This is my ridiculous reading list. Putting it here feels weirdly personal but it is a personal website after all. I have recently stopped reading these books in order, having figured out that I prefer to jump around from year to year and finger-pick whatever suits my preferences at the time. When I am ready to acquire a book for reading, I will look for it in this order:
| Author |
Title |
| Jiz Lee |
Coming Out Like a Porn Star: Essays on Pornography, Protection, and Privacy |
| Master "K" |
The Beauty of Kinbaku: (Or everything you ever wanted to know about Japanese erotic bondage when you suddenly realized you didn't speak Japanese) |
| Lee Harrington |
Ropes, Bondage, and Power: Power Exchange Books' Resource Series |
| Clint Emerson |
100 Deadly Skills: The SEAL Operative's Guide to Eluding Pursuers, Evading Capture, and Surviving Any Dangerous Situation |
| Deviant Ollam |
Keys to the Kingdom: Impressioning, Privilege Escalation, Bumping, and Other Key-Based Attacks Against Physical Locks |
| Simon Lovell |
How to Cheat at Everything: A Con Man Reveals the Secrets of the Esoteric Trade of Cheating, Scams, and Hustles |
| Polly Tyrer |
Leiths Vegetable Bible |
| Joris-Karl Huysmans, Patrick McGuinness |
Against Nature |
| Stephen Romer |
French Decadent Tales |
| Philip K Dick |
A Scanner Darkly |
| Douglas Adams |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: 1/5 |
| Susan Carey |
The Origin of Concepts (Oxford Series in Cognitive Development) |
| Fiona Macpherson, Dimitris Platchias |
Hallucination: Philosophy and Psychology |
| Arthur Miller |
Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge: v. 1 |
| Harold Pinter |
Plays 1: The Birthday Party, The Room, The Dumb Waiter, A Slight Ache, The Hothouse, A Night Out, The Black and White, The Examina,Vol. 1 |
| Hermann Hesse |
Steppenwolf |
| Mike Jay |
High Society: Mind-Altering Drugs in History and Culture |
| George Orwell |
Shooting an Elephant: And Other Essays |
| Thomas De Quincey |
On Murder |
| Matthew Beaumont |
Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London |
| Zakaria Erzinlioglu |
Maggots, Murder, and Men: Memories and Reflections of a Forensic Entomologist |
| Carl Watkins |
The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead |
| Author |
Title |
| Jennifer Hartley |
Laughter Under the Bombs: Diaries of a Dramatherapist |
| John Fante |
Ask the Dust |
| David Grossman |
Writing in the Dark |
| David Grossman |
Be My Knife |
| Xiaolu Guo |
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers |
| Svetlana Alexievich, Anna Gunin |
Chernobyl Prayer: Voices from Chernobyl |
| Clive Barker |
Theatre Games: A New Approach to Drama Training |
| Augusto Boal |
Games for Actors and Non-Actors |
| Megan Abbott |
You Will Know Me |
| Elyn R. Saks |
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness |
| Joseph Conrad |
Heart of Darkness |
| Nick Srnicek, Alex Williams |
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work |
| Jared Diamond |
Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years |
| Yuval Noah Harari |
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind |
| Thomas Piketty |
Capital in the Twenty-First Century |
| Bert Dodson |
Keys to Drawing |
| Felix Martin |
Money: The Unauthorised Biography |
| Author |
Title |
| John Steinbeck |
Notes from a Coma |
| Mike McCormack |
Notes from a Coma |
| Djuna Barnes |
Nightwood |
| Virginia Woolf |
Mrs Dalloway |
| Oliver Letwin |
Privatizing the World: A Study of International Privatization in Theory and Practice |
| Steve Krug |
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability |
| Paul Lockhart |
A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form |
| Jesse Dunford Wood |
Modern British Food: Recipes from Parlour |
| George Orwell |
The Road to Wigan Pier |
| George Orwell |
The Orwell Diaries |
| Laurie Lee |
Red Sky at Sunrise: Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, A Moment of War |
| Ernest Hemingway |
For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| Robert A. Heinlein |
Robert Heinlein's Expanded Universe: Volume One |
| David Graeber |
Debt : The First 5000 Years |
| Margaret Atwood |
Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth |
| Charles MacKay |
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds |
| Dino Buzzati |
The Tartar Steppe |
| Robert Trivers |
Deceit and Self-Deception: Fooling Yourself the Better to Fool Others |
| Angela Carter |
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman |
| Thomas Pynchon |
Gravity's Rainbow |
| Chuck Palahniuk |
Invisible Monsters |
| Constance Spry |
The Constance Spry Cookbook |
| Hilary Gallo |
The Power of Soft: How to get what you want without being a **** |
| George B. Thomas Jr., Maurice D. Weir |
Thomas' Calculus: International Edition |