Official Book Recommendation List

I've been asked my times about it and here it is: an official recommended reading list.

This will be a page that I update and add to over time. New additions will be BOLDED at the bottom of each category, and I will let people know when enough has been added to warrant a second look. Sometimes I read a lot, sometimes I read a not, depends entirely on how life be going so chances are when updates come they will be in big swings.

If you have any suggestions for me, please lead a comment.

If you have read any of these and have thoughts, also leave a comment!

Fiction

• Blindsight by Peter Watts

• Solaris by Stanisław Lem

• Roadside Picnic by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky

• Hyperion by Dan Simmons

• Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

• Exhalation by Ted Chiang

• Monk & Robot series by Becky Chambers

• The Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells

• The Female Man by Joanna Russ

• We Who Are About To... by Joanna Russ

• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

• The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

• Xenogenesis series by Octavia Butler

• Slow River by Nicola Griffith

• Neuromancer by William Gibson

• Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany

• Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by Alice Sheldon (James Tiptree Jr.)

• The Girl Who Was Plugged In by Alice Sheldon (James Tiptree Jr.)

• The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir

• The Black Company series by Glen Cook

• Bad Brains by Kathe Koja

• Hogg by Samuel R. Delany

• Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

• Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

• Boulder by Eva Baltasar

• The Haar by David Sodergren

Manga

• BLAME! by Tsutomu Nihei

• Land of the Lustrous by Haruko Ichikawa

• Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare by Yuhki Kamatani

• A Man and His Cat by Umi Sakurai

• Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama

Politics, Society & Radical Theory

• Doppelganger by Naomi Klein

• No Logo by Naomi Klein

• After the Future by Franco "Bifo" Berardi

• Otaku: Japan's Database Animals by Hiroki Azuma

• A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit

• Late Fascism by Alberto Toscano

• Technopoly by Neil Postman

• Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher

• The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

• The Exhausted of the Earth by Ajay Singh Chaudhary

• They Thought They Were Free by Milton Mayer

• The Conquest of Bread by Pyotr Kropotkin

• Toward the Creative Nothing by Renzo Novatore

• Capitalism and Disability by Marta Russell

Gender, Relationships & Feminism

• All About Love by bell hooks

• The Will to Change by bell hooks

• Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

• The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit

• How Can I Get Through to You? by Terrence Real

Art, Design & Media

• CAPS LOCK by Ruben Pater

• Designs for the Pluriverse by Arturo Escobar

• What Design Can't Do by Silvio Lorusso

• Protest: The Aesthetics of Resistance

• Ways of Seeing by John Berger

• Understanding a Photograph by John Berger

Philosophy

• Art as Experience by John Dewey

• Experience and Education by John Dewey

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

• Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

• Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard

Memoir

• Heavy by Kiese Laymon

• Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell