Books I read in 2026

1. Ann Leckie – Ancillary Sword
2. Ann Leckie – Ancillary Mercy
3. Kim Stanley Robinson – The Ministry of the Future
4. Lindsay C. Gibson – Self-Care for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

Books I read in 2025

20 years of tracking my reading!

1. Gwen E. Kirby – Shit Cassandra Saw
2. Banana Yoshimoto – Dead-End Memories
3. Cixin Liu – The Three Body Problem
4. Carol Diehl – Mercury Retrograde
5. Michael Deforge – Dressing
6. Seanan McGuire – Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear
7. Caveat Magister – The Scene that Became Cities: What Burning Man Philosophy Can Teach Us About Building Better Communities
8. Priya Parker – The Art of Gathering
9. Ryka Aoki – Light From Uncommon Stars
10. Ann Leckie – Ancillary Justice
11. Blair Fell – Disco Witches of Fire Island
12. Carolyn Elliott – Existential Kink
13. Virginia Roberts Giuffre – Nobody’s Girl
14. Robert C. Fuller – Wonder: from Emotion to Spirituality —Human emotion behind the search for the divine
15. Lynda Barry – Syllabus
16. Lynda Barry – One! Hundred! Demons!
17. Jessica Fern – Polywise

Books I read in 2024

19 years of tracking my reading!

1. Helen Oyeyemi – Peaces
2. Becky Chambers – A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
3. Esmé Weijun Wang – The Collected Schizophrenias
4. Tricia Hersey – Rest is Resistance
5. Becky Chambers – Record of a Spaceborn Few
6. Madeline Miller – Circe
7. Maria Adelmann – How to Be Eaten
8. Becky Chambers – To Be Taught, If Fortunate
9. Connie Willis – Crosstalk
10. Nicola Griffith – Ammonite
11. Lane Moore – You Will Find Your People
12. Ross Gay – Inciting Joy
13. Matt Haig – The Midnight Library
14. Lee Gilmore – Theater in a Crowded Fire: Ritual and Spirituality at Burning Man
15. Elizabeth Gilmore – Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
16. Marisa G. Franco PhD – Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends
17. Ruth Ozeki – The Book of Form and Emptiness
18. Seanan McGuire – Every Heart a Doorway
19. Simon May – The Power of Cute
20. Seanan McGuire – Down Among the Sticks and Bones
21. Seanan McGuire – Beneath the Sugar Sky
22. Seanan McGuire – In an Absent Dream
23. Seanan McGuire – Come Tumbling Down
24. Seanan McGuire – Across the Green Grass Fields
25. Seanan McGuire – Where the Drowned Girls Go
26. Seanan McGuire – In Mercy, Rain
27. Seanan McGuire – Skeleton Song
28. Seanan McGuire – Lost in the Moment and Found
29. Seanan McGuire – Mislaid in Parts Half-Known

Books I read in 2023

My 18th year of keeping track of the books I have read!

1. Rivers Solomon – An Unkindness of Ghosts
2. GennaRose Nethercott – Thistlefoot
3. Ross Gay – The Book of Delights
4. María Gainza – Optic Nerve
5. Ling Ma – Bliss Montage
6. Sarah J. Maas – A Court of Thorns and Roses
7. Tracy Deonn – Bloodmarked
8. Ursula K Le Guin – Very Far Away from Anywhere Else
9. Sarah J. Maas – A Court of Mist and Fury
10. Sarah J. Maas – A Court of Wings and Ruin
11. Sarah J. Maas – A Court of Frost and Starlight
12. Sarah J. Maas – A Court of Silver Flames
13. Ted Chiang – Story of Your Life (short story)
14. Brené Brown – Daring Greatly
15. Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer
16. How High We Go in the Dark – Sequoia Nagamatsu
17. Rupi Kaur – Home Body
18. Angela Mi Young Hur – Folklorn
19. David Batchelor – Chromophobia
20. Stephen King – Fairy Tale
21. Octavia Butler – Fledgling
22. Iain Reed – Foe

Books I read in 2022

1. Becky Chambers – A Psalm for the Wild-Built
2. Sheri S. Tepper – The Margarets
3. Karen Lord – The Best of All Possible Worlds
4. bell hooks – All About Love: New Visions
5. Zoraida Córdova (editor) – Reclaim the Stars
6. Francesca Gavin – The Book of Hearts
7. Tracy Deonn – Legendborn
8. Chang-rae Lee – My Year Abroad
9. Robin DiAngelo – White Fragility
10. Audre Lorde – Sister Outsider
11. Ocean Vuong – On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
12. Mihaly Cziksentmihalyi – Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
13. Mihaly Cziksentmihalyi – Flow
14. Terry Pratchett – The Light Fantastic
15. Jessica Fern – Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma, and Consensual Nonmonogamy
16. Terry Pratchett – Wyrd Sisters
17. Molly Knox Ostertag – The Girl from the Sea
18. bell hooks – The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
19. Naomi Alderman – The Power
20. Caledonia Curry – The Red Skein
21. adrienne mares brown – Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
22. James P. Carse – Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
23. Terry Pratchett – Mort
24. Mark Rosenthal – Understanding Installation Art From Duchamp to Holzer
25. Rivers Solomon – The Deep

Books I read in 2021

This year continues my prioritization of women and BIPOC authors. I’m a fan of speculative/science fiction, depictions of non-monogamous relationships, fairy tales and modern retellings, strong friendships, coming of age stories, and magical realism so if you’ve got recommendations for me please send them my way!

1. Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman – Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close
2. N. K. Jemisin – The City We Became
3. Becky Chambers – The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
4. Charles Yu – Interior Chinatown
5. Ta-Nehisi Coates – The Water Dancer
6. Bryan Konietzko, Michael DiMartino, Michelle Wong, Killian Ng – The Legend of Korra Ruins of the Empire
7. Silvia Moreno-Garcia – Gods of Jade and Shadow
8. Becky Chambers – A Closed and Common Orbit
9. James Baldwin – The Fire Next Time
10. Terry Pratchett – The Color of Magic
11. Vandana Singh – The Woman Who Thought She Was A Planet and Other Stories
12. Terry Pratchett – Sourcery
13. Molly Wizenberg – The Fixed Stars
14. Terry Pratchett – Guards! Guards!
15. Terry Pratchett – Moving Pictures
16. Resmaa Menakem – My Grandmother’s Hands
17. James Baldwin – Giovanni’s Room
18. Terry Pratchett – Maskerade
19. Terry Pratchett – Soul Music
20. Anna Mehler Paperny – Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person
21. Nnedi Okorafor – Remote Control
22. Daniel Mallory Ortberg – The Merry Spinster
23. Ta-Nehisi Coates – Between the World and Me
24. Téa Obreht – The Tiger’s Wife
25. Amanda Goldblatt – Hard Mouth
26. Terry Pratchett – The Last Continent
27. Becky Chambers – The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
28. Cory Doctorow – Walkaway
29. Terry Pratchett – A Blink of the Screen
30. Terry Pratchett – Equal Rites
31. Cory Doctorow – The Man Who Sold the Moon (audiobook podcast)
32. Garth Nix – Terciel & Elinor
33. Joshua Whitehead (ed.) – Love After The End
34. Raven Leilani – Luster
35. Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go
36. Saeed Jones – How We Fight for Our Lives
37. Maya Angelou – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Books I read in 2020

This year marks my 15th year of keeping track of the books I’ve read, and I’m again prioritizing reading works by writers of color and women, as I’ve done for the last five years.

1. Haruki Murakami – Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
2. Fannie Flagg – Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
3. Ted Chiang – Stories of Your Life and Others
4. Haruki Murakami – Men Without Women
5. Helen Oyeyemi – Boy, Snow, Bird
6. Haruki Murakami – Sputnik Sweetheart
7. Haruki Murakami – Kafka on the Shore
8. Yoko Ogawa -The Memory Police
9. Nicole Galland and Neal Stephenson – The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
10. Helen Oyeyemi – Gingerbread
11. Neal Stephenson – Fall or, Dodge in Hell
12. Ted Chiang – Exhalation
13. Haruki Murakami – South of the Border, West of the Sun
14. Benjamin Alire Sáenz – Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
15. Neil Gaiman – The Ocean at the End of the Lane
16. Erin Morgenstern – The Night Circus
17. Navah Wolfe and Dominik Parisien (editors) – The Mythic Dream
18. James Baldwin – If Beale Street Could Talk
19. Ijeoma Oluo – So You Want to Talk About Race (audiobook)
20. Samuel Delaney – Babel-17
21. D. Watkins – The Cook Up (audiobook)
22. Cory Doctorow – Little Brother (audiobook)
23. R.F. Kuang – The Poppy War: Book 1
24. Afia Atakora – Conjure Women
25. Tomi Adeyemi – Children of Blood and Bone
26. Tomi Adeyemi – Children of Virtue and Vengeance 
27. Amal El Mohtar and Max Gladstone – This Is How You Lose the Time War
28. Edwidge Danticat – Krik? Krak!
29. Natalie Eve Garrett (editor) – Eat Joy: Stories & Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Writers 
30. Elizabeth Acevedo – With the Fire on High
31. Sarah Pinsker – Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea
32. Neil Gaiman – Fragile Things
33. Gregory Maguire – Egg and Spoon
34. Orson Scott Card – Enchantment

Books I read in 2019

1. N.K. Jemisin – The Dreamblood Duology
2. Nnedi Okorafor – Who Fears Death
3. Ishmael Reed – Mumbo Jumbo
4. Nalo Hopkinson – Brown Girl in the Ring
5. Neal Stephenson – The Diamond Age
6. Terry Pratchett – Reaper Man
7. Lydia Davis – Can’t and Won’t
8. Neil Gaiman – Norse Mythology (audiobook)
9. N.K. Jemisin – How Long ’til Black Future Month? (audiobook)
10. Samin Nosrat – Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking (audiobook)
11. Terry Pratchett and Jacqueline Simpson – The Folklore of Discworld: Legends, Myths, and Customs from the Discworld with Helpful Hints from Planet Earth (audiobook)
12. Nnedi Okorafor – Akata Witch
13. Naomi Novik – Uprooted
14. Alice Waters – Coming to My Senses (audiobook)
15. Naomi Novik – Spinning Silver
16. Haruki Murakami – After Dark (audiobook)
17. Laura Shapiro – What She Ate (audiobook)
18. Ursula K. Le Guin – Changing Planes (audiobook)
19. Nnedi Okorafor – Akata Warrior
20. Haruki Murakami – Killing Commendatore
21. Jia Tolentino – Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
22. Haruki Murakami – After the Quake: Stories
23. Haruki Murakami – Norwegian Wood
24. Silvina Ocampo – Thus Were Their Faces
25. Bryan Konietzko, Michael Dante DiMartino, Irene Kob, Vivian Ng – The Legend of Korra Turf Wars

Books I read in 2018

1. Naomi Novik – Crucible of Gold
2. Ursula K. LeGuin – The Wild Girls, plus..3. Connie Willis -To Say Nothing of the Dog4. Naomi Novik – Blood of Tyrants5. Naomi Novik – League of Dragons
6. Nnedi Okorafor – Binti
7. Nnedi Okorafor – Binti: Home8. Ernest Cline – Ready Player One9. Garth Nix – Goldenhand
10. Nnedi Okorafor – The Night Masquerade
11. Cixin Liu – The Three-Body Problem
12. N.K. Jemisin – The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
13. John Varley – Steel Beach14. N.K. Jemisin – The Broken Kingdoms
15. N.K. Jemisin – The Kingdom of Gods
16. John Wagner and Vince Locke – A History of Violence
17. Nalo Hopkinson – Falling in Love with Homonids

Books I read in 2017

Once again I am attempting to read books largely by women or people of color. I’ve really been enjoying it!

1. Tamora Pierce – Mastiff: Beka Cooper Book Three
2. Viet Thanh Nguyen – The Sympathizer
3. adrienne maree brown, Walidah Imarisha (editors) – Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
4. Sabrina Vourvoulias  – Ink
5. Haruki Murakami – Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
6. Neal Stephenson – Seveneves
7. Terry Pratchett – Witches Abroad
8. Ursula LeGuin – Tales of Earthsea
9. Raymond Chandler – The Big Sleep
10. Lisa See – Shanghai Girls
11. Marjane Satrapi – Embroideries
12. Chuck Palahniuk – Invisible Monsters (really bad!)
13. Philip K. Dick – The Minority Report
14. Carrie Fisher – The Princess Diarist
15. Scott Morse – The Barefoot Serpent
16. Dashiell Hammett – The Glass Key
17. J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Stephen Fry audiobook)
18. J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Stephen Fry audiobook)
19. J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Stephen Fry audiobook)
20. J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Stephen Fry audiobook)
21. J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Stephen Fry audiobook)
22. J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (Stephen Fry audiobook)
23. J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Stephen Fry audiobook)
24. Haruki Murakami – 1Q84 (Audible audiobook)
25. Octavia E. Butler – Parable of the Sower
26. Samuel R. Delany – Babel-17
27. Samuel R. Delany – Empire Star
28. Samuel R. Delany -Dhalgren
29. Terry Pratchett – Night Watch
30. N.K. Jemisin – The Fifth Season
31. Susan Power – The Grass Dancer
32. N.K. Jemisin – The Obelisk Gate
33. N.K. Jemisin – The Stone Sky
34. Garth Nix – A Confusion of Princes
35. Naomi Novik – Black Powder War
36. Naomi Novik – Empire of Ivory
37. Naomi Novik – Victory of Eagles 
38. Naomi Novik – Tongues of Serpents
39. Isaac Asimov – The Asimov Chronicles, Volume One
40. Paul Theroux – The Shortest Night of the Year
41. Junot Díaz – This Is How You Lose Her
42. Vandana Singh – Distances

Books I read in 2016

Begun late and filling in the gaps, as per usual. This year continues my efforts to read books largely by women or people of color.

1. J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Stephen Fry audiobook)
2. J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Stephen Fry audiobook)
3. J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Stephen Fry audiobook)
4. J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Stephen Fry audiobook)
5. J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Stephen Fry audiobook)
6. J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (Stephen Fry audiobook)
7. J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Stephen Fry audiobook)
8. Iwaya Sazanami – Japanese Fairy Tales (Hokuseido Press edition)
9. Naoko Takeuchi – Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon vol. 1
10. Naoko Takeuchi – Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon vol. 2
11. Naoko Takeuchi – Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon vol. 3
12. Garth Nix – Clariel
13. Mi-Kyung Yun – Bride of the Water God vol. 1
14. Artpartheid: Mia Loving, Sheila Gaskins, Superfly Safiyatou – Phoenix Rising: An Arts Equity Zine, April 2016
15. Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett – Good Omens
16. Helen Oyeyemi – Mr. Fox
17. Diana Wynne Jones – Howl’s Moving Castle
18. Yutaka Nanten, Hajime Yatate – Cowboy Bebop vol. 1
19. Tamora Pierce – Beka Cooper Terrier 
20. Vandana Singh – The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet and Other Stories
21. Chris Ying, Peter Meehan, David Chang (ed) – Lucky Peach Magazine Summer 2015 issue: The Plant Kingdom
22. Bill Campbell, Edward Austin Hall (ed) – Mothership: Tales From Afrofuturism and Beyond
23. Tamora Pierce – Bloodhound: Beka Cooper Book Two
24. Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart
25. William Gibson – All Tomorrow’s Parties
26. Naomi Novik – His Majesty’s Dragon
27. Naomi Novik – Throne of Jade
28. Michelle Tea (ed) – Baby Remember My Name: An Anthology of Queer Girl Writing
29. Garth Nix – To Hold the Bridge

Books I read in 2015

1. Neal Stephenson – Anathem
2. Octavia E. Butler – Blood Child and Other Stories
3. Ursula K. LeGuin – The Dispossessed
4. Neil Gaiman – The Sandman: Endless Nights
5. Haruki Murakami – The Library
6. Helen Oyeyemi – The Opposite House

Books I read in 2014

1. Francesca Lia Block – Love in the Time of Global Warming
2. Chang-Rae Lee – On Such a Full Sea
3. Brian Selznick – The Invention of Hugo Cabret
4. John Gardner – Grendel
5. Philip Pullman – The Golden Compass
6. Philip Pullman – The Subtle Knife
7. Philip Pullman – The Amber Spyglass
8. Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Love in the Time of Cholera
9. Amanda Grange – Mr. Darcy, Vampyre
10. Rick Riordan – Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

Books I read in 2013

1. Julian Assange, Jacob Appelbaum – Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet
2. Neal Stephenson – Zodiac
3. Guy Thorne – When It Was Dark
4. Markus Zusak – The Book Thief
5. Lewis Carroll – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Pennyroyal Press edition)
6. Charles Soule, Renzo Podesta, W.Scott Forbes – Twenty-Seven, First Set
7. Lewis Carroll – Through the Looking Glass
8. Will Potter – Green is the New Red
9. Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons – Watchmen
10. Italo Calvino – The Baron in the Trees
11. Ta-Nehisi Coates – The Beautiful Struggle
12. Charles Portis – True Grit
13. Hunter S. Thompson – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
14. Kathryn Davis – Labrador
15. Neal Stephenson – Mother Earth Mother Board (link)
16. Neil Gaiman – Neverwhere
17. Octavia E. Butler – Kindred
18. Margaret Atwood – Moral Disorder and Other Stories
19. Neal Stephenson – Snow Crash
20. J.M. Barrie – Peter Pan and Wendy
21. Neal Stephenson – Reamde
22. Garth Nix – Sabriel
23. Garth Nix – Lirael
24. Garth Nix – Abhorsen
25. Ryu Murakami – In the Miso Soup
26. James Fallon – The Psychopath Inside

Books I read in 2012

1. Art Spiegelman – Maus I
2. Michael Pollan – In Defense of Food
3. Isabel Allende – Of Love and Shadows
4. Gabriel Garcia Marquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude
5. Haruki Murakami – The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
6. Phillip K. Dick – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
7. Charles Bukowski – Women
8. Francesca Lia Block – Ecstasia
9. David Mitchell – Cloud Atlas
10. Francesca Lia Block – The Hanged Man

Books I read in 2011

Turns out when you work at a bookstore you actually tend to read less.

1. Spencer Holst – The Language of Cats
2. Haruki Murakami – Dance, Dance, Dance
3. Haruki Murakami – After Dark
4. Charles Bukowski – Hot Water Music
5. Grimm’s Fairy Tales
6. Haruki Murakami – Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (2nd time)
7. Neil Gaiman – Smoke and Mirrors (short story collection)
8. Susan Minot – Lust (short story collection)
9. Garth Nix – Sabriel (yes, again)
10. Garth Nix – Lirael
11. Garth Nix – Abhorsen
12. Italo Calvino – Cosmicomics
13. Neal Stephenson – Snow Crash (2nd time)
14. Warren Ellis – Transmetropolitan (10+1 vol’s)
15. Brian K. Vaughan – Y: The Last Man (10 vol’s)
16. The Diamond Age – Neal Stephenson

Books I read in 2010

1. Yasunari Kawabata – The Sound of the Mountain  f
2. Hitomi Kanehara – Snakes and Earrings  f
3. Isabel Allende – City of the Beasts  ya
4. Alan Lightman – Einstein’s Dreams  f
5. Xiaolu Guo – A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers  f
6. Augusten Burroughs – Magical Thinking  m
7. Augusten Burroughs – Dry, A Memoir  m
8. Banana Yoshimoto – kitchen  f
9. Julie Powell – Julie and Julia  m
10. Milan Fust – The Story of My Wife  f
11. Frank Herbert – Dune  sf/f
12. Wayson Choy – The Jade Peony  f
13. Carol Shields – Various Miracles
14. Tony Vigorito – Nine Kinds of Naked  f
15. Haruki Murakami – What I Talk About When I Talk About Running  m
16. Isabel Allende – Paula  m
17. Sharon Olds – Satan Says  poetry
18. Paulo Coelho – The Witch of Portobello  pf
19. Neal Stephenson – Cryptonomicon  sf/f
20. Mario Vargas Llosa – The Bad Girl  f
21. Haruki Murakami – A Wild Sheep Chase  mr
22. Julia Alvarez – In the Time of the Butterflies  pf
23. Carol Shields – Dressing Up for the Carnival  f
24. Sherrilyn Kenyon – The Dream-Hunters  sf/f
25. Elizabeth Hay – Late Nights on Air  f
26. Carol Shields – The Stone Diaries  pf
27. Barbara Kingsolver – Prodigal Summer  pf
28. Neil Gaiman – American Gods  sf/f pf
29. Monica Furlong – Wise Child  ya
30. Lauren Weisberger – The Devil Wears Prada  pf
31. Orson Scott Card – Ender’s Shadow  ya sf/f
32. Jeanette Winterson – The Passion  f
33. Michael Pollan – The Omnivore’s Dilemma  nf
34. Peter Tompkins – The Secret Life of Plants nf
35. Ted Kaczynski – The Unabomber Manifesto  nf
36. Denis Johnson – Nobody Move  m/s
37. Lorrie Moore – Self-Help  f
38. Philip Pullman – The Golden Compass  ya
39. Philip Pullman – The Subtle Knife  ya
40. Philip Pullman – The Amber Spyglass ya
41. Barbara Kingsolver – Animal Dreams pf
42. Michael Chabon – The Yiddish Policeman’s Union pf

Books I read in 2009

1. Jeffrey Eugenides – Middlesex  pf
2. Dian Curtis Regan – Princess Nevermore  ya
3. Keith Miller – The Book of Flying  f
4. Sally Lowenstein – Sender Unknown  ya
5. Alastair Mackintosh – Symbolism and Art Nouveau  nf
6. Jacqueline Carey – Kushiel’s Chosen  f
7. Elizabeth Berg – The Handmaid and the Carpenter  pf
8. Barbara Kingsolver – Animal, Vegetable, Miracle  nf
9. Tim Stark – Heirloom: Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer  m
10. Isabel Allende – Of Love and Shadows  mr
11. A. A. Milne – Winnie the Pooh  f
12. Lorrie Moore – Birds of America  f
13. Tim Burton – The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories  f
14. Madeline L’Engle – A Wrinkle in Time  ya
15. Anne McCaffrey – Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern  sf/f
16. Anne McCaffrey – Dragonsdawn  sf/f
17. Lemony Snicket – A Bad Beginning  ya
18. Mitch Albom – The Five People You Meet in Heaven  pf
19. Roald Dahl – Taste and Other Tales  f
20. Susan Vreeland – Girl in Hyacinth Blue  pf
21. L. M. Montgomery – Anne of Green Gables  ya
22. L. M. Montgomery – Anne of Avonlea  ya
23. Haruki Murakami – Kafka on the Shore  mr
24. Frances Mayes – Under the Tuscan Sun  m
25. Marilynne Robinson – Housekeeping  f
26. Sara Gruen – Water for Elephants  pf
27. Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale  sf/f
28. Jonathan Safran Foer – Everything is Illuminated  pf

Books I read in 2008

Guess who graduated from college / became largely unemployed in 2008?

1. Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Love in the Time of Cholera  mr
2. Isabel Allende – Eva Luna (again)  mr
3. J. M. Barrie – Peter Pan  p, c
4. Marcus Borg (ed.) – Taking the Bible Seriously but not Literally  nf
5. Samuel Beckett – The Lost Gospel of Q  nf
6. Haruki Murakami – The Elephant Vanishes  mr
7. Richard Adams – Watership Down  ya, c
8. Ray Bradbury – Farenheit 451  c
9. Kurt Vonnegut – A Man Without a Country  m
10. Jacqueline Carey – Kushiel’s Dart  sf/f
11. Ursula K. LeGuin – The Left Hand of Darknes  sf/f
12. Monica Furlong – Wise Child  ya
13. Garth Nix – Sabriel  sf/f ya
14. Garth Nix – Lirael  sf/f ya
15. Garth Nix – Abhorsen  sf/f ya
16. Neil Gaiman – Stardust  sf/f
17. Liz Gilbert – Eat Pray Love  m
18. Anne McCaffrey – The Dragonriders of Pern  sf/f
19. Matthew Pearl – The Dante Club  m
20. Arthur Golden – Memoirs of a Geisha  pf
21. Arundhati Roy – The God of Small Things  pf
22. Paulo Coelho – The Alchemist  mr pf
23. Paulo Coelho – The Pilgrimage  m
24. Lev Grossman – Codex  m/s
25. Paulo Coelho – By the River I Sat Down and Wept  mr
26. David Guterson – Snow Falling on Cedars  pf
27. Ursula K. LeGuin – A Wizard of Earthsea sf/f
28. Ursula K. LeGuin – The Tombs of Atuan  sf/f
29. Rebecca Wells – Little Altars Everywhere  pf
30. Louis Joseph Vance – The Lone Wolf  m/s
31. Rebecca Wells – The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood  pf
32. Amy Tan – The Joy Luck Club  pf
33. Mark Haddon – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time  pf
34. Agatha Christie – Poirot’s Casebook: A Collection of 50 Poirot Stories  m/s
35. Agatha Christie – Hickory Dickory Death  m/s
36. Agatha Christie – Third Girl  m/s
37. Daniel Pinkwater – 5 Novels  ya f
38. Jeanne DuPrau – The City of Ember  ya
39. Ursula K. LeGuin – The Farthest Shore  sf/f
40. Agatha Christie – Surprise Endings by Hercule Poirot  m/s
41. Brian Jacques – Mossflower  ya
42. Ursula K. LeGuin – Tehanu  sf/f
43. Agatha Christie – Murder Preferred  m/s
44. Mario Vargas Llosa – The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto  mr
45. Robert C. OBrien – Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH  ya
46. Haruki Murakami – Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World  mr
47. Morrie Schwartz – Morrie: In his own Words  m
48. Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice  c
49. Jane Austen – Sense and Sensibility  c
50. Miles Harvey – The Island of Lost Maps  nf
51. Anne McCaffrey – Dragonsinger  sf/f
52. Jeffrey Brown – Clumsy  gn
53. Anne McCaffrey – Dragondrums  sf/f
54. Fred Bodsworth – Last of the Curlews  f
55. Don DeLillo – White Noise  f
56. Orson Scott Card – Ender’s Game  sf/f
57. William Gibson – Neuromancer  sf/f
58. J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows  pf sf/f
59. Robert Benson – Home by Another Way: Notes on the Caribbean  nf
60. Agatha Christie – Elephants Can Remember  m/s
61. J. M. Coetzee – Disgrace  pf

Books I read in 2007

1. Aldous Huxley – The Genius and the Goddess  f
2. Isabel Allende Eva Luna mr
3. Christopher Paolini – Eldest  sf/f  ya
4. Joan Didion – The Year of Magical Thinking  pf
5. Ernest J. Gaines – A Lesson Before Dying  f
6. Gabriel Garcia Marquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude  mr
7. Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee – Inherit the Wind p
8. Letters to a Young Artist  nf
9. Daniel Clowes – Ice Haven gn
10. Isabel Allende – House of the Spirits  mr
11. Marjane Satrapi – Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood  gn
12. Aldoux Huxley – The Doors of Perception  nf
13. Laura Esquivel – Swift as Desire  mr
14. Isabel Allende – The Stories of Eva Luna  mr
15. J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince  pf ya
16. Tatyana Tolstaya – Sleepwaler in a fog  f
17. Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Of Love and Other Demons  mr
18. Calvin Trillin – About Alice  pf
19. George Elliot – Silas Marner  c
20. Sarah Dunant – The Birth of Venus  pf

Books I read in 2006

1. Audrey Niffenger – The Time Traveler’s Wife   pf
2. Michael Chabon – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay   f
3. Laura Esquivel – Malinche   mr
4. Laura Esquivel -The Law of Love   mr 
5. Rick Steves – Europe Through the Back Door  t
6. Carolyn See – There Will Never Be Another You   f
7. Paolo Esquivel – Veronika Decides to Die   f
8. Shan Sa – Empress f
9. Mary Gaitskill – Veronica   f
10. Neal Stephenson – Snow Crash   sf/f c
11. Lorrie Moore – Birds of America   f
12. Patrick Suskind – Perfume   f
13. John Gunther – Death Be Not Proud   nf
14. Aldous Huxley – Brave New World   c
15. James Joyce -The Dubliners   c
16. Tenaya Darlington – Maybe baby f
17. Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse Five  c
18. Lorrie Moore – Like Life  f
19. C.S. Lewis – A grief observed  nf
20. Mitch Albom – Tuesdays with Morrie  nf
21. Italo Calvino – Invisible Cities   f
22. Lorrie Moore – Who Will Run the Frog Hospital  f  
23. Lorrie Moore -Anagrams   f
24. Dennis Cooper – The Sluts   pf
25. Alice Sebold – The Lovely Bones  pf