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BOOKS I READ IN 2025

1. oswaldo zavala - drug cartels do not exist: narcotrafficking in US and mexican culture

2. david mcgowan - programmed to kill: the politics of serial murder

3. feliks ivanovich chuev - molotov remembers: inside kremlin politics

4. j. sakai - settlers: the mythology of the white proletariat from mayflower to modern

5. mark fisher - ghosts of my life: writings on depression, hauntology, and lost futures

6. yūko tsushima - woman running in the mountains

7. marshall berman - all that is solid melts into air: the experience of modernity

8. immanuel wallerstein - the modern world-system I: capitalist agriculture and the origins of the european world-economy in the sixteenth century

9. immanuel wallerstein - the modern world-system II: mercantilism and the consolidation of the european world-economy, 1600-1750

10. vasily grossman, antony beevor & luba vinogradova (eds, trs.) - a writer at war: a soviet journalist with the red army, 1941-1945

11. immanuel wallerstein - the modern world-system III: the second era of great expansion of the capitalist world-economy, 1730s-1840s

12. immanuel wallerstein - the modern world-system IV: centrist liberalism triumphant, 1789-1914

13. mike davis - late victorian holocausts: el nino famines and the making of the third world

14. elise herrala - art of transition: the field of art in post-soviet russia

15. harsha walia - border and rule: global migration, capitalism, and the rise of racist nationalism

16. butch lee & red rover - night-vision: illuminating war and class on the neo-colonial terrain

17. fyodor dostoevsky - white nights (plus “a nasty business” and “the meek one”)

18. maria mies - patriarchy & accumulation on a world scale: women in the international division of labour

19. norman ohler - tripped: nazi germany, the CIA, and the dawn of the psychedelic age

20. mike davis - planet of slums

21. william l. shirer - the rise and fall of the third reich: a history of nazi germany

22. stephen graham - cities under siege: the new military urbanism

23. yukio mishima - confessions of a mask

24. herbert p. bix - hirohito and the making of modern japan

25. janet l. abu-lughod - before european hegemony: the world-system a.d. 1250-1350

26. adrian o’sullivan - nazi secret warfare in occupied persia (iran): the failure of the german intelligence services, 1939-45

27. alfred mccoy - the politics of heroin: CIA complicity in the global drug trade

28. nikolai gogol - dead souls

29. michael jabara carley - silent conflict: a hidden history of early soviet-western relations

30. carroll p. kakel - the holocaust as colonial genocide: hitler’s ‘indian wars’ in the ‘wild east’

31. michael jabara carley - stalin’s gamble: the search for allies against hitler, 1930-1936

32. saidiya hartman - scenes of subjection: terror, slavery, and self-making in nineteenth-century america

33. michael jabara carley - stalin's failed alliance: the struggle for collective security, 1936-1939

34. huey p. newton - revolutionary suicide

35. michael jabara carley - stalin's great game: war and neutrality, 1939-1941

36. david m. glantz & jonathan m. house - when titans clashed (revised & expanded ed.)

37. jonathan m. metzl - dying of whiteness: how the politics of racial resentment is killing america’s heartland

38. immanuel wallerstein - the decline of american power

39. fyodor dostoevsky - the idiot

40. immanuel wallerstein - the end of the world as we know it: social science for the twenty-first century

41. thomas pynchon - gravity's rainbow

42. yoshimi - manchukuo 1987

43. anais nin - henry and june

44. carroll smith-rosenberg - this violent empire: the birth of an american national identity

45. magda szabo - the door

46. anna kornbluh - immediacy, or the style of too late capitalism

47. david stannard - american holocaust: the conquest of the new world

48. izumi suzuki - set my heart on fire

49. hermann hesse - the steppenwolf

50. adam tooze - the deluge: the great war, america, and the remaking of the global order, 1916-1931

51. susan sontag - on photography

52. louise young - japan's total empire: manchuria and the culture of wartime imperialism

53. driss chraïbi - the simple past

54. clarice lispector - near to the wild heart

55. fernand braudel - civilization and capitalism (15th-18th c.) vol. 1: the structures of everyday life

56. john dower - war without mercy: race and power in the pacific war

57. guillaume suing - communism, the highest stage of ecology

58. torkil lauesen - the long transition towards socialism and the end of capitalism

59. clarice lispector - the apple in the dark

60. donna harsch - german social democracy and the rise of nazism

61. gerald horne - the counter-revolution of 1776: slave resistance and the origins of the united states of america

62. jane austen - pride and prejudice

63. oleg benesch - inventing the way of the samurai: nationalism, internationalism, and bushido in modern japan

64. edward drea - japan's imperial army: its rise and fall, 1853-1945

65. vladislav m. zubok - collapse: the fall of the soviet union

66. ernesto che guevara - the motorcycle diaries

67. toshi yoshihara - mao’s army goes to sea: the island campaigns and the founding of china’s navy

68. yukio mishima - spring snow

69. jean rhys - wide sargasso sea

70. tim cook - warlords: borden, mackenzie king, and canada’s world wars

71. guy debord - the society of the spectacle

72. benjamin uchiyama - japan's carnival war: mass culture on the home front, 1937-1945

73. mark driscoll - absolute erotic, absolute grotesque: the living, dead, and undead in japan's imperialism, 1895-1945

74. john d. meehan - the dominion and the rising sun: canada encounters japan, 1929-41

75. herman melville - moby dick

76. hieyoon kim - celluloid democracy: cinema and politics in cold war south korea

77. thomas pynchon - shadow ticket

78. moon ho-jung - menace to empire: anticolonial solidarities and the transpacific origins of the US security state

79. joseph esherick - accidental holy land: the communist revolution in northwest china