The TBR Pile
Here is my to-be-read pile in all its hundreds-of-titles glory, including physical and digital copies but not library holds. I'll add to it as the books come in, because trust me. They will come in.
These titles are in no order. Well, some of them are in some kind of order, because I Kickstarted a fundraiser for Verso, the publishing house, and those ebooks sorted themselves alphabetically when I downloaded them. Otherwise, it's just titles from the pile, fiction and nonfiction all together. I copied it from a text file, so apologies to the authors for not including the diacritical letters in their names.
If you've read anything on the TBR pile and recommend it, leave a comment. That will bump it up to the top, and I might finally get around to reading some of these books.
Books Bumped Up
- When Women Were Dragons, Kelly Barnhill
Current Reads
- The Harder I Fight, the More I Love You, Neko Case
You can also find me on The StoryGraph for what I'm reading now: kristenhg
The List
Dismantling the Master's Clock: On Race, Space, and Time, Rasheedah Phillips
Lais, Marie de France
The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History, Isiah Berlin
The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism, Georges Bataille
Autism Is Not a Disease: The Politics of Neurodiversity, Jodie Hare
Believe Nothing until It Is Officially Denied, Patrick Cockburn
Between Existentialism and Marxism, Jean-Paul Sartre
Cyberboss, Craig Gent
Everything to Play For: How Video Games Are Changing the World, Marijam Didzgalvyte
The Flowers of Evil, Charles Baudelaire
The History of Disruption, Mehmet Dosemeci
How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-feudalism: The Making of the Digital Economy, Cedric Durand
Marxist Modernism: Introductory Lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory, Gillian Rose
Multitudes: How Crowds Made the Modern World, Dan Hancox
My Teaching, Jacques Lacan
Perdita, Dylan Riley
Set My Heart on Fire: A Novel, Izumi Suzuki and Helen O'Horan
Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties, Tariq Ali
This Fiction Called Nigeria: The Struggle for Democracy, Adewale Maja-Pearce
Understanding Brecht, Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin or Towards a Revolutionary Criticism, Terry Eagleton
What Comes after Farce?: Art and Criticism at a Time of Debacle, Hal Foster
You Can't Please All: Memoirs 1980-2024, Tariq Ali
Dix versions de Kafka, Maia Hruska
Non-lieu dans un paysage, Jean Lahougue
The Years of Theory: Lectures on Modern French Thought, Frederic Jameson
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else), Olufemi O. Taiwo
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle, Angela Y. Davis
Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit
Inventions of a Present: The Novel in Its Crisis of Globalization, Frederic Jameson
The Modernist Papers, Frederic Jameson
Einstein and the Quantum Revolutions, Alain Aspect
The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation, Cory Doctorow
Companion Piece: A Novel, Ali Smith
Sleepless: Unleashing the Subversive Power of the Night Self, Annabel Abbs-Streets
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot book 2), Becky Chambers
Geometry of Grief: Reflections on Mathematics, Loss, and Life, Michael Frame
Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel, Yoko Tawada, Susan Bernofsky
Practice: A Novel, Rosalind Brown
Sleepless: A Memoir of Insomnia, Marie Darrieussecq Penny Hueston
Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir
Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters
Lublin, Manya Wilkinson
Becoming a Composer, Errollyn Wallen
Psychopompe, Amelie Nothomb
Chokepoint Capitalism, Rebecca Giblin, Cory Doctorow
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
The Pilgrim of Hate (a Brother Cadfael novel), Ellis Peters
La plus secrete memoire des hommes, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
The Atheist's Bible: The Most Dangerous Book that Never Existed, Georges Minois, Lys Ann Weiss
Le Banquet annuel de la Confrerie des fossoyeurs, Mathias Enard
Vernon Subutex 1, Virginie Despentes
The Book of Accidents, Chuck Wendig
Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature, Dan Sinykin
A NON des femmes: Liberer nos classiques du regard masculin, Jennifer Tamas
Mondes Invisibles, Sylvain Ledda
Erasure, Percival Everett
Who Wrote This?: How AI and the Lure of Efficiency Threaten Human Writing, Naomi S. Baron
Even Though I Knew the End, C. L. Polk
Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
Las Abandonadoras: Ancora & Delfin, Begona Gomez Urzaiz
El infinito en un junco, La invencion de los libros en el mundo angtiguo, Irene Vallejo
La genie Feminin: Hannah Arendt, Julia Kristeva
Shardik, Richard Adams
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Luminaries, Eleanor Cotton
All the Devils Are Here, David Seabrook
Whale, Cheon Myeong-Kwan, Chi-Young Kim
Ring the Hill, Tom Cox
The Gormenghast Trilogy, Mervyn Peake
Stay and Fight, Madeline ffitch
Debout-Paye, Gauz
The Biography of Typeface: Baskerville, Simon Garfield
The Biography of Typeface: Albertus, Simon Garfield
The Biography of Typeface: Comic Sans, Simon Garfield
The Art of Running, Andrea Marcolongo
Orbital, Samantha Harvey
The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries, Andrew Hui
The Work of Literary Translation, Clive Scott
The Uses of Literature, Italo Calvino
The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing, Arnold Weinstein
Ten Lessons in Theory, Calvin Thomas
On Women, Susan Sontag
The End of August, Yu Miri
Deaf Republic, Ilya Kaminsky
Paraliterary, Merve Emre
A Memoir of My Former Self, Hilary Mantel
I, Julian, Claire Gilbert
The Written World and the Unwritten World, Italo Calvino
How to Suppress Women's Writing, Joanna Russ
Professing Criticism, John Guillory
La porte du voyage sans retour, David Diop
Yoga, Emmanuel Carrier
Une rose seul, Muriel Barbary
Everything and Less, Mark McGurl
The Riddle of the Rosetta, Buchwald & Josefowicz
Jacaranda, Gael Faye
Houris, Kamel Daoud
The Museum of Innocence, Orhan Pamuk
Checkout 19, Clarie-Louise Bennett
Is Mother Dead, Vigdis Hjorth
The Rings of Saturn, W. G. Sebald
War and the Iliad, Simone Weil and Rachel Bespaloff
On the Abolition of Political Parties, Simone Weil
The Copenhagen Trilogy, Tove Ditlevsen
Brainspotting, A.J. Lees
The Long Ships, Frans G. Bengtsson
The Goshawk, T. H. White
Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us, Andras
The Changeling, Joy Williams
Peaces, Helen Oyeyemi
Fall, or Dodge in Hell, Neal Stephenson
The Door, Magda Szabo
The Idiot, Elif Batuman
Either/Or, Elif Batuman
Art Monsters, Lauren Elkin
The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
Metaphysical Animals, Clare Mac Cumhaill & Rachael Wiseman
The Collected Essays, Elizabeth Hardwick
Most Blessed Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination, Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf
The Mother of All Questions, Rebecca Solnit
Fighting Fascism, Clara Zetkin
The Women Incendiaries, Edith Thomas
Windswept, Annabel Abbs
Radical Dharma, williams, Owens, Syedullah
Girl Land, Caitlin Flanagan
Avoid the Day: A New Memoir in Two Movements, Jay Kirk
Turning the Wheel, Charles Johnson