Books Read; an Incomplete List of my Favorite Things

Featuring a nearly 5 year gap where I didn't do this

2026
Currently: Ring Shout | P. Djeli Clark
Exiles | Mason Coile | 5/24/26
A Parade of Horribles | Matt Dinniman | 5/21/26
Coup de Grace | Sofia Ajram | 5/13/26
On Looking | Alexandra Horowitz | 5/10/26
How to Start | Jodi Kantor | 4/30/26
The Salt Grows Heavy | 4/28/26
Yellowface | R.F. Khuang | 4/27/26
Rejection | Tony Tulathimutte | 4/23/26
Terminal Park | Gary J. Shipley | 4/18/26
A Short Stay in Hell | Steven L. Peck | 4/14/
Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir | 4/13/26
The Lathe of Heaven | Ursula K LeGuin | 4/8/26
The Other | Thomas Tryon | 4/2/26
The Odyssey | Homer/Emily Wilson | 3/29/26
Sealed | Naomi Booth | 3/20/26
Dark Matter | Blake Crouch | 3/17/26
Between Two Fires | Christopher Buehlman | 3/14/26
The Boys in the Boat | Daniel James Brown | 3/8/26
Mahabharata | Krishna Dharma | 2/9/26
Logic Beach | Exurb1a | 1/14/26
Under the Whispering Door | TJ Klune | 1/11/26
Strange Houses | Uketsu | 1/1/26
2025
The Headspace Guide to Meditation | Andy Puddicombe | 12/31/25
Sefira and Other Betrayals | John Langan | 12/26/25
The Luminous Dead | Caitlin Starling | 12/11/25
Root Rot | Saskia Nislow | 11/24/25
American Rapture | CJ Leede | 11/12/25
Strange Pictures | Uketsu | 11/12/25
Fine Structure | qntm | 11/9/25
The Starving Saints | Caitlin Starling | 11/9/25
Amatka | Karin Tidbeck | 10/9/25
The Hellbound Heart | Clive Barker | 10/5/25
The Voided Man | Anthony Dean | 10/2/25
Slewfoot | Brom | 9/21/25
The Evil Creator | M. David Litwa | 9/15/25
The Mountain and the Sea | Ray Naylor | 9/15/25
This Inevitable Ruin | Matt Dinniman | 9/9/25
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride | Matt Dinniman | 9/8/25
The Butcher's Masquerade | Matt Dinniman | 9/2/25
The Gate of the Feral Gods | Matt Dinniman | 8/27/25
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook | Matt Dinniman | 8/17/25
Carl's Doomsday Scenario | Matt Dinniman | 8/5/25
House of Leaves | Mark Z. Danielewski
Dungeon Crawler Carl | Matt Dinniman | 4/11/25
Maeve Fly | CJ Leede | 5/18/25
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas | Ursula K. LeGuin | 4/17/25
The Drowning Girl | 4/16/25
Pilgrim | Mitchell Luthi | 2/13/25
Cows | Matthew Stokoe | 1/20/25
100% Match | Patrick C. Harrison III | 1/6/25
Our Lady of Darkness | Fritz Leiber | 1/3/25
2024
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke | Eric LaRocca
Helpmeet | Naben Ruthnum
We Have Always Lived in the Castle | Johnathan Lethem
Geometry for Ocelots | Exurb1a
Seed | Ania Ahlborn
Valuable Humans in Transit | qntm
House of Windows | John Langan | 12/7/24
All Creatures Great and Small | James Herriot | 11/24/24
The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck
The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkein
Boy Parts | Eliza Clark | 11/24/24
All the Fiends of Hell | Adam Nevill
SCP New Series | Rafael Collins | 11/24/24
A Lush and Seething Hell | Check Wendig | 11/17/24
The Bell Chime | Mona Kabbani | 10/20/24
The Prince of Milk | Exurb1a | 10/15/24
Intercepts | T.J. Payne | 9/29/24
This Thing Between Us | Gus Moreno | 9/23/24
The Forgotten Island | David Sodergren | 9/18/24
Maggie's Grave | David Sodergren | 6/1/24
They Were Here Before Us | Eric LaRocca | 5/1/24
Psychic Teenage Bloodbath II | Carl John Lee | 4/29/24
Psychic Teenage Bloodbath | Carl John Lee | 4/22/24
Dirty Heads | Aaron Dries | 4/11/24
The Haar | David Sodergren | 4/8/24
A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole | 2/1/24
2023
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect | Roger Williams | 11/21/23
The Fisherman | John Langan | 9/15/23
Ra | qntm | 10/24/23
The Black Farm | Elias Witherow | 8/4/23
Slow Time Between the Stars | John Scalzi | 8/18/23
There is No Antimemetics Division | qntm | 8/14/23
The Scar | China Mieville | 8/12/23
Perdido Street Station | China Mieville | 7/22/23
Blood Music | Greg Bear | 6/13/23
The Library at Mount Char | 6/12/23
The Stranger | K.A. Applegate | 2/22/23
2018
Blindsight | Peter Watts | 5/28/18
The Andromeda Strain | 5/21/18
Tasting Beer | Randy Mosher 5/18/18
2017
Heroes and Villains | Angela Carter 11/10/17
Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse 11/5/17
The Book | Alan Watts 4/11/17
Son | Lois Lowry 4/5/17
Messenger | Lois Lowry 3/22/17
Stories of Your Life and Others | Ted Chiang 2/20/17
2016
Ishmael | Daniel Quinn 12/29/16
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms | George RR Martin 12/1/16
Thomas Aquinas in 90 Minutes | Paul Strathern 11/8/16
The Dispatcher | John Scalzi 10/19/16
The Magician's Nephew | C.S. Lewis 10/18/16
Manuscript Found in Accra | Paulo Coelho 10/15/16
Neverwhere | Neil Gaiman 10/14/16
The Mahabharata | Translated by Krishna Dharma 9/27/16
Blankets | Craig Thompson 9/20/16
The Power of Myth | Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers 9/16/16
The Bhagavad Gita | Eknath Easwaran
The Tides of Time | John Brunner 4/21/16
The Tao of Pooh | 4/6/16
Without You There is No Us | Suki Kim 3/20/16
The Bhagavad Gita | Stephen Mitchell
Inside of a Dog | Alexandra Horowitz 1/25/16
2015
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki | Haruki Murakami 12/8/15
Meditation | Eknath Easwaran 11/16/15
Beneath the Wheel | Hermann Hesse 10/29/15
The Trial | Franz Kafka 10/03/15
Fast Food Nation | Eric Schlosser 9/16/15
The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway 8/30/15
The Dude and the Zen Master | Jeff Bridges & Bernie Glassman 8/28/15
The Pearl | John Steinbeck 8/25/15
The Moon Is Down | John Steinbeck 8/23/15
The Archer's Tale | Bernard Cromwell 8/20/15
The Dhammapada 8/15/15
Gathering Blue | Lois Lowry 8/13/15
The Giver | Lois Lowry 8/7/15
Tortilla Flat | John Steinbeck 8/5/15
The Diamond Age | Neal Stephenson 7/17/15
The Strange Library | Haruki Murakami 6/8/15
The Upanishads 6/7/15
Bhagavad Gita | Translated by Eknath Easwaran 5/30/15
Synchronicity | Dr. Kirby Surprise 5/29/15
Maddaddam | Margaret Atwood 5/17/15
The Year of the Flood | Margaret Atwood 4/28/15
Oryx and Crake | Margaret Atwood 4/17/15
One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez 4/2/15
The House Of The Spirits | Isabel Allende 3/3/15
The Jesus Incident | Frank Herbert 2/16/15
Destination: Void | Frank Herbet 1/22/15
The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho 1/17/15
Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson 1/15/15
Stardust | Neil Gaiman 1/2/15
2014
The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood 11/26/14
The Glass Bead Game | Hermann Hesse 11/22/14
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon | Stephen King 9/14/1
The Journey to the East | Hermann Hesse 9/11/14
A Lion Among Men | Gregory Maguire 9/10/14
Timequake | Kurt Vonnegut 9/3/14
The Black Seas Of Infinity | Dan Henk 8/22/14
Son of a Witch | Gregory Maguire 7/17/14
Diary | Chuck Palahniuk 6/17/14
Solaris | Stanislaw Lem 5/26/14
The Zap Gun | Phillip K Dick 5/3/14
Narcissus and Goldmund | Hermann Hesse 4/23/14
Demian | Hermann Hesse 1/26/14
The Lathe of Heaven | Ursula K. Leguin 1/12/14
Xenocide | Orson Scott Card 1/2/14
2013
Doctor Sleep | Stephen King 10/23/13
The Wonderful Land of Oz | Frank L. Baum 9/29/13
The Godmakers | Frank Herbert 9/23/13
The Big Sleep | Raymond Chandler 9/18/13
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle | Haruki Murakami 9/14/13
A Game of Thrones | George R.R. Martin 8/27/13
Everything's Eventual | Stephen King
Seventh Son | Orson Scott Card 7/31/13
The Man In The High Castle | Philip K Dick 7/21/13
Flatland | Edwin A. Abbot 7/19/13
Waiter Rant | The Waiter 7/12/13
Cryptonomicon | Neal Stephenson 6/24/13
Speaker For The Dead | Orson Scott Card 5/9/13
Deprivers | Steven Elliot Altman 5/4/13
The Death of Bunny Munro | Nick Cave 4/24/13
Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse
Survivor | Chuck Palahniuk
A Wild Sheep Chase | Haruki Murakami
Fight Club | Chuck Palahniuk
Invisible Monsters | Chuck Palahniuk
Sputnik Sweetheart | Haruki Murakami
Rant | Chuck Palahniuk
Talisman | Stephen King
South of the Border, West of the Sun | Haruki Murakami