi Coyote Tales (ed: Cushing)

31. The Changeling (Oe)

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