Annual Reading Log

2026 68 books

• The Devil Aspect Craig Russell ★★★★☆
• Behind the Gate Amparo Dávila ★★★★☆
• Nausea Jean-Paul Sartre ★★★★☆
• The Trial Franz Kafka ★★★★☆
• The Pole J.M. Coetzee ★★★☆☆
• Transcription Ben Lerner ★★★☆☆
• Grendel John Gardner ★★★☆☆
• The Unconsoled Kazuo Ishiguro ★★★★☆
• My Struggle: Book 1 Karl Ove Knausgård ★★★★☆
• Wittgenstein’s Mistress David Markson ★★★★★
• Lost Lambs Madeline Cash ★★★☆☆
• Glyph Ali Smith ★★★★☆
• The Hearing Trumpet Leonora Carrington ★★★★☆
• The Plague Albert Camus ★★★★★
• Whistler Ann Patchett ★★★★☆
• Under the Falls Richard Russo ★★★☆☆
• Evil Genius Claire Oshetsky ★★★☆☆
• Fruit Fly Josh Silver ★★☆☆☆
• Ice Anna Kavan ★★★☆☆
• Strange Buildings Uketsu ★★★★☆
• Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe ★★★★☆
• Glengarry Glen Ross David Mamet ★★★☆☆
• Phaedo Plato ★★★★☆
• Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad ★★☆☆☆
• A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar ★★★★☆
• Sisters in Yellow Mieko Kawakami ★★★★☆
• Collected Fictions Jorge Luis Borges ★★★☆☆
• 84, Charing Cross Road Helene Hanff ★★★☆☆
• Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage Haruki Murakami ★★★★☆
• Woodcutters Thomas Bernhard ★★★★★
• A Wild Sheep Chase Haruki Murakami ★★☆☆☆
• Madwoman Chelsea Bieker ★★★☆☆
• Paradise Logic Sophie Kemp ★★★☆☆
• The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro ★★★★☆
• The Idiot Elif Batuman ★★☆☆☆
• Departure[s] Julian Barnes ★★★★☆
• Concrete Thomas Bernhard ★★★★☆
• The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ★★★★★
• Novelist as a Vocation Haruki Murakami ★★★★★
• Carl's Doomsday Scenario Matt Dinniman ★★☆☆☆
• Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor ★★★★☆
• Atonement Ian McEwan ★★☆☆☆
• A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat Arthur Rimbaud ★★★☆☆
• Post Office Charles Bukowski ★★★★☆
• Strange Pictures Uketsu ★★★☆☆
• Death in Venice Thomas Mann ★★★☆☆
• One Aladdin Two Lamps Jeanette Winterson ★★★★☆
• Cat’s Cradle Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ★★★★☆
• The Correspondent Virginia Evans ★★★★★
• Dungeon Crawler Carl Matt Dinniman ★★★★☆
• The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros ★★★★☆
• Vigil George Saunders ★★★★☆
• Ham on Rye Charles Bukowski ★★★★★
• Mona's Eyes Thomas Schlesser ★★★☆☆
• Old School Tobias Wolff ★★★★☆
• Natural Beauty Ling Ling Huang ★★★☆☆
• The Last of Earth Deepa Anappara ★★★☆☆
• Swan Song Robert McCammon ★★★☆☆
• Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil V.E. Schwab ★★★☆☆
• On the Calculation of Volume III Solvej Balle ★★★★☆
• Lightbreakers Aja Gabel ★★★★☆
• Hot Wax M.L. Rio ★★★☆☆
• The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Kiran Desai ★★★☆☆
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder ★★★☆☆
• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft Stephen King ★★★★★
• Crux Gabriel Tallent ★★★★★
• A Single Man Christopher Isherwood ★★★★☆
• House Made of Dawn N. Scott Momaday ★★★☆☆

2025 177 books

• Making Space (The Time Traveler's Passport) R.F. Kuang ★★★☆☆
• The Dharma Bums Jack Kerouac ★★★★★
• Snake-Eater T. Kingfisher ★★★☆☆
• A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter M. Miller Jr. ★★☆☆☆
• The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit Michael Finkel ★★★★★
• Ceremony Leslie Marmon Silko ★★★★☆
• An Old Soul M. Kevin Hayden ★★★☆☆
• Seascraper Benjamin Wood ★★★★☆
• The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession Michael Finkel ★★★★☆
• Play It As It Lays Joan Didion ★★★★☆
• Down and Out in Paris and London George Orwell ★★★☆☆
• The Mad Wife Meagan Church ★★★★☆
• Perfection Vincenzo Latronico ★★☆☆☆
• On the Calculation of Volume II Solvej Balle ★★★★☆
• Big Chief Jon Hickey ★★★★☆
• The Night Watchman Louise Erdrich ★★★☆☆
• The Elements John Boyne ★★★★☆
• Small Boat Vincent Delecroix ★★★★★
• Old School Indian Aaron John Curtis ★★★☆☆
• Ruins Amy Taylor ★★★★☆
• Atlas of Unknowable Things McCormick Templeman ★★★☆☆
• The Wedding People Alison Espach ★★★★☆
• The Devil Is a Southpaw Brandon Hobson ★★★★☆
• The Hounding Xenobe Purvis ★★☆☆☆
• Immaculate Conception Ling Ling Huang ★★★★☆
• Shadow Ticket Thomas Pynchon ★★★★☆
• Culpability Bruce Holsinger ★★☆☆☆
• Flesh David Szalay ★★★☆☆
• The Nose Nikolai Gogol ★★★☆☆
• A Hunger Artist (Short Prose of Franz Kafka) Franz Kafka ★★★☆☆
• The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Fyodor Dostoevsky ★★★☆☆
• Satantango László Krasznahorkai ★★★☆☆
• Bliss Montage Ling Ma ★★★☆☆
• Hungerstone Kat Dunn ★★★★☆
• NOS4A2 Joe Hill ★★☆☆☆
• The Ship of Theseus Garry Harper ★★★★☆
• 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years (The Time Traveler's Passport) John Scalzi ★★★☆☆
• On the Calculation of Volume I Solvej Balle ★★★★★
• The Unworthy Agustina Bazterrica ★★★★☆
• Automatic Noodle Annalee Newitz ★★★★☆
• Carmilla J. Sheridan Le Fanu ★★★☆☆
• Exiles Mason Coile ★★★☆☆
• Chess Story Stefan Zweig ★★★★☆
• Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng Kylie Lee Baker ★★★☆☆
• Near to the Wild Heart Clarice Lispector ★★★★☆
• A Month in the Country J.L. Carr ★★★★☆
• Buckeye Patrick Ryan ★★★★☆
• Vineland Thomas Pynchon ★★★☆☆
• Things in Nature Merely Grow Yiyun Li ★★★★★
• Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke ★★★★★
• Katabasis R.F. Kuang ★★★☆☆
• Gilead Marilynne Robinson ★★★☆☆
• The Fall Albert Camus ★★☆☆☆
• Life, and Death, and Giants Ron Rindo ★★★★☆
• A Splintering Dur e Aziz Amna ★★★★☆
• An Oral History of Atlantis Ed Park ★★★☆☆
• Butcher's Crossing John Williams ★★★★★
• Annie Bot Sierra Greer ★★☆☆☆
• Chain-Gang All-Stars Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah ★★★☆☆
• Pachinko Min Jin Lee ★★★☆☆
• Too Loud a Solitude Bohumil Hrabal ★★★★☆
• The Friend Sigrid Nunez ★★★★★
• Homesick for Another World Ottessa Moshfegh ★★★★☆
• Catch-22 Joseph Heller ★★★☆☆
• Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games) Suzanne Collins ★★★☆☆
• Less Andrew Sean Greer ★★★☆☆
• Of Cattle and Men Ana Paula Maia ★★★☆☆
• Revenge Yōko Ogawa ★★★☆☆
• Now Is Not the Time to Panic Kevin Wilson ★★★★☆
• Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor ★★★★☆
• Nothing to See Here Kevin Wilson ★★★★☆
• The Goldfinch Donna Tartt ★★★☆☆
• Narrow the Road James Wade ★★★★☆
• Run for the Hills Kevin Wilson ★★★★☆
• The Neon Bible John Kennedy Toole ★★★★★
• We Are Always Tender With Our Dead Eric LaRocca ★★★☆☆
• Atmosphere Taylor Jenkins Reid ★★★★☆
• The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas Machado de Assis ★★★★☆
• Madonna in a Fur Coat Sabahattin Ali ★★★★☆
• Heartwood Amity Gaige ★★★★☆
• The Passion According to G.H. Clarice Lispector ★★★★☆
• The Twilight Zone Nona Fernández ★★☆☆☆
• A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole ★★★★★
• Happening Annie Ernaux ★★★☆☆
• Questions About Angels Billy Collins ★★★★★
• Água Viva Clarice Lispector ★★★☆☆
• The Passion Jeanette Winterson ★★★★★
• The Hour of the Star Clarice Lispector ★★★★☆
• Flush Virginia Woolf ★★★★★
• Victorian Psycho Virginia Feito ★★★☆☆
• Human Acts Han Kang ★★☆☆☆
• Notes on Infinity Austin Taylor ★★★☆☆
• Wonder Chris Emery ★★★☆☆
• The Vegetarian Han Kang ★★★☆☆
• Bees, and After (Volume 119) (Yale Series of Younger Poets) John Liles ★★☆☆☆
• We Do Not Part Han Kang ★★★☆☆
• The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin ★★★☆☆
• Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather ★★★★☆
• A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway ★★★☆☆
• The Safekeep Yael van der Wouden ★★☆☆☆
• Fox Joyce Carol Oates ★★★★☆
• The Emperor of Gladness Ocean Vuong ★★★☆☆
• The Lowlife Alexander Baron ★★★★★
• Invisible Cities Italo Calvino ★★★☆☆
• Clear Carys Davies ★★★☆☆
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson ★★★★★
• Malagash Joey Comeau ★★★★☆
• Mrs. Caliban Rachel Ingalls ★★★★☆
• Broken Country Clare Leslie Hall ★★★☆☆
• If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Italo Calvino ★★★★★
• Rejection Tony Tulathimutte ★★★☆☆
• The Flowers of Buffoonery Osamu Dazai ★★★☆☆
• Elena Knows Claudia Piñeiro ★★★★☆
• The Two Musics Michael Cisco ★★★☆☆
• Open Throat Henry Hoke ★★★☆☆
• Monstrilio Gerardo Sámano Córdova ★★★★★
• Between Two Fires Christopher Buehlman ★★☆☆☆
• The Stand Stephen King ★★★★☆
• A Sea of Unspoken Things Adrienne Young ★☆☆☆☆
• Cleave the Sparrow Jonathan Katz ★★★☆☆
• My Friends Fredrik Backman ★★★☆☆
• Flashlight Susan Choi ★★☆☆☆
• The Outer Darkness Dominic Peloso ★★★☆☆
• Wild Dark Shore Charlotte McConaghy ★★★★☆
• Mad Honey Jodi Picoult ★★☆☆☆
• Dream Count Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ★★★☆☆
• 11/22/63 Stephen King ★★★★★
• Creation Lake Rachel Kushner ★★★☆☆
• The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories Ken Liu ★★★☆☆
• The Phoenix Pencil Company Allison King ★★★☆☆
• The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between Hisham Matar ★★★★☆
• The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway ★★☆☆☆
• The Human Chair Edogawa Rampo ★★★★☆
• Dream State Eric Puchner ★★★☆☆
• Window and Mirror Ted Virts ★★★☆☆
• The River Has Roots Amal El-Mohtar ★★☆☆☆
• The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald ★★★☆☆
• Source Code: My Beginnings Bill Gates ★★☆☆☆
• Invisible Man Ralph Ellison ★★★★☆
• Julie Chan Is Dead Liann Zhang ★★★★☆
• My Friends Hisham Matar ★★★★★
• True Grit Charles Portis ★★★★★
• Water Moon Samantha Sotto Yambao ★★☆☆☆
• Audition Katie Kitamura ★★☆☆☆
• Geek Love Katherine Dunn ★★★☆☆
• Boys in the Valley Philip Fracassi ★★☆☆☆
• Perspective(s) Laurent Binet ★★★★☆
• Dracula Bram Stoker ★★☆☆☆
• The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury ★★★★☆
• The Wall Marlen Haushofer ★★★★☆
• The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown ★★★☆☆
• The Other Name: Septology I-II Jon Fosse ★★☆☆☆
• Crying in H Mart Michelle Zauner ★★★☆☆
• Glorious Exploits Ferdia Lennon ★★★★☆
• All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy ★★★★☆
• Gliff Ali Smith ★★★★☆
• Big Two-Hearted River Ernest Hemingway ★★☆☆☆
• Tenth of December George Saunders ★★☆☆☆
• Private Rites Julia Armfield ★★★☆☆
• Real Americans Rachel Khong ★☆☆☆☆
• Homegoing Yaa Gyasi ★★☆☆☆
• Rebecca Daphne du Maurier ★★★★★
• Tree of Smoke Denis Johnson ★★☆☆☆
• Old Soul Susan Barker ★★★☆☆
• The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa ★★☆☆☆
• Train Dreams Denis Johnson ★★★★☆
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Haruki Murakami ★★★★★
• The Eyes Are the Best Part Monika Kim ★★★★☆
• Dante's Inferno: A Graphic Novel Adaptation Paul Brizzi ★★★★★
• Bel Canto Ann Patchett ★★★★☆
• Schoolgirl Osamu Dazai ★★★☆☆
• Hyperion Dan Simmons ★★★☆☆
• Prophet Song Paul Lynch ★★★★☆
• Annihilation Jeff Vandermeer ★★★★☆
• Pedro Páramo Juan Rulfo ★★★★☆
• Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer ★★★★☆
• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami ★★★☆☆

2024 133 books

• Blackouts Justin Torres ★★★☆☆
• Orbital Samantha Harvey ★★★★☆
• The Wood at Midwinter Susanna Clarke ★★☆☆☆
• Steppenwolf Hermann Hesse ★★☆☆☆
• The City and Its Uncertain Walls Haruki Murakami ★★★★☆
• Giovanni’s Room James Baldwin ★★★★☆
• The Bee Sting Paul Murray ★★★★★
• Playground Richard Powers ★★★☆☆
• Nightbitch Rachel Yoder ★★★★☆
• The Reformatory Tananarive Due ★★★★☆
• Slow Time Between the Stars John Scalzi ★★★★☆
• The Answer Is No Fredrik Backman ★★★★★
• My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante ★★★☆☆
• There Are Rivers in the Sky Elif Shafak ★★★★☆
• The Hellbound Heart Clive Barker ★★★★☆
• Graveyard Shift M.L. Rio ★★☆☆☆
• The Nightingale Kristin Hannah ★★★★☆
• In Memoriam Alice Winn ★★★★★
• Masters of Death Olivie Blake ★☆☆☆☆
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life Anne Lamott ★★★★★
• Parasyte 1 Hitoshi Iwaaki ★★★★☆
• Junky William S. Burroughs ★★☆☆☆
• Intermezzo Sally Rooney ★★★★☆
• Parade Rachel Cusk ★★★☆☆
• ブルーピリオド 1 [Blue Period 1] Tsubasa Yamaguchi ★★★★☆
• Hard Rain Falling Don Carpenter ★★★★☆
• Sandwich Catherine Newman ★★★☆☆
• The Life Impossible Matt Haig ★★★★☆
• The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation Manu Larcenet ★★★★★
• Severance Ling Ma ★★★★★
• Beautyland Marie-Helene Bertino ★★★★☆
• Death Note, Vol. 5: Whiteout Tsugumi Ohba ★★★☆☆
• You Can't Win Jack Black ★★★★☆
• My Death Lisa Tuttle ★★★★☆
• Days at the Morisaki Bookshop Satoshi Yagisawa ★★★★☆
• More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop Satoshi Yagisawa ★★★★☆
• Starlight Farm's Kennel for Talking Dogs: An All-Ages Fantasy Adventure Carson Long ★★★☆☆
• James Percival Everett ★★★★★
• Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse Anne Carson ★★★☆☆
• The Book Thief Markus Zusak ★★★☆☆
• Brutes Dizz Tate ★★☆☆☆
• The God of the Woods Liz Moore ★★★★☆
• White Teeth Zadie Smith ★★★☆☆
• Death Valley Melissa Broder ★★★☆☆
• Autobiography of a Corpse Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky ★★★☆☆
• In Our Likeness Bryan VanDyke ★★★★☆
• The Shithead: A Novel in Fifty Songs Tim Grahl ★★★☆☆
• Death Note, Vol. 4: Love Tsugumi Ohba ★★★★★
• White Nights Fyodor Dostoevsky ★★★☆☆
• Martyr! Kaveh Akbar ★★★★★
• Lady Audley's Secret Mary Elizabeth Braddon ★★★☆☆
• Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Edwin A. Abbott ★★★☆☆
• The Great Alone Kristin Hannah ★★☆☆☆
• The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers John Gardner ★★★★☆
• To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf ★★★★★
• Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley Brent Underwood ★★★★★
• A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara ★★☆☆☆
• The Golden Compass Philip Pullman ★★★★☆
• The Colour Out of Space H.P. Lovecraft ★★★★★
• Heart of a Dog Mikhail Bulgakov ★★★★☆
• The Voice in the Night William Hope Hodgson ★★★★☆
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation Ottessa Moshfegh ★★★☆☆
• I Who Have Never Known Men Jacqueline Harpman ★★★★★
• Heaven Mieko Kawakami ★★☆☆☆
• Leaf by Niggle J.R.R. Tolkien ★★★★☆
• Kitchen Banana Yoshimoto ★★★★★
• A Room of One’s Own Virginia Woolf ★★★☆☆
• The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov ★★★★☆
• All Fours Miranda July ★★★☆☆
• Come Closer Sara Gran ★★☆☆☆
• Tender Is the Flesh Agustina Bazterrica ★★★☆☆
• Tiger Chair Max Brooks ★★☆☆☆
• All the Lonely People Mike Gayle ★★★★☆
• Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man Marquis de Sade ★★★☆☆
• Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder Salman Rushdie ★★★★★
• Butcher Joyce Carol Oates ★★★★★
• Murder in Mesopotamia Agatha Christie ★★★☆☆
• Tao Te Ching Lao Tzu ★★☆☆☆
• The Ministry of Time Kaliane Bradley ★★★★☆
• Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World's First Author Enheduanna ★★★★★
• The Familiar Leigh Bardugo ★★★★☆
• White Noise Don DeLillo ★★☆☆☆
• The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry Gabrielle Zevin ★★★★☆
• The Martian Andy Weir ★★★☆☆
• I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream Harlan Ellison ★★☆☆☆
• Table for Two Amor Towles ★★★☆☆
• The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafón ★★★★☆
• Scythe Neal Shusterman ★★★★☆
• Remarkably Bright Creatures Shelby Van Pelt ★★★★☆
• We Are Legion (We Are Bob) Dennis E. Taylor ★★★☆☆
• Zombified: Real-World Lessons from Fictional Apocalypses Athena Aktipis ★★☆☆☆
• Peter Pan J.M. Barrie ★★☆☆☆
• The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon ★★★★☆
• Siddhartha Hermann Hesse ★★★☆☆
• The Art of War Sun Tzu ★★☆☆☆
• Grief Is for People Sloane Crosley ★★★☆☆
• Wandering Stars Tommy Orange ★★★★☆
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce ★★☆☆☆
• Circe Madeline Miller ★★☆☆☆
• Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami ★★☆☆☆
• Cut and Thirst Margaret Atwood ★★★☆☆
• Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk ★★★★☆
• There There Tommy Orange ★★★★☆
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Benjamin Alire Sáenz ★★★★☆
• What You Are Looking for Is in the Library Michiko Aoyama ★★☆☆☆
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith ★★★★☆
• Eugene Onegin Alexander Pushkin ★★★☆☆
• North Woods Daniel Mason ★★☆☆☆
• The Unmaking of June Farrow Adrienne Young ★★★★☆
• Cloud Cuckoo Land Anthony Doerr ★★★☆☆
• Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epic Sophus Helle ★★★★★
• The Fury Alex Michaelides ★★★☆☆
• Beloved Toni Morrison ★★★☆☆
• The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller ★★★★☆
• All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr ★★★☆☆
• The Order of Chaos: A Black Comedy Henry Hinder ★★★★☆
• Scale: Eight Phases to Building an Eight Figure Business Jason Von Payne ★☆☆☆☆
• The Book That Wouldn’t Burn Mark Lawrence ★★★☆☆
• The Story of an Hour Kate Chopin ★★★☆☆
• Bloodchild Octavia E. Butler ★★★★★
• Golden Son Pierce Brown ★★★☆☆
• The Wisdom of Life Arthur Schopenhauer ★★★☆☆
• The Nightingale and the Rose Oscar Wilde ★★★☆☆
• Before the Party W. Somerset Maugham ★★★☆☆
• The Black Cat Edgar Allan Poe ★★★☆☆
• The Landlady Roald Dahl ★★★☆☆
• The Masque of the Red Death Edgar Allan Poe ★★★★★
• The Symposium Plato ★★★★☆
• The Most Dangerous Game Richard Connell ★★★★★
• War of the Foxes Richard Siken ★★★☆☆
• In the Penal Colony Franz Kafka ★★★★☆
• So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men Claire Keegan ★★★★★
• Twelve Angry Men Reginald Rose ★★★★★

2023 100 books

• The Library at Mount Char Scott Hawkins ★★☆☆☆
• Hidden Pictures Jason Rekulak ★★★☆☆
• Walden or, Life in the Woods Henry David Thoreau ★★★☆☆
• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Patrick Süskind ★★★★☆
• The Temple H.P. Lovecraft ★★★★★
• Mr Salary Sally Rooney ★★☆☆☆
• There Will Come Soft Rains Ray Bradbury ★★★☆☆
• Ankle Snatcher Grady Hendrix ★★★☆☆
• The Gift of the Magi O. Henry ★★★☆☆
• The Jaunt Stephen King ★★★★☆
• A Room with a View E.M. Forster ★★★☆☆
• The Maniac Benjamín Labatut ★★★★★
• This Is How You Lose the Time War Amal El-Mohtar ★★★★☆
• Night Sky with Exit Wounds Ocean Vuong ★★★★☆
• Time Is a Mother Ocean Vuong ★★★☆☆
• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Ocean Vuong ★★★★☆
• Wellness Nathan Hill ★★★★☆
• Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry ★★★★★
• Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver ★★★☆☆
• The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson ★★☆☆☆
• When We Cease to Understand the World Benjamín Labatut ★★★☆☆
• Bluets Maggie Nelson ★★★★☆
• The Past Is Red Catherynne M. Valente ★★★☆☆
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera ★★☆☆☆
• The Dutch House Ann Patchett ★★☆☆☆
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Susanna Clarke ★★☆☆☆
• An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge Ambrose Bierce ★★★☆☆
• All You Zombies Robert A. Heinlein ★★☆☆☆
• Galatea Madeline Miller ★★★★☆
• We Can Get Them For You Wholesale Neil Gaiman ★★★☆☆
• A Sound of Thunder Ray Bradbury ★★★☆☆
• Tokyo Ghoul, Tome 1 Sui Ishida ★★★☆☆
• The Last Question Isaac Asimov ★★★☆☆
• Harrison Bergeron Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ★★★★☆
• Artemis Andy Weir ★★☆☆☆
• The Halloween Tree Ray Bradbury ★★★★☆
• The Swimmer John Cheever ★★★☆☆
• A Short Stay in Hell Steven L. Peck ★★★★★
• The Visitors Miranda Rijks ★★☆☆☆
• Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami ★★☆☆☆
• Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf ★★★★☆
• These Violent Delights Micah Nemerever ★★★☆☆
• Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West Cormac McCarthy ★★★☆☆
• Candide Voltaire ★★★☆☆
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers ★★★★☆
• Parable of the Sower Octavia E. Butler ★★★☆☆
• The Only One Left Riley Sager ★★☆☆☆
• Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes ★★★★★
• Before Your Memory Fades Toshikazu Kawaguchi ★★☆☆☆
• The Lathe of Heaven Ursula K. Le Guin ★★★☆☆
• The Giver Lois Lowry ★★★★☆
• Convenience Store Woman Sayaka Murata ★★★☆☆
• Lord of the Flies William Golding ★★★★☆
• Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom Sylvia Plath ★★★★☆
• Death Note, Vol. 3: Hard Run Tsugumi Ohba ★★★★★
• Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ★★★★★
• Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson ★★★★★
• Nine Stories J.D. Salinger ★★★★☆
• The Setting Sun Osamu Dazai ★★★★★
• The Dead James Joyce ★★☆☆☆
• Franny and Zooey J.D. Salinger ★★★★☆
• Beowulf Unknown ★★★★☆
• Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell ★★★☆☆
• Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction J.D. Salinger ★★★☆☆
• The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde ★★★☆☆
• An Ideal Husband Oscar Wilde ★★★☆☆
• Lady Windermere's Fan Oscar Wilde ★★★★☆
• Pnin Vladimir Nabokov ★★☆☆☆
• Recitatif Toni Morrison ★★☆☆☆
• The Seagull Anton Chekhov ★★★★☆
• Death Note, Vol. 2: Confluence Tsugumi Ohba ★★★★☆
• Bartleby the Scrivener Herman Melville ★★★☆☆
• Small Things Like These Claire Keegan ★★★★☆
• Foster Claire Keegan ★★★☆☆
• The Turn of the Screw Henry James ★★☆☆☆
• We Yevgeny Zamyatin ★★★★☆
• Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe ★★★☆☆
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre B. Traven ★★★★☆
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 2 Hayao Miyazaki ★★★★☆
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 1 Hayao Miyazaki ★★★★☆
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Part 2 Akira Himekawa ★★★☆☆
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky ★★★☆☆
• On the Road Jack Kerouac ★★★★☆
• Against Nature Joris-Karl Huysmans ★★★☆☆
• East of Eden John Steinbeck ★★★★☆
• Hunter x Hunter, Vol. 01 Yoshihiro Togashi ★★★★☆
• Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov ★★★★☆
• Old Babes in the Wood: Stories Margaret Atwood ★★☆☆☆
• The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde ★★★★☆
• The Shards Bret Easton Ellis ★★★★☆
• Obsidio Amie Kaufman ★★★☆☆
• Piranesi Susanna Clarke ★★★★★
• Hell Bent Leigh Bardugo ★★★★★
• The Passenger Cormac McCarthy ★★★☆☆
• Night Film Marisha Pessl ★★★★☆
• If We Were Villains M.L. Rio ★★★☆☆
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror Robert Louis Stevenson ★★★☆☆
• Verity Colleen Hoover ★★☆☆☆
• Brave New World Aldous Huxley ★★★★☆
• 2001: A Space Odyssey Arthur C. Clarke ★★★★☆

2022 108 books

• My Dark Vanessa Kate Elizabeth Russell ★★★★☆
• Liberation Day George Saunders ★★☆☆☆
• The Annotated Lolita Vladimir Nabokov ★★★★☆
• Tales from the Cafe Toshikazu Kawaguchi ★★☆☆☆
• Babel R.F. Kuang ★★☆☆☆
• Gemina Amie Kaufman ★★★★☆
• Nadja André Breton ★★★☆☆
• Before the Coffee Gets Cold Toshikazu Kawaguchi ★★★☆☆
• The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster ★★★★★
• Book of Night Holly Black ★★☆☆☆
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Part 1 Akira Himekawa ★★★★★
• John Dies at the End David Wong ★★★★☆
• The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath ★★★★☆
• The Raw Shark Texts Steven Hall ★★★☆☆
• Daisy Jones & The Six Taylor Jenkins Reid ★★★☆☆
• A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles ★★★★★
• 4.48 Psychosis Sarah Kane ★★☆☆☆
• Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders ★☆☆☆☆
• Bunny Mona Awad ★★★★☆
• The Caretaker Harold Pinter ★★★☆☆
• Illuminae Amie Kaufman ★★★★☆
• Micromegas Voltaire ★★★☆☆
• Upgrade Blake Crouch ★★★☆☆
• The Mountain Between Us Charles Martin ★★☆☆☆
• Fox 8 George Saunders ★★★★★
• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue V.E. Schwab ★★★☆☆
• The Walking Dead #1 Robert Kirkman ★★★☆☆
• ワンパンマン 1 一撃 [One Punch Man 1: Ichigeki] ONE ★★★★☆
• The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger ★★★★☆
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin ★★★★★
• One Piece, Volume 1: Romance Dawn Eiichiro Oda ★★★★★
• The Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus ★★★★★
• Death Note, Vol. 1: Boredom Tsugumi Ohba ★★★★★
• Fever Dream Samanta Schweblin ★★★☆☆
• Batman: The Killing Joke Alan Moore ★★★☆☆
• Berserk, Vol. 1 Kentaro Miura ★★★☆☆
• Stoner John Williams ★★★★☆
• Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization Neil deGrasse Tyson ★★★★☆
• Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman ★★★★☆
• Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett ★★★★★
• Endgame Samuel Beckett ★★★☆☆
• Scratch Steve Himmer ★★★☆☆
• Sleepwalk Dan Chaon ★★★☆☆
• V for Vendetta Alan Moore ★★★☆☆
• Arcadia Tom Stoppard ★★★☆☆
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Taylor Jenkins Reid ★★★★☆
• This Time Tomorrow Emma Straub ★★★★☆
• R.U.R. Karel Čapek ★★★★★
• 7 or 8 Ways to End the World Colin Wright ★★★★☆
• The Second Most Dangerous Job in America Steve Himmer ★★★☆☆
• The Overcoat Nikolai Gogol ★★★★★
• A Prayer for the Crown-Shy Becky Chambers ★★★★★
• The Library of Babel Jorge Luis Borges ★★★☆☆
• Attack on Titan, Vol. 1 Hajime Isayama ★★★★★
• The Hermit in the Garden: From Imperial Rome to Ornamental Gnome Gordon Campbell ★★★☆☆
• The Cartographers Peng Shepherd ★★★★★
• The Bee-Loud Glade Steve Himmer ★★★★☆
• So This Is How I Go Colin Wright ★★★★☆
• Summer Frost Blake Crouch ★★★★★
• The Yellow Wall-Paper Charlotte Perkins Gilman ★★★★★
• Notes from Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky ★★★☆☆
• Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro ★★★★☆
• Earthlings Sayaka Murata ★★☆☆☆
• Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel ★★★☆☆
• Our Wives Under the Sea Julia Armfield ★★★☆☆
• Normal People Sally Rooney ★★★☆☆
• Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro ★☆☆☆☆
• Sea of Tranquility Emily St. John Mandel ★★★★☆
• How High We Go in the Dark Sequoia Nagamatsu ★★★☆☆
• Notes on an Execution Danya Kukafka ★★★★★
• House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski ★★★★☆
• Night Man Brett Battles ★★★☆☆
• Day by Day Armageddon J.L. Bourne ★★★★☆
• Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ★★☆☆☆
• I Am Legend Richard Matheson ★★★★★
• The Secret History Donna Tartt ★★★★☆
• No Longer Human Osamu Dazai ★★★☆☆
• The Paris Apartment Lucy Foley ★★★☆☆
• Calypso David Sedaris ★★★★☆
• A Psalm for the Wild-Built Becky Chambers ★★★★★
• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Neil deGrasse Tyson ★★★★☆
• Artificial Condition Martha Wells ★★★☆☆
• Watchmen Alan Moore ★★★★★
• All Systems Red Martha Wells ★★★☆☆
• The Lottery Shirley Jackson ★★★☆☆
• Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry J.K. Rowling ★★★★☆
• Animal Farm George Orwell ★★★★★
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass Lewis Carroll ★★★★★
• The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music Dave Grohl ★★★★★
• The Testaments Margaret Atwood ★★★★☆
• The Prospect of Immortality Robert C.W. Ettinger ★★★☆☆
• Interior Chinatown Charles Yu ★★★☆☆
• Immortality: Physically, Scientifically, Now: A Reasonable Guarantee of Bodily Preservation, a General Discussion, & Research Targets Nathan Duhring ★★★★☆
• The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood ★★★★☆
• The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka ★★☆☆☆
• Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World Michael Pollan ★★★★☆
• Beartown Fredrik Backman ★★☆☆☆
• Quidditch Through the Ages J.K. Rowling ★★★★☆
• Sleeping Giants Sylvain Neuvel ★★★☆☆
• The House in the Cerulean Sea T.J. Klune ★★★☆☆
• The Lincoln Highway Amor Towles ★★★★★
• The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway ★★★☆☆
• The Pearl John Steinbeck ★★★★☆
• The Stranger Albert Camus ★★★★★
• The Tales of Beedle the Bard J.K. Rowling ★★★☆☆
• Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury ★★★★★
• The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Ursula K. Le Guin ★★☆☆☆
• The Death of Ivan Ilych Leo Tolstoy ★★★☆☆

2021 19 books

• Rosewater Tade Thompson ★★★★☆
• Under the Whispering Door T.J. Klune ★★★☆☆
• A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman ★★★★☆
• Ninth House Leigh Bardugo
• Anxious People Fredrik Backman ★★★☆☆
• The Maidens Alex Michaelides ★★★☆☆
• Savaged Mia Sheridan ★★★☆☆
• The Silent Patient Alex Michaelides ★★★★☆
• Ready Player Two Ernest Cline ★★★★☆
• 1Q84 Haruki Murakami ★★★★☆
• Mind-Body Problems: Science, Subjectivity & Who We Really Are John Horgan ★★★★☆
• Sharp Objects Gillian Flynn ★★★★☆
• Dune Frank Herbert ★★★★☆
• The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet John Green ★★★★☆
• Ready Player One Ernest Cline ★★★★☆
• Red Rising Pierce Brown ★★★★★
• Altered Carbon Richard K. Morgan ★★★★★
• Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ★★★☆☆
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick ★★★★★

Undated 39 books

Read before I started logging dates.

• 1984 George Orwell ★★★★☆
• All Summer in a Day Ray Bradbury
• Bossypants Tina Fey ★★★☆☆
• Children of the Mind Orson Scott Card ★★★★★
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson
• Ender's Shadow Orson Scott Card ★★★★★
• Ender’s Game Orson Scott Card ★★★★★
• Hills Like White Elephants Ernest Hemingway ★★☆☆☆
• Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World Kamo no Chōmei ★★☆☆☆
• My Evil Mother Margaret Atwood ★★★☆☆
• Neuromancer William Gibson ★★★★☆
• Partita Barbara Kingsolver
• Project Hail Mary Andy Weir ★★★★★
• Recursion Blake Crouch ★★★★★
• Speaker for the Dead Orson Scott Card ★★★★★
• Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson ★★★★★
• Super Mario Manga Mania Yukio Sawada ★★★★☆
• The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy Rainn Wilson ★★★★☆
• The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Charlie Mackesy ★★★★☆
• The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe ★★★☆☆
• The Death Cure James Dashner ★★★★★
• The Dream Hotel Laila Lalami
• The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe ★★★☆☆
• The Family Upstairs Lisa Jewell ★★★★☆
• The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August Claire North ★★★★☆
• The Kill Order James Dashner ★★★★★
• The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek Rhett McLaughlin ★★★☆☆
• The Maze Runner James Dashner ★★★★★
• The Monkey's Paw W.W. Jacobs ★★★★☆
• The Names Florence Knapp
• The Pedestrian: A Fantasy in One Act Ray Bradbury ★★★☆☆
• The Road Cormac McCarthy
• The Scorch Trials James Dashner ★★★★★
• The Shortest Day Colm Tóibín ★★★★☆
• The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe ★★★☆☆
• Trialogue: A Tale of More Colin Wright ★★☆☆☆
• Why Not Me? Mindy Kaling ★★★☆☆
• Xenocide Orson Scott Card ★★★★★
• دكتور جيكل ومستر هايد Robert Louis Stevenson