Take that New Year’s resolution: Year 5 with my public reading list.
Find the last editions here: the 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2020 diverse reading list with summaries, insights, stats, and recommendations for those years. Generally speaking: Having read a book is NOT an endorsement.
As I already wrote last year: I talked enough about the intention in the last editions, and I have little to add, so let’s start a new year, acknowledging that I will never know everything, but I can keep learning.
Do you have tips, authors, or books you think I should read or how to do the stats better? Please send me a message!
berta @ herrberta.art
Wo es keinen Konflikt gibt, kann es nur Einsamkeit geben.
Şeyda Kurt – Hass
Books read in 2024
- January
- Melina Borčak – Mekka hier, Mekka da. Warum wir über antimuslimischen Rassismus sprechen müssen
- Aladin El-Mafaalani – Wozu Rassisimus?
- Şeyda Kurt – HASS. Von der Macht eines widerständigen Gefühls
- Paul Watzlawick – Anleitung zum Unglücklichsein
- February
- Maja Göpel – Unsere Welt neu denken
- Véronique Bergen – Anarchismus: Libertäre Theorie und Praxis
- Sovia Szymula – fluide
- Kohei Saito – Systemsturz
- March
- Edith Bruck – Das barfüßige Mädchen
- Nghi Vo – The Empress of Salt and Fortune
- Heidi Kastner – Dummheit
- Svenja Hofert – Business Slowdown
- Nghi Vo -When the tiger Came Down the Mountain
- Seanan McGuire – Every Heart a Doorway
- Yolanda García Hernández, Mario Martín Gijón – Réquiem por un Torero
The stats so far
- Everybody else/white, hetero cis-Men 13/1
- Art or Graphic Novel/Non-Fiction/Fiction or Poetry 0/10/5
- Paper/e-reader/Audiobook 2/0/13
- The language I read/ heard the book in German/English/Spanish 11/3/1
Diverse reading list: Books I’d like to read
Book already bought
- Eleonora Roldán Mendívil & Bafta Sarbo (Hrsg.) – Die Diversität der Ausbeutung
- McKenzie Wark – Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse?
- Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff – Black Joy
- Peter Bierl – Einmaleins der Kapitalismuskritik
- Valeria Bruschi & Moritz Zeiler (Hrsg.) – Das Klima des Kapitals
- Thomas Piketty – Sozialismus der Zukunft
- Thích Nhất Hạnh – The art of power
Library Audiobook available
- Frank Ostaseski – The Five Invitations: What the Living Can Learn From the Dying
- Robert Jones Jr. – The Prophets
- Sheila de Liz – Woman on Fire
- Paulo Freire – Pedagogy of the Oppressed
- Ocean Vuong – On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
- Juli Zeh – über Menschen
- Joan Halifax – Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet
- Paul Mason – Postkapitalismus
Other
- Gustav Landauer
- Judith Butler
- Manon Garcia – We aren’t born submissive
- Paul B. Preciado – Kontrasexuelles Manifest
- Suzette Haden Elgin – Native Tongue
- Sabine Bode – Kriegsspuren
- Pohl, Rolf: Feindbild Frau – Männliche Sexualität, Gewalt und die Abwehr des Weiblichen.
- Aladin El-Mafaalani – Wozu Rassismus?
- Elvia Wilk – Oval or Death by Landscape
- Emily M. Danforth – Plain Bad Heroines
- Alok Vaid-Menon – Beyond the gender binary
- Francis Seeck & Brigitte Theißl – Solidarisch gegen Klassismus
- Nick Kolenda – Methods of Persuasion: How to Use Psychology to Influence Human Behavior
- Dilek Güngör – Vater und ich
- Rae Johnson – Embodied Activism
- Erin Morgenstern – The Starless Sea: the spellbinding Sunday
- Leonora Carrington – The Hearing Trumpet
- Penélope Bagieu – Valerosas 2 : mujeres que solo hacen lo que ellas quieren
- Nalo Hopkinson – So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Alexis Lothian – Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility
- Diane di Prima – Recollections of My Life as a Woman
- Saul D. Alinsky – Call Me a Radical: Organizing and Empowerment
Comic books/ Graphic novels
We have 3 series we are following. I am trying to stick to the rule of only having 5. We can only start a new one once we officially stop another, preferably when the story is finished.
- Frank Herbert – Dune, The Graphic Novel
- Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda – Monstress
- Darcy Van Poelgeest, Ian Bertram – Little Bird
Courses to take/ Groups to participate in
Books aren’t the only way to develop a better understanding of the world, so I’ll list some talks, courses, and groups I am engaged in or plan on being engaged in.
Currently, actively engaged
- Diskussionsgruppe LEA Left Ecological Associatio