A non-systematic, alphabetically ordered list of the academic books published this year I read and most liked – the photo is of some that were to hand.

• Louis Althusser, On the Reproduction of Capitalism (Verso)
• Ben Anderson, Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions (Ashgate)
• Étienne Balibar, Equaliberty: Political Essays (Duke University Press)
• Jens Bartleson, Sovereignty as Symbolic Form (Routledge)
• Timothy Brennan, Borrowed Light: Vico, Hegel and the Colonies (Stanford University Press)
• Neil Brenner (ed.), Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization (Jovis)
• Grégoire Chamayou, Les corps vils: Expérimenter sur les êtres humains aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles (La Découverte – re-edition)
• Deborah Cowen, The Deadly Life of Logistics (University of Minnesota Press)
• Andy Doolen,  Territories of Empire (Oxford University Press) – which I endorsed
• Brad Evans and Julian Reid, Resilient Life (Polity)
• Jenny Edkins, Face Politics (Routledge) – this isn’t out quite yet, but I read the manuscript for the press and endorsed it
• Michel Foucault, Subjectivité et vérité (Gallimard/Seuil) – plus the translations of Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling and On the Government of the Living, which I review here
• Gastón Gordillo, Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction (Duke University Press) – see my interview with Gastón at Society and Space
• François Guéry and Didier Deleule,  The Productive Body, translated and introduced by Philip Barnard and Stephen Shapiro (Zero)
• Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything (Penguin)
• Benjamin Kunkel,  Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Crisis (Verso)
• Henri Lefebvre, Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment, edited by Łukasz Stanek (University of Minnesota Press) – see my interview with Łukasz at Society and Space; and also the one-volume Critique of Everyday Life published this year
• Stephen Legg, Prostitution and the Ends of Empire: Scale, Governmentalities, and Interwar India (Duke University Press)
• David N. Livingstone, Dealing With Darwin: Place, Politics, and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution (Johns Hopkins University Press)
• Mark Neocleous, War Power, Police Power (Edinburgh University Press)
• Élisabeth Roudinesco,  Lacan: In Spite of Everything, translated by Gregory Elliott (Verso)
• Saskia Sassen, Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy (Harvard University Press) – review forthcoming in 2015; pre-print
• David Stubbs, Future Days: Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany (Faber & Faber)
• Japhy Wilson, Jeffrey Sachs: The Strange Case of Dr Shock and Mr Aid (Verso)

I’m sure there are plenty I’ve missed, and some of the ones that came out this year I bought or was sent are still waiting to be read – including Quentin Skinner, Forensic Shakespeare and Martin Empson, Land & Labour: Marxism, Ecology and Human History from the pile above. Two books I was looking forward to – Mick Dillon’s Biopolitics of Security in the 21st Century and Bob Jessop’s The State: Past, Present, Future – slipped to 2015. Both are on order.

These are the ones I liked in 2013…  the novels I read this year are here and here; and the music I most liked here.