Samin Nosrat: Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
A useful primer on the basic building blocks of cooking; a lot of these things I had intuited but a lot I had exactly wrong
Mariana Rodrigues and Sinan Eden: All In: A Revolutionary Theory to Stop Climate Collapse
Governments and corporations declared war against the people and the planet. Their preferred weapon of mass destruction is the climate crisis.
Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse 5
and I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, and how much of it was mine to keep.
Jack Finney: Time and Again
Gross sexism aside, this was a fun historical fiction masquerading as a time travel novel with lots of interesting (true!) details about Manhattan in the 1880s.
Kathleen Hanna: Rebel Girl
Helped me understand my teenage sister's perspective a little better.
Liz Pelly: Mood Machine
Organize the massives.
Becky Chambers: Record of a Spaceborn Few
An interesting depiction of a cooperative human society post-earth but a bit of a slog to get through.
Becky Chambers: A Closed and Common Orbit
A somewhat prescient take on the agency of sentient machines.
Becky Chambers: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
A space opera with Le Guin-ian insights into relationships and sexuality.
Cormac McCarthy: The Road
A brutal, ashen book with a surprisingly hopeful ending.
Cory Doctorow: Enshittification
A depressing reminder of the demise of the open internet.
Pamela Druckermam: Bringing Up Bébé
It's easier to be a parent in a country with social services.
Robert Caro: The Power Broker
Why aren't they grateful I keep talking about robert moses?
M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi: Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072
The long, hard, violent, and sometimes joyful road to a post-capital, post-gender, post-nuclear family society built on communal care and healing. A bright spot of hope and roadmap to get there.
Mayumi Inaba: Mornings with Mii
Life as told through a woman's relationship with her cat. Poignant after I lost Lola this year :/