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<div class="goodreads-book" data-title="Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics" data-author="bell hooks">
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22481283" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics</a>
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<p class="goodreads-author">bell hooks</p>
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<span class="goodreads-year">Published: 2000</span>
<span class="goodreads-date">Finished: 27/04/2026</span>
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<div class="goodreads-description-text">What is feminism? In this short, accessible primer, bell hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. With her characteristic clarity and directness, hooks encourages readers to see how feminism can touch and change their lives―to see that feminism is for everybody.</div>
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<div class="goodreads-book" data-title="Imagination: A Manifesto (Norton Shorts)" data-author="Ruha Benjamin">
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/213395486" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Imagination: A Manifesto (Norton Shorts)</a>
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<p class="goodreads-author">Ruha Benjamin</p>
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<span class="goodreads-date">Finished: 24/04/2026</span>
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<div class="goodreads-description-text">Imagination isn’t a luxury; it’s a vital resource and a powerful tool for our collective liberation. A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. A society where everyone has food, shelter, love? In your dreams. Exactly.
Princeton professor Ruha Benjamin believes in the liberating power of the imagination. Deadly systems shaped by mass incarceration, ableism, digital surveillance, and eugenics emerged from the human imagination, but they have real-world impacts.
To fight these systems and create a world that works for all of us, we will have to imagine things differently. As Benjamin shows, educators, artists, technologists, and more are experimenting with new ways of thinking and tackling seemingly intractable problems.
Drawing from the work of these visionaries―including Black feminists, climate activists, Afrofuturists, and troublemakers of all sorts― A Manifesto explores the possibility and practices required to imagine and create more just and habitable worlds.</div>
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<div class="goodreads-book" data-title="Tales from the Dancefloor" data-author="Sacha Lord">
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/220546830" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tales from the Dancefloor</a>
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<p class="goodreads-author">Sacha Lord</p>
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<span class="goodreads-date">Finished: 23/04/2026</span>
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<div class="goodreads-description-text">Like most Mancunians of his age, Sacha Lord's life has been a tale of two cities. Then and now.
Over the past three decades, Sacha has been in the eye of the storm of a musical and cultural revolution, from The Haçienda to The Warehouse Project. He has worked with the music industry’s most iconic acts including the Prodigy, New Order, Snoop Dogg, Fat Boy Slim, Skrillex, Calvin Harris, Four Tet, Fred again … and has thrown some of the biggest parties that the UK has ever seen.
But it wasn’t an easy journey getting there.
Tales from the Dancefloor gives readers an all-access pass to the people, music and chaos behind the scenes. From being shot at in a drive-by shooting and dealing with gangs and the criminal underworld, to the excess and demands of some of music’s biggest names, launching the country’s largest urban festival, Parklife, and much more, Sacha reveals all the highs and lows for the very first time.
Tales from the Dancefloor, co-authored with bestselling author Luke Bainbridge, is a love letter to the city and the dance floor. This is an incredible story of resilience, creativity and innovation.</div>
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<div class="goodreads-book" data-title="Need Machine" data-author="Andrew Faulkner">
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<p class="goodreads-author">Andrew Faulkner</p>
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<span class="goodreads-year">Published: 2013</span>
<span class="goodreads-date">Finished: 19/04/2026</span>
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<div class="goodreads-description-text">"After reading Mr. Faulkner's incredible book, something happened. I began to feel bad for the person I was before reading his poems. The poet 'I've placed dynamite around your heart and a bit / in your teeth. How bored you must have been / before you met me.' And he's right.
It was so goddamn boring before we met him."— Matthew Dickman Need Machine clamours through the brain like an unruly marching band. Both caustic and thoughtful, these poems offer a topography of modern life writ large in twitchy, neon splendour, in a voice as sure as a surgeon and as trustworthy as a rumour.
Andrew Faulkner co-curates The Emergency Response Unit, a chapbook press. This is his first book.</div>
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<div class="goodreads-book" data-title="Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire" data-author="Caroline Elkins">
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57878009" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire</a>
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<p class="goodreads-author">Caroline Elkins</p>
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<span class="goodreads-year">Published: 2022</span>
<span class="goodreads-date">Finished: 09/04/2026</span>
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<div class="goodreads-description-text">From Pulitzer Prize–winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that probes the country’s pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalised in colonies around the globe Sprawling across a quarter of the world’s land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain’s twentieth-century empire was the largest empire in human history.
For many Britons, it epitomised their nation’s cultural superiority, but what legacy did the island nation deliver to the world? Covering more than two hundred years of history, Caroline Elkins reveals an evolutionary and racialised doctrine that espoused an unrelenting deployment of violence to secure and preserve the nation’s imperial interests.
She outlines how ideological foundations of violence were rooted in the Victorian era calls for punishing recalcitrant “natives,” and how over time, its forms became increasingly systematised. And she makes clear that when Britain could no longer maintain control over the violence it provoked and enacted, it retreated from empire, destroying and hiding incriminating evidence of its policies and practices.
Drawing on more than a decade of research on four continents, Legacy of Violence implicates all sides of Britain’s political divide in the creation, execution, and cover-up of imperial violence. By demonstrating how and why violence was the most salient factor underwriting Britain’s empire and the nation’s imperial identity at home, Elkins upends long-held myths and sheds new light on empire’s role in shaping the world today.</div>
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<div class="goodreads-book" data-title="The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable" data-author="Amitav Ghosh">
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<p class="goodreads-author">Amitav Ghosh</p>
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<span class="goodreads-year">Published: 2016</span>
<span class="goodreads-date">Finished: 07/04/2026</span>
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<div class="goodreads-description-text">Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability—at the level of literature, history, and politics—to grasp the scale and violence of climate change.</div>
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<div class="goodreads-book" data-title="Frankenstein" data-author="Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley">
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<p class="goodreads-author">Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley</p>
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<span class="goodreads-year">Published: 1818</span>
<span class="goodreads-date">Finished: 03/04/2026</span>
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<div class="goodreads-description-text">Obsessed with creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life with electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear.
Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley near Byron's villa on Lake Geneva. It would become the world's most famous work of horror fiction, and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity.
Based on the third edition of 1831, this volume contains all the revisions Mary Shelley made to her story, as well as her 1831 introduction and Percy Shelley's preface to the first edition. This revised edition includes as appendices a select collation of the texts of 1818 and 1831 together with 'A Fragment' by Lord Byron and Dr John Polidori's 'The Vampyre: A Tale'.</div>
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<div class="goodreads-book" data-title="Dubliners" data-author="James Joyce">
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<p class="goodreads-author">James Joyce</p>
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<span class="goodreads-year">Published: 1914</span>
<span class="goodreads-date">Finished: 29/03/2026</span>
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<div class="goodreads-description-text">'When you think that Dublin has been a capital for thousands of years,' James Joyce once wrote his brother, 'that it is the 'second' city of the British Empire . . . that it is nearly three times as big as Venice, it seems strange that no artist has given it to the world.'
In Dubliners, completed when Joyce was only twenty-five, we are given a definitive group portrait. It is a book, as Terence Brown writes in his stimulating Introduction, 'rooted in an intensely accurate apprehension of the detail of Dublin life.'
And yet, beyond its brilliant and almost brute realism, it is also a book full of enigmas, ambiguities, and symbolic resonance. Dubliners remains a work of art that, Brown's words, 'compels attention by the power of its unique vision of the world, its controlling sense of truths experience as its author discerned them in a defeated, colonial city.'</div>
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<div class="goodreads-book" data-title="The War of the Worlds" data-author="H.G. Wells">
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<p class="goodreads-author">H.G. Wells</p>
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<span class="goodreads-year">Published: 1898</span>
<span class="goodreads-date">Finished: 25/03/2026</span>
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<div class="goodreads-description-text">A cylinder from space lands in south-west London, and naïve locals approach it armed with a white flag - only to be instantly incinerated by an all-destroying heat-ray, as tentacled Martians emerge. Soon the whole of humanity is under threat, as the invaders build gigantic killing machines that chase and feast on human prey.
H. G. Well's 1898 novel was a pioneering work of alien invasion fiction. Greeted with acclaim and alarm on its publication, The War of the Worlds's factual, journalistic style contrasts shockingly with its fantastical and often disturbing story of humanity under siege.</div>
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<div class="goodreads-book" data-title="The Island of Doctor Moreau" data-author="H.G. Wells">
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<p class="goodreads-author">H.G. Wells</p>
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<span class="goodreads-year">Published: 1896</span>
<span class="goodreads-date">Finished: 23/03/2026</span>
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<div class="goodreads-description-text">Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying an unusual cargo—a menagerie of savage animals. Nursed to recovery by their keeper Montgomery, who gives him dark medicine that tastes of blood, Prendick soon finds himself stranded upon an uncharted island in the Pacific with his rescuer and the beasts.
There, he meets the sinister Dr. Moreau—a brilliant scientist whose notorious experiments in vivisection have caused him to abandon the civilised world. It soon becomes clear that he has continued to develop these experiments with truly horrific results.</div>
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