Bibliophile

17 Apr, 2026

reading logs.

2025

I Am Watching You - Teresa Driscoll
I Thought it was Just Me - Brene Brown
Heat Wave - Eric Klinenberg
Making Things Work - Yaneer Bar-Yam
Insomnia - Stephen King
Let Them - Mel Robbins
Gray - Pete Wentz
Real Self Care - Pooja Lakshmin
A World of Art - Henry Sayre
The Staircase in the Woods - Chuck Wendig
All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
Burnout - Emily and Amelia Nagoski
The Golden Gate - Amy Chua
Strange Houses - Uketsu
Death Note I -
The Book of Accidents - Chuck Wendig
The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: National Anthem - Gerard Way
The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys - Gerard Way
The Body is Not an Apology - Sonya Renee Taylor
Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint - singNsong
Setting Boundaries, Finding Peace - Nedra Tawwab
Dying Inside - Pete Wentz
About Time - David Duchovny (poems)
Black River Orchard - Chuck Wendig

2024

Born Standing Up - Steve Martin
The Creative Act - Rick Rubin
The Reservoir - David Duchovny
Postmortem- Patricia Cornwell
What You Are Looking For is in the Library - Michiko Aoyama
Roseanna - Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
None of This Rocks - Joe Trohman
What's That Sound? - John Covach (text book)
The Four Agreements - don Miguel Ruiz
Relentless Melt - Jeremy P. Bushnell
The Thursday Murder Club - Richard Osman
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
The Far Away Brothers - Lauren Markham
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone - Benjamin Stevenson
The Postcards I Never Sent - Lyn Patterson (poems)
Sweet Bean Paste - Durian Sukegawa
Earth Science (text book)
Ariel - Sylvia Plath (poems)
Dissonance - Alice Ewens

2023

Too Loud a Solitude - Bohumil Hrabal
Murder Most Actual - Alexis Hall
Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins
Fairy Tale - Stephen King
Good Luck with That - Kristen Higgins
Role Playing - Cathy Yardley
Five Little Pigs - Agatha Christie
We Could Make this Place Beautiful - Maggie Smith
The Outsider - Stephen King
Tender Buttons - Gertrude Stein
A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry
Poet Warrior - Joy Harjo
Women Who Run With the Wolves - Clarissa Pinkola Estés
A Room of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf
Why Ghosts Appear - Todd Shimoda
Olivia Strauss is Running Out of Time - Angela Brown

2022

Dialogues with Rising Tides - Kelli Russell Agodon (poetry)
Spoiler Alert - Olivia Dade
Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Some Things I Still Can't Tell You - Misha Collins (poetry)
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat - Aubrey Gordon
Helplessly Hoping - B. Alan Hart
Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
Men Explain Things to Me - Rebecca Solnit
The Sentence - Louise Erdrich
What Angels Fear - C.S. Harris
Health at Every Size - Lindo Bacon
Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr
Call Us What We Carry - Amanda Gorman (poetry)
The Glass Hotel - Emily St. John Mandel
Tales from the Cafe - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Unmasked - Paul Holes
Treasury of Norse Mythology - Donna Jo Napoli
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. John Mandel
One By One - Ruth Ware
Woke Racism - John McWhorter
All the Lies They Did Not Tell - Pablo Trincia
The Lost Village - Camilla Sten
Upgrade - Blake Crouch
Husband Material - Alexis Hall
Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng
The Year of the Witching - Alexis Henderson
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - V.E. Schwab
Enough Already - Valerie Bertinelli
A man - Keiichiro Hirano
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas
Hourglass Museum - Kelli Russell Agodon
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K. Dick
Girls Who Wear Glasses - Jennifer Inglis

2021

Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Martyrs of a Certain Belief - Anthony Desmond (poems)
Ready Player Two - Ernest Cline
How to Do Nothing - Jenny O'Dell
Let's Go (So We Can Get Back) - Jeff Tweedy
Why We Can't Sleep - Ada Calhoun
It's Not All Downhill From Here - Terri McMillan
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind - Shunryu Suzuki
How to Write One Song - Jeff Tweedy
The Creative Habit - Twyla Tharp
Wintering - Katherine May
No one is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood
The Hunting Party - Lucy Foley
One to Watch - Kate Stayman London
The Guest List - Lucy Foley
Chosen Poems Old and New - Audre Lorde
Resonance - Alice Ewens
Collected Poems - Audre Lorde
Night Sky with Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong
Boyfriend Material - Alexis Hall
Fear Country - Alice Ewens (poems)
Whisperings of the Wild and Wilting - Lyn Patterson (poems)
Altered Traits - Daniel Goleman, Richard Davidson
The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa
Beach Read - Emily Henry
Snow - John Banville
The Bone Houses - Emily Lloyd-Jones
Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts - Sally Winston, Martin Self
The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury
Home Before Dark - Riley Sager
Whispers and Wild Things - Alice Ewens
Everything Sucks and I Hate it Here - Lyn Patterson (poems, zine)
Tokyo Ueno Station - Yu Miri
Black Girl, Call Home - Jasmine Mans (poems)
Strange Weather in Tokyo - Hiromi Kawakami
Julie and Romeo - Jeanne Ray
The Tradition - Jericho Brown (poems)

2020

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck - Mark Manson
Winter Hours - Mary Oliver
Chase Darkness With Me - Billy Jensen
Normal - Warren Ellis
The Roar - A.M. White
New and Selected Poems - Mary Oliver
The Mysterious Affair at a Styles - Agatha Christie

(During this time I started and didn't finish many, many books. My concentration was just shot. Finally it came back and I'm so happy to be reading again!)

The Midnight Library - Matt Haig
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
The Haunting of Brynn Wylder - Wendy Webb
The Dead Father's Club - Matt Haig
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman
A Little History of the World - E.H. Gombrich
The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down - Haemin Sunim
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings - Joy Harjo
Journals of Thoreau - Henry David Thoreau

2019

Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
Process: The Writing Lives of Great Authors - Sarah Stodola
Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler
Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
The Season of Passage - Christopher Pike
Sour Grapes - Willam Carlos Williams (poetry)
The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
A Little Book of Japanese Contentments - Erin Nimi Longhurst
The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula Le Guin
Persepolis 2 - Marjane Satrapi
A Garden Once Lush - B. Alan Hart
Odd and the Frost Giants - Neil Gaiman
Annihilation - Jeff VanderMeer
City of Fate - Nikola Pierce
Less - Andrew Sean Greer
When Morning Comes - Arushi Raina
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
The Dark Heart (True Crime) - Joakim Palmkvist
We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
Tales of the City - Armistead Maupin
The Honours - Tim Clare
More Tales of the City - Armistead Maupin
Pines - Blake Crouch
Over the Top - Jonathan Van Ness
The Giver - Lois Lowry
Not Your Princess - anthology
Further Tales of the City - Armistead Maupin
Unspeakable Things - Jess Lourey
If You Tell - Gregg Olsen
Complete Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (read over 5 years or so, but finally finished this year.)
Misguided Journey - B. Alan Hart
The Little Book of Funerals - C S Hughes

2018

Between Breaths - Elizabeth Vargas (memoir)
‎The Fault in our Stars - John Green
‎Umbrella Academy - Gerard Way (graphic novel)
‎The Heart of Haiku - Jane Hirshfield (Kindle single)
‎The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
‎Hard Times Require Furious Dancing - Alice Walker (poetry collection)
Presto - Penn Jillette
‎How to Stop Time - Matt Haig
Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare
‎Tattoos and Time - Wren Kay (poetry collection)
Alux Chronicles - Michael Sanders (poetry/memoir)
Theft By Finding - David Sedaris
‎Animal Farm - George Orwell
‎The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
‎Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
White Noise- Don DeLillo
The Fact of the Body - Alexandria Marzano-Leznovich
What Unites Us - Dan Rather
I'll Be Gone In the Dark - Michelle MacNamara (true crime)
Big Magic- Elizabeth Gilbert (creativity)
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Show Your Work! - Austin Kleon (creativity)
Swan - Mary Oliver (poetry)
Felicity - Mary Oliver (poetry)
Buddhism and Zen - Nyogen Senzaki
The Rain in Portugal - Billy Collins (poetry)
Reasons to Stay Alive - Matt Haig
The Abundance of Less - Andy Couturier
The Soloist - Mark Salzman
The Bone Witch - Rin Chupeco
Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn
The Girls - Emma Cline
My Best Friend's Exorcism - Grady Hendrix
My Name is Keoko - Linda Park
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing - Hank Green
Faceless Killers - Henning Menkel
Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka (novella)
Going Over - Beth Kephart
Killing Gravity - Corey J. White

2017

Writing Down the Bones - Natalie Goldberg
The Midnight Assassin - Skip Hollandsworth
And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl - Carrie Brownstein
The Outsiders - SE Hinton
Dark Matter - Blake Crouch
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child* - JK Rowling, John Tiffany, Jack Thorne
What Alice Forgot - Liane Moriarty
How Not to Die - Dr. Michael Gregor
The Girl from the Well - Rin Chupeco
The Little Book of Hygge - Meik Wiking
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane - Kate DiCamillo
Why I Wake Early - Mary Oliver
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
Dream Work - Mary Oliver
Jesus’ Son - Denis Johnson
The Humans - Matt Haig
Queen of Hearts - Dipendra Tamang
The Book of Whimsies - CS Hughes
Real Happiness - Sharon Salzberg

2012

The Giver (Giver Quartet) - Lowry, Lois
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can - Gordon, Barbara
An American Holocaust: The Story of Lataine's Ring - Barger, Kerry
Silenced by the Yams (A Barbara Marr Murder Mystery #3) - Cantwell, Karen
7 Billion: How Your World Will Change - National Geographic
Night Stalks the Mansion: A True Story of One Family's Ghostly Adventure - Cameron, Harold
The Engine 2 Diet: The Texas Firefighter's 28-Day Save-Your-Life Plan that Lowers Cholesterol and Burns Away the Pounds - Esselstyn, Rip
Girl Talk - Letters Between Friends - Hinze, Vicki, Kaye, Kali
Zomblog - Brown, TW
Cut, Crop & Die (A Kiki Lowenstein Scrap-N-Craft Mystery) - Slan, Joanna Campbell
Zomblog II - Brown, TW
Zomblog: The Final Entry - Brown, TW
Dead Things - Darst, Matt
The Eighties: A Bitchen Time To Be a Teenager! - Harvey, Tom
What Zombies Fear - Allmond, Kirk, Bretz, Laura
Cathching Fire (Hunger Games) - Collins, Suzanne
Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games) - Collins, Suzanne
Titanic with ZOMBIES - Brown, Richard
Zombie/Apocalypse 2012: A Political Horror Story - McClellan, Ian
DEAD: The Ugly Beginning - Brown, TW
Dead Rising - Hose, Carl
Lucky Man: A Memoir - Fox, Michael J.
A Hardboiled Murder: An Aggie Underhill Mystery - Hollstein, Michelle Ann
Second-Chance Mother: A Memoir - Roessle, Denise
Life After Death - Echols, Damien
Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot Mysteries) - Christie, Agatha
I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This!: And Other Things That Strike Me as Funny - Newhart, Bob
Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul - Abbott, Karen
11/22/63 - King, Steven

2011

Elizabeth Street - Fabiano, Laurie
The Happiness Project - Rubin, Gretchen
Perfect on Paper: The (Mis)Adventures of Waverly Bryson - Murnane, Maria
The Devil in the White City - Larson, Erik
Beware Dangerism! (Kindle Single) (TED Books) - Tulley, Gever
The Jungle - Sinclair, Upton
Letters of a Woman Homesteader - Stewart, Elinore Pruitt
AWOL on the Appalachian Trail - Miller, David
Life From Scratch - Ford, Melissa
Hydrofracked? One Man's Mystery Leads to a Backlash Against Natural Gas Drilling (Kindle Single) - Lustgarten, Abrahm
Escape - Jessop, Carolyn
Triumph: Life After the Cult--A Survivor's Lessons - Jessop, Carolyn
Transition: Becoming Who I Was Always Meant to Be - Bono, Chaz
Ten Days in a Mad-House - Bly, Nellie
Ex-Boyfriend's Handbook: Eddie will do whatever it takes to become her Mr. Right - Dunn, Matt
The Ultimate Vegan Guide - Marcus, Erik
The Hunger Games - Collins, Suzanne
Paper, Scissors, Death: A Kiki Lowenstein Scrap-N-Craft Mystery - Slan, Joanna Campbell
Half-Assed: A Weight-Loss Memoir - Jeanette Fulda
enLIGHTened: How I Lost 40 Pounds with a Yoga Mat, Fresh Pineapples, and a Beagle Pointer - Gross, Jessica Berger
Scar Tissue - Kiedis, Anthony
The Friend Request - Ford, Alex
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Quirk Classics) - Austen, Jane, Seth Grahame-Smith
Pride and Prejudice - Austen, Jane
Lye in Wait (A Home Crafting Mystery) - McRae, Cricket
I, Zombie (A laugh-out-loud horror short) - Spalding, Nick
The Witch of Agnesi: Book One in the Bonnie Pinkwater Series - Spiller, Robert
The Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple) - Christie, Agatha
Life - Keith Richards
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto - Michael Pollan

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