Reading

Books as I read them categorized by year. The bold dark green ones are very recommended.

2024

1. Claire McMillan: Alchemy of a Blackbird

2. Jennifer Estep: Only Bad Options

3. Emily Tesh: Some Desperate Glory

4. Jennifer Estep: Only Good Enemies

5. Ovidia Yu: The Frangipani Tree Mystery

6. Ross Gay: The Book of Delights

7. S. L. Huang: The Water Outlaws

8. Nicole Jarvis: The Lights of Prague

9. Isabel Cañas: Vampires of El Norte

10. Jenny Jackson: Pineapple Street

11. Isabel Cañas: The Hacienda

12. Alexandra Rowland: Tadek and the Princess

13. Yume Kitasei: The Deep Sky

14. Subhadra Das: Uncivilised: Ten Lies that Made the West

15. Claire Dederer: Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

16. Dipo Faloyin: Africa Is Not a Country

17. Hafsah Faizal: A Tempest of Tea

18. Sujata Massey: The Mistress of Bhatia House

19. Samit Basu: The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

20. Antoine Wilson: Mouth to Mouth

21. Xóchitl González: Anita de Monte Laughs Last

22. Jennifer Atkins: The Cellist

23. Annalee Newitz: Four Lost Cities

24. Marina Yuszczuk: Thirst

25. Weike Wang: Chemistry

26. Nilima Rao: A Disappearance in Fiji

27. Mia P. Manansala: Murder and Mamon

28. Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi: The Centre

29. Nell Stevens: Briefly, A Delicious Life

30. Shubnum Khan: The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

2023

1. Shugri Said Salh: The Last Nomad

2. Charlotte McConaghy: Once There Were Wolves

3. Mia P. Manansala: Homicide and Halo-Halo

4. Mary Robinette Kowal: The Relentless Moon

5. Katie Kitamura: Intimacies

6. S. L. Huang: Murder by Pixel

7. Nghi Vo: What the Dead Know

8. Arula Ratnakar: Babirusa

9. John Scalzi: Travel by Bullet

10. Monica Heisey: Really Good, Actually

11. Shelley Parker-Chan: She Who Became the Sun

12. S. B. Divya: Meru

13. Mike Chen: Vampire Weekend

14. David C. Catling: Astrobiology

15. Mia P. Manansala: Blackmail and Bibingka

16. Darcie Little Badger: Elatsoe

17. Hiroko Oyamada: Weasels in the Attic

18. Nghi Vo: Into the Riverlands

19. Mary Robinette Kowal: The Spare Man

20. Jessie Mihalik: Hunt the Stars

21. S. A. Chakraborty: The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

22. Kehinde Andrews: The New Age of Empire

23. Margot Douaihy: Scorched Grace

24. Jessie Mihalik: Eclipse the Moon

25. Valerie Valdes: Chilling Effect

26. Samantha Shannon: The Priory of the Orange Tree

27. Patrick Bringley: All the Beauty in the World

28. Olivie Blake: Alone With You in the Ether

29. C. L. Polk: Even Though I Knew the End

30. Malka Ann Older: Mimicking of Known Successes

31. Jessie Mihalik: Honor and Shadows

32. Toshikazu Kawaguchi: Before the Coffee Gets Cold

33. Freya Marske: A Marvellous Light

34. Joseph Luzzi: Botticelli's Secret

35. Jessie Mihalik: Polaris Rising

36. Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things

37. Elle Cosimano: Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

38. Sabrina Imbler: How Far the Light Reaches

39. R. F. Kuang: Yellowface

40. T. J. Klune: In the Lives of Puppets

41. Elliot Page: Pageboy

42. Martha Wells: Witch King

43. Aja Barber: Consumed

44. C. L. Clark: The Unbroken

45. Ann Leckie: Translation State

46. John Scalzi: Slow Time Between the Stars

47. Nnedi Okorafor: Just Out of Jupiter's Reach

48. Jessamyn Stanley: Yoke

49. Alexandra Chang: Days of Distraction

50. Freya Marske: A Restless Truth

51. Sarah Rose Etter: Ripe

52. Julia May Jones: Vladimir

53. Jeanette Winterson: The Stone Gods 

54. Nghi Vo: Mammoths at the Gates

55. Jessie Mihalik: Capture the Sun

56. John Scalzi: Starter Villain

57. James S. A. Corey: How It Unfolds

58. Valerie Valdes: Where Peace Is Lost

59. Barry Lopez: Arctic Dreams

60. Ann Leckie: The Long Game

61. Christopher Golden, Amber Benson: Slayers

62. Mike Chen: Light Years From Home

63. Rebecca Roanhorse: Falling Bodies

64. S. K. Dunstall: Stars Uncharted

65. Deborah Willis: Girlfriend on Mars

66. T. Kingfisher: Nettle & Bone

67. Agatha Christie: Hallowe'en Party

68. T. A. White: Rules of Redemption

69. C. L. Clark: The Faithless

70. C Pam Zhang: Land of Milk and Honey

71. T. A. White: Age of Deception

72. Freya Marske: A Power Unbound

73. T. A. White: Threshold of Annihilation

74. Martha Wells: System Collapse

75. Alix E. Harrow: Starling House

76. T. A. White: Facets of Revolution

77. Travis Baldree: Legends & Lattes

78. Yomi Adegoke: The List

79. Martha Wells: Compulsory

80. David Owen: What Do We Owe to Refugees?

81. Aliette de Bodard: A Fire Born of Exile

82. Virginia Sole-Smith: Fat Talk

83. Valerie Valdes: Prime Deceptions

84. Tony Santorella: Bored Gay Werewolf

85. T. A. White: Trials of Conviction

86. Silvia Moreno-Garcia: The Lover

87. S. B. Divya: Runtime

2022

1. William Shakespeare: Macbeth

2. Terry Pratchet: Men at Arms

3. James S. A. Corey: Caliban's War

4. Ursula K. Le Guin: The Dispossessed

5. T. J. Klune: The House in the Cerulean Sea

6. Catherynne M. Valente: Comfort Me with Apples

7. Katherine Addison: The Goblin Emperor

8. Nathalie Haynes: A Thousand Ships

9. Katherine G. Johnson: My Remarkable Journey

10. Ling Ma: Severance

11. Francine Prose: Peggy Guggenheim

12. Tomasz Jedrowski: Swimming in the Dark

13. Elizabeth Kolbert: The Sixth Extinction

14. Michael Shur: How to Be Perfect

15. Jia Tolentino: I Would Be Doing This Anyway

16. Emma Cline: Rewards

17. John Scalzi: The Kaiju Preservation Society 

18. S. A. Chakraborty: The River of Silver

19. Megan Angelo: Followers

20. Bernardine Evaristo: Girl, Woman, Other

21. Rebecca Roanhorse: Fevered Star

22. Justin Torres: Crewelwork

23. Dr. Edith Widder: Below the Edge of Darkness

24. Vaishnavi Patel: Kaikeyi

25. N. K. Jemisin: The Killing Moon

26. T. J. Klune: Under the Whispering Door

27. Sequoia Nagamatsu: How High We Go in the Dark

28. Liz Ziemska: Mandelbrot the Magnificent

29. Nadine Brandes: Romanov

30. Grace D. Li: Portrait of a Thief

31. Sujata Massey: The Widows of Malabar Hill

32. Peng Shepherd: The Cartographers

33. Mia P. Manansala: Arsenic and Adobo

34. Rivers Solomon: Blood Is Another Word For Hunger

35. Nikki May: Wahala

36. Erin Mallon: Pale Blue Dot(s)

37. Bobby Hall: Supermarket 

38. Sujata Massey: The Satapur Moonstone

39. James Lovegrove: Big Damn Hero

40. Una McCormack: Carnival

41. Terry Pratchett: Jingo

42. Emily St. John Mandel: Sea of Tranquility 

43. Becky Chambers: A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

44. Tim Lebbon: Generations

45. Ken Liu: The Armies of Those I love

46. James Lovegrove: Life Signs

47. Radha Agrawal: Belong

48. Terry Pratchett: The Fifth Elephant

49. R. F. Kuang: The Burning God

50. Terry Pratchett: Night Watch

51. Kazuo Ishiguro: Klara and the Sun

52. Terry Pratchett: Thud!

53. R. F. Kuang: Babel

54. Sujata Massey: The Bombay Prince

55. Alexandra Rowland: A Taste of Gold and Iron

56. Deanna Raybourn: Killers of a Certain Age

57. Jessica Nabongo: The Catch Me if You Can

58. Jo Walton: The Just City

59. Noé Álvarez: Spirit Run

60. Tamsym Muir: Nona the Ninth

61. Tracy K. Smith: Life on Mars

62. Katy Simpson Smith: The Everlasting

63. Aliette de Bodard: Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders

64. Samit Basu: The City Inside

65. Alexander Pushkin: Ruslan and Ludmila

66. Sayaka Murata: Convenience Store Woman

67. Charlie Jane Anders: Never Say You Can't Survive

68. P. Djèlí Clark: The Black God's Drums

69. Seanan McGuire: Down Among the Sticks and Bones

70. Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye

71. Silvia Moreno-Garcia: Certain Dark Things

72. Maggie O'Farrell: The Marriage Portrait

73. Meghan Scott Molin: The Queen Con

74. Shelby Van Pelt: Remarkably Bright Creatures

75. Gabrielle Zevin: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

76. Raven Leilani: Luster

77. Everina Maxwell: Ocean's Echo

78. Aliette de Bodard: The Red Scholar's Wake

79. Jenny Odell: How to Do Nothing

80. Tamsyn Muir: Undercover

81. Alix E. Harrow: The Six Deaths of the Saint

82. Sarah Stewart Johnson: The Sirens of Mars

83. Ashley Poston, Maura Milan, Nicole Givens Kurtz: The Vela: Salvation

84. Sherry Thomas: A Study in Scarlet Women

85. N. K. Jemisin: The Shadowed Sun

86. Huw Lemmey, Ben Miller: Bad Gays

2021

1. Zeba Talkhani: My Past is a Foreign Country

2. Yudhanjaya Wijeratne: The Salvage Crew

3. Natalie Zina Walschots: Hench

4. Rivers Solomon, Becky Chambers, Yoon Ha Lee, S. L. Huang: The Vela

5. Otegha Uwagba: Whites

6. Nnedi Okorafor: Remote Control

7. Stina Leicht: Persephone Station

8. Everina Maxwell: Winter's Orbit

9. Arkady Martine: A Desolation Called Peace

10. Becky Chambers: The Galaxy, and the Ground Within

11. Arvind Ethan David: The Neil Gaiman at the End of the Universe

12. Martha Wells: Fugitive Telemetry

13. Alison Wood: Being Lolita

14. Dr. Ayanna Howard: Sex, Race, and Robots

15. P. Djèlí Clark: A Master of Djinn

16. Kiley Reid: Simplexity

17. P. Djèlí Clark: Ring Shout

18. Martha Wells: Home

19. Terry Pratchett: Feet of Clay

20. P. Djèlí Clark: The Angel of Khan el-Khalili

21. Jo Graham: Homecoming

22. Tayari Jones: Disposession

23. Jo Graham: The Lost

24. Andy Weir: Project Hail Mary

25. Melissa Scott: Allegiance

26. Jo Graham: The Furies

27. Aliette de Bodard: Seven of Infinities

28. Jo Graham: Secrets

29. Kerstin Hall: Star Eater

30. Becky Chambers: A Psalm for the Wild-Built

31. Neri Oxman: Material Ecology

32. Charlotte McConaghy: Migrations

33. Naomi Klein: The Shock Doctrine

34. Peter Godfrey-Smith: Other Minds

35. Caroline Kepnes: You

36. Mike Chen: We Could Be Heroes

37. Nghi Vo: The Empress of Salt and Fortune

38. Andrew Blauvelt: Designs for Different Futures

39. Nghi Vo: When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain

40. Torrey Peters: Detransition, Baby

41. Monica Byrne: The Actual Star

42. Alexander Chee: The Queen of the Night

43. Ryka Aoki: Light from Uncommon Stars

44. Catriona Silvey: Meet Me in Another Life

45. Silvia Moreno-Garcia: Prime Meridian

46. Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs: Sandman

47. Tochi Onyebuchi: Riot Baby

48. Silvia Moreno-Garcia: Velvet Was the Night

49. Susanna Clarke: Piranesi

50. Jo Graham: Inheritors

51. Nella Larsen: Passing

52. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: The Disordered Cosmos

53. Aliette de Bodard: Fireheart Tiger

54. Melissa Bashardoust: Girl, Serpent, Thorn

55. Benjamin Alire Sáenz: Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

56. P. Djèlí Clark: If the Martians Have Magic

57. Ibi Zoboi: Pride

58. John Lutz: Escape from Virtual Island

59. Michael Lewis: The Big Short

60. S. B. Divya: Machinehood

2020

1. S. A. Chakraborty: The City of Brass

2. Ernest Cline: Ready Player One

3. S. A. Chakraborty: The Kingdom of Copper

4. Annalee Newitz: The Future of Another Timeline

5. Jia Tolentino: Trick Mirror

6. R. F. Kuang: The Poppy War

7. Kiley Reid: Such a Fun Age

8. R. F. Kuang: The Dragon Republic

9. Jenny Lee: Anna K

10. Martha Wells: Artificial Condition

11. Martha Wells: Rogue Protocol

12. John Scalzi: The Last Emperox

13. Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking

14. Aliette de Bodard: The Tea Master and the Detective

15. S. L. Huang: Zero Sum Game

16. Martha Wells: Exit Strategy

17. S. L. Huang: Null Set

18. S. L. Huang: Critical Point

19. John Scalzi: Old Man's War

20. Martha Wells: Network Effect

21. Meghan Scott Molin: The Frame-Up

22. S. A. Chakraborty: The Empire of Gold

23. N. K. Jemisin: The City We Became

24. V. E. Schwab: Vicious

25. K. M. Szpara: Docile

26. Kate Elliott: Unconquerable Sun

27. Aliette de Bodard: The Citadel or Weeping Pearls

28. Charlie Jane Anders: The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model

29. Tamsyn Muir: Harrow the Ninth

30. Diana Nyad: The Swimmer

31. Zeyn Joukhadar: The Map of Salt and Stars

32. Ben Barres: The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist

33. Zadie Smith: Intimations

34. John Scalzi: Murder by Other Means

35. Tara Schuster: Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies

36. Rebecca Giggs: Fathoms

37. Nora Ephron: Heartburn

38. V. E. Schwab: The Invisible Life of Addie Larue

39. Katie Mack: The End of Everything

40. Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile

41. Elizabeth Gilbert: City of Girls

42. Simon Stephenson: Set My Heart to Five

43. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Zikora

44. Jean Hanff Korelitz: You Should Have Known

45. Rebecca Roanhorse: Black Sun

46. Ta-Nehisi Coates: Between the World and Me

47. Yoon Ha Lee: Extracurricular Activities

48. Billie Jean King: The Dollar Rebellion

49. Min Kym: Gone

50. Micaiah Johnson: The Space Between Worlds

51. Tamsyn Muir: Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower

52. S. L. Huang: Burning Roses

53. P. Djèlí Clark: Skin Magic

54. Silvia Moreno-Garcia: Mexican Gothic

55. E. Lily Yu: The Time Invariance of Snow

56. Haruki Murakami: Kafka on the Shore

2019

1. Ottessa Moshfegh: My Year of Rest and Relaxation

2. Lisa Halliday: Asymmetry

3. Mary Robinette Kowal: The Calculating Stars

4. Mary Robinette Kowal: The Fated Sky

5. Kara Cooney: When Women Ruled the World

6. Paula McLain: A Mind of Her Own

7. Arkady Martine: A Memory Called Empire

8. Sy Montgomery: How to Be a Good Creature

9. Louisa Hall: Trinity

10. Becky Chambers: A Closed and Common Orbit

11. Jane Yolen: Finding Baba Yaga

12. Seanan McGuire: Every Heart a Doorway

13. Victoria Schwab: This Savage Song

14. Simon Rich: Miracle Workers

15. Madhuri Shekar: Evil Eye

16. Alissa Nutting: Tampa

17. Martha Wells: All Systems Red

18. Rob Dircks: Where the Hell is Tesla?

19. Becky Chambers: Record of a Spaceborn Few

20. Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman: Good Omens

21. Sandhya Menon: When Dimple Met Rishi

22. N. K. Jemisin: The Obelisk Gate

23. Jeanette Winterson: Frankissstein

24. Nnedi Okorafor: LaGuardia

25. Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone: This is How You Lose the Time War

26. Kamila Shamsie: Home Fire

27. N. K. Jemisin: The Stone Sky

28. John Scalzi: Lock In

29. N. K. Jemisin: Emergency Skin

30. Veronica Roth: Ark

31. Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey: She Said

32. Ronan Farrow: Catch and Kill

33. John Scalzi: Head On

34. Amor Towles: You Have Arrived at Your Destination

35. Oyinkan Braithwaite: My Sister, the Serial Killer

36. Krysten Ritter: Bonfire

37. P. Djèlí Clark: A Dead Djinn in Cairo

38. Marjorie Liu, Sana Takeda: Monstress

39. Becky Chambers: To Be Taught, If Fortunate

40. P. Djèlí Clark: The Haunting of Tram Car 015

41. Lily Brooks-Dalton: Good Morning, Midnight

42. Rivers Solomon: The Deep

43. N. K. Jemisin: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

44. Cadwell Turnbull: The Lesson

45. Mackenzi Lee: The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

46. Jeff VanderMeer: This World is Full of Monsters

47. Lauren Gunderson: The Half-Life of Marie Curie

48. Octavia Butler: Bloodchild

49. Warsan Shire: Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

50. Tamsyn Muir: Gideon the Ninth

2018

1. Masha Gessen: The Future is History

2. James S. A. Corey: Leviathan Wakes

3. Caitlin Moran: How to Build a Girl

4. Meg Wolitzer: The Interestings

5. Shana Knizhnik, Irin Carmon: Notorious RBG

6. Roxane Gay: Hunger

7. Naomi Alderman: The Power

8. André Aciman: Call Me By Your Name

9. Jeffrey Kluger: Apollo 8

10. Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner

11. Adrian Tchaikovsky: Children of Time

12. John Scalzi: Redshirts

13. Benjamin Alire Saenz: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

14. Jill Twiss: A Day in Life of Marlon Bundo

15. Natalia Holt: Rise of the Rocket Girls

16. Madeline Miller: The Song of Achilles

17. Malala Yousafzai: I Am Malala

18. Becky Chambers: The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet

19. Ann Leckie: Ancillary Justice

20. Iliza Shlesinger: Girl Logic

21. Madeleine Albright: Fascism: A Warning

22. Madeline Miller: Circe

23. Nnedi Okorafor: Binti

24. Meg Wolitzer: The Female Persuasion

25. Blake Crouch: Dark Matter

26. Angie Thomas: The Hate U Give

27. Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale

28. Terry Pratchett: Guards! Guards!

29. Ronan Farrow: War on Peace

30. Ijeoma Oluo: So You Want to Talk About Race

31. Deborah Harkness: A Discovery of Witches

32. Rhoda Belleza: Empress of a Thousand Skies

33. Jane Austen: Emma

34. John Scalzi: The Consuming Fire

35. Maya Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

36. Angela Saini: Inferior

37. Jill Santopolo: The Light We Lost

38. Ursula K. Le Guin: Nine Lives

39. Terry Pratchett: Mort

40. N. K. Jemisin: The Fifth Season

2017

1. Han Kang: The Vegetarian

2. Donal Ryan: The Spinning Heart

3. Jeff Chang: We Gon’ Be Alright

4. Toni Morrison: Beloved

5. Kate Chopin: The Awakening

6. Frank Herbert: Dune

7. Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird

8. Al Franken: Giant of the Senate

9. Trevor Noah: Born a Crime

10. Aziz Ansari: Modern Romance

11. Neil deGrasse Tyson: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

12. Al Franken: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

13. Timothy Snyder: On Tyranny

14. Heinrich Harrer: Seven Years in Tibet

15. H. G. Wells: The War of the Worlds

16. Hillary Rodham Clinton: What Happened

17. Andy Weir: The Martian

18. Paul Beatty: The Sellout

19. Brian Greene: Light Falls

20. John Scalzi: The Collapsing Empire

21. Arthur C. Clarke: 2001: A Space Odyssey

22. Rupi Kaur: Milk and Honey

23. Andy Weir: Artemis

24. Lawrence Krauss: The Greatest Story Ever Told – So Far

25. John Scalzi: The Dispatcher

26. Yuval Noah Harari: Homo Deus

27. Carrie Fisher: The Princess Diarist

28. Robin Sloan: Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore

29. Hope Jahren: Lab Girl

30. Kameron Hurley: The Stars Are Legion

31. George Saunders: Lincoln in the Bardo

32. Tiffany Haddish: The Last Black Unicorn

2016

1. Emily St. John Mandel: Station Eleven

2. Alice Munroe: Dear Life

3. Yannick Grannec: The Goddess of Small Victories

4. R. J. Palacio: Wonder

5. Elena Ferrante: My Brilliant Friend

6. Elena Ferrante: The Story of a New Name

7. Elena Ferrante: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

8. Elena Ferrante: The Story of the Lost Child

9. Charles Duhigg: The Power of Habit

10. Hanya Yanagihara: A Little Life

11. David Vann: Aquarium

12. Zadie Smith: White Teeth

13. Graeme Simion: The Rosie Project

14. Milan Kundera: The Festival of Insignificance

15. Jeanette Winterson: Gut Symmetries

16. John Updike: Gertrude and Claudius

17. Sheryl Sandberg: Lean In

18. Jonas Jonasson: The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

19. Juli Zeh: Gaming Instinct

20. Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go

21. Marguerite Duras: The Lover

22. Hilary du Pre and Piers du Pre: A Genius in the Family

23. Blair Tindall: Mozart in the Jungle

24. Michel Faber: The Crimson Petal and the White

25. Vit Sliva: Navrsi