Cailyn Hansen

be bold, take risks, make change
Updated: Feb. 11, 2026

Reading List

A very much abridged list of things I have read, occasionally with some of my thoughts.

Novels

- Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by R. F. Kuang
Dark academia meets social justice praxis discussion, overall very good.

- Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
My second favorite book. Highly recommend reading it alongside Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Marie Brown.

- Dawn by Octavia Butler
My ABSOLUTE FAVORITE book of all time.

Nonfiction

- The Impossible Community: Realizing Communatarian Anarchism by John P. Clark
An exploration of communitarian anarchism and its practical applications.

- Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Marie Brown
The perfect companion to Parable of the Sower.