Things I read
After years of a friend asking me what I read, I present a list. It's worth noting that these are not all novels; many are much shorter.
August 2025
- Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems (And Future Proof Modern Ones) - Marianne Bellotti
- Halloween - Oswaldo Garcia
- Untitled - adrianapordios
- Motel of the Mysteries - David Macaulay
- Shabono - Florinda Donner
July 2025
- Saga Volume 3 - Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
- Saga Volume 4 - Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
- Saga Volume 5 - Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
- Saga Volume 6 - Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
- Saga Volume 7 - Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
- Saga Volume 8 - Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
- Saga Volume 9 - Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
- Saga Volume 10 - Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
- Saga Volume 11 - Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
- Saga Volume 12 - Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
- Wandering Stars - Tommy Orange
June 2025
- The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
- Bury Your Gays - Chuck Tingle
- Annihilation - Jeff VanderMeer
- Babel - R.F. Kuang
- I, Too - Langston Hughes
- Your Utopia - Bora Chung translated by Anton Hur
- Bloodchild and Other Stories - Octavia E. Butler
May 2025
- Tributaries - Tim Ralston
- The Clown Watches The Clock - Micah Schnabel
- Saga Volume 2 - Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
- National Geographic: The Secret Life of Birds
- I sexually identify as an attack helicopter - Isabel Fall
- Graphic Design BFA Senior Showcase Volume 1
- Graphic Design BFA Senior Showcase Volume 2
- The New Illiteracy - Christopher Lasch
- There Is No Hierarchy of Oppressions - Audre Lorde
- They Don’t Read Very Well: A Study of the Reading Comprehension Skills of English Majors at Two Midwestern Universities - Susan Carlson, Ananda Jayawardhana, Diane Miniel
April 2025
- East of West Volume 5 - Hickman, Dragotta, Martin
- Basilisk - Erin Roseberry
- 7 Things I Experienced Working In Mass Vax Clinics - printed at RisoLAB SVA
- Rare Flavours - Ram V, Filipe Andrade
- Majnun and Layla Songs from Beyond the Grave - Yann Damezin
March 2025
- Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Frankenstein (Classics Illustrated #13) - Mary W. Shelley, Ruth A. Roche, Robert Hayward Webb, Ann Brewster
- Black Nature - edited by Camille T. Dungy
- The Baffler no. 77 - includes work from Adrian Nathan West, Mary Turfah, Ann Neumann, Dylan Levi King, Jessica Van Meir, Jared Olson, Alex Cocotas, Chris Crowley, Megan Marz, John Yau, Adam J. Gellings, Funto Omojola, Dan Beachy-Quick, Dorothee Elmiger, Andrew Norman Wilson, Rodrigo Fresán, and Will Vanderhyden.
- The Garlic Lover’s Cookbook (Revised Edition 1982)
- Take Your Tupperware! - Jillian Sandell
- Found Family - Miquela Davis
- Cooking with friends! - Jen Aster, Will Betke-Brunswick, Stef Choi, Christy Kane, Jaimie Peterson, Rae Lazenrotti, Jiliian Sandell, Alix Thunder, Laura Anh
- Eat me! Issue 4 Vol. 1 Amusement Park Eats - includes work from Julienne Carrots, Al Fresco, Chris Jepsen, Mick Rib, Kim Carnes Asada
- Names Written Under a Bridge & in Yearbooks (Written Names Fanzine #11) - A. Lukas
February 2025
- Just Enough Research - Erika Hall (2024 Edition)
- The Absolute - Aaron Dries
- A field guide to the Identification of Pebbles - Eileen Van der Flier Keller
- The Nothing Catalogue - K.W.M.
- Against Access - John Lee Clark
- The Invisible Kingdom - Meghan O’Rourke
- How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years - Willow Sedam
January 2025
- There, There - Tommy Orange
- Leopard of the Sea - Lee Fariq
- East of West Volume 4 - Hickman, Dragotta, Martin
- Friday Book Two: On a Cold Winter’s Night - Ed Brubaker, Marcos Martín, Muntsa Vicente
- Friday Book Three: Christmas Time is Here Again - Ed Brubaker, Marcos Martín, Muntsa Vicente
- The Question of Palestine - Edward Said
- Parable of the Sower - Octavia E. Butler
- Mine - Jason Hoffman
- The Teeth-Mother Naked At Last - Robert Bly