Turns out I’m two years behind on these so I’m getting ’em up! No commentary because I gotta run out the door to ink more pages of Seacritters, but hopefully I’ll come back to this down the line.
(Previously: 2023 in Reading, 2022 in Reading, 2021 in Reading, 2020 in Reading)
| Legend | Rough Guide to Ratings |
|---|---|
| 🎭 – Plays 📝 – Poetry 📖 – Books (Fiction) 📓 – Books (Nonfiction) 💬 – Graphic Novels 🔄 – Reread 🎙️ – Audiobook | ❤︎ = Yes ❤︎❤︎ = Oh Yes ❤︎❤︎❤︎ = Oh Hell Yes ❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎ = Obviously this one hit at the right place and the right time |
- 📖 The Raven Tower – Ann Leckie
- 📖 The Night Manager – John Le Carré
- 💬 / 📓 It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth – Zoe Thorogood
- 📖 Network Effect – Martha Wells
- 📓 The Beauty in Breaking – Michele Harper
- 💬 / 📓 The Five Lives of Hilma Af Kilnt – Philipp Deines
- 📖 The Fermata – Nicholson Baker
- 📖 Birnam Wood – Eleanor Catton ❤︎❤︎
- 📖 The Luminaries – Eleanor Catton
- 🎙️ / 📖 Lightning Rods – Helen DeWitt
- 📖 Prophet – Sin Blaché & Helen Macdonald ❤︎
- 📓 Holy the Firm – Annie Dillard ❤︎❤︎
- 🎙️ / 📖 Making Money – Terry Pratchett
- 📖 Excession – Ian M. Banks
- 📓 Your Money or Your Life – Vicki Robin & Joe Dominguez
- 📓 Subculture Vulture – Moshe Kasher
- 📖 The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi – Shannon Chakraborty ❤︎
- 📝 The Peace of Wild Things – Wendell Berry ❤︎❤︎❤︎
- 📓 The Liars’ Club – Mary Karr ❤︎❤︎
- 🎙️ / 📖 The Lies of Locke Lamora – Scott Lynch
- 💬 / 📓 And Now I Spill the Family Secrets – Margaret Kimball
- 💬 / 📖 Sex Criminals Vols. 1-6 – Matt Fraction & Chip Zdarsky ❤︎❤︎
- 🎙️ / 📖 Red Seas Under Red Skies – Scott Lynch
- 📓 Travelers to Unimaginable Lands – Dasha Kiper ❤︎
- 💬 / 📖 Safari Honeymoon – Jesse Jacobs
- 📓 What If This Were Enough? – Heather Havrilesky
- 📖 Oliver VII – Antal Szerb
- 💬 / 📓 How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less – Sarah Glidden
- 🎙️ / 📖 The Republic of Thieves – Scott Lynch
- 📝 44 Poems for You – Sarah Ruhl
- 📓 Wild – Cheryl Strayed
- 📓 Saving Time – Jenny Odell ❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎
- 🎙️/📖 The Thursday Murder Club – Richard Osman
- 📓 The Wild Edge of Sorrow – Francis Weller ❤︎❤︎
- 🎙️ / 📖 Nothing to See Here – Kevin Wilson
- 🎙️ / 📖 The City of Brass – S.A. Chakraborty
- 💬 / 📓 The Worst Journey in the World: Vol. 1 – Sarah Airriess, adapted from Apsley Cherry-Garrard ❤︎
- 📓 Smile: The Story of a Face – Sarah Ruhl ❤︎❤︎
- 📓 Gender/Fucking – Florence Ashley
- 💬 / 📖 Pixels of You – Ananth Hirsh, Yuko Ota, J.R. Doyle
- 📓 Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder – Lawrence Weschler / Visitng The Museum of Jurassic Technology IRL ❤︎❤︎❤︎
- 💬 / 📖 Waverider (Amulet Book 9) – Kazu Kibuishi
- 📖 Women Talking – Miriam Toews
- 🎙️ / 📖 The Kingdom of Copper – S.A. Chakraborty
- 📓 Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism – Premilla Nadasen ❤︎❤︎
- 🔄 📓 Steal Like an Artist – Austin Kleon
- 💬 / 📖 Danger and Other Unknown Risks – Ryan North & Erica Henderson ❤︎❤︎❤︎
- 💬 / 📖 Lightfall: The Dark Times – Tim Probert
- 🎙️ / 📖 The Empire of Gold – S. A. Chakraborty
- 🎙️ / 📖 Night Boat to Tangier – Kevin Barry ❤︎❤︎❤︎
- 📖 Funny Story – Emily Henry
- 💬 / 📖 Stargazing – Jen Wang
- 💬 / 📓 In Limbo – Deb JJ Lee
- 🎙️ / 📖 The Midnight Library – Matt Haig
- 📓 Four Thousand Weeks – Oliver Burkeman ❤︎
- 💬 / 📓 Coma – Zara Slattery
- 📓 The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry – Stacey D’Erasmo ❤︎❤︎
- 📓 Mutual Aid – Dean Spade
- 🎙️ / 📖 The Book of Love – Kelly Link
- 📖 Red, White, and Royal Blue – Casey McQuiston
- 🎙️ / 📖 Godkiller – Hannah Kaner
- 📖 Whoever You Are, Honey – Olivia Gatwood ❤︎
- 🎙️ / 📖 Sunbringer – Hannah Kaner
- 🎙️ / 📓 Driven to Distraction – Edward M. Hallowell & John J. Ratey
- 🎙️ / 📓 A Heart That Works – Rob Delaney ❤︎
- 📖 Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
- 📓 Slouching Towards Bethlehem – Joan Didion ❤︎❤︎
Unfinished but Made Progress
- The Nature Book – Tom Comitta
- Annals of the Former World – John McFee
- The Divine Comedy – Dante
- Come Together – Emily Nagoski
- Wildwood – Roger Deakin
- The Idle Beekeeper – Bill Anderson
- Bear – Marian Engel
- This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed – Charles E. Cobb Jr.
- A Month in Siena – Hisham Matar
