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Finished
**The Angel of Indian Lake, by Stephen Graham Jones**
**All Accounts Settled, by Drew Hayes**
**Destiny of the Dead, by Kel Kade**
Continuing
**Asimov’s Guide to the Bible, by Isaac Asimov**
**The System of the World, by Neal Stephenson**
Started
**Touch, by Claire North**
**A Mathematician’s Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form, by Paul Lockhart**
**Finished:**
The Daughters of Yalta, by Catherine Grace Katz
The Five, by Hallie Rubenhold
Femina, by Janina Ramirez
**Started:**
Flashlight, by Susan Choi
**The Map and the Territory, by Michel Houellebecq**
Started out of curiosity. My only other exposure to Houellebecq is an adaptation of *Submission* that I found interesting enough (and not nearly as dystopian as most interpret it).
**Debt: The First 5,000 Years, by David Graeber**
Revisited. Aside from being fascinating and fun, the final section is fairly open-ended—the years since David Graeber’s death (RIP) have been even wilder.
**Power of the Powerless, by Václav Havel**
Finished. At first, I was struck how Havel’s analysis of “real socialism” of the 1970s could fit the late neoliberal corporate hellscape, and by the end, the essentially post-anarchist thoughts on ad-hoc organizing were in stark contrast with his presidency under neoliberalism.
**Malá zoologická zahrada, by Jaroslav Hašek**
Started and dropped. A collection of humorous short stories by Jaroslav Hašek (of *Good Soldier Švejk* fame), presumably from his work as a magazine editor. I’ve read a couple that anthropomorphize various animals; I’d be amused enough back in the 1900s, but there’s so much more readily available to read nowadays.