DIY’s 2024 Reading List • DIY Magazine

This is one of two that has been in my rotation since the tour. It's this crazy Western Bible. He has written an incredibly tough but incredible Old Testament character study.

An incredibly detailed study of the effects of racism and sexism on black women.

It manages to balance both humor and existentialism in the most approachable and unpretentious way possible. Incredibly sharp and witty. It was so good that I gave the song a name.

Eric Frank Russell's “The Sole Solution'' and Walter M. Miller's “Command Performance'' are my favorites in the collection. Both move away from the more space wars aspects of the genre and lean more toward questions of existence, leaving readers completely satisfied with their endless entertainment. And inspiration.

It uses converging stories and a vast scope of research to explore the miraculously intersecting threads of Korean history, American science fiction, Buffalo hockey, literary grudges, and many others, some true, some This is a feat of novel that touches the imagination. An ambitious, absorbing world of its own, akin to the best of Bolaño and Pynchon.

It's a book full of dark humor, various villains, revenge, and rooting for anti-heroes. For fans of thrillers, family drama, and intrigue!

I love that you spend most of the reading of this novel wondering what a wasp factory is. Before you know it, you're actually so engrossed in the story that you forget what you need to know.

This 2023 book is a history of music venues, scenes, neighborhoods, and gentrification in downtown New York (and northern Brooklyn). Originating from the Greenwich Village folk movement, it uses many familiar beats (Max's Kansas City, Paradise Garage, CBGB, A7, Danceteria, etc.), but rather than focusing on key heroic figures. Refreshingly highlights the economic and real estate realities behind major musical movements. . This is a tough recommendation for everyone making the scene today.

The film tells the story of Ireland's first professional surfer, from his humble beginnings in Bundoran on the west coast to surfing the biggest waves in history. He was self-taught at a time when there were only rumors of surfing in Europe and putting this tiny island on the map.

Octavia's ability to build a world and relationships between characters is unlike any other we've encountered. And by centering other Black women as protagonists in her sci-fi genre, she writes some of the most beautiful, moving, and memorable stories we've ever read. . Fable of the Sower is the story of a young, displaced woman trying to rebuild her community on a planet that is being ravaged by climate change and social inequality. This is a great introduction to this author and feels very relevant today.

This book is hot, sexy, sad and heartbreaking all rolled into one. It was the kind of book that kept me awake in the middle of the night to keep reading.

I discovered Barry Lopez's work in the winter of 2020, just one month before he passed away. This posthumous collection of some of his essays deeply moved me with its vivid clarity, urgent wisdom, and expression of love about the diversity of human life and the natural world.

This is a hallucinatory account of fan fiction and deep fan obsession that is completely divorced from reality. I like writing surrealist texts, and this book contains a very specific poetic surrealism in some of the dialogue. It's fandom taken to nihilistic extremes. Based on the tortured world of K-pop fandom.

This is a deceptively simple story of a lonely man whose life is enriched by his nightly visits to the BFI cinema, and it subtly reveals the power of art and community.

It's about, to quote the press release, England's “seemingly idyllic rolling hills” and why so many of them are named after the Devil himself. Naturally, the answer always comes from some form of folklore. However, it's not a dark read. The devil in British folklore is basically a fool. Anyway, this is really encouraging to learn more about my surroundings, especially my home county of Devon, and I'm sure it's the same for everyone.

This is a history book and I never learned anything like this in school, so I learned how different empires have ruled large parts of the world at different times, and how that's how the world is today. It's very interesting to hear how it's affecting the situation.

This is a firm favorite in KEG households. It's a great jape about friendship, booze, and stealing your friend's pants and selling them back.

This is a conversation that has become a book, and it is a great honor to hear from Nick Cave in such detail. He is an artist dripping with wisdom, love, sadness and courage. I was really encouraged by his story!

I love how the writing flows so interestingly and never misleads you, keeping you on your toes.

I picked up “The Road'' at the Goodwill Corner during the tour. I think he finished reading it in two drives, although I had forgotten how much I liked his writing style. Unconditional love in the face of everything.

A crazy biography set on the Kent coastline, where the characters lethargically instill their madness into the inhabitants. Seabrook writes about the fascist Oswald Moseley to the poet T.S. Eliot (on the verge of a breakdown that sets up the first line of The Wilderness). The maniacal murderous artist Richard Dadd is played by relentlessly drunk Carry On star Charles Hawtree. It's all written by writers infected with the madness of their subjects. He watches over his shoulder, seeing himself in danger. The past reflects the present. We read where he spoke about his own exile. Book, premonition. Seabrook died mysteriously after publication. This book is one whose subject matter reflects the author in the strangest and most disturbing ways.

I was surprised at how interesting “Middlemarch” was. I also appreciate the insight this work provides into Victorian society at the height of the Industrial Revolution. It's interesting to read about the discomfort of previous generations in the face of change at a time when we are being asked to constantly adapt. It's a love story and a drama about inheritance, and it's like turning the pages.

Our debut album is named after a quote from the book – coming soon! – and we even reference it in our recent single “The Prophet and I.” This is a beautiful book that romanticizes the human experience through pain, joy, and the everyday. This is a book that can really inspire grounding without becoming nihilistic. A guidebook on how humans become humans.

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