Entries numbered in order that I read them, not in terms of ranking, which I did not do. Re-reads are indicated with an *.
- On the Reproduction of Capitalism: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses by Louis Althusser (1970)
- Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare (1594)
- Interior States by Meghan O'Gieblyn (2018)
- Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman (1910)
- The Entrepreneurial Intellectual in the Corporate University by Clyde W. Barrow (2018)
- Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison (1999)
- Faking the News: What Rhetoric Can Teach Us About Donald J. Trump by Ryan Skinnell, Ed. (2018)
- Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol (2014)
- Performing Antiracist Pedagogy by Frankie Condon and Vershawn Ashanti Young, Eds. (2016)
- Calling My Name by Liara Tamani (2017)
- Repurposing Composition: Feminist Interventions for a Neoliberal Age by Shari J. Stenberg (2015)
- Post-Truth Rhetoric and Composition by Bruce McComiskey (2017)
- Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín (2009)
- The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (431-404 bce)
- Speak: the graphic novel by Laurie Halse Anderson & Emily Carroll (2018)
- Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw: Animals, Language, Sensation by Debra Hawhee (2017)
- Outline of a Theory of Practice by Pierre Bourdieu (1977)*
- Thunderstruck & Other Stories by Elizabeth McCracken (2014)
- House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (1982)
- Rhetoric and Demagoguery by Patricia Roberts-Miller (2019)
- Peripheral Visions for Writing Centers by Jackie Grutsch McKinney (2013)*
- True: A Novel by Karl Taro Greenfeld (2018)
- The Hike by Drew Magary (2016)
- Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud (1994)*
- Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib (2019)
- Paper Towns by John Green (2008)
- Meeting the Universe Halfway by Karen Barad (2007)
- Borderlands/La Frontera: the New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldua (1987)*
- The Giver by Lois Lowry (1993)*
- This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki (A) & Jillian Tamaki (I) (2014)
- We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity by bell hooks (2004)
- If We Had Known by Elise Juska (2018)
- Goblin Market, the Prince's Progress, and Other Poems by Christina Rossetti (1862)
- Daredevil: Born Again by Frank Miller & David Mazzucchelli (1986)
- Corpora and Discourse Studies: Integrating Discourse and Corpora by Paul Baker & Tony McEnery, Eds. (2015)
- The Vine Witch by Luanne G. Smith (2019)
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1878)
- The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols (2017)
- Wildwood by Colin Meloy & Carson Ellis (2011)
- Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit (2016)
- Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs by Lisa Randall (2015)
I'm in the fortunate position where my job requires me to read and to read things I find personally fulfilling. So it's never surprising when something I read ostensibly for my work ends up having an impact on how I view and interact with the world outside of work. This past year, Barad's Meeting the Universe Halfway, Roberts-Miller's Rhetoric and Demagoguery, and Stenberg's Repurposing Composition: Feminist Interventions for a Neoliberal Age all played that role.
Others that resonated in with me, some for reasons I haven't completely worked through yet, include: Allende (even though I despised the protagonist), O'Gieblyn, Abdurraqib (who may very likely show up on these lists with each new release), Nichols, and Solint.
In terms of quantitative goals, the infinite horizon remains forever beyond my grasp. But I did re-read some works that have been foundational for my scholarly and personal identity, like Grutsch McKinney, Anzaldua, and McCloud. Doing so helped me reconsider and reassess my understandings and uses of these works, and so I'm going to continue this project in 2020.
Finally, I read a few novels by authors who I appreciate from other forms: Colin Meloy of the Decemberists, John Green of the Anthropocene Reviewed, and Drew Magary (mostly by the late Deadspin). In each case, I was glad I did, and so that's another approach I'll maintain in the new year.
