Keeping a Reading Record
Books Read in 2025
(in backwards order)
A History of Sound. Ben Shattuck
Books Read in 2024
(in backwards order)
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. David W. Bight
Liars. Sarah Manguso
Exordia. Seth Dickinson
The Anthropologists. Aysegul Savas
Hackenfeller's Ape. Brigid Brophy
All Systems Red. Martha Wells
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Screenplay. William Goldman
Brightly Shining. Inguild H. Rishoi
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears. Laura van den Berg
The Ministry of Time. Kaliane Bradley
Margo's Got Money Troubles. Rufi Thorpe
The Book Censor's Library. Bothayna al-Essa
Chouette. Claire Oshetsky
Monsignor Quixote. Graham Greene
The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus. Sophocles
Way Far Away. Evelio Rosero
Aura. Carlos Fuentes
Toward Eternity. Anton Hur
The Caretaker. Ron Rash
The Wood at Midwinter. Susanna Clarke
Creation Lake. Rachel Kushner
Odes to the Ordinary. Emily Benson-Scott
The Year Without Sunshine. Naomi Kritzer
Stone Yard Devotional. Charlotte Wood
Ever After. Fred Chappell
The Alternatives. Caoilinn Hughes.
State of Paradise. Laura van den Berg
Everyone's Happy. Rufi Thorpe
Secrets of the Sprakkar. Eliza Reid
Penelope. Norman Thelwell
Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People. Tiya Miles
Story, Misty's Foal. Marguerite Henry.
North Woods. Daniel Mason
Time's Agent. Brenda Peynado
The Vaster Wilds. Lauren Groff
Misty of Chincoteague. Marguerite Henry
Enlightenment. Sarah Perry
Bright Objects. Ruby Todd
The Strange. Nathan Ballingrud
Sipsworth. Simon Van Booy
Haunt Sweet Home. Sarah Pinsker
Getting to Know Death: A Meditation. Gail Godwin
2001: A Space Odyssey. Arthur C. Clarke
Orbital. Samantha Harvey
The Employees. Olga Ravn
All the Horses of Iceland. Sarah Tolmie
Walking to Aldebaran. Adrian Tchaikovsky
Three Days in June. Anne Tyler
Town Parrott. Penelop Bennett
Notes from the Henhouse. Elspeth Barker
A Game of Hide and Seek. Elizabeth Taylor
Interesting Facts About Space. Emily R. Austin
Martyr! Kaveh Akbar
The Hocus-Pocus of the Universe. Laura Gilpin
The Weight of a Soul. Laura Gilpin
What is the Slave to the Fourth of July? Frederick Douglass
Practice. Rosalind Brown
Wandering Stars. Tommy Orange
Stories are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind. Annalee Newitz
Moonbound. Robin Sloan
Playground. Richard Powers
The Sum of Trifles. Julia Ridley Smith
Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin. Jill Lepore
Even As We Breathe. Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
Landscapes. Christine Lai
During the Reign of the Queen of Persia. Joan Chase
1984. George Orwell
Julia. Sandra Newman
The Sleepwalkers. Scarlett Thomas
Quarter Moon. Preston Ford
I Cheerfully Refuse. Leif Enger
The Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45. Milton Sanford Mayer
A Wild Swan: And Other Tales. Michael Cunningham
Watership Down: The Graphic Novel. James Sturm
Sula. Toni Morrison
The Cemetery of Untold Stories. Julia Alvarez
James. Percival Everett
Lincoln in the Bardo. George Saunders
Oblivion. Robin Hemley
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home. Lorrie Moore
It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over. Anne de Marcken
World of Trouble. Ben H. Winters
Countdown City. Ben H. Winters
The Librarianist. Patrick de Witt
The Auburn Conference. Tom Piazza
Dayswork. Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel
The Last Policeman. Ben H. Winters
The Bee Sting. Paul Murray
Him. Geoff Ryman
Mortality. Christoper Hitchens
The Long Form. Kate Briggs
Beautyland. Marie-Helene Bertino
All My Cats. Bohumil Hrabal
And Person is the Only Self. Elsa Babbert
Old Crimes: And Other Stories. Jill McCorkle
Aug 9 - Fog. Kathryn Scanlan
The Tusks of Extinction, Ray Nayler
Bad Animals. Sarah Braunstein
In Universes. Emet North
We Loved It All: A Memory of Life. Lydia Millet
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America. Heather Cox Richardson
Books Read in 2023
(in backwards order)
The Dark is Rising. Susan Cooper
The Matisse Stories. A.S. Byatt
We Are Too Many. Hannah Pittard
People Love Dead Jews. Dara Horn
Terrace Story. Hilary Leichter
The Moviegoer. Walker Percy
Fifteen Wild Decembers. Karen Powell
The Book. Mary Ruefle
Open Throat. Henry Hoke
Minor Detail. Adania Shibli
Night and Day. Virginia Woolf
Necessary Trouble. Drew Gilpin
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store. James McBride
Day. Michael Cunningham
Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary. Nina Stibbe
Wellness. Nathan Hill
A Few Rules for Predicting the Future. Octavia E. Butler
In the Valley of the Kings. Terrence Holt
Doctor Glas. Hjalmar Soderberg
Arboreality. Rebecca Campbell
The Private Lives of Trees. Alejandro Zambra
The Haunting of Hill House. Shirley Jackson
The English Experience. Julie Schumacher
"Bloody Summer." Carmen Maria Machado
The Fraud. Zadie Smith
"What's Expected of Us." Ted Chiang
"A Visit." Shirley Jackson
The Mysteries. Bill Watterson
A Council of Dolls. Mona Susan Power
Prophet Song. Paul Lynch
The End of Drum-Time. Hanna Pylavinen
Normal Rules Don't Apply. Kate Atkinson
Exadelic. Jon Evans
Half Life. Krista Foss
The Deluge. Stephen Markley
The Great Transition. Nick Fuller Googins
A Far Cry from Kensington. Muriel Spark
Pete and Alice in Maine. Caitlin Shetterly
The Birds Tarjei Vesaas
Mobility. Lydia Kiesling
The Survivalists. Kashana Cauley
Far Creek Road. Lesley Krueger
In Ascension. Martin MacInnes
Inseparable. Simone de Beauvoir
Trust. Heran Diaz
A House With Good Bones. T. Kingfisher
Streaming Now: Postcard from the Thing That is Happening. Laurie Stone
Sun House. David James Duncan
A Man Called Ove. Fredrik Backman
The Fish. Joanne Stubbs
Professor Hudson Finds a Home. W. K. (work in progress)
To The Lighthouse. Virginia Woolf
The Three Graces. Amanda Craig
The Forbidden Territory of Terrifying Women. Molly Lynch
Commitment. Mona Simpson
A Very Easy Death. Simone de Beauvoir
A Novel Called Heritage. Margaret Mitchell Dukore
Act of Oblivion. Robert Harris
The Parrot and the Igloo. David Lipsky
Still Life at Eighty : the Next Interesting Thing. Abigail Thomas
My Stupid Intentions. Bernardo Zannoni
Windmill Hill. Lucy Atkins
Uncommon Kitchens. Sophie Donelson
The Years. Virginia Woolf
The Future. Naomi Alderman
Big Swiss. Jen Beagin
Beyond the Burn Line. Paul McCauley
The Dog of the North. Elizabeth McKenzie
Delta Wedding. Eudora Welty
The Last Animal. Ramona Ausubel
Birnam Wood. Eleanor Catton
Let Us Descend. Jesmyn Ward
Games and Rituals. Katherine Heiny
Welcome Home, Stranger. Kate Christensen
The Terraformers. Annalee Newitz
The Vulnerables. Sigrid Nunez
Biography of X. Catherine Lacey
The Betrothed. Alessandro Manzoni
All of Us Together in the End. Matthew Vollmer
Strong Female Character. Fern Brady
The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War. Jeff Sharlet
Decent People. De’Shawn Charles Winslow
A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding. Amanda Svensson
Call It Horses. Jessie van Eerden
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. Shehan Karunatilaka
Barbara Isn’t Dying. Alina Bronsky
Diary of a Void. Emi Yagi
Reproduction. Louisa Hall
What You are Getting Wrong About Appalachia. Elizabeth Catte
Take What You Need. Idra Novey
The Latecomer. Jean Hanff Korelitz
Generations. Lucille Clfton
Mouth to Mouth. Antoine Wilson
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Gabrielle Zevin
Psalms for the End of the World. Cole Haddon
Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night. Jon Kalman Stefansson
Babel, or the Necessity of Violence. R.F. Kuang
Looking for the Hidden Folk: How Iceland’s Elves Can Save the Earth. Nancy Marie Brown
Singer Distance. Ethan Chatagnier
My Volcano. John Elizabeth Stintzi
Delphi. Clare Pollard
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