Bookshelf

Here is my non-exhaustive digital bookshelf of all that I've read and enjoyed, to be added to as I go along, there'll be a Roman numeral at the far right for how many times I've read/reread each particular work. Any books listed in italics are books I read in French.

Philosophy

Primary Sources

Louis Althusser

Philosophy for Non-Philosophers, II

For Marx, I

Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays, I

J. Moufawad-Paul

Demarcation and Demystification: Philosophy and its Limits, II

Continuity and Rupture: Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain, I

Methods Devour Themselves: A Conversation with Benjanun Sriduangkaew, I

The Communist Necessity: Prolegomena to Any Future Radical Theory, I

Austerity Apparatus, I

Critique of Maoist Reason, I

G.W.F. Hegel

The Phenomenology of Spirit

▸Miller Translation, II

▸Baillie Translation, I

Reading Hegel: The Introductions, I

Lectures on Logic, I

Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics, Penguin Ed., I

Early Theological Writings, I

The Difference Between Ficthe's and Schelling's Systems of Philosophy, I

Faith and Knowledge, I

The Life of Jesus, I

On the Prospects for a Folk Religion (The Tübingen Essay), I

Who Thinks Abstractly?, I

Gilles Deleuze

Difference and Repetition, I

Différence et Répétition, II

Le Pli. Leibniz et le Baroque, I

The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, I

Georges Bataille

Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927-1939, I

Karl Marx

Early Writings, edited by T.B. Bottomore, I

Wage Labour and Capital and Wages, Price and Profit, I

Vladimir Lenin

Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky, I

Baruch Spinoza

Ethics, Penguin Ed., I

Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect, I

Manuel De Landa

A New Philosophy of Society, I

Assorted Authors

A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze, Guattari, I

Libidinal Economy, Jean-François Lyotard, I

Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials, Reza Negarestani, I

Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud, Herbert Marcuse, I

Metamodernism: The Future of Theory, Jason Josephson Storm, II

Metamodernism: Or, The Cultural Logic of Cultural Logics, Brenden Dempsey, I

CCRU Writings 1997-2003, CCRU, I

Capitalism's Transcendental Time Machine, Anna Greenspan, I

Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007, Nick Land, II

Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures, Mark Fisher, I

Heraclitus, Philip Wheelright, I

Leibniz's Monadology: A New Translation and Guide, edited by Lloyd Strickland, I

On Practice and Contradiction, Mao Zedong, edited by Slavoj Žižek, I

Selected Philosophical Articles, Mao Zedong, I

Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art, Mao Zedong, I

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, Friedrich Engels, I

Marxism-Leninism-Maoism: Basic Course, CPI(Maoist), I

The Foundations of Leninism, J.V. Stalin, I

Fundamental Documents of the Communist Party of Peru, Abimael Guzmán, II

Interview with Chairman Gonzalo, Abimael Guzmán, II

General Political Line of the Communist Party of Peru, Abimael Guzmán, I

Theory and History of the US Maoist Movement, Jared Roark, I

Philosophy for Militants, Alain Badiou, I

What is Philosophy?, Deleuze, Guattari, II

The Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius, I

Secondary Sources

Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide, Henry Somers-Hall, I

Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: A Critical Introduction and Guide, James Williams, I

Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus: A Critical Introduction and Guide, Brent Adkins, I

Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: A Reader's Guide, Ian Buchanan, I

User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari, Brian Massumi, I

Dark Deleuze, Andrew Culp, I

Georges Bataille: A Critical Introduction, Benjamin Noys, I

Bataille, Alain Arnaud, Gisèle Excoffon-Lafarge, I

No Future, Only Violence: Unpacking the Propaganda of No Lives Matter and 764, Alec Dortkardesler, I

Heavy Radicals: The FBI's Secret War on America's Maoists, Leonard, Gallagher, I

Rethinking Socialism: What is Socialist Transition?, Hsu, Ching, I

German Philosophy 1760-1860: The Legacy of Idealism, Terry Pinkard, I

Hegel: A Biography, Terry Pinkard, I

The Logic of Desire: An Introduction to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, Peter Kalkavage, I

Hegel's Absolute: An Introduction to Reading the Phenomenology of Spirit, Donald Varene, I

Hegel, Frederick Beiser, I

Hegel: A Reinterpretation, Walter Kaufmann, I

Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition, Glenn Magee, I

Kant: A Biography, Manfred Kuhn, I

The Infidel and the Professor, Dennis Rasmussen, I

Karl Marx: His Life and Thought, David McLellan, I

Marx Before Marxism, David McLellan, I

The Young Hegelians and Karl Marx, David McLellan, I

Marx's Das Kapital: a Biography, Francis Wheen, I

A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx, Sven-Eric Leidman, I

Marx's General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels, Tristram Hunt, I

The Fighting Task Confronting Workers in Philosophy and the Social Sciences, Chou Yang, I

The History of Philosophy, A.C. Grayling, I

Class Ideology and Ancient Political Theory: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle in Social Context, Ellen Wood, I

Aztec Thought and Culture, Miguel Leon-Portilla, I

Robespierre: A Revolutionary Life, Peter McPhee, I

Fiction

Book Length

Neuromancer, William Gibson, II

Dune, Frank Herbert, I

No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai, II

La Déchéance d'un homme, trad. par Georges Renondeau, II

The Road, Cormac McCarthy, I

Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami, I

How the Steel Was Tempered: Part I, Nikolai Ostrovsky, I

The Monk, Matthew Lewis, I

Down There, Joris-Karl Huysman, I

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino, I

A Scanner Darkly, Philip K. Dick, III

Substance Mort, trad. par Robert Louit, III

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick, II

Les androïdes rêvent-ils de moutons électriques?, trad. par Sebastien Guillot, II

Hard to Be a God, Strugatsky Bros., I

Foundation, Isaac Asimov, I

Foundation and Empire, Isaac Asimov, I

Star Wars: Path of Destruction, Drew Karpyshyn, II

Star Wars: The Old Republic: Revan, Drew Karpyshyn, I

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Terry Brooks, I

A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula Le Guin, I

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling, I

Harry Potter à l'école des sorciers, trad. par Jean-François Ménard, I

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling, I

Harry Potter et la Chambre des secrets, trad. par Jean-François Ménard, I

Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters, Mark Dunn, I

Twilight, Stephenie Meyer, I

Fascination, Stephenie Meyer, I

The Iliad, Homer (Butler Translation, I)

Diablo: Legacy of Blood, Richard A. Knaak, I

Iron Gates, Joshua Sutter, I

The Godfather, Mario Puzo, I

Novellas, Light Novels and Short Story Collections

Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges, II

Blue of Noon, Georges Bataille, I

Story of the Eye, Georges Bataille, I

Histoire de l'œil, Georges Bataille, I

The Hellbound Heart, Clive Barker, I

The Invention of Morel, Adolfo Casares, I

Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse, I

The Stranger, Albert Camus, I

Carmilla, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, I

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, I

Welcome to the NHK, Tatsuhiko Takimoto, I

Signs Preceding the End of the World, Yuri Herrera, I

Holidays on Ice, David Sedaris, I

All Tomorrows, Nemo Ramjet, I

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, translated by Evan Mantyk, I

The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, I

Into the Wild, Erin Hunter, I

Manga and Comics

Chronosis, Negarestani, Tilford, Mackay, I,

Welcome to the NHK (All 8 volumes), Tatsuhiko Takimoto, III

Neon Genesis Evangelion (First 3 volumes), Yoshiyuki Sadamato, I

Oyasumi Punpun (First 3 volumes), Inio Asano, I

Disappearance Diary, Hideo Azuma, II

My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness, Nagata Kabi, I

Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga Vol. I, Koji Aihara, I

Insufficient Direction, Moyoco Anno, I

Judas, Jeff Loveness, I

Superman: Red Son, Mark Millar, I

Batman: Year One, Frank Miller, I

The World of Edena, Moebius, I

The Tale of Genji, Yoshitaka Amano, I

Watchmen, Alan Moore, I

From Hell, Alan Moore, I

Batman: The Killing Joke, Alan Moore, I

V for Vendetta, Alan Moore, I

Soft City, Pushwagner, I

Lovely Sweet Dream, Hiroko Nishikawa, I

The Star Wars, J.W. Rinzler, I

4 Kids Walk Into a Bank, Matthew Rosenberg, I

Killing and Dying: Stories, Adrian Tomine, I

Annarasumanara, Il-Kwon Ha, I

What Happens Next, Maximum Graves, I

Mai-Chan's Daily Life, Waita Uziga, I

Screenplays

Civil War, Alex Garland, I

Harvester: A Design by G. P. Austin, Gilbert Austin, I

Raging Bull, Schrader and Martin, I

The Disaster Artist, Neustadter and Weber, I

The Road, Joe Penhall, I

Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino, I

My Best Friend's Birthday, Quentin Tarantino, I

Pulp Fiction, Tarantino and Avery, I

The Art of Self Defense, Riley Stearns, I

Alien: Engineers, Jon Spaihts, I

Non-Fiction

Book Length

Making Movies, Sidney Lumet, I

A People's History of Civilization, John Zerzan, I

The Anthropocene Reviewed, John Green, I

A Movie Making Nerd, James Rofle, I

Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, Jason Schreier, I

Better Living Through Criticism, A.O. Scott, I

Why Poetry, Matthew Zapruder, I

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Stephen King, I

On Writing Well, William Zinsser, I

Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer, Roy Peter Clark, I

New! Writing the Novel: From Plot to Print, Lawrence Block, I

The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers, John Gardner, I

Slay the Dragon: Writing Great Video Games, Bryant and Giglio, I

The Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in Miami 1980, Nicholas Griffin, I

The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome, Michael Parenti, II

Capitalist Realism, Mark Fisher, I

The Mycenaean World, John Chadwick, I

Essays, Pamphlets, Shorter Works, Occult and Spiritual Works

Writing for Comics, Alan Moore, II

The Ainu: The Story of Japan's Original People, Shigeru Kayano, I

The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See, Richard Rohr, I

This is Chaos: Embracing the Future of Magic, edited by Peter J. Carroll, I

Condensed Chaos: An Introduction to Chaos Magic, Phil Hine, I

The Pseudonomicon, Phil Hine, I

The Chicken Qabalah of Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford, Lon Milo DuQuette, I

Wizardology: The Book of the Secrets of Merlin, Master Merlin, I

A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Mastering the Art of Oneironautics, Tuccillo, Zeizel, Peisel, I

Born with a Tail: The Devilish Life and Wicked Times of Anton Szandor LaVey, Doug Brod, I

The Satanic Bible, Anton Szandor LaVey, I

Liber 333, Tempel ov Blood, III

The SF Handbook, Satanic Front, II

The Episcopal Handbook: Revised Edition, edited by Tobias Haller, I

The Despoiled Oracle: SF Field Reports, Bartok Lykus, I

Nightcrawler: An Outer SF Publication Vol. 1, Satanic Front, I

The Blighted Path: Official Journal of the Satanic Front, vol. 1, no. 1, I

The Sinister Way, Order of Nine Angles, I

Codex Aristarchus, A. A. Morain, I

Goetia Daemonium, Frater Maleficus XIII, I

Sword of Undeath, Master Ahaz, I

Time Sorcery 0 and 1, Vexsys, I

Unleashing the Numogram, Anders Aamodt, I

Building the Cathedral: Answering the Meaning Crisis through Personal Myth, Sadie Moon, I

My Favorite Shitty Books

The best of the absolute worst.

Liber 333, my model for how to not write a theory-fiction collection.

Iron Gates, a post-apocalyptic frolic through the mind of a sexual deviant. Kafka on fentanyl.

The Despoiled Oracle: SF Field Reports, a good example of how to ruin an inherently interesting idea as well as the dangers of self-publishing your first draft without significant revisions.

Falcifer: Lord of Darkness, an Order of Nine Angles novella, a battle between the forces of evil and evil-er. Somehow the best thing Anton Long's ever written, and that's not a compliment. He'd do better to turn a crystal tetrahedron into a bong.

Down There, snoozefest. How this is considered the classic of Satanism is beyond me. An innovator in allowing Satanists to justify enjoying the pleasures of open relationships and cuckoldry.

Star Wars: The Old Republic: Revan, I hate this book so much that it physically angers me, I can feel my cortisol spike. Proof that good writing is a different skill than good copy editing.

Diablo: Legacy of Blood, the least offensive book on this list so far. Pulp dark fantasy that slides gradually into sludge.

Dropped Items

I sadly won't be able to read everything I come across during my lifetime, and I think rather than consciously attempt to finish everything I read, I should let myself take a step back and tell myself, in the wise voice of Greg Universe, It's always okay to bail. So, here's a list of everything that didn't entirely hold my interest that I may one day decide to return to. I call it my anti-library.

The Parallax View, Slavoj Žižek

Logic: A Very Short Introduction, Graham Priest

Star Wars: The Old Republic: Deceived, Paul S. Kemp

The Dash— The Other Side of Absolute Knowing, Comay, Ruda

Deleuze and Guattari's 'What is Philosophy?', Rex Butler

Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Introduction to Schizoanalysis, Eugene Holland

Stylish Academic Writing, Helen Sword

Writing to Learn, William Zinsser

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