To Read List

Homosexuality

  • Bailey JM, Dunne MP and Martin NG (2000) Genetic and environmental influences on sexual orientation and its correlates in an Australian twin sample. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 78: 524–536. PMID: 10743878

  • Långström N, Rahman Q, Carlström E and Lichtenstein P (2010) Genetic and environmental effects on same-sex sexual behavior: A population study of twins in sweden. Archives of Sexual Behavior 39: 75–80. doi: 10.1007/s10508-008-9386-1 PMID: 18536986

  • Berman LA (2003) The puzzle. Exploring the evolutionary puzzle of male homosexuality. Wilmette: Godot. pp. 583.

  • Nash G (2001) The subversive male: Homosexual and bestial images on European mesolithic rock art. In: B. L., editor editors. Indecent exposure: Sexuality, society and the archaeological record. Glasgow: Cruithne Press. pp. 43–55.

  • Yates T (1993) Frameworks for an archaeology of the body. In: T. C., editor editors. Interpretative archaeology. Providence, RI: Berg Publishers. pp. 31–72.

  • Kirkpatrick RC (2000) The Evolution of Human Homosexual Behavior. Current anthropology 41: 385–413. PMID: 10768881

  • Reeder G (2000) Same-sex desire, conjugal constructs, and the tomb of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep. World Archaeology 32: 193–208

TBR: 18 Weeks (Aug. – Dec. 2025)

Week 1

  • Bertrand Russell by Ray Monk (58 pages)

  • Hand in Hand with Love (207 pages)

    Total: 353 pages

Week 2

  • In the Absence of Men (176 pages)

  • Arguing for Atheism (146 pages)

  • Foucault and Queer Theory (69 pages)

Total: ~303 pages

Week 3

  • Michel Foucault: An Introduction (176 pages)

  • The Song of Achilles (start, 120 pages)
    Total: ~296 pages

Week 4

  • The Song of Achilles (finish, 248 pages)

  • Alec (start, 100 pages)
    Total: 348 pages

Week 5

  • Alec (finish, 252 pages)

  • Why I Am Not a Christian (212 pages)
    Total: ~464 pages

Week 6

  • At Certain Points We Touch (start, 200 pages)

  • Foucault by J. G. Merquior (160 pages)
    Total: 360 pages

Week 7

  • At Certain Points We Touch (finish, 180 pages)

  • The God Delusion (start, 187 pages)
    Total: 367 pages

Week 8

  • The God Delusion (finish, 187 pages)

  • A Short History of Modern Philosophy (start, 150 pages)
    Total: 337 pages

Week 9

  • A Short History of Modern Philosophy (finish, 144 pages)

  • The Cambridge Companion to Hume (start, 172 pages)
    Total: 316 pages

Week 10

  • The Cambridge Companion to Hume (finish, 172 pages)

  • The Passion of the Western Mind (start, 223 pages)
    Total: 395 pages

Week 11

  • The Passion of the Western Mind (finish, 222 pages)

  • Philosophy As It Is (start, 270 pages)
    Total: 492 pages

Week 12

  • Philosophy As It Is (finish, 269 pages)

  • In Memoriam (start, 130 pages)
    Total: 399 pages

Week 13

  • In Memoriam (finish, 270 pages)

  • An Introduction to Metaphysics (64 pages)
    Total: 334 pages

Week 14

  • Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare’s England (start, 200 pages)

  • Metaphysics: The Basics (start, 120 pages)
    Total: 320 pages

Week 15

  • Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare’s England (finish, 144 pages)

  • Metaphysics: The Basics (finish, 96 pages)

  • Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction (start, 70 pages)
    Total: 310 pages

Week 16

  • Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction (finish, 154 pages)

  • A Short History of Ethics (start, 160 pages)
    Total: 314 pages

Week 17

  • A Short History of Ethics (finish, 144 pages)

  • An Introduction to Contemporary Metaethics (start, 160 pages)
    Total: 304 pages

Week 18

  • An Introduction to Contemporary Metaethics (finish, 168 pages)

  • The Cambridge Companion to Foucault (entire book, 374 pages)
    Total: 542 pages

Read Thus Far:

  1. 100 Queer Poems; started 20th of February - finished 25th of February
  2. Six Poets of the Great War; started 25th of February - finished 2nd of March
  3. The Metaphysical Poets; started 2nd of March - finished 7th of March (Was on TBR)
  4. John Clare (Faber Nature Poets); started 9th of March - finished 9th of March
  5. Bertrand Russell by Ray Monk; started 10th of March - finished ## of August
  6. Machiavelli by Skinner; started 25th of March - finished 4th of April
  7. Arguing for Atheism by Robin Le Poidevin; started 4th of April - finished x of x
  8. Hand in Hand With Love: Anthology of Classical Queer Poetry; started February 2025 - finished 9th of August 2025
  9. Foucault & Queer Theory; started 19th of August 2025 - finished 19th of August 2025