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Things I've been reading
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 August 29, 2024.
2024 (46 books)
- Il barone rampante Italo Calvino (1957)★
- Ethics Pytor Kropotkin (1924)
- Interior Chinatown Charles Yu (2020)
- Red, White and Royal Blue Casey McQuiston (2019)
- Birding with Benefits Sarah T Dubb (2024) ↺
- The Other Significant Other Rhaina Cohen (2024)
- The Conquest of Bread Pytor Kropotkin (1892)
- Slow Noodles Chantha Nguon (2024)
- Lakota America Pekka Hämäläinen (2020)!!
- Birding with Benefits Sarah T Dubb (2024)
- Moral Courage Anthony Feinstein (2023)
- Ametora W. David Marx (2023)
- The Book of Elsewhere Keanu Reeves (2024)
- Disabled Ecologies Sunaura Taylor (2024)!!
- Maya Mythologies (2020)
- Wherever You Go, There You Are Jon Kabat-Zinn (1994)
- Dearborn Ghassan Zeineddine (2023)
- After World Debbie Urbanski (2023)
- The Ice Harp Norman Lock (2023)
- Wild New World Daniel Flores (2022)
- Fresh Banana Leaves Jessica Hernandez (2021)
- At Night We Walk in Circles Daniel Alarcón (2013)★
- Tremor Teju Cole (2023)★
- Powers of Darkness Valdimar Ásmundsson (1901)!!
- The Historian Elizabeth Kostova (2009)★
- The Hive and The Honey Paul Yoon (2023)
- The Line Becomes a River Paco Cantú (2018) ↺★!!
- The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles Malka Older (2024)
- 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)