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2024

Ten Myths About Israel - Ilan Pappé ★★★★
I Could Do Anything If I ONly Knew What It Was - Barbara Sher & Barbara Smith ★★★
The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle) - Ursula K. Le Guin ★★★★
Why Meditate - Matthieu Ricard ★★★
The Uninhabitable Earth - David Wallace-Wells ★★★
Thinking In Systems - Donella Meadows ★★★
A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle) - Ursula K. Le Guin ★★★★
The Failure of Nonviolence - Peter Gelderloos ★★★

2023

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung - Mao Zedong ★★
The Penguin History of Modern China - Jonathan Fenby ★★
Less Is More - Jason Hickel ★★★★
Noctuary - Thomas Ligotti ★★★
The Lighthouse Witches - C.J. Cooke ★★
Climate Change as Class War - Matthew T. Huber ★★★★
A Very British Coup - Chris Mullin ★★★
The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell - Brian Evenson ★★★
The Third Reich - Roberto Bolaño ★★★
This Is Not A Drill - Extinction Rebellion ★★★
Perv - Jesse Bering ★★★
On Cats: An Anthology - Margaret Atwoord (editor) ★★
The Next Revolution - Murray Bookchin ★★★
Laurus - Eugine Vodolazkin ★★★★
Worlds of Exile and Illusion - Ursula K. Le Guin ★★★★
The Secret of Ventriloquism - Jon Padgett ★★★★
Daring Greatly - Brené Brown ★★★
Stolen Focus - Johann Hari ★★★★
The Dawn of Everything - David Graeber & David Wengrow ★★★★★
Socialism or Barbarism - Rosa Luxemburg ★★★★
Call of Cthulhu Keeper Rulebook - Sandy Petersen ★★★
A Short Stay in Hell - Steven L. Peck ★★★
Stasi State or Socialist Paradise? - Bruni de la Motte & John Green ★★★
Survival of the Richest - Douglas Rushkoff ★★★
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder - William Hope Hodgson ★★★
After The Revolution - Robert Evans ★★
The Shadow over Innsmouth - H. P. Lovecraft ★★★
The Doomed City - Arkady & Boris Strugatsky ★★★
What Moves the Dead - T. Kingfisher ★★★★
Walkaway - Cory Doctorow ★★
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore - Robin Sloan ★
The Utopia of Rules - David Graeber ★★★★
Babel - R.F. Kuang ★★★★
1830: De scheiding van Nederland, België en Luxemburg - Rolf Falter ★★★★

2022

Tender is the Flesh - Agustina Bazterrica ★★★
100 jaar om de zee te stoppen - Julie Steendam & Isabelle Vanbrabant ★★★
The Divinity Student - Michael Cisco ★★★
Exit Strategy (Murderbot Diaries 4) - Martha Wells ★★★
The Man Who Died Twice - Richard Osman ★★★
The Next Civil War - Stephen Marche ★★★
The Wind’s Twelve Quarters and the Compass Rose - Urusula K. Le Guin ★★★★
The Assassination of Lumumba - Ludo De Witte ★★★★
Scattered Minds - Gabor Maté ★★★★
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt - Toby Wilkinson ★★★
Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain ★★★
How Not to Network a Nation - Benjamin Peters ★★★
The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin ★★★★★
How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them - Barbara F. Walter ★★★
De religie binnen de grenzen van de rede - Immanuel Kant ★★★
Rogue Protocol (Murderbot Diaries 3) - Martha Wells ★★★
A Spectre, Haunting - China Miéville ★★★★
Internet for the People - Ben Tarnoff ★★★★
Ringworld (Ringworld 1) - Larry Niven ★★★
Satan Burger - Carlton Mellick III ★
Cursed Bunny - Bora Chung ★★
Half-Earth Socialism - Troy Vettese & Drew Pendergrass ★★★★
Gangsters of Capitalism - Jonathan Katz ★★★★
Post Growth - Tim Jackson ★★★
The Secret History - Donna Tartt ★★★★
My Shit Life So Far - Frankie Boyle ★★★
Artificial Conditions (Murderbot Diaries 2) - Martha Wells ★★★
The Right to Sex - Amia Srinivasan ★★★★
The Hilarious World of Depression - John Moe ★★★
All Systems Red (Murderbot Diaries 1) - Martha Wells ★★★
Democratic Confederalism - Abdullah Öcalan ★★★
Capitalist Realism - Mark Fisher ★★★
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir ★★★
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy - Yanis Varoufakis ★★★
De wonderlijke avonturen van Cies Slameur - Paul Kenis ★★★★
The Word for World is Forest - Ursula K. Le Guin ★★★★
The Will to Change - bell hooks ★★★
Magpie Murders (Susan Ryeland 1) - Anthony Horowitz ★★★
Caliban and the Witch - Silvia Federici ★★★★
Heart of a Dog - Mikhail Bulgakov ★★★
The Deficit Myth - Stephanie Kelton ★★★★
My Work is Not Yet Done - Thomas Ligotti ★★
Eenheidscongres 2021 - PVDA ★★★★
Foucault’s Pendulum - Umberto Eco ★★★★★
Tentacles Longer Than Night (Horror of Philosophy 3) - Eugene Thacker ★★★
The Great God Pan - Arthur Machen ★★
The Rats in the Walls - H. P. Lovecraft ★★★
Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille ★★★
A People’s History of the German Revolution - William A. Pelz ★★★★
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing - John C. Bogle ★★★
Ring Shout - P. Djèlí Clark ★★★
The Simple Path to Wealth - J.L. Collins ★★★
The Difference Engine - William Gibson & Bruce Sterling ★★★
Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain - David Gerard ★★★
The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu - Paula Guran (editor) ★★

2021

How to Blow Up a Pipeline - Andreas Malm ★★★★★
Nightbitch - Rachel Yoder ★★★
For a Left Populism - Chantal Mouffe ★★★
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke ★★★★
Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master - Michael Shea ★★★
Jennifer Government - Max Barry ★
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism - Kristen Ghodsee ★★★★
Under the Black Flag - David Cordingly ★★★
The Thursday Murder Club - Richard Osman ★★★
A Cat, a Man, and Two Women - Junichirō Tanizaki ★★★★
Baron Munchausen - Erich Rudolf Raspe ★★
Washington Bullets - Vijay Prashad ★★★
The Prague Cemetery - Umberto Eco ★★★
Rapsodie in bloed - Roger d’Exsteyl ★★★
Virtue and Terror - Maximilien Robespierre & Slavoj Žižek ★★★★
The Great Railway Bazaar - Paul Theroux ★★★
Atomic Habits - James Clear ★★★
Rayuela - Julio Cortázar ★★
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke ★★★★
Strange Histories - Darren Oldridge ★★★
Breaking Things at Work - Gavin Mueller ★★★★
De Bourgondiërs - Bart van Loo ★★★
Vooruit! - Ico Maly ★★★★
Starry Speculative Corpse (Horror of Philosophy 2) - Eugene Thacker ★★★★
Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder - Vladimir Lenin ★★★
The Midnight Library - Matt Haig ★★★
Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters - John Langan ★★
The Lost Revolution - Chris Harman ★★★
We, the Drowned - Carsten Jensen ★★★★★
The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born - Nancy Fraser ★★★
The Civil War in France - Karl Marx ★★★★
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson ★★★
Can Political Violence Ever Be Justified? - Elizabeth Frazer & Kimberly Hutchings ★★★★
Cannibalism - Bill Schutt ★★★★
1491 - Charles C. Mann ★★★
The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases - Jeff VanderMeer & Mark Roberts ★★★
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Shoshana Zuboff ★★★★★
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco ★★★★
Axiom’s End (Noumena 1) - Lindsay Ellis ★★
The Ballad of Black Tom - Victor LaValle ★★★
The Horror at Red Hook - H. P. Lovecraft ★★

2020

Là-Bas - Joris-Karl Huysmans ★★★
Blackshirts and Reds - Michael Parenti ★★★★
De nacht voor de echtscheiding - Sándor Márai ★★
This World is Full of Monsters - Jeff VanderMeer ★★
Prosper’s Demon - K.J. Parker ★★★
Belgische republikeinen - Els Witte ★★★★
Mouthful of Birds - Samanta Schweblin ★★
Four Futures - Peter Frase ★★★
The Ministry for the Future - Kim Stanley Robinson ★★★
Dead Lies Dreaming (Dead Lies Dreaming 1) - Charles Stross ★★
The Linux Command Line - William E. Shotts Jr. ★★★
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami ★★★★
The German Ideology - Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels ★★★
The Fisherman - John Langan ★★★★
The Haunter of the Dark - H. P. Lovecraft ★★★★★
The Trial - Franz Kafka ★★★★
Ze zijn ons vergeten - Peter Mertens ★★★★
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk ★★★★
Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now - Jaron Lanier ★★★
Sad by Design - Geert Lovink ★★★
Song for the Unraveling of the World - Brian Evenson ★★★
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge ★★★★
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov ★★★★
Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky ★★★
The State and Revolution - Vladimir Lenin ★★★★
The Devil All the Time - Donald Ray Pollock ★★★
China: A History - John Keay ★★★★
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich - Danilo Kiš ★★★★
Switch Bitch - Roald Dahl ★★★
Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir ★★
Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason - David Harvey ★★★★
Pandemic! - Slavoj Žižek ★★★
Agents of Dreamland - Caitlín R. Kiernan ★★★
We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson ★★★
De meeste mensen deugen - Rutger Bregman ★★★★
The Plague - Albert Camus ★★★★★
Failed It! - Erik Kessels ★★
Are your keys purposely hiding? - Anne Fonteyn ★★★★
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - Carlo Rovelli ★★★
Red Cavalry - Isaac Babel ★★★
Dead Interviews - Dan Crowe ★★★
The Hellbound Heart - Clive Barker ★★★
Metro 2033 (Metro 1) - Dmitry Glukhovsky ★★
Taal voor de leuk - Paulien Cornelisse ★★
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels ★★★★
The Plot Against America - Philip Roth ★★★★
The Bullet Journal Method - Ryder Carroll ★★★
War! What Is It Good For? - Ian Morris ★★★
At the Mountains of Madness - H. P. Lovecraft ★★★
In Praise of Shadows - Junichirō Tanizaki ★★★
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari ★★
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? - Caitlin Doughty ★★★

2019

Lenin on the Train - Catherine Merridale ★★★
The Principles of Communism - Friedrich Engels ★★★
The Whisperer in Darkness - H. P. Lovecraft ★★★
Work, Inequality, Basic Income - Boston Review / Forum 2 ★★★
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte - Karl Marx ★★★★
Hard To Be a God - Arkady & Boris Strugatsky ★★★
Het verdorven genootschap - Philipp Blom ★★★
The Drowning Girl - Caitlín R. Kiernan ★★★★
The Labyrinth Index (Laundry Files 9) - Charles Stross ★★★
The Delirium Brief (Laundry Files 8) - Charles Stross ★★★★
Kill All Normies - Angela Nagle ★★★
Perdido Street Station - China Miéville ★★
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin ★★★★
Hitler’s Monsters - Eric Kurlander ★★★★
Monday Starts on Saturday - Arkady & Boris Strugatsky ★★★★
The Conspiracy against the Human Race - Thomas Ligotti ★★★★
Ten Days that Shook the World - John Reed ★★★★
Failure of a Revolution: Germany 1918-1919 - Sebastian Haffner ★★★★★

2018

Hedendaagse antiverlichting - Ico Maly ★★★★
The Aztecs: A Very Short Introduction - David Carrasco ★★
Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire - Mike Mignola ★★★
The Mystery of the Yellow Room - Gaston Leroux ★★
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them - Jason Stanley ★★
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks ★★
October: The Story of the Russian Revolution - China Miéville ★★★
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman ★★★
Kraken - China Miéville ★★★
The Last Days of New Paris - China Miéville ★★
Exquisite Corpse - Poppy Z. Brite ★

2017

What If? - Randall Munroe ★★★
Three Moments of an Explosion - China Miéville ★★★
The City & The City - China Miéville ★★★★
John Dies at the End - David Wong ★★
From Here to Eternity - Caitlin Doughty ★★
The Code Book - Simon Singh ★★★★
34 zeer korte verhalen en een vogelkat - Evelio Rosero ★★★
Duna Messiah (Dune 2) - Frank Herbert ★★
The Blind Owl - Sadegh Hedayat ★★★
Tirza - Arnon Grunberg ★★★
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon ★★★★
Alectryomancer and Other Weird Tales - Christopher Slatsky ★★
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood ★★★★
De trein der traagheid - Johan Daisne ★★
De komst van Joachim Stiller - Hubert Lampo ★★★★★
Solaris - Stanisław Lem ★★★★★
Liberty or Death - Peter McPhee ★★★
Understanding a Photograph - John Berger ★★★★
Mort - Terry Pratchett ★★
The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett ★★
Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick ★★★★
The Necrophiliac - Gabrielle Wittkop ★★★★★
Death’s End (Three-Body Problem 3) - Cixin Liu ★★★
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson ★★★
Anarchy Works - Peter Gelderloos ★★★★
Modern Romance - Aziz Ansari ★★★
Dune (Dune 1) - Frank Herbert ★★★

2016

The Encyclopedia of the Dead - Danilo Kiš ★★★★★
Why Orwell Matters - Christopher Hitchens ★★★
Acceptance (Southern Reach 3) - Jeff VanderMeer ★★★
Children of Lovecraft - Ellen Datlow (editor) ★★★
Roadside Picnic - Arkady & Boris Strugatsky ★★★★★
The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All - Laird Barron ★★
Inferno - August Strindberg ★★★
Why I Write - George Orwell ★★★★
Toverijen - Michel de Ghelderode ★★★★
A Natural History of Hell - Jeffrey Ford ★★★★
Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell ★★★★★
The Nightmare Stacks (Laundry Files 7) - Charles Stross ★★★
Fool Moon (Dresden Files 2) - Jim Butcher ★★
Storm Front (Dresden Files 1) - Jim Butcher ★★
A Short History of Decay - Emil Cioran ★★★★
Authority (Southern Reach 2) - Jeff VanderMeer ★★★
Fundering voor de metafysica van de zeden - Immanuel Kant ★★★★★
In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy 1) - Eugene Thacker ★★★★
The Dark Forest (Three-Body Problem 2) - Cixin Liu ★★★★
The Three-Body Problem (Three-Body Problem 1) - Cixin Liu ★★★
Red Plenty - Francis Spufford ★★★★
Missile Gap - Charles Stross ★★★
Annihilation (Southern Reach 1) - Jeff VanderMeer ★★★★★
The Annihilation Score (Laundry Files 6) - Charles Stross ★★★
The Rhesus Chart (Laundry Files 5) - Charles Stross ★★★
The Apocalypse Codex (Laundry Files 4) - Charles Stross ★★★★
The Fuller Memorandum (Laundry Files 3) - Charles Stross ★★★★
The Jennifer Morgue (Laundry Files 2) - Charles Stross ★★★