alie lark brase likes to write

2024

• Summer Spirit, Elizabeth Holleville

2023

• In Search of Eve: Transsexual Rites of Passage, Anne Bolin
• Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life, Emily Nagoski
• If I Was Your Girl, Meredith Russo
• A Safe Girl to Love, Casey Plett
• Mrs. Davis, Tara Hernandez and Damon Lindelof
• Hello, Groin, Beth Goobie
• The Falling in Love Montage, Ciara Smyth
• To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, Susan Johnson
• The Half of It, Alice Wu
• Imagine Me & You, Ol Parker
• Life Is Strange: Before the Storm, Deck Nine

2022

• Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters
• The Matrix: Resurrections, Lana Wachowski
• She’s Not There, Jennifer Finney Boylan
• Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daughter’s School, Courtney E. Martin
• Whipping Girl, Julia Serano
• Man Alive, Thomas Page McBee
• A Year Without a Name, Cyrus Dunham
• Transgender Warriors, Leslie Feinberg
• Nevada, Imogen Binnie
• trans girl suicide museum, hannah baer
• Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad, Hil Malatino
• Little Fish, Casey Plett
• Transgender History, Susan Stryker
• Life Is Strange: True Colors, Deck Nine
• Darryl, Jackie Ess
• Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist, Cecilia Gentili
• A Dream of a Woman, Casey Plett

2021

• The Space Between Worlds, Micaiah Johnson
• The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
• Gone Home, Fullbright
• Hench, Natalie Zina Walschots
• Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, Philip K. Dick
• Tell Me Why, Dontnod Entertainment
• Love Lives Here: A Story of Thriving in a Transgender Family, Amanda Jetté Knox
• The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice, Shon Faye

2020

• Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Riceboy, Evan Dahm
• The Outer Worlds, Obsidian Entertainment
• This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality, Peter Pomerantsev
• Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
• The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
• The Warehouse, Rob Hart
• I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck
• The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory, Jesse Walker
• Radio Free Albemuth, Philip K. Dick
• Chew, John Layman and Rob Guillory
• Capitalist Superheroes: Caped Crusaders in the Neoliberal Age, Dan Hassler-Forest
• No Name in the Street, James Baldwin

2019

• Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America, Beth Macy
• All Systems Red, Martha Wells
• Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime, Bruno Latour
• Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing, Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
• Adaptations in the Franchise Era: 2001-16, Kyle Meikle
• The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
• Onslaught, Jeph Loeb, Scott Lobdell, et al.

2018

• White Girls, Hilton Als
• Authority, Jeff VanderMeer
• What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry, John Markoff
• Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World, Suzy Hansen
• The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood, James Gleick
• The Planetary Omnibus, Warren Ellis and John Cassaday
• Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu and Stephen Mitchell
• The Art of Living, Epictetus and Sharon Labell
• Life Is Strange, Dontnod Entertainment
• Adults in the Room: My Battle With the European Deep Establishment, Yanis Varoufakis
• Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, Spike Chunsoft
• Pattern Recognition, William Gibson
• Halt and Catch Fire, Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Hariri
• The Fate of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence, Martin Meredith
• Magik #1-4, Chris Claremont
• A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace
• The Queer Art of Failure, Jack Halberstam
• Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, David Graeber
• Inferno, Louise Simonson et al.

2017

• The Secret History of Twin Peaks, Mark Frost
• Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo
• Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance, James C. Scott
• How Will Capitalism End?, Wolfgang Streeck
• Neuromancer, William Gibson
• Normal, Warren Ellis
• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami
• Reality Is Not What It Seems, Carlo Rovelli
• The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, Heinrich Böll
• Free Speech, Timothy Garton Ash
• A Scanner Darkly, Philip K. Dick
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J. K. Rowling
• No Is Not Enough, Naomi Klein
• The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, Lawrence Wright
• The Fix, Jonathan Tepperman
• The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads, Tim Wu
• A Legacy of Spies, John le Carré
• Exit West, Mohsin Hamid
• Political Islam in the Age of Democratization, Kamran Bokhari and Farid Senzai
• Janesville: An American Story, Amy Goldstein
• Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States, James C. Scott
• Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier, Mark Frost

2016

• Two Cheers for Anarchism, James C. Scott
• Banking on Words: The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance, Arjun Appadurai
• The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
• Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
• Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly, Judith Butler
• The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson
• Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer
• Distrust That Particular Flavor, William Gibson
• Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism, John Calvert
• Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, Steven Levy
• Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
• Bleeding Edge, Thomas Pynchon
• The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047, Lionel Shriver
• Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc., Gary Rivlin
• Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy, Christopher Hayes
• Solaris, Stanisław Lem
• No One Belongs Here More Than You, Miranda July
• The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy, David Graeber
• When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi

2015

• This Changes Everything, Naomi Klein
• King Leopold’s Ghost, Adam Hochschild
• In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz, Michela Wrong
• War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
• The Simulacra, Philip K. Dick
• Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
• The Art of Not Being Governed, James C. Scott
• The Gift, Marcel Mauss
• The Future as Cultural Fact, Arjun Appadurai
• Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City, Gwendolyn Leick
• The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
• The Leftovers, Tom Perrotta
• Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson
• Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
• “The Deep Web and the Darknet,” Daniel Sui, James Caverlee, and Dakota Rudesill. Wilson Center, October 2015.
• Nations and Nationalism Since 1780, Eric Hobsbawm
• The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May, Mark Z. Danielewski

2014

• Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
• The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
• Chomsky on Anarchism, Noam Chomsky
• Modern Imperialism and Colonialism, Trevor R. Getz and Heather Streets-Salter
• On Western Terrorism, from Hiroshima to Drone Warfare, Noam Chomsky and Andre Vltchek
• The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson
• The Third Policeman, Flann O’Brien
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein
• Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty
• The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, John le Carré
• American Gods, Neil Gaiman
• Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn, Asef Bayat
• After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5,000 BC, Steven Mithen
• The Word Exchange, Alena Graedon
• Contact, Carl Sagan
• The Reformation, Diarmaid MacCulloch
• Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
• Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev

2013

• The Quiet American, Graham Greene
• Debt: The First 5,000 Years, David Graeber
• The History of the Ancient World, Susan Wise Bauer
• The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
• Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
• A History of the Arab Peoples, Albert Hourani
• House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
• The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
• Understanding Power, Noam Chomsky
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John le Carré
• Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street, Karen Ho
• The Man in the Maze, Robert Silverberg
• Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
• Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations, Norman Davies
• Orientalism, Edward Said

2012

• A Storm of Swords, George R.R. Martin
• A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire, M. Sukru Hanioglu
• The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
• Eaarth, Bill McKibben
• “Dear Dr. Husák,” by Václev Havel. Encounter, September 1975.
• LaBrava, Elmore Leonard
• A Short History of Cahiers du Cinema, Emilie Bickerton
• The Corporation, Joel Bakan
• “Federer as Religious Experience,” by David Foster Wallace. The New York Times, August 20, 2006.
• Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson
• The Origin of AIDS, Jacques Pepin
• The Prague Cemetery, Umberto Eco
• Africa: A Biography of the Continent, by John Reader
• A Nation of Deadbeats, Scott Reynolds Nelson
• The Violinist’s Thumb, Sam Kean
• The Testament of Jessie Lamb, Jane Rogers

2011

• Ulysses, James Joyce
• The New Bloomsday Book, Harry Blamires
• The Intergalactic Vending Machine Franchise, Peter Glassborow
• The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein
• “Sword or Samovar,” by Tom Parfitt. Foreign Policy, February-April 2011.
• The City and The City, China Mieville
  
• A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul
• “A Murder Foretold,” by David Grann. The New Yorker, April 4, 2011.
• Revolution 1989, Victor Sebestyen
• A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
• Waiting for the Barbarians, JM Coetzee
• The King of Oil, Daniel Ammann
• 1984, George Orwell
• Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
• Ubik, Philip K. Dick
• High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
• A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya, Anna Politkovskaya
• A Clash of Kings, George R.R. Martin
• “The Quiet Coup,” by Simon Johnson. The Atlantic, May 2009.
• Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
• We the Animals, Justin Torres
• Wendy and the Lost Boys, Julie Salamon
• Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

2010

• Dune, Frank Herbert
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
• Foundation, Isaac Asimov
• The Leopard, Giuseppe di Lampedusa
• The Bourne Identity, Robert Ludlum
• We, Yevgeny Zamyatin
• The Big Short, Michael Lewis
• The Iguana, Anna Maria Ortese
• Captains Courageous, Rudyard Kipling
• “Prisoners of the Caucasus,” by Charles King and Rajan Menon. Foreign Affairs, July/August 2010.
• A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin
• Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein

This is a list of books I have read & articles I found interesting. For my poor memory.