2021 Books and Reading Material Acquisitions List

John Winkelman

Welcome to the list of books and other reading materials which arrived in calendar year 2021.

This is the seventh year I have made a list like this. The previous six are here:

I keep the complete list of books I own over at LibraryThing, and the terribly incomplete list of books I have read over at GoodReads. This list will be updated frequently.

January (12)

  1. Pasternak, Boris (Pevear, Richard and Volokhonsky, Larissa, translators), Doctor Zhivago
  2. Jama-Everett, Ayize and Jennings, John – Box of Bones, book 1 (Rosarium Publishing)
  3. Robinson, Kim Stanley – The Ministry for the Future
  4. Dostoevsky, Fyodor – A Writer’s Diary, vol. II
  5. Batyushkov, Konstantin (France, Peter, translator) – Writings from the Golden Age of Russian Poetry (The Russian Library of Columbia University Press)
  6. Khvoshchinskaya, Sofia (Favorov, Nora Seligman, translator) – City Folk and Country Folk (The Russian Library of Columbia University Press)
  7. Sokolov, Sasha (Boguslawski, Alexander, translator) – Between Dog & Wolf (The Russian Library of Columbia University Press)
  8. Martine, Arkady – A Memory Called Empire
  9. Ashton, Dyrk – Paternus: Wrath of Gods, (Kickstarter exclusive HC, signed, # 108/500) (Paternus Books Media)
  10. Liptak, Andrew and Gates, Jaym (eds.) – War Stories (Apex Book Company)
  11. Baltasar, Eva (Sanches, Julia, translator) – Permafrost (And Other Stories)
  12. Dreamforge #7

February (11)

  1. Tiqqun – The Cybernetic Hypothesis (Semiotext(e))
  2. Pike, J. Zachary – Son of a Liche (self published)
  3. Poetry #217.5
  4. Jacobin #40
  5. Graeber, David – Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Melville House Publishing)
  6. Winter, Evan – The Rage of Dragons
  7. Navarro, Elvira (MacSweeney, Christina, translator) – Rabbit Island (Two Lines Press)
  8. Poetry #217.4
  9. Cherkovski, Neeli – Ferlinghetti: A Biography
  10. Dunker, Anders – Rediscovering Earth: Ten Dialogues on the Future of Nature (OR Books)
  11. Lazo, Orlando Luis Pardo (ed. Gulley, Hillary, translator) – Cuba in Splinters: Eleven Stories from the New Cuba (OR Books)

March (12)

  1. Lange, Norah (Whittle, Charlotte, translator) – Notes from Childhood (And Other Stories)
  2. Sizemore, Jason and Connor, Lesley (eds.) – Best of Apex Magazine, vol. 1 (Apex Book Company)
  3. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr – The Gulag Archipelago, volume 3
  4. Elemental (Two Lines Press)
  5. Poetry #217.6
  6. Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #10
  7. Rain Taxi Review of Books #26.1, Spring 2021
  8. Lloret, Bruno (Jones, Ellen, translator) – Nancy (Two Lines Press)
  9. Harrow, Alix E. – The Ten Thousand Doors of January
  10. Robin, Corey – The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump (Oxford University Press)
  11. Eubanks, Virginia – Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
  12. Poetry #218.1

April (5)

  1. Pelland, Jennifer – Unwelcome Bodies (Apex Book Company)
  2. Tobler, E. Catherine – The Kraken Sea (Apex Book Company)
  3. Estes, Nick, Yazzie, Melanie K., Denetdale, Jennifer Nez, Correia, David – Red Nation Rising (PM Press)
  4. Uncanny Magazine #24: Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction
  5. Poetry #218.2

May (20)

  1. Brown, Jericho – The Tradition (Copper Canyon Press)
  2. Jordan, June – The Essential June Jordan (Copper Canyon Press)
  3. VanderMeer, Jeff – Hummingbird Salamander
  4. Jacobin #41
  5. Attlee, James – Under the Rainbow (And Other Stories)
  6. Salvage #9, Autumn/Winter 2020
  7. Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #11
  8. Peninsula Poets #78.1 (Spring 2021)
  9. Fantastic Lairs: Boss Battles and Climactic Encounters
  10. Gable, Scott, and Dombrowski, C (editors) – Cooties Shot Required (Broken Eye Books)
  11. Gable, Scott, and Dombrowski, C (editors) – Whether Change: The Revolution Will Be Weird (Broken Eye Books)
  12. Smith, Angela Yuriko and Noel, Scot (editors) – Worlds of Light and Darkness (Uproar Books)
  13. Knabb, Ken (editor and translator) – Situationist International Anthology (Bureau of Public Secrets)
  14. Poetry #218.3
  15. Liem, Tess – Obits (Coach House Books)
  16. Kelly, Robert – A Strange Market (Black Sparrow Press)
  17. McDermott, J.M. – Maze (Apex Book Company)
  18. Kheir, Mohamed (Moger, Robin, translator) – Slipping (Two Lines Press)
  19.  De Boever, Arne and Neidich, Warren (editors) – The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism, Part 1 (Archive Books)
  20. De Boever, Arne and Neidich, Warren (editors) – The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism, Part 2 (Archive Books)

June (11)

  1. Grisanti, Tamara Burross (editor) Coffin Bell One (Coffin Bell)
  2. Grisanti, Tamara Burross (editor) Coffin Bell Two (Coffin Bell)
  3. The Paris Review #237, Summer 2021
  4. Rain Taxi Review of Books #26.1, Summer 2021
  5. Granta #155: The Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists
  6. Moreno-Garcia, Silvia – The Return of the Sorceress (signed, # X of XXX) (Subterranean Press)
  7. Massie, Elizabeth – Desper Hollow (Apex Book Company)
  8. Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #43 
  9. Hogan, Ron – Our Endless and Proper Work (Belt Publishing)
  10. Cin, Tice – Keeping the House (And Other Stories)
  11. Poetry #218.4

July (7)

  1. Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #12
  2. Palmatier, Joshua and Coe, David B. (editors) – Derelict (Zombies Need Brains)
  3. Bray, Patricia and Palmatier, Joshua (editors) – The Modern Deity’s Guide to Surviving Humanity (Zombies Need Brains)
  4. Butler, S.C. and Palmatier, Joshua (editors) – When Worlds Collide (Zombies Need Brains)
  5. Sullivan, Michael J. – Nolyn (Ryria Enterprises)
  6. Saunders, George – A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
  7. Jacobin #42

August (4)

  1. Anti-Eviction Mapping Project – Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement & Resistance (PM Press)
  2. Straczynski, J. Michael – Together We Will Go
  3. de Souza, Carl (Zuckerman, Jeffrey, translator) – Kaya Days (Two Lines Press)
  4. Poetry #218.5

September (7)

  1. Campbell, Bill, and Khodabandeh, Bizhan – The Day the Klan Came to Town (PM Press)
  2. Wiesenthal, Simon – The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
  3. Coolidge, Sarah (editor) – Cuíer (Two Lines Press)
  4. Victoria, Elisa (Whittle, Charlotte, translator) – Oldladyvoice (And Other Stories)
  5. Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #13
  6. Rain Taxi #26.3
  7. Poetry #219.1

October (6)

  1. Rucker, Rudy – Juicy Ghosts (Transreal Books)
  2. de Carvalho, Maria Judite (Costa, Margaret Jull, translator) – Empty Wardrobes (Two Lines Press)
  3. Sanford, Jason – Plague Birds (Apex Book Company)
  4. Stucky, Janaka (editor) – Ekphrastic Beasts (Black Ocean)
  5. Poetry #219.2
  6. Tavenor, C.D. and Trast, Meg (editors) – Gaia Awakens (Two Doctors Media Collaborative)

November (15)

  1. Hilbig, Wolfgang (Cole, Isabel Fargo, translator) – The Interim (Two Lines Press)
  2. Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #14
  3. Jacobin #43
  4. Salvage #10
  5. Roanhorse, Rebecca – Black Sun
  6. Peninsula Poets #78.1, Fall 2021
  7. Michigan Roots: A Poetry Society of Michigan Anthology (Poetry Society of Michigan)
  8. Nette, Andrew & McIntyre, Iain (editors) – Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985 (PM Press)
  9. Du Mez, Kristin Kobes – Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
  10. Deleuze, Gilles and Guattari, Felix – Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
  11. Crenshaw, Kimberle (editor) – Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement
  12. Grassmann, Preston (editor) – Out of the Ruins (Titan Books)
  13. Muir, Tamsyn – Harrow the Ninth
  14. Rios, Joseph – Shadowboxing (Omnidawn Publishing)
  15. Foglio, Kaja and Phil – Girl Genius: Sparks and Monsters (Studio Foglio)

December (13)

  1. Poetry #219.3
  2. The Paris Review #238
  3. Speakman, Shawn – The Tempered Steel of Antiquity Grey (Grim Oak Press)
  4. Arshi, Mona – Somebody Loves You (limited subscriber edition, And Other Stories)
  5. Scott, Paulo (Hahn, Daniel, translator) – Phenotypes (And Other Stories)
  6. Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #44
  7. Hines, Jim C. – Terminal Uprising
  8. Scalzi, John – The Collapsing Empire
  9. Scalzi, John – The Consuming Fire
  10. Scalzi, John – The Last Emperox
  11. Harrison, Jim – Complete Poems (Copper Canyon Press)
  12. Ambrose, RM (editor) – Vital: The Future of Healthcare (Inlandia Institute)
  13. Inque Magazine #1

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