Bookshelf


This will include all the various books I've read and enjoyed. At some point I plan on turning some into links to other pages with my notes, thoughts, feelings, etc. Number of times each book has been read will be in roman numerals. (I will order the books properly at some point)

Philosophy and Politics


Primary Sources

Karl Marx and Friederich Engels
Thesis On Feuerbach, I
The Principles of Communism, II
The Communist Manifesto, I
Vladimir Lenin
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, I
The State and Revolution (Currently Reading)
Mao Tse-Tung
On Practice, II
Assorted Authors
Speech from the Dock, John Maclean, I
The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus, I
Meditations, Marcus Aurelius, I
Videogames and Postcolonialism, Souvik Mukherjee, I
The Bone Won't Break: On Theatre and Hope in Hard Times, John McGrath

Secondry Sources

Yet to be added!

Fiction


Book Length

The Man Who Fell to Earth, Walter Tevis, I
I Am Legend, Richard Matheson, I
Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep, Philip K. Dick, I
Dune, Frank Herbert, I
Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert, I
The Stranger, Albert Camus, I
The Fall, Albert Camus, I
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams, I
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Douglas Adams, I
Life, the Universe and Everything, Douglas Adams, I
The Forever War, Joe Haldeman, I
Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes, I
A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin, I
Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin, I
Gateway, Pohll Frederik, I

Novellas, Light Novels and Short Story Collections

The Word for World is Forest, Ursula K. Le Guin, I
Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka, I
In the Penal Colony, Franz Kafka, I
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway, I

Manga

Screenplay

The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black, Oil, John McGrath, I

Non-Fiction


Scottish History

When the Clyde Ran Red, Maggie Craig, I
Tanks on the Streets?: The Battle of George Square Glasgow 1919, Louise Heren & Gordon Barclay, I
The Legend of Red Clydeside, Iain McLean, I
Glasgow 1919: The Rise of Red Clydeside, Kenny MacAskill II

Other History

Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell, I

Assorted Authors

Ask Iwata, Sam Bett, I
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, Jason Schreier, I

Unread and Untouched


Books that have been gifted to me or that I've bought that I've not gotten round to reading just yet. (I am a very slow reader)
Capital Vol 1, Karl Marx
Women, Race & Class, Angela Y. Davis
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, Jon Lee Anderson
Red Star Over China, Edgar Snow
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life, Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles
The Trial, Franz Kafka
The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
The Tombs of Atuan, Ursula K. Le Guin
The Farthest Shore, Ursula K. Le Guin
Tehanu, Ursula K. Le Guin
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Douglas Adams
Mostly Harmless, Douglas Adams
And Another Thing..., Douglas Adams
Consider Phlebas, Iain M. Banks
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
The Silk Roads, Peter Frankopan
The New Silk Roads, Peter Frankopan
SPQR, Mary Beard
Children of Dune, Frank Herbert
God Emperor of Dune, Frank Herbert
Heretics of Dune, Frank Herbert
Dune Chapterhouse, Frank Herbert
The Age of Revolution 1789-1848, Eric Hobsbawm
Leonardo da Vinci the Complete Works
The Plague, Albert Camus
Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
The Odyssey, Homer
To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis
American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
Immune, Philipp Dettmer
The Moon Belongs to Everyone: Making Theatre with 7:84, Elizabeth MacLennan

Dropped or Didn't Like


These lists will be where the books I didn't finish, or finished but didn't like will go. I may return to the dropped list at some point, they are mostly books that I didn't get fully into.

Dropped

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche
Ubik, Philip K. Dick
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Terrortome, Garth Marenghi

List of Shame

Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry, Jason Schreier, I
1984, George Orwell, I
Gateway, Frederik Pohl, I