Books I Have Read

Literature and Poetry

African

Angola

Agualusa, José Eduardo. The Society of Reluctant Dreamers (2019).
________. A General Theory of Oblivion (2016 [2013]).

Burundi

Rugero, Roland. Baho! (2015 [2012]).

Cote D’Ivoire

Kourouma, Ahmadou. Allah is Not Obliged (2007 [2000]).

Egypt

El Akkad, Omar. American War (2017).
Mahfouz, Naguib. Midaq Alley (1966 [1947]).
________. Palace Walk (1990 [1956]).

Ethiopia

Mengiste, Maaza. The Shadow King (2019).

Mali

Suso, Bamba and Banna Kanute. The Sunjata Story (2006 [13^th-century CE]).

Mozambique

Coutu, Mia. Woman of the Ashes (2018 [2015]).
________. Sleepwalking Land (2006 [1992]).

Nigeria

Achebe, Chinua. Arrow of God (1964).
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Half of a Yellow Sun (2006).
Emezi, Awkaeke. The Death of Vivek Oji (2020).
Okri, Ben. Dangerous Love (1996).
________. The Famished Road (1991).
________. An African Elegy (1992).
Oloruntoba, Tolu. The Junta of Happenstance (2020).
Tutuola, Amos. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1954).

Uganda

Bitek, Juliane Okot. 100 Days (2016).
Makumbi, Jennifer Nansubuga. Kintu (2014).

South Africa

Coetzee, J. M. Disgrace (1999).
________. Waiting for the Barbarians (1980).
Courtenay, Bryce. The Power of One (1989).
Paton, Alan. Cry, The Beloved Country(1948).

Sudan

Abdelmahmoud, Elamin. Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces (2022).

Zimbabwe

Dangarembga, Tsitsi. Nervous Conditions (1988).

American (Central and South)

Argentina

Aira, César. The Literary Conference (2010).
________. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter (2000).
________. Ghosts (1990).
________. How I Became a Nun (1993).
________. Ema, the Captive (1981).
Almada, Selva. The Wind That Lays Waste (2012).
Borges, Jorge Luis. The Book of Sand (1975).
________. Labyrinths (1962).
________. Other Inquisitions (1952).
Borges, Jorge Luis and Adolfo Bioy-Casares. Chronicles of Bustos Domecq (1967).
Casares, Adolfo Bioy. The Invention of Morel (1940).
Chejfec, Sergio. The Planets (2012).
Diaz, Hernan. Trust (2022).

Brazil

Amado, Jorge. Captains of the Sands (2013 [1937]).
de Assis, Machado. Dom Casmurro (1991 [1900]).
Lispector, Clarice. An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures (2021 [1969]).
________. The Complete Stories (2015).
________. The Passion According to G. H. (2012 [1964]).

Chile

Zambra, Alejandro. My Documents (2015).
Zerán, Alia Trebucco. The Remainder (2018).

Colombia

Márquez, Gabriel Garcia. Love in the Time of Cholera (1985).
________. 100 Years of Solitude (1967).

Ecuador

Lacera, Diego Perez (yung pueblo). Inward (2018).-

El Salvador

Zamora, Javier. Unaccompanied (2017).

Guatemala

Asturias, Miguel Ángel. The President (2018 [1946]).

Peru

Llosa, Mario Vargas. The War of the End of the World (1981).

American (North)

Canada

Atwood, Margaret. Oryx and Crake (2003).
________. Alias Grace (1996).
________. The Handmaid’s Tale (1985).
________. The Edible Woman (1969).
Barton, John (Guest Ed.) and Anita Lahey (Series Ed.). Best Canadian Poetry 2023 (2022).
Benaway, Gwen. Holy Wild (2018).
Boyden, Joseph. The Orenda (2013).
Carson, Anne. The Albertine Workout (2014).
________. The Beauty of the Husband (2001).
________. Men in the Off Hours (2000).
________. Autobiography of Red (1998).
Christakos, Margaret. Sooner (2005).
Cohen, Leonard. The Flame: Poems and Selections from Notebooks (2018).
Coupland, Douglas. Hey Nostradamus! (2003).
________. Life After God (1994).
________. Shampoo Planet (1992).
________. Generation X (1991).
Cull, Tom. Kill Your Starlings (2023).
________. bad animals (2018).
Cusk, Rachel. Parade (2024).
________. Second Place (2021).
________. Kudos (2018).

________. Transit (2016).
________. Outline (2014).
________. Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation (2012).
Davies, Robertson. World of Wonders (1975).
________. The Manticore (1972).
________. Fifth Business (1970).
DeRango-Adem, Adebe. Vox Humana: Poems (2022).
Di Nardo, Desi. The Cure is a Forest (2011).
Dynes, Rhonda. Dissections (2018).

Fatima, Catherine. Sludge Utopia (2018).
Findley, Timothy. The Piano Man’s Daughter (1995).
________. Not Wanted on the Voyage (1984).
________. The Wars (1977).
________. The Last of the Crazy People (1967).
Fung, Pik-Shuen. Ghost Forest (2021).
Galchen, Rivka. Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch (2021).
________. American Innovations (2014).
________. Atmospheric Disturbances (2008).
Glouberman, Misha with Sheila Heti. The Chairs Are Where the People Go (2011).
Gripp, Andreas (ed.). Stones Beneath the Surface: A Poetry Anthology (2023).
Harrison, Charles Yale. Generals Die in Bed (1930).
Hernandez, Catherine. Scarborough (2017).
Heti, Sheila. Alphabetical Diaries (2024).
________. Pure Colour (2022).
________. Motherhood (2018).
________. How is a Person to Be? (2012).
________. The Middle Stories (2012).
Humphreys, Helen. Perils of Geography (1995).
kaur, rupi. milk and honey (2014).
Kupferschmidt, John. In the Garden of Men (2008).
Lahaye, Anita (series ed.) and Bardia Sinaee (guest ed.). Best Canadian Poetry 2024 (2023).
Laurence, Margaret. A Bird in the House (1970).
________. The Stone Angel (1964).
MacDonald, Ann-Marie. Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (1988).
Martel. Yann. Life of Pi (2001).
Morissette, Guillaume. The Original Face (2017).
Montgomery, Lucy Maud. Anne of Green Gables: Box Set (1990).
Mowat, Farley. And No Birds Sang (1979).
________. Never Cry Wolf (1963).
________. Owls in the Family (1961).
Mutonji, Téa. Shut Up You’re Pretty (2019).
Ondaatje, Michael. Handwriting (2000).
________. The English Patient (1992).
________. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (1970).
O’Neill, Heather. The Lonely Hearts Hotel (2017).
________. Lullabies for Little Criminals (2006).
Pain Not Bread. Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei (2000).
Peacock, Molly. Original Love: Poems (1995).
Pflug-Back, Kelly Rose. The Hammer of Witches (2021).
Prime, Tom. Mouthfuls of Space (2021).
Proulx, E. Annie. The Shipping News (1993).
Richler, Mordecai, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959).
Salazar, Rebecca. Sulphurtongue: Poems (2021).
Service, Robert. Collected Poems (1930).
Singh, Julietta. No Archive Will Restore You (2018).
Toews, Miriam. All My Puny Sorrows (2014).
________. A Complicated Kindness (2004).
Varghese, Anuja. Chrysalis: Stories (2023).
Walter, Chris. Shouts From the Gutter (2007).
Zwicky, Jan. Songs for Relinquishing the Earth (1996).

Mexico

Bellatin, Mario. The Large Glass (2015).
Bolaño, Roberto. 2666(2004).
________. Romantic Dogs (1995).
Herrera, Yuri. Season of the Swamp (2024).
________. A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire (2020).
________. The Transmigration of Bodies (2013).
________. Kingdom Cons (2012).
________. Signs Preceding the End of the World (2009).
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia. Velvet Was the Night (2021).
________. Mexican Gothic (2020).
Paz, Octavio. A Draft of Shadows (1979 [1969]).
Rivera-Garza, Cristina. The Taiga Syndrome (2018).
________. No One Will See Me Cry (1999).
Rulfo, Juan. Pedro Páramo (1987 [1955]).

United States of America

Adler, Renata. Speedboat (2013 [1971]).
Allen, Samantha. Patricia Wants to Cuddle (2022).
Angelou, Maya. The Complete Poetry (2015).
Asghar, Fatimah. If They Come For Us: Poems (2018).
Baldwin, James. The Evidence of Things Not Seen (1985).
________. The Fire Next Time (1963).
________. Giovanni’s Room (1956).
________. Go Tell It on the Mountain (1952).
Barnes, Djuna. Nightwood (1936).
Batuman, Elif. Either/Or (2022).
Bidart, Frank. Half-Light: Collected Poems, 1965-2016 (2017).
Biss, Eula. Having and Being Had (2020).
Bradbury, Ray.Fahrenheit 451 (1953).
Brown, Jericho. The Tradition (2019).
Bukowski, Charles. The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems 1951-1993 (2007).
________. The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain (2004).
________. Septuagenarian Stew: Stories & Poems (1990).
________. You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense (1986).
________. Tales of Ordinary Madness (1983).
________. Women (1978).
________. Love is a Dog from Hell: Poems 1974-1977 (1977).
Burnvand, Jans Harold. The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and their Meanings (1981).
Burroughs, William S. Naked Lunch (1959).
Butler, Octavia E. The Parable of the Sower (1993).
Campbell, Makenzie. 2AM Thoughts (2017).
Card, Orson Scott. Ender’s Game (1985).
Carver, Raymond. All of Us: Collected Poems (1996).
________. No Heroics, Please: Uncollected Writings (1991).
________. Where I’m Calling From (1988).
________. Cathedral: Stories (1983).
________. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories (1981).
________. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976).
Cisneros, Sandra. My Wicked Wicked Ways (1987).
Codjoe, Ama. Bluest Nude: Poems (2022).
Cole, Teju. Open City (2011).
________. Every Day Is For The Thief (2007).
Coleman, Wanda. Wicked Enchantment: selected poems (2020).
Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage (1895).
Crichton, Michael. The Great Train Robbery (1975).
Cruz, Cynthia. Hotel Oblivion (2022).
________. How the End Begins (2016).
Darnielle, John. Wolf in White Van (2014).
DeLillo, Don. Underworld (1997).
________. Libra (1988).
________. White Noise (1985).
Del Rey, Lana. Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass (2020).
Derricotte, Toi. “i”: new and selected poems (2019).
Didion, Joan. The Year of Magical Thinking (2005).
Dillard, Annie. Mornings Like This: Found Poems (1995).
Duncan, David James.The Brothers K (1992).
Dunn, Stephen. New and Selected Poems 1974-1994 (1994).
________. What Goes On: Selected and New Poems 1995-2009 (2009).
________. Pagan Virtues: Poems (2020).
Egan, Jennifer. A Visit From the Goon Squad (2011).
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man (1952).
Ellmann, Lucy. Ducks, Newburyport (2019).
Erlichman, Shira. Odes to Lithium: Poems (2019).
Fauklner, William.As I Lay Dying (1930).
________. The Sound and the Fury (1929).
Felix, Camoghne. Build Yourself a Boat (2019).
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby (1925).
flynn, nick. the captain asks for a show of hands: poems (2011).
Forché, Carolyn. In the Lateness of the World (2020).
Ford, Ford Madox. The Good Soldier (1915).
Fox, Paula. Desperate Characters (1970).
Franzen, Jonathan. Freedom (2010).
________. The Corrections (2001).
Fulton, Alice. Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems (2004).
________. Powers of Congress: Poems (1990).
Gaddis, William. The Recognitions (1955).
Gass, William H. Eyes: Novellas & Stories (2015).
________. Omensetter’s Luck (1966).
Gay, Ross. Be Holding: A Poem (2020).
Gibson, Andrea. You Better Be Lightning (2021).
Giovanni, Nikki. The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998 (2003).
Glück, Louise. Poems: 1962-2012 (2012).
González, Rigoberto. Unpeopled Eden (2020).
Gunty, Tess. The Rabbit Hutch (2022).
Gurba, Maryam. Mean (2017).
Halliday, Lisa. Asymmetry (2017).
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter (1850).
Hayes, Terrence. American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assassins (2018).
Hedva, Johanna. Your Love Is Not Good (2023).
Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea (1952).
________. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940).
________. A Farewell to Arms (1929).
Heller, Joseph. Catch-22 (1961).
Herrera, Juan Felipe. Every Day We Get More Illegal (2020).
Hoban, Russel. Kleinzeit (1974).
Howell, Christopher. Love’s Last Number: Poems (2017).
Hughes, Langston. Selected Poems (1959).
Hunt, Samantha. The Unwritten Book: An Investigation (2022).
________. A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989).
Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937).
Hustvedt, Siri. Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays (2021).
Irving, John. A Widow For One Year (1998).
________. The World According to Garp (1982).
Jackson, Shirley. The Haunting of Hill House (1959).
Jefferson, Margo. Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir (2022).
Jones, Saeed. Alive at the End of the World (2022).
________. Prelude to Bruises (2014).
Kaufman, Bob. Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman (2019).
Keegan, Marina. The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays & Stories (2015).
Kerouac, Jack. On The Road (1957).
Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962).
King, Stephen. Misery (1987).
________. It (1986).
________. The Stand (1978).
________. The Shining (1977).
Kingsolver, Barbara. The Poisonwood Bible (1998).
Kitamura, Katie. A Separation (2017).
Klise, Thomas S. The Last Western (1974).
Kokumo. Reacquainted With Life (2016).
Le Guin, Ursula K. Sixty Odd: new poems (1999).
________. The Earthsea Trilogy (1968-1972).
Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird (1960).
L’Engle, Madeleine. The Time Quintet (1962-1989).
LeRoy, JT. the heart is deceitful above all things (2001).
Limón, Ada. The Hurting Kind: Poems (2022).
________. The Carrying: Poems (2018).
________. Bright Dead Things (2015).
London, Jack. White Fang (1906).
________. The Call of the Wild (1903).
Lorde, Audre. The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distances: Poems 1987-1992 (1993).
Lovecraft, H. P. At the Mountains of Madness & other novels (2017).
Lovecraft, H. P and August Derleth. The Lurker at the Threshold (1945).
lovelace, amanda. the mermaid’s voice returns in this one (2019).
________. the witch doesn’t burn in this one (2018).
________. the princess saves herself in this one (2016).
Machado, Carmen Maria. In the Dream House (2019).
________. Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (2017).
Matthiessen, Peter. On the River Styx and other stories (1989).
McCarthy, Cormac. The Passenger (2022).
________. Stella Maris (2022).
________. The Counselor (2013).
________. The Sunset Limited (2011).
________. The Road (2006).
________. No Country for Old Men (2005).
________. Cities of the Plain (1998).
________. The Crossing (1994).
________. All the Pretty Horses (1992).
________. Blood Meridian Or the Evening Redness in the West (1985).
________. Suttree (1979).
________. Child of God (1973).
________. Outer Dark (1968).
________. The Orchard Keeper (1965).
McLean, Robin. Get ‘Em Young, Treat ‘Em Tough, Tell ‘Em Nothing (2022).
Melville, Herman. Billy Budd, Sailor (1924).
________. Moby-Dick (1851).
Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman (1949).
Miller, Henry. Tropic of Cancer (1934).
Miller, Madeline. Circe (2018).
Minnis, Chelsey. Baby I Don’t Care (2018).
Monet, Aja. My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter (2017).
Morgan, Beth. A Touch of Jen (2021).
Morrison, Toni.Beloved (1987).
________. Song of Solomon (1977).
________. The Bluest Eye (1970).
Moshfegh, Ottessa. My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018).
Murray, Christopher Brean. Black Observatory: Poems (2023).
Naga, Noor. If An Egyptian Cannot Speak English (2022).
________. Washes, Prays (2020).
Nelson, Maggie. Like Love: Essays and Conversations (2024).
________. On Freedom: Four Songs on Care and Constraint (2021).
________. The Argonauts (2015).
________. The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (2011).
________. Bluets (2009).
________. The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial (2007).
________. something bright, then holes (2003).
________. The Latest Winter (2003).
Nguyen, Diana Khoi. Ghost Of (2018).
Nguyen, Hieu Minh. Not Here: Poems (2018).
Nurse, Thiahera. Some Girls Survive on their Sorcery Alone (2019).
O’Connor, Flannery. Collected Works (1988).
Oliver, Mary. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver (2017).
________. Felicity (2015).
________. Blue Horses: Poems (2014).
________.West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems (1997).
________. New and Selected Poems (1992).
Palahniuk, Chuck. Diary: A Novel (2003).
Paterson, Katherine. Bridge to Terabithia (1977).
Parker, Morgan. There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé (2017).
Plath, Sylvia. Ariel (1965).
________. The Bell Jar (1963).
Ponsot, Marie. The Bird Catcher: Poems (1998).
Powers, Richard. The Overstory (2018).
Pyle, Howard. Howard Pyle’s Book of Pirates (1921).
________. The Story of Sir Launcelot and his Companions (1907).
________. Men of Iron (1891).
________. Otto of the Silver Hand (1888).
________. The Wonder Clock (1887).
________. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883).
Pynchon, Thomas. Gravity’s Rainbow (1973).
________. The Crying of Lot 49 (1965).
Rand, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged (1957).
________. The Fountainhead (1943).
________. Anthem (1938).
Rankine, Claudia. Citizen: An American Lyric (2014).
Reed, Phillip. Indecency (2018).
Anne Rice.Memnoch the Devil (1995).
________. The Tale of the Body Thief (1992).
________. Queen of the Damned (1988).
________. The Vampire Lestat (1985).
________. Interview with a Vampire (1976).
Robinson, Marilynne. Gilead (2004).
Roupenian, Kristen. You Know You Want This: “Cat Person” and Other Stories (2019).
Roth, Philip. American Pastoral (1997).
Salinger, J. D. Franny and Zooey (1961).
________.Nine Short Stories (1953).
________. The Catcher in the Rye (1951).
Saunders, George. Liberation Day: Stories (2022).
________. A Swim in the Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing (2021).
________. Lincoln in the Bardo (2017).

________. Tenth of December. (2013).
________. The Brain-Dead Megaphone (2007).
________. The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil (2005).
________. Pastoralia (2000).
sax, sam. All the Rage (2016).
Seidel, Frederick. Poems: 1959-2009 (2009).
Shipley, Ely. Some Animal (2018).
Shteyngart, Gary. Super Sad True Love Story (2010).
Sin, r. h. I hope this reaches her in time (2017).
________. rest in the mourning (2016).
Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle (1905).
Skaja, Emily. Brute: poems (2019).
Smith, Carmen Giménez. Be Recorder: Poems (2019).
Smith, Danez. Homie: Poems (2020).
________. Don’t Call Us Dead (2017).
Snyder, Gary. Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems (2004).
________. Turtle Island (1974).
So, Anthony Veasna. Afterparties: Stories (2021).
Stegner, Wallace. Crossing to Safety (1987).
________. The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943).
Steinbeck, John. East of Eden (1952).
________. The Pearl (1947).
________. Cannery Row (1945).
________. The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
________. Of Mice and Men (1937).
________. The Red Pony (1933).
Sze, Arthur. Sight Lines (2019).
Szybist, Mary. Incarnadine (2013).
Tatar, Maria. Enchanted Hunters: the power of stories in childhood (2009).
Thompson, Hunter S. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971).
Toole, John Kennedy. A Confederacy of Dunces (1980).
Twain, Mark. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889).
________. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884).
________. The Prince and the Pauper (1881).
________. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).
Updike, John. The Rabbit Quartet (1960-1990).
Uris, Leon.Trinity (1958).
Vandermeer, Jeff. The Southern Reach Trilogy (2014).
________. Veniss Underground (2003).
Vang, Mai Der. Afterland: Poems (2017).
Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt. Armageddon in Retrospect (2008).
________. A Man Without a Country (2005).
________. Palm Sunday (1981).
________. Jailbird (1979).
________. Breakfast of Champions or Goodbye Blue Monday! (1973).
________. Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969).
________. Welcome to the Monkey House (1968).
________. Cat’s Cradle (1963).
________. Mother Night (1961).
Waldman, Anne. Trickster Feminism (2018).
Walker, Percy. The Moviegoer (1961).
Wallace, David Foster. The Pale King (2011).
________. Consider the Lobster: and other stories (2005).
________. Oblivion: Stories (2004).
________. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again (1997).
________. Infinite Jest (1996).
________. The Broom of the System (1987).
West, Sasha. Failure and I Bury the Body: Poems (2013).
Whyte, David. The House of Belonging: Poems (1997).
________. Everything is Waiting for You (2003).
Williams, John. Stoner (1965).
Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire (1947).
Willliams, William Carlos. Selected Poems (1949).
________. Paterson (1946).
White, E. B. Charlotte’s Web (1952).
Wong, David. John Dies at the End (2007).
Xie, Jenny. Eye Level (2013).
Yanagihara, Hanya. A Little Life (2015).
Zink, Nell. The Wallcreeper (2014).

Asian

Afghanistan

Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner (2003).
Kochai, Jamil Jan. The Haunting of Hajji Hotak: And Other Stories (2022).

China

Chen, Chen. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (2022).
________. When I Grow Up I Want To Be A List of Further Possibilities (2017).
Cleary, Thomas (ed.). The Essential Confucius: The Heart of Confucius’ Teachings in Authentic I Ching Order (1992).
Eberhard, Wolfram (ed.). Folktales of China (1965).
Lao-Tzu. Tao Te Ching (~400BCE).
Rexroth, Kenneth. One Hundred Poems from the Chinese (1971).

Iran and Persia

Akbar, Kaveh.Martyr! (2024).
________. Pilgrim Bell: Poems (2021).
________. Calling a Wolf a Wolf (2017).
Khayyam, Omar. The Ruba’iyat (1859).
Nafisi, Azar. Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003).
Negarestani, Reza. Cyclonopedia: complicity with anonymous materials (2008).
Sharif, Solmaz. Customs: Poems (2022).
Sinaee, Bardia. Intruder (2021).

India

Roy, Arundhati. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017).
________. The God of Small Things (1997).
Rushdie, Salman. Shalimar the Clown (2005).
________. Midnight’s Children (1981).

Iraq

Badr, Ahmed M. (ed.). While the Earth Sleeps We Travel: Stories, Poetry, and Art from Young Refugees Around the World (2020).

Japan

Bashō, Matsuo. Back Roads to Far Towns (1702).
Endo, Shusako. Silence (1966).
Kawakami, Mieko. Breasts and Eggs (2008).
Lady Sarashina. As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams (~1200CE).
Murakami, Huraki. 1Q84 (2009).
________. Norwegian Wood (1987).
Suzuki, Isumi. Terminal Boredom: Stories (2021).

Kurdistan

Panahi, Hiva. Secrets of the Snow: Kurdish Poems (2001).

Lebanon

Hasham Beck, Zeina. O (2022).

Mesopotamia

The Gilgamesh Epic (2100-1200BCE).

Pakistan

Hamid, Mohsin. The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007).
Shamsie, Kamila. A God in Every Stone (2014).

Palestine

Abdulhawa, Susan. Against the Loveless World (2019).
El-Kurd, Mohammed. Rifqa (2021).
Kanazi, Remi. Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up From Brooklyn to Palestine (2015).
Sabaaneh, Mohammed. White and Black: political Cartoons from Palestine (2017).
Shibli, Adania. Minor Details (2017).

Saudi Arabia

Alsanea, Rajaa. Girls of Riyadh (2005).

Vietnam

Wuong, Ocean. Time Is A Mother (2022).
________. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel (2019).
________. Night Sky with Exit Wounds (2016).

Australia

Carey, Peter. True History of the Kelly Gang (2000).
Roberts, Gregory David. Shantaram (2003).
Stead, Christina. The Man Who Loved Children (1940).
Tsiolkas, Christos. The Slap (2008).

Caribbean

Cuba

Gala, Marcial. The Black Cathedral (2020).

Dominican Republic

Indiana, Rita. Tentacle (2015).

Guadeloupe

Schwarz-Bart, Simone. The Bridge of Beyond (1972).

Jamaica

James, Marlon. Black Leopard Red Wolf (2019).
________. A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014).

Martinique

Césaire, Aimé. Return to My Native Land (1968).

St. Lucia

Lubrin, Canisia. The Dysgraph^xst (2020).
________. Voodoo Hypothesis: Poems (2017).

European (Eastern)

Albania

Statovci, Pajtim. Crossing (2020).

Belorussia

Mort, Valzhyna. Music for the Dead and Resurrected: Poems (2016).

Bosnia

Simić, Goran. From Sarajevo with Sorrow (2005).

Bulgaria

Popova, Maria. Figuring (2019).

Czech

Hrabal, Bohumil. Closely Watched Trains (1965).
Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984).
________. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1978).

Hungary

Csáth, Géza. Opium and Other Stories (1983).
Esterházy, Péter. Helping Verbs of the Heart (1985).
Kertész, Imre. Liquidation (2005 [2003]).
________. Fatelessness (1975).
Konrád, George. The Case Worker (1969).
Krasznahorkai, László. Spadework for a Palace (2022 [2018]).
________. Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming (2019).
________. The Last Wolf and Herman (2016).
________. The World Goes On (2013).
________. Seiobo There Below (2008).
________. Satantango (1985).
Nádas, Péter. Parallel Stories (2005).
Szabó, Magda. Katalin Street (2017 [1969]).

Poland

Conrad, Joseph. Nostromo (1904).
________. Lord Jim (1900).
________. Heart of Darkness (1899).
Czapski, Józef. Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp (2018 [1987]).
Kapuściński, Ryzard. The Shadow of the Sun (2001).
Kosiński, Jerzy. The Painted Bird (1965).
Levin, Meyer (ed.) Classic Hassidic Tales (1975).
Sienkiewicz, Henryck. Quo Vadis?(1896).
________. The Polish Trilogy (1884-1888).
Tokarczuk, Olga. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (2009).
________. Flights (2007).

Romania

Celan, Paul. Paul Celan: Selections (ed. by Pierre Joris) (2005).
________. Romanian Poems (1945-1947).
Müller, Herta. The Appointment (1997).
________. The Land of Green Plums (1996 [1993]).

Russia

Akhmatova, Anna. Poems of Akhmatova (selected, ed., and trans., by Kunitz and Hayward) (1997).
Brodsky, Joseph. To Urania (1992 [1977, 1987]).
Bulgakov, Mikhail. The Master and the Margarita (1967).
Cherneshevsky, Nicholas. What Is To Be Done? (1863).
Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The Brothers Karamazov (1880).
________. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877).
________. A Gentle Creature (1876).
________. The Peasant Marey (1876).
________. Demons/The Possessed (1872).
________. The Eternal Husband (1870).
________. The Idiot (1869).
________. Crime and Punishment (1866).
________. The Gambler (1866).
________. Notes from Underground (1864).
________. A Christmas Tree and a Wedding (1848).
________. An Honest Thief (1848).
________. White Nights (1848).
________. Poor Folk (1846).
________. The Double (1846).
Gogol, Nikolai. Dead Souls (1842).
________. The Overcoat (1842).
________. The Nose (1836).
________. The Dairy of a Madman (1835).
Goncharov, Ivan.Oblomov (1859).
Grossman, Vasily. Life and Fate (1980).
Lermentov, Mikhail. A Hero of Our Time (1840).
Nabakov, Vladimir. Lectures on Russian Literature (1980).
________. Lolita(1955).
________. Speak, Memory (1951).
Mandelstam, Osip. The Voronezh Notebooks (1935-1937).
Petrushevskaya, Ludmilla. There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children Until They Moved Back In: Three Novellas About Family (2014).
________. There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister’s Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories (2013).
________. There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby (2009).
Pushkin, Alexander (edited by Roger Clarke). Love Poems (2013 edition).
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander. A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962).
________. The Gulag Archipelago (I-II) (1973).
Sorokin, Vladimir. Bro (2004).
________. Ice (2002).
Stepanovna, Maria. In Memory of Memory (2017).
Stepniak. Career of a Nihilist (1889).
Tolstaya, Tatyana. On the Golden Porch (1989 [1987]).
Tolstoy, Leo. Resurrection (1899).
________. Anna Karenina (1873).
________. War and Peace (1867).
Tsvetaeva, Marina. Selected Poems (translated and introduced by Elaine Feinstein [1993]).
Turgenev, Ivan. Fathers and Sons (1862).
Vodlazkin, Eugene. Laurus (2012).

Slovenia

Charney, Noah and Svetlana Slapšak. The Slavic Myths (2023).

Ukraine

Kaminsky, Ilya. Deaf Republic (2019).
________. Dancing in Odessa (2004).

Yugoslavia (Former)

Drndić, Daša. EEG (2019).
________. Belladonna (2017).
Kiš, Danilo. The Encyclopedia of the Dead (1983).
Simic, Charles. Scribbled in the Dark (2008).

English Europe

Britain

Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (5 Volumes) (1979-1992).
Adams, Richard. Watership Down (1972).
Auden, W. H. Collected Shorter Poems: 1927-1957 (1967).
Austen, Jane. Persuasion (1817).
________. Emma (1815).
________. Mansfield Park (1814).
________. Pride and Prejudice (1813).
________. Sense and Sensibility (1811).
Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre (1847).
Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights (1847).
Bulley, Victoria Afulwei. Quiet: Poem (2022).
Bunyan, John. The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678).
Burgess, Anthony. A Clockwork Orange (1962).
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The Secret Garden (1911).
Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865).
Comyns, Barbara. The Vet’s Daughter (1959).
Chesteron, G. K. The Complete Father Brown (1951).
________. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (1908).
Dahl, Roald. The Roald Dahl Omnibus (1986).
Defoe, Daniel. A Journal of the Plague Year (1722).
________. Robinson Crusoe (1719).
Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations (1861).
________. A Tale of Two Cities (1859).
________. Little Dorrit (1857).
________. Hard Times (1854).
________. David Copperfield (1850).
________. A Christmas Carol (1843).
________. The Old Curiosity Shop (1841).
________. Nicholas Nickleby (1839).
________. Oliver Twist (1838).
Eliot, George. Middlemarch (1871).
Eliot, T. S. Collected Poems 1909-1962 (1963).
________. Four Quartets (1941).
________. Murder in the Cathedral (1935).
________. Selected Poems (1930).
Gaiman, Neil. American Gods: A Novel (2001).
Golding, William. Lord of the Flies (1954).
Greene, Graham. The Power and the Glory (1940).
________. Brighton Rock (1938).
Hardy, Thomas. Jude the Obscure (1895).
________. Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891).
________. The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886).
________. The Return of the Native (1878).
________. Far From the Maddening Crowd (1874).
________. A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873).
Housman, E. A. A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems (2010).
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World (1932).
Ishiguro, Kazuo. The Remains of the Day (1989).
Jacques, Brian. The Redwall Series (first six books; 1988-1995).
Kapil, Bhanu. Ban En Banlieue (2015).
________. Humanimals: A Project for Future Children (2009).
Kipling, Rudyard. Captains Courageous (1896).
Larkin, Philip. The Whitsun Weddings (1964).
Lawrence, D. H. Sons and Lovers (1913).
Le Carré, John. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1963).
Lessing, Doris. The Golden Notebook (1962).
Levertov, Denise. This Great Unknowing: Last Poems (2000).
Lewis, C. S. Till We Have Faces (1956).
________. The Chronicles of Narnia (7 volumes; 1950-1956).
________. The Great Divorce (1945).
________. The Space Trilogy (1938-1945).
________. The Screwtape Letters (1942).
________. The Pilgrim’s Regress (1933).
MacDonald, George. The Princess and Curdie (1883).
________. The Princess and the Goblin (1872).
________. At the Back of the North Wind (1868).
________. Phantastes (1858).
Marlowe, Christopher. Dr. Faustus (1592).
McGregor, Jon. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things (2002).
Milne, A. A. Winnie-the-Pooh (1926).
More, Thomas. Utopia (1516).
Mulock Craik, Dinah Maria. The Little Lame Prince (1874).
Orwell, George.1984 (1949).
________. Animal Farm (1945).
Parks, Tim. The Hero`s Way: A Walk with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna (2021).
Reid. P. R. Escape from Colditz (1953).
Rowling, J. K. The Harry Potter Series (7 books) (1997-2007).
Sewell, Anna. Black Beauty (1877).
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet (1623).
________. The Tragedie of Macbeth (1623).
________. King Lear (1606).
________. Twelfth Night (1602).
________. Julius Caesar (1599).
________. The Merchant of Venice (1598).
________. Romeo and Juliet (1597).
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein(1818).
Shire, Warsan. Bless The Daughter Raised By A Voice In Her Head (2022).
________. teaching my mother how to give birth (2011).
Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair(1848).
Tolkien, J. R. R. The Peoples of Middle-Earth (1996).
________. The Lays of Beleriand (1985).
________. The Book of Lost Tales 1 & 2 (1983).
________. The Silmarillion (1977).
________. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Pearl; Sir Orfeo (1975).
________. Smith of Wootton Major and Leaf by Niggle (1967).
________. The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962).
________. The Lord of the Rings (3 volumes) (1954-1955).
________. Farmer Giles of Ham (1949).
________. The Hobbit (1937).
Wells, H. G. The War of the Worlds (1898).
________. The Invisible Man (1897).
________. The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896).
________. The Time Machine (1895).
Wyndham, John. The Chrysalids (1955).

Ireland

Barrett, Colin. Homesickness: Stories (2022).
Beckett, Samuel. The Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett (2012).
________. Waiting for Godot (1952).
Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield (1766).
Heaney, Seamus. Human Chain (2010).
Joyce, James. Ulysses (1920).
________. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916).
Stoker, Bram. Dracula (1897).
Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels (1726).
Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Grey (1890).

Scotland

Banks, Iain. The Wasp Factory (1984).
Barrie, J. M. Peter Pan (1904).
Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Collected Cases of Sherlock Holmes (1981).
________. Sir Nigel (1906).
________. The White Company (1891).
Duffy, Carol Ann. Collected Poems (2015).
Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows (1908).
Hogg, James. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824).
Macrae Burnett, Graeme. Case Study (2022).
Scott, Walter. Castle Dangerous (1831).
________. The Talisman (1825).
________. Ivanhoe (1819).
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Kidnapped (1886).
________. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886).
________. The Black Arrow (1883).
________. Treasure Island (1883).
Stuart, Douglas. Young Mungo (2022).
________. Shuggie Bain (2020).

European (Western)

Andalusia

Ibn `Arabi, Muhyiddin. The Translator of Desire: Poems (Trans. By Michael Sells, 2021).

France

Apollinaire, Guillaume. Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War (1913-1916).
Bernanos, George. Diary of a Country Priest (1936).
Breton, André. Nadja (1928).
Camus, Albert. Exile and the Kingdom (1957).
________. The Fall (1956).
________. Les Justes (1949).
________. The Plague (1947).
________. The Outsider (1942).
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. Journey to the End of the Night (1932).
Chevallier, Gabriel. Fear: A Novel of World War One (1951).
Colette. The Pure and the Impure (1933).
Del Amo, Jean-Baptiste. Animalia (2019 [2016]).
Dumas, Alexander. The Man in the Iron Mask (1847).
________. The Count of Monte Cristo (1846).
________. The Three Musketeers (1844).
Duras, Marguerite. The Lover (1984).
Ernaux, Annie. Getting Lost (2022 [2001]).
________. A Woman’s Story (1991 [1988]).
France, Anatole. The Gods Will Have Blood (1912).
Gavalda, Anna. Billie (2013).
Genet, Jean. Funeral Rites (1948).
_________. Our Lady of the Flowers (1943).
Gide, Andre.The Immoralist(1902).
Guibert, Hervé. The Mausoleum of Lovers: Journals 1976-1991 (2014).
Houellebecq, Michel. The Elementary Particles (2000 [1998]).
Hugo, Victor.Toilers of the Sea (1866).
________. Les Miserables (1862).
________. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831).
Manchette, Jean-Patrick. The Mad and the Bad (1972).
Montaigne, Michel de. The Complete Essays (1580).
Proust, Marcel. In Search of Lost Time (Six Volumes) (1913-1927).
______. The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust (2001).
Rimbaud, Arthur. A Season in Hell (1873).
________. The Drunken Boat (1871).
Saint Exupéry, Antoine de. Le Petit Prince (1943).
Sartre, Jean-Paul. The Reprieve (1945).
________.The Age of Reason (1945).
________. Nausea (1938).
Stendahl. The Red and the Black (1830).
Verne, Jules. The Mysterious Island (1875).
________. Around the World in 80 Days (1872).
________. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870).
________. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864).
Voltaire. Candide (1759).
Zola, Émile. Germinal (1885).

Germany (Austria and Swiss German, too)

Bernhard, Thomas. Extinction (1986).
Broch, Hermann. The Guiltless (1950).
Böll, Hienrich. The Silent Angel (1992).
Brecht, Bertolt. The Threepenny Opera (1928).
Döblin, Alfred. Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774).
Grimm Brothers.Grimm’s Fairy Tales (1812).
Grimm, Hans Herbert. Schlump (2014 [1928]).
Handke, Peter. A Sorrow Beyond Dreams: A Life Story (1972).
________. The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (1970).
Heine, Heinrich. Poems Selected from Heinrich Heine (selected by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker) (1871).
Hesse, Hermann. Narziss and Goldmund (1930).
________. Siddartha (1922).
________. Demian (1919).
________. Gertrude (1910).
Kafka, Franz. The Metamorphosis (1915).
________. I Am a Memory Come Alive: Autobiographical Writings (ed. by Nahum N. Glazer) (1976).
Keun, Irmgard. After Midnight (2020 [1937]).
Kluge, Alexander. The Devil’s Blind Spot (2004).
Koestler, Arthur. Darkness at Noon (1940).
Mann, Thomas. Death in Venice & Seven Other Stories(1912).
Musil, Robert. The Man Without Qualities (2 Volumes) (1930-1943).
Novalis. Hymns to the Night (1800).
Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front (1928).
Rilke, Rainer Maria. Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus (2009).
________. Uncollected Poems (1995).
________. Rilke and Benvenuta: An Intimate Conversation (edited by Madga von Hattingberg [Benvenuta]) (1987).
________. Letters to a Young Poet (1929).
________. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910).
________. New Poems (1907).
________. Book of Hours (1905).
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon. The Emergence of Memory: Conversations with W. G. Sebald (2007).
Sebald, W. G. ________. Campo Santo (2021).
________. Austerlitz (2001).
________. On the Natural History of Destruction (1999).
________. A Place in the Country (1998).
________. The Rings of Saturn (1995).
________. The Emigrants (1992).
________. Vertigo (1990).
________. After Nature (1988).
Schiff, Edith (ed.). Holocaust Poetry (1995).
Spyri, Johanna. Heidi (1880).
Von Kleist, Heinrich. The Marquise of O— And Other Stories (1978 [1883]).
Walser, Robert. The Robber (1925).
________. Jakob Von Gunten (1999 [1909]).
________. The Assistant (1908).
________. The Tanners (1907).
Wyss, Johann David. The Swiss Family Robinson (1812).

Greece

Aesop. Fables (620-564BCE).
Homer. The Odyssey (~800BCE).
________. The Iliad (~800BCE).
Karapanou, Margarita. Rien ne va Plus (1991).
________. The Sleepwalker (1985).
________. Kassandra and the Wolf: a novel (1976).
Kazantzakis, Nikos. The Last Temptation of Christ (1952).
Graves, Robert. The Greek Myths (2 Volumes) (1955).
Sophocles. Oedipus at Colonus (401BCE).
________. Oedipus Rex (429BCE).
________. Antigone (441BCE).
Van Dyck, Karen (ed.). Austerity Measures: The New Greek Poetry (2016).

Italy (and Roman, too)

Augustus. Res Gestae Divi Augusti (14CE).
Calvino, Italo. Mr. Palomar (1983).
________. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler (1979).
________. Italian Folktales (1956).
Cicero. Political Speeches (~40BCE).
Eco, Umberto. Baudolino (2000).
________. Foucault’s Pendulum (1988).
________. In the Name of the Rose (1980).
Ferrante, Elena. The Lying Life of Adults (2020 [2019]).
________. Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey (2016).
________. The Neapolitan Quartet (4 Volumes) (2011-2014).
________. Troubling Love (1992).
Horace. The Complete Works of Horace (~8BCE).
Juvenal. Sixteen Satires (~100CE).
Lampedusa, Guiseppe di. The Leopard (1958).
Lucan. Civil War (61-65CE).
Malaparte, Curzio. The Skin (1949).
Ovid. Metamorphoses (8CE).
Petronius. The Satyricon (~90CE).
Plutarch. Selected Lives (~100CE).
Seneca.On Mercy (55CE).
________. The Apocolocyntosis (54CE).
________. Octavia (accredited but unlikely author).
Silone, Ignazio. Bread and Wine (1936).
Suetonius. The Twelve Caesars (121CE).
Tacitus, Annals (109CE).
________. The Life of Agricola (98CE).
________. Germania (98CE).
Virgil. The Aeneid (19BCE).
________. Georgics (38-32BCE).
________. Eclogues (42-37BCE).

Netherlands

Bouazza, Hafid. Abdullah’s Feet (1996).
Hermans, Willem Frederik. An Untouched House (2018 [1950]).
Koch, Herman. The Dinner (2013 [2009]).
Möring, Marcel. The Great Longing (1995 [1992]).
Mulisch, Harry. The Assault: A Novel (1985 [1982]).

Portugal

Saramago, José. Blindness (1995).
________. Baltasar and Blimunda (1982).

Spain

Baltasar, Eva. Permafrost (2018).
Carrión, Jorge. Bookshops: A Reader’s History (2018).
Cercas, Javier. Lord of All the Dead (2019).
Diaz del Castillo, Bernal. The Conquest of New Spain (1568).

Türkiye

Pamuk, Orhan. Istanbul: Memories and the City (2003).

Scandinavian

Denmark

Andersen, Hans Christian. Fairy Tales and Stories (1872).

Finland

Jansson, Tove. The Summer Book (1972).
Lönnrot, Elias. The Kalevala (1849).

Iceland

Árnason, Jón. Icelandic Folk and Fairy Tales (2009).
Eir, Oddný. Land of Love and Ruin (2011).
Laxness, Halldór. Independent People (2009 [1934]).
Skuggi. Sorcerer’s Screed: The Icelandic Book of Magic Spells (2015 [1940]).
Smiley, Jane (ed.). Sagas of the Icelanders (2001).

Norway

Gaarder, Jostein. Sophie’s World (1991).
Hamsun, Knut. Hunger (1996 [1890]).
Hval, Jenny. Girls Against God (2020).
Knausgaard, Karl Ove. My Struggle (6 Vols.) (2009-2011).
Undset, Sigrid. Kristin Lavransdatter Trilogy (1920-1922).
________. Gunnar’s Daughter (1909).

Sweden

Backman, Fredrik. Anxious People (2019).
________. Beartown (2017).
________. Things My Son Needs to Know About the World (2012).
Lindqvist, John. Let the Right One In (2004).
Wolff, Lina. Many People Die Like You (2020).

Graphic Novels

Anderson, Laurie Halse (writer) and Emily Carrol (illustrator). Speak (1999).
Archembault, Brigitte. The Shiatsung Project (2021).
Arni, Samhita and Moyna Chitraker. Sita’s Ramayana (2011).
B., David Hasib and the Queen of Serpents (2015).
________. Incidents in the Night: Book One (2013).
________. Epileptic (1996).
Backderf, Derf. My Friend Dahmer (2012).
Beaton, Kate. Ducks Two Years in the Oil Sands (2022).
Bechdel, Alison. Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama (2012).
________. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006).
Bédard, Sophie. Lonely Boys (2020).
Blutch, Blutch. Mitchum (2020).
Boileau, Kendra and Rich Johnson (eds.). Covid Chronicles: A Comics Anthology (2021).
Brogsol, Vera. Anya’s Ghost (2011).
Brosh, Allie. Hyperbole and a Half: unfortunate situations, flawed coping mechanisms, mayhem, and other things that happened (2013).
Brown, Chester. Paying For It: a comic-strip memoir about being a john (2011).
________. Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography (1999).
Burns, Charles. Black Hole (1995).
Carlin, John and Oriol Malet. Mandela and the General (2018).
Carroll, Emily. When I Arrived at the Castle (2019).
________. Through the Woods (2014).
Catel & Bocquet. Josephine Baker (2017).
Chabouté. Alone (2017).
________. Herman Melville’s Moby Dick (2017).
________. park bench (2017).
Chast, Roz. Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (2014).
Compton, Wayde with April Dela Noche Milne. The Blue Road: a fable of migration (2019).
Czerwiec, MK. Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 (2017).
Dandro, Travis. Hummingbird Heart (2022).
________. King of Kings Court: A Memoir (2019).
Davis, Guy and Gary Reed. Honour Among Punks: The Complete Baker Street Graphic Novel (2003).
Debeurme, Ludovic. Lucille (2006).
DeForge, Michael. Heaven No Hell (2021).
Delisle, Guy. Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City (2011).
________. Burma Chronicles (2007).
Delporte, Julie. this woman’s work (2019).
Drnaso, Nick. Sabrina (2018).
________. Beverly (2016).
Eaton, Hannah. Blackwood (2020).
Eisner, Will. A Contract with God (1978).
Findakly, Brigitte and Lewis Trondheim. Poppies of Iraq (2017).
Forney, Ellen. Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, & Me. A Graphic Memoir (2012).
Giponte, Andrea Grosso. Freiheit! The White Rose Graphic Novel (2021).
Goscinny, René, and Albert Uderzo. Asterix (volumes 1-29).
Green Katie. Lighter Than My Shadow (2013).
Grove, Emma. The Third Person (2022).
Ha, Robin. Almost American Girl (2020).
Harari, Lucas. Swimming in Darkness (2019).
Head, Glenn. Chartwell Manor (2021).
Henry Jr., Gordon and Elizabeth LaPensée (eds.). Not (Just) (An)Other: Sovereign Traces Vol. 1 (2018).
Hergé. The Adventures of Tintin (22 volumes).
Hernandez, Gilbert. Sloth (2006).
Hill, Gord. The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book (2010).
Katin, Mariam. We Are On Our Own: A Memoir (2023 [2006]).
Kimball, Margaret. And Now I Spill The Family Secrets (2021).
Krug, Nora. Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home (2018).
Lemire, Jeff. Gideon Falls (5 Vols.) (2018-2020).
________. Frogcatchers (2019).
________. Roughneck (2017).
________. The Underwater Welder (2012).
________. The Essex County Trilogy (2008).
________. Lost Dogs (2005).
Lemire, Jeff and Gord Downie. Secret Path (2016).
Lust, Ulli. How I Tried to Be a Good Person (2017).
________. Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life (2013 [2009]).
Lutes, Jason. Jar of Fools (2003).
Machado, Carmen Maria (writer), Dani (artist). The Low, Low Woods (2019-2020).
Mejias, John Vasquez. The Puerto Rican War: A Graphic History (2024).
Melt, H. There Are Trans People Here (2021).
Miller, Frank. 300 (1998).
________. Batman: Year One (1987).
________. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (1986).
Moore, Alan. Watchmen (1986-1987).
Mutch, Kevin. The Rough Pearl (2020).
Nichols, L. I Am Only A Foreigner Because You Do Not Understand (2023).
________. Flocks (2018).
Noble, Danny. Shame Pudding: A Graphic Memoir (2020).
Olmo, Irene. I Don’t Want to Be a Mom (2023 [2019]).
Oseman, Alice. Heartstopper: Volumes 1-4 (2020-2021).
Pekar, Harvey. Best of American Splendor (2005).
Rancourt, Sylvie. Melody: Story of a Nude Dancer (2015 [1985]).
Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis 1 & 2 (2000, 2002).
Shraya, Vivek + Ness Lee. Death Threat (2019).
Siris. The Vagabond Valise (2017).
Small, David. Home After Dark (2018).
________. Stitches (2009).
Smith, Jeff. Bone: The Complete Cartoon Epic in One Volume (2004).
Spiegelman, Art. In the Shadow of No Towers (2004).
________. Maus I & II (1986).
Stavans, Ilan and Steve Sheinkin. Il Illuminado: A Graphic Novel (2012).
Steacy, Joan. Aurora Borealice (2019).
Takai, George, Justin Eisenger, and Steven Scott. Art by Harmony Becker. They Called Us Enemy (2019).
Tamaki, Mariko. This One Summer (2014).
The Graphic History Collective and David Lester. 1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike (2019).
The Graphic History Collective with Althea Blames, Gord Hill, Orion Keresztesi & David Lester. Direction Action Gets the Goods: A Graphic History of the Strike in Canada (2019).
Thompson, Craig. Habibi (2011).
________. Carnet de Voyages (2004).
________. Blankets (2003).
________. Goodbye Chunky Rice (1999).
Tomine, Adrian. Killing and Dying (2015).
________. Shortcomings (2007).
Ulinich, Anya. Lena Finkle`s Magic Barrel (2014).
Una. Becoming Unbecoming (2015).
Vaughn-James, Martin. The Cage (2002).
Veasna, Tian. Year of the Rabbit (2012).
Watts, Irene N. Seeking Refuge: A Graphic Novel (2017).

Nonfiction

Auto/Biographies

Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969).
Angier, Carole. Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald (2021).
Barnholden, Michael and Nancy Newman, with photographs by Lindsay Mearns. Street Stories: 100 Years of Homelessness in Vancouver (2007).
Bishop-Stall, Shaughnessy. Down to This: squalor and splendour in a big-city shantytown (2004).
Blair, Maury. Child of Woe (1981).
Berkman, Alexander. Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1912).
Bernofsky, Susan. Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser (2021).
Burroughs, Augusten. Possible Side Effects (2006).
Cran, Brad and Gillian Jerome. Hope in Shadows: Stories and Photographs of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (2008).
Crossan, John Dominic. A Long Way From Tipperary: A Memoir (2000).
Delaney, Rob. A Heart That Works (2022).
Du Plessix Gray, Francine. At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life (1998).
Fellows, Warren. The Damage Done: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison (1997).
Gallego, Rubén. White on Black (2002).
Goldman, Emma. Living My Life (two volumes) (1931, 1934).
Gorz, André. Letter to D (2006).
Grue, Jan. I Live a Life Like Yours: a memoir (2021 [2018]).
Hansen, Ann. Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerilla (2001).
Herzen, Alexander. My Past & Thoughts (1870).
Herzog, Werner. Every Man for Himself and God Against All (2022).
Jamison, Kay Redfield.An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (1995).
King, Jr. Martin Luther (ed. by Clayborne Carson). The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1998).
Kropotkin, Peter. Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899).
Lorr, Benjamin. Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga (2012).
McMullen, Mike. I, Superhero!! (2010).
Malia, Martin. Alexander Herzen and the Birth of Russian Socialism (1961).
Malraux, Andre. Anti-Memoirs (1967).
Marcinko, Richard. Rogue Warrior (1992).
McCurdy, Jennette. I’m Glad My Mom Died (2022).
Nuhanović, Hasan. The Last Refuge: A True Story of War, Survival, and Life under Siege in Srebrenica (2019).
Petrushevskaya, Ludmilla. The Girl from the Metropol Hotel (2006).
Prejean, Helen. Dead Man Walking (1993).
Richards, Keith. Life (2010).
Richardson, Bill. Scorned and Beloved: Dead of Winter Meetings with Canadian Eccentrics (1997).
Robertson, Leslie and Dara Culhane (eds). In Plain Sight: Reflections on Life in Downtown Eastside Vancouver (2005).
Rose, Gillian. Love’s Work (1995).
Sedaris, David. Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000).
________, Naked (1997).
Semprun, Jorge. Literature or Life (1997 [1994]).
________. The Long Voyage: A Novel (1963).
Trump, Mary L. Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man (2020).
Weedman, Lauren. A Woman Trapped in a Woman’s Body (2007).
Wiesel, Elie. Night (1956).
Wiesenthal, Simon. The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness (1969).
Woodcock, George. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1956).
Wright, Erik Olin. From Stardust to Stardust: Reflections on Living and Dying (2020).
Wulffson, Don. Soldier X (2001).
X, Malcolm. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley (1965).

Indigenous Studies & Literature

Aazhoodenaang Enjibaajig. Our Long Struggle for Home: The Ipperwash Story (2022).
Alfred, Taiaiake. Wasáse: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom (2005).
Anderson, Mark Cronlund and Carmen L. Robertson. Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers (2011).
Barrett, S. M. (editor). Geronimo: In His Own Words (1905-1906).
Belcourt, Billy-Ray. A Minor Chorus (2022).
________. A History of My Brief Body (2020).
________. NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes From the Field (2019).
________. This Wound is a World (2017).
Benaway, Giles. Ceremonies for the Dead (2013).
Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (1970).
Campbell, Maria. Halfbreed (1973).
Campbell, Tenille K. Nedí Nezų: Good Medicine (2021).
________. #IndianLovePoems (2017).
Chaulk, Mike. Night Lunch (2020).
Coulthard, Glen Sean. Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (2014).
Crosby, Andrew and Jeffrey Monaghan. Policing Indigenous Movements: Dissent and the Security State (2018).
Daschuk, James. Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life (2013).
DePasquale, Paul W. (ed.). Natives & Settlers. Now & Then: Historical Issues and Current Perspectives on Treaties and Land Claims in Canada (2007).
Diaz, Natalie. Postcolonial Love Poem (2020).
________. When My Brother Was an Aztec (2012).
Dimaline, Cherie. Empire of Wild (2019).
________. The Marrow Thieves (2017).
Dion-Glowa, Justene. Trailer Park Shakes (2022).
Elliott, Alicia. And Then She Fell (2023).
________. A Mind Spread Out on the Ground (2019).
Fountaine, Theodore. Broken Circle — The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools: A Memoir (2010).
Fournier, Suzanne and Ernie Crey. Stolen From Our Embrace: The Abductions of First Nations Children and the Restoration of Aboriginal Communities (1997).
Gebhard, Amanda, Sheelah McLean, and Verna St. Denis (eds.) White Benevolence: Racism and Colonial Violence in the Helping Professions (2022).
Goetz, Delia and Sylvanus G. Morley (English language version from the translation by Adrian Recinos). Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Ancient Quiche Maya (1554-1558).
Gordon, Todd. Imperialist Canada (2010).
Graham, Elizabeth. The Mush Hole: Life at Two Indian Residential Schools (1997).
Harjo, Joy with Leanne Howe, Jennifer Elise Foerster, and Contributing Editors. When the Light of the World Was Subdued Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (2020).
Howard, Liz. Letters in a Bruised Cosmos (2021).
Innes, Robert Alexander, and Kim Anderson (eds.). Indigenous Men and Masculinities: Legacies, Identities, Regeneration (2015).
Kaye, Julie. Responding to Human Trafficking: Dispossession, Colonial Violence, and Resistance among Indigenous and Racialized Women (2017).
Karetak, Joe, Frank Tester and Shirley Tagalik (eds.). Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit: What Inuit Have Always Known to Be True (2017).
Knott, Helen. In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience (2019).
Krasowski, Sheldon. No Surrender: The Land Remains Indigenous (2019).
Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes. Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions (1994 [1972]).
Lee, Annette S., with William Wilson, Jeffrey Tibbetts and Carl Gawboy. Ojibwe Giizhig Anang Masinaa’igan. Ojibwe Sky Star Map Constellation Guide: An Introduction to Ojibwe Star Knowledge (2014).
Legarde Grover, Linda. Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year (2017).
Long Solider, Layli. Whereas (2017).
Lux, Maureen K. Separate Beds: A History of Indian Hospitals in Canada, 1920s-1980s (2016).
Mackey, Eva. Unsettled Expectations: Uncertainty, Land and Settler Decolonization (2016).
Mailhot, Terese Marie. Heart Berries: A Memoir (2018).
Maracle, Lee. I Am Woman (1988).
Methot, Suzanne. Legacy: Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing (2021).
Milloy, John. A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System — 1879 to 1986 (1999).
Nichols, Robert. Theft is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory (2019).
Nikoforuk, Andrew. Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent (2008).
Nitsch, Twylah and Jamie Sams. Other Council Fires Were Here Before Ours (1991).
Niutaq Cultural Institute and Qikiqtani Inuit Assocation. Ilagiinniq: Interviews on Inuit Family Values from the Qikiqtani Region (2011).
okpik, dg nanouk. blood snow (2022).
Orange, Tommy. There There (2018).
Pico, Tommy. Feed (2019).
Povinelli, Elizabeth A. The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism (2002).
Plain, David D. The Plains of Aamjiwnaang (2007).
________. Ways of Our Grandfathers: Our Traditions and Culture (2007).
Rasmussen, Knud (ed.). Eskimo Poems from Canada and Greenland (1974).
Razack, Sherene. Dying From Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody (2015).
Riel, Louis David. The Diaries of Louis Riel (1885 [1976]).
Rytkheu, Yuri. When the Whales Leave (2009 [1975]).).
Simpson, Audra. Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States (2014).
Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake. Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies (2020).
________. This Accident of Being Lost (2017).
________. Islands of Decolonial Love: Songs and Stories (2013).
________. Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back: Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence and a New Emergence (2011).
Skeets, Jake. Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers (2019).
Smith, Andrea. Conquest: Sexual Violence and the American Indian Genocide (2005).
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples (1999).
Starblanket, Gina and Dallas Hunt. Storying Violence: Unravelling Colonial Narratives in the Stanley Trial (2020).
Starblanket, Tamara. Suffer the Little Children: Genocide, Indigenous Nations and the Canadian State (2018).
Steeves, Paulette F. C. The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere (2021).
Stote, Karen. An Act of Genocide: Colonization and the Sterilization of Indigenous Women (2015).
Tagaq, Tanya. Split Tooth (2018).
Thomas-Muller, Clayton. Life in the City of Dirty Water: A Memoir of Healing (2021).
van Camp, Richard. Angel Wing Splash Pattern (2002).
Wagamese, Richard. Embers: One Ojibwe’s Meditations (2016).
________. Medicine Walk (2014).
________. For Joshua (2002).
Washuta, Elissa. White Magic (2021).
________. My Body is a Book of Rules (2014).
Whitehead, Joshua. Jonny Appleseed: A Novel (2018).
Wright, Ronald. Stolen Continents: The “New World” Through Indian Eyes (1992).
Yahgulanaas, Michael Nicoll. Old Growth (2011).
York, Geoffrey. The Dispossessed: Life and Death in Native Canada (1989).
Young, Robert J. C. Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture & Race (1995).

Philosophy & Social Theory

Adorno, Theodor. Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life.
Agamben, Giorgio. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life.
________. The State of Exception.
________. The Time That Remains: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans.
________. Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive.
Anidjar, Gil. Blood: A Critique of Christianity.
Arendt, Hannah. On Revolution.
Badiou, Alain. Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism.
________. Being and Event.
Badiou, Alain with Nicolas Truong. In Praise of Love (2009).
Barthes, Roland. Mourning Diary (2010 [2009]).
________. Mythologies.
Bataille, Georges. The Accursed Shared: An Essay in General Economy. Volume 1: Consumption (1989).
Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulation.
________. Forget Foucault.
________. Fragments: Cool Memories III, 1990-1995.
________. The System of Objects.
________. The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures.
________. Symbolic Exchange and Death.
Behar, Ruth. The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology that Wil Break Your Heart.
Berardi, Franco “Bifo.” The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy (2009).
Berger, Peter L. and Thomas Luckmann. The Social Construction of Reality.
Bergson, Henri. Matter and Memory (1908).
Bhahba, Homi K. The Location of Culture (1994).
Biehl, João with photographs by Torben Eskerod. Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment (2013 [2005]).
Bloch, Ernst. Man on His Own: Essays in the Philosophy of Religion.
Boer, Roland. Criticism of Heaven: On Marxism and Theology.
Bratton, Benjamin. The Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-Pandemic World.
Buber, Martin. I and Thou (1971 [1923]).
Butler, Judith. Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence (2004).
Byung-Chul Han. Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power (2017).
Camus, Albert. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays.
Canguilhem, Georges. The Normal and the Pathological (1989 [1966]).
Certeau, Michel de. The Practice of Everyday Life.
Césaire, Aimé. Discourse on Colonialism.
Cioran, E. M. The Temptation to Exist (2012 [1956]).
Connolly, William E. A World of Becoming (2011).
Dean, Mitchell & Daniel Zamora. The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution (2021).
Debord, Guy. The Society of the Spectacle.
De Botton, Alain. Essays in Love (2008).
________. Status Anxiety (2004).
Dederer, Claire. Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma (2023).
Deleuze, Gilles. Difference and Repetition.
Deleuze, Gilles and Félix Guattari. Capitalism and Schizophrenia (2 volumes).
Derrida, Jacques. Of Grammatology.
________. Specters of Marx: The State of Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International.
________. On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness.
________. Given Time: I. Counterfeit Money.
Dorlin, Elsa. Self Defense: A Philosophy of Violence (2022 [2017]).
Eagleton, Terry. Hope Without Optimism (2015).
________. After Theory.
________. Marxism and Literary Criticism.
Eco, Umberto. Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language.
Evans, Brad and Henry Giroux. Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of the Spectacle (2015).
Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth.
Fiske, Alan Page and Tage Shakti Rai. Virtuous Violence: Hurting and Killing to Create, Sustain, End and Honor Social Relations.
Fleury, Cynthia. Here Lies Bitterness: Healing from Resentment (2023 [2020]).
Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civilization.
________. The Birth of the Clinic.
________. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison.
________. The History of Sexuality (Vol. 1).
________. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences.
________. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews & Other Writings, 1972-1977 (ed. by Colin Gordon).
________. Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the College de France 1981-1982.
________. On the Governement of the Living and Oedipal Knowledge: Lectures at the College de France 1979-80.
________. The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the College de France 1978-1979.
________. Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the College de France 1977-1978.
________. “Society Must Be Defended”: Lectures at the College de France 1975-1976.
________. “Abnormal”: Lectures at the College de France 1974-1975.
________. Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the College de France 1973-1974 (2003).
Fronsdal Gil (trans.). The Dhammapada.
Gadamer, Hans-Georg. Truth and Method.
Gentili, Dario. The Age of Precarity: Endless Crisis as an Art of Government (2021).
Goodchild, Philip. Theology of Money.
Greenaway, Jon. Capitalism: A Horror Story. Gothic Marxism and the Dark Side of the Radical Imagination (2024).
Han, Byung-Chul. The Agony of Eros (2017).
Hardt, Michael and Antonio Negri. Commonwealth.
________. Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire.
________. Empire.
Hegel, Georg W. F. Phenomenology of Spirit.
Heidegger, Martin. An Introduction to Metaphysics.
________. The Question Concerning Technology.
________. The Way to Language.
________. Being and Time.
Horkheimer, Max and Theodor W. Adorno. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments.
Husserl, Edmund. Phenomenology and the Crisis of Philosophy (1965).
Jameson, Frederic. Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism.
Jaspers, Karl. The Question of German Guilt.
Kant, Immanuel. Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals.
________. Critique of Pure Reason.
Kelley, David. The Art of Reasoning.
Kierkegaard, Soren.Purity of Heart.
________. Fear and Trembling.
Kolozova, Katerina. Cut of the Real: Subjectivity in Poststructuralist Philosophy.
Laclau, Ernesto. On Populist Reason.
Land, Nick. Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007.
Laozi. Tao Te Ching.
Leduc, Amanda. Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space.
Lefebvre, Henri. The Critique of Everyday Life.
Levi, Primo. The Drowned and the Saved.
________. Survival in Auschwitz.
Lyotard, Jean-Francois. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge.
MacIntyre, Alasdair. After Virtue: a study in moral theory.
Malcolm, Norman. Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir.
Mandeville, Bernard. The Fable of the Bees.
Massumi, Brian. A user’s guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guatarri.
Mbembe, Achille. Critique of Black Reason.
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Phenomenology of Perception.
Mill, John Stuart. Utilitarianism.
Morton, Timothy. Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World.
Nancy, Jean-Luc. God, Justice, Love, Beauty: Four Little Dialogues (2011).
Moufawad-Paul, J. Austerity Apparatus (2017).
Negri, Antonio. Time for Revolution.
Nietzche, Friedrich. Thus Spake Zarathustra.
________. Beyond Good and Evil.
________. The Genealogy of Morals.
________. The Will to Power.
Nordmann, Alfred. Wittgenstein’s Tractatus: An Introduction.
Pascal. Pensées.
Povinelli, Elizabeth A. Routes/Worlds (2022).
Rancière, Jacques. Hatred of Democracy.
________. The Emancipated Spectator (20009 [2008]).
________. The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation.
________. Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy.
Rehmann, Jan. Theories of Ideology: The Power of Alienation and Subjection (2013).
________. Deconstructing Postmodernist Nietzcheanism: Deleuze and Foucault (2022).
Ricoeur, Paul. Memory, History, Forgetting.
Sandoval, Chela. Methodology of the Oppressed (2000).
Santner, Eric L. On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald.
Sartre, Jean-Paul. Being and Nothingness.
Shaviro, Steven. Without Criteria: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics.
Schopenhauer, Arthur. On the Suffering of the World (2004 [1850]).
Schulman, Sarah. Conflict is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair.
Sherwood, Yvonne and Kevin Hart (eds). Derrida and Religion: Other Testaments.
Shotwell, Alexis. Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times.
Stauffer, Jill. Ethical Loneliness: the injustice of not being heard.
Stern, David G. Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations.
Taubes, Jacob. Occidental Eschatology.
________. The Political Theology of Paul.
Tawney, R. H. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism.
Taylor, Charles. A Secular Age.
The Invisible Committee. The Coming Insurrection.
Tiqqun. Introduction to Civil War.
________. This is Not a Program.
Virno, Paolo. The Grammar of the Multitude.
Weber, Max. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
Whitehead, Alfred North. Process and Reality.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations.
________. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
________. Philosophical Remarks.
________. Notebooks, 1914-1916.
________. Culture and Value.
________. Letters to Malcolm.
________. Zettel.
Wright, G. H. von. Wittgenstein.
Žižek, Slavoj. Event.
________. Violence.
________. In Defense of Lost Causes.
________. How to Read Lacan.
________. On Belief.
________. The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity.
________. The Fragile Absolute — or, why is the Christian legacy worth fighting for?
________. First as Tragedy, Then as Farce.
________. The Parallax Gap.
________. The Sublime Object of Ideology.

The Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Health, and Policing

Adler-Bolton, Beatrice and Artie Vierkant. Health Communism (2022).
Eubanks, Virginia. Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor.
Gordon, Todd. Cops, Crime and Capitalism: The Law-and-Order Agenda in Canada
Hart, Carl. High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society.
INCITE! (ed). The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex.
Jaffe, Sarah. Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone.
Lewis, Stephen. Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa.
Maher, Geo. A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete.
Malacrida, Claudia. A Special Hell: Institutional Life in Alberta’s Eugenics Years.
Metzl, Jonathan M. and Anna Kirkland (eds.). Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality (2010).
Moskowitz, P. E. How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood.
Moyo, Dambisa. Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How there is a Better Way for Africa.
Mueller, Gavin. Breaking Things at Work: Why The Luddites Were Right about Why You Hate Your Job.
Neocleous, Mark. A Critical Theory of Police Power (2021 [2000]).
Oliver, Kelly. Carceral Humanitarianism: Logics of Refugee Detention.
Oudshoorn, Judah. Trauma-Informed Youth Justice in Canada: A New Framework toward a Kinder Future.
Paley, Dawn. Drug War Capitalism (2014).
Pasternak, Shiri, Kevin Walby and Abby Stadnyk (eds.). Disarm, Defund, Dismantle: Police Abolition in Canada (2022).
Richey, Lisa Ann and Stefano Ponte. Brand Aid: Shopping Well to Save the World.
Rolnik, Raquel. Urban Warfare: Housing Under the Empire of Finance.
Seigel, Micol. Violence Work: State Power and the Limits of Police (2018).
Stein, Samuel. Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State.
Vitale, Alex. The End of Policing.
Wacquant, Loïc. Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity.
Williams, Kristian. Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America.
Willse, Craig. The Value of Homelessness: Managing Surplus Life in the United States.
Zartman, I. William and Maureen R. Berman. The Practical Negotiator.

History

Alexievich, Svetlana. The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II (2018 but originally published in Russian in 1985).
Barber, Benjamin. Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism are Reshaping the World.
Bevins, Vincent. The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade & the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World.
Buck-Morss, Susan. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History.
Cameron, Stevie. On the Take: Crime, Corruption and Greed in the Mulroney Years (1995).
Clark, Christopher. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914.
Chomsky, Noam. What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World. Interviews with David Barsamian.
________. Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance.
________. Profit Over People: neoliberalism and global order.
crow, scott. Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Grounds Collective.
Cusset, François. How the World Swung to the Right: Fifty Years of Counterrevolutions.
De Witte, Ludo. The Assassination of Lumumba.
Dubois, Laurent. Haiti: The Aftermath of History.
Engler, Yves. Canada in Africa: 300 Years of Aid and Exploitation.
Engler, Yves and Anthony Fenton. Canada in Haiti: Waging War on the Poor Majority.
Friedman, Thomas L. From Beirut to Jerusalem.
Gellhorn, Martha. The Face of War (1988).
Graeber, David and David Wengrow. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021).
Hallward, Peter. Damming the Flood: Haiti and the Politics of Containment.
Harris, Malcolm. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World (2023).
Horne, Gerald. The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States.
James, C. L. R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution.
Johnson, Walter. The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States.
Losurdo, Domenico. Liberalism: A Counter-History (2014 [2011]).
McBride, Stephen and John Shields. Dismantling a Nation: Canada and the New World Order (1993).
Miéville, China. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution.
Rodney, Walter. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.
Scheidel, Walter. The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century.
Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal.
Terkel, Studs. Hope Dies Last: Keeping Faith in Troubled Times.
Tidrick, Kathryn. Gandhi: A Political and Spiritual Life.
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History.
Turse, Nick. Tomorrow’s Battlefield: US Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa.
Venturi, Franco. Roots of Revolution: A History of the Populist and Socialist Movements in 19th Century Russia.
West, Rebecca. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia.

Economics

Albo, Greg and Bryan M. Evans (eds.). Divided Province: Ontario Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism.
Anderson, Elijah. Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City.
Asma, M. I. On Necrocapitalism: A Plague Journal (2021).
Blyth, Mark. Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea (2013).
Bourdieu, Pierre. Acts of Resistance: Against the Tyranny of the Market (1998).
Bourgois, Phillippe. In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio.
Brabazon, Honor (ed.). Neoliberal Legality: Understanding the role of law in the neoliberal project.
Brooks, David. Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There.
Brown, Wendy. In The Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West.
________. Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution.
Bukharin, Nikolai. Imperialism and World Economy.
Christophers, Brett. Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World (2024).
________. Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?
Collins, Joe. Rent (2022).
Cooper, Melinda. Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism.
Crary, Jonathan. 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep.
Crouch, Colin. The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism.
Dardot, Pierre and Christian Laval. Never-Ending Nightmare: The Neoliberal Assault on Democracy.
________. The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society.
Davies, Jonathan S. Between Realism and Revolt: Governing Cities in the Crisis of Neoliberal Globalism.
Durand, Cédric. How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-feudalism: The Making of the Digital Economy (2024).
________. Fictitious Capital: How Finance Is Appropriating Our Future.
Fraser, Nancy. Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do about It (2022).
________. The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond (2019).
Friedman, Milton. Capitalism & Freedom (1965 [1962]).
George, Susan. Shadow Sovereigns: How Global Corporations are Seizing Power.
Graeber, David. Debt: The First 5000 Years.
Grubačić, Andrej and Denis O’Hearn. Living At The Edges of Capitalism: Adventures in Exile and Mutual Aid.
Ha-Joon, Chang.Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism.
Harvey, David. The New Imperialism.
________. A Brief History of Neoliberalism (2005).
________. Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution.
Hay, Donald A. Economics Today: A Christian Critique.
Hayek, Friedrich A. The Road to Serfdom (1994 [1944]).
Heilbroner, Robert. Twenty-First Century Capitalism.
________. The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times & Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers.
Lazzarato, Maurizio. Capital Hates Everyone: Fascism or Revolution (2021).
Liu, Catherine. Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class.
Locke, Robert R. and J.-C. Spender. Confronting Mangerialism: How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance.
Loxley, John with Salim Loxley. Public Service Private Profits: The Political Economy of Public-Private Partnerships in Canada (2010).
Malthus, Thomas. Population.
McBride, Stephen and Heather Whiteside. Private Affluence Public Austerity: Economic Crisis and Democratic Malaise in Canada (2011).
Peck, Jamie. Offshore: Exploring the Worlds of Global Outsourcing (2017).
Perkins, John. Confessions of an Economic Hitman.
Roediger, David. The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History (2022 [2020]).
Roy, Arundhati. Capitalism: A Ghost Story.
Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations.
Standing, Guy. The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class. Special COVID-19 Edition (2021 [2011]).
Supiot, Alain. Homo Juridicus: On the Anthropological Function of the Law (2017 [2007]).
Tooze, Adam. Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World (2018).
________. Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy (2021).
Twitchell, James B. Branded Nation: The Marketing of Megachurch, CollegeInc, & Museumworld.
Valencia, Sayak. Gore Capitalism.

Political Theory (General)

Churchill, Ward. Pacifism as Pathology.
Collier, Cheryl N. and Jonathan Malloy (eds.). The Politics of Ontario.
Fukuyama, Francis. The End of History and the Last Man.
Galeano, Eduardo. We Say No: Chronicles 1963-1991.
Gelderloos, Peter. How Nonviolence Supports the State.
________. Anarchy Works.
________. The Failure of Nonviolence: From the Arab Spring to Occupy.
Giannopoulos, Nikolaos. Terrorist or Freedom Fighter? The Right to Resist (2023).
Griffiths, Rudyard (ed.). The Munk Debates: Volume 1.
Guérin, Daniel. No Gods, No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism. Volume I-II.
Hammad, Isabella. Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative (2024).
Heath, Joseph, and Andrew Potter. The Rebel Sell: Why the Culture can’t be Jammed.
Jensen, Derrick. Endgame (two volumes).
Klein, Naomi. This Changes Everything: Capitalism Versus the Climate.
________. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.
________. Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate.
________. No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies.
Kropotkin, Peter. Fugitive Writings.
________. Words of a Rebel.
Lagalisse, Erica. Occult Features of Anarchism: With Attention to the Conspiracy of Kings and the Conspiracy of the Peoples.
Lenin, Vladimir. Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism.
Lorey, Isabell. State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious (2015 [2012]).
Malm, Andreas. How to Blow Up a Pipeline.
Malm, Andreas and the Zetkin Collective. White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Dangers of Fossil Fascism.
Mao. The Little Red Book.
Marx, Karl and Frederick Engels. The Manifesto of the Communist Party.
Miliband, Ralph. The State in Capitalist Society: The Analysis of the Western System of Power (1973).
Milstein, Cindy (ed.). Taking Sides: Revolutionary Solidarity and the Poverty of Liberalism.
Osterweil, Vicky. In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action (2020).
Scott, James C. Two Cheers for Anarchism (2012).
Spade, Dean. Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together (2025).
________. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next).
Subar, Rebecca. When to Talk and When to Fight: The Strategic Choice Between Dialogue and Resistance (2021).
Walia, Harsha. Undoing Border Imperialism.
________. Border & Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism.

Media & Tech Studies

Chomsky, Noam Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies.
Chomsky, Noam and Edward S. Herman. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media.
Foer, Franklin. World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech.
Lenskyj, Helen Jefferson. Olympic Industry Resistance: Challenging Olympic Power and Propaganda.
McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man.
Postman, Neil. Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology.
________. The Disappearance of Childhood.
________. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business.
Strate, Lance. Amazing Ourselves to Death: Neil Postman’s Brave New World Revisited.
Roszak, Theodore. The Making of the Counter Culture: Reflections on the technoratic society and its youthful opposition.
Varoufakis, Yanis. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (2024).
Zuboff, Shoshana. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (2019).

Race Theory

Allen, Theodore W. The Invention of the White Race (2 vols.).
Anderson, Carol. White Rage: The Unspoke Truth of Our Racial Divide.
Belew, Kathleen. Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America (2018).
Bey, Marquis. Anarcho-Blackness: Notes Towards a Black Anarchism.
Bloom, Joshua and Waldo E. Martin, Jr. Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panter Party.
brown, adrienne maree. We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice.
Burke, Tarana and Brené Brown (eds.). You Are Your Best Things: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience (2021).
Cobb Jr., Charles E. That Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How guns made the Civil Rights Movement.
Diangelo, Robin. White Fragility: Why it’s so hard for White people to talk about racism.
Eddo-Lodge, Reni. Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race (2019 [2017]).
Fekete, Liz. Europe’s Fault Lines: Racism and the Rise of the Right (2018).
Gilroy, Paul. Postcolonial Melancholia (2005).
Haider, Asad. Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump (2018).
Hamad, Ruby. White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color.
Hartman, Saidiya. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals.
Jones-Rogers, Stephanie. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South.
hooks, bell. Where We Stand: Class Matters.
________. All About Love: New Visions.
Kaba, Mariamme. We Do This ‘Til We Free Us.
Kendall, Mikki. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women the Movement Forgot (2020).
Kindinger, Evangelia and Mark Schmitt (eds). The Intersections of Whiteness (2019).
Lavin, Talia. Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy.
Maynard, Robyn. Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present.
Neiman, Susan. Learning From the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil (2020 2019]).
Painter, Nell Irvin. The History of White People.
Ray, Victor. On Critical Race Theory: Why It Matters & Why You Should Care (2022).
Rankine, Claudia. Just Us.
Sakai, J. Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern.
Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation.

Fascism and Anti-Fascism

Bangstad, Sindre. Anders Breivik and the Rise of Islamophobia.
Bartley, Allan. The Ku Klux Klan in Canada: A Century of Promoting Racism and Hate in the Peaceable Kingdom.
Bauer, Yehuda. They Chose Life: Jewish Resistance in the Holocaust.
Burley, Shane. Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It (2017).
Bray, Mark. Antifa: The Antifascist Handbook.
Chapoutot, Johann. Free to Obey: How the Nazis Invented Modern Management (2023 [2020]).
Connolly, William E. Aspirational Fascism: The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy Under Trumpism.
Griffin, Roger. Modernism and Fascism: The Sense of a Beginning Under Mussolini and Hitler.
Kershaw, Ian. Hitler (two volumes).
Lyons, Matthew N. Insurgent Supremacists: THe U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire.
Mann, Michael. Fascists.
________. The Dark Side of Democracy: Exploring Ethnic Cleansing.
Meckfessel, Shon. Nonviolence Ain’t What It Used To Be: Unarmed Insurrection and the Rhetoric of Resistance.
Pauley, Bruce E. Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini: Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century.
Pitsula, James M. Keeping Canada British: The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Saskatchewan.
Reid-Ross, Alexander. Against the Fascist Creep.
Renton, David. The New Authoritarians: Convergence on the Right.
________. No Free Speech for Fascists: Explaining ‘No Platform’ in History, Law and Politics.
Shaw, Ron W. London Ontario’s Unrepentant Confederates: The Ku Klux Klan and Rendition on Wellington Street (2018).
Stangneth, Bettina. Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer.
Testa, M. Militant Anti-Fascism: A Hundred Years of Resistance.
Traverso, Enzo. The New Faces of Fascism.
Trotsky, Leon. Fascism: what it is and how to fight it.
Zetkin, Clara. Fighting Fascism: How to Struggle and How to Win (2017 edition).

Psy-Disciplines

Abu El-Haj, Nadia. Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in post-911 America (2022).
Ahmed, Sara. The Cultural Politics of Emotion.
________. The Promise of Happiness.
Alsadir, Nuar. Animal Joy (2022).
Antić, Ana. Therapeutic Fascism: Experience the Violence of the Nazi New Order (2016).
Berlant, Lauren. On the Inconvenience of Other People (2022).
________. Desire/Love.
_________. Cruel Optimism.
Bollas, Christopher. Three Characters: Narcissist, Borderline, Manic Depressive (2021).
________. When the Sun Bursts: The Enigma of Schizophrenia (2015).
________. Catch Them Before They Fall: The Psychoanalysis of Breakdown (2013).
________. The Evocative Object World (2009).
________. Hysteria (2000).
________. Cracking Up: The Work of Unconscious Experience (1995).
________. The Shadow of the Object: Psychoanalysis of the Unthought Known (1987).
Bowlby, John. A Secure Base: Parent-Child Attachment and Healthy Human Development.
________. Attachment and Loss Volume 1: Attachment (1969).
________. Attachment and Loss Volume 2: Separation Anxiety and Anger (1973).
________. Attachment and Loss Volume 3: Loss Sadness and Depression (1980).
Boym, Svetlana. The Future of Nostalgia.
Brown, Nina W. Children of the Self-Absorbed: A Grownup’s Guide to Getting Over Narcissistic Parents (2001).
Conrad, Peter and Joseph W. Schneider. Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness.
Conrad, Peter. The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders.
Cruz, Cynthia. The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class.
Dana, Deb. Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection: 50 Client-Centered Practices (2020).
Fisher, Mark. The Weird and the Eerie.
Földényi, László F. Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears.
________. Melancholia.
Frankl, Victor. Man’s Search for Meaning.
Freud, Sigmund. Totem and Taboo.
________. The Future of an Illusion.
________. Civilization and Its Discontents.
Fromm, Erich. The Sane Society (1955).
Gibson, Lindsay C. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents.
Grant, Melanie. Disgust: A Memoir (2021).
Greenberg, Gary. The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry (2013).
Hollis, James. Swamplands of the Soul: New Life in Dismal Places (1996).
Jacoby, Mario. The Analytic Encounter: Transference and Human Relationship (1984).
Jamison, Kay Redfield. Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide (1999).
Jenkins, Alan. Invitations to Responsibility: The therapeutic engagement of men who are violent and abusive.
Jung, C. G. The Undiscovered Self.
Kristeva, Julia. Tales of Love (1987 [1983]).
________. Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia (1989 [1987]).
Lacan, Jacques. Écrits.
________. Desire and Its Interpretation: The Seminars of Jacques Lacan Book VI.
________. Transference: The Seminars of Jacques Lacan Book VIII.
________. Anxiety: The Seminars of Jacques Lacan Book X.
________. The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis: The Seminars of Jacques Lacan Book XI.
Leader, Darian. Promises Lovers Make When It Gets Late (1997).
________. The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression.
________. Jouissance: Sexuality, Suffering and Satisfaction.
________. What is Madness? (2012).
________. Strictly Bipolar (2013).
________. Hands: What We Do With Them and Why (2016).
________. Why Can’t We Sleep? (2019).
________. Stealing the Mona Lisa: What Art Stops Us From Seeing (2002).
Leader, Darian and David Corfield. Who Do People Get Ill? (2007).
Lippi, Sylvia. The Decision of Desire (2020 [2013]).
Martín-Baró, Ignacio. Writings for a Liberation Psychology.
Ngai, Sianne. Ugly Feelings.
Philips, Adam. On Balance.
________. Promises, Promises.
________. Attention Seeking (2019).
________. On Wanting to Change (2022).
________. On Getting Better (2022).
________. Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life (2012).
________. Going Sane (2005).
________. Winnicott (1988).
________. On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life (1993).
Phillips, Adam and Barbara Taylor. On Kindness (2009).
Posner, Gerald. Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America (2020).
Purser, Ronald E. McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality.
Rodgers, Carl R. On Becoming a Person: A therapist’s view of psycotherapy.
Rose, Jacqueline. Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty (2018).
________. Women in Dark Times.
________. On Violence and On Violence Against Women.
Sass, Louis A. Madness and Modernism: Insanity in Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought.
Sedgwick, Eva Kosofsky. Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (2003).
Seshadri-Crooks, Kalpana. Desiring Whiteness: A Lacanian analysis of race.
Sontag, Susan. Illness as Metaphor.
Stavrakakis, Yannis. Lacan and the Political.
Szasz, Thomas. The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays.
Taylor, Sonya Renee. The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love (2018).
Theweleit, Klaus. Male Fantasies (2 Volumes).
________. Object-Choice (All You Need Is Love…).
Tosh, Jemma. The Body and Consent in Psychology, Psychiatry, and Medicine: A Therapeutic Rape Culture.
Van Der Kolk, Bessel. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (2014).
Watkins, Mary and Helene Shulman. Towards Psychologies of Liberation.
White, Michael and David Epston.Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends.
Winnicott, D. W. Playing and Reality (2005 [1971]).
Zartman, I. William and Maureen R. Berman. The Practical Negotiator.

Science & Nature

Abram, David. Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology (2010).
________. The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More Than Human World.
Abulafia, David. The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans (2019).
Adee, Sally. We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body’s Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds (2023).
Allan, John S. Home: How Habitat Made Us Human (2015).
Appasani, Krishnarao (ed.). Genome Editing and Engineering: From TALENs, ZFNs, and CRISPRs to Molecular Surgery.
Archibald, John. One Plus One Equals One: symbiosis and the evolution of complex life.
Bailey, Elisabeth Tova. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating.
Barad, Karen. Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning.
Barnett, Cynthia. Rain: A Natural and Cultural History (2015).
Bennett, Jane. Vibrant Matter: a political ecology of things.
Bosch, Thomas C. G. and David J. Miller. The Holobiont Imperative: Perspectives from Early Emerging Animals.
Brown, Nancy Marie. Looking for the Hidden Folk: How Iceland’s Elves Can Save the Earth (2022).
Butterworth, Jon. Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through the Strange (and Impossibly Small) World of Particle Physics.
Calvo, Paco with Natalie Lawrence. Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence (2022).
Carroll, Sean B. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion (2022).
________. Endless Form Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo (2005).
Chemero, Anthony. Radical Embodied Cognitive Science.
Clegg, Brian. A Brief History of Infinity: The Quest to Think the Unthinkable.
Cordingley, Michael C. Viruses: Agents of Evolutionary Invention.
Damasio, Antonio. Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain.
Davies, Paul. The Eerie Silence: Searching for Ourselves in the Universe.
Deakin, Roger. Waterlog: A Swimmer’s Journey Through Britain.
deBuys, William. The Trail of Kanjiroba: Rediscovering Earth in an Age of Loss.
Demas, Gregory E. and Randy J. Nelson (eds.). Ecoimmunology.
DeSalle, Rob and Susan L. Perkins. Welcome to the Microbiome: Getting to Know the Trillions of Bateria and Other Microbes In, On, and Around You.
Douglas, Angela E. Fundamentals of Microbiome Science: How Microbes Shape Animal Biology (2018).
Gissis, Snait B., Ehud Lamm, and Ayelet Shavit. Landscapes of Collectivity in the Life Sciences.
Haskell, David George. Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction (2022).
________. The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature’s Great Connectors.
Hogan, Linda. The Radiant Lives of Animals (2020).
Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer. Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origin of Mutual Understanding.
Humphrey, Marc with Paul V. Pancelli and Mora Berrah. Idiot’s Guides: Quantum Physics.
Imbler, Sabrina. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures (2022).
Jablonka, Eva and Mariam J. Lamb. Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life.
Jeffreys, Tom. The White Birch: A Russian Reflection (2021).
Justice, Daniel Heath. Badger (2015).
Kalanithi, Paul. When Breath Becomes Air: What Makes Life Worth Living in the Face of Death? (2016).
Keltner, Dacher. Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life (2023).
Kissinger, Ruth. Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us (2019).
Kimmerer, Robin Wall. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (2024).
________. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (2013).
________. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (2003).
Kohn, Eduardo. How Forests Think: Towards an Anthropology Beyond the Human.
Labatut, Benjamin. The Maniac (2023).
________. When We Cease to Understand the World (2021).
Laland, Kevin N. Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind.
Lehrer, Jonah. Proust Was a Neuroscientist (2007).
Lightman, Alan. Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings (2022).
Lopez, Barry. Arctic Dreams.
________. Horizon.
Louridas, Panos. Algorithms.
MacFarlane, Robert. The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot.
________. Landmarks.
________. Underland.
________. The Wild Places.
________. Mountains of the Mind: Adventures in Reaching the Summit.
Magnason, Andri Snær. On Time and Water.
Matthiessen, Peter. The Snow Leopard.
Margulis, Lynn and Lorraine Olendzenski (eds). Environmental Evolution: Effects of the Origins and Evolution of Life on Planet Earth.
McAuliffe, Kathleen. This is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society.
McFadden, Johnjoe and Jim Al-Khalili. Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology (2014).
McFall-Ngai, Margaret, Brian Henderson and Edward G. Ruby. The Influence of Cooperative Bacteria on Animal Host Biology.
McGilchrist, Iain. The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World.
Mermin, N. David. It’s About Time: Understanding Einstein’s Relativity (2005).
Mitchell, Alanna. The Spinning Magnet: The Force that Created the Modern World and Could Destroy It.
Morton, Oliver. Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet.
Nezhukumatathil, Aimee. World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments (2020).
Okasha, Samir. Evolution and the Levels of Selection.
Passarello, Elena. Animals Strike Curious Poses.
Pollen, Michael. How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence.
Proulx, Annie. Fen, Bog & Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis (2022).
Purvis, William. Lichens.
Quammen, David. The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life (2018).
Rovelli, Carlo. Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution (2021 [2020]).
________. The Order of Time.
Sacks, Oliver. Hallucinations (2012).
Safina, Carl. Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel.
Schafer, R. Murray. The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World.
Schlanger, Zoë. The Light Eaters: The New Science of Plant Intelligence (2024).
Sheldrake, Merlin. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures.
Shepherd, Nan. The Living Mountain.
Silvertown, Jonathan. Selfish Genes to Social Beings: A Cooperative History of Life (2024).
Solms, Mark. The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness (2021).
Solnit, Rebecca. Wanderlust: A History of Walking (2000).
Spirn, Anne Whiston. The Language of Landscape (1998).
Strogatz, Steven. Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life.
Sultan, Sonia E. Organism and Environment: Ecological Development, Niche Construction, and Adaptation.
Toomey, David. Weird Life.
Turner, Steven J. The Extended Organism: The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures.
Ward, Peter. Lamarck’s Revenge: How Epigenetics is Revolutionizing Our Understanding of Evolution’s Past and Present.
Wikelski, Martin. The Internet of Animals: Discovering the Collective Intelligence of Life on Earth (2024).
Williams, Florence. Breasts: a natural and unnatural history (2012).
Wohlleben, Peter. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate. Discoveries from a Secret World.
Yong, Ed. I Contain Multitudes: The Microboes Within Us and a Grander View of Life.

________. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal The Hidden Realms Around Us (2022).
Youle, Merry. Thinking Like a Phage: The Genius of Viruses that Infect Bacteria and Archaea.
Zimmer, Carl. She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity.
________. Life’s Edge: The Search For What It Means To Be Alive.

Sex and Gender

Alba, Alicia Gaspar de, with Georgina Guzmán. Making a Killing: Femicide, Free Trade, and La Frontera.
Angel, Katherine. Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent.
________. Daddy Issues: Love and Hate in the Time of Patriarchy (2022).
________. Unmastered: A Book On Desire, Most Difficult To Tell (2012)
Arruzza, Cinzia, Tithi Bhattacharya, and Nancy Fraser. Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto.
Bancroft, Lundy. Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Aggressive Men.
Barjola, Nerea. The Sexist Microphysics of Power: The Alcasser Case and the Construction of Sexual Terror (2024).
Beck, Koa. White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind.
Bhattacharya, Tithi (ed.). Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression.
Butler, Judith. Who’s Afraid of Gender? (2024).
________. Undoing Gender.
________. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.
Bray, Abigail. Misogyny Re-Loaded.
Churchwell, Sarah. The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe.
Dawn, Amber. My Art is Killing Me: And Other Poems.
________. How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir.
Dawn, Amber and Justin Ducharme (eds). Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers’ Poetry.
de Alba, Alicia Gaspar with Georgina Guzmán. Making a Killing: Femicide, Free Trade, and La Frontera.
de Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex.
Doe, Jane. The Story of Jane Doe: A Book About Rape.
Doolittle, Robyn. Had It Coming: What’s Fair in the Age of #MeToo? (2019).
Eisenstein, Hester. Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Used Women’s Labor and Ideas to Exploit the World.
Federici, Sylvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation.
________. Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women.
________. Re-Enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons.
________. Beyond the Periphery of the Skin: Rethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism.
Gay, Roxane. Bad Feminist: Essays.
Gilligan, Carol and David A. J. Richard. Darkness Now Visible: Patriarchy’s Resurgence and Feminist Resistance.
hooks, bell. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love.
Kassirer, Kay (ed.). A Whore’s Manifesto: An Anthology of Writing and Artwork by Sex Workers.
Kimmel, Michael. Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era.
Lewis, Sophie. Enemy Feminisms: TERFS, Policewomen & Girlbosses Against Liberation (2025).
Malarek, Victor. The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Trade.
Manne, Kate. Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny.
________. Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women.
Miller, Chanel. Know My Name: A Memoir (2019).
Orenstein, Peggy. Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity.
Parker-Rhodes, Bronwen and Emily Dinsdale. Wanting You To Want Me: Stories from the Secret World of Strip Clubs (2022).
Potter, Shawna. Making Safer Space: A Guide to Giving Harrassment the Boot Wherever You Work, Play, and Gather.
Preciado, Paul B. Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era.
Rodríguez, Sergio González. The Femicide Machine.
Samaran, Nora. Turn this World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture.
Samaritana. The First to Throw the Stone: Taking Responsibility for Prostitution: A Policy Paper.
Seabrook, Jeremy. Travels in the Skin Trade: Tourism and the Sex Industry.
Serano, Julia. Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity.
Shraya, Vivek. I’m Afraid of Men (2018).
Simmons, Aishah Shahidah (ed.). Love WITH Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse.
Solanas, Valerie. S.C.U.M. Manifesto (1971 [1967).
Solnit, Rebecca. Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) (2018).
Spurgas, Alyson K. Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century (2020).
Srnivasan, Amia. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the 21st-Century.
Tatar, Maria. Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany (1995).
Valenti, Jessica. Sex Object: A Memoir (2016).
Ward, Jane. The Tragedy of Heterosexuality.
Waugh, Louisa. Selling Olga: Stories of Human Trafficking and Resistance.
Witt, Emily. Future Sex (2016).
Woolf,Virginia. A Room of One’s Own.
Zakaria, Rafia. Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption.

Subaltern Spiritualities

Brown, Karen McCarthy. Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn (1991).
Campbell, John Gergorson. Witchcraft & Second Sight in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland: Tales and Traditions Collected Entirely from Oral Sources (1902).
Critchley, Simon. Mysticism (2024).
De Mattos Frisvold, Nicholaj. Trollrún: A Discourse on Trolldom and Runes in the Northern Tradition (2021).
________. Exu and the Quimbanda of Night and Fire (2012).
________. Pomba Gira and the Quimbanda of Mbùmba Nzila (2011).
de Mello e Souza, Laura. The Devil and the Land of the Holy Cross: Witchcraft, Slavery, and Popular Religion in Colonial Brazil (2003 [1986]).
Hayes, Kelly E. Holy Harlots: Femininity, Sexuality, & Black Magic in Brazil (2011).
Oxóssi, Deigo De. Traditional Brazilian Black Magic: The Secrets of the Kimbanda Magicians (2018).
Maggi, Humberto. Queen of the Seven Crossroads (2020).
Maggi, Humberto and Verónica Rivas. Maria de Padilla: Queen of the Souls (2015).
Simmons, Marc. Witchcraft in the Southwest: Spanish and Indian Supernaturalism on the Rio Grande (1974).

Biblical Studies

General

Bauckham, Richard. The Bible in Politics: How to Read the Bible Politically.
Beale, G. K. We Become What We Worship: A Biblical Theology of Idolatry.
Blomberg, Craig. Neither Poverty Nor Riches: A Biblical Theology of Material Possessions.
Dumbrell, William J.The Search for Order: Biblical Eschatology in Focus.
Dykstra, Laurel and Ched Myers (eds). Liberating Biblical Study: Scholarship, Art and Action in Honor of the Centre and Library for the Bible and Social Justice.
Hill, Craig C. In God’s Time: The Bible and the Future.
Howard-Brook, Wes. Come Out, My People! God’s Call Out of Empire in the Bible and Beyond.
Klein, Blomberg and Hubbard. Introduction to Biblical Interpretation.
Stark, Thom. The Human Faces of God: What Scripture Reveals When It Gets God Wrong (and Why Inerrancy Tries To Hide It).
Wright, N. T. The Last Word: Beyond the Bible Wars to a New Understanding of the Authority of Scripture.

Old Testament

Alter, Robert. The Art of Biblical Narrative.
Brueggemann, Walter. Mandate to Difference: An Invitation to the Contemporary Church.
________. Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy.
________. Texts Under Negotiation: The Bible and Postmodern Imagination.
________. The Prophetic Imagination.
Dempster, Stephen. Dominion and Dynasty: a Theology of the Hebrew Bible.
Fokkelman, J. P. Reading Biblical Narrative: An Introductory Guide.
Hamilton, Victor P. Handbook on the Historical Books.
Hill, Andrew and John Walton. A Survey of the Old Testament.
Provan, Iain. 1 & 2 Kings (NIBC).
Sherwood, Yvonne. The Prostitute and the Prophet: Hosea’s Marriage in Literary-Theoretical Perspective.
Smith-Cristopher, Daniel L. A Biblical Theology of Exile.
Trible, Phyllis. Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narrative.
Walsh, Jerome T. 1 Kings (Berit Olam).
Wenham, Gordon J. Genesis 1-15 (WBC).
Wright, Christopher J. H. Old Testament Ethics for the People of God.

New Testament (General)

Ando, Clifford. Imperial Ideology and the Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire.
Bates, Matthew W. Salvation By Allegiance Alone: Rethinking Faith, Works, and the Gospel of Jesus the King.
Bauckham, Richard. God Crucified: Monotheism and Christology in the New Testament.
Bultmann, Rudolph. Existence and Faith: Shorter Writings of Rudolph Bultmann.
________. History and Eschatology: The Gifford Lectures 1955.
________. Primitive Christianity: In its Contemporary Setting.
Carter, Warren. The Roman Empire and the New Testament: An Essential Guide.
Cullmann, Oscar. Christ and Time: The Primitive Christian Conception of Time and History (revised edition).
________. Salvation in History.
________. The State in the New Testament.
Deissmann, Adolf. Light from the Ancient East: The New Testament Illustrated by Recently Discovered Texts of the Graeco-Roman World.
deSilva, David A. Honor, Patronage, Kinship & Purity: Unlocking New Testament Culture.
Dunn, James D. G. Christianity in the Making (2 volumes).
Feeney, Denis. Caesar’s Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History.
Finley, Moses I. The Ancient Economy.
Garnsey, Peter and Richard Saller. The Roman Empire: Economy, Society, and Culture.
Hays, Richard B. The Moral Vision of the New Testament: A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics.
Hengel, Martin. Crucifixion: In the ancient world and the folly of the message of the cross.
________. Property and Riches in the Early Church: Aspects of a Social History of Earl Christianity.
Horrell, David G. Social-Scientific Approaches to New Testament Interpretation.
Horsley, Richard A. Religion and Empire: People, Power, and the Life of the Spirit.
Horsley, Richard A (ed.). In the Shadow of Empire: Reclaiming the Bible as a History of Faithful Resistance.
________. A People’s History of Christianity, Volume 1: Christian Origins.
________. Hidden Transcripts and the Arts of Resistance: Applying the Works of James C. Scott to Jesus and Paul.
Horsley Richard A. and Neil Asher Silberman. The Message and the Kingdom: How Jesus and Paul Ignited a Revolution and Transformed the Ancient World.
Hurtado, Larry W. Destroyer of the gods: Early Christian Distinctiveness in the Roman World.
Jeffers, James S. The Greco-Roman World of the New Testament Era: Exploring the Background of Early Christianity.
Judge, E. A. Social Distinctives of the Christians in the First Century: Pivotal Essays by E. A. Judge. Edited by David M. Scholer.
Kee, Howard Clark. The Renewal of Hope.
Kim, Seyoon. Christ and Caesar: The Gospel and the Roman Empire in the Writings of Paul and Luke.
Longenecker, Bruce W. and Kelly D. Liebengood (eds). Engaging Economics: New Testament Scenarios and Early Christian Reception.
Longenecker, Richard N. New Testament Social Ethics for Today.
Malherbe, Abraham J. Social Aspects of Early Christianity.
Malina, Bruce J. The New Testament World: Insights from Cultural Anthropology.
Marshall, I. Howard. A Concise New Testament Theology.
Matera, Frank J. New Testament Ethics: The Legacies of Jesus and Paul.
Meeks, Wayne A. The Moral World of the First Christians.
Peppard, Michael. The Son of God in the Roman World: Divine Sonship in its Social and Political Context.
Porter, Stanley E. and Cynthia Long Westfall (eds). Empire in the New Testament.
Portier-Young. Anathea E. Apocalypse Against Empire: Theologies of Resistance in Early Judaism.
Price, S. R. F.Rituals and Power: The Roman imperial cult in Asia Minor.
Saller, Richard P. Personal Patronage Under the Early Empire.
Shaw, Graham. The Cost of Authority: Manipulation and Freedom in the New Testament.
Talbott, Rick F. Jesus, Paul, and Power: Rhetoric, Ritual, and Metaphor in Ancient Mediterranean Christianity.
Thiselton, Anthony. The Two Horizons: New Testament Hermeneutics and Philosophical Description with Special Reference to Heidegger, Bultmann, Gadamer, and Wittgenstein.
Von Campenhausen, Hans.Ecclesiastical Authority and Spiritual Power in the Church of the First Three Centuries.
Wengst, Klaus. Humility: Solidarity of the Humiliated.
Winter, Bruce W. Divine Honours for the Caesars: The First Christians’ Responses.
Witherington III, Ben. Jesus, Paul and the End of the World: A Comparative Study in New Testament Eschatology.
Wright, N. T. The New Testament and the People of God.
Zanker, Paul. The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus.

New Testament (Paul)

Barrett, C. K. Paul: An Introduction to His Thought.
Beker, J. Christiaan. Paul the Apostle: The Triumph of God in Life and Thought.
Blanton, Ward. A Materialism for the Masses. Saint Paul and the Philosophy of Undying Life.
Boyarin, Daniel. A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity.
Bruce, F. F. Paul: Apostle of the Heart Set Free.
Campbell, Douglass. The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul.
Caputo, John D. and Linda Martín Alcoff. Saint Paul Among the Philosophers.
Carson, O’Brien, Seifrid. Justification and Variegated Nomism (2 volumes).
Castelli, Elizabeth A. Imitating Paul: A Discourse of Power.
Coggan, Donald. Paul:Portrait of a Revolutionary.
Cousar, Charles B. The Letters of Paul.
Crossan, John Dominic and Jonathan L. Reed. In Search of Paul: How Jesus’s Apostle Opposed Rome’s Empire with God’s Kingdom.
Crossan, John Dominic and Marcus Borg. The First Paul: Reclaiming the Radical Visionary Behind the Church’s Conservative Icon.
Davies, William David. Paul and Rabbinic Judaism: Some Rabbinic Elements in Pauline Theology.
Dibelius, Martin. Paul.
Dunn, James D. G. The Theology of Paul the Apostle.
________. The Epistle to the Galatians (BNTC).
Elliott, Neil. The Arrogance of Nations: Reading Romans in the Shadow of Empire.
________. Liberating Paul: The Justice of God and the Politics of the Apostle.
Engberg-Pedersen, Troels. Paul and the Stoics.
Fee, Gordon D. Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God.
Furnish, Victor Paul. The Moral Teaching of Paul: Selected Issues.
________. Theology and Ethics in Paul.
Galinsky, Karl (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus.
Georgi, Dieter. Theocracy in Paul’s Praxis and Theology.
________. Remembering the Poor: The History of Paul’s Collection for Jerusalem.
Given. Mark D (ed.). Paul Unbound: Other Perspectives on the Apostle.
Gorman, Michael J. Reading Paul.
________. Apostle of the Crucified Lord: A Theological Introduction to Paul & His Letters.
________. Cruciformity: Paul’s Narrative Spirituality of the Cross.
Hardin, Justin K. Galatians and the Imperial Cult: A Critical Analysis of the First-Century Social Context of Paul’s Letter.
Harink, Douglas. Paul Among the Postliberals: Pauline Theology Beyond Christendom and Modernity.
Harink, Douglas (ed.). Paul, Philosophy and the Theopolitical Vision: Critical Engagements with Agamben, Badiou, Žižek, and Others.
Horrell, David G.An Introduction to the Study of Paul.
________. Solidarity and Difference: A Contemporary Reading of Paul’s Ethics.
Horsley, Richard A. Paul and the Roman Imperial Order.
________. Paul and Empire: Religion and Power in Roman Imperial Society.
________. Paul and Politics: Ekklesia, Israel, Imperium, Interpretation. Essays in Honor of Krister Stendahl.
Jennings, Jr., Theodore W. Reading Derrida/Thinking Paul: On Justice.
________. Outlaw Justice: The Messianic Politics of Paul.
Jervis, L. Ann.Galatians (NIBC).
Kahl, Brigitte. Galatians Re-Imagined: Reading with the Eyes of the Vanquished.
Keck, Leander E. Paul and His Letters.
Keck, Leander E. and Victor Paul Vurnish.The Pauline Letters.
Longenecker, Bruce W. Remember the Poor: Paul, Poverty, and the Graeco-Roman World.
Longenecker, Richard N. Paul, Apostle of Liberty: The Origin and Nature of Paul’s Christianity.
________. The Ministry and Message of Paul.
Lopez, Davina C. Apostle to the Conquered: Reimagining Paul’s Mission.
Maier, Harry O. Picturing Paul in Empire: Imperial Image, Text and Persuasion in Colossians, Ephesians and the Pastoral Epistles.
Malina, Bruce J. and Jerome H. Neyrey. Portraits of Paul: An Archaeology of Ancient Personality.
Matera, Frank J. Galatians (Sacra Pagina).
Meeks, Wayne A. The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul.
________. The Writings of St. Paul.
Meggitt, Justin J. Paul, Poverty and Survival.
Nikle, Keith F. The Collection: A Study of Paul’s Strategy.
Oakes, Peter. Philippians: From People to Letter.
________. Reading Romans in Pompeii: Paul’s Letter at Ground Level.
Oakes, Peter (ed.). Rome in the Bible and the Early Church.
Oudshoorn, Daniel. Paul and the Uprising of the Dead (3 vols.).
Pate, C. Marvin. The End of the Age Has Come: The Theology of Paul.
Pilgrim, Walter. Uneasy Neighbors: Church and State in the New Testament.
Polaski, Sandra Hack. Paul and the Discourse of Power.
Richardson, Peter. Paul’s Ethic of Freedom.
Roetzel, Calvin J. Paul: A Jew on the Margins.
________. The Letters of Paul: Conversations in Context.
Sampley, Paul J. Pauline Partnership in Christ: Christian Community and Commitment in Light of Roman Law.
________. Walking Between the Times: Paul’s Moral Reasoning.
Sanders, E. P. Paul and Palestinian Judaism.
________. Paul.
________. Paul: The Apostle’s Life, Letters, and Thoughts.
Schreiner, Thomas R. Paul: Apostle of God’s Glory in Christ.
Schütz, John Howard. Paul and the Anatomy of Apostolic Authority.
Schweitzer, Albert. The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle.
________. Paul and His Interpreters: A Critical History.
Stendahl, Krister. Paul Among Jews and Gentiles and Other Essays.
Stott, John.Romans: God’s Good News for the World.
Strom, Mark. Reframing Paul: Conversations in Grace & Community.
Tellbe, Mikael. Paul Between Synagogue and State: Christians, Jews, and Civic Authorities in 1 Thessalonians, Romans, and Philippians.
Theissen, Gerd. Social Reality and the Early Christians: Theology, Ethics, and the World of the New Testament.
________. The Social Setting of Pauline Christianity: Essays on Corinth.
Thielman, Frank. Theology of the New Testament: a canonical synthetic approach.
Thiselton, Anthony C. The Living Paul: An Introduction to the Apostle’s Life and Thought.
Thompson, Richard. Paul’s Collection for the Jerusalem Church and the Inclusion of the Gentiles.
Tilling, Chris. Paul’s Divine Christology.
Vos, Geerhardus. The Pauline Eschatology.
Walker, Peter. In the Steps of Paul: An Illustrated Guide to the Apostle’s Life and Journeys.
Walsh, Brian J. and Sylvia C. Keesmaat. Colossians Remixed: Subverting the Empire.
Welborn. L. L. Paul’s Summons to Messianic Life: political theology and the coming awakening.
________. Paul, the Fool of Christ: A Study of 1 Corinthians 1-4 in the Comic-Philosophic Tradition.
Westerholm, Stephen. Perspectives Old and New on Paul: The “Lutheran” Paul and His Critics.
Winters, Bruce. After Paul Left Corinth: The Influence of Secular Ethics and Social Change.
________. Seek the Welfare of the City: Christians as Benefactors and Citizens.
Wire, Antoinette Clark. The Corinthian Woman Prophets: A Reconstruction of Paul’s Rhetoric.
Witherington III, Ben. The Paul Quest: The Renewed Search for the Jew of Tarsus.
Wrede, W.Paul.
Wright, N. T. Paul in Fresh Perspective.
________. The Climax of the Covenant: Christ and the Law in Pauline Theology.
________. What Saint Paul Really Said: Was Paul of Tarsus the Real Founder of Christianity?
________. Paul for Everyone: 1 Corinthians.
________. Paul for Everyone: 2 Corinthians.
Yung Suk Kim. Christ’s Body in Corinth: The Politics of a Metaphor.
Ziesler, John A. Pauline Christianity.

New Testament (Jesus)

Blomberg, Craig. Contagious Holiness: Jesus’ meals with sinners.
Carson, D. A. The Gospel According to John (PNTC).
________. Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount and His Confrontation with the World: An Exposition of Matthew 5-10.
Carter, Warren. John and Empire: Initial Explorations.
Crossan, John Dominic. God & Empire: Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now.
Ehrman, Bart D. Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (and Why We Don’t Know About Them).
Green, Joel B. The Gospel of Luke (NICNT).
Hauerwas, Stanley. Matthew (BTCB).
Horsley, Richard A. The Liberation of Christmas: The Infancy Narratives in Social Context.
________. Jesus and Empire: The Kingdom of God and the New World Disorder.
Myers, Ched. Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark’s Story of Jesus.
Nolan, Albert. Jesus Before Christianity.
Phelps, Hollis. Jesus and the Politics of Mammon.
Pitre, Brant. Jesus, the Tribulation, and the End of Exile: Restoration Eschatology and the Origin of the Atonement.
Ratzinger, Joseph. Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration.
Schweitzer, Albert. The Quest of the Historical Jesus.
Stauffer, Ethelbert. Christ and the Caesars: Historical Sketches.
Stott, John. The Message of the Sermon on the Mount (BST).
Wengst, Klaus. PAX ROMANA and the Peace of Jesus Christ.
Wright, N. T. Jesus and the Victory of God.
________. The Resurrection of the Son of God.
________. The Lord and His Prayer.
________. The Meal Jesus Gave Us: Understanding Holy Communion.
________. Following Jesus: Biblical Reflections on Discipleship.
________. Who Was Jesus?
________. The Original Jesus: The Life and Vision of a Revolutionary.

New Testament (Rev)

Howard-Brook, Wes and Anthony Gwyther. Unveiling Empire: Reading Revelation Then and Now.
Peterson, Eugene H. Reversed Thunder: The Revelation of John & the Praying Imagination.
Sanchez, David A. From Patmos to the Barrio: Subverting Imperial Myths.
Wall, Robert W. Revelation (NIBC).

New Testament (Acts)

Rowe, C. Kavin. World Upside Down: Reading Acts in the Graeco-Roman Age.
Stott, John. The Message of Acts (BST).

Christian Theology
Theology (General)

Anselm of Canterbury. Cur Deus Homo.
Augustine. Enchiridion on Faith, Hope, and Love.
________. Confessions.
Barth, Karl. Church Dogmatics III.2: The Creature.
________. Church Dogmatics III.1: The Doctrine of Creation.
________. Church Dogmatics II.2: The Doctrine of God.
________. Church Dogmatics II.1: The Doctrine of God.
________. Church Dogmatics I.2: The Doctrine of the Word of God.
________. Church Dogmatics I.1: The Doctrine of the Word of God.
________. Dogmatics in Outline.
________. Against the Stream: Shorter Post-War Writings, 1946-52.
Basil the Great. On the Holy Spirit.
Bauckham, Richard (ed.). God Will Be All in All: The Eschatology of Jürgen Moltmann.
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. Life Together.
________. Letters and Papers from Prison.
________. Discipleship.
Braaten, Carl E. and Robert W. Jenson. Either Or: The Gospel or Neopaganism.
________. In One Body Through the Cross: The Princeton Proposal for Christian Unity.
Brunner, Emil. I Believe in the Living God.
Cavanaugh, William T. Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire.
________. Theopolitical Imagination: Discovering the Liturgy as a Political Act in an Age of Global Consumerism.
________. Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics, and the Body of Christ.
Daniélou, Jean (ed.). From Glory to Glory: Texts from Gregory of Nyssa’s Mystical Writings.
Ellul, Jacques. The Subversion of Christianity.
________. Hope in Time of Abandonment.
Erickson and Jones (eds.). Surviving Terror: Hope and Justice in a World of Violence.
Franke, William. A Philosophy of the Unsayable.
Gregory of Nyssa. On the Soul and the Resurrection.
Hauerwas, Stanley. With the Grain of the Universe: The Church’s Witness and Natural Theology.
________. A Better Hope: Resources for a Church Confronting Capitalism, Democracy, and Postmodernity.
________. After Christendom: How the Church is to Behave If Freedom, Justice, and a Christian Nation Are Bad Ideas.
________. Cross Shattered Christ: Meditations on the Seven Last Words.
________. In Good Company: The Church as Polis.
________. Performing the Faith: Bonhoeffer and the Practice of Nonviolence.
________. Against the Nations: War and Survival in a Liberal Society.
________. God, Medicine, and Suffering.
________. The Peaceable Kingdom.
Haurwas, Stanley and William Willimon. Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony.
Johnson, Kelly S. The Fear of Beggars: Stewardship and Poverty in Christian Ethics.
Jones, L. Gregory. Embodying Forgiveness: A Theological Analysis.
Jüngel, Eberhard. God’s Being is in Becoming. The Trinitarian Being of God in the Theology of Karl Barth.
Kvanvig, J. The Problem of Hell.
Lampman, Lisa Barnes (ed.). God and the Victim: Theological Reflections on Evil, Victimization, Justice, and Forgiveness.
Lindbeck, George A. The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a Postliberal Age.
Luther, Martin. The Freedom of a Christian, The Bondage of the Will, The Ninety-five Theses, and Theses for the Heidelberg Disputation.
MacDonald, Gregory. The Evangelical Universalist.
McGill, Arthur C. Suffering: A Test of Theological Method.
McGrath, Alister E. Christian Theology: An Introduction.
McGrath, Alister E. (ed.). The Christian Theology Reader.
Moltmann, Jürgen. A Broad Place: An Autobiography.
________. Experiences in Theology: Ways and Forms of Christian Theology.
________. The Coming of God: Christian Eschatology.
________. The Spirit of Life: A Universal Affirmation.
________. The Church in the Power of the Holy Spirit.
________. The Trinity and the Kingdom.
________. The Crucified God.
________. Theology of Hope.
________. Theology and Joy.
Newbigin, Leslie. The Gospel in a Pluralistic Society.
Olson, Roger E. The Story of Christian Theology: Twenty Centuries of Tradition.
Pannenberg, Wolfhardt. Revelation as History.
Rahner, Karl. The Shape of the Church to Come.
Reno, R. R. In the Ruins of the Church: Sustaining Faith in an Age of Diminished Christianity.
Schmemann, Alexander. For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy.
Smith, James K. A. The Fall of Interpretation: Philosophical Foundations for a Creational Hermeneutic.
Volf, Miroslav. Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace.
________. Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation.
Volf, Krieg and Kucharz (eds.). The Future of Theology: Essays in Honor of Jurgen Moltmann.
von Balthasar, Hans Urs. A Theology of History.
________. Mysterium Paschale: The Mystery of Easter.
________. Prayer.
________. Explorations in Theology IV: Spirit and Institution.
________. The von Balthasar Reader (Kehl and Loser, eds.).
Webster, John. Barth.
Will, James E. A Christology of Peace.
World Council of Churches. Baptism, Eucharist, and Ministry.
Yoder, John Howard. The Politics of Jesus.

Pastoral Theology

Bell, Rob and Dan Golden. Jesus Wants to Save Christians: A Manifesto for the Church in Exile.
Benson, Bruce Ellis and Peter Goodwin Heltzel (eds). Evangelicals and Empire. Christian Alternatives to the Political Status Quo.
Berry, Wendell. Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community.
Claiborne, Shane. The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical.
Claiborne, Shane, and Chris Haw. Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals.
Copenhaver, Robinson, and Willimon. Good News in Exile: Three Pastors Offer a Hopeful Vision for the Church.
Cox, Harvey. God’s Revolution: and man’s responsibility.
Ekblad, Bob. Reading the Bible with the Damned.
________. A New Christian Manifesto.
Ford, David. The Shape of Living.
Foster, Richard. Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth.
________. Prayer.
Guardini, Romano. Letters from Lake Como: Explorations in Technology and the Human Race.
Gorman, Julie A. Community that is Christian.
Hanh, Thich Nhat. Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames.
Hebert, Yvonne C. Finding Peace in Pain: The Reflections of a Christian Psychotherapist.
Houston, James M. Joyful Exiles: Life in Christ on the Dangerous Edge of Things.
Lewis, C. S. The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses.
________. Mere Christianity.
________. The Problem of Pain.
________. A Grief Observed.
________. Miracles.
________. Surprised by Joy.
McLaren, Brian D. The Last Word and the Word After That: A Tale of Faith, Doubt, and a New Kind of Christian.
________. The Story We Find Ourselves In: Further Adventures of a New Kind of Christian.
________. A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey.
Maurin, Peter. Easy Essays.
Metzger, Paul Louis. Consuming Jesus: Beyond Race and Class Divisions in a Consumer Church.
Mobsby, Ian. The Becoming of G-d.
Nouwen, Henri J. M. The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom.
________. In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership.
________. The Way of the Heart: Desert Spirituality and Contemporary Ministry.
________. The Wounded Healer.
________. In the Name of Jesus.
________. The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming.
________. Finding My Way Home.
________. Turn My Mourning Into Dancing: Finding Hope in a Hard Time.
Rahner, Karl. Prayers for a Lifetime.
Ramachandra, Vinoth. Subverting Global Myths: Theology and the Public Issues Shaping our World.
Rinehart, Stacy T. Upside Down: The Paradox of Servant Leadership.
Ringma, Charles R. finding naasicaa: letters of hope in an age of anxiety.
________. Catch the Wind: The Shape of the Church to Come – and Our Place in It.
________. Cry Freedom: With Voices from the Third World.
Sanguin, Bruce. The emerging Church.
Sider, Ronald J. The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience.
________. Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger.
Smith, Gordon T. A Holy Meal: The Lord’s Supper and the Life of the Church.
Smith, James K. A. Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism? Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church.
Stackhouse Jr., John G. Making the Best of It: Following Christ in the Real World.
________. Can God Be Trusted? Faith and the Challenge of Evil.
Stringfellow, William. Conscience and Obedience: The Politics of Romans 13 and Revelations 13 in Light of the Second Coming.
________. An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land.
________. My People is the Enemy.
________. A Second Birthday: A Personal Confrontation with Illness, Pain, and Death.
Snyder, Howard. Models of the Kingdom: Gospel, Culture and Mission in Biblical and Historical Perspective.
________. Community of the King.
Vanier, Jean. Community and Growth.
________. Becoming Human.
Wallis, Jim. The Call to Conversion.
Williams, Rowan. Writing in the Dust: After September 11.
Wolterstorff, Nicholas. Reason Within the Bounds of Religion.
________. Until Justice and Peace Embrace.
Woodley Matt. The Folly of Prayer: Practicing the Presence and Absence of God.
________. Holy Fools: Following Jesus with Reckless Abandon.
Wright, Christopher J. H. The God I Don’t Understand: Reflections on Thought Questions of Faith.
Wright, N. T. Christians at the Cross: Finding Hope in the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus.
________. Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church.
________. Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense.
________. The Crown and the Fire: Meditations on the Cross and the Life of the Spirit.
________. Evil and the Justice of God.
________. New Tasks for a Renewed Church.
Yoder, John Howard. What Would You Do?

Liberation Theology

Arias, Mortimer. Announcing the Reign of God: Evangelization and the Subversive Memory of Jesus.
Ateek, Naim Stiffen. Justice and Only Justice: A Palestinian Theology of Liberation.
Baum, Gregory. Compassion and Solidarity: The Church for Others.
Bell, Jr. Daniel M. Liberation Theology After the End of History: The Refusal to Cease Suffering.
Betcher, Sharon V. Spirit and the Politics of Disablement.
Boff, Leonardo and Clodovis Boff. Introducing Liberation Theology.
Carney, Padre J. Guadalupe. To Be a Revolutionary: An Autobiography.
Eiesland, Nancy L. The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability.
Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
Gutierrez, Gustavo. The Power of the Poor in History.
________. We Drink From Our own Wells: The Spiritual Journey of a People.
________. A Theology of Liberation.
________. On Job.
Isasi-Díaz, Ada María. En La Lucha/In The Struggle: A Hispanic Women’s Liberation Theology.
Ruether, Rosemary Radford. Sexism and God-Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology.
Sobrino, Jon. No Salvation Outside the Poor: Prophetic-Utopian Essays.
________. Where is God? Earthquake, Terrorism, Barbarity, and Hope.
Van Steenwyk, Mark. That Holy Anarchist.

Christian Auto/biography and Memoirs

Brother Andrew. God’s Smuggler.
Benton, John. One Lady at a Time: The Story of the Walter Hoving Home.
Berrigan, Philip. Prison Journals of a Priest Revolutionary.
Coles, Robert. Dorothy Day: A Radical Devotion.
Cruz, Nicky. Run, Baby, Run.
Day, Dorothy. The Long Loneliness.
Dear, John. Put Down Your Sword: Answering the Gospel Call to Creative Nonviolence.
Elliot, Elisabeth. Through Gates of Splendor.
Francis of Assisi: Early Documents Vol. 1, The Saint (ed. by Regis J. Armstrong, et al.)
Hammarskjold, Dag. Markings.
Harris, John D. The Junkie Priest: Father Daniel Egan, S.A.
Lamott, Anne. Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith.
________. Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith.
Lupton, Robert. Theirs is the Kingdom: Celebrating the Gospel in Urban America.
McGeady, Mary Rose. God, Please Save Me.
Marshall, Paul with Lela Gilbert. Their Blood Cries Out: The Worldwide Tragedy of Modern Christians Who Are Dying for Their Faith.
Marty, Martin E. A Cry of Absence: Reflections for the Winter of the Heart.
Merton, Thomas. The Seven Storey Mountain.
________. Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander.
Miller, Basil. George Muller: Man of Faith and Miracles.
Mother Teresa. My Life for the Poor.
________. Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the “Saint of Calcutta”.
Paul, Greg. God in the Alley: Being and Seeing Jesus in a Broken World.
________. The Twenty Piece Shuffle: Why the Poor and Rich Need Each Other.
Redwood, Hugh. God in the Slums.
Ritter, Bruce. Sometimes God has a Kid’s Face.
Smith, Gary N. Street Journal: Finding God in the Homeless
Tiessen, Isaac. Why I Do Not Take Up the Sword.
Wilkerson, David. The Cross and the Switchblade.
Wiman, Christian. My Bright Abyss.
Wolterstorff, Nicholas. Lament for a Son.

History of Christianity

Dowley et al. Introduction to the History of Christianity.
Gonzalez, Justo L. Faith & Wealth: A History of Early Christian Ideas on the Origin, Significance, and Use of Money.
________. The Story of Christianity (2 Vols.).
Hart, David Bentley. Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies.
Howard-Brook. Empire Baptized. How the Church Embraced what Jesus Rejected (2nd-5th Centuries).

11 Comments

Shannon

February 25, 2011

This list is incredible… and intimidating 🙂

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Chris

March 26, 2011

Now, I’m not claiming I’ve read more; shit, I can’t even read all the way through your list! But, no Girard or Chesterton–two authors that have made a big dent in me. Any play with these guys? I’d especially like to hear some intelligent commentary on Girard’s anthropology, given your voluminous scholarship.
Keep up the work–in the mind and the street. Peace, Chris Haw from Camden, NJ

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Nick Hill

September 3, 2011

Would love to hear your thoughts on Tim Keller.

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dlature

October 18, 2014

Dan, I just finished Naomi Klein’s latest book, This Changes Everythng: Capitalism vs The Climate. It was you who turned me on to The Shock Doctrine 7 years ago, and I thought of you as I finished this latest one, and I put it in a special place alongside The Shock Doctrine as a truly eyeopening, tremendously well researched, amazingly well-written book. I remember you describing The Shock Doctrine as the most important non-theological book you had read that year. I felt that way too after I read it back then, and I feel that way again about This Changes Everything. I hope you get a chance to read it. It’s been a while since I have read here. I’m gonna have to pipe your RSS into my Twitter account that I use to keep me up to date on non-Tweeter folks. Feel like I’ve been missing out.

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- Dan
  
  October 31, 2014
  
  Sorry for the late reply. Yes, I’m reading that book by Klein right now actually. Really nice to see you popping up around here again.
  
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Spody

March 23, 2015

I notice that among books you have read you have listed under “British and rest of UK” the works of Beckett, Joyce, Oliver Goldsmith, Bram Stoker and Jonathan Swift. Beckett, Joyce, Stoker and Swift were all from Dublin, and were Irish. Dublin is not in the UK. Goldsmith was from the Longford – Roscommon area and studied at Trinity College Dublin. Stoker was born 200 metres from where I Iive.
Beckett and Joyce lived post Ireland gaining independence from the UK.Goldsmith on the other hand lived before the creation of the UK (i.e. the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) in 1801 – prior to that there was only the Kingdom of Great Britain with a subject parliament sitting in Dublin. The current Union Flag of the UK dates from 1801.
Beckett, Joyce, Goldsmith and Swift, as well as being international, are embedded in the Irish culture of their times.
We get used to the Brits appropriating our artists (and even athletes at times). We live 50 years from “no blacks, no dogs, no Irish” signs on pubs, lodging houses etc in the UK.
The only culture we are allowed is some sort development of an American “Paddywhackery” of leprechauns, Guinness Stout (which is a second rate stout) and Hollywood spawned Irish accents “top of the morning to you, begorragh and begob” which I am sorry to say we internalise perhaps more than we realise and sometimes consciously play to make ourselves likeable to Americans and others. Even Hallowe’en (which primarily originates in its forms of ‘trick or treating’, ghosts etc from the Gaelic culture of Ireland, and was thoroughly Irish in its many food and other rituals) has, in Ireland, been transformed into an American style celebration over the past 10 – 15 years.
C.S. Lewis was also from Ireland, but he came from Belfast and I am sure would have identified himself as British.

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- Dan
  
  March 23, 2015
  
  You’re right, Spody. I will fix this.
  
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Spody

March 23, 2015

Oh! I just noticed that I missed Oscar Wilde too … maybe there are others as well.

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- Dan
  
  March 23, 2015
  
  I’ve actually been meaning to separate the Irish, Scottish, Welsh and British but I was being lazy. This is good incentive.
  
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  - Spody
    
    March 23, 2015
    
    Lesson in Geography: There are two islands – Ireland and Britain. The people who come from Ireland are Irish and the people who come from Britain are British.
    Scotland and Wales are part of the island of Britain – they are British, they cannot leave Britain unless someone makes some very wide canals. The English are also British. Some English, Welsh, Scottish will identify their primary ethnicity as British – something that holds them all together. Others will identify with being English or Welsh or Scottish.
    As the wind is currently blowing (with the Scottish Nationalist Party consistently heading the opinion polls and with approximately 55% now consistently indicating that they want an independent Scotland) Scotland appears to be drifting towards independence – independence from the United Kingdom that is. Not independence from Britain unless they plan on digging some very wide and deep ditches.
    Northern Ireland is part of the island of Ireland and contains about 1/4 of the population of the island. It is part of the UK. The people living there principally identify their primary ethnicity as British, Northern Irish and Irish. Some may say they are Ulster – Scots. All of these are politically laden terms in the context of Northern Ireland and more broadly in the context of both Ireland and the UK as a whole.
    So C.S. Lewis, from what is Northern Ireland, would probably have identified himself as British or perhaps Northern Irish but not as Irish. Seamus Heaney who also came from Northern Ireland always identified himself as Irish.
    So you cannot separate your authors into Irish, Scottish, Welsh and British since the Scots and Welsh are British – best to do Scots, Welsh and English. You are safe enough dealing with the state (as opposed to the island) of Ireland but you wander into Northern Ireland at your own peril!
    Finally I liked your piece on Belle de Jour and the 50 Shades of Grey.
    
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  - Dan
    
    March 24, 2015
    
    Happy to hear more of your thoughts on the BDJ and 50 essay, if you want to comment over on it.
    
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