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A List for 2025

Currently Reading​

  • The Power of Fun - Catherine Price
  • The Political Mind - George Lakoff
  • The Gods of Gotham - Lyndsay Faye

Haymarket books​

On November 8, 2024 after the re-election of Donald Trump, Haymarket Books offered Ten Free Ebooks for Getting Free to share works of "analysis, history, and strategy" and prepare readers for the battle ahead. Being of a similar mind at the time I downloaded all of them onto my e-reader and am giving each one a fair try with a review below.

  • Palestine in a World on Fire by Katherine Natanel and Ilan Pappé - currently reading
  • The Black Antifascist Tradition by Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill V. Mullen
  • Unbuild Walls by Silky Shah
  • Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba
  • Socialism . . . Seriously by Danny Katch
  • Elite Capture by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
  • Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns
  • How We Get Free edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
  • Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit
  • Freedom Is a Constant Struggle edited by Frank Barat, by Angela Y. Davis

Women in tech recos​

In 2024 my company's Women in Tech group came up with some recommendations for books they really enjoyed, and I will try to read a few of them.

These books have been sitting in my todo list for months or years and I have no idea where the original recommendations came from but its my resolution to obtain and get through them over the course of the year.

  • Raising Good Humans by Hunter Clarke-Fields
  • She Would Be King | Graywolf Press
  • Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye
  • The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
  • The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman
  • State of Wonder
  • The Sisters Brothers
  • The Prague Cemetery
  • Telegraph Avenue
  • This is How you Lose Her
  • Gone Girl
  • The Lighthouse
  • Umbrella by Will Self
  • Born in Blood Lost Secrets of Freemasonry by Robinson
  • Hunt Gather Parent
  • Saving Grace: Speak Your Truth, Stay Centered, and Learn to Coexist with People Who Drive You Nuts
  • Where'd you go Bernadette by Maria Semple,
  • Blindsight by Peter Watts - downloaded from the author page to e-reader
  • The Power of Fun by Catherine Price
  • Mindfulness on the Go by Jan Chozen Bays

Chris put together a lovely illustrated page (linked above) of some books that he really enjoyed in 2023. I bookmarked it for later consumption and haven't got around to it until now.

  • Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
  • Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
  • The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
  • Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
  • The Teachers by Alexandra Robbins
  • Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

These have been variously recommend by coworkers and managers over the years but I haven't got to them.

Last updated on by Rob Carlson