hey i'm winston
and i have so many questions
i work as a web engineer for Vox Media. i read a lot for fun and to help me better understand and interrogate our world. this web-blog is where i chronicle some of my learning.
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2019 (66 books)
American War
by Omar El Akkad
Published 2017 by Vintage
Circe
by Madeline Miller
Published 2018 by Little, Brown and Co
Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward
Published 2018 by Scribner
Normal People
by Sally Rooney
Published 2019 by Hogarth
Milkman
by Anna Burns
Published 2018 by Graywolf Press
Crip Times
by Robert McRuer
Published 2018 by NYU Press
So Lucky
by Nicola Griffith
Published 2018 by MCD x FSG Originals
The Memory Police
by Yoko Ogawa
Published 2019 by Pantheon
The Incendiaries
by R.O. Kwon
Published 2018 by Riverhead Books
Black from the Future
by Stephanie Andrea Allen (ed), Lauren Cherelle (ed)
Published 2019 by Blf Press
Kindred
by Octavia Butler
Published 1980 by Beacon Press
Gingerbread
by Helen Oyeyemi
Published 2019 by Riverhead
The Black Box Society
by Frank Pasquale
Published 2016 by Harvard University
Flight Behavior
by Barbara Kingsolver
Published 2012 by Harper
Dept. of Speculation
by Jenny Offill
Published 2014 by Knopf
There There
by Tommy Orange
Published 2018 by Vintage
The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
Published 2016 by Anchor
The Future of Another Timeline
by Annalee Newitz
Published 2019 by Tor
The Lacuna
by Barbara Kingsolver
Published 2009 by Harper
Race After Technology
by Ruha Benjamin
Published 2019 by Polity
Behind the Screen
by Sarah T. Roberts
Published 2019 by Yale University Press
Super Pumped
by Mike Isaac
Published 2019 by W.W. Norton
The Fifth Risk
by Michael Lewis
Published 2018 by WW Norton and Co
Designing Disability
by Elizabeth Guffey
Published 2017 by Bloomsbury Academic
She Would Be King
by Wayétu Moore
Published 2019 by Graywolf
How to Hide an Empire
by Daniel Immerwahr
Published 2019 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Superior: The Return of Race Science
by Angela Saini
Published 2019 by Beacon Press
Beowulf
by Seamus Heaney (editor)
Published 2001 by WW Norton
Trick Mirror
by Jia Tolentino
Published 2019 by Random House
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
by Ocean Vuong
Published 2019 by Penguin Press
How to Do Nothing
by Jenny Odell
Published 2019 by Melville House
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
by Arundhati Roy
Published 2017 by Knopf
Democracy May Not Exist, But We'll Miss It When It's Gone
by Astra Taylor
Published 2019 by Metropolitan Books
Exit West
by Mohsin Hamid
Published 2017 by Riverhead Books
Another Country
by James Baldwin
Published 1962 by Dial Press
Care Work
by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Published 2018 by Arsenal Pulp
Electric Arches
by Eve L. Ewing
Published 2017 by Haymarket
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
Published 1952 by Random House
Mismatch
by Kat Holmes
Published 2018 by MIT Press
White Fragility
by Robin DiAngelo
Published 2018 by Beacon Press
My Name is Asher Lev
(7th time reading)
by Chaim Potok
Published 1972 by Knopf
The Rise of Big Data Policing
by Andrew Guthrie Ferguson
Published 2017 by NYU Press
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if people mattered
by E.F. Schumacher
Published 1973 by Blond & Briggs
what is not yours is not yours
by Helen Oyeyemi
Published 2017 by Riverhead Books
Programmed Inequality
by Marie Hicks
Published 2017 by MIT Press
Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison
Published 1977 by Alfred Knopf
The Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Published 1987 by Ace Books
Accessible America
by Bess Williamson
Published 2019 by NYU Press
How We Get Free
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Published 2017 by Haymarket
The Inheritance Trilogy
by N.K. Jemisin
Published 2014 by Orbit
Educated
by Tara Westover
Published 2018 by Penguin Random House
Artificial Unintelligence
by Meredith Broussard
Published 2018 by MIT
Ways of Seeing
by John Berger
Published 1990 by Penguin Random House
Imagined Communities
by Benedict Anderson
Published 2016 by Verso
Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Accessibility
by Aimi Hamraie
Published 2017 by University of Minnesota
One Person, No Vote
by Carol Anderson
Published 2018 by Bloomsbury
How Long 'til Black Future Month
by N.K. Jemisin
Published 2018 by Orbit
Parable of the Talents
by Octavia E. Butler
Published 1998 by Seven Stories Press
The Real World of Technology
(4th time reading)
by Ursula Franklin
Published 1990 by House of Anansi
The Vine of Desire
by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Published 2003 by Doubleday
Unaccustomed Earth
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Published 2009 by Penguin Random House
A Paradise Built in Hell
by Rebecca Solnit
Published 2010 by Penguin
Death's End
by Cixin Liu
Published 2017 by Tor
Thick
by Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom
Published 2019 by The New Press
Xenofeminism
by Helen Hester
Published 2018 by Polity
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
by Ursula le Guin
Published 2017 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2018 (54 books)
We Love You, Charlie Freeman
by Kaitlyn Greenidge
Published 2017 by Algonquin Books
Speak
by Louisa Hall
Published 2015 by HarperCollins
Broad Band
by Claire L. Evans
Published 2018 by Penguin Random House
Fashion Climbing
by Bill Cunningham
Published 2018 by Penguin Random House
Her Body and Other Parties
by Carmen Maria Machado
Published 2017 by Graywolf
Race Capitalism Justice
by Walter Johnson with Robin D.G. Kelley
Published 2017 by Boston Review
Living in Denial
by Kari Marie Noorgard
Published 2011 by MIT
Hild
by Nicola Griffith
Published 2014 by Picador
The Dark Forest
by Cixin Liu
Published 2016 by Tor
The Three-Body Problem
by Cixin Liu
Published 2014 by Tor
The People's Platform
by Astra Taylor
Published 2015 by Picador
Four Futures
by Peter Frase
Published 2016 by Verso
Automating Inequality
by Virginia Eubanks
Published 2018 by St. Martin's Press
Studying Those Who Study Us
by Diana Forsythe
Published 2002 by Stanford University
Thinking in Systems
by Donella Meadows
Published 2008 by Chelsea Green
Addiction By Design
by Natasha Dow Schüll
Published 2014 by Princeton University Press
emergent strategy
by adrienne maree brown
Published 2017 by AK Press
Built
by Roma Agrawal
Published 2018 by Bloomsbury
It's Complicated
by danah boyd
Published 2015 by Yale
Reset
by Ellen Pao
Published 2017 by Penguin Random House
Necessary Trouble
by Sarah Jaffe
Published 2016 by Bold Type
Bad Blood
by John Carreyou
Published 2018 by Penguin Random House
Against Purity
by Alexis Shotwell
Published 2016 by Minnesota Press
Messengers of the Right
by Nicole Hemmer
Published 2018 by UPenn Press
The Unknown Errors of Our Lives
by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Published 2001 by Penguin Random House
Platform Capitalism
by Nick Srnicek
Published 2016 by Polity
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Published 2015 by Beacon
A World Without Ice
by Henry Pollack
Published 2010 by Avery
Heart Berries
by Terese Marie Mailhot
Published 2018 by Counterpoint Press
Wildwood Imperium
by Colin Meloy
Published 2014 by Harper Collins
Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
Published 2017 by Penguin Random House
Tenth of December
by George Saunders
Published 2013 by Random House
The World in a Grain
by Vince Beiser
Published 2018 by Penguin Random House
New York 2140
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Published 2017 by Orbit
Barracoon
by Zora Neal Hurston
Published 2018 by Harper Collins
Algorithms of Oppression
by Safiya Umoja Noble
Published 2018 by NYU Press
Lilith's Brood
by Octavia Butler
Published 2000 by Grand Central Publishing
The Stone Sky
(2nd time reading)
by N.K. Jemisin
Published 2017 by Orbit
The Obelisk Gate (Broken Earth Book 2)
(2nd time reading)
by N.K. Jemisin
Published 2016 by Orbit
The Ends of the World
by Peter Brannen
Published 2017 by Harper Collins
The Fifth Season (Broken Earth Book 1)
(2nd time reading)
by N.K. Jemisin
Published 2015 by Orbit
The Boy Kings
by Kate Loss
Published 2012 by Free Press
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
Published 1959 by Penguin
Gone Tomorrow
by Heather Rogers
Published 2006 by The New Press
The Namesake
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Published 2003 by Random House
Bury What We Cannot Take
by Kirstin Chen
Published 2018 by Little A
Fun Home
by Alison Bechdel
Published 2007 by Houghton Mifflin
The Color of Law
by Richard Rothstein
Published 2017 by W.W. Norton & Company
The Mushroom at the End of the World
by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Published 2017 by Princeton University Press
Ancillary Justice
by Ann Leckie
Published 2013 by Orbit Books
Sapiens
by Yuval Noah Harari
Published 2011 by Harper
So You Want To Talk About Race
by Ijeoma Oluo
Published 2018 by Seal Press
This Changes Everything
by Naomi Klein
Published 2014 by Simon & Schuster
The Struggle for Black Equality
by Harvard Sitkoff
Published 1981 by FSG
2017 (23 books)
The Great Derangement
by Amitav Ghosh
Published 2016 by University of Chicago Press
The Peripheral
by William Gibson
Published 2015 by Penguin Random House
The Genius of Birds
by Jennifer Ackerman
Published 2017 by Penguin Random House
The Lathe of Heaven
by Ursula le Guin
Published 1971 by Avon Books
Technically Wrong
by Sara Watcher-Boettcher
Published 2017 by W.W. Norton
Men Explain Things to Me
by Rebecca Solnit
Published 2015 by Haymarket
Making Home
by Sharon Astyk
Published 2012 by New Society Publishers
The Next American Revolution
by Grace Lee Boggs
Published 2011 by UC Press
Counting Descent
by Clint Smith
Published 2016 by Write Bloody Publishing
Evicted
by Matthew Desmond
Published 2016 by Penguin Random House
The Lost Daughter
by Elena Ferrante
Published 2008 by Europa Editions
Parable of the Sower
by Octavia Butler
Published 1993 by Four Walls Eight Windows
The Warmth of Other Suns
by Isabel Wilkerson
Published 2010 by Random House
Twitter and Tear Gas
by Zeynep Tufekci
Published 2017 by Yale University Press
Weapons of Math Destruction
by Cathy O'Neil
Published 2016 by Crown Random House
A Burglar's Guide to the City
by Geoff Manaugh
Published 2016 by FSG Originals
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
Published 1998 by
Racecraft
by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields
Published 2014 by Verso
The Master Switch
by Tim Wu
Published 2011 by Penguin Random House
Hope in the Dark
by Rebecca Solnit
Published 2011 by Haymarket
Networks of New York
by Ingrid Burrington
Published 2016 by Melville House Publishers
The Empathy Exams
by Leslie Jamison
Published 2014 by Graywolf Press
A Disability History of the United States
by Kim E. Nielsen
Published 2013 by Beacon Press