Reading (2022- )!

February 2025

• More Than Human - Theodore Sturgeon
• When We Cease to Understand the World - Benjamín Labatut
• The Wild Robot Escapes - Peter Brown
• Human Acts - Han Kang
• Conclave - Robert Harris
• Misery - Stephen King
• The Serviceberry - Robin Wall Kimmerer, 
• The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko - Scott Stambach
• The Ministry of Time - Kaliane Bradley

January 2025

• James - Percival Everett
• The Wild Robot - Peter Brown
• Snapdragon - Kat Leyh
• Dirtbag, Massachusetts - Isaac Fitzgerald
• Billy Summers - Stephen King
• By the Fire We Carry - Rebecca Nagle
• Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books - Kirsten Miller
• Why We Sleep - Matthew Walker

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December 2024

• Carmilla - J. Sheridan Le Fanu
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman
• The Boys of Riverside - Thomas Fuller
• The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams (play)
• Mucho Mojo - Joe R. Lansdale
• The Ghost and Mrs. Muir - R.A. Dick
• John the Balladeer - Manly Wade Wellman
• The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
• Assassination Classroom, #1 - Yusei Matsui,  (manga)
• Savage Season - Joe R. Lansdale
• The Emperor of All Maladies - Siddhartha Mukherjee
• A Country of Ghosts - Margaret Killjoy
• Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
• The Goon - Volumes #0-3 - Eric Powell (graphic novel)
• Providence #1-12 - Alan Moore, Jacen Burrows (graphic novel)
• The Day the World Came to Town - Jim DeFede
• The Risk - S.T. Abby
• Backwoods Witchcraft - Jake Richards
• The Troop - Nick Cutter
• The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.: A Novel - Neal Stephenson, Nicole Galland

November 2024

• The First Lie Wins - Ashley Elston
• The Night Guest - Hildur Knútsdóttir
• Annie Bot - Sierra Greer 
• A Life on Our Planet - David Attenborough
• Revenge of the Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell

October 2024

• Sweep - Jonathan Auxier
• The One and Only Bob - Katherine Applegate
• My Ántonia - Willa Cather
• Hidden Pictures - Jason Rekulak
• 14 - Peter Clines
• The Cat Who Saved Books - Sōsuke Natsukawa
• Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder
• The Gate of the Feral Gods - Matt Dinniman
• The One and Only Ivan - Katherine Applegate
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce

September 2024

• Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons - Keith Rosson
• Long Empty Roads - Sean Patrick Little
• Little House in the Big Woods - Laura Ingalls Wilder
• The One - John Marrs
• I Never Liked You Anyway - Jordan Kurella
• The 20Time Project - Kevin Brookhouser, Ria Megnin
• Big - Vashti Harrison
• Assassins Anonymous - Rob Hart
• Miss Rumphius - Barbara Cooney
• The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook - Matt Dinniman

August 2024

• Who Goes There? - John W. Campbell
• After Everyone Died - Sean Patrick Little
• The Love of My Afterlife - Kirsty Greenwood
• Between Wind and Water - Gerald Warner Brace
• Carl's Doomsday Scenario - Matt Dinniman
• Recollections of My Nonexistence - Rebecca Solnit
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - Anita Loos

July 2024

• The Apple Tree Throne - Premee Mohamed
• Split Infinity - Piers Anthony
• The Impossible Fortress - Jason Rekulak
• Leave the World Behind - Rumaan Alam
• A Vicious Circle (#1-2) - Mattson Tomlin, Lee Bermejo
• Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinniman
• A City on Mars - Kelly Weinersmith
• The Only Plane in the Sky - Garrett Graff

June 2024

• The Idea of You - Robinne Lee
• Roadside Picnic - Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
• Sycamore Row - John Grisham
• Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
• Poor Things - Alasdair Gray
• Into the Raging Sea - Rachel Slade

May 2024

• Mrs. Caliban - Rachel Ingalls
• Mindreader - David J. Lieberman
• Episode Thirteen - Craig diLouie
• What You Are Looking For Is in the Library - Michiko Aoyama
• The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
• A Fever in the Heartland - Timothy Egan
• Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi

April 2024

• Chambers of the Heart - B. Morris Allen
• Someone You Can Build a Nest In - John Wiswell
• System Collapse (Murderbot #7) - Martha Wells
• The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Joan Aiken
• Cosmic Queries - Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Breath - James Nestor

March 2024

• Fugitive Telemetry (Murderbot #6) - Martha Wells
• A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World - C.A. Fletcher
• Network Effect (Murderbot #5) - Martha Wells
• Starter Villain - John Scalzi.
• An Immense World - Ed Yong
• The Bullet Swallower - Elizabeth Gonzalez James
• A Drink Before the War - Dennis Lehane 

February 2024

• How Civil Wars Start - Barbara F. Walter 
• The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
• Exit Strategy (Murderbot #4) - Martha Wells
• Moon Called - Patricia Briggs
• Weyward - Emilia Hart

January 2024

• Rogue Protocol (Murderbot #3) - Martha Wells
• Artificial Condition (Murderbot #2) - Martha Wells
• Moonwalking with Einstein - Joshua Foer
• 11/22/63 - Stephen King
• All Systems Red (Murderbot #1) - Martha Wells 
• Free - Lea Ypi
• The Woman in Me - Britney Spears
• The Library of Shadows - Rachel Moore
• Poverty, by America - Matthew Desmond

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December 2023

• Bookshops & Bonedust - Travis Baldree
• Elder Race - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Foster - Claire Keegan
• Writers and Lovers - Lily King
• Antarctica - Claire Keegan
• Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan
• A Spindle Splintered - Alix E. Harrow
• Cultish - Amanda Montell 
• Book Lovers - Emily Henry
• A Fine Dark Line - Joe R. Lansdale

November 2023

• Agents of Dreamland - Caitlin R. Kiernan
• The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh
• The Salt Grows Heavy - Cassandra Khaw
• Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - Carlo Rovelli
• The Love Hypothesis - Ali Hazelwood
• Smoke City - Keith Rosson
• The Pearl - John Steinbeck
• Start with Why - Simon Sinek
• The Adventures of Mabel - Harry Thurston Peck
• Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman (poetry)
• The Killer Omnibus (#1- 5) - Matz /Luc Jacamon (graphic novel)

October 2023

• Buddha Boy - Kathe Koja
• Strangers to Ourselves - Rachel Aviv
• The Kaiju Preservation Society - John Scalzi
• Nettle & Bone - T. Kingfisher
• Gathering Moss - Robin Wall Kimmerer 
• I'm Thinking of Ending Things - Iain Reid
• Happiness for Beginners - Katherine Center 
• The Strange Museum: 50-Word Stories - Ran Walker
• The Devotion of Suspect X - Keigo Higashino

September 2023

• The Soul of an Octopus - Sy Montgomery
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
• The President's Brain is Missing - John Scalzi
• Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries - Heather Fawcett

August 2023

• The Seven Year Slip - Ashley Poston
• Smart Sex - Emily Morse
• Radical Remission - Kelly A. Turner
• The Astonishing Color of After - Emily X.R. Pan
• Chainsaw Man, Vol. 4: The Gun is Mightier - Tatsuki Fujimoto (graphic novel)

July 2023

• You Let Me In - Camilla Bruce
• Chainsaw Man, Vol. 3: Kill Denji (graphic novel)
• Chainsaw Man, Vol. 2: Chainsaw vs. Bat (graphic novel)
• The Cabin at the End of the World - Paul Tremblay
• Parable of the Sower - Octavia E. Butler
• Chainsaw Man, Vol. 1: Dog and Chainsaw (graphic novel)
• The Spy Who Came In from the Cold - John le Carré
• The Measure - Nikki Erlick

June 2023

• Remarkably Bright Creatures - Shelby Van Pelt
• Small Mercies - Dennis Lehane
• The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
• Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs - Caitlin Doughty
• The Denial of Death - Ernest Becker
• House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
• The Ride of Her Life - Elizabeth Letts
• The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle
• Dinosaurs Before Dark - Mary Pope Osborne
• One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
• One True Loves - Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Charlotte's Web - E.B. White

May 2023

• Tastes Like War - Grace M. Cho
• Rumors of Spring - Richard Grant
• Way Station - Clifford D. Simak
• Stuart Little - E.B. White
• The Mountain in the Sea - Ray Nayler
• A Field Guide to Getting Lost - Rebecca Solnit
• Witchmark - C.L. Polk
• The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

April 2023

• Even Though I Knew the End - C.L. Polk
• The Stranger in the Woods - Michael Finkel
• A Fine and Private Place - Peter S. Beagle
• Vacationland - John Hodgman
• Written in Bone - Sue Black
• Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree
• Tanqueray - Stephanie Johnson, Brandon Stanton
• Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson 
• Let's Pretend This Never Happened - Jenny Lawson 
• Darwin Comes to Town - Menno Schilthuizen

March 2023

• Strangers on a Train - Patricia Highsmith
• Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
• Lady Chatterley's Lover - D. H. Lawrence
• When to Rob a Bank - Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
• Tobacco Road - Erskine Caldwell
• Skulduggery Pleasant - Derek Landy
• Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
• The Suitcase - Lauren Housman & Deborah Taussig-Boehner 
• Antigone - Jean Anouilh (play)
• On Cussing - Katherine Dunn (essay)

February 2023

• Demon Dentist - David Walliams
• What the Ear Hears - Richard Mainwaring
• The Shootist - Glendon Swarthout
• I'm Glad My Mom Died - by Jennette McCurdy
• Get Rich or Get Lucky - Max Nowaz
• The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse - Charlie Mackesy
• The Utterly Uninteresting ... Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant - Drew Hayes
• Elemental - Tim James

January 2023

• The Last Flight - Julie Clark
• Home Stretch - Graham Norton
• Dogs of War - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• A Long Walk to Water - Linda Sue Park
• Moon Lake - Joe R. Lansdale
• Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke
• The Nature of Oaks - Douglas W. Tallamy
• The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
• Gulp - Mary Roach
• Love Medicine - Louise Erdrich
• Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. John Mandel
• The Witches of Gloucester - Lisabet Sarai
• Hombre - Elmore Leonard
• The Dialogues of Plato - Plato
• The Immense Journey - Loren Eisley
• Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard

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December 2022

• Funny Farm - Laurie Zaleski
• Nightcrawling - Leila Mottley
• And Shall Machines Surrender - Benjanun Sriduangkaew
• The Witches - Roald Dahl
• The Thief of Always - Clive Barker
• This Will Be His Legacy - Aubrey Hirsch
• Ulysses - James Joyce
• The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin
• The Field -  John B. Keane (play)
• The Whale - Samuel D. Hunter (play)
• Big Hard Sex Criminals (Vol. 1) - Fraction & Zdarsky (graphic novel)
• The Arrival - Shaun Tan (graphic novel)

November 2022

• Now Is Not the Time to Panic - Kevin Wilson

October 2022

• Rook - Anthony McGowan
• The Thursday Murder Club - Richard Osman
• The House in the Cerulean Sea - T.J. Klune
• Wordslut - Amanda Montel
• Carrie Soto Is Back - Taylor Jenkins Reid 

September 2022

• I Kissed Shara Wheeler - Casey McQuiston 
• Mr. Majestyk - Elmore Leonard
• Out of Sight - Elmore Leonard

August 2022

• The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
• The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry - Gabrielle Zevin
• Killshot - Elmore Leonard
• Dark Archives - Megan Rosenbloom
• Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts - Kate Lister

July 2022

• The Great Pretender - Susannah Cahalan
• One of Us Is Lying - Karen M. McManus
• First Person Singular - Haruki Murakami
• Matilda - Roald Dahl
• Do Hard Things - Steve Magness
• The Willows - Algernon Blackwood
• The Ammonite Violin and Others - Caitlin R. Kiernan
• This is Going to Hurt - Adam Kay
• Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
• Kiki Kallira Breaks a Kingdom - Sangu Mandanna
• Home Before Dark - Riley Sager

June 2022

• Fantastic Mr. Fox and Other Animal Stories - Roald Dahl
• The Thicket - Joe R. Lansdale
• The Twits, the Minpins and the Magic Finger - Roald Dahl
• Another Fine Myth - Robert Lynn Asprin
• James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl
• The Woman They Could Not Silence - Kate Moore
• Gory Details - Erika Engelhaupt
• The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley
• A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking - Ursula Vernon / T. Kingfisher
• Deadman's Road - Joe R. Lansdale
• Infused: Adventures in Tea - Henrietta Lovell

May 2022

• Time and Again - Jack Finney
• Selected Shorts: A Touch of Magic - Symphony Space
• A Room with a View - E. M. Forster
• The Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams
• Railsea - China Miéville
• About a Boy - Nick Hornby
• Train Dreams - Denis Johnson 
• The Railway Children - Edith Nesbit
• The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
• The Bad Guys #4: Attack of the Zittens - Aaron Blabey (graphic novel)
• The Bad Guys #3: The Furball Strikes Back - Aaron Blabey (graphic novel)
• The Bad Guys #2: Mission Unpluckable - Aaron Blabey (graphic novel)

April 2022

• The Chain - Adrian McKinty
• To Your Scattered Bodies Go - Philip José Farmer
• Hellboy: Odd Jobs - ed. Christopher Golden
• Other Minds - Peter Godfrey-Smith
• The Longevity Diet - Valter Longo
• Strange Wine - Harlan Ellison
• Cold in July - Joe R. Lansdale
• Hellboy: Oddest Jobs - ed. Christopher Golden
• One for the Money - Janet Evanovich
• Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome
• The Bad Guys #1 - Aaron Blabey (graphic novel)

March 2022

• The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
• My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry - Fredrik Backman
• Folding Beijing - Hao Jingfang (novelette)
• Never Cry Wolf - Farley Mowat
• We Are Legion (We Are Bob) - Dennis E. Taylor
• I Was Told There'd Be Cake - Sloane Crosley
• The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu - Tom Lin
• The Eye of Argon - Jim Theis

February 2022

• Crenshaw - Katherine Applegate
• Upgrade - Blake Crouch
• Spinster - Kate Bolick
• Admit This to No One - Leslie Pietrzyk
• Mouth to Mouth - Antoine Wilson
• Arcadia - Tom Stoppard (play)
• Renascence and Other Poems - Edna St. Vincent Millay (poetry)
• Courage - Bernard Waber (children)
• The House on East 88th Street Book - Bernard Waber (children)

January 2022

• City of Thieves - David Benioff
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks
• Private Lives - Noël Coward (play)
• Blithe Spirit - Noël Coward (play)
• The Incredible Winston Browne - Sean Dietrich
• The Hobbit, or There and Back Again - J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Hating Game - Sally Thorne
• Bullshit Jobs - David Graeber 
• Elemental Haiku - Mary Soon Lee (poetry)

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Previous Reading (2011-2021)