i ate some books in 2025. they went in my body as knowledge of their insides. here’s some good ones i recommend.
The Factory – Hiroko Oyamada (2013): small, confounding, surreal mundane labyrinth.
Human Acts – Han Kang (2016): beautiful reflection stories on quashed uprising and ghosts remaining long after.
Deathworld – Harry Harrison (1960): pulp sci-fi, can an earth conman survive a planet out to kill all humans, find out.
Blackwater I: The Flood – Michael McDowell (1983): water runs through a gothic south and uncovers a horror that is quiet and smiling.
Chasm: A Weekend – Dorothea Tanning (2004): thrilling unravelling of a surreal desert palace and the disturbing class world that builds it out of women bones.
The War of the Worlds – H. G. Wells (1898): a science thriller told from the ground, surpirising in its painting of a late victorian action movie.
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe (1958): fluid and tragic. seeing traditions of masculinity in their violences as they collide with violences of white settler colonialism determined to kill all life.
The Body Snatchers – Jack Finney (1955): origin of an iconic story, scary in how it shows the intangible and mundane being invisibly eaten by authoritarianism.
Black House – Stephen King & Peter Straub (2001): contains some freaky shit that is awesome.
Great Expectations – Kathy Acker (1982): sex world violence world dickens class world sex dog world kill and violence eat the eat eat eat.
The Looking Glass War – John Le Carré (1965): spy drama as the dissolving of british class reality in the cold war, unresolved war and capitalism traumas, homosocial tragedy of europe.
White Holes – Carlo Rovelli (2024): brilliant and convincing poetic portrait of what might be happening when a black hole breaks the rules of space time.
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