I do a lot of research for my magazine work and wanted to highlight some standout titles. Across academic, political, and fiction categories — these are the ones that have stuck.
Academic-ish
- Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Right Now — Jaron Lanier (2018)
- Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature — Donna J. Haraway (1991)
- Staying with the Trouble — Donna J. Haraway (2016)
- How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies In Cybernetics, Literature, And Informatics — N. Katherine Hayles (1999)
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind — Yuval Noah Harari (2014)
- Digital Design Theory: Readings From the Field — Helen Armstrong (2009)
Political
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X — Alex Haley (1964)
- Feminism Is For Everybody — bell hooks (2000)
- The Wretched of the Earth — Frantz Fanon (1963)
- Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? — Mark Fisher (2009)
Fiction & Other
- Jurassic Park — Michael Crichton (1990)
- Frankenstein — Mary Shelley (1818)
- Annihilation — Jeff VanderMeer (2014)
- No Longer Human — Osamu Dazai (1948)
- The Creative Act — Rick Rubin (2023)
- The Way of Zen — Alan Watts (1957)