Stuff I've read, excluding childhood books

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~ indicates a favorite, * indicates a particularly disliked book

Read in 2022 (so far)



Our Wives Under The Sea - Julia Armfield

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk ~

Activation Degradation - Marina J. Lostetter

Imago - Octavia E. Butler

Confessions - Kanae Minato

Adulthood Rites - Octavia E. Butler

A Dowry of Blood - S.T. Gibson

Manhunt - Gretchen Felker-Martin

Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. John Mandel

The Shattered Gates - Ginn Hale

Reincarnation Blues - Michael Poore

The Echo Wife - Sarah Gailey ~

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

Semiosis - Sue Burke

The Collective - Alison Gaylin *

A Snake Falls to Earth - Darcie Little Badger

Beasts of a Little Land - Juhea Kim

Ship of Magic - Robin Hobb

The Mad Ship - Robin Hobb

Silver in the Wood - Emily Tesh

Seveneves - Neal Stephenson

The Red Palace - June Hur

Wild Seed - Octavia E. Butler

This Thing Between Us - Gus Moreno ~

You Feel It Just Below the Ribs: A Novel Jeffrey Cranor, Janina Matthewson

Jade City Fonda Lee

Dawn Octavia E. Butler

My Heart Is a Chainsaw Stephen Graham Jones


Read before 2022,




Conjure Women Afia Atakora

Cemetery Boys Aiden Thomas

Pet Akwaeke Emezi

The Death of Vivek Oji Akwaeke Emezi

The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold

In the Vanishers' Palace Aliette de Bodard

Death by Silver Amy Griswold, Melissa Scott

Fifteen Dogs Andre Alexis

Artemis Andy Weir

The Martian Andy Weir

Miracle Creek Angie Kim

Ancillary Justice Ann Leckie

Ancillary Sword Ann Leckie

Provenance Ann Leckie

The Raven Tower Ann Leckie ~

A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from History's Most Orthodox Empire Anthony Kaldellis

A Memory Called Empire Arkady Martine

A Closed and Common Orbit Becky Chambers

Record of a Spaceborn Few Becky Chambers ~

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Becky Chambers

And Shall Machines Surrender Benjanun Sriduangkaew

Eat Me: A Natural and Unnatural History of Cannibalism Bill Schutt, Patricia Wynne

Dark Matter Blake Crouch

The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett

The Unbroken C.L. Clark

The Seep Chana Porter

The Oracle Year Charles Soule

Interior Chinatown Charles Yu

Perdido Street Station China Mieville * (screw this book)

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal Christopher Moore

The Dark Forest Cixin Liu

The Three-Body Problem Cixin Liu

Rainbirds Clarissa Goenawan

The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After Clemantine Wamariya

Harlem Shuffle Colson Whitehead

The Road Cormac McCarthy ~

John Dies at the End David Wong

All These Worlds Dennis E. Taylor

We Are Legion (We Are Bob) Dennis E. Taylor

The Goldfinch Donna Tartt

The Secret History Donna Tartt

Life, the Universe and Everything Douglas Adams

Mostly Harmless Douglas Adams

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams

The Good Brother E. L. Chen ~

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe

From a Certain Point of View Elizabeth Schaefer

Passing Strange Ellen Klages

Swordspoint Ellen Kushner

The Abyss Surrounds Us Emily Skrutskie

The Starless Sea Erin Morgenstern

A Woman Is No Man Etaf Rum

Winter's Orbit Everina Maxwell

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Fannie Flagg

Dune Frank Herbert

A Clash of Kings George R.R. Martin

A Dance with Dragons George R.R. Martin

A Feast for Crows George R.R. Martin

A Game of Thrones George R.R. Martin

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms George R.R. Martin

A Storm of Swords George R.R. Martin

Tuf Voyaging George R.R. Martin

Dark Places Gillian Flynn

Gone Girl Gillian Flynn

Sharp Objects Gillian Flynn

The Grownup Gillian Flynn

The Strain Guillermo del Toro

Suspicious Minds Gwenda Bond

The Vegetarian Han Kang

Mr. Fox Helen Oyeyemi

Peaces Helen Oyeyemi ~

The Hole Hye-Young Pyun

Every House Is Haunted Ian Rogers

The Half-God of Rainfall Inua Ellams

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien

Rangers at Roadsend Jane Fletcher

Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer

Borne Jeff VanderMeer ~

Dead Astronauts Jeff VanderMeer

Komodo Jeff VanderMeer

The Strange Bird: A Borne Story Jeff VanderMeer

It Devours! Jeffrey Cranor, Joseph Fink

The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home Jeffrey Cranor, Joseph Fink

Welcome to Night Vale Jeffrey Cranor, Joseph Fink

Ariadne Jennifer Saint

Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward

Things in Jars Jess Kidd

Embedded Heart Jess Sebastian

Horns Joe Hill

NOS4A2 Joe Hill *

Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius Jorge Luis Borges

Alice Isn't Dead Joseph Fink

A House at the Bottom of a Lake Josh Malerman

Bird Box Josh Malerman

Black Mad Wheel Josh Malerman

The Flight Portfolio Julie Orringer

Deathless Divide Justina Ireland

Dread Nation Justina Ireland ~

Prosper's Demon K.J. Parker

My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness Kabi Nagata

A Taste of Honey Kai Ashante Wilson

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women Kate Moore

The Goblin Emperor Katherine Addison *

Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro

The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro

The Grace of Kings Ken Liu

The Wall of Storms Ken Liu

Ruins Kevin J. Anderson

Crazy Rich Asians Kevin Kwan

A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini

And the Mountains Echoed Khaled Hosseini

The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini

The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century Kirk W. Johnson, Kirk Wallace Johnson

Bluebeard Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Rib King Ladee Hubbard

Amberlough Lara Elena Donnelly

Armistice Lara Elena Donnelly

Fates and Furies Lauren Groff

The Perfect Nanny Leila Slimani

Severance Ling Ma

The House of War and Witness Louise Carey, Mike Carey, Linda Carey

Future Home of the Living God Louise Erdrich ~

Love Medicine Louise Erdrich

The Antelope Wife Louise Erdrich

The Beet Queen Louise Erdrich

The Round House Louise Erdrich ~

Luck in the Shadows Lynn Flewelling

Stalking Darkness Lynn Flewelling

Traitor's Moon Lynn Flewelling

The Boy on the Bridge M.R. Carey

The Girl With All the Gifts M.R. Carey

Salvaged Madeleine Roux

Circe Madeline Miller

The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller

The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood

The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion Margaret Killjoy

For Better and Worse Margot Hunt

House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski

Black Leopard, Red Wolf Marlon James

All Systems Red Martha Wells ~

Artificial Condition Martha Wells

Exit Strategy Martha Wells

Fugitive Telemetry Martha Wells

Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory Martha Wells

Network Effect Martha Wells

Rogue Protocol Martha Wells

Stories of the Raksura: Volume One Martha Wells

The Cloud Roads Martha Wells

The Serpent Sea Martha Wells

The Siren Depths Martha Wells

The Calculating Stars Mary Robinette Kowal

Buffalo Soldier Maurice Broaddus

A Burning Megha Majumdar

The Book of Essie Meghan MacLean Weir

The Shining Wall Melissa Ferguson

The Space Between Worlds Micaiah Johnson ~

Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes

Pachinko Min Jin Lee ~

Be Not Far From Me Mindy McGinnis

The Female of the Species Mindy McGinnis

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms N.K. Jemisin *

The Night Inside Nancy Baker

Spinning Silver Naomi Novik

American Gods Neil Gaiman

The Black Tides of Heaven Neon Yang

The Empress of Salt and Fortune Nghi Vo

Escaping Exodus Nicky Drayden

The Prey of Gods Nicky Drayden

New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color Nisi Shawl

Remote Control Nnedi Okorafor

Kindred Octavia E. Butler

An Ideal Husband Oscar Wilde

The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde

Sleeping Beauties Owen King, Stephen King *

The Alchemist Paulo Coelho *

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick

Leila Prayaag Akbar

Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury

For We Are Many Ray Porter, Dennis E. Taylor

Storm of Locusts Rebecca Roanhorse

Trail of Lightning Rebecca Roanhorse

The Plague Dogs Richard Adams

Watership Down Richard Adams

An Unkindness of Ghosts Rivers Solomon

Sorrowland Rivers Solomon ~

The Deep Rivers Solomon

Foundryside Robert Jackson Bennett

Assassin's Apprentice Robin Hobb

Assassin's Quest Robin Hobb

Royal Assassin Robin Hobb

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore Robin Sloan

Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance Ruth Emmie Lang *

The City of Brass S.A. Chakraborty

The Kingdom of Copper S.A. Chakraborty

Fever Dream Samanta Schweblin

Mouthful of Birds: Stories Samanta Schweblin

The Priory of the Orange Tree Samantha Shannon

Neveryona, or: The Tale of Signs and Cities--Some Informal Remarks Towards the Modular Calculus, Part Four Samuel R. Delany

Tales of Neveryon Samuel R. Delany

The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros

Magic for Liars Sarah Gailey

River of Teeth Sarah Gailey

Taste of Marrow Sarah Gailey

Upright Women Wanted Sarah Gailey

Affinity Sarah Waters

Fingersmith Sarah Waters

The Paying Guests Sarah Waters

Earthlings Sayaka Murata

Red Seas Under Red Skies Scott Lynch

The Lies of Locke Lamora Scott Lynch

The Republic of Thieves Scott Lynch

The Heap Sean Adams

The Traitor Baru Cormorant Seth Dickinson

She Who Became the Sun Shelley Parker-Chan

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven Sherman Alexie

The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson

The Lottery Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson

Gods of Jade and Shadow Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones ~

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest Stieg Larsson

The Girl Who Played with Fire Stieg Larsson

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson

Piranesi Susanna Clarke

Gideon the Ninth Tamsyn Muir *

The Water Dancer Ta-Nehisi Coates

Exhalation: Stories Ted Chiang ~

Stories of Your Life and Others Ted Chiang ~

Diggers Terry Pratchett

Feet of Clay Terry Pratchett

Guards! Guards! Terry Pratchett

Jingo Terry Pratchett

Making Money Terry Pratchett

Men at Arms Terry Pratchett

Mort Terry Pratchett

Moving Pictures Terry Pratchett

Pyramids Terry Pratchett

The Color of Magic Terry Pratchett

The Fifth Elephant Terry Pratchett

The Light Fantastic Terry Pratchett

The Truth Terry Pratchett

Truckers Terry Pratchett

Wings Terry Pratchett

Red Dragon Thomas Harris

The Silence of the Lambs Thomas Harris

There There Tommy Orange

A Wizard of Earthsea Ursula K. Le Guin

Tehanu Ursula K. Le Guin

The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin

The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin

The Tombs of Atuan Ursula K. Le Guin

A Darker Shade of Magic V.E. Schwab

A Gathering of Shadows V.E. Schwab

The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen

Night Theater Vikram Paralkar

Lord of the Flies William Golding

Homegoing Yaa Gyasi ~

Transcendent Kingdom Yaa Gyasi ~

The Ghost Bride Yangsze Choo

The Night Tiger Yangsze Choo

The Memory Police Yoko Ogawa

Ninefox Gambit Yoon Ha Lee

Phoenix Extravagant Yoon Ha Lee

Raven Stratagem Yoon Ha Lee

Revenant Gun Yoon Ha Lee

The Last Human Zack Jordan

Swing Time Zadie Smith

The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water Zen Cho







in alphabetic order by author's first name. Not the best sorting system but there's too much to fiddle with it much. Maybe I'll separate 2021's books at some point.