Reading
An ongoing list of books that I've read, organized by year, in approximate chronological order.
The list is mostly fiction, because I read mostly fiction. It intentionally omits technical/programming books because those don't seem interesting to track. And I only log books that I finish, since I can't very well rate a book if I didn't read the book.
This is not a set of recommendations, it's primarily a tool to encourage myself to read more. I love to read and books are probably my favorite objects in the world. Fiction can be nourishing, transportive, and something resembling magic.
Ratings
Each book listed below includes a very subjective star rating. The scale is small and defined in the hopes of making it easy to rate each book. I reference these ratings whenever it's time to clear bookshelf space.
At present, the average rating is 1.46, including 13 books that I've loved.
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A book borrowed from my local, public library
Pace
Since 2015, I've logged 183 books, averaging about 15 books each year.
So far this year (2026), I've read 11 books.
Author Diversity
119 (about 65%) of the books listed here were written by women and 69 (about 37%) were written by people of color.
Keeping track of these numbers has helped me improve them, which is intentional. This reading log is a tool to help me both read more books and read more diverse authors.
Books
2026
11 books (10 library)
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Wild Houses
Colin Barrett
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Creation Lake
Rachel Kushner
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The Trees
Percival Everett
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The Days of Abandonment
Elena Ferrante
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Ms Ice Sandwich
Mieko Kawakami
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The Beautiful and Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Persians
Sanam Mahloudji
2025
24 books (16 library)
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At the Grand Glacier Hotel
Laurence Fearnley
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Mina's Matchbox
Yōko Ogawa
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Under the Mountain
Maurice Gee
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Tamaki Makaurau 2025: Essays on Life in Auckland
Damien Levi, others
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Children of Memory
Adrian Tchaikovsky
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Children of Ruin
Adrian Tchaikovsky
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Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky
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The Wren, the Wren
Anne Enright
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This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
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The Future
Catherine Leroux
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Crooked Seeds
Karen Jennings
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The Wild Robot Protects
Peter Brown
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Brotherless Night
V.V. Ganeshananthan
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The Safekeep
Yael van der Wouden
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The Wild Robot Escapes
Peter Brown
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Treacle Walker
Alan Garner
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The Wild Robot
Peter Brown
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2024
28 books (26 library)
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Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid
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History of Wolves
Emily Fridlund
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How to Build a Boat
Elaine Feeney
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Like Shaking Hands with God
Kurt Vonnegut, Lee Stinger
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Colour Scheme
Ngaio Marsh
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This Other Eden
Paul Harding
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Checkerboard Hill
Jade Kake
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
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Backwaters
Emma Ling Sidnam
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Western Lane
Chetna Maroo
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The Puppets of Spelhorst
Kate DiCamillo
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Silver Sparrow
Tayari Jones
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Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts
Josie Shapiro
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk
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No One Is Talking About This
Patricia Lockwood
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The Lying Life of Adults
Elena Ferrante
2023
30 books (20 library)
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All the Lovers in the Night
Mieko Kawakami
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Birnam Wood
Eleanor Catton
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Stuart Little
E. B. White
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Teaching a Stone to Talk
Annie Dillard
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The Three-Body Problem
Liu Cixin
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How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
Alexander Chee
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Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan
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Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney
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The Axeman's Carnival
Catherine Chidgey
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Conversations with Friends
Sally Rooney
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Normal People
Sally Rooney
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Liberation Day
George Saunders
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The Trumpet of the Swan
E. B. White
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman
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Another Brooklyn
Jacqueline Woodson
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Interior Chinatown
Charles Yu
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Our Missing Hearts
Celeste Ng
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Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
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Laserwriter II
Tamara Shopsin
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Breasts and Eggs
Mieko Kawakami
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
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The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami
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2022
18 books (9 library)
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The Once and Future Witches
Alix E. Harrow
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The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Stuart Turton
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The Best American Short Stories 2021
Various
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The Tokyo Zodiac Murders
Soji Shimada
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The Office of Historical Corrections
Danielle Evans
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Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner
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James and the Giant Peach
Roald Dahl
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The Luminaries
Eleanor Catton
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The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Tales from Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin
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The Garden Party
Katherine Mansfield
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The Other Wind
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Charlotte's Web
E. B. White
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The Housekeeper and the Professor
Yōko Ogawa
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The Mermaid from Jeju
Sumi Hahn
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Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
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Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
2021
24 books (12 library)
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Harlem Shuffle
Colson Whitehead
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The Pine Barrens
John McPhee
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The Library Book
Susan Orlean
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Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo
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Adulthood Rites
Octavia E. Butler
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The Memory Police
Yōko Ogawa
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The City We Became
N. K. Jemisin
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong
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An Acceptable Time
Madeleine L'Engle
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Many Waters
Madeleine L'Engle
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A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Madeleine L'Engle
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A Wind in the Door
Madeleine L'Engle
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A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle
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Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
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Transcendent Kingdom
Yaa Gyasi
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Parable of the Talents
Octavia E. Butler
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Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
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Purple Hibiscus
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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An American Marriage
Tayari Jones
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Acceptance
Jeff VanderMeer
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Authority
Jeff VanderMeer
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Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer
2020
14 books (0 library)
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The Heavens
Sandra Newman
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward
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The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The Story of the Lost Child
Elena Ferrante
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Wolf in White Van
John Darnielle
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The Farthest Shore
Ursula K. Le Guin
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The Tombs of Atuan
Ursula K. Le Guin
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A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Mother Night
Kurt Vonnegut
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The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
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The Witch Elm
Tana French
2019
5 books (0 library)
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Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Elena Ferrante
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The Story of My New Name
Elena Ferrante
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My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante
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Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng
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2018
6 books (0 library)
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Everything I Never Told You
Celeste Ng
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
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Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
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Until the Celebration
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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And All Between
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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Below the Root
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
2017
9 books (0 library)
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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Haruki Mirakami
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Number9dream
David Mitchell
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Slade House
David Mitchell
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The Bone Clocks
David Mitchell
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The Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
David Mitchell
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The Wind Up Bird Chronicles
Haruki Mirakami
2016
8 books (0 library)
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CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
George Saunders
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Inherent Vice
Thomas Pynchon
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The Thing Around Your Neck
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The Decagon House Murders
Yukito Ayatsuji
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Watership Down
Richard Adams
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2015
6 books (0 library)
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And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Kurt Vonnegut
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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Robin Sloan
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Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie
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Tenth of December
George Saunders
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie