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Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino

10/10
favorite
quick
endearing
creative
abstract
spacy

ghost comics edited by ed choy moorman

9/10
comic anthology
humorous
raw
honest
situational
enjoyable

night watch by terry pratchett

7.5/10
fun
adventurous
fantasy/science
time travel
humorous

Hot Water Music by Charles Bukowski

7/10
quick
interesting
bizarre
countercultural

A Drifting Life (written by Yoshihiro Tatsumi)

7.5/10
illustrative
epic
insightful
monotonous
historical

Do Good Design (written by David B. Berman)

8/10
intelligent
inspiring
concise
passionate
activist

Pattern Recognition (written by William Gibson)

8.5/10
thriller
mysterious
contemporary
geeky

currently crafting a list of titles i will read over the summer. including:
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
This Side of Paradise – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America – Brian Francis Slattery
Survivor: A Novel – Chuck Palahniuk
The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
On Violence – Hannah Arendt
Bartley the Scrivener – Herman Melville
Bartleby; or, The Formula – Gilles Deleuze
Deleuze, Bartleby and the Literary Formula – Ranciere
The Republic – Plato
Jungle – Upton Sinclair
Pattern Recognition – William Gibson
The Prince – Machiavelli
Theological-Political Treatise – Spinoza
Hatred of Democracy – Ranciere

read:

marcovaldo by italo calvino.
9/10

an excerpt from the guardian’s 1000 novels everyone must read. which to read? i want to read them all.

Science fiction and fantasy

• The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• Non-Stop by Brian W Aldiss
• Foundation by Isaac Asimov
• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster
• The Drowned World by JG Ballard
• Crash by JG Ballard
• Millennium People by JG Ballard
• The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
• Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks
• Weaveworld by Clive Barker
• Darkmans by Nicola Barker
• The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter
• Darwin’s Radio by Greg Bear
• Vathek by William Beckford
• The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Lost Souls by Poppy Z Brite
• Wieland by Charles Brockden Brown
• Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• The Coming Race by EGEL Bulwer-Lytton
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• The End of the World News by Anthony Burgess
• A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
• Kindred by Octavia Butler
• Erewhon by Samuel Butler
• The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
• The Influence by Ramsey Campbell
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
• Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
• The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
• The Man who was Thursday by GK Chesterton
• Childhood’s End by Arthur C Clarke
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
• Hello Summer, Goodbye by Michael G Coney
• Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
• House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
• Pig Tales by Marie Darrieussecq
• The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R Delaney
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick
• The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick
• Camp Concentration by Thomas M Disch
• Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
• Under the Skin by Michel Faber
• The Magus by John Fowles
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman
• Red Shift by Alan Garner
• Neuromancer by William Gibson
• Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
• Light by M John Harrison
• The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A Heinlein
• Dune by Frank L Herbert
• The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse
• Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
• The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
• Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
• The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
• The Children of Men by PD James
• After London; or, Wild England by Richard Jefferies
• Bold as Love by Gwyneth Jones
• The Trial by Franz Kafka
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
• The Shining by Stephen King
• The Victorian Chaise-longue by Marghanita Laski
• Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• The Earthsea Series by Ursula Le Guin
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
• Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
• Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing
• The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
• The Monk by Matthew Lewis
• A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay
• The Night Sessions by Ken Macleod
• Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
• Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith
• I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
• Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin
• The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Ascent by Jed Mercurio
• The Scar by China Mieville
• Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller
• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller Jr
• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
• Mother London by Michael Moorcock
• News from Nowhere by William Morris
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
• Ada or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• Ringworld by Larry Niven
• Vurt by Jeff Noon
• The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien
• The Famished Road by Ben Okri
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
• Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
• Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock
• Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
• The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and CM Kornbluth
• A Glastonbury Romance by John Cowper Powys
• The Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett
• The Prestige by Christopher Priest
• His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
• Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
• The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
• Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
• The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling
• Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
• The Female Man by Joanna Russ
• Air by Geoff Ryman
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• Blindness by Jose Saramago
• How the Dead Live by Will Self
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Hyperion by Dan Simmons
• Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• The Insult by Rupert Thomson
• The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
• The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
• Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
• Institute Benjamenta by Robert Walser
• Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
• Affinity by Sarah Waters
• The Time Machine by HG Wells
• The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
• The Sword in the Stone by TH White
• The Old Men at the Zoo by Angus Wilson
• The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
• Orlando by Virginia Woolf
• Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
• The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
• We by Yevgeny Zamyatin