I've been keeping a log since 1987 of all books that I've read. Originally I used a blank book to do this, but seeing how it is
falling apart I've decided to transfer my log to the web.
My reviews of magazines and books can be found on the Alternative Press Review website.
Most
excellent
Pretty damn good
Okay for subway reading
Truly awful
2002
2001
| Terry Pratchett |
Thief ofTime |
|
| Science Fiction |
June 2001 |
9 |
| Michael Eric Dyson |
I May Not Get There With You: the true MLK |
|
| Social Struggle |
May 2001 |
10 |
| Thomas Frank |
One Market Under God |
|
| Capitalism |
February 2001 |
9 |
| Claudia |
I, Claudia: Feminism Unveiled |
|
| Feminism |
January 2001 |
7 |
|
2000
| Neal Stephenson |
Cryptonomicon |
|
| Science Fiction |
October 2000 |
10 |
| Peter Lamborn Wilson & Bill Weinberg, editors |
Avant Gardening: Ecological Struggle in the City& the World |
|
| Activism |
July 2000 |
8 |
| James Scott |
Seeing Like a State |
|
| Civilization |
May 2000 |
10 |
| Craig O'Hara |
The Philosophy of Punk |
|
| Music/Politics |
April 2000 |
8 |
| C.T. Butler & Keith McHenry |
Food Not Bombs |
|
| Activism |
April 2000 |
8 |
| Jakob Nielsen |
Designing Web Usability |
|
| Web Design |
March 2000 |
9 |
|
1999
| Ward Churchill |
Pacifism as Pathology |
|
| Activism |
August 1999 |
9 |
| Gary Webb |
Dark Alliance |
|
| History |
January-July 1999 |
10 |
| Noam Chomsky |
The Umbrella of U.S. Power |
|
| Human Rights |
July 1999 |
9 |
| Cheryl Pellerin |
Trips |
|
| Drugs |
June 1999 |
8 |
| Penny Rimbaud |
Shibboleth: my revolting life |
|
| Biography |
March 1999 |
9 |
| Mike Davis |
Ecology of Fear |
|
| Urban Studies |
January 1999 |
10 |
| One of my favorite authors. Everything you wanted
to know about disasters in Los Angeles. Davis has recently been
the subject of a smear campaign, because monied interests fear
his reporting. |
|
1998
| J.G. Eccarius |
Resurrection 2027 |
|
| Science Fiction |
October 1998 |
6 |
| Kim Stanley Robinson |
Antarctica |
|
| Science Fiction |
August 1998 |
9 |
| Noam Chomsky |
Year 501 |
|
| Foreign Affairs |
June 1998 |
10 |
| Susie Bright |
The Sexual State of the Union |
|
| Sexuality |
May 1998 |
9 |
| Murray Bookchin |
Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism |
|
| Anarchism |
April 1998 |
5 |
| Jens Bjornboe |
The Sharks |
|
| Fiction |
March 1998 |
9 |
|
1997
| Octavia Butler |
Parable of the Sower |
|
| Science Fiction |
December 1997 |
9 |
| Carl Sagan |
The Demon-Haunted World |
|
| Science |
December 1997 |
7 |
| bell hooks |
Bone Black |
|
| Autobiography |
August/September 1997 |
8 |
| Kim Stanley Robinson |
Blue Mars |
|
| Science Fiction |
July/August 1997 |
9 |
| Ursula Le Guin |
Four Ways to Forgiveness |
|
| Science Fiction |
June 1997 |
10 |
| George Orwell |
Homage to Catalonia |
|
| History/Politics |
May 1997 |
10 |
| Bob Black |
Anarchy after Leftism |
|
| Anarchism |
May 1997 |
9 |
| T. Coraghessan Boyle |
The Tortilla Curtain |
|
| Fiction |
March 1997 |
8 |
| Jane Doe |
Anarchist Farm |
|
| Political Fable |
January 1997 |
9 |
| David Cogswell/Paul Gordon |
Chomksy for Beginners |
|
| Politics/Linguistics |
January 1997 |
9 |
|
1996
| Alexander Cockburn/Ken Silverstein |
Washington Babylon |
|
| Muckraking |
Deember 1996 |
10 |
| David Brin |
Brightness Reef |
|
| Science Fiction |
November 1996 |
7 |
| Joan Slonczewski |
Daughter of Elysium |
|
| Science Fiction |
September 1997 |
9 |
| The New York Public Library's |
Books of the Century |
|
| Books |
July 1996 |
8 |
| Howard Zinn |
Declarations of Independence |
|
| History/Political Philosophy |
May 1996 |
10 |
| George Ritzer |
The McDonaldization of Society |
|
| Sociology |
May 1996 |
7 |
| Saab Lofton |
A.D. |
|
| Science Fiction/Anarchism |
April 1996 |
8 |
| Dinty Moore |
The Emperor's Virtual Clothes |
|
| Cyberculture |
March 1996 |
7 |
| bell hooks |
Killing Rage |
|
| Essays |
March 1996 |
9 |
| Mumia Abu-Jamal |
Live from Death Row |
|
| Essays |
January 1996 |
10 |
| Kim Stanley Robinson |
Green Mars |
|
| Science Fiction |
January 1996 |
10 |
|
1995
| Joseph L. Daleiden |
The Final Superstition |
|
| Religion |
November 1995 |
8 |
| Grady Clay |
Real Places |
|
| Landscape/Human Geography |
November 1995 |
7 |
| Kim Stanley Robinson |
Red Mars |
|
| Science Fiction |
October 1995 |
10 |
| James Loewen |
Lies My Teacher Told Me |
|
| History |
September 1995 |
10 |
| Mary Karr |
The Liars Club |
|
| Fiction |
August 1995 |
10 |
| Mercedes Lackey |
Sacred Ground |
|
| Fantasy/Mystery |
July 1995 |
9 |
| Richard Osbourne |
Philosophy for Beginners |
|
| Philosophy |
June 1995 |
9 |
| Noam Chomsky |
Keeping the Rabble in Line |
|
| Politics/Interviews |
May 1995 |
10 |
| David Brin |
Sundiver |
|
| Science Fiction |
April 1995 |
7 |
| Katha Pollitt |
Reasonable Creatures |
|
| Social Criticism |
February 1995 |
8 |
| William Kunstler |
My Life as a Radical Lawyer |
|
| Autobiography |
February 1995 |
9 |
| Mariah Burton Nelson |
The Stronger Women Get, the More Men Love Football |
|
| Sports |
January 1995 |
8 |
| bell hooks |
Tezching to Transgress |
|
| Education/Teaching |
January 1995 |
8 |
|
1994
| David Brin |
Startide Rising |
|
| Science Fiction |
December 1994 |
9 |
| David Brin |
The Uplift War |
|
| Science Fiction |
November 1994 |
9 |
| Erik Larson |
The Naked Consumer |
|
| Privacy |
October 1994 |
8 |
| Calvin Trillin |
Deadline Poet |
|
| Politics/Poetry |
October 1994 |
8 |
| Calvin Trillin |
Remembering Denny |
|
| Biography |
August 1994 |
8 |
| Mike Davis |
City of Quartz |
|
| Urbanism/History |
August 1994 |
10 |
| T. Coraghessan Boyle |
The Road to Wellville |
|
| Fiction |
June 1994 |
10 |
| B. Traven |
The Death Ship |
|
| Fiction |
May 1994 |
10 |
| Stephen Jay Gould |
Bully for Brontosaurus |
|
| Natural History |
March 1994 |
9 |
| Peter Lefcourt |
The Dreyfus Affair |
|
| Baseball/Fiction |
January 1994 |
9 |
| Bradley Denton |
Blackburn |
|
| Fiction/Horror |
January 1994 |
9 |
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1993
1992
1991
1990