/reading

2024

How to Spot a Fascist
Umberto Eco
★★★★★
All Fours
Miranda July
★★★★
Displeasure Island
Alice Bell
★★ (notes)
The Last Murder at the End of the World
Stuart Turton
★★★ (notes)
North Woods
Daniel Mason
★★★★★
Velocity Weapon
Megan E. O'Keefe
★★★★★
Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies
Hadley Freeman
★★★
The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations
Gene Kim
★★★★
From Malin Head to Mizen Head: A Journey Around The Sea Area Forecast
Joanna Donnelly
★★★ (notes)
Chain-Gang All-Stars
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
★★★
Critical Hits
J. Robert Lennon
★★★
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Becky Chambers
★★★★

2023

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann
★★★★
Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet
Taylor Lorenz
★★★ (notes)
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
Zeke Faux
★★★★
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin
★★★★★
Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused
Melissa Maerz
★★★★
Tress of the Emerald Sea
Brandon Sanderson
★★★★
Legends & Lattes
Travis Baldree
★★★
The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
Malcolm Gaskill
★★★
Escape: How a generation shaped, destroyed and survived the internet
Marie Le Conte
★★★★
National Treasure Hunt: One Step Short of Crazy
Aubrey R. Paris, PhD
★★★
Far from the Light of Heaven
Tade Thompson
★★★★
Devil House
John Darnielle
★★★★

2022

How High We Go in the Dark
Sequoia Nagamatsu
★★
Haven
Emma Donoghue
★★★
Elder Race
Adrian Tchaikovsky
★★★★★
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Kate Beaton
★★★★
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
★★★★
Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road
Kyle Buchanan
★★★★★
Autumn
Ali Smith
★★★★
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Becky Chambers
★★★★
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Annalee Newitz
★★★
Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel
★★★★
The Poppy War
R.F. Kuang
★★★★
Slade House
David Mitchell
★★ (notes)
Several People Are Typing
Calvin Kasulke
★★★★
Matrix
Lauren Groff
★★★★
Sea State
Tabitha Lasley
★★★★
Boundless Realm: Deep Explorations Inside Disney's Haunted Mansion
Foxx Nolte
★★★
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (The Siege #1)
K.J. Parker
★★★

2021

This is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar
★★★
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
★★
No One Is Talking About This
Patricia Lockwood
★★★★★
The Devil and the Dark Water
Stuart Turton
★★
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Stuart Turton
★★★★
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
Martha Wells
★★★★
The Lathe of Heaven
Ursula K. Le Guin
★★★★
The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
Neil Gaiman
★★★★
The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
Brandon Sanderson
★★★★★
Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents
Ellen Ullman
★★★★
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
Matthew B. Crawford
★★
Authority
Jeff VanderMeer
★★★
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
Douglas Coupland
★★ (notes)
House of M
Brian Michael Bendis
★★★★
OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea
Patrick Freyne
★★★
The Glass Hotel
Emily St. John Mandel
★★★
Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape
Manchán Magan
★★
The Stars My Destination
Alfred Bester
★★★★
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Jenny Odell
★★★★

2020

A Children's Bible
Lydia Millet
★★★★
Death by Video Game: Tales of Obsession from the Virtual Frontline
Simon Parkin
★★★
Beowulf: A New Translation
Maria Dahvana Headley
★★★
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
★★★★ (notes)
A Ghost in the Throat
Doireann Ní Ghríofa
★★★★★
Semiosis (Semiosis Duology, #1)
Sue Burke
★★★★
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
Tamsyn Muir
★★★★
The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack (10th Anniversary Edition)
Nicholas Gurewitch
★★★★
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
Becky Chambers
★★★★★
Trout Fishing in America
Richard Brautigan
★★★
The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western
Richard Brautigan
★★★★
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
★★★★
Heir to the Empire (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #1)
Timothy Zahn
★★★★

2019

All the Birds in the Sky
Charlie Jane Anders
★★★
The Power
Naomi Alderman
★★★★
The Chain
Adrian McKinty
★★
Normal People
Sally Rooney
★★★★★
Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It
Mike Monteiro
★★★★★
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad
Austin Kleon
★★★★ (notes)
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk
★★
Treasure (Dirk Pitt)
Clive Cussler
★★ (notes)
Typeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies
Dave Addey
★★★★★ (notes)
Akira, Vol. 6
Katsuhiro Otomo
★★★★ (notes)
Akira, Vol. 5
Katsuhiro Otomo
All the Names They Used for God
Anjali Sachdeva
★★★★★
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
Sebastian Junger
★★★
Akira, Vol. 4
Katsuhiro Otomo
★★★
Circe
Madeline Miller
★★★★★

2018

America
Jean Baudrillard
★★
The Ballad of Black Tom
Victor LaValle
★★★★★
Akira, Vol. 3
Katsuhiro Otomo
★★★★
Akira, Vol. 2
Katsuhiro Otomo
★★★★
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
Julian Barnes
★★★★★
Akira, Vol. 1
Katsuhiro Otomo
★★★★
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Neil Postman
★★★★★
The Long Earth: (Long Earth 1)
Terry Pratchett
★★★★
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
★★★★
Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk
★★★
A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn, #1)
Ngaio Marsh
★★ (notes)
Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right
Angela Nagle
★★★ (notes)
The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits
Lewis Carroll
★★★★
The Witch
Shirley Jackson
★★★
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
Douglas Adams
★★★
The Complete Maus
Art Spiegelman
★★★★
Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes: A No-Bullshit Guide to World Mythology
Cory O'Brien
★★★
Sea of Rust
C. Robert Cargill
★★★★
La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust, #1)
Philip Pullman
★★★
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
★★★★★

2017

Queenpin
Megan Abbott
★★★★
Artemis
Andy Weir
★★
Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View (From a Certain Point of View #1)
Elizabeth Schaefer
★★★
Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
Alastair Bonnett
★★★★
Ghost (Track, #1)
Jason Reynolds
★★★
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
★★★★ (notes)
The BFG
Roald Dahl
★★★ (notes)
Alex Cox's Introduction to Film: A Director's Perspective
Alex Cox
★★★★ (notes)
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
N.K. Jemisin
★★★★★

2016

Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang
★★★★★
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
George R.R. Martin
Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)
Sylvain Neuvel
★★★
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Angela Carter
★★★
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
★★★★
The Book of Lost Things
John Connolly
★★★★

2015

Caliban's War
James S.A. Corey
Endtroducing.....
Eliot Wilder
★★★★
The Earthsea Quartet (Earthsea Cycle, #1-4)
Ursula K. Le Guin
★★★★
On the Shortness of Life
Seneca
★★★
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Elizabeth Kolbert
Breathing Machine: Growing Up in the Digital Age
Leigh Alexander
Altered Carbon
Richard K. Morgan
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
David Shafer
★★★
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
★★★★ (notes)
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King
★★★★★
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces
Radley Balko
★★★★★
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
Madeleine L'Engle
★★
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
Walter M. Miller Jr.
★★★
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Ed Catmull
★★★★
Black Moon
Kenneth Calhoun
★★★
Havoc, in Its Third Year
Ronan Bennett
The Internet Of Garbage
Sarah Jeong
★★★★
Warlock
Oakley Hall
In the Woods
Tana French
Wolf in White Van
John Darnielle
★★★★★
The Forever War
Joe Haldeman
★★★★
The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins
Seveneves
Neal Stephenson
★★★
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Greg McKeown
★★
Shovel Ready
Adam Sternbergh
★★★★
Mort
Terry Pratchett
★★★
Leviathan Wakes
James S.A. Corey
★★★
Stoner
John Williams
★★★★★
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
Marie Kondo
The Greek Myths
Robin A.H. Waterfield
Right Ho, Jeeves
P.G. Wodehouse
★★
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer
★★★★
Crooked Little Vein
Warren Ellis
★★★
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
★★★★

2014

Neverwhere
Neil Gaiman
★★★
Ancillary Sword
Ann Leckie
★★★
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Austin Kleon
★★★★ (notes)
Foundation
Isaac Asimov
★★
The Descent
Jeff Long
★★
Seconds
Bryan Lee O'Malley
★★★★
Lexicon
Max Barry
★★
Epic Fail: Bad Art, Viral Fame, and the History of the Worst Thing Ever
Mark O'Connell
★★★★
Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie
★★★★★
Life as We Knew It
Susan Beth Pfeffer
★★★
The Martian
Andy Weir
★★★★
Black Hole
Charles Burns
★★★
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
Austin Kleon
★★★★ (notes)
Here Are The Young Men
Rob Doyle
Hatchet
Gary Paulsen
★★★ (notes)
Dept. of Speculation
Jenny Offill
★★★★ (notes)
Under the Skin
Michel Faber
★★★★
Far North
Marcel Theroux
★★ (notes)
Dark Eden
Chris Beckett
★★ (notes)
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
Zen in the Art of Archery: Training the Mind and Body to Become One
Eugen Herrigel
★★★★ (notes)
All You Need Is Kill
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
★★★

2013

Horns
Joe Hill
★★★★ (notes)
The Rook
Daniel O'Malley
★★★
Lost At Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries
Jon Ronson
★★★ (notes)
Go Ask Alice
Beatrice Sparks
★★ (notes)
The Mirage
Matt Ruff
★★★ (notes)
Gun Machine
Warren Ellis
★★★ (notes)
Spin
Robert Charles Wilson
★★★★ (notes)
Both Flesh and Not
David Foster Wallace
★★★ (notes)
The Sisters Brothers
Patrick deWitt
★★★★ (notes)
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Robin Sloan
★★★★★ (notes)
John Dies at the End
David Wong
★★ (notes)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Robert M. Pirsig
★★★
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
Jenny Lawson
★★★ (notes)

2012

The Last Policeman
Ben H. Winters
★★ (notes)
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Stephen Greenblatt
House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski
★★★★★ (notes)
Civil War: A Marvel Comics Event
Mark Millar
Anathem
Neal Stephenson
★★★
Rise of the Videogame Zinesters: How Freaks, Normals, Amateurs, Artists, Dreamers, Drop-outs, Queers, Housewives, and People Like You Are Taking Back an Art Form
Anna Anthropy
Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
D.T. Max
A-frame
Chad Randl