I’ve always inexplicably tried and failed to keep track of what books I read. This page is my last hope, really. Book-links will take you to Amazon (via my referral). For reviews of books, short stories, and film, and recommendations of other reading, see my reviews category. Enjoy!
2013
- Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Markson
- Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution by David Harvey
- Displacing Human Rights: War and Intervention in Northern Uganda by Adam Branch
- Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
- Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Unmasking the State: Making Guinea Modern by Mike McGovern
- The Lord’s Resistance Army: Myth and Reality edited by Tim Allen and Koen Vlassenroot
- Remaking Rwanda: State Building and Human Rights After Mass Violence edited by Scott Straus and Lars Waldorf
- Radio Congo by Ben Rawlence
- Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong by Gordon Matthews
- The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda by Scott Straus
- Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet by Mark Lynas
2012
- The Caine Prize for African Writing 2012
- Playing in the Light by Zoe Wicomb
- The Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland by Genevieve Zubrzycki
- Art and Revolution: The Life and Death of Thami Mnyele, South African Artist by Diana Wylie
- Sizwe’s Test: A Young Man’s Journey Through Africa’s AIDS Epidemic by Jonny Steinburg
- The Frightened Land: Land, Landscape and Politics in South Africa in the Twentieth Century by Jennifer Beningfield
- World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
- Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities by Martha Nussbaum
- Darfur: A New History of a Long War by Julie Flint and Alex de Waal
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- I’m Not Leaving by Carl Wilkens
- The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics by Kathryn Sikkink
2011
- Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
- Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa by Jason K. Stearns
- The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America by Thurston Clark
- Trial Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Lord’s Resistance Army by Tim Allen
- Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages by Guy Deutscher
