Books Read in 2016
The website where I originally shared these reading logs is beginning to phase out old posts, so I'm archiving them here! This is a list of everything I read in 2016, with tallies by month and for the entire year.
A ⌛︎ before a title indicates that I had not finished reading it.
January
- Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde
- A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K. Dick
- A Mercy by Toni Morrison
- Home by Toni Morrison
- beloved hero cheats death by Julia Eff (zine)
- The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (reread)
- ⌛︎ Robot Visions by Issac Asimov (18 short stories; skipped the 18 essays)
- Pebble in the Sky by Issac Asimov
- Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt by Barbara Mertz
- The Cult of Pan in Ancient Greece by Philippe Borgeaud
- “Narrating Religion” by Sarah Iles Johnson (academic paper / book chapter)
- “Sending Dreams, Receiving Dreams: Oneiropompeia in Theory and in Practice” by Sarah Iles Johnson (academic paper)
- “Whose Gods Are These? A Classicist Looks at NeoPaganism” by Sarah Iles Johnson (academic paper / book chapter)
- “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury (short story, reread)
- “Moe and the Potential of Fantasy in Post-Millennial Japan” by Patrick W. Gilbraith (academic paper)
- Generation: Fuck You by AMN Collective (zine)
- “The Arrival of Egyptian Tawaret and Bes[et] on Minoan Crete: Contact and Choice” by Judith Weingarten (academic paper)
- “The Arrival of Bes[et] on Middle Minoan Crete” by Judith Weingarten (academic paper)
- “Convivencia (Co-Existence) in Medieval Spain: Exploring Spain’s Identity and History Through the Work of Américo Castro” by Roger L. Martínez-Dávila (academic paper)
- “At the Crossroads of Civilization” by Thomas F. Glick (book chapter from Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages)
- “Sephardic Origins and Jewish-Converso Identities in the Early Modern Era” by Roger L. Martínez-Dávila, Ph.D. (academic paper)
- ⌛︎ Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter by Carl Kerényi
- “Greek and Comparatist Reflexions on Food Prohibitions” by Philippe Borgeaud (book chapter from Purity and the Forming of Religious Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean World and Ancient Judaism)
- “Bes: Development of a Deity” by Carl Graves & Sarah Chapman (academic paper)
Total: 7 books, 19 short stories, 11 academic essays, 1 play, 2 zines, 292,093 words of fanfiction
February
- Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter by Carl Kerényi
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (reread)
- “Sight and the Gods: On the Desire to See Naked Nymphs” by Verity Platt (academic paper)
- “The Lupercalia: A Roman Rite of Passage” by Siobhan Hanley (academic paper)
- “More Than a Manor House: Roles and Representations of the Villa in Republican Rome” by Sophie Gould (academic paper)
- “When Cursing Becomes Literature: The Roman defixio against Caecilia Prima” by Sara Chiarini (academic paper)
- “Love and Reciprocity in Ovid’s Metamorphoses” by Will Theiss (academic paper)
- “Translations: Eclogues IV.31-45” by Connie Cheung, Peter Dewire, and Sarah Norvell
- “Where Tyche and Fortuna Diverge” by Hannah Worscheh (academic paper)
- “Evolving Theological Needs in the Roman Republic: Haruspicy and Augury” by Max Ritvo (academic paper)
- “Personal Religion: A Productive Category for the Study of Ancient Greek Religion?” by Julia Kindt (academic paper)
- “Greek Civilization: From Shame to Guilt” by Anthony Bellitti (academic paper)
- “Without Walls” by A. Gislebertus (short story)
- “The Squeaky Wheel” by Sara Kate Ellis (short story)
- “Out of the Storm” by Ian O'Reilly (short story)
- Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
- Ender’s Shadow by Orson Scott Card (reread)
- Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire (reread)
- Pan & Glahn’s Death: A Document of 1861 by Knut Hamsun
- The Language of the Night by Ursula K. Le Guin (24 essays)
- ⌛︎ Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins (reread)
- “The Origin of the Cult of the Lares” by Gordon Laing (academic paper)
- “The Nature of the Lares and Their Representation in Roman Art” by Margaret C. Waites (academic paper)
- Soldier of the Mist by Gene Wolfe
Total: 7 books, 36 papers and essays, 3 short stories, 82348 words of fanfiction
March
- Soldier of Arete by Gene Wolfe
- “Gordon’s Story” by Tiina Raevaara (short story)
- “Flow My Tears, Fall from Your Springs!” by Jenny Kangasvuo (short story)
- “Dragonfly” by Tiina Raevaara (short story)
- “The Matchbox God” by Anne Leinonen (short story)
- “Woven Flight” by Maria Turtschaninoff (short story)
- “The Coins of Morpheus” by Pasi Jääskeläinen (short story)
- Ancient Mystery Cults by Walter Burkert
- “Contribution to the Study of the Danubian Horsemen Cult: Iconographic Syncretism of the Danubian Goddess and Celtic Fertility Deities” by Bojana Plemic (academic paper)
- ⌛︎ De Agricultura by Cato (selections for research)
- “Theology and Religion in the Homeric Hymns” by Jenny Strauss Clay (academic paper)
- “Cicero’s Minerva, Penates, and the Mother of the Lares: An Outline of Roman Domestic Religion” by John Bodel (academic paper)
- “Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece: Observations on a Difficult Relationship” by Jan Bremmer (academic paper)
- “Divinities in the Orphic Gold Leaves: Euklês, Eubouleus, Brimo, Kybele, Kore and Persephone” by Jan Bremmer (academic paper)
- “What Did the Ancient Greeks Mean by Oikonomia?” by Dotan Leshem (academic paper)
- Cyclops by Euripides trans. David Kovacs (play)
- Tracking Satyrs by Sophocles trans. Anne Mahoney (play, fragmentary)
- Frogs by Aristophanes trans. Matthew Dillon (play)
- ⌛︎ Satyricon by Petronius trans. Sebastian Melmoth/Oscar Wilde/Alfred R. Allinson/? (reread)
- ⌛︎ Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins (reread)
- “A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be” by Ursula K. Le Guin (essay, reread)
- A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
- “The Machine Stops” by E.M. Forster (short story)
- “Divinities of Roman Liberalia ” by Danuta Musiał (academic paper)
- Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins (reread)
- “The Problem of the Greek Cult Epithet” by Robert Parker (academic paper)
- Under the Radar: Notes from the Wild Mushroom Trade by Olivier Matthon
- “Food and Funerals: Sustaining the Dead for Eternity” by Salima Ikram (academic paper)
- “Religious Prospects of the Mine in the Eastern Desert in Ptolemaic and Roman Times” by S.H. Aufrère (academic paper)
- “The Transformation of the Initiation Language of Mystery Religions into Philosophical Terminology” by Francesc Casadesús (academic paper, as published in Greek Philosophy and Mystery Cults)
Total: 3 books, 7 short stories, 3 plays, 1 zine, 12 academic papers
April
- Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins (reread)
- Satyricon by Petronius trans. Sebastian Melmoth/Oscar Wilde/Alfred R. Allinson/? (reread)
- “Polis Religion: A Critical Appreciation” by Julia Kindt (academic paper)
- Hayduke Lives! by Edward Abbey
- “Blurring the line: animal gods and human beasts in Arcadia” by Julie Baleriaux (academic talk)
- “Terracotta Figurines and the Archaeology of Ritual: Domestic Cult in Greco-Roman Egypt” by Caitlín E. Barrett (academic paper)
- The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie
- The Pothunters and Other School Stories by P.G. Wodehouse (2 novels, 12 short stories, 4 essays)
- Devotion by Botho Strauß
- Fermentation by Angelica J. (reread)
- The Secret Twin by Denise Gosliner Orenstein
- Small Beer by Ludwig Bemelmans (10 short stories)
- Justin Hubbell’s comic archives (3 longer comics)
- Saga of the Swamp Thing, Book One (comic)
- Saga of the Swamp Thing, Book Two (comic)
- War Dances by Sherman Alexie (12 poems, 11 short works)
- Crimson Moon by Lucha Corpi
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- Maggie-Now by Betty Smith
- Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Total: 13 books, 33 short stories, 16 other short works, 5 comics, 3 academic papers.
May
- Count Karlstein by Philip Pullman
- The Island by Gary Paulsen
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
- Call for the Dead by John le Carré
- “Material Evidence for Ancient Greek Religion” by Caitlín E. Barrett (academic paper, book chapter)
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare (play)
- Library Open Hours by Susan Welty (play)
- The Third Plate by May Emery Hall (play)
- The City on the Edge of Forever by Harlan Ellison (teleplay)
- Sting! by Tom Reamy (screenplay)
- Contact Point by Theodore R. Cogswell & George Rae Cogswell (play)
- Stranger with Roses by John Jakes (play)
- The Mechanical Bride by Fritz Leiber (teleplay)
- Let Me Hear You Whisper by Paul Zindel (play)
- “Gender Labor: Transmen, Femmes, and Collective Work of Transgression” by Jane Ward (academic paper, book chapter)
- Paradise by Toni Morrison
- Kafka on the Shore by Murakami Haruki
- ⌛︎ Pharmako/poeia by Dale Pendell (reread)
Total: 7 books, 9 plays, 2 academic papers.
June
- “Carna, Proca and the Strix on the Kalends of June” by Christopher Michael McDonough (academic paper)
- “Pursuing the Salmon of Wisdom: The Sacred in Folk Botanical * Knowledge Revival among Modem Druids” by Kimberly D. Kirner (academic paper)
- Pharmako/poeia by Dale Pendell (reread)
- ⌛︎ Pharmako/dynamis by Dale Pendell (reread)
- “Ancient Necromancy: Fact or Fiction?” by Jan Bremmer (academic paper)
- “Virtual unrolling and deciphering of Herculaneum papyri by X-ray phase-contrast tomography” by many (academic paper)
Total: 1 book, 4 academic papers, ~600000 words fanction
July
- ⌛︎ The Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins
- “Women Making Bees in Public” by Alexandra Erin (short story)
- “Walk Briskly” by Alexandra Erin (short story)
- “The Love Song of Laura Morrison” by Jerry Oltion (short story)
- “Last Day” by Brandon Crilly (short story)
- “Looking Across the Riverfrom Two Directions” by Scott Szpisjak (short story)
- The Hammer of God by Arthur C. Clarke
- ⌛︎ The Russia House by John Le Carré
- Floornight by nostalgebraist
- ⌛︎ The Northern Caves by nostalgebraist
Total: 3 books, 5 short stories
August
- Georgics by Vergil trans. J. B. Greenough (long poem)
- The Russia House by John Le Carré
- Crossing the Mangrove by Maryse Condé
- Metamorphoses (section “Picus and Canens”) by Ovid (long poem)
- “Balanophagy in the Pacific Northwest: the Acorn-leaching Pits at the Sunken Village Wetsite and Comparative Ethnographic Acorn Use” by Bethany Mathews (academic paper)
- ⌛︎ A Pattern Language: Towns, Building, Construction by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angel
- Dyskolos by Menander trans. Vincent J. Rosivach (play)
Total: 2 books, 1 play, 1 longform poem, 1 academic paper
September
- Anthologia Graeca (Book VI, Votive Inscriptions) trans. W. R. Paton
- Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
- Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show Part Two: The Revenge of the Old Queen by Richard O’Brian? (screenplay draft)
- “Jeeves in the Springtime” by P.G. Wodehouse (short story)
- “Jeeves and the Chump Cyril” by P.G. Wodehouse (short story)
- “The Secret Pleasures of Reginald” by P.G. Wodehouse (short story)
- “When Papa Swore in Hindustani” by P.G. Wodehouse (short story)
- “My Battle With Drink” by P.G. Wodehouse (short story)
- “Disentangling Old Duggie” by P.G. Wodehouse (short story)
- “Legumes in Ancient Greece and Rome: Food, Medicine, or Poison?” by Kimberly B. Flint-Hamilton (academic paper)
- “The Bean and Indo-European Totemism” by Alfred C. Andrews (academic paper, reread)
- Islamicates Volume I: Anthology of Science Fiction short stories inspired from Muslim Cultures ed. by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad (12 short stories)
- “Hades and Dionysos: The Poetry of Soul” by David L. Miller (academic paper)
- Shin Sekai Yori by Kishi Yusuke (fan translation: http://shinsekai.cadet-nine.org/about/ )
- “The Hag and the Household Gods: Silence, Speech, and the Family in Mid‐February (Ovid Fasti 2.533–638)” by Christopher Michael McDonough (academic paper)
- “On Ritual Pollution by Seeing: I.Lindos II 487.1-3 and Hdt. 2.37.5” by Andrej Petrovic & Ivana Petrovic (academic paper)
- “‘Religion’, ‘Ritual’ and the Opposition ‘Sacred vs. Profane’: Notes Towards a Terminological ‘Genealogy’” by Jan Bremmer (academic paper)
- “Skin” by Samantha L. Davidson (short story)
- “Girl Detective & The Mystery of the Sap-Stained Skirt” by Porpentine (short story)
- ⌛︎ “Animal Girlfriends” (chps 1-3, updating) by Valerie Halla (short story)
- Short Stories by E. F. Benson — “A Tale of an Empty House,” “And No Bird Sings”, “And the Dead Spake”, “At Abdul Ali's Grave”, “At the Farmhouse”, “Bagnell Terrace”, “Between the Lights”, “Caterpillars”, “Christopher Comes Back”, “Corstophine”, “Expiation”, “Gavon's Eve”, “Home, Sweet Home”, “How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery”, “In the Tube”, “Inscrutable Decrees”, “James Lamp”, “Machaon”, “Monkeys”, “Mr. Tilly's Séance”, “Mrs Amworth”, “Naboth's Vineyard”, “Negotium Perambulans”, “Outside the Door”, “Pirates”, “Reconciliation”, “Roderick's Story”, “Spinach”, “The Bath-Chair”, “The Man Who Went Too Far”
Total: 3 books, 49 short stories, 6 academic papers, 1 screenplay, 1 inscription collection
October
- Otoyomegatari by Kaoru Mori (manga, 7+ volumes, 59 chapters)
- “The Flying Camel Goes to Tigerwood” by Lisa M. Bradley (short story)
- “Teen Lunatics” by Cat Darensbourg (short story)
- “Untethered” by Andy Crawford (short story)
- “The Changing Female-To-Male (FTM) Voice” by Alexandros N. Constansis (academic paper)
- “Self-Identification with Deity and Voces Magicae in Ancient Egyptian and Greek Magic” by Laurel Holmstrom (academic paper, reread)
- “The Vanishing Gardens of Priapus” by James Uden (academic paper, reread)
- ⌛︎ The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin (reread)
- “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe (short story, reread)
- Short Stories by E. F. Benson — “The Bus-Conductor”, “The Cat”, “The China Bowl”, “The Confession of Charles Linksworth”, “The Corner House”, “The Dance”, “The Dust-Cloud”, “The Face”, “The Gardener”, “The Hanging of Alfred Wadham”, “The Horror-Horn”, “The House with the Brick-Kiln”, “The Other Bed”, “The Psychical Mallards”, “The Room in the Tower”, “The Sanctuary”, “The Shootings of Achnaleish”, “The Step”, “The Temple”, “The Terror by Night”, “The Thing in the Hall”, “The Wishing-Well”, “Thursday Evenings”
- Short Stories by Margaret Killjoy — “Everything That Isn’t Winter”, “Imagine a World So Forgiving”, “The Name of the Forest”, “One Star”, “Beyond Sapphire Glass”, “The Fall of Ekset City”, “Wardens”
- A Country of Ghosts by Margaret Killjoy (zine version of novel)
- Short Stories by Zen Cho — “Prudence and the Dragon”, “The Perseverance of Angela’s Past Life”
- The Flintstones (2016) (comic issues #1-5)
- Deadpool (2016) (comic issue #20)
Total: 36 short stories, 65 comic & manga chapters, 3 academic papers, 1 book
November
- The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin (reread)
- Old Stones, New Temples by Drew Campbell
- “Shall I Throw it Down?” by Boggy (short story)
- “Space Pirates with Mohawks and Shit: Number One: Life On Other Planets Is Difficult” by Margaret Killjoy (short story zine)
- We Fight: Ideas on Facing the Dread and Anxiety of a Trump Presidency by Adam Gnade (e- zine)
- ⌛︎ Dionysos: Myth and Cult by Walter F. Otto
- ⌛︎ Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson
- Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide by Southern Poverty Law Center (short publication)
- ⌛︎ The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (reread)
- “Reading for Revolution” by Mamos Rotnelli / Black Orchid Collective (zine)
- “Small Town Organizing for Anarchists” reprinted by Sprout Anarchist Collective (zine)
- ⌛︎ The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution by Micah White (chapters 1-2)
- “How To: Form an Affinity Group” by Activate Grand Rapids SDS (zine)
- “How to Promote Events” by Beehive Design Collective (zine)
- “Organizing Social Spaces As If Social Relations Matter” by Cindy Milstein (zine)
- “Anarchism” (Lexicon Series) by Cindy Milstein (pamphlet)
- “Power” (Lexicon Series) by Todd May (pamphlet)
- “Colonialism” (Lexicon Series) by Maia Ramnath (pamphlet)
- “White Supremacy” (Lexicon Series) by Joel Olson (pamphlet)
- “Gender” (Lexicon Series) by Jamie Heckert (pamphlet)
- “The Really Really Free Market*: Instituting the Gift Economy” by Irvine Radical InfoShop / Crimethinc. Ex-Workers’ Collective (zine)
- ⌛︎ Aoi Hana by Shimura Takako (manga, 7 chapters)
Total: 2 completed books, 4 in-progress books, 2 short stories, 13 zines/pamphlets/short publications, 7 manga chapters
December
- ⌛︎ The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (reread)
- “Interpretatio Romana of the forest deities in the Central Balkan area” by Bojana Plemić (academic paper)
- “The Cult of Silvanus: Rethinking provincial identities in Roman Dalmatia” by Danijel Dzino (academic paper)
- ⌛︎ The Cult of Silvanus: A Study in Roman Folk Religion by Peter F. Dorcey (Intro & Chapter 1, Google Books preview)
- “Religion in the Roman Provinces” by James Rives (academic paper, book chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy)
- Written historical materials for Deciphering Secrets: The Illuminated Manuscripts of Medieval Europe on Coursera, Week 1
- Animorphs: The Invasion by K. A. Applegate
- Animorphs: The Visitor by K. A. Applegate
- Animorphs: The Encounter by K. A. Applegate
- Animorphs: The Message by K. A. Applegate
- Animorphs: The Predator by K. A. Applegate
- Animorphs: The Capture by K. A. Applegate
- Animorphs: The Stranger by K. A. Applegate
- Animorphs: The Alien by K. A. Applegate
- Animorphs: The Secret by K. A. Applegate
- Animorphs: The Android by K. A. Applegate
- Executive Summary of the Report of the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey by James, S. E., Herman, J. L., Rankin, S., Keisling, M., Mottet, L., & Anafi, M. of the National Center for Transgender Equality
- Angel Catbird by Margaret Atwood & Johnnie Christmas (graphic novel)
- Animorphs: The Forgotten by K. A. Applegate
- Animorphs: The Reaction by K. A. Applegate
- Animorphs: The Change by K. A. Applegate
- Animorphs: The Unknown by K. A. Applegate
- Animorphs: The Escape by K. A. Applegate
- Animorphs: The Warning by K. A. Applegate
- ⌛︎ Animorphs: The Underground by K. A. Applegate
- ⌛︎ Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou by Hitoshi Ashinano (manga, 3 volumes/23 chapters)
- ⌛︎ Heracles Knot by Sid Hargrave (webcomic, ongoing)
Total: 16 books, 6 academic papers/book chapters, 1 graphic novel, 1 other short publication, 23 manga chapters, 1 webcomic
Year Totals:
- Books: 65
- Short Stories: 154
- Academic Papers: 84
- Plays: 15
- Longform Poems: 1
- Zines/Pamphlets/Other Short Pubs.: 34
- Graphic Novels/Comic Collections: 7
- Comic/Manga Chapters: 95
- Fanfiction (word count): ~3 million