Since 2004, I’ve tracked all the books I’ve read in an Excel file. (This will surprise no one who knows me irl.) My memory is shit, so this reading list helps me remember the books I’ve read and reread, and rediscover books and authors I may have simply forgotten. Below are the books I’ve read since 2021, which I share here on the off-chance someone may find something new, or new to them, to love.
2023 //
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
Exo, Steven Gould
Impulse, Steven Gould
Reflex, Steven Gould
Jumper, Steven Gould
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 very favorite books ever. I try to reread it every five years or so — long enough for the plot details to have mostly 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 and Simone di Meo
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue, V.E. Schwab
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