Books Read in 2017
This is a list of everything I read in 2017, with tallies by month and for the entire year. This is compiled from a draft post on a social media site and a text document I unearthed on my computer.
A ⌛︎ before a title indicates that I had not finished reading it.
January
- “Hermes and the Creation of Space” by Murray Stein (academic paper)
- “Cypriot Pan at the Crossroads in Late Classical and Hellenistic Cyprus: The Evidence from Athienou-Malloura” by Clay M. Cofer (academic paper)
- The Bakkhai by Euripides trans. Robert Bagg (reread, from other translations)
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (reread)
- “Rushing and Falling into Milk: New Perspectives on the Orphic Gold Tablets from Thurii and Pelinna” by Christopher A. Faraone (academic paper, chapter in Further along the Path: Recent Studies in the Orphic Gold Leaves)
- “Redefining Dionysos in Athens from the written sources: The Lenaia, Iacchos and Attic women” by Miriam Valdés Guía (academic paper)
- Dionysos: Myth and Cult by Walter F. Otto
- “The Immortal Words of Paean” by Ian Rutherford (academic paper, chapter in The Getty Hexameters: Poetry, Magic, and Mystery in Ancient Selinous)
- “Snake-Limbed and Tendril-Limbed Goddesses in the Art and Mythology of the Mediterranean and Black Sea” by Yulia Ustinova (academic paper)
- “When In Greece, Do as the Persians Don’t: Defining the Identity of the Greeks Against the Persian Imperial ‘Other’” by Katrina Van Amsterdam (academic paper)
- “Extra‐Ordinary People: Mystai and Magoi , Magicians and Orphics in the Derveni Papyrus” by Radcliffe Edmonds (academic paper)
- “Magic and Theology in Ancient Egypt” by Jan Assmann (academic paper)
- “Household Religion in Rome: An Examination of Domestic Ritual and its Role in Shaping the Roman Family” by Kaitlyn Carlson (undergrad thesis)
- “Sending Dreams, Receiving Dreams: Oneiropompeia in Theory and in Practice” by Sarah Iles Johnston (academic paper, reread)
- The Pride of Chanur by C.J. Cherryh
- Animorphs: The Underground by K.A. Applegate
- ⌛︎ Animorphs: The Decision by K.A. Applegate
- “Trapezomata: A Neglected Aspect of Greek Sacrifice” by David Gill (academic paper)
- “Dionysus in the Greek Magical Papyri” by Eleni Pachoumi (academic paper)
- Chanur’s Venture by C.J. Cherryh
- ⌛︎ The Kif Strike Back by C.J. Cherryh
Total: 5 books, 1 play, 13 academic papers
February
- “The Bacchic-Orphic Hades” by Yannis Tzifopoulos (academic essay and exhibition catalogue entries, included in BEYOND: Death and Afterlife in Ancient Greece)
- ⌛︎ Greek Religion by Walter Burkert
- Priapea trans. by Leonard C. Smithers and Sir Richard Burton (reread, 95 poems)
- Elegies by Tibullus trans. Theodore C. Williams (poetry)
- ⌛︎ Deipnosophistae by Athenaeus trans. C.D. Yonge (books 1-4)
- “Athenaeus for Beginners” by Ben Cartlidge (academic talk)
- ⌛︎ “Honoring the Family Dead on the Parentalia: Ceremony, Spectacle, and Memory” by Fanny Dolansky (academic paper)
- “Bes” by Joshua J. Mark (Ancient History Encyclopedia article)
- “Magic in Ancient Egypt” by Joshua J. Mark (Ancient History Encyclopedia article)
Total: 4 short academic works, 2 long poems/poetry collections
March
- Pacific Agony by Bruce Benderson
- ⌛︎ Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood (9 short stories)
- De Dea Syria by Lucian trans. Herbert A. Strong and John Garstang (translation and notes only)
- “On Greek Ethnography of the Near East: The Case of Lucian’s De Dea Syria” by Jane L. Lightfoot (academic paper)
- “Beer in Ancient Egypt” by Joshua J. Mark (Ancient History Encyclopedia article)
- “Etruscan Pantheon” by Mark Cartwright (Ancient History Encyclopedia article)
Total: 2 books, 3 short academic works, 9 short stories
April—July (couldn’t keep updated)
- All My Friends Want to Be Castrated and Kill Their Family by porpentine (short story)
- “Lugalbanda and Hermes” by Jennifer Larson (academic paper)
- “Seized by the Nymphs: Nympholepsy and Symbolic Expression in Classical Greece by W. R. Connor (academic paper)
- “Gardens in the Desert” by Marjike van der Veen (academic paper, included in Life on the Fringe: Living in the Southern Egyptian Deserts During the Roman and Early-Byzantine Periods)
- “Religious Perceptions of the Mine in the Eastern Desert in Ptolemaic and Roman Times” by S.H. Aufrére (academic paper, reread, included in Life on the Fringe: Living in the Southern Egyptian Deserts During the Roman and Early-Byzantine Periods)
- “Minoan Animal-Human Hybridity” by Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw (academic paper, included in The Master of Animals in Old World Iconography)
- Animorphs Book 18-54, *Megamorphs *1-4, the 3 Chronicles, & Visser by K.A. Applegate (45 books)
- Endometriosis: It’s the End of the World as We Know It (zine)
- Lady Parts: My Life with (and without) a Uterus by Dani Burlison (zine)
- Remnants Books 1-14 by K.A. Applegate (14 books)
- “The Wake” by Gretchen White (short story)
- “Back the Way You Came” by Gretchen White (short story)
- “The Widow” by Gretchen White (short story)
- “NEERS” by Elisa Mask (short story)
- “FB0T” by Elisa Mask (short story)
- “Mx” by Elisa Mask (short story)
- “Fasces” by Elisa Mask (short story)
- “Men of the Ashen Morrow” by Margaret Killjoy (short story)
- “The Comet” by W.E.B Du Bois (short story)
- “The Damnation of Women” by W.E.B. Du Bois (essay)
- “A Simple Spell and the Dangers of Online Dating” by Lee Bradford (short story)
- “The Page of Wands” by Lee Bradford (short story)
- “Killer Habit” by Lee Bradford (short story)
- “The Cold Snap” by Lee Bradford (short story)
- “Good, Clean Dirt” by Lee Bradford (short story)
- “INTERNET MURDER REVENGE FANTASY” by merritt k (comic)
- “Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones” by Torrey Peters (short story)
- “The Masker” by Torrey Peters (short story)
- “Gender Nihilism: An Anti-Manifesto” (+addendum) by Alyson Escalante (essay, reread)
- “The Wisdom of Direct Knowledge: A Rebirth of the Way to Gnostic Transsexuality” by Cathryn Platine (essay)
- “We Are an Old People, We Are a New People” by Cathryn Platine (4 essays)
- Hermaphrodeities by Raven Kaldera (sections, skimming, reread)
Total: 17 short stories, 5 academic papers, 7 other essays, 2 zines, 59 books, 1 comic
August—December (incomplete?)
- In Search of God the Mother: The Cult of Anatolian Cybele by Lynn E. Roller (academic book)
- ⌛︎ Miasma: Pollution and Purification in early Greek Religion by Robert Parker (academic book)
- Oregon Driver Manual 2016-2017 (pamphlet)
- Bertram: A Tragedy in Five Acts by Charles Maturin (play)
- Fatal Revenge; or, the Family of Montorio: A Romance (Volume 1) by Charles Maturin (novel)
- ⌛︎ Fatal Revenge; or, the Family of Montorio: A Romance (Volume 2) by Charles Maturin (novel)
- Tsukihime by Type-Moon (visual novel)
- Kanon by Key (visual novel)
- GLAMOUR BOUTIQUE by Torrey Peters (novella)
- Portland Diary: Short Stories 2016/2017 by Jamie Berrout (7 short stories)
- “Beating the bounds: how does ‘open source’ become a seed commons?” by Maywa Montenegro de Wit (academic paper)
- “Viruses as Living Processes” by John Dupré and Stephan Guttinger (academic paper)
- It by Stephen King (novel, reread)
- Number 9 Dream by David Mitchell (novel)
- Mistress Masham's Repose by T.H. White (novel)
- 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King (novel, reread)
- Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert (novel, reread)
- Children of Dune by Frank Herbert (novel, reread)
Total: 7 novels, 1 academic book, 2 visual novels, 1 novella, 1 play, 2 academic papers, 7 short stories, 1 pamphlet
Year Total, for recorded amounts:
- 71 novels
- 1 novella
- 5 nonfiction books
- 33 short stories
- 2 plays
- 24 academic papers
- 7 essays
- 3 zines and pamphlets
- 2 visual novels
- 1 comic
- 4 long poems/poetry collections