Worldbuilder's Book Club!
Dec. 5th, 2023 09:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forestofgloryI finished the worldbuilders book club reading challenge I've been working on this year! Here's what I read:
1. Politics, Crime, and Law
Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong by Louisa Lim
2. Diplomacy, Military Conflict, and International Relations
The King's Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road by Xin Wen
3. Travel, Trade, and Migration
The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald C. Shoup
4. Urban Life and Architecture
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit by Thomas J. Sugrue - read for Urban Planning book club earlier this year
5. Rural Life and Agriculture
Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China by Robert Marks
6. Work, Labor, and Daily Life
Divine, Demonic, and Disordered: Women Without Men in Song Dynasty China by Hsiao-Wen Cheng
7. Culture and Religion
Ethnic Identity in Tang China by Marc S. Abramson
8. Arts and Material Culture
Artisans in Early Imperial China by Anthony J. Barbieri-Low
9. Science and Technology
The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future by Gretchen Bakke
10. Geography and Cartography
Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China by Craig Clunas
11. Weather and Climate
The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History by Ruth Mostern
12. Flora and Fauna
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer
This was really fun and I want to do another reading challenge like this again next year. Many of these things I would have read anyways. About half of them are are things I read for my urban planning book club. But this challenge also encouraged me to read more broadly and to seek out some books that I wouldn't have read, and to get to some books that I was kinda meaning to read. I'm especially glad that I read The King's Road which I loved and probably wouldn't have read for years otherwise.
1. Politics, Crime, and Law
Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong by Louisa Lim
2. Diplomacy, Military Conflict, and International Relations
The King's Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road by Xin Wen
3. Travel, Trade, and Migration
The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald C. Shoup
4. Urban Life and Architecture
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit by Thomas J. Sugrue - read for Urban Planning book club earlier this year
5. Rural Life and Agriculture
Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China by Robert Marks
6. Work, Labor, and Daily Life
Divine, Demonic, and Disordered: Women Without Men in Song Dynasty China by Hsiao-Wen Cheng
7. Culture and Religion
Ethnic Identity in Tang China by Marc S. Abramson
8. Arts and Material Culture
Artisans in Early Imperial China by Anthony J. Barbieri-Low
9. Science and Technology
The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future by Gretchen Bakke
10. Geography and Cartography
Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China by Craig Clunas
11. Weather and Climate
The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History by Ruth Mostern
12. Flora and Fauna
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer
This was really fun and I want to do another reading challenge like this again next year. Many of these things I would have read anyways. About half of them are are things I read for my urban planning book club. But this challenge also encouraged me to read more broadly and to seek out some books that I wouldn't have read, and to get to some books that I was kinda meaning to read. I'm especially glad that I read The King's Road which I loved and probably wouldn't have read for years otherwise.
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