Happy 2021

Shannon Jacobs
13 min readJan 1, 2021

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Happy New Year to everyone, and by extension to your family and friends. May 2021 be full of accomplishments and happiness and even vaccines. Let’s forget that anno horribilis ASAP.

[This is actually a cut-and-paste of a cut-and-paste for Facebook. Also a test of Medium. And Medium failed quite badly, not even medium badly. However…] If you spend a lot of time on Facebook, then mostly I feel sorry for you and I encourage you to spend less. My own rule is 5 minutes on Facebook per day, but since adopting that rule my “engagement” with Facebook has collapsed and I skip most days. I feel I have defeated Facebook’s brain hacking and brainphishing.

This long post was actually prepared offline and will be cut-and-pasted as I start a five-minute visit [to Facebook]. The five minutes will suffice to check for direct [Facebook] messages to me. I can even send a short reply, take it to email, or prepare for an offline reply pasted back to Facebook. (And if you are interested in what I’m writing here, then maybe you should copy it quickly and close the Facebook window?)

If it’s more evidence of the badness of Facebook that you need or want, then I strongly recommend Zucked by Roger McNamee. Not finished yet, but I believe it will be my first completed book of 2021. McNamee even makes me think I can confuse the corporate cancer with too much information of too little personal consequence. Which is why I feel I can risk the following table of books that I read last year (sorted by subject). (But 2019 was much better for me in terms of reading books. Covid-19 cut me off from the libraries for a while this year.)

Unfortunately, the 5-minute rule means I can’t do much when a cut-and-paste fails, so this is an advance warning that I don’t know what the next part will look like. The appropriate Japanese joke translates as “I’m out of ginger.”

[For what little it’s worth, I tested several of my websites, and only Blogger handled it fairly well. This one barfed all over the basic HTML of the table and took a LONG time to do it, too.]

BookList Search Form Result

This search ( ^.{44}20 ) found 197 books.

Title of Book

Pub. Year

Date Read

Authors

Subjects

Newton’s Clock: Chaos in the Solar System

1993

September 10, 2020

Ivars Peterson

As

Hi

CS

The Book of Nothing: Vacuums, Voids, and

2002

April 10, 2020

John D. Barrow

As

Ma

Hi

Nothing: Surprising Insights Everywhere

2014

October 31, 2020

Jeremy Webb

Marcus Chown

Douglas Fox

As

Me

Ma

The Flamingo’s Smile: Reflections in Nat

1991

February 24, 2020

Stephen Jay Gould

Bi

From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evol

2018

February 24, 2020

Daniel C. Dennett

Bi

Ps

The BBB Guide to Wise Buying

1980

May 9, 2020

Better Business Bureau

Bu

Hi

The Simulation Hypothesis: An MIT Comput

2019

January 23, 2020

Rizwan Virk

CS

The Internet Case Study Book

2010

September 16, 2020

Rob Ford

Julius Wiedermann

Jeff Goodby

CS

Bu

Life after Google: The Fall of Big Data

2018

March 19, 2020

George Gilder

CS

Bu

Hi

Talk to Me: Amazon, Google, Apple and th

2019

December 30, 2020

James Vlahos

CS

Bu

Hi

The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and F

2018

November 21, 2020

David E. Sanger

CS

Hi

PS

The Story of Emoji

2016

November 24, 2020

Gavin Lucas

Jeff Blagdon

Shigetaka Kurita

CS

Hu

Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Sto

2016

August 20, 2020

Nathaniel Popper

CS

IH

Bu

Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Ba

2015

November 18, 2020

Blake J. Harris

Seth Rogen

Evan Goldberg

CS

IH

Ja

Deep Learning with Python

2018

November 29, 2020

Francois Chollet

CS

Ma

Blockchain Revolution: How the Technolog

2016

October 9, 2020

Don Tapscott

Alex Tapscott

CS

PS

Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for

2015

March 31, 2020

John Markoff

CS

PS

So

You are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto

2010

March 26, 2020

Jaron Lanier

CS

Ph

The Googlization of Everything (Updated E

2012

July 25, 2020

Siva Vaidhyanatha

CS

Ph

The Splinters of our Discontent: How to

2019

May 8, 2020

Mike Godwin

Renee DiResta

Charles Duan

CS

Ph

IH

Fair, Then Partly Piggy (HareTokidokiButa

1988

October 18, 2020

Shirou Yadama

Keith Holeman

Ki-su Ho-ruman

Ch

Ja

Fa

Rocket Girls (RokettoGaru)

2010

November 25, 2020

Housuke Nojiri

Joseph Reeder

Ch

Ja

Fa

Astro Boy Books 1 and 2 (TetsuwanAtomu)

2008

September 9, 2020

Osamu Tezuka

Frederik L. Schodt

Chris Warner

Ch

Ja

SF

The Case of the Limehouse Laundry (Baker

2007

November 23, 2020

Anthony Read

Ch

My

Public Enemy Number Two: A Diamond Broth

2002

September 13, 2020

Anthony Horowitz

Ch

My

Fa

Crash

1990

January 23, 2020

James G. Ballard

Fa

Doctor No

2006

December 25, 2020

Ian Fleming

Simon Winder

Fa

Cosmicomics (Le Cosmicomiche)

1968

July 9, 2020

Italo Giovanni Calvino

William Weaver

Fa

As

Hu

Max Einstein: Rebels With a Cause

2019

February 12, 2020

James Patterson

Chris Grabenstein

Fa

Ch

The Jungle Book

2007

June 30, 2020

Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling

Fa

Ch

Raven’s Gate: The Power of Five: Book One

2009

July 26, 2020

Anthony Horowitz

Fa

Ch

Doctor Dolittle’s Circus

1976

August 8, 2020

Hugh Lofting

Fa

Ch

The Magician’s Nephew: Book 1 (Narnia)

1994

August 24, 2020

Clive Staples Lewis

Fa

Ch

The Baron in the Trees (Il Barone Rampant

1977

January 23, 2020

Italo Giovanni Calvino

Fa

HF

The Three Imposters or The Transmutation

2011

May 10, 2020

Arthur Machen

Fa

HF

Naked Lunch

1993

September 3, 2020

William Burroughs

James G. Ballard

Fa

Hu

Me

A Literary Scandal: A Locust Point Myste

2018

August 16, 2020

Libby Howard

Fa

Hu

My

Popular Hits of the Showa Era (ShouwaKayo

2011

March 26, 2020

Ryu Murakami

Ralph F. McCarthy

Ryuu Murakami

Fa

Ja

What the Maid Saw: Eight Psy (KazokuHakkei

1990

June 18, 2020

Yasutaka Tsutsui

Adam Kabat

Fa

Ja

Killing Commendatore (KishidanchoGoroshi

2019

August 26, 2020

Haruki Murakami

Philip Gabriel

Ted Goossen

Fa

Ja

The Memory Police (HisoyakaNaKesshou)

2019

September 26, 2020

Yoko Ogawa

Stephen Snyder

Fa

Ja

Cult X (KyoudanEkkusu)

2018

December 24, 2020

Fuminori Nakamura

Kalau Almony

Fa

Ja

HF

Paprika (Papurika)

2011

January 29, 2020

Yasutaka Tsutsui

Andrew Driver

Fa

Ja

Ro

Your Name (KimiNoNaWa)

2017

October 17, 2020

Makoto Shinkai

Taylor Engel

Genki Kawamura

Fa

Ja

Ro

Mardock Scramble (MarudokkuSakuranburu)

2011

December 7, 2020

Tow Ubukata

Edwin Hawkes

Fa

Ja

SF

Sherlock Holmes: The Patchwork Devil

2016

August 12, 2020

Cavan Scott

Fa

My

Ideal: The Novel and the Play

2015

January 21, 2020

Ayn Rand

Leonard Peikoff

Richard E. Ralston

Fa

Ph

Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in

2019

September 15, 2020

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Fa

Ph

The Solitaire Mystery

1996

April 13, 2020

Jostein Gaarder

Sarah Jane Hails

Fa

Ph

Ch

Quarantine

1995

April 23, 2020

Greg Egan

Fa

SF

The Supernova Era

2019

August 3, 2020

Cixin Liu

Joel Martinsen

Fa

SF

(GMDYWS172)PasutaNoHimitsu

2020

December 20, 2020

Mika Miyahara

Fo

Ja

Ch

Voices From the Street

2007

November 17, 2020

Philip K. Dick

HF

Buddha 1: Kapilavastsu (BuddaDaiIkkan)

2006

October 21, 2020

Osamu Tezuka

HF

Ch

Ja

Notes from Underground: A Norton Critica

1989

February 24, 2020

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Michael R. Katz

Mikhail E.(Yevgrat Salty-Shched

HF

Cl

IH

Sherlock Holmes in Japan

2013

December 26, 2020

Vasudev Murthy

Akira Yamashita

Calvert Markham

HF

Fa

Ja

The Eternal Zero (EienNoZero)

2015

October 8, 2020

Naoki Hyakuta

Chris Brynne

Paul Rubin

HF

Ja

The Cape (Misaki) and Other Stories from

1999

November 3, 2020

Kenji Nakagami

Eve Zimmerman

HF

Ja

Anton Chekhov’s Short Stories: A Norton

1979

April 8, 2020

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Ralph E. Matlaw

Maxim Gorky

HF

Ru

IH

IBM and the Holocaust

2002

September 18, 2020

Edwin Black

Hi

CS

The Comfort Women: Sex Slaves of the Jap

1995

March 4, 2020

George Hicks

Hi

IH

The Invitation-Only Zone: The Extraordin

2016

December 31, 2020

Robert S. Boynton

Hi

Ja

Nothing is True and Everything is Possib

2015

February 29, 2020

Peter Pomerantsev

Hi

PS

The Fifth Risk

2018

August 7, 2020

Michael Lewis

Hi

PS

The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, A

2018

December 9, 2020

Timothy Snyder

Hi

PS

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of

2018

April 30, 2020

Richard Rothstein

Hi

PS

So

History of Beauty

2014

August 25, 2020

Umberto Eco

Alastair McEwen

Hi

Ph

Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition

2014

November 13, 2020

David Nirenberg

Hi

Ph

Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine

2017

February 26, 2020

Anne Applebaum

Hi

Ru

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

2014

January 12, 2020

Yuval Noah Harari

Hi

So

Waiting for Godot (En Attendant Godot)

1989

October 2, 2020

Samuel Barclay Beckett

Hu

The Devil’s Dictionary

1958

October 29, 2020

Ambrose Bierce

Hu

There’s a Vulture Outside (We’re Right Be

1991

July 3, 2020

Charles M. Schulz

Hu

Ch

A Joke a Day: 365 Guaranteed Giggles

2007

August 18, 2020

Martin Chatterton

Tony Trimmer

Hu

Ch

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book II

2004

May 15, 2020

Francois Rabelais

Gustave Dore

Sue Asscher

Hu

Fa

Cl

Look Who’s Back (Er ist wieder da)

2014

September 3, 2020

Timur Vermes

Jamie Bulloch

Hu

Fa

Hi

Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing from A

1996

January 23, 2020

Erma Bombeck

Donna Martin

Alan McDermott

Hu

IH

The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartooni

2019

July 18, 2020

Andrew Blauner

Adam Gopnik

Ivan Brunetti

Hu

IH

Ph

Mostly Harmless

1992

February 24, 2020

Douglas Adams

Hu

SF

The Osamu Tezuka Story: A Life in Manga

2016

February 26, 2020

Toshio Ban

Frederik L. Schodt

Osamu Tezuka

IH

The Journal of a Disappointed Man

1948

June 17, 2020

Wilhelm NeroPilate Barbellion

Bruce Frederick Cummings

Arthur J. Cummings

IH

Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Co

1991

July 2, 2020

Katie Hafner

John Markoff

IH

CS

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Geni

1995

August 9, 2020

Dava Sobel

IH

Hi

Starring Sherlock Holmes: A Century of t

2007

October 7, 2020

David Stuart Davies

Ian Richardson

IH

Hi

Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art

2018

March 26, 2020

Susan Napier

IH

Ja

A Tokyo Romance: A Memoir

2018

December 16, 2020

Ian Buruma

IH

Ja

Life Behind Barbed Wire (TessakuSeikatsu)

2008

July 7, 2020

Yasutaro Keiho Soga

Kihei Hirai

Tetsuden Kashima

IH

Ja

Hi

Rising from the Ashes: A True Story of S

2013

November 8, 2020

Akiko Mikamo

Shinji Mikamo

IH

Ja

Ps

Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of

2017

April 15, 2020

Nancy MacLean

IH

PS

Hi

Gogol

1969

July 13, 2020

Victor Erlich

Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

IH

Ru

Hu

Murakami Diary 2009

2008

March 26, 2020

Haruki Murakami

Ja

Audition (O-deishon)

2010

December 10, 2020

Ryu Murakami

Ralph F. McCarthy

Ja

(GMDYWS166)SougoushoushaNoHimitsu

2019

June 28, 2020

Ken Kudou

Ja

Ch

Bu

(GMDYWS171)NenryouDenchiJidoushaNoHimits

2020

November 30, 2020

Shigeru Mizuki

Ja

Ch

Bu

(GMDYWS167)TakuhaiRokka-.TakuhaiBokkusuN

2019

August 23, 2020

Tomii Ootsuka

Ja

Ch

CS

(GMDYWS169)KensetsuKikai TeianSa-bisuNoH

2020

October 15, 2020

Miho Asada

Ja

Ch

CS

(GMDYWS170)SementoNoHimitsu

2020

November 9, 2020

Ken Kudou

Ja

Ch

CS

(GMDYWS168)DouNoHimitsu

2020

September 25, 2020

Yasutaka Yamaguchi

Ja

Ch

Hi

BunpouchikaraGaTsuku (DoraemonNoGakushuuS

2014

December 21, 2020

Fujio F. Fujiko

Ja

Ch

Li

A Rabbit’s Eyes (UsagiNoMe)

2005

November 20, 2020

Kenjiro Haitani

Paul Sminkey

Ja

Ed

Ch

Confessions: A Novel (Kokuhaku)

2014

December 17, 2020

Kanae Minato

Stephen Snyder

Ja

Fa

Slum Online (SuramuOnrain)

2010

December 15, 2020

Hiroshi Sakurazaka

Joseph Reeder

Ja

Fa

CS

Requiem on the Great Meridian and select

2000

July 16, 2020

Junji Kinoshita

Brian Powell

Jason Daniel

Ja

HF

Light and Dark (Meian)

2014

September 20, 2020

Soseki Natsume

John Nathan

Ja

HF

Japanese Gothic Tales (Gekashitsu,KouyaHi

1996

December 31, 2020

Kyoka Izumi

Charles Shirou Inouye

Kyoutarou Izumi

Ja

HF

Ro

The Astro Boy Essays: Osamu Tezuka, Migh

2007

August 21, 2020

Frederik L. Schodt

Osamu Tezuka

Ja

Hu

IH

Diary of a Tokyo Teen: A Japanese-Americ

2016

July 10, 2020

Christine Mari Inzer

Ja

IH

Hu

Every Day a Good Day (NichiNichiKoreKouji

2019

July 16, 2020

Noriko Morishita

Eleanor Goldsmith

Ja

IH

Ph

Discover Sumo: Stories from Yobidashi Hi

2017

September 21, 2020

Hideo Yamaki

Clyde Newton

Hidehito Yamaki

Ja

IH

Sp

Japanese Street Slang

1992

August 30, 2020

Peter Constantine

Ja

Li

Japanese Linguistics (The Japanese Langu

2019

December 3, 2020

Mark Irwin

Matthew Zisk

Ma-ku A-uin

Ja

Li

Japanese Only: The Otaru Hot Springs Cas

2004

September 29, 2020

Debito Arudou

Dave Aldwinckle

Ja

PS

IH

Rice as Self: Japanese Identities throug

1993

June 20, 2020

Emiko Ohnuki-Tiern

Ja

So

Hi

Semantic Structures

1995

August 13, 2020

Ray Jackendoff

Li

Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

1995

December 20, 2020

Umberto Eco

Li

Ph

The Magic of Math: Solving for x and Fig

2015

March 6, 2020

Arthur Benjamin

Ma

Weird Maths: At the Edge of Infinity and

2019

March 30, 2020

David Darling

Agnijo Banerjee

Ma

Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces that S

2000

March 26, 2020

Martin Rees

Ma

As

The Irrationals

2012

April 3, 2020

Julian Havil

Ma

IH

Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically

2017

October 13, 2020

Daniel Levitin

Ma

PS

Ebola: The Natural and Human History

2014

April 18, 2020

David Quammen

Me

Hi

Flu Hunter: Unlocking the Secrets of a V

2018

July 30, 2020

Robert G. Webster

Me

IH

The Influenza Pandemic in Japan, 1918–19

2015

August 10, 2020

Akira Hayami

Lynne E. Riggs

Manabu Takechi

Me

Ja

Hi

The Mystery of Sleep: Why a Good Night’s

2017

July 23, 2020

Meir Kryger

Me

Ps

The Origin of Evil

2014

January 16, 2020

Ellery Queen

Manfred Bennington Lee

Frederic Dannay

My

The Player on the Other Side

2014

January 21, 2020

Ellery Queen

My

Nocturne

1997

January 23, 2020

Ed McBain

Salvatore Albert Lombino

Evan Hunter

My

Mandarin Plaid

1997

January 29, 2020

Shira Judith Rozan

My

Crossfire

2010

February 5, 2020

Dick Francis

Felix Francis

My

The Zebra-Striped Hearse: A Lew Archer N

1998

February 24, 2020

Ross MacDonald

Kenneth Millar

My

Black Coffee

2002

March 12, 2020

Charles Osborne

Agatha Christie

Mathew Prichard

My

The Ivory Grin: A Lew Archer Novel

1992

March 29, 2020

Ross MacDonald

Kenneth Millar

My

Find a Victim: A Lew Archer Novel

2001

March 31, 2020

Ross MacDonald

My

The Greek Coffin Mystery (Penguin Drop C

2014

April 7, 2020

Ellery Queen

Jessica Hische

Frederic Dannay

My

The Liar in the Library: A Fethering Mys

2018

April 17, 2020

Simon Brett

My

The Doomsters: A Lew Archer Novel

2007

April 20, 2020

Ross MacDonald

My

The Monogram Murders: The New Hercule Po

2015

June 26, 2020

Sophie Hannah

My

Black Money: A Lew Archer Novel

1990

June 29, 2020

Ross MacDonald

My

China Trade

1995

July 5, 2020

Shira Judith Rozan

My

Magpie Murders

2017

July 15, 2020

Anthony Horowitz

My

The Barbarous Coast

2007

July 17, 2020

Ross MacDonald

My

The Galton Case

1996

July 21, 2020

Ross MacDonald

My

Partners in Crime

2001

July 24, 2020

Agatha Christie

My

The Extraordinary Cases of Sherlock Holm

1994

July 30, 2020

Arthur Conan Doyle

My

Even the Dead: A Quirke Mystery

2016

July 31, 2020

Benjamin Black

William John Banville

My

The Wycherly Woman

1998

August 17, 2020

Ross MacDonald

My

The Moving Target

1998

August 31, 2020

Ross MacDonald

My

The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Nov

2012

September 7, 2020

Anthony Horowitz

My

The Way Some People Die: A Lew Archer No

2007

September 10, 2020

Ross MacDonald

My

Moriarty

2014

September 23, 2020

Anthony Horowitz

My

The Chill

1996

September 30, 2020

Ross MacDonald

My

The Con Man: An 87th Precinct Novel

2003

November 10, 2020

Ed McBain

My

Archie Goes Home: A Nero Wolfe Mystery

2020

November 26, 2020

Robert Goldsborough

My

Turn on the Heat

2017

December 18, 2020

Erle Stanley Gardner

A. A. Fair

My

Death on Deadline: A Nero Wolfe Mystery

2016

December 29, 2020

Robert Goldsborough

John J. McAleer

My

The Mark on the Door (The Hardy Boys 13)

2000

April 9, 2020

Franklin W. Dixon

My

Ch

Fa

The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (OBL 3000)

2000

April 3, 2020

Michael Dibdin

Rosalie Kerr

My

En

Sherlock Holmes in America

2009

December 8, 2020

Martin Harry Greenberg

Jon L. Lellenberg

Daniel Stashower

My

Fa

Arsene Lupin Versus Herlock Sholmes (Arse

2012

May 7, 2020

Maurice LeBlanc

George Moorehead

My

Fa

Hu

Aunty Lee’s Delights

2013

July 20, 2020

Ovidia Yu

Louise Penny

My

Fo

Her Royal Spyness

2008

January 21, 2020

Rhys Bowen

Janet Quin-Harkin

My

HF

Death of a Red Heroine

2000

February 2, 2020

Xiaolong Qiu

My

HF

The Bishop Murder Case

1944

March 26, 2020

S. S. Van Dine

Willard Huntington Wright

My

HF

Rogue Male

2014

December 17, 2020

Geoffrey Household

Robert Macfarlane

My

HF

Tears of the Giraffe

2002

July 8, 2020

Alexander McCall Smith

My

Hu

Death Note: Another Note, the Los Angeles

2009

October 26, 2020

Isin Nisio

Andrew Cunningham

Tsugumi Ohba

My

Ja

Fa

The Sunday Philosophy Club

2005

October 10, 2020

Alexander McCall Smith

My

Ph

Murder is Easy (Easy to Kill)

2001

April 21, 2020

Agatha Christie

My

Ro

The Lock and Key Library Volume 6 (French

1912

June 13, 2020

Victor Cherbuliez

Paul Bourget

Julian Hawthorne

My

Ro

HF

How Democracies Die

2019

April 23, 2020

Steven Levitsky

Daniel Ziblatt

PS

Hi

Orientalism

1995

May 29, 2020

Edward Wadie Said

PS

Hi

IH

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong Abo

2019

October 16, 2020

Hans Rosling

Ola Rosling

Anna Rosling Ronnlund

PS

Hi

So

Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the Ameri

2018

October 3, 2020

David From

PS

IH

This Is Not Propaganda: Ad.Against Realit

2019

July 31, 2020

Peter Pomerantsev

PS

IH

Hi

Event

2014

February 26, 2020

Slavoj Zizek

Ph

Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in

2006

November 7, 2020

Michael J. Sandel

Ph

This Will Make You Smarter

2012

December 23, 2020

John Brockman

David Brooks

Marcelo Gleiser

Ph

CS

Ps

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

2017

October 20, 2020

Yuval Noah Harari

Ph

Hi

Re

Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is

1992

September 24, 2020

Friedrich Nietzsche

Reginald J. Hollingdale

Michael Tanner

Ph

IH

The Courage to be Disliked (KirawareruYuk

2019

August 15, 2020

Ichiro Kishimi

Fumitake Koga

Ph

Ps

IH

Selfie: How the West Became Self-Obsessed

2018

January 19, 2020

Will Storr

Ps

CS

Hi

Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality

1976

March 5, 2020

Sigmund Freud

James Strachey

Steven Marcus

Ps

Hi

The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Go

2008

July 29, 2020

Philip G. Zimbardo

Ps

IH

Hi

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through t

2012

September 8, 2020

Jon Ronson

Ps

IH

Hu

The Wandering Mind: What the Brain Does

2015

April 21, 2020

Michael C. Corballis

Ps

Ph

The Time Paradox: Using the New Psycholo

2010

August 29, 2020

Philip G. Zimbardo

John 2 Boyd

Ps

Ph

IH

Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Revealin

2019

July 9, 2020

John Bergsma

Re

Hi

Where the Dead Pause and the Japanese Sa

2016

April 24, 2020

Marie Mutsuki Mockett

Re

Ja

IH

The Dying Animal

2002

January 29, 2020

Philip Roth

Ro

Ph

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet

2015

September 15, 2020

Becky Chambers

SF

Zero History

2012

December 13, 2020

William Gibson

SF

Jem

1980

May 24, 2020

Frederik Pohl

SF

Fa

Gene Mapper

2015

September 17, 2020

Taiyo Fujii

Jim Hubbert

SF

Ja

Yukikaze (Yukikaze)

2010

October 24, 2020

Chohei Kambayashi

Neil Nadelman

Ran Ishidou

SF

Ja

The Caves of Steel: The Robot Series

1991

February 24, 2020

Isaac Asimov

SF

My

Multiethnic Japan

2001

October 25, 2020

John Lie

So

Ja

Hi

Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Cul

2005

October 23, 2020

Michael Wex

So

Li

Re

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