Reverse chronological order starting in 2022

All books recommended, I don't finish books that I don't like. ★ books are twice recommended. Last updated June 4, 2023.

2023

• Lost Children Archive Valeria Luiselli (2020)
• This Is How You Lose the Time War Amal El-Mohtar and 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)★
• 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

• 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)