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Victor Hugo

this is a bookshelf containing Victor Hugo's major works.

See also: Les Misérables musicals: Schönberg, Boublil, and Natel, 1980 (French); Mackintosh and Kretzmer, 1985 (English).

Les Misérables

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have I read this? - yes(year) - no - IN PROGRESS

this is a brief run-down of the text

Nettle & Bone

Author: T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon). Status: read (audiobook) July 2023. Category: Fiction; Fantasy; Goth Fantasy.

Clockwork Boys

Author: T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon). Series: Clocktaur War (Book 1 of 2). Status: read (audiobook) July 2023. Category: Fiction; Fantasy/Science Fiction; Steampunk.

The Wonder Engine

Author: T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon). Series: Clocktaur War (Book 2 of 2). Status: read (audiobook) July 2023. Category: Fiction; Fantasy/Science Fiction; Steampunk.

Swordheart

Author: T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon). Series: Clocktaur War (indirect sequel). Status: read (text) July 2023. Category: Fiction; Fantasy/Science Fiction; Steampunk.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Author: Paulo Freire. Status: reading in progress, July 2023. Category: Non-Fiction; Social Justice; Tools of Community Organising; Marxist class analysis.

The Autobiography of a Flea

Author: Stanislas de Rhodes. Status: unread. Category: Fiction; 19th century publications; erotica; comedy.

Around the World in Eighty Days

Author: Jules Verne. Status: Read; most recent re-read by text, April 2022. Category: Fiction; 19th century publications; Science Fiction; "Sci Fi Giants"; Steampunk.

The Alchemist

Author: Paulo Coelho. Status: unread. Category: Fiction; Fantasy.

Stranger in a Strange Land

Author: Robert A. Heinlein. Status: read (audiobook), July 2023. Category: Fiction; Science Fiction; Space; "Sci Fi Giants".

Gideon the Ninth

Author: Tamsyn Muir. Series: Locked Tomb Series (Book 1 of 4). Status: read (audiobook), June 2023. Category: Fiction; Fantasy/Science Fiction; Goth Fantasy; Space; Young Adult.

Harrow the Ninth

Author: Tamsyn Muir. Series: Locked Tomb Series (Book 2 of 4). Status: read (audiobook), July 2023. Category: Fiction; Fantasy/Science Fiction; Goth Fantasy; Space; Young Adult.

Nona the Ninth

Author: Tamsyn Muir. Series: Locked Tomb Series (Book 3 of 4). Status: read (audiobook), July 2023. Category: Fiction; Fantasy/Science Fiction; Goth Fantasy; Space; Young Adult.

Alecto the Ninth

Author: Tamsyn Muir. Series: Locked Tomb Series (Book 4 of 4). Status: unread. Category: Fiction; Fantasy/Science Fiction; Goth Fantasy; Space; Young Adult.

The Left Hand of Darkness

Author: Ursula K. Le Guin. Series: Hainish Cycle (Book 4 of 5 novels, 13 short stories, and 2 short story collections). Status: read (audiobook), June 2023. Category: Fiction; Science Fiction; Space; "Sci Fi Giants".

Agnes Grey

Author: Anne Brontë. Status: read (audiobook), June 2023. Category: Fiction; 19th century fiction; Victorian Morality Fiction; "Female Giants of Victorian Literature".

Leviathan

Author: Scott Westerfeld. Series: Leviathan (book 1 of 3). Status: read (text), June 2023. Category: Fiction; Science Fiction; Steampunk; Young Adult; Stealth, Genderswap, and other Trans Narratives.

Behemoth

Author: Scott Westerfeld. Series: Leviathan (book 2 of 3). Status: read (text), June 2023. Category: Fiction; Science Fiction; Steampunk; Young Adult; Stealth, Genderswap, and other Trans Narratives.

Goliath

Author: Scott Westerfeld. Series: Leviathan (book 3 of 3). Status: read (text), June 2023. Category: Fiction; Science Fiction; Steampunk; Young Adult; Trouble Your Gender.

Iron Widow

Author: Xiran Jay Zhao. Series: Iron Widow (Book 1 of 2). Status: read (text), June 2023. Category: Fiction; Fantasy/Science Fiction; Steampunk; medievalpunk; Young Adult; Trouble Your Gender.

I, Robot

Author: Isaac Asimov. Series: Robot (Book 1 of 8). Status: read (audiobook), May 2023. Category: Fiction; Science Fiction; "Sci Fi Giants"; Robots and Androids.

Foundation and Empire

Author: Isaac Asimov. Series: Foundation (Book 4 of 7). Status: in progress (audiobook), May 2023. Category: Fiction; Science Fiction; "Sci Fi Giants"; Robots and Androids.

The Vanished Birds

Author: Simon Jimenez. Recommendation. Brief summary:It’s about a spaceship captain and the boy she adopts. It’s about a genius inventor, and the world she made and the world she lost. It’s about time, and regrets, and how time passes, and how things change whether you’re there for it or not. It’s about making friends and losing them. It’s about clinging to chances to make up for what you regret doing, or about regretting your mistakes but making the same mistakes 1000 years later. It’s about the cold, cruel, impersonal extractive horror of space capitalism. It’s about losing time and losing a family and maybe finding one. It’s about stagnation and it’s about change. It’s about music and coming home.

The Thursday Murder Club

Author: Richard Osman. Recommendation. Brief summary: "if you like charming/stubborn old ladies and grumpy/shy old men who solve (and commit) crimes for fun--here you go! (this series is also fun and poignant and contains senior citizens embracing modern values & the changing world & and basically living their best lives at 70/80+. and it's great.) "

The Alchemist

Author: Paolo Coelho. I do not remember this well

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson. Summary.... "

Cemetery Boys

Author: Aiden Thomas. Recommendation. Brief summary:

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

Author: Edwin Abbott Abbott. Recommendation. Brief summary. Accessible via Project Gutenberg link

recommendations from Theo's transgender links: books

we both laughed in pleasure

Author: Lou sullivan. 1961-1991

Life of Jack Bee Garland

Author: Lou sullivan. 1990.

Stolen glances: lesbians take photographs

no author listed. 1991.

Stone Butch Blues

Author: Leslie Feinberg. 1993

Dagger on butch women

Author not listed. 1994

Gender Outlaws

author: Kate Bornstein. 1995.

Gay by the Bay

author: susan stryker. 1996.

transgender warriors

author: leslie feinberg. 1996

dear sir or madam

author: mark rees. 1996.

ftm: female-to-male transsexuals in society

author: aaron devor. 1997

my gender workbook

author: kate bornstein. 1998

trans liberation

author: leslie feinberg. 1998

the phallus palace

author: dean kotula. 2002

GenderQueer: voices from beyond the sexual binary

2002

Becoming a visible man

author: jamison green. 2004

the gender frontier

author: mariette pathy allen.2004

s/he

author: minnie bruce patt. 2005

gender outlaws: next gen

Author: kate bornstein and S Bear Bergman. 2010

A queer and pleasant danger

Author: kate bornstein. 2012.

Born on the edge of race and gender

author: willy wilkinson

Transgender history

author: susan stryker. 2017.

we both laughed in pleasure: the selected diaries of lou sullivan

edited by ellis martin, zach ozma. foreword by susan stryker.

Female Husbands

leslie feinberg links

stone butch blues

transgender liberation:a movement whose time has come

transgender warriors

lavender and red

drag king dreams

trans liberation: beyond pink or blue

see also karl baer autobiography memoirs of a man's maiden years

see also on the british gay slang of Polari:

recommended miscellaneous works in disability studies

Sandoval-Sánchez, A. 2005. Politicizing abjection: in the manner of a prologue for the articulation of AIDS Latino queer identities. American Literary History. 17(3), pp.542-549.

Fritsch, K. 2013. On the negative possibility of suffering: Adorno, feminist philosophy, and the transfigured crip to come. Disability Studies Quarterly. 33(4).

Barounis, C. 2013. “Why so serious?” Cripping camp performance in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. 7(3), pp.305-320.

Abrams, T. and Adkins, B. 2020. Tragic affirmation: disability beyond optimism and pessimism. Journal of Medical Humanities.

Stryker, S. 1994. My words to Victor Frankenstein above the village of Chamounix: performing transgender rage. GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies. 1(3), pp.237-254.

Sexton, J. 2011. The social life of social death: on Afro-pessimism and black optimism. InTensions Journal. (5).

recommended misc works in gender studies

hooks, bell. sisterhood: solidarity between women

recommended critiques of society

vicious games

addiction by design

cookbooks

the sad bastard cookbook

authors: zilla novikov, rachel a. rosen. downloaded, also on google drive.