Reading List

Since 2004, I’ve tracked all the books I’ve read in an Excel file (which will surprise exactly no one who knows me in real life). My memory is shit, so this reading list helps me to remember the books I’ve read (and reread), as well as rediscover books and authors I may have forgotten. (Also: I just like to make lists.) Below are the books I’ve read since 2021, which I share here in case someone else may find something new, or new to them, to love. I’m also on Goodreads; feel free to add me there.

2026 //

  • The Hemingway Hoax, Joe Haldeman
  • Wicked Wonders, Ellen Klages
  • In the Cut, Susanna Moore
  • Indiana Jones and the Dance of the Giants, Rob MacGregor
  • The Kings of Eternity, Eric Brown
  • The Ripple Effect, Paul Garrison
  • Indiana Jones and the Peril at Delphi, Rob MacGregor
  • Heretic: Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God, Catherine Nixey
  • The Lost Continent, Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Crook Manifesto, Colson Whitehead
  • The Lucifer Code, Charles Brokaw
  • Remnant, Conrad Williams
  • The Unmaking of June Farrow, Adrienne Young
  • The Final Problem, Arturo Pérez-Reverte
  • Paradox, Douglas Preston
  • Spectators, Brian K. Vaughan
  • An Excellent Host, Chelsea G. Summers
  • Instructions for Traveling West: Poems, Joy Sullivan
  • The Everlasting, Alix E. Harrow
  • Dead Pig Collector, Warren Ellis
  • The Lola Quartet, Emily St. John Mandel
  • Absolute Batman, Vol. 1: The Zoo, Scott Snyder
  • Buying Time, Eric Brown
  • God’s Junk Drawer, Peter Clines
  • The Doxies Penalty, Madeleine E. Robins
  • The Atlantis Code, Charles Brokaw
  • Sycamore, Ian Rogers
  • The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Trust No One, James Rollins
  • The Lottery and Other Stories, Shirley Jackson
  • Soft Core, Brittany Newell
  • Twelve Months (The Dresden Files, #18), Jim Butcher
  • 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years (The Time Traveler’s Passport), John Scalzi
  • King of Ashes, S.A. Cosby
  • The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America, Jim Marrs
  • One of Us, Dan Chaon
  • William Gibson’s Alien 3, William Gibson

2025 //

  • Strange Weather, Joe Hill
  • 20th Century Ghosts, Joe Hill
  • Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
  • Spread Me, Sarah Gailey
  • Pattern Recognition, William Gibson
  • Black Sheep, Rachel Harrison
  • The Shattering Peace, John Scalzi
  • My Darling Dreadful Thing, Johanna van Veen
  • Remnant, Conrad Williams
  • The Rivals, Jane Pek
  • The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch
  • The Ghostwriter, Julie Clark
  • She Rides Shotgun, Jordan Harper
  • The Bewitching, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
  • Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass, #3), Sarah J. Maas
  • Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2), Sarah J. Maas
  • The Grownup, Gillian Flynn
  • I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying, Youngmi Mayer
  • The Safekeep, Yael van der Wouden

2024 //

2023 //

  • A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers
  • Faun, Joe Hill
  • Bridge, Lauren Beukes
  • Everybody Knows, Jordan Harper
  • The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty
  • Silver Nitrate, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • Philosophy, Pussycats, & Porn, Stoya
  • Starter Villain, John Scalzi
  • Exadelic, Jon Evans
  • Yellowface, R.F. Kuang
  • Death Wish, Brian Garfield
  • Strangers on a Train, Patricia Highsmith
  • Noor, Nnedi Okorafor
  • True Grit, Charles Portis
  • All the Sinners Bleed, S.A. Cosby
  • My Darkest Prayer, S.A. Cosby
  • Beyond the Hallowed Sky, Ken MacLeod
  • Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings, Rob MacGregor
  • The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel
  • The Verifiers, Jane Pek
  • The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones
  • Jumper series, Steven Gould
    • Exo
    • Impulse
    • Reflex
    • Jumper
  • The Price of Salt, Patricia Highsmith

2022 //

  • Flight Risk, Cherie Priest
  • Blacktop Wasteland, S.A. Cosby
  • Our Crooked Hearts, Melissa Albert
  • Harlem Shuffle, Colson Whitehead
  • Lost in Time, A.G. Riddle
  • The Road, Cormac McCarthy
  • Once You Go This Far, Kristen Lepionka
  • Crash, J.G. Ballard
  • Just Like Home, Sarah Gailey
  • The Suitcase Clone, Robin Sloan
  • Sourdough, Robin Sloan
  • Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts, Evan Ross Katz
  • Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel
  • Killing Castro, Lawrence Block
  • Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • The Stories You Tell, Kristen Lepionka
  • A Spindle Splintered, Alix E. Harrow
  • Whore of New York, Liara Roux
  • Finlay Donovan Is Killing It, Elle Cosimano
  • The Cartographers, Peng Shepherd
  • The Final Girl Support Group, Grady Hendrix
  • The Kings of Eternity, Eric Brown
  • King Solomon’s Mines, H. Rider Haggard
  • Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
  • The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi
  • The Descent, Jeff Long
  • Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • Tacky, Rax King

2021 //

  • Replay, Ken Grimwood
    • REPLAY is one of my most favorite books ever. I try to reread it every five years or so — long enough for many of the plot details to have evaporated from my memory.
  • Trigger Warning, Neil Gaiman
  • Grave Reservations, Cherie Priest
  • The Ripple Effect, Paul Garrison
  • The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
  • Velvet Was the Night, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, Grady Hendrix
  • Flash Forward: An Illustrated Guide to Possible (and Not So Possible) Tomorrows, Rose Eveleth
  • Nightingale, Kristin Hannah
  • Wildside, Steven Gould
  • Hummingbird Salamander, Jeff Vandermeer
  • Bones of the Earth, Michael Swanwick
  • The Batman’s Grave, Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch
  • The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow
  • Cigar-Box Faust, Michael Swanwick
  • The Lesson, Cadwell Turnbull
  • Angel’s Inferno, William Hjortsberg
  • Mona Lisa Overdrive, William Gibson
  • Magic for Liars, Sarah Gailey
  • The Eighth Detective, Alex Pavesi
  • Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Ryan Parrott & Simone di Meo
  • The Invisible Life of Addie Larue, V.E. Schwab