Books
This page is an in-progress shrine to the books I've read in recent memory. I started this in January 2026 and plan to build it up over time with more books as I remember them, cover art, and eventually commentary.
### Jan 2026
- **Solanin** — Inio Asano (partial)
- **Lucy** — Jamaica Kincaid
- **My Horizontal Life** — Chelsea Handler
- **Walkaway** — Cory Doctorow
### Dec 2025
- **Makers** — Cory Doctorow
- **Veniss Underground** — Jeff VanderMeer
- **The Man in the Banana Trees** — Margeuerite Sheffer (unfinished)
### Nov 2025
- **The Book of Skulls** — Robert Silverberg
### Sep-Oct 2025
- **The Drowned World** — J.G. Ballard
- **Dix Portraits** — Gertrude Stein
- **Hokkaido Highway Blues** — Will Ferguson
- **The Northern Caves** — nostalgebraist
### Aug 2025
- **Novelist as a Vocation** – Haruki Murakami
### Jul 2025
- **Equations of Life** — Simon Morden (unfinished)
### Jun 2025
- **The Candy House** — Jennifer Egan
- **A Confederacy of Dunces** — John Kennedy Toole
- **Raise Hight the Roof Beam, Carpenters** — J.D. Salinger
- **Nine Stories** — J.D. Salinger (partial)
### Spring/Summer 2025
- **The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape** — James Howard Kunstler (1993)
- **Bird by Bird** — Anne Lamott
- **Surfacing** — Margaret Atwood
### Mar 2025
- **Desire** — Haruki Murakami (unfinished)
- **The Illustrated Man** — Ray Bradbury (unfinished)
- **The Martian Chronicles** — Ray Bradbury
- **The Not Yet** — Moira Crone
- **The Rise of Endymion** — Dan Simmons
### Winter 2025
- **Endymion** — Dan Simmons
### Nov 2024
- **White Nose** — Don DeLillo
### Oct 2024
- **The Book of Form and Emptiness** — Ruth Ozeki
- **Oryx and Crake** — Margaret Atwood
### Sep 2024
- **Dance Dance Dance** — Haruki Murakami (unfinished)
- **Bluets** (unfinished)
- **Bliss Montage** — Ling Ma
- **Severance** — Ling Ma
- **Watership Down** — Richard Adams
- **Circe** — Madeline Miller
- **The Fall of Hyperion** — Dan Simmons
### Jul 2024
- **Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town** — Cory Doctorow
- **Franny and Zooey** — J.D. Salinger
### Jun 2024
- **Hyperion** — Dan Simmons
- **The Magus** — Joh Knowles (unfinished)
- **Snow Crash** — Neal Stephenson
- **Borne** — Jeff VanderMeer
- **The Dork of Cork** — Chet Raymo
### May 2024
- **The Soul of Night** — Chet Raymo (unfinished)
- **Arctic Dreams** — (in progress)
### Apr 2024
- **Girl in Landscape** — Jonathan Lethem
- **Neutron Star** — Larry Niven
- **The Big Sleep** — Raymond Chandler