Books Read in 2017

2017 January—December

This is a list of (mostly) everything I read in 2017, with tallies by month and for the entire year. This is compiled from a draft post on a social media site and a text document I unearthed on my computer.

A ⌛︎ before a title indicates that I had not finished reading it.

January

• “Hermes and the Creation of Space” by Murray Stein (academic paper)
• “Cypriot Pan at the Crossroads in Late Classical and Hellenistic Cyprus: The Evidence from Athienou-Malloura” by Clay M. Cofer (academic paper)
• The Bakkhai by Euripides trans. Robert Bagg (reread, from other translations)
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (reread)
• “Rushing and Falling into Milk: New Perspectives on the Orphic Gold Tablets from Thurii and Pelinna” by Christopher A. Faraone (academic paper, chapter in Further along the Path: Recent Studies in the Orphic Gold Leaves)
• “Redefining Dionysos in Athens from the written sources: The Lenaia, Iacchos and Attic women” by Miriam Valdés Guía (academic paper)
• Dionysos: Myth and Cult by Walter F. Otto
• “The Immortal Words of Paean” by Ian Rutherford (academic paper, chapter in The Getty Hexameters: Poetry, Magic, and Mystery in Ancient Selinous)
• “Snake-Limbed and Tendril-Limbed Goddesses in the Art and Mythology of the Mediterranean and Black Sea” by Yulia Ustinova (academic paper)
• “When In Greece, Do as the Persians Don’t: Defining the Identity of the Greeks Against the Persian Imperial ‘Other’” by Katrina Van Amsterdam (academic paper)
• “Extra‐Ordinary People: Mystai and Magoi , Magicians and Orphics in the Derveni Papyrus” by Radcliffe Edmonds (academic paper)
• “Magic and Theology in Ancient Egypt” by Jan Assmann (academic paper)
• “Household Religion in Rome: An Examination of Domestic Ritual and its Role in Shaping the Roman Family” by Kaitlyn Carlson (undergrad thesis)
• “Sending Dreams, Receiving Dreams: Oneiropompeia in Theory and in Practice” by Sarah Iles Johnston (academic paper, reread)
• The Pride of Chanur by C.J. Cherryh
• Animorphs: The Underground by K.A. Applegate
• ⌛︎ Animorphs: The Decision by K.A. Applegate
• “Trapezomata: A Neglected Aspect of Greek Sacrifice” by David Gill (academic paper)
• “Dionysus in the Greek Magical Papyri” by Eleni Pachoumi (academic paper)
• Chanur’s Venture by C.J. Cherryh
• ⌛︎ The Kif Strike Back by C.J. Cherryh

Total: 5 books, 1 play, 13 academic papers

February

• “The Bacchic-Orphic Hades” by Yannis Tzifopoulos (academic essay and exhibition catalogue entries, included in BEYOND: Death and Afterlife in Ancient Greece)
• ⌛︎ Greek Religion by Walter Burkert
• Priapea trans. by Leonard C. Smithers and Sir Richard Burton (reread, 95 poems)
• Elegies by Tibullus trans. Theodore C. Williams (poetry)
• ⌛︎ Deipnosophistae by Athenaeus trans. C.D. Yonge (books 1-4)
• “Athenaeus for Beginners” by Ben Cartlidge (academic talk)
• ⌛︎ “Honoring the Family Dead on the Parentalia: Ceremony, Spectacle, and Memory” by Fanny Dolansky (academic paper)
• “Bes” by Joshua J. Mark (Ancient History Encyclopedia article)
• “Magic in Ancient Egypt” by Joshua J. Mark (Ancient History Encyclopedia article)

Total: 4 short academic works, 2 long poems/poetry collections

March

• Pacific Agony by Bruce Benderson
• ⌛︎ Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood (9 short stories)
• De Dea Syria by Lucian trans. Herbert A. Strong and John Garstang (translation and notes only)
• “On Greek Ethnography of the Near East: The Case of Lucian’s De Dea Syria” by Jane L. Lightfoot (academic paper)
• “Beer in Ancient Egypt” by Joshua J. Mark (Ancient History Encyclopedia article)
• “Etruscan Pantheon” by Mark Cartwright (Ancient History Encyclopedia article)

Total: 2 books, 3 short academic works, 9 short stories

April—July (couldn’t keep updated)

• All My Friends Want to Be Castrated and Kill Their Family by porpentine (short story)
• “Lugalbanda and Hermes” by Jennifer Larson (academic paper)
• “Seized by the Nymphs: Nympholepsy and Symbolic Expression in Classical Greece by W. R. Connor (academic paper)
• “Gardens in the Desert” by Marjike van der Veen (academic paper, included in Life on the Fringe: Living in the Southern Egyptian Deserts During the Roman and Early-Byzantine Periods)
• “Religious Perceptions of the Mine in the Eastern Desert in Ptolemaic and Roman Times” by S.H. Aufrére (academic paper, reread, included in Life on the Fringe: Living in the Southern Egyptian Deserts During the Roman and Early-Byzantine Periods)
• “Minoan Animal-Human Hybridity” by Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw (academic paper, included in The Master of Animals in Old World Iconography)
• Animorphs Book 18-54, Megamorphs 1-4, the 3 Chronicles, & Visser by K.A. Applegate (45 books)
• Endometriosis: It’s the End of the World as We Know It (zine)
• Lady Parts: My Life with (and without) a Uterus by Dani Burlison (zine)
• Remnants Books 1-14 by K.A. Applegate (14 books)
• “The Wake” by Gretchen White (short story)
• “Back the Way You Came” by Gretchen White (short story)
• “The Widow” by Gretchen White (short story)
• “NEERS” by Elisa Mask (short story)
• “FB0T” by Elisa Mask (short story)
• “Mx” by Elisa Mask (short story)
• “Fasces” by Elisa Mask (short story)
• “Men of the Ashen Morrow” by Margaret Killjoy (short story)
• “The Comet” by W.E.B Du Bois (short story)
• “The Damnation of Women” by W.E.B. Du Bois (essay)
• “A Simple Spell and the Dangers of Online Dating” by Lee Bradford (short story)
• “The Page of Wands” by Lee Bradford (short story)
• “Killer Habit” by Lee Bradford (short story)
• “The Cold Snap” by Lee Bradford (short story)
• “Good, Clean Dirt” by Lee Bradford (short story)
• “INTERNET MURDER REVENGE FANTASY” by merritt k (comic)
• “Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones” by Torrey Peters (short story)
• “The Masker” by Torrey Peters (short story)
• “Gender Nihilism: An Anti-Manifesto” (+addendum) by Alyson Escalante (essay, reread)
• “The Wisdom of Direct Knowledge: A Rebirth of the Way to Gnostic Transsexuality” by Cathryn Platine (essay)
• “We Are an Old People, We Are a New People” by Cathryn Platine (4 essays)
• Hermaphrodeities by Raven Kaldera (sections, skimming, reread)

Total: 17 short stories, 5 academic papers, 7 other essays, 2 zines, 59 books, 1 comic

August—December (incomplete?)

• In Search of God the Mother: The Cult of Anatolian Cybele by Lynn E. Roller (academic book)
• ⌛︎ Miasma: Pollution and Purification in early Greek Religion by Robert Parker (academic book)
• Oregon Driver Manual 2016-2017 (pamphlet)
• Bertram: A Tragedy in Five Acts by Charles Maturin (play)
• Fatal Revenge; or, the Family of Montorio: A Romance (Volume 1) by Charles Maturin (novel)
• ⌛︎ Fatal Revenge; or, the Family of Montorio: A Romance (Volume 2) by Charles Maturin (novel)
• Tsukihime by Type-Moon (visual novel)
• Kanon by Key (visual novel)
• GLAMOUR BOUTIQUE by Torrey Peters (novella)
• Portland Diary: Short Stories 2016/2017 by Jamie Berrout (7 short stories)
• “Beating the bounds: how does ‘open source’ become a seed commons?” by Maywa Montenegro de Wit (academic paper)
• “Viruses as Living Processes” by John Dupré and Stephan Guttinger (academic paper)
• It by Stephen King (novel, reread)
• Number 9 Dream by David Mitchell (novel)
• Mistress Masham's Repose by T.H. White (novel)
• 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King (novel, reread)
• Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert (novel, reread)
• Children of Dune by Frank Herbert (novel, reread)

Total: 7 novels, 1 academic book, 2 visual novels, 1 novella, 1 play, 2 academic papers, 7 short stories, 1 pamphlet

Year Total, for recorded amounts:

• 71 novels
• 1 novella
• 5 nonfiction books
• 33 short stories
• 2 plays
• 24 academic papers
• 7 essays
• 3 zines and pamphlets
• 2 visual novels
• 1 comic
• 4 long poems/poetry collections