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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.Paul Valéry

• Adrienne Rich's North American Time, Jacked
• A Musing
• Not All Fallen Leaves Are from the Same Tree
• Beauty Marks
• Upended
• LiveJournal (091106-200203)
• Distance, Parts I and II
• Moonrise
• Roland
• One Man's Coffee
• Perform
• Dissolution
• A Cliff Overlooking the Ocean
• Lucid
• Anticipating Immunity
• A Thought During a Routine Morning Jog
• Sanguine
• Bedtime Story
• Dad's Rothko Print
• Absence
• The Last Trip
• How I'm Dealing With the Loss
• Regardless
• Walrus
• Bannonegi

• What It Takes
• God's Gasoline (Tchotchke Redux)
• Tchotchke
• Tracked
• Red
• The Scent of Dust
• Charles Drake, Career Escapist

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• Mary Shelly's Frankenstein

• Howard Kahane's Logic and Philosophy: A Modern Introduction

• C.S. Forester's Randall and the River of Time

• Carolyn G. Heilbrun's Toward a Recognition of Androgyny
• Williams Carlos Williams's The Autobiography
• Robert W. Chambers's The King in Yellow
• James Joyce's Dubliners
• Jesse Lamont's The Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

• Christian Dunn and Nick Kyme's Shadows of Trechery

• Michael Kenyon's The Sutler

• Clive Cussler's The Sea Wolves

• William J. Bennett's The Book of Virtues
• Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf
• Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels's The Communist Manifesto
• Robin Behn and Chase Twichell's The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises From Poets Who Teach
• Peter Ginna's What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing
• Anne Sexton's Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

• Stanley B. Lippman's C++ Primer (Fifth Edition)
• Jonathan Swift's Complete Works
• Sara Teasdale's Complete Works
• William Butler Yeats's Complete Works
• T.S. Eliot's Poetical Works
• William Wordsworth's Complete Works
• Robert Frost's Complete Works
• William Faulkner's Complete Works
• Alexander Pope's Complete Works
• Robert E. Howard's Ultimate Collection
• H.P. Lovecraft's Complete Collection
• William Shakespeare's Complete Works
• Voltaire's Premium Collection
• Anne Sexton's The Complete Poems
• George Orwell's Complete Works
• Hari Chetan's Bhagavad Gita
• The Berean Study Bible

• 230920 POETRY SEPTEMBER 2023
• 230919 Robert Hilles's From God's Angle
• 230918 James Swallow's Fear to Tread
• 230916 Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game
• 230915 The Essential Don Coles
• 230912 Gary Geddes's 20th-Century Poetry & Poetics
• 230910 Bram Stoker's Dracula
• 230908 Phyllis Webb's Talking
• 230907 Christian Dunn's The Primarchs
• 230901 Ruo-Wang Bao's Prisoner of Mao
• 230829 Dan Abnett's Know No Fear
• 230823 Jonathan Haidt's All Minus One: John Stuart Mill's Ideas on Free Speech
• 230822 Adrienne Rich's What is Found There
• 230815 Mark Skousen's The Making of Modern Economics: The Lives and Ideas of Great Thinkers
• 230811 Gav Thorpe's Deliverance Lost
• 230810 Miyamoto Musashi's The Book of Five Rings
• 230809 Neil Jones and David Pringle's Deathwing
• 230805 P.G. Maxwell-Stuart's Malleus Maleficarum
• 230728 Graham McNeill's The Outcast Dead
• 230729 Earle Birney's The Creative Writer
• 230726 Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See (Second Read)
• 230724 Frank Dikötter's Mao's Great Famine
• 230719 Christian Dunn's Age of Darkness
• 230712 Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose
• 230712 George C. Williams's Adaptation and Natural Selection
• 230706 Dan Abnett's Prospero Burns
• 230704 POETRY JULY/AUGUST 2023
• 230625 William Gibson's Distrust That Particular Flavor
• 230622 Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life, and Others
• 230614 Jay Ruzesky's Blue Himalayan Poppies
• 230610 POETRY JUNE 2023
• 230610 Margaret Alice Murray's The God of the Witches
• 230605 Aarib Dembski-Bowden's The First Heretic
• 230604 POETRY MAY 2023
• 230530 Patrick Lane's Selected Poems
• 230529 J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
• 230525 Stuart McLean's Stories from the Vinyl Café
• 230520 R.A. Salvatore's Gauntlgrym
• 230517 Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See
• 230515 Voltaire's Candide
• 230510 James Swallow's Nemesis
• 230406 POETRY APRIL 2023
• 230428 Jane Goodall's Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
• 230427 Clive Cussler's The Mediterranean Caper
• 230422 Graham McNeill's A Thousand Sons
• 230416 Patrick Friesen's the breath you take from the lord
• 230406 George Orwell's 1984
• 230401 Roger Rosenblatt's Lapham Rising
• 230330 Mike Lee's Fallen Angels
• 230328 Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
• 230327 POETRY MARCH 2023
• 230322 Matthew Quirk's The Night Agent
• 230314 Nick Kyme and Lindsey Priestley's Tales of Heresy
• 230304 Graham McNeill's Mechanicum
• 230225 Ben Counter's Battle for the Abyss
• 230224 POETRY FEBRUARY 2023
• 230216 Dan Abnett's Legion
• 230211 Smith Henderson's Fourth of July Creek: A Novel
• 230210 POETRY JANUARY 2023
• 230202 Major General Smedley D. Butler's War is a Racket
• 230202 Mitchel Scanlon's Descent of Angels
• 230201 Bruce Whiteman's Best Canadian Essays 2021
• 230130 Clive Cussler's Raise the Titanic!
• 230127 Jack Kent's There's No Such Thing as a Dragon
• 230127 Jordan B. Peterson's 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
• 230121 Eden Robinson's Son of a Trickster
• 230119 John Collier's Fancies and Goodnights Vol 1
• 230114 Graham McNeill's Fulgrim
• 230111 China Miéville's Looking for Jake and Other Stories
• 230108 Susan Bell's The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself
• 230105 Thomas Williams's The Hair of Harold Roux
• 230101 Joan Didion's After Henry

• 221230 P.W. Singer's LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
• 221229 POETRY DECEMBER 2022
• 221216 F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
• 221216 James Swallow's Flight of the Eisenstein
• 221210 POETRY NOVEMBER 2022
• 221207 Ben Counter's Galaxy in Flames
• 221128 Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 8th Edition
• 221125 Graham McNeill's False Gods
• 221122 Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, Bernadette
• 221121 POETRY OCTOBER 2022
• 221120 Max Lucado's You Are Special
• 221112 Dan Abnett's Horus Rising
• 221112 Steve Parker's Deathwatch
• 221023 Stephen R. Donaldson's The Gap Into Conflict: The Real Story
• 221017 Ian Fleming's Casino Royale
• 221010 John V. Pickstone's Ways of Knowing: A New History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
• 221009 Mona Awad's Bunny
• 221007 POETRY SEPTEMBER 2022
• 221001 John Connolly's Every Dead Thing
• 220914 Jerzy Kosiński's The Future is Ours, Comrade: Conversations with the Russians
• 220912 Gwyn Thomas's Tales from the Mabinogoin
• 220909 Andrew Neil Gray's The Ghost Line
• 220908 Torunn Grønbekk's Warhammer 40,000: Sisters of Battle
• 220824 Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
• 220816 POETRY JULY/AUGUST 2022
• 220804 Robert Graves's The Greek Myths: The Complete and Definitive Edition
• 220801 George Frederici's Scalping and Torture: Warfare Practices Among North American Indians
• 220715 POETRY JUNE 2022
• 220714 Jerzy Kosiński's Being There
• 220702 Simone de Beauvoir's The Blood of Others
• 220702 Ovid's Metamorphoses
• 220629 Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract
• 220503 POETRY FEBRUARY 2021
• 220418 Malcolm Lowry's Hear Us O Lord From Heaven Thy Dwelling Place
• 220406 Karen Connelly's Touch the Dragon: A Thai Journal
• 220325 Konstantin Batyushkov's Writings from the Golden Age of Russian Poetry
• 220315 Fyodor Dostoesvky's Crime and Punishment
• 220306 Herman Melville's Moby Dick
• 220215 Walter M. Miller Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz
• 220120 Souvankham Thammavongsa's Best Canadian Poetry 2021

• 210822 Louis-Ferdinand Céline's Journey to the End of the Night
• 210629 Charles Bukowski's On Writing
• 210626 Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
• 210302 Patrick Ness's The Knife of Never Letting Go

• 201208 Tim Willocks's The Religion
• 200610 Steven Savile's Stellaris: Infinite Frontiers

• 190604 Eugene Thacker's In the Dust of This Planet: Horror of Philosophy vol. 1

• 180317 Marjorie M. Lui's Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening

• 171119 Donald A. Norman's The Design of Everyday Things
• 171031 Victor Papanek's Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change
• 170704 Cormac McCarthy's The Road

• 161017 Nicholas Negroponte's Being Digital
• 160729 Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon

• 150423 William Shakespeare's Hamlet
• 150303 Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• 150302 Victor Hugo's Les Misérables

• 140625 George R.R. Martin's A Storm of Swords
• 140613 George R.R. Martin's A Clash of Kings
• 140608 George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones
• 140406 Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land
• 140323 Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama

• 131220 Shaun Tan's Cicada
• 130819 Yukito Kishiro's Battle Angel Alita Complete Collection
• 130119 Willam Gibson's Neuromancer
• 130117 Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
• 130113 William Gibson's Burning Chrome

• T.S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• Robert Bly's Iron John: A Book About Men
• Muriel Rukeyser's The Life of Poetry
• Milton Friedman's Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
• Donald Rumsfeld's Known and Unknown: A Memoir
• Daniel Yergin and Joseph Sanislaw's The Commanding Heights
• Ludwig von Mises Human Action: Scholar's Edition
• Joseph A. Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
• Seyyed Hossein Nasr's The Study Quran
• Murray N. Rothbard's What Has the Government Done to Our Money?
• John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society
• Jasper Becker's Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine
• C.S. Forester's The General
• Peter Ackroyd's London: The Biography
• Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
• Jeanine Cummins's American Dirt
• Hugh Howey's The Silo Series Collection
• Wyndham Lewis's Tarr
• Clive Barker's Imajica
• Lois McMaster Bujold's The Curse of Chalion
• Stanisław Lem's The Invincible
• China Miéville's A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto
• Clive Cussler's The Mediterranean Caper
• Igor Gouzenko's The Fall of a Titan
• Cynthia Eller's The Myth of a Matriarchal Prehistory: Why an Invented Past Will Not Give Women a Future
• Cintra Wilson's Colors Insulting to Nature
• Stella Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm
• Michael Ondaatje's The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film
• John Hawkes's Travesty
• Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain
• e.e. cummings's The Enormous Room
• Gordon Downie's Coke Machine Glow
• David Goggins's Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
• Stephen Mitchell's Gilgamesh: A New English Version
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust
• Dan Abnett's First and Only
• China Miéville's Perdido Street Station
• China Miéville's The Scar
• Daniel E. Lieberman's Exercised
• Henry E. Allison's Kant's Transcendental Idealism: An Interpretation and Defense
• Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian
• Terrence Irwin's Plato's Ethics
• C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man
• C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity
• C.S. Lewis's Miracles
• C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters
• Roger Scruton's How to Be a Conservative
• Jason Brennan's Against Democracy
• David Sedaris's Me Talk Pretty One Day
• Brian Daizen Victoria's Zen at War
• George Miller's Francis of the Filth
• Simone de Beauvoir's The Mandarins
• Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano
• Harvey Pekar's The New American Splendor Anthology: From Off the Streets of Cleveland
• David Adams Richards's Mercy Among the Children
• Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot
• Paul Harding's Tinkers
• David Wong's John Dies at the End
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust
• Frederic Manning's Scenes and Portraits
• Robert A. Heinlein's Have Space Suit - Will Travel
• Robert A. Heinlein's Take Back Your Government
• Friedrich Nietzsche's The Gay Science
• Christine Smallwood's The Life of the Mind
• Simon Sebag Montefiore's Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
• Dr. Steven Novella's The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
• Frederick Forsyth's The Kill List: A Terrorism Thriller
• Axel Bruns's Are Filter Bubbles Real?
• Bernard Suits's The Grasshopper - Third Edition: Games, Life and Utopia
• Roger Caillois's Man, Play and Games
• Chris Crawford's The Art of Interactive Design: A Euphonious and Illuminating Guide to Building Successful Software
• David Sudnow's Pilgrim in the Microworld
• Brenda Laurel's Computers as Theatre
• Richard Rouse III's Game Design: Theory and Practice
• Johan Huizinga's Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture
• R. Wayne Schmittberger's New Rules for Classic Games
• Bernard De Koven's The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy
• Malcolm Gladwell's Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
• Charles C. Mann's 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago
• Rober Alter's The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary
• Theodor W. Adorno's The Authoritarian Personality
• David Epstein's Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
• David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
• Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking
• Jessie Laidlay Weston's From Ritual to Romance
• Donna Tartt's The Secret History
• Diarmaid MacCulloch's The Reformation: A History
• Corrie ten Boom's The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie ten Boom
• James Joyce's The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karmazov
• Whatever's stitting in the Glose account