Here you’ll find lists of books read dating back to 2018. I’m particularly fond of educational nonfiction on fun topics like octopuses and magicians, as well as contemporary fiction, philosophy, and science fiction/fantasy.

2024 Books Read So Far: 3

  • How To Fall Out Of Love Madly - Jana Casale

  • Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, & Higher Education - Stephanie Land

  • Rumple Buttercup: A Story of Bananas, Belonging, & Being Yourself - Matthew Gray Gubler

  • Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros

2023 (37)

  • In the Garden of Spite - Camilla Bruce

  • The Duke & I - Julia Quinn

  • The Viscount Who Loved Me - Julia Quinn

  • An Offer From a Gentleman - Julia Quinn

  • Romancing Mister Bridgerton - Julia Quinn

  • The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman (audiobook)

  • His Only Wife - Peace Adzo Medie

  • To Sir Phillip, With Love - Julia Quinn

  • The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman (audiobook)

  • When He Was Wicked - Julia Quinn

  • Tender Is the Flesh - Agustina Bazterrica

  • Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi

  • The Empire of Dirt - Francesca Manfredi

  • It’s In His Kiss - Julia Quinn

  • Miss Cecily’s Recipes for Exceptional Ladies - Vicky Zimmerman

  • This Savage Song - Victoria Schwab

  • I Want To Be Where the Normal People Are - Rachel Bloom

  • What My Bones Know - Stephanie Foo

  • The Fork, The Witch, and The Worm - Christopher Paolini

  • Late Bloomers - Deepa Varadarajan

  • Dragon Rider - Cornelia Funke (audiobook)

  • Mouth to Mouth - Antoine Wilson

  • The Host - Stephanie Meyer (audiobook)

  • The Fault In Our Stars - John Green

  • The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins

  • The Mountain in the Sea - Ray Nayler

  • Paris, the memoir - Paris Hilton (audiobook)

  • The Merchant of Death - DJ MacHale (audiobook)

  • The Lost City of Faar - DJ MacHale (audiobook)

  • The Never War - DJ MacHale (audiobook)

  • If He Had Been With Me - Laura Nowlin

  • The Reality Bug - DJ MacHale (audiobook)

  • Black Water - DJ MacHale (audiobook)

  • The Rivers of Zadaa - DJ MacHale (audiobook)

  • Small As An Elephant - Jennifer Richard Jacobson

  • The Sky Between You and Me - Catherine Alene

  • The Quillan Games - DJ MacHale (audiobook)

  • On Rotation - Shirlene Obuobi

  • East - Edith Pattou (audiobook)

  • The Woman In Me - Britney Spears (audiobook)

2022 (23)

  • The Library Book - Susan Orlean

  • Eldest - Christopher Paolini (audiobook)

  • Brisingr - Christopher Paolini (audiobook)

  • Inheritance - Christopher Paolini (audiobook)

  • Solutions and Other Problems - Allie Brosh

  • Inkheart - Cornelia Funke (audiobook)

  • Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo - Oscar Zeta Acosta

  • Inkspell - Cornelia Funke (audiobook)

  • Don’t Call Me Princess: Essays on Girls, Women, Sex, and Life - Peggy Orenstein

  • Why Fish Don’t Exist - Lulu Miller

  • Inkdeath - Cornelia Funke (audiobook)

  • One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  • The Power - Naomi Alderman

  • Ecstasy - Mary Sharratt

  • I’m Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy (audiobook)

  • Just the Funny Parts - Nell Scovell

  • The Magician’s Nephew - C.S. Lewis (audiobook)

  • Alice: Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute - Devon Angus and Ivy Anderson

  • Love on the Brain - Ali Hazelwood

  • The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis (audiobook)

  • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Díaz

  • The God of Animals - Aryn Kyle

  • The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides

  • I Am Malala - Malala Yousafzai

  • Outlawed - Anna North

  • Across the River and Into the Trees - Ernest Hemingway (first attempted 2013)

  • Children of the New World - Alexander Weinstein

  • Greenlights - Matthew McConaughey

  • The Mysterious Benedict Society - Trenton Lee Stewart

  • Halfway Home - Reuben Jonathan Miller

  • No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy

  • The Mysterious Benedict Society & The Perilous Journey - Trenton Lee Stewart

  • The Mysterious Benedict Society & The Prisoner’s Dilemma - Trenton Lee Stewart

  • The Mysterious Benedict Society & The Riddle of Ages - Trenton Lee Stewart

  • Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art - James Nestor

  • The Inugami Curse - Seishi Yokomizo

  • God: A Human History - Reza Aslan

  • Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki - Haruki Murakami

  • Shrill - Lindy West

  • Dune - Frank Herbert

  • Nomadland - Jessica Bruder

  • Eragon - Christopher Paolini (audiobook)

  • Cunt - Inga Muscio

2021 (20)

2020 (18)

  • The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman

  • Prey - Michael Crichton

  • The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Heather Morris

  • The Immortalists - Chloe Benjamin

  • The Real Lolita - Sarah Weinman

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

  • The Hate You Give - Angie Thomas

  • Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies - Caitlin Doughty

  • Uprooted - Naomi Novik

  • Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen

  • Heroine - Mindy McGinnis

  • Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton

  • Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond

  • The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - V.E. Schwabb

  • Unwifeable - Mandy Stadtmiller

  • The Lost World - Michael Crichton

  • Japanese Death Poems - compiled by Yoel Hoffmann

  • Plato and Platypus Walk Into a Bar - Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein

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  • Becoming Michelle Obama - Michelle Obama

  • This is How it Always Is: A Novel - Laurie Frankel

  • The Survivor’s Guide to Family Happiness - Maddie Dawson

  • The Rule of One - Ashley Saunders and Leslie Saunders

  • A Man Without A Country - Kurt Vonnegut

  • My Absolute Darling - Gabriel Tallent

  • His Favorites - Kate Walbert

  • Fooling Houdini - Alex Stone

  • Sex Object: A Memoir - Jessica Valenti

  • Cannibalism: A Natural History - Bill Schutte

  • Meditations - Marcus Aurelius

  • What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence - Edited by Michele Filgate

  • A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles

  • Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence - Dale Peterson and Richard Wrangham

  • I Hope You Find Me: The Love Poems of Craigslist’s Missed Connections - Alan Feuer

  • The Body Is Not An Apology - Sonya Renee Taylor

  • Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory - Raphael Bob-Waksberg

  • Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat - Jeannine Amber and Patricia Williams

  • Public Record - Edward Snowden

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2019 (19)

2018 (22)

  • Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Wilke

  • On Looking - Alexandra Horowitz

  • Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn

  • Nudge - Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein

  • The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

  • Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist - Sunil Yapa

  • Near Life Experiences - Jon Carroll

  • Primate’s Memoir - Robert Sapolsky

  • Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

  • Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson

  • Jack - A.M. Holmes

  • Strange Bird - Jeff Vandermeer

  • Nightvoice - Josh Shaman

  • Her Body and Other Stories - Carmen Maria

  • Borne - Jeff Vandermeer

  • Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac

  • All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation - Rebecca Traister

  • Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Caitlin Doughty

  • Soul of an Octopus - Sy Montgomery

  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

  • Pachinko - Min Jin Lee

  • Listen to the Marriage - John Jay Osborn Jr.

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