Books

Updated

I started tracking my books on Goodreads in 2013. Just for the kick of it, I exported the data for display here. Some caveats: This data is not frequently updated (see date above) because it’s a manual process to export data from Goodreads.

Currently reading

Season of Storms (The Witcher, #0.2)

Andrzej Sapkowski


Books I've read so far in 2026

5 books (42% of target 12).

The Decagon House Murders (House Murders, #1)

Yukito Ayatsuji

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Dune (Dune, #1)

Frank Herbert

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Pup Fiction

Ted the Dog

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Less

Patrick Grant

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Under the Skin

Michel Faber

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆


Books I read in 2025

52 books (100% of target 52).

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True Grit

Charles Portis

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Sula

Toni Morrison

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

The Lathe of Heaven

Ursula K. Le Guin

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

The Hellbound Heart

Clive Barker

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Rosemary's Baby

Ira Levin

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Speak

Laurie Halse Anderson

★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

Becky Chambers

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)

Becky Chambers

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

It’s Not a Cult

Joey Batey

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

The Stepford Wives

Ira Levin

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Tender Is the Flesh

Agustina Bazterrica

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

On Chesil Beach

Ian McEwan

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

Martha Wells

★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

How to Read a Tree

Tristan Gooley

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

A Short Stay in Hell

Steven L. Peck

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

The Secret World of Weather

Tristan Gooley

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

The Ha-Ha

Jennifer Dawson

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

The Word for World Is Forest

Ursula K. Le Guin

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Yellowface

R.F. Kuang

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Stephen Chbosky

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

So Long, See You Tomorrow

William Maxwell

★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

Giovanni’s Room

James Baldwin

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

The Forge and the Flood

Miles Nelson

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

The British Museum is Falling Down

David Lodge

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

Martha Wells

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

The Trial

Franz Kafka

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)

Seishi Yokomizo

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

The Cat Who Saved Books (The Cat Who..., #1)

Sōsuke Natsukawa

★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)

Martha Wells

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

Martha Wells

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Tehanu (Earthsea Cycle, #4)

Ursula K. Le Guin

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

This Is How You Lose the Time War

Amal El-Mohtar

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

The Unmothers

Leslie J. Anderson

★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

Martyr!

Kaveh Akbar

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Everything is Tuberculosis

John Green

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Vintage International)

Gabriel García Márquez

★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

Pretty Hate Machine

Daphne Carr

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

Train Dreams

Denis Johnson

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Foster

Claire Keegan

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

The Farthest Shore (Earthsea Cycle, #3)

Ursula K. Le Guin

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

Ursula K. Le Guin

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Orbital

Samantha Harvey

★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

The Lady of the Lake (The Witcher, #5)

Andrzej Sapkowski

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

I Who Have Never Known Men

Jacqueline Harpman

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Leo Tolstoy

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

Ursula K. Le Guin

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Cannery Row

John Steinbeck

★ ★ ★ ★ ★


Books I read in 2024

10 books (50% of target 20).

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Jazz

Toni Morrison

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

The Tower of the Swallow (The Witcher, #4)

Andrzej Sapkowski

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Baptism of Fire (The Witcher, #3)

Andrzej Sapkowski

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Time of Contempt (The Witcher, #2)

Andrzej Sapkowski

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Blood of Elves (The Witcher, #1)

Andrzej Sapkowski

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

The Ascent of Rum Doodle

W.E. Bowman

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Crash

J.G. Ballard

[unrated]

Sword of Destiny (The Witcher, #0.7)

Andrzej Sapkowski

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

The Discomfort of Evening

Lucas Rijneveld

★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Patrick Süskind

★ ★ ★ ★ ★


Books I read in 2023

16 books (80% of target 20).

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The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5)

Andrzej Sapkowski

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

How to Keep House While Drowning

K.C. Davis

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Looking After Your Autistic Self

Niamh Garvey

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Nobber

Oisín Fagan

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

The Autistic Brain

Temple Grandin

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Shy

Max Porter

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

The Vanishing Half

Brit Bennett

★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

Lessons in Chemistry

Bonnie Garmus

★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

Turn Your Talent into a Business

Emma Jones

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

The Satsuma Complex (Gary Thorn, #1)

Bob Mortimer

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Gabrielle Zevin

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

John Buchan

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

In A New York Minute

Kate Spencer

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Time's Arrow

Martin Amis

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

The Book of Form and Emptiness

Ruth Ozeki

★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

The Four Tendencies

Gretchen Rubin

★ ★ ★ ★ ★


Books I read in 2022

26 books (173% of target 15).

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The Almanac: A seasonal guide to 2022

Lia Leendertz

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Wasted Calories and Ruined Nights

Jay Rayner

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Do What You Love, Love What You Do

Holly Tucker

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Case Study

Graeme Macrae Burnet

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

The Bread the Devil Knead

Lisa Allen-Agostini

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

I Was Born for This (I Was Born for This, #1)

Alice Oseman

★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

Turtles All the Way Down

John Green

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Radio Silence

Alice Oseman

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Gender Queer: A Memoir

Maia Kobabe

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

David Sedaris

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

The Anthropocene Reviewed

John Green

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

The Social Skills Guidebook

Chris MacLeod

[unrated]

Solitaire

Alice Oseman

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Nick and Charlie

Alice Oseman

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Heartstopper: Volume Three (Heartstopper, #3)

Alice Oseman

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Heartstopper: Volume Four (Heartstopper, #4)

Alice Oseman

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

This Winter (Solitaire, #0.5)

Alice Oseman

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Heartstopper: Volume Two (Heartstopper, #2)

Alice Oseman

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Heartstopper: Volume One (Heartstopper, #1)

Alice Oseman

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

Max Porter

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

The Death of Francis Bacon

Max Porter

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Lanny

Max Porter

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.

David Sedaris

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Foundation (Foundation, #1)

Isaac Asimov

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

The Almanac: A Seasonal Guide to 2021

Lia Leendertz

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

How to Talk to Anyone

Leil Lowndes

★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆


Books I read in 2021

11 books (73% of target 15).

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The Circle (The Circle, #1)

Dave Eggers

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Calypso

David Sedaris

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Heartburn

Nora Ephron

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Mixed/Other

Natalie Morris

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Thanks for Waiting

Doree Shafrir

[unrated]

The Living Mountain

Nan Shepherd

[unrated]

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

The Gifts of Reading

Robert Macfarlane

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Burnt Sugar

Avni Doshi

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

The Almanac: A Seasonal Guide to 2020

Lia Leendertz

★ ★ ★ ★ ★


Books I read in 2020

16 books (80% of target 20).

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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Gail Honeyman

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Hot Milk

Deborah Levy

★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Red, White & Royal Blue

Casey McQuiston

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

The Story of Craft Beer

Pete Brown

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Wild Signs and Star Paths

Tristan Gooley

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

The Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula K. Le Guin

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Convenience Store Woman

Sayaka Murata

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

This is Going to Hurt

Adam Kay

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Shirley Jackson

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)

Agatha Christie

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

The Fault in Our Stars

John Green

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)

Terry Pratchett

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace

★ ★ ★ ★ ★


Books I read in 2019

12 books (100% of target 12).

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The Almanac: A Seasonal Guide to 2019

Lia Leendertz

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

York Then & Now

Paul Chrystal

[unrated]

A Walk Around the Snickelways of York

Mark W. Jones

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

The Gentle Art of Tramping

Stephen Graham

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Morning: How to make time

Allan Jenkins

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Elementary Sewing Skills

Merchant & Mills

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Carol

Claire Morgan

[unrated]

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

The God of Small Things

Arundhati Roy

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Marie Kondō

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Beloved

Toni Morrison

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)

Arthur Conan Doyle

★ ★ ★ ★ ★


Books I read in 2018

28 books (93% of target 30).

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The Luckiest Guy Alive

John Cooper Clarke

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Ernest Hemingway

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

The Almanac: A Seasonal Guide to 2018

Lia Leendertz

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

In the Miso Soup

Ryū Murakami

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Waiting for Godot

Samuel Beckett

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Autumn: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons

Melissa Harrison

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Balik Kampung 3A: Northern Shores

Verena Tay

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Amsterdam

Ian McEwan

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

A Room with a View

E.M. Forster

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle, #1)

Diana Wynne Jones

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Flights

Olga Tokarczuk

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #4)

Arthur Conan Doyle

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

[unrated]

How Much the Heart Can Hold

Carys Bray

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Teaching A Stone To Talk

Annie Dillard

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Jar City

Arnaldur Indriðason

★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

The Wreath (Kristin Lavransdatter, #1)

Sigrid Undset

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

Arthur Conan Doyle

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

The Heart of a Dog

Mikhail Bulgakov

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)

Arthur Conan Doyle

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

East of Eden

John Steinbeck

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)

Arthur Conan Doyle

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

A Life of Adventure and Delight

Akhil Sharma

★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

The Old Ways

Robert Macfarlane

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆


Books I read in 2017

34 books (113% of target 30).

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A Whole Life

Robert Seethaler

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Enduring Love

Ian McEwan

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

How to Read Water

Tristan Gooley

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs

Tristan Gooley

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Holloway

Robert Macfarlane

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Thirty-Three Teeth (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #2)

Colin Cotterill

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Three Men on the Bummel (Three Men, #2)

Jerome K. Jerome

★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

Born to Run

Christopher McDougall

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)

James Clavell

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

, said the shotgun to the head.

Saul Williams

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Thornton Wilder

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

I'm Fine, But You Appear to Be Sinking

Leyna Krow

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

The Last Time I Saw You

Rebecca Brown

★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

Post Office

Charles Bukowski

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

The Wonder

Emma Donoghue

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

The Eye

Vladimir Nabokov

★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

After-Supper Ghost Stories: Annotated Edition

Jerome K. Jerome

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

The Cement Garden

Ian McEwan

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

The Coroner's Lunch (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #1)

Colin Cotterill

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf

★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Wind, Sand and Stars

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

To the Letter

Simon Garfield

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Haruki Murakami

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)

Richard Adams

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Hard Times Require Furious Dancing

Alice Walker

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Reasons to Stay Alive

Matt Haig

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

Jerome K. Jerome

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

The Sellout

Paul Beatty

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

Raymond Chandler

★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)

Douglas Adams

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Hard Times

Charles Dickens

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆


Books I read in 2016

5 books.

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Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently, #1)

Douglas Adams

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

The Art of Happiness

Dalai Lama XIV

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)

J.K. Rowling

[unrated]


Books I read in 2015

10 books.

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)

J.K. Rowling

[unrated]

Good Omens

Terry Pratchett

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

Edwin A. Abbott

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

The Stranger

Albert Camus

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Breakfast of Champions

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Cat’s Cradle

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

1Q84 (1Q84, #3)

Haruki Murakami

★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

1Q84 #1-2 (1Q84, #1-2)

Haruki Murakami

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆


Books I read in 2014

16 books.

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Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Jeanette Winterson

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)

Philip Pullman

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)

Philip Pullman

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)

Philip Pullman

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Sputnik Sweetheart

Haruki Murakami

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)

J.K. Rowling

[unrated]

Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Truman Capote

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

A Japanese Mirror

Ian Buruma

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Affinity

Sarah Waters

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Fingersmith

Sarah Waters

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Tipping the Velvet

Sarah Waters

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆


Books I read in 2013

6 books.

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Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)

Terry Pratchett

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Catch-22

Joseph Heller

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Slammerkin

Emma Donoghue

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Life Mask

Emma Donoghue

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)

Jonas Jonasson

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)

Douglas Adams

★ ★ ★ ★ ★