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2026

• Goliath's Curse - Luke Kemp ★★★★
• Work! Consume! Die! - Frankie Boyle ★★
• Fatherland - Robert Harris ★★★
• A History of the Barricade - Eric Hazan ★★★

2025

• Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome - Garth Marenghi ★★★
• The Future of Revolution - Jasper Bernes ★★★
• The Long Heat - Andreas Malm & Wim Carton ★★★★★
• It - Stephen King ★★★
• What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier 2) - T. Kingfisher ★★★
• The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle) Ursula K. Le Guin ★★★★
• A Rebel's Guide to Alexandra Kollontai - Emma Davis ★★★
• Loving Animals - Joanna Bourke ★★★★
• Desert - Anonymous ★★★
• Fifth Sun - Camilla Townsend ★★★★
• Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies - John Langan ★★★★
• The Sleep Solution - W. Chris Winter ★★★★
• De herschepping van de democratie - Ico Maly ★★★★
• Everything for Everyone - M.E. O'Brie & Eman Abdelhadi ★★★
• Rats, Lice, and History - Hans Zinsser ★★
• Exemplary Departures - Gabrielle Wittkop ★★★★
• The Drummer and the Great Mountain - Michael J. Ferguson ★★★
• Bloedrood - Paul Ponsaers ★★★
• My Head for a Tree - Martin Goodman ★★★
• Roadside Picnic - Arkady & Boris Strugatsky ★★★★★
• Midnight in Chernobyl - Adam Higginbotham ★★★
• Overshoot - Andreas Malm & Wim Carton ★★★★★
• Apocalypsofie - Lisa Doeland ★★★
• Moral Abdication - Didier Fassin ★★★★
• Shubeik Lubeik - Mohamed Deena ★★★★
• Armoede uitgelegd aan mensen met geld - Tim 'S Jongers ★★★
• Come As You Are - Emily Nagoski ★★★★
• I Want a Better Catastrophe - Andrew Boyd ★★★
• Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake ★★★
• The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth - Andreas Malm ★★★★★
• The People Vs Tech - Jamie Bartlett ★★
• Songs of a Dead Dreamer & Grimscribe - Thomas Ligotti ★★★★

2024

• Slow Down - Kohei Saito
• The Necrophiliac Gabrielle Wittkop ★★★★
• Zijde Alessandro Baricco ★★★★
• Briefing for a Descent Into Hell - Doris Lessing ★★★★
• Empire of Normality - Robert Chapman ★★★★
• Elementaire principes van oorlogspropaganda - Anne Morelli ★★★
• Uncanny and Improbable Events - Amitav Ghosh ★★★★
• Hyperpolitiek - Anton Jäger ★★★★
• The Jakarta Method - Vincent Bevins ★★★★
• The Monkey Wrench Gang - Edward Abbey ★★★
• Fascism and Democracy - George Orwell ★★★★
• In het spoor van Fanon - Koen Bogaert ★★★★
• The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman - Angela Carter ★★★★
• Tehanu (Earthsea Cycle) - Ursula K. Le Guin ★★★★
• Bij twijfel, altijd noord - Sien Volders ★★★
• The Book of Elsewhere - Keanu Reeves & China Miéville ★★
• Driven to Distraction - Edward Hallowell & John Ratey ★★★★
• The Quincunx - Charles Palliser ★★★
• An Idea Can Go Extinct - Bill McKibben ★★★
• Enchiridion - Epictetus ★★★
• Punktown - Jeffrey Thomas ★★★
• All Art is Ecological - Timothy Morton ★★★
• The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham ★★★
• The Carpet Makers - Andres Eschbach ★★★
• Collected Ghost Stories - M.R. James ★★★
• What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat - Aubrey Gordon ★★★★
• Hope in the Dark - Rebecca Solnit ★★★
• The Complete Symphonies of Adolf Hitler & Other Strange Stories - Reggie Oliver ★★★★
• The Freedom to Be Free - Hannah Arendt ★★★
• Revolting Prostitutes - Molly Smith & Juno Mac ★★★★★
• The Deluge - Stephen Markley ★★★★
• Muiterij - Peter Mertens ★★★
• The Farthest Shore (Earthsea Cycle) - Ursula K. Le Guin ★★★★
• De ongelijkheidsmachine - Paul Goossens ★★★
• Ten Myths About Israel - Ilan Pappé ★★★★
• I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was - Barbara Sher & Barbara Smith ★★★
• The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle) - Ursula K. Le Guin ★★★★
• Why Meditate - Matthieu Ricard ★★★
• The Uninhabitable Earth - David Wallace-Wells ★★★
• Thinking In Systems - Donella Meadows ★★★
• A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle) - Ursula K. Le Guin ★★★★
• The Failure of Nonviolence - Peter Gelderloos ★★★

2023

• Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung - Mao Zedong ★★
• The Penguin History of Modern China - Jonathan Fenby ★★
• Less Is More - Jason Hickel ★★★★
• Noctuary - Thomas Ligotti ★★★
• The Lighthouse Witches - C.J. Cooke ★★
• Climate Change as Class War - Matthew T. Huber ★★★★
• A Very British Coup - Chris Mullin ★★★
• The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell - Brian Evenson ★★★
• The Third Reich - Roberto Bolaño ★★★
• This Is Not A Drill - Extinction Rebellion ★★★
• Perv - Jesse Bering ★★★
• On Cats: An Anthology - Margaret Atwoord (editor) ★★
• The Next Revolution - Murray Bookchin ★★★
• Laurus - Eugine Vodolazkin ★★★★
• Worlds of Exile and Illusion - Ursula K. Le Guin ★★★★
• The Secret of Ventriloquism - Jon Padgett ★★★★
• Daring Greatly - Brené Brown ★★★
• Stolen Focus - Johann Hari ★★★★
• The Dawn of Everything - David Graeber & David Wengrow ★★★★★
• Socialism or Barbarism - Rosa Luxemburg ★★★★
• Call of Cthulhu Keeper Rulebook - Sandy Petersen ★★★
• A Short Stay in Hell - Steven L. Peck ★★★
• Stasi State or Socialist Paradise? - Bruni de la Motte & John Green ★★★
• Survival of the Richest - Douglas Rushkoff ★★★
• Carnacki, the Ghost Finder - William Hope Hodgson ★★★
• After The Revolution - Robert Evans ★★
• The Shadow over Innsmouth - H. P. Lovecraft ★★★
• The Doomed City - Arkady & Boris Strugatsky ★★★
• What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier 1) - T. Kingfisher ★★★★
• Walkaway - Cory Doctorow ★★
• Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - Robin Sloan ★
• The Utopia of Rules - David Graeber ★★★★
• Babel - R.F. Kuang ★★★★
• 1830: De scheiding van Nederland, België en Luxemburg - Rolf Falter ★★★★

2022

• Tender is the Flesh - Agustina Bazterrica ★★★
• 100 jaar om de zee te stoppen - Julie Steendam & Isabelle Vanbrabant ★★★
• The Divinity Student - Michael Cisco ★★★
• Exit Strategy (Murderbot Diaries 4) - Martha Wells ★★★
• The Man Who Died Twice - Richard Osman ★★★
• The Next Civil War - Stephen Marche ★★★
• The Wind's Twelve Quarters and the Compass Rose - Urusula K. Le Guin ★★★★
• The Assassination of Lumumba - Ludo De Witte ★★★★
• Scattered Minds - Gabor Maté ★★★★
• The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt - Toby Wilkinson ★★★
• Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain ★★★
• How Not to Network a Nation - Benjamin Peters ★★★
• The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin ★★★★★
• How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them - Barbara F. Walter ★★★
• De religie binnen de grenzen van de rede - Immanuel Kant ★★★
• Rogue Protocol (Murderbot Diaries 3) - Martha Wells ★★★
• A Spectre, Haunting - China Miéville ★★★★
• Internet for the People - Ben Tarnoff ★★★★
• Ringworld (Ringworld 1) - Larry Niven ★★★
• Satan Burger - Carlton Mellick III ★
• Cursed Bunny - Bora Chung ★★
• Half-Earth Socialism - Troy Vettese & Drew Pendergrass ★★★★
• Gangsters of Capitalism - Jonathan Katz ★★★★
• Post Growth - Tim Jackson ★★★
• The Secret History - Donna Tartt ★★★★
• My Shit Life So Far - Frankie Boyle ★★★
• Artificial Conditions (Murderbot Diaries 2) - Martha Wells ★★★
• The Right to Sex - Amia Srinivasan ★★★★
• The Hilarious World of Depression - John Moe ★★★
• All Systems Red (Murderbot Diaries 1) - Martha Wells ★★★
• Democratic Confederalism - Abdullah Öcalan ★★★
• Capitalist Realism - Mark Fisher ★★★
• Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir ★★★
• Talking to My Daughter About the Economy - Yanis Varoufakis ★★★
• De wonderlijke avonturen van Cies Slameur - Paul Kenis ★★★★
• The Word for World is Forest - Ursula K. Le Guin ★★★★
• The Will to Change - bell hooks ★★★
• Magpie Murders (Susan Ryeland 1) - Anthony Horowitz ★★★
• Caliban and the Witch - Silvia Federici ★★★★
• Heart of a Dog - Mikhail Bulgakov ★★★
• The Deficit Myth - Stephanie Kelton ★★★★
• My Work is Not Yet Done - Thomas Ligotti ★★
• Eenheidscongres 2021 - PVDA ★★★★
• Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco ★★★★★
• Tentacles Longer Than Night (Horror of Philosophy 3) - Eugene Thacker ★★★
• The Great God Pan - Arthur Machen ★★
• The Rats in the Walls - H. P. Lovecraft ★★★
• Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille ★★★
• A People's History of the German Revolution - William A. Pelz ★★★★
• The Little Book of Common Sense Investing - John C. Bogle ★★★
• Ring Shout - P. Djèlí Clark ★★★
• The Simple Path to Wealth - J.L. Collins ★★★
• The Difference Engine - William Gibson & Bruce Sterling ★★★
• Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain - David Gerard ★★★
• The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu - Paula Guran (editor) ★★

2021

• How to Blow Up a Pipeline - Andreas Malm ★★★★★
• Nightbitch - Rachel Yoder ★★★
• For a Left Populism - Chantal Mouffe ★★★
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke ★★★★
• Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master - Michael Shea ★★★
• Jennifer Government - Max Barry ★
• Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism - Kristen Ghodsee ★★★★
• Under the Black Flag - David Cordingly ★★★
• The Thursday Murder Club - Richard Osman ★★★
• A Cat, a Man, and Two Women - Junichirō Tanizaki ★★★★
• Baron Munchausen - Erich Rudolf Raspe ★★
• Washington Bullets - Vijay Prashad ★★★
• The Prague Cemetery - Umberto Eco ★★★
• Rapsodie in bloed - Roger d'Exsteyl ★★★
• Virtue and Terror - Maximilien Robespierre & Slavoj Žižek ★★★★
• The Great Railway Bazaar - Paul Theroux ★★★
• Atomic Habits - James Clear ★★★
• Rayuela - Julio Cortázar ★★
• Piranesi - Susanna Clarke ★★★★
• Strange Histories - Darren Oldridge ★★★
• Breaking Things at Work - Gavin Mueller ★★★★
• De Bourgondiërs - Bart van Loo ★★★
• Vooruit! - Ico Maly ★★★★
• Starry Speculative Corpse (Horror of Philosophy 2) - Eugene Thacker ★★★★
• Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder - Vladimir Lenin ★★★
• The Midnight Library - Matt Haig ★★★
• Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters - John Langan ★★
• The Lost Revolution - Chris Harman ★★★
• We, the Drowned - Carsten Jensen ★★★★★
• The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born - Nancy Fraser ★★★
• The Civil War in France - Karl Marx ★★★★
• Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson ★★★
• Can Political Violence Ever Be Justified? - Elizabeth Frazer & Kimberly Hutchings ★★★★
• Cannibalism - Bill Schutt ★★★★
• 1491 - Charles C. Mann ★★★
• The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases - Jeff VanderMeer & Mark Roberts ★★★
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Shoshana Zuboff ★★★★★
• The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco ★★★★
• Axiom's End (Noumena 1) - Lindsay Ellis ★★
• The Ballad of Black Tom - Victor LaValle ★★★
• The Horror at Red Hook - H. P. Lovecraft ★★

2020

• Là-Bas - Joris-Karl Huysmans ★★★
• Blackshirts and Reds - Michael Parenti ★★★★
• De nacht voor de echtscheiding - Sándor Márai ★★
• This World is Full of Monsters - Jeff VanderMeer ★★
• Prosper's Demon - K.J. Parker ★★★
• Belgische republikeinen - Els Witte ★★★★
• Mouthful of Birds - Samanta Schweblin ★★
• Four Futures - Peter Frase ★★★
• The Ministry for the Future - Kim Stanley Robinson ★★★
• Dead Lies Dreaming (Dead Lies Dreaming 1) - Charles Stross ★★
• The Linux Command Line - William E. Shotts Jr. ★★★
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami ★★★★
• The German Ideology - Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels ★★★
• The Fisherman - John Langan ★★★★
• The Haunter of the Dark - H. P. Lovecraft ★★★★★
• The Trial - Franz Kafka ★★★★
• Ze zijn ons vergeten - Peter Mertens ★★★★
• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk ★★★★
• Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now - Jaron Lanier ★★★
• Sad by Design - Geert Lovink ★★★
• Song for the Unraveling of the World - Brian Evenson ★★★
• Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge ★★★★
• The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov ★★★★
• Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky ★★★
• The State and Revolution - Vladimir Lenin ★★★★
• The Devil All the Time - Donald Ray Pollock ★★★
• China: A History - John Keay ★★★★
• A Tomb for Boris Davidovich - Danilo Kiš ★★★★
• Switch Bitch - Roald Dahl ★★★
• Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir ★★
• Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason - David Harvey ★★★★
• Pandemic! - Slavoj Žižek ★★★
• Agents of Dreamland - Caitlín R. Kiernan ★★★
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson ★★★
• De meeste mensen deugen - Rutger Bregman ★★★★
• The Plague - Albert Camus ★★★★★
• Failed It! - Erik Kessels ★★
• Are your keys purposely hiding? - Anne Fonteyn ★★★★
• Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - Carlo Rovelli ★★★
• Red Cavalry - Isaac Babel ★★★
• Dead Interviews - Dan Crowe ★★★
• The Hellbound Heart - Clive Barker ★★★
• Metro 2033 (Metro 1) - Dmitry Glukhovsky ★★
• Taal voor de leuk - Paulien Cornelisse ★★
• The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels ★★★★
• The Plot Against America - Philip Roth ★★★★
• The Bullet Journal Method - Ryder Carroll ★★★
• War! What Is It Good For? - Ian Morris ★★★
• At the Mountains of Madness - H. P. Lovecraft ★★★
• In Praise of Shadows - Junichirō Tanizaki ★★★
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari ★★
• Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? - Caitlin Doughty ★★★

2019

• Lenin on the Train - Catherine Merridale ★★★
• The Principles of Communism - Friedrich Engels ★★★
• The Whisperer in Darkness - H. P. Lovecraft ★★★
• Work, Inequality, Basic Income - Boston Review / Forum 2 ★★★
• The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte - Karl Marx ★★★★
• Hard To Be a God - Arkady & Boris Strugatsky ★★★
• Het verdorven genootschap - Philipp Blom ★★★
• The Drowning Girl - Caitlín R. Kiernan ★★★★
• The Labyrinth Index (Laundry Files 9) - Charles Stross ★★★
• The Delirium Brief (Laundry Files 8) - Charles Stross ★★★★
• Kill All Normies - Angela Nagle ★★★
• Perdido Street Station - China Miéville ★★
• The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin ★★★★
• Hitler's Monsters - Eric Kurlander ★★★★
• Monday Starts on Saturday - Arkady & Boris Strugatsky ★★★★
• The Conspiracy against the Human Race - Thomas Ligotti ★★★★
• Ten Days that Shook the World - John Reed ★★★★
• Failure of a Revolution: Germany 1918-1919 - Sebastian Haffner ★★★★★

2018

• Hedendaagse antiverlichting - Ico Maly ★★★★
• The Aztecs: A Very Short Introduction - David Carrasco ★★
• Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire - Mike Mignola ★★★
• The Mystery of the Yellow Room - Gaston Leroux ★★
• How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them - Jason Stanley ★★
• The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks ★★
• October: The Story of the Russian Revolution - China Miéville ★★★
• The Forever War - Joe Haldeman ★★★
• Kraken - China Miéville ★★★
• The Last Days of New Paris - China Miéville ★★
• Exquisite Corpse - Poppy Z. Brite ★

2017

• What If? - Randall Munroe ★★★
• Three Moments of an Explosion - China Miéville ★★★
• The City & The City - China Miéville ★★★★
• John Dies at the End - David Wong ★★
• From Here to Eternity - Caitlin Doughty ★★
• The Code Book - Simon Singh ★★★★
• 34 zeer korte verhalen en een vogelkat - Evelio Rosero ★★★
• Duna Messiah (Dune 2) - Frank Herbert ★★
• The Blind Owl - Sadegh Hedayat ★★★
• Tirza - Arnon Grunberg ★★★
• The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon ★★★★
• Alectryomancer and Other Weird Tales - Christopher Slatsky ★★
• The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood ★★★★
• De trein der traagheid - Johan Daisne ★★
• De komst van Joachim Stiller - Hubert Lampo ★★★★★
• Solaris - Stanisław Lem ★★★★★
• Liberty or Death - Peter McPhee ★★★
• Understanding a Photograph - John Berger ★★★★
• Mort - Terry Pratchett ★★
• The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett ★★
• Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick ★★★★
• The Necrophiliac - Gabrielle Wittkop ★★★★★
• Death's End (Three-Body Problem 3) - Cixin Liu ★★★
• Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson ★★★
• Anarchy Works - Peter Gelderloos ★★★★
• Modern Romance - Aziz Ansari ★★★
• Dune (Dune 1) - Frank Herbert ★★★

2016

• The Encyclopedia of the Dead - Danilo Kiš ★★★★★
• Why Orwell Matters - Christopher Hitchens ★★★
• Acceptance (Southern Reach 3) - Jeff VanderMeer ★★★
• Children of Lovecraft - Ellen Datlow (editor) ★★★
• Roadside Picnic - Arkady & Boris Strugatsky ★★★★★
• The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All - Laird Barron ★★
• Inferno - August Strindberg ★★★
• Why I Write - George Orwell ★★★★
• Toverijen - Michel de Ghelderode ★★★★
• A Natural History of Hell - Jeffrey Ford ★★★★
• Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell ★★★★★
• The Nightmare Stacks (Laundry Files 7) - Charles Stross ★★★
• Fool Moon (Dresden Files 2) - Jim Butcher ★★
• Storm Front (Dresden Files 1) - Jim Butcher ★★
• A Short History of Decay - Emil Cioran ★★★★
• Authority (Southern Reach 2) - Jeff VanderMeer ★★★
• Fundering voor de metafysica van de zeden - Immanuel Kant ★★★★★
• In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy 1) - Eugene Thacker ★★★★
• The Dark Forest (Three-Body Problem 2) - Cixin Liu ★★★★
• The Three-Body Problem (Three-Body Problem 1) - Cixin Liu ★★★
• Red Plenty - Francis Spufford ★★★★
• Missile Gap - Charles Stross ★★★
• Annihilation (Southern Reach 1) - Jeff VanderMeer ★★★★★
• The Annihilation Score (Laundry Files 6) - Charles Stross ★★★
• The Rhesus Chart (Laundry Files 5) - Charles Stross ★★★
• The Apocalypse Codex (Laundry Files 4) - Charles Stross ★★★★
• The Fuller Memorandum (Laundry Files 3) - Charles Stross ★★★★
• The Jennifer Morgue (Laundry Files 2) - Charles Stross ★★★

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