Randolph Warren Ellis (the British author, not the Australian musician, though both have immaculate beards) asked his friends to recommend one book to read this winter.
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I asked a bunch of friends for the name of one book they planned to read this winter. I am delighted to be able to share their suggestions with you.
Ingrid Burrington, author of NETWORKS OF NEW YORK – The Mushroom at the End of the World, Anna Tsing (UK) (US)
Lucy Swope, GHOST COP: Jerusalem, Alan Moore
Chris DuFour, White Canvas Group: Twin Peaks: A Secret History, Mark Frost
Steve Prue, photographer: Necrophilia Variations, Supervert
John Rogers, writer/producer: I Contain Multitudes, Ed Yong
Gideon Kiers, Sonic Acts: The Melancholy of Resistance, László Krasznahorkai
Elliot Blake, Amazon Studios: Before the Fall, Noah Hawley
Benjamin Percy, author: The Once and Future King, T.H. White
Damien Williams, writer and teacher: Magic In Islam, Michael Muhammad Knight
Klint Finley, writer and journalist: A Paradise Built in Hell, Rebecca Solnit
Jim Rossignol, videogame producer: Landmarks, Robert Macfarlane
Sean Bonner, Safecast: Everything Belongs To The Future, Laurie Penny
Kyoto Kitamura, vocalist and composer: Showa 1926-1939, Shigeru Mizuki
Justin Pickard, anthropologist: Iraq + 100, ed. Hassan Blasim
Robin Sloan, author & media inventor: Hild, Nicola Griffith
Anab Jain, Superflux: Being Mortal, Atul Gawande
Nalden, co-founder WeTransfer: Postcapitalism, Paul Mason
Chris DiBona, open source director at Google: Luftwaffe Over America, Manfred Griehl
Richard Kadrey, author: Gourmet Ghosts – Los Angeles, James T. Bartlett
Kio Stark, author of WHEN STRANGERS MEET: The Mushroom At The End Of The World, Anna Tsing
Ganzeer, artist and writer: Pictures At 11, Norman Spinrad
Johannes Kleske, Third Wave Berlin: Four Futures, Peter Frase
Arikia Millikan, writer/editor: Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
Georgina Voss, writer/researcher: The Democratic Surround, Fred Turner
Douglas Rushkoff, theorist & writer: The End of Time, Julian Barbour
Julian Simpson, writer/director: The Nightmare Stacks, Charles Stross
Dan Novy, MIT, Magic Leap, VFX artist: Jerusalem, Alan Moore
Patrick Pittman,writer/editor: This is the Place to Be, Lara Pawson
Kiyash Monsef, writer/director: Universal Harvester, John Darnielle
Jay Springett, artist/theorist: Ifá: A Forest of Mystery, Nicholaj De Mattos Frisvold
Paul Graham Raven,writer: Words Are My Matter, Ursula le Guin
Samuel de Goede, writer: Wild Irises
Deb Chachra, professor: Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Cthulucene, Donna Haraway
Adam Rothstein, archivist, writer & artist: Great Tales of Jewish Fantasy and the Occult, edited and translated by Joachim Neugreoschel
Mikey Pryvt, writer: Star Ark, Rachel Armstrong
Louisa Heinrich, strategist: Star Maker, Olaf Stapledon
E Paul Zehr, professor and author: The Dead Mountaineer’s Inn, Boris & Arkady Strugatsky
Corey White, author: Everything Belongs to the Future, Laurie Penny
Klint Finley, writer: A Paradise Built in Hell, Rebecca Solnit
Wayne Chambliss, strategist: Notes on the Underground, Rosalind Williams
Am I going to read all of the books on this list? Probably not. However, I’m sure you’ll find something to keep you warm.