I spent much of this year trying to write my own book, which ended up being all-consuming in various ways. I have read plenty of stuff in a “need-to-look-at-this-for-the-book-even-though-it-won’t-make-the-final-cut” kind of way. So it’s been a year of reading instrumentally, if you see what I mean. There are various books I haven’t read but which I want/need to read soon, for fun or for new/deferred research and teaching projects. Amongst others, they include:

1. Ivan Vladislavic, 101 Detectives.
2. James McPherson, The War that Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters.
3. Patrick Modiano, The Search Warrant.
4. Ira Katznelson, Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time.
5. Marie Luise Knott, Unlearning with Hannah Arendt.
6. James Ferguson, Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution.
7. Steven Friedman, Race, Class and Power: Harold Wolpe and the Radical Critique of Apartheid.
8. Lisa Gitelman, Paper Knowledge: Towards a Media History of Documents.
9. Wolfgang Streeck, Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism.
10. Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore, Fast Policy: Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism.