Some of My Favorite Books

07/11/2025

I do a lot of research and reading online for my magazines (and for fun). I felt like making a proper post to highlight some of my favorites :)

Academic-ish

• Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Right Now, Jaron Lanier (2018)
• Simians, Cyborgs, and Women – The Reinvention of Nature, Donna J. Haraway (1991)
• Staying with the Trouble, Donna J. Haraway (2016)
• How We Became Posthuman – Virtual Bodies In Cybernetics, Literature, And Informatics, N. Katherine Hayles (1999)
• Sapiens – A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari (2014)
• Digital Design Theory – Readings From the Field, Helen Armstrong (2009)

Political

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Alex Haley (1964)
• Feminism Is For Everybody, bell hooks (2000)
• The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon (1963)
• Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? Mark Fisher (2009)
• Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky (1988)

Fiction/Other

• Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton (1990)
• Frankentstein, Mary Shelley (1888)
• Annihilation, Jeff Vandermeer (2014)
• No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai (1948)
• The Creative Act, Rick Rubin (2023)
• The Way of Zen, Alan Watts (1957)