Reverse chronological order starting in 2022 when I left Goodreads. All books recommended, I don't finish books that I don't like. Links are affiliates. ★ books are twice recommended. ↺ are re-reads. !! books are especially interesting. Last updated March 1, 2024.

2024 (18 books)

• Wasteland Oliver Franklin-Wallis (2023)
• Women and Other Monsters Jess Zimmerman (2022)
• Necropolitics Achille Mbembe (2019)★!!
• The Inspection House Emily Horne (2014)!!
• Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World James Cowan Greenway (1967)
• Birds of Hawaii George Munro (1960)
• Writing For Comics Alan Moore (2003)
• Extinct Birds of Hawaii Michael Walther (2022)!!
• Kaho'olawe: Na Leo O Kanaloa Wayne Levin (1995)
• Good Talk Mira Jacob (2019)
• The Invisible Dragon Dave Hickey (2023)!!
• Making Comics Lydia Barry (2019)
• Our Migrant Souls Héctor Tobar (2023)
• Mayeresques Sophia Dahlin (2024)★!!
• The Creative Act Rick Ruben (2023)
• I Need Art Henn Kim (2023)
• The Light Fantastic Terry Pratchett (1986)
• The Color of Magic Terry Pratchett (1983)★

2023 (67 books)

• Okinawa Susumu Higa (2023)★!!
• Vaquita Brook Bessesen (2018)!!
• Grievar's Blood Alexander Darwin (2023)
• The Combat Codes Alexander Darwin (2023)
• Iron Flame Rebecca Yarros (2023)
• Fourth Wing Rebecca Yarros (2023)
• Fight Like Hell Kim Kelly (2023)★
• mall goth Maura Lee Bee (2021)
• Pansy Andrea Gibson (2015)
• The Romantic Dogs Roberto Bolaño (2008)!!
• Brown Neon Raquel Gutiérrez (2022) ★↺
• Atlas of Perfumed Botany Jean-Claude Ellena (2022)
• Perfume Jean-Claude Ellena (2011)!!
• A Peace to End All Peace David Fromkin (1989)
• Dhalgren Samuel Delany (1975)★↺!!
• Becoming Wild Carl Safina (2020)
• The Zoot-Suit Riots Mauricio Mazón (1984)
• The Doubt Factory Paolo Bacigalupi (2014)
• Quaderno proibito Alba de Céspedes (1952)
• The Dangers of Smoking in Bed Mariana Enriquez (2022)
• Good Omens Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (2006)
• The Water Knife Paolo Bacigalupi (2017)★
• Autobiography of Red Anne Carson (1999)★↺
• The Beauty of a Husband Anne Carson (2002)★↺
• Always Coming Home Ursula K Le Guin (2023)!!
• A Children's Bible Lydia Millet (2021)!!
• Magnificence Lydia Millet (2013)
• The Island of the Sea Women Lisa See (2020)
• Changing Planes Ursula K Le Guin (2020)★↺
• Dinosaurs Lydia Millet (2022)★
• Four Thousand Weeks Oliver Burkeman (2021)
• Trust Hernan Diaz (2022)
• The Sun Is a Compass Caroline Van Hemert (2019)
• Portrait as Animal Victoriano Cárdenas (2023)
• Better Living Through Birding Christian Cooper (2023)★
• Arctic Dreams Barry Lopez (2001)
• Let My People Go Surfing Yvon Chouinard (2016)
• Vagrancy in Birds Alex Lees & James Gilroy (2022)!!
• Lost Children Archive Valeria Luiselli (2020)
• This Is How You Lose the Time War Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (2019) ★
• Atlas of a Lost World Craig Childs (2019) ★
• The Natural History of the San Francisco Peaks Gwendolyn Waring (2018)
• A Prayer for the Crown-Shy Becky Chambers (2022)
• A Psalm for the Wild-Built Becky Chambers (2021)★!!
• Finders Keepers Craig Childs (2013)
• Critique of Everyday Life Henri Lefebvre (2014)★!!
• The Bandit Queens Parini Shroff (2023)★
• The Animal Dialogues Craig Childs (2009)
• The Mimicking of Known Successes Malka Older (2023)★
• 2666 Roberto Bolaño (2008)↺
• The Cheating Cell Athena Aktipis (2020)
• Rich People Problems Kevin Kwan (2018)
• China Rich Girlfriend Kevin Kwan (2017)
• Crazy Rich Asians Kevin Kwan (2014)↺
• Yolk Mary HK Choi (2021)
• Emergency Contact Mary HK Choi (2018)
• The Stranger in the Woods Michael Finkel (2018)
• Birding Without Borders Noah Strycker (2018)
• Birds and Us Tim Birkhead (2022)
• Nona the Ninth Tamsyn Muir (2022)★
• A Most Remarkable Creature Jonathan Meiburg (2021)★
• Homie Danez Smith (2020)
• Alive at the End of the World Saeed Jones (2022)★
• The Hawk's Way Sy Montgomery (2022)
• Owls of Eastern Ice Jonathan Slaght (2020)★!!
• Entangled Life Merlin Sheldrake (2021)★
• The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs Steve Brusatte (2019)

2022 (30 books)

• Harrow the Ninth Tamsyn Muir (2021)★
• Gideon the Ninth Tamsyn Muir (2020)★
• Klara and The Sun Kazuo Ishiguro (2021)
• No One Is Talking About This Patricia Lockwood (2021)
• The Idiot Elif Batuman (2018)
• Coyote America Dan Flores (2017)!!
• Pedro Arrupe: Essential Writings Pedro Arrupe (2004)★
• Death's End Liu Cixin (2010)
• The Dark Forest Liu Cixin (2008)
  
• The Three-Body Problem Liu Cixin (2006)!!
• The Overstory Richard Powers (2018)
• Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World Gregory Cushman (2013) ★!!
• On Rope Bruce Smith & Allen Padgett (1997)
• The Big Year Mark Obmasick (2011) ★
• Our Band Could Be Your Life Michael Azzerad (2001)
  
• Roadside Geology of Oregon Marli B Miller (2014)
• Pigeon Watching Rosemary Mosco (2021)
• Eager Ben Goldfarb (2019) ★!!
• Peterson Sparrows Rick Wright (2019) ★
• Raptors of Arizona Richard L Gilinski (1998)
• Singing Life Of Birds Donald Kroodsma (2005)
• Peterson Bird Sounds of Western North America Nathan Pieplow (2019)
• Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema David Bordwell (1994) !!
• The Wretched of the Earth Frantz Fanon (1961) ★!!
• A History of Ornithology Peter Bircham (2007)!!
• Every Night Is Ladies' Night Michael Jaime-Becerra (2005)
  
• No One Writes to the Colonel Gabriel García Márquez (1961)↺
• Wolf In the White Van John Darnielle (2014)↺
• Devil House John Darnielle (2022) ★!!
• Trogons Joseph Forshaw (2009)