# 📚 Books
A living index of books to download, currently reading, queued up, and finished. Ratings use the 5-star scale (`★` = 1, `★★★★★` = 5).
## Status legend
| Icon | Meaning |
| ---- | ------- |
| ⬇️ | To download |
| 🔖 | Currently reading |
| 📋 | Queued to read |
| ✅ | Finished |
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## ⬇️ To Download
- [ ] *Vibrant Matter* — Jane Bennett
- [ ] Forging the Iron Lady - Terrence Casey
- [ ] *The Presence* — Dannie Abse
- [ ] *Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds* — Merlin Sheldrake
- [ ] *The Runner* — Markus Torgby
- [ ] *Eat the Food You Buy* — Martyn Odell
- [ ] *How to Be a Bawse* — Lilly Singh
- [ ] *What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures* — [Ayana Elizabeth Johnson](https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20226117.Ayana_Elizabeth_Johnson) · [Goodreads](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144421737)
- [ ] *The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F\*\*\*** — Mark Manson
- [ ] *Mating in Captivity* — Esther Perel *(note: original entry credited Mark Manson)*
- [ ] *The Cloud of Unknowing*
- [ ] *Ways of Seeing* — John Berger
- [ ] [[3-Resources/🎬 Media/📚 Books/The Spirit Level]]
- [ ] A book on people-oriented leadership — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
## 🔖 Currently Reading
- [ ] *Notes from the Underground* — Fyodor Dostoevsky
- [ ] *Testosterone Rex* — Cordelia Fine
- [ ] *Ecocivilization: Making a World that Works for All*
- [ ] *I Eat the Stars* — Sarah Wilson
## 📋 Queued to Read
- [ ] *Steal Like an Artist* & *Show Your Work* — Austin Kleon >2026-Q3
- [ ] *The Wager* — David Grann
- [ ] *Labour Together* / *The Fraud?*
- [ ] *Castles* — Dan Jones
- [ ] *Daring Greatly* — Brené Brown
- [ ] *Failure Is Always an Option* — Beta Band
- [ ] *Combustion Engine* — Tessa Khan
- [ ] *End Times Fascism* — Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor *(event: Mon 28 Sep)*
- [ ] *Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology* — David Graeber
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## ✅ Finished
### ★★★★★ (5/5)
- [x] *Hell* — Tim Morton
- [x] [[The Dawn of Everything]] — David Graeber & David Wengrow
### Other ratings
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## 🗒️ Loose notes & ideas
Captured thoughts, references, and follow-ups not tied to a specific shelf above.
**Domestication & policy**
- *Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology* — link to the file on domestication (of humans…?) and the argument that policy is anti-politics. + Mauss. >2026-W24
**Dark ecology**
- 17:00 – 17:30 slot noted. >2026-W24
**Karen Barad**
- Theoretical physicist turned feminist theorist; work spans *Art and the Atomic Age*.
**Lewis Fry Richardson**
- Meteorologist known for mathematical equations modelling the causes of war and peace — "the Richardson effect."
**Göbekli Tepe**
- *(placeholder — expand when notes are ready)*
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