What I'm currently reading:
What I'm currently reading:
Matt Dinniman The Butcher's Masquerade: Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 5
Daniel L. Everett Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
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Matt Dinniman The Butcher's Masquerade: Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 5
Daniel L. Everett Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
Tom Nichols The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
Ramona Emerson Shutter
Patrick Süskind Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Evan Friss The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
David R. Montgomery and Anne Bikle The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health
Alejandro Puyana Freedom Is a Feast
Leo Damrosch The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
Robin Wall Kimmerer Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Omar El Akkad One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Leonora Carrington The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
Charles Frazier Thirteen Moons
Lisa G. Bailey Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist
Julia Armfield Our Wives Under the Sea
Jack Fritscher The Life and Times of the Legendary Larry Townsend
Charlotte McConaghy Once There Were Wolves: A Novel
Jesmyn Ward Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel
David Quammen The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
Peter Wohlleben The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion: Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
Matt Dinniman The Eye of the Bedlam Bride: Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 6
Tim O'Brien America Fantastica
James Sturz Underjungle
Carl Erik Fisher The Urge: Our History of Addiction
Jonathan Balcombe Super Fly: The Unexpected Lives of the World's Most Successful Insects
Mike Bockoven FantasticLand: A Novel
Tristan Gooley How to Read Water
Camille T. Dungy Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
Robert M Pirsig Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Paul Zehr and James Kakalios Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero
Peter Wohlleben and Jane Billinghurst The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us if We Let Them
Peter Ames Carlin The Name of This Band Is R.E.M.
Elizabeth Strout Tell Me Everything
David Perlmutter Drop Acid
Craig MacIntosh Culling
Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
William Faulkner New Orleans Sketches
Peter Geye A Lesser Light
Matt Dinniman The Gate of the Feral Gods: Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 4
Matt Dinniman The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook: Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 3
Matt Dinniman Carl's Doomsday Scenario: Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 2
John Marrs The One
Monty Python Big Red Book
Monty Python The Brand New Monty Python Papperbok
Ione Skye Say Everything
PJ Tracy Deep Into The Dark
Joshua Gidding Old White Man Writing
Steve Aylett The Book Lovers
John Green Everything Is Tuberculosis
Peggy Munro Scholberg & Nancy Ewing Munro Girls In A World At War
James Aylott Tales of Whiskey Tango from Misery Towers
J Marie Rundquist This Isn't Everything You Are
Cheryl Bailey Poised
Robert Rebein The Last Rancher
Patricia Carney Grandmother Carried Her Pearls
Benjamin Kwakye Seasons of Four Faces
Candace Simar Sister Lumberjack
V Efua Prince Kin: Practically True Stories
Leonard Pitts, Jr 54 Miles
RW Holmen The Point Man and The Peacenik: America in 1968
Jillian Forsberg The Rhino Keeper
Donna M. Cramer Paul is Missing
Mary Hutchings Reed Harmony's Peace & Joy
Laura Farmer Catch and Release
Catherine Dehdashti Daisy Sale Forever
David Benjamin The Voice of the Dog
Mary Behan Finding Isobel
Han Kang The Vegetarian
Jessica Roux Ornithography: An Illustrated Guide to Bird Lore & Symbolism
Grady Hillhouse Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
Sally Collins Muddled Cherries
Eric Z Weintraub South of Sepharad
Fredrik Backman My Friends
Colin Woodard American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
Kathleen Hanna Rebel Girl
Lidia Yuknavitch Reading the Waves: A Memoir
Julia Wertz Museum of Mistakes: The Definitive Fart Party Collection
Clinton Heylin Babylon's Burning: From Punk to Grunge
Penn Holderness and Kim Holderness ADHD Is Awesome: A Guide to (Mostly) Thriving with ADHD
Michael Powell 101 Things Not Everyone Should Know how to do: Forbidden Knowledge
Mike Warren and Jonothan Woodward Cut in Half: The Hidden World Inside Everyday Objects
Lloyd Alexander The Book of Three
Lloyd Alexander The Black Cauldron
Claire Dederer Monsters
Shirley Jackson The Sundial
Stuart Turton The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Rebecca Yarros Fourth Wing: Empyrean, Book 1
Stuart Turton The Last Murder at the end of the World
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Americanah
Jolene Babyak Eyewitness on Alcatraz
Patrick N Allitt, PhD, How Railroads Transformed the World
Gregory M. Lusk The Great Seney Fire: A History of the Walsh Ditch Fire of 1976
Kristin Hannah The Women
Yuval Noah Harari Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Bill Schutt Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans
Tristan Gooley How to Read Nature: An Expert's Guide to Discovering the Outdoors You've Never Noticed
George Saunders Pastoralia
Fredrik Backman "The Answer Is No" [*favorite book I read this year*]
Armistead Maupin Logical Family: A Memoir
Armistead Maupin Mary Ann in Autumn
Armistead Maupin The Days of Anna Madrigal
Armistead Maupin Mona of the Manor
Sue Hubbell A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them
Emily Austin Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead: A Novel
Paul Lynch Prophet Song
Aruni Kashyap The Way You Want To Be Loved
Peter S Tiernan Unopened
Ta-Nehisi Coates The Message
Jeff VanderMeer Absolution
Louise Erdrich The Mighty Red: A Novel
J & S Saleh Elfking Immortal Tales: A Book of Stories set in the World of Eas
Caro Carve Bad Tourists
Rebecca Solnit The Faraway Nearby
Marie-Helene Bertino Beautyland [*favorite book I read this year*]
Khyati Y. Joshi White Christian Privilege: The Illusion of Religious Equality in America
Daniel James Brown The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals
JD Vance Hillbilly Elegy
Matt Dinniman Dungeon Crawler Carl (book 1)
Bret Easton Ellis Less Than Zero
Mike Faricy The Good Neighbor (Jack Dillon Dublin Tales Book 19)
Adam Savage Every Tool's a Hammer: Lessons from a Lifetime of Making
Matt Parker Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World
Cecelia Watson Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark
Mason Currey Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
Julia Phillips Bear
David Crouse War By Other Means
Emil Ferris My Favorite Thing is Monsters (Part 2)
Dan Buettner The Blue Zones challenge : a 4-week plan for a longer, better life
Dan Buettner The Blue Zones : 9 lessons for living longer from the people who've lived the longest
Dan Buettner The Blue Zones secrets for living longer : lessons from the healthiest places on earth
Courtney Love Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love
Tita Ramirez Tell It to Me Singing
Frederick Nolan Jay J. Armes, Investigator: The World's Most Successful Private Eye
Dava Sobel Longitude
Justin Hall No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics
Seymour Chwast Mark Twain's War Prayer (graphic novel)
Claude J Summers The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts
Percival Everett James
Stephen Vider The Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity after World War II
Viet Thanh Nguyen A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial
Rebecca Solnit River of Shadows Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
Kaliane Bradley The Ministry of Time: A Novel
Jeff Tweedy World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music
Dan Gutman Wait! What? The Beatles Couldn't Read Music?
Roma Agrawal Nuts & Bolts Seven Small Inventions that changed the World (in a big way)
Yuko Tsushima Woman Running in the Mountains
Tristan Cooley How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Park to Leaves
Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu The History of Man
Frances Gies and Joseph Gies Life in a Medieval Village (Medieval Life)
Tommy Orange Wandering Stars: A Novel
Ben Goldfarb Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
Bill Hammack The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
Tara Westover Educated
Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
Kate Murphy You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
Nick Petrie The Drifter: A Peter Ash Novel
Sue Black Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
Marie Mutsuki Mockett The Tree Doctor
Melinda Taub The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch
George Saunders A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
Kathleen McAuliffe This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society
St. Vincent St. Vincent: Words + Music Vol. 4
Sting Upon Reflection: Words + Music Vol. 12
Alice Cooper Who I Really Am: Diary of a Vampire: Words + Music Vol. 22
Gene Smith When the Cheering Stopped: The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson
Sami Adwan, Dan Bar-On, Eyal Naveh, and Peace Research Institute in the Middle East (PRIME) Side By Side: Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine
Chuck D Songs That Shook the Planet: Words + Music Vol. 26
Temple Grandin Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
Tommy Orange There There: A Novel
Tenacious D The Road to Redunktion: Words + Music Vol. 29
Pete Townshend Somebody Saved Me: Words + Music Vol. 27
Jennifer E Riddle, Sena M Loyd, Stacy L Branham, and Curt Thomas Images of America: Nevada State Prison
Sleater-Kinney One More Hour: Words + Music Vol. 17
Snoop Dogg From the Streets to the Suites: Words + Music Vol. 36
Eleanor Brown The Weird Sisters
Jon Fosse Septology
Patrick Radden Keefe Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Paul Murray The Bee Sting
David Hu How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls
Ned Blackhawk The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
John E. Morris Subway: The Curiosities, Secrets, and Unofficial History of the New York City Transit System
Justin Torres Blackouts
John Langan The Fisherman
Kirk Wallace Johnson The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
Jeff Tweedy How to Write One Song
Jake Berman The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been
Peter Brannen The Ends of the World
Marcel Proust Swann in Love
Sudhir Venkatesh Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
Daniel J Levitin The World in Six Songs
Richard Campanella Draining New Orleans
Erin Litteken The Memory Keeper of Kiev
Ken Galvas and Marget Carney Flint Faience Tiles A to Z
Matt Singer Opposable Thumbs
Shannon Gibney The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be
Norman Karlson The Encyclopedia of American Art Tiles: Region 3, Midwestern States, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Missouri
Nancy E Turner These Is My Words, The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
Anya Davidson Band for Life
Hannah Ritchie Not the End of the World
Marcy Heller Fisher Fired Magic: Detroit's Pewabic Treasures
Kresge Art Museum Pewabic: A Century of Michigan's Art Pottery
Cara Catallo Pewabic Pottery: A History of Handcrafted in Detroit
Thomas W. Brunk Pewabic Pottery: The American Arts and Crafts Movement Expressed in Clay
Ars Ceramica, Ltd. Highlights of Pewabic Pottery
Lillian Myers Pear The Pewabic Pottery: A history of its products and its people
Taylor Jenkins Reid The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Jeff Tweedy Please Tell My Brothers (Words & Music)
Travis Baldree Legends & Lattes: A Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakes
Beck Dear Life (Words & Music)
David Auburn Summer, 1976
Tegan Quin and Sara Quin Under My Control (Words & Music)
Eddie Vedder I Am Mine (Words & Music)
Hank Green A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
RF Kuang Yellowface
Jim S Reed The Fatal Affair in Convict Canyon
Billie Joe Armstrong Welcome to My Panic (Words & Music)
Sheryl Crow (Words & Music)
Miles Harvey The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch
Gertrude Stein The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas
Rosa Lowinger Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair
Craig MacIntosh Wolf's Admiral
Ed Yong An Immense World [*favorite book I read this year*]
Maria Smilios The Black Angels
E.D. Hirsch, James Trefil, Joseph F Kett Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
Rebecca Makkai I Have Some Questions for You
TJ Nsoyuni The United States of America: My Country of Destiny
Gen Del Raye Boundless Deep, and Other Stories
Loren Niemi Circus Rex
Will Weaver Power and Light
Rosanna Staffa The War Ends at Four
Katie Hickman Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West
Lucille Ball Love Lucy
Julie Schumacher The English Experience
Catherine Lacey Biography of X: A Novel
Justin Torres We The Animals
Alan Garner Treacle Walker
Victor Hugo Les Miserables
Linda LeGarde Grover A Song Over Miskwaa Rapids: A Novel
Mona Susan Power A Council of Dolls
V.V. Ganeshananthan Brotherless Night
Dianna Hunter Clouded Waters
Roy M. Close Discernment
Nigar Alam Under the Tamarind Tree
Marcia Peck Water Music: a Cape Cod Story
Viet Thanh Nguyen The Committed
Libby Copa A Low Diving Bird
Brian Duren Ivory Black
Nathan Hill Wellness: A Novel
Brian Duren The Gravity of Love
Lydia King Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
Lol Tolhurst Cured
Pamela Carter Joern Toby's Last Resort
Raymond Luczak Widower, 48, Seeks Husband: A Novel
Greg Suhonen Lost Woman Lake: The Middle of Nowhere
Steven Miles The Leopard's Furies
Sherry Roberts Up There
Craig MacIntosh and Ilga Eglitis Minneapolis Cityscape: An Artist's View
Roxane Gay Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business
Craig MacIntosh Til Kingdom Cay
Hank Green An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Benjamin Percy The Sky Vault
Andrew Knoll A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
Kathleen Glasgow The Agathas
Michael Finkel The Art Thief
Faith G Harper Unfuck Your Boundaries
David Grann The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Jeff Tweedy Let's Go (So We Can Get Back)
Ibram X Kendi Four Hundred Souls
Hernan Diaz Trust
Rob Jung Judgment Day
Shelby Van Pelt Remarkably Bright Creatures
Sy Montgomery Of Time and Turtles: Mending a Stalled and Broken World, Shell by Shattered Shell
Aurora Kane Mystical Mushrooms: Discover the Magic & Folklore of Fantastic Fungi
John Green The Anthropocene Reviewed
Jeff VanderMeer Veniss Underground
Alison Bechdel's Dykes to Watch Out For
Thomas Kenning Florida's Mangroves
John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
Hugh Howey Dust
Hugh Howey Shift
Hugh Howey Wool
Barbara Kingsolver Demon Copperhead
Robert F. Bruner, Sean D. Carr The Panic of 1907 (2nd Edition): Heralding a New Era of Finance, Capitalism, and Democracy
Robert Plomin Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
T. Colin Campbell The Future of Nutrition
William D Dyer Teaching Fools: Masters and Mentors
Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan Let's Talk About It
Melissa Pintor Carnagey Sex Positive Talks to Have with Kids
Educate and Empower Kids 30 Days of Sex Talks
Hannon Witton Doing it!
Jo Langford The pride guide : a guide to sexual and social health for LGBTQ youth
Heather Corinna S.E.X. : the all-you-need-to-know sexuality guide to get you through your teens and twenties
Tom Wolfe The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Janice A. Beebe and Frances G. Reiland Hartland Memories and Milestones
Kathy Wynne Sex Education for Teens
Steve Stewart-Williams The Ape That Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve
Shannon Chakraborty The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
Philip King MacBride So, what's Next?
Sinéad O'Connor Rememberings
Sona Movsesian The World's Worst Assistant
Paul Brannigan Birth School Metallica Death, Volume 1
Paul Brannigan Into the Black: The Inside Story of Metallica, 1991-2014
Amanda Svensson A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding
Cody Cassidy Who Ate the First Oyster?
Peter Wohlleben The Hidden Life of Trees
Ray Blout Jr Alphabet Juice
Richard Lederer Anguished English
100 Words Almost Everyone Mixed Up or Mangles
100 Words Almost Everyone Confuses and Misuses
100 Words to Make You Sound Smart
David Quammen The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem (Translator) The Qur'an
Gabrielle Zevin Margarettown
Tamar Adler The Everlasting Meal Cookbook: Leftovers A-Z
Malcolm Devlin And Then I Woke Up
Iain Gately Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol
Jennifer Wright Knust Unprotected Texts
Rubén Degollado The Family Izquierdo: A Novel
David Graeber and David Wengrow The Dawn of Everything [*favorite book I read this year*]
Donald Miller How to Grow Your Small Business
Kirstin Valdez Quade The Five Wounds
Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow
Peter J Hogarth The Biology of Mangroves and Seagrasses
Kate Summerscale The Book of Phobias and Manias
Vidya Krishnan Phantom Plague
Jeff VanderMeer Wildlife
Laura Ogden Swamplife: People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades
Gabrielle Zevin The Hole We're In
Salman Rushdie Victory City
Len Richmond and Gary Noguera The Gay Liberation Book
Joshua Cohen The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family
Mónica Ojeda Jawbone
James Bridle Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence [*favorite book I read this year*]
Blake J Harris Console Wars
Quentin Tarantino Cinema Speculation
Siddhartha Mukherjee The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
Anna Wiener Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
Rob Chapman A Very Irregular Head
Corbin Reiff Total Fucking Godhead
Jack Weatherford Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Dennis Duncan Index, a History of the
Ray Nayler The Mountain in the Sea
Lucy Cooke Bitch: On the Female of the Species
Ayanna Howard Sex, Race, and Robots
James Spooner The High Desert
Deepti Kapoor Age of Vice: A Novel
Lídia Jorge The Wind Whistling in the Cranes: A Novel
Jon Peterson Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragons
Gwendolyn Macewen Julian, the Magician
Kevin Wilson Now Is Not the Time to Panic: A Novel
Antoine de Saint-Exupery The Little Prince
Benjamin Percy Red Moon
Matthew David Goodwin Latinx Rising: An Anthology of Latinx Science Fiction and Fantasy
Shehan Karunatilaka The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
David Macaulay Motel of the Mysteries
Kim Gordon Girl in a Band: A Memoir
Yoko Ogawa The Memory Police: A Novel
Sy Montgomery How to be a Good Creature
Randall Munroe How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
Roy Thomas The Marvel Age of Comics 1961-1978
James Vincent Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
Donovan Hohn Moby-Duck : the true story of 28,800 bath toys lost at sea, and of the beachcombers, oceanographers, environmentalists, and fools-- including the author-- who went in search of them
Paul de Gelder Shark: Why We Need to Save the World’s Most Misunderstood Predator
Steven Levy Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
NoViolet Bulawayo Glory
Gabrielle Zevin The Storied Life of AJ Fikry
Gabrielle Zevin Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow [*favorite book I read this year*]
Kristal Leebrick Thank You for Shopping: The Golden Age of Minnesota Department Stores
M. O. Walsh The Big Door Prize
Anna Malaika Tubbs The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation [*favorite book I read this year*]
William Attaway Blood on the Forge
Therese Anne Fowler It All comes Down To This
Edward Powys Mathers Cain's Jawbone
Cormac McCarthy Stella Maris
Cormac McCarthy The Passenger
Jim Ruland Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records
Michelle Obama The Light We Carry
David Talbot Season of the Witch
Justin Green's Music Legends
Te-Ping Chen Land of Big Numbers: Stories
C. A. Davids How to Be a Revolutionary: A Novel
Algeron Blackwood Anciet Sorceries and Other Weird Stories
Dana Spiotta Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview
Alexandra Lange Meet Me by the Fountain
Allie Brosh Solutions and Other Problems
Rabih Alameddine The Wrong End of the Telescope
Bono Surrender
Piper Cleaveland A Dance with the Dead
Percy Cassara Vicentini Martin Dijjo X Lives of Wolverine / X Deaths of Wolverine
David de Sola Alice in Chains: The Untold Story
Susan Thurston Sister of Grendel
Michael Stanley A Deadly Covenant
T.K. O'Neill Dive Bartender: Flowers in the Desert
Elizabeth Davis The Player Next Door
Lidia Yuknavitch Thrust
Marcie R Rendon Sinister Graves
Jess Lourey The Quarry Girls
Alan Miller Holding Court
Tom Baumann The Lost Forty
Allen Eskens Forsaken Country
Joan Marie Verba Twelve: A Retelling of The Twelve Dancing Princesses
P.J. Tracy Desolation Canyon
Mark Lanegan Sing Backwards and Weep
Ricky Jay Jay's Journal of Anomalies: Conjurers, Cheats, Hustlers, Hoaxsters, Pranksters, Jokesters, Impostors, Pretenders, Sideshow Showmen, Armless Calligraphers, Mechanical Marvels, Popular Entertainments
Ricky Jay Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women
Yan Ge Strange Beasts of China
Brian Freeman The Zero Night
Brian Freeman The Ursulina
Larry Millett Rafferty's Last Case: A Minnesota Mystery Featuring Sherlock Holmes
Gabrielle Zevin Young Jane Young
Fredrik Backman The Winners [*favorite book I read this year*]
Joe Queenan One for the Books
Adnrew DeYoung The Temps
K Partridge Between Fortitude and Folly: The Incredible True Story of the USS Pope
Joshua Moehling And There He Kept Her
S.C. Richards Where Secrets Live
Katrina Monroe They Drown Our Daughters
Jeffrey B Burton The Lost
Phil Adamo The Medievalist
Mary Strange Sunsets on Catfish Bar
Neil Gaiman The Sandman (audiobook) Act III
Amy Gregg Farmed and Dangerous
Gabrielle Meyer When the Day Comes
Sigrid Brown The Girl in Duluth
Michael Mallory The Lost Dragon Murder
Mark Mitten A Time Between Times
Alan Moore Stephen Bissette John Totleben The Saga of The Swamp Thing
Jess Walter The Angel of Rome
Fredrik Backman Us Against You
Dennis Vogen Cold World
Emily Bergslien & Kathryn Weaver Uncommon Charm
Nancy Hedin The Spell
Frank Weber Black and Blue
Kelly Carlson Died By Blood, Born By Blood: a Vampire Memoir
Sherwin B. Nuland How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
Peter Tiernan Family Trees and Other Troubles
Isaac Fitzgerald Dirtbag, Massachusetts
Geraldine Brooks Horse
Fredrik Backman Beartown
Fredrik Backman Things My Son Needs to Know about the World
Dan Chaon Sleepwalk
Taylor Jenkins Reid Carrie Soto is Back
Stephen King Fairy Tale
Jennifer Haupt In the Shadow of 10,000 Hills
Don Novello The Lazlo Letters
Jennifer Haupt Come As You Are
Bill Bryson The Body: A Guide for Occupants
Peter Lamont & Jim Steinmeyer The Secret History of Magic: The True Story of the Deceptive Art
Wolfram Eilenberger Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade that Reinvented Philosophy
Jim Steinmeyer The Last Greatest Magician in the World
Noel Daniel, Mike Caveney, Ricky Jay, and Jim Steinmeyer. Magic: 1400s-1950s
John Mulholland. John Mulholland’s Story of Magic
David Copperfield, Richard Wiseman, and David Britland David Copperfield’s History of Magic
Neil Gaiman The Sandman (audiobook) Act II
Arthur Frank Wertheim Vaudeville Wars: How the Keith-Albee and Orpheum Circuits Controlled the Big Time and its Performers
Charles W Stein American Vaudeville as Seen by its Contemporaries
D. Travis Stewart No Applause Just Throw Money: The book that made Vaudeville Famous
Neil Gaiman The Sandman (audiobook) Act I
Les Standiford. Battle of the Big Top
Michelle Delaney and Gertrude Kasebier Buffalo Bill's Wild West Warriors: A Photographic History
Delia Owens Where the Crawdads Sing
Jennifer Egan The Candy House
Allie Brosch Hyperbole and a Half
William Kalush and Larry Sloman The Secret Life of Houdini
Joy S Kasson Buffalo Bill's Wild West
Radley Balko Rise of the Warrior Cop
Frederic LaDelle Co A Complete Illustrated Course of Instruction How to Enter Vaudeville
Buffalo Bill Buffalo Bill's life story : an autobiography
David Monod Vaudeville and the making of modern entertainment, 1890-1925
P.T. Barnum Barnum's own story : the autobiography of P.T. Barnum
R. L. Wilson and Greg Martin Buffalo Bill's Wild West : an American legend
Robert Wilson Barnum: An American Life
Anthony Slide The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville
Robert Lewis From Traveling Show to Vaudeville
Louis S Warren Buffalo Bill's America
Melissa Orlov and Nancie Kohlenberger The Couple's Guide to Thriving with ADHD
Michael Pollan This is Your Mind on Plants
Luke Rofles Impossible Naked Life
Gu Byeong-mo The Old Woman with the Knife
George Eliot Middlemarch
Colson Whitehead Harlem Shuffle
Sam Hurst Rattle Snake Under His Hat: The Life and Times of Earl Brockelsby
Tochi Onyebuchi Goliath
James Clear Atomic Habits [*favorite book I read this year*]
Alfred Lansing Endurance: Shackleton's incredible voyage
Hannah Gadsby Ten Steps to Nanette
Janis Heaphy Durham The Hand on the Mirror
Jessamine Chan The School for Good Mothers
Emily St. John Sea of Tranquility
Karl Ove Knausgaard The Morning Star
Lulu Miller Why Fish Don't Exist
Ta-Nehisi Coates We were eight years in power : an American tragedy
Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
David Grann Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI
Marlon James Moon Witch, Spider King
Barbara F Walter How Civil Wars Start
Hanya Yanagihara To Paradise
Louise Erdrich The Sentence
Elena Passarello Let me clear my throat
Elena Passarello Animals strike curious poses
Jason Mott Hell of a Book
Benjamin Percy The Unfamiliar Garden
Stephen Marche The Next Civil War
Richard Matheson I Am Legend
Devin Murphy Tiny Americans
Charles Dickens Bleak House
Kenneth Conboy The war in Laos, 1960-75
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Simon Armitage translation)
Arbinger Institute Leadership and Self-Deception
Anvi Doshi Burnt Sugar
Chris Enss and Howard Kazanjian Death Row All Stars: A Story of Baseball, Corruption, and Murder
Charles Dickens Our Mutual Friend
Marc Bernardin and Ariela Kristantina Adora and the Distance
Larry Hama & Marc Silvestri The Essential Wolverine #2 (issues 24-47)
Chris Claremont & John Buscema The Essential Wolverine #1 (issues 1-23)
Kazuo Ishiguro Klara and the Sun
Anthony Doerr Cloud Cuckoo Land
Mary Roach Spook
Aviva Romm Hormone intelligence
Joe Gross In On the Kill Taker (33 1/3)
Alex Haley Roots
Anthony Veasna So Afterparties
Jeff VanderMeer Finch
Jeff VanderMeer Shriek: An Afterword
Jeff VanderMeer City of Saints and Madmen [*favorite book I read this year*]
Joan Bauer Hope Was Here
Robin Yocum A Brilliant Death
Damon Galgut The Promise
Larry Watson Montana 1948
Peter Ackroyd Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors
Douglas Wolk All of the Marvels
Barbara J King Animals' Best Friends
Rick Riordan Daughter of the Deep
Kevin Courrier Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica (33 1/3)
Fredrik Backman Britt-Marie Was Here
PG Wodehouse The inimitable Jeeves
Chris Claremont & Jim Lee X-Men Omnibus Vol. 2
Chris Claremont & Jim Lee X-Men Omnibus Vol. 1
Ed Piskor X-Men: Grand Design-X-Tinction
Matt Fraction Stuart Immonen Fear Itself
Kenneth Oppel Inkling
Theo Ellsworth and Jeff VanderMeer Secret Life
Maid Stephanie Land
Chris Claremont & Jim Lee X-Men X-Tinction Agenda
Mark Kurlansky Milk
Chris Claremont, Louise Simonson, Marc Silvestri, Walt Simonson, Bret Blevins X-Men: Inferno
Emily Nagoski Come as You Are [*favorite book I read this year*]
Sally Rooney Beautiful World, Where Are You
Chris Claremont and John Byrne X-Men Days of Future Past
John Hersey Hiroshima
Dave Grohl The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
Joe Gillard The Little Book of Lost Words
Sally Rooney Normal People
Chip Zdarsky and Matt Fraction Big Hard Sex Criminals Vol. 3
Chip Zdarsky and Matt Fraction Big Hard Sex Criminals Vol. 2
Fredrik Backman The deal of a lifetime
Fredrik Backman And every morning the way home gets longer and longer
Charles C Mann 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
Sally Rooney Conversations with Friends
Sari Fordham Wait for God to Notice
Charles C Mann 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Keith Richards Life
Mary Roach Fuzz
Mark Kurlansky Salt
Imbolo Mbue How Beautiful We Were
Dorison and Allart HSE: What if Humans were Listed on the Stock Exchange? Vol. 1
Bette Howland A Memoir W-3
Helene Wecker The Hidden Palace: A novel of the Golem and the Jinni
Fredrik Backman My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
Fredrik Backman Anxious People [*favorite book I read this year*]
Fredrik Backman A Man Called Ove
Pat Blashill Texas is the Reason: The Mavericks of Lone Star Punk
Barack Obama A Promised Land
Paul Wheaton Building a Better World in Your Backyard: Instead of Being Angry at Bad Guys
Patricia Lockwood No One Is Talking About This
Nickolas Butler Godspeed
John Paul Brammer Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons
Max Lugavere and Paul Grewal Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive
Michelle Obama Becoming [*favorite book I read this year*]
Rob Jung The Sower
Carrie Boyko and Kimberly Colen Hold Fast Your Dreams
Gabby Rivera Juliet Takes a Breath
Taylor Jenkins Reid Malibu Rising
Duggan Larraz Garcia Cowles Muller Planet-Size X-Men #1
History Map by Map
Andy Weir Project Hail Mary
Henry James The Turn of the Screw
Barack Obama The Audacity of Hope
Barack Obama Dreams from my Father
Anthony Kiedis Scar Tissue
Benjamin Percy The Ninth Metal
Jeff Vandermeer Hummingbird Salamander
Virginia Grohl From Cradle to Stage
Dan Jurafsky The Language of Food
Heather C. McGhee The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How we can Prosper Together
Seth Rogen Yearbook
Toni Morrison Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison Tar Baby
Rick Strassman DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences
Michael Azerrad Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991
Stephen King Under the Dome
John Cleese Creativity
Keaton Patti I Forced a Bot to Write this Book
Percy Cassara White X-Force Vol 2. (2020)
Mark Kurlansky Cod
Graham Hancock Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind
Robin Lane Fox The Invention of Medicine
Marvel Comics Prevents: X-Men's Havok (1989, issues 24-31)
Percy Kubert Bogdanovic Martin Wilson Wolverine Vol 1 (2020)
Percy Cassara White X-Force Vol 1. (2019)
Jose Saramago Blindness
Mark Kurlansky Paper
Jess Walter The Cold Millions
Michael E. McCullough The Kindness of Strangers
Matt Haig The Midnight Library
Brian C. Muraresku The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed When Stars Are Scattered
Peter Tiernan Boiler Beach
Lawrence Krauser Lemon
Bill Laws Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History
George Eliot Middlemarch
Mike Doughty I Die Each Time I Hear the Sound
Michelle Duster Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells
Deesha Philyaw The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
Christopher Beha The Index of Self-Destructive Acts
Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian
Matt Ruff 88 Names
Lawrence Wright The End of October
Dan LeRoy 33 1/3 Paul's Boutique
Barbara O'Neal When We Believed in Mermaids
Jason Diamond The Sprawl
Toni Morrison Sula (re-read)
Rodrigo Quian Quiroga The Forgetting Machine
Charles Yu Interior Chinatown: A Novel [*favorite book I read this year*]
Lydia Millet A Children's Bible
J.H. Moncrieff Dragonfly Summer
Ernest Cline Ready Player Two
GI Joe (original series) Omnibus #1
Yaa Gyasi Transcendent Kingdom
Timothy Ferriss The 4-Hour Chef
Mitch Albom Finding Chika
Ayad Akhtar Homeland Elegies
Mark Z Danielewski House of Leaves
China Mieville Perdido Street Station
China Mieville The City & The City
Benjamin Lorr The Secret Life of Groceries [*favorite book I read this year*]
Peter Godfrey-Smith Other Minds
Toni Morrison A Mercy
Morgan While the World Burns
John Ota The Kitchen
James McBride Deacon King Kong
Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal I'm Not Dying With You Tonight
Alison Stine Road Out of Winter
Mary Robison Why Did I Ever
Susan Choi Trust Exercise
Peter Tiernan History of the House Next Door
Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi Stamped
Jerome Ruillier The Strange
Jeff VanderMeer A Peculiar Peril
Therese Anne Fowler A Good Neighborhood [*favorite book I read this year*]
Jessica Pan Sorry I'm Late, I didn't want to come
Celeste Ng Little Fires Everywhere
Silvia Moreno-Garcia Mexican Gothic
Chloe Aridjis Sea Monsters
Laurie Garrett The Coming Plague
Mike Chen A Beginning at the End
Robert Garland The Other Side of History
Chloe Benjamin The Immortalists
Maggie Ryan Sandford Consider the Platypus
Emily St. John Mandel The Glass Hotel
Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights
George Takei They Called Us Enemy
Louise Erdrich The Night Watchman
Margaret Dilloway While the World Burns (proof copy)
Nicole Melleby Hurricane Season
Julie Buxbaum Hope and Other Punch Lines
Mike Chen Here and Now and Then
Ali Benjamin The Thing About Jellyfish [*favorite book I read this year*]
Julia Phillips Disappearing Earth
Percy Hickman Kubert Bogdanovic Wolverine #1
Michael Blanding The Map Thief
Hickman Yu Duggan Lolli Howard To Brisson Reis Percy Cassara Hill Kudranski Dawn of X
Hickman Larraz Silva Gracia House of X / Powers of X
D. O. Fagunwa Forest of a Thousand Daemons
Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths Algorithms to Live By
Jack Keroauc On the Road
P.J. Tracy Ice Cold Heart
Greg Donahue The Minuteman
Gyles Brandreth Have You Eaten Grandma?
Kevin Wilson Family Fang
Allen Eskens Nothing More Dangerous
Kevin Wilson Perfect Little World
Michael Pollan Caffeine
Anne Frasier The Body Keeper
Caitlin Doughty Will my cat eat my eyeballs
Bram Stoker Dracula
Stevan Allred A Simplified Map of the World
Erich Maria Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front
Kevin Wilson Nothing to See Here
Margaret Atwood MaddAddam (MaddAddam book 3)
Margaret Atwood The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam book 2)
Taylor Jenkins Reid Daisy Jones & The Six
Richard Adams Watership Down
Aruni Kashyap His Father's Disease
Marc Singer Breaking the Frames
Adam Higginbotham Midnight in Chernobyl
Rachel Louise Snyder No Visible Bruises [*favorite book I read this year*]
Angie Kim Miracle Creek
Jeff VanderMeer Dead Astronauts
Margaret Atwood Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam book 1)
Kristin Hannah The Nightingale
Paddy Hirsch The Devil's Half Mile
Margaret Atwood The Testaments
Erin Morgenstern The Starless Sea
James Scott The Kept
Lucy Cooke The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife [*favorite book I read this year*]
Geoff Herbach Fat Boy vs The Cheerleaders
Jared M Diamond Guns, Germs, and Steel
Gabriel Urza An Illusion
Alix Ohlin Dual Citizens
Gail Honeyman Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Geoff Herbach I'm with Stupid
Geoff Herbach Stupid Fast
Les Standiford Last Train to Paradise
Robin DiAngelo White Fragility
Ta-Nehisi Coates The Water Dancer
Shirley Jackson Haunting of Hill House
George R.R. Martin A Dance with Dragons
George R.R. Martin A Feast for Crows
George R.R. Martin A Storm of Swords
Michael Pollan The Omnivore's Dilemma
Jason Fung The Obesity Code
Whitney Scharer The Age of Light
Kafka Amerika
George R.R. Martin A Clash of Kings
Laura Esquivel Malinche
George R. R. Martin A Game of Thrones
Kafka The Trial
Ken Alder The Measure of All Things
Beidler and Barton A Reader's Guide to the Novels of Louise Erdrich
Sharon Moalem Survival of the Sickest
Nickolas Butler Beneath the Bonfire: Stories
Nabokov's Lectures on Don Quixote
Approaches to Teaching Cervantes (2nd ed)
Approaches to Teaching Cervantes (1st ed)
Cambridge Companion to Cervantes
Kafka The Castle
Bill Clinton and James Patterson The President Is Missing
Cervantes The Dialogue of the Dogs
Wayetu Moore She Would Be King
Cervantes The Labours of Persiles and Sigismunda: A Northern Story
Amadis of Gaul
Anna Burns The Milkman [*favorite book I read this year*]
Sy Montgomery The Soul of an Octopus
Review of Japanese Culture (Josai University) December 2006--Don Quixote East and West
Denis Diderot Jacques the Fatalist
Richard L Predmore Cervantes
Mark Reisner Cadillac Desert
Diaz-Plaja Cervantes The Life of a Genius
Rita Indiana Papi
David Means Instructions for a Funeral: Stories
Laura Groff Florida
Laurie Halse Anderson Fever 1793
Christine Schutt Florida
Joseph R McElrath Jr and Jesse S Crisler Frank Norris A Life
Nicholas Butler Little Faith
Sarah Healy Sisters Chase
Jules Verne Around the World in 80 Days
Milton Rokeach The Three Christ of Ypsilanti
Marlon James Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Victor LaValle The Destroyer
Victor LaValle The Changling
Dan Abrams Lincoln's Last Trial
Arianne Cohen The Tall Book
The Beastie Boys Book [*favorite book I read this year*]
Weis and Hickman Dragons of Spring Dawning
Weis and Hickman Dragons of Winter Night
Gary Larson Last Chapter and Worse
Nicole Helget Stillwater
Anthony John Mascot (ARC)
Weis and Hickman Dragons of Autumn Twilight
R. Crumb and David Zane Mairowitz Kafka
The Cambridge Companion to Kafka (Ed. Julian Preece)
The Blue Octavo Notebooks: Kafka
Lydia Kiesling The Golden State
Nicole Helget Wonder at the Edge of the World
Max Brod edited Franz Kafka Diaries (1910-1923)
VE Schwab Vicious
Bill Bryson One Summer (1927)
Richard T Gray Approaches to Teaching Kafka's Short Fiction
Richard Gray Kafka: A Collection of Critical Essays
Atul Gawande Being Mortal
Nahum N Glatzer I am Memory Come Alive (Autobiographical Writings by Franz Kafka)
Frans G. Bengtsson The Long Ships
Carolin Duttlinger Kafka and Photography
Douglas Preston The Lost city of the Monkey God
Rob Jung Cloud Warriors
Mira Grant Into the Drowning Deep [*favorite book I read this year*]
Seanan McGuire Every Heart a Doorway
Bill Bryson Mother Tongue
Trevor Noah Born a Crime
Matt Ruff Lovecraft Country
Ottessa Moshfegh Homesick for Another World
Alex Gilvarry Eastman Was Here
Nicole Krauss The History of Love
Kassia St. Clair The Secret Lives of Color
Adam Alter Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping us Hooked
Howard Cruse Stuck Rubber Baby
J. Courtney Sullivan Saints for All Occasions
Bill Bryson Made in America
Frank Norris Octopus
Andy Weir Artemis
A.J. Jacobs The Year of Living Biblically
Yvan Alagbé Yellow Negros and Other Imaginary Creatures
Marilynne Robinson Housekeeping
Roxane Gay Difficult Women
Samantha Irby We Are Never Meeting in Real Life
Nicole Helget The End of the Wild
Mahasweta Devi Imaginary Maps
Coco Fusco English is Broken Here
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M Conway The Collapse of Western Civilization
Andy Weir The Martian
Joseph R. McElrath, Jr. Frank Norris Revisited
Mark Forgy The Forger's Apprentice: Life with the World's Most Notorious Artist
Steven Price By Gaslight
Julieanne Hever and Raymond J. Cronise Plant-Based Nutrition
Florencia Ramirez Eat Less Water
Andrus Kivirahk The Man Who Spoke Snakish
Tom Perrotta The Leftovers
Roger Fisher and William L. Ury Getting to Yes
Patrick Chamoisau Texaco
Junot Diaz Islandborn
Amber Sparks The Unfinished World
Michael Chabon's Thrilling Tales Collection
Nickolas Butler Shotgun Lovesongs
Dean Koontz Lightning
Michael Crichton Dragon Teeth
Neil Gaiman Norse Mythology
Matt de la Pena Last Stop on Market Street
Jeff VanderMeer Borne
Scott Lynch The Lies Lock Lamora
Dan Wells Extreme Makeover
SJ Kincaid The Diabolic
Yuval Noah Harari Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind [*favorite book I read this year*]
Vladimir Nabokov Pnin
Hemingway Across the River and into the Trees
Hemingway In Our Time
Hemingway The Garden of Eden
John Green Turtles All The Way Down
Jeff VanderMeer Acceptance
Jeff VanderMeer Authority
Bulgakov The Master and Margarita
Jeff VanderMeer Annihilation
Louis de Conte (Mark Twain) Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
Carmen Maria Machado Her Body and Other Parties
Greg Matthews The Further Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo
Erdrich The Beet Queen
Nathan Englander Dinner at the Center of the Earth
John Seelye The True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Lenore Hart Becky
Andrew Aciman Call Me By Your Name
Viet Thanh Nguyen The Sympathizer
Jon Clinch Finn
Hilton Als White Girls
George Minois History of Suicide: Voluntary Death in Western Culture
Robert P. Weeks Hemingway: a collection of critical essays
Linda Welshimer Wagner Hemingway and Faulkner: Inventors/Masters
Dean Morgan Schmitter William Faulkner: a collection of criticism
Chris Bachelder The Throwback Special
John Steinbeck East of Eden
Luisa Valenzuela The Censors
Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy
Faulkner The Sound and the Fury
Susan L Nenadic and M. Joanne Nesbit Legendary Locals of Ann Arbor
Claire Vaye Watkins Gold Fame Citrus
Yaa Gyasi Homegoing [*favorite book I read this year*]
David Oppegaard The Town Built on Sorrow
Mario Vargas Llosa The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta
Julia Alvarez How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Louise Erdrich Future Home of the Living God
Vladimir Nabokov The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Arundhati Roy The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Rushdie The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Sherman Alexie Indian Killer
Sherman Alexie The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Allende Ines of My Soul
Nickolas Butler The Hearts of Men [*favorite book I read this year*]
Simone Caroti The Generation Starship in Science Fiction: A Critical History, 1934-2001
Benjamin Percy Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction
Short stories of Vladimir Nabokov
N. Scott Momaday House Made of Dawn
Isabel Allende Maya's Notebook
Benjamin Percy The Dark Net
Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris The Crown of Columbus
Philip Roth The Plot Against America
S.G. Browne Breathers
Mario Vargas Llosa A Fish in the Water
Whitney Chadwick and Isabelle de Courtivron Significant Others: Creativity and Intimate Partnership
Jonathan Franzen Purity
Paul Levitz Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel
Philip K Dick A Scanner Darkly
Bandi The Accusation
Fabio Moon & Gabriel Ba Daytripper
Zadie Smith N.W.
Roxane Gay Hunger
Neil Gaiman Trigger Warning
Julian Voloj and Claudia Ahlering Ghetto Brothers: Warrior to Peacemaker
Emil Ferris My Favorite Thing is Monsters [*favorite book I read this year*]
Deborah Blum The Poisoner's Handbook
Helene Wecker The Golem and the Jinni
Giannina Braschi United States of Banana
Giannina Braschi Yo-Yo-Boing
Nathan Hill The Nix
Lesley Nneka Arimah What it means when a man falls from the sky
Lidia Yuknavitch The Book of Joan
D.B. Weiss lucky wander boy
Robert A. Heinlein Starship Troopers
Edgar Rice Burroughs A Princess of Mars
George Saunders Lincoln in the Bardo [*favorite book I read this year*]
John Steinbeck Tortilla Flat
James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Richard Russo Straight Man
Julia Alvarez A Wedding in Haiti
William Kennedy Ironweed
Marquez Memories of My Melancholy Whores
John Steinbeck Travels with Charley
John Steinbeck The Pearl
Jonathan Safran Foer Here I Am
Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats
Michael Chabon Moonglow
Jon Ronson So You've Been Publicly Shamed
Karl Ove Knausgaard My Struggle, Book 1
Adam Haslett Imagine Me Gone
George Eliot Silas Marner
Ben Winters Underground Airlines
M. John Harrison Virconium
Robert S. McElvaine Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the Forgotten Man
Neil Gaiman The Graveyard Book
Chris Bachelder U.S.!
Neil Gaiman Coraline
David Anthony Something For Nothing
David Means Hystopia (audiobook)
Marlon James John Crow's Devil
David Hughes Walking the Dog
Nadja Spiegelman I'm Supposed to Protect You From All This
Frank McCourt Teacher Man
Don Quixote (Edith Grossman translation)
Juan Gabriel Vásquez Reputations
Avellaneda's Don Quixote de La Mancha (Part II)
Toni Morrison Paradise
Chang-Rae Lee On Such a Full Sea
Sammuel Beckett Malloy
Marlon James The Book of Night Women
Nadja Spiegelman I'm Supposed to Protect You From All Tthis
Lizardi The Mangy/Itching Parrot
Isaac Marion Warm Bodies
Max Brooks World War Z
James Frey A Million Little Pieces
Maugham The Magician
Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead Zone One
Richard Stengel Mandela's Way: Fifteen Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage
Jason Mott The Returned
Mark Twain Autobiography, Vol 3.
Joe Sacco Journalism
Mark Twain Autobiography, Vol 2.
Joe Sacco Palestine
Mark Twain Autobiography, Vol. 1
MariNaomi Kiss & Tell
John Green Looking for Alaska
Coetzee The Life and Times of Michael K
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Last Tycoon
Isabel Allende The Japanese Lover
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe
Helen Macdonald H is for Hawk
Mary Roach Grunt
Kurt Vonnegut God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
John Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath
Matt Ruff The Mirage
The Arabian Nights
Mohsin Hamid How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Michael Dorris The Broken Cord
Theodora Kroeber The Inland Whale
Frank Herbert Dune
Louise Erdrich LaRose
Terry Davis Vision Quest
Giannina Braschi Empire of Dreams
Orson Scott Card Ender's Game
W. Somerset Maugham Cakes and Ale
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and other stories
Jonathan Franzen Corrections
David Haynes Live at Five
Julie Schumacher Dear Committee Members
David Means Hystopia [*favorite book I read this year*]
Helen Oyeyemi Boy, Snow, Bird
Philip K. Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
John Green An Abundance of Katherines
Louise Erdrich The Birchbark House
Ruth Ozeki A Tale for the Time Being
Isabel Allende Ripper
Manuel Gonzalez The Regional Office is Under Attack
Tim O'Brien In the Lake of the Woods
Samuel R. Delany Dhalgren
Black Panther #1 (Coates, Stelfreeze, and Martin)
Dagoberto Gilb The Magic of Blood
K. J. Bishop The Etched City
Sam Kieth Epicurus the Sage
Sam Kieth My Inner Bimbo
Sam Kieth Ojo
Sam Kieth Four Women
Sam Kieth Zero Girl
Gish Jen World and Town
Paul Beatty The Sellout
Richard Hooker MASH
Aldous Huxley Brave New World
Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club II
John Green Paper Towns
John Green The Fault in Our Stars
Frank Norris Vandover and the Brute
Alan Moore Voice of the Fire
Mike Doughty The Book of Drugs
Kazuo Ishiguro The Buried Giant
HG Wells The First Men in the Moon
Hanya Yanagihara The People in the Trees
Paula Fox Desperate Characters
Jerry Spinelli Maniac Magee
Lidia Yuknavitch The Small Backs of Children [*favorite book I read this year*]
Robin Becker Brains: A Zombie Memoir
Jill Lepore The Secret History of Wonder Woman
Ralph Ellison Invisible Man
HG Wells The Invisible Man
HG Wells The Time Machine
HG Wells The Island of Doctor Moreau
Nabokov Despair
Catherine Ryan Hyde Pay It Forward
Nabokov Pale Fire
Fuminori Nakamura The Gun
Hanya Yanagihara A Little Life [*favorite book I read this year*]
Ta-Nehisi Coates The Beautiful Struggle
Emily St. John Mandel Station Eleven
Dan-el Padilla Peralta Undocumented
Paul Auster Leviathan
Alison Bechdel Are You My Mother?
Dallas and Melissa Hartwig It Starts With Food
Ta-Nehisi Coates Between the World and Me [*favorite book I read this year*]
Cristina Henriquez The Book of Unknown Americans
Debbie Drechsler The Summer of Love
Charlie LeDuff Detroit: An American Autopsy
Daniel Alarcon City of Clowns
Nabokov Lolita
Flaubert Madame Bovary
Robert Triptow Class Photo
Slash Slash
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Steve Adler My Appetite for Destruction
Jacqueline Woodson brown girl dreaming
Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda Monstress
Kollin and Kollin's The Unincorporated Man
Matt Faction and Chip Zdarsky Sex Criminals
Yumi Sakugawa IKEBANA
Stavans and Alcaraz Latino USA: A Cartoon History
Horwitz A Voyage Long and Strange
Brian Selznick The Marvels
33 1/3: Live Through This (Hole)
33 1/3: Led Zeppelin IV (Led Zeppelin)
33 1/3: In the Aeroplane over the Sea (Neutral Milk Hotel)
33 1/3: Highway to Hell (AC/DC)
Jonathan Safran Foer Everything is Illuminated
Stavans and Alcaraz A Most Imperfect Union
33 1/3: OK Computer (Radiohead)
33 1/3: Paul's Boutique (Beastie Boys)
33 1/3: Kick Out the Jams (MC5)
33 1/3: In Utero (Nirvana)
33 1/3: Powee Zowee (Pavement)
Matt de la Pena We Were Here
Joyce Carol Oates The Sacrifice
Alan Dale A Marriage Below Zero
Hillary Jordan When She Woke
Jeff Smith Bone: Out from Boneville
Cece Bell El Deafo
Raina Telgemeier Sisters
Adrian Tomine Shortcomings
Harper Lee Go Set a Watchman
Chris Ware Jimmy Corrigan, or, the Smartest Kid on Earth
Ayun Halliday & Paul Hoppe Peanut
Richard McGuire Here
Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar
Raina Telgemeier Drama
Frank Miller Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Matt de la Pena Mexican Whiteboy
Karasik and Mazzucchelli's adaptation of Paul Auster's City of Glass
Paul Auster The New York Trilogy
Bill Schelly Harvey Kurtzman: The man who created Mad and revolutionized humor in America
Moore and Bolland Batman: The Killing Joke, Deluxe Edition
Gene Luen Yang American Born Chinese
Craig Thompson Blankets
Roz Chast Can't We Talk about something more Pleasant?
Tamaki This One Summer
Marjane Satrapi Persepolis 2
Marjane Satrapi Persepolis
Alison Bechdel Fun Home
Toni Morrison God Help the Child
Alejandro Zambra My Documents
Alejandro Zambra Ways of Going Home
Manuel Gonzales The Miniature Wife and Other Stories
Faith Erin Hicks Friends With Boys
Vera Brosgol Anya's Ghost
Marlon James A Brief History of Seven Killings [*favorite book I read this year*]
Jess Walter The Zero
Jess Walter Beautiful Ruins [*favorite book I read this year*]
Maupin The Days of Anna Madrigal
Vasquez The Sound of Things Falling
Paradise Lost
Beowulf
Robert Cormier The Chocolate War
David Foster Wallace Infinite Jest
Elwes As You Wish
Millet Mermaids in Paradise
Lee Smith Fair and Tender Ladies
Twain The Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mary Roach Gulp
Toni Morrison Sula
Edward Abbey Desert Solitaire
Mary Austin Cactus Thorn
Edwin A. Abott Flatland
Erin Morgenstern The Night Circus [*favorite book I read this year*]
Michael Chabon Wonder Boys
James Joyce Ulysses
Homer Odyssey
George Saunders The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip
Birmingham The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses [*favorite book I read this year*]
Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club
Toole A Confederacy of Dunces
Foer Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Joseph O'Neill Netherland
Achebe Things Fall Apart
Nicholson Baker The Fermata
Gilvarry From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant
Nicholson Baker The Mezzanine
Bulawayo We Need New Names
Messud The Emperor's Children
Nicholson Baker Room Temperature
Morrison The Bluest Eye
Trumbo Johnny Got His Gun
Nicholson Baker Vox
Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five
Kushner Angels in America
Saunders The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
Cleland Fanny Hill
Duff McKagen It's So Easy and other lies
Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Aruni Kashyap The House with a Thousand Stories
Esquivel The Law of Love
Kalfus A Disorder Peculiar to the Country
Silko Ceremony
Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera
Cristina García Dreaming in Cuban
Mariano Azuela The Underdogs
Danticat Claire of the Sea Light
Gish Jen Typical American
Joseph Conrad Secret Agent
Bill Bryson A Walk in the Woods
Philip Roth American Pastoral
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Mary Shelley Frankenstein
Mohsin Hamid The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Amy Waldman The Submission [*favorite book I read this year*]
Spiegelman In the Shadow of No Towers
Emmons' Chemistry of Joy
Davis' Life in the Iron Mills
Dave Marsh Louie Louie
Unamuno Mist
Burnham Egghead
Neil Gaiman Ocean at the end of the Lane
DeFoe A Journal of the Plague Year
Piri Down Those Mean Streets
Denis Johnson Jesus' Son
Rivera Family Installments
Danticat Brother, I'm Dying
Danticat The Dewbreaker
Mary Roach Packing for Mars
Niccum The Worst Gig