Favorite books and a reverse-chronological reading list, since 2016.
Last Update: Feb 26, 2025Favorites
- The Lord of the Rings -
- Musashi -
- Nausicäa of the Valley of the Wind -
- Bone -
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World -
- Wind, Sand, and Stars -
- The Moonstone -
Currently Reading
- The Adventures of Augie March -
- Collected Stories -
2025
- Absolution -
- As I Lay Dying -
- Tortilla Flat -
- What Follows Is True: Crescent Hotel -
2024
- Gai-Jin -
- Henderson the Rain King -
- Shōgun -
- Moonbound -
- Eugene Onegin -
- The Reivers -
- Midnight’s Children -
- The Sound and the Fury -
- The Glass Key -
- The Remains of the Day -
- The Idiot -
- The Little Sister -
- How Do You Live? -
- Everything That Rises Must Converge -
- Lilith -
- The Seagull -
- My Cousin Rachel -
- The Inugami Curse -
- The Secret of Father Brown -
- Death of a Salesman -
- Neuromancer -
- The Honjin Murders -
- The Violent Bear It Away -
- The Lady in the Lake -
- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency -
- Rebecca -
- East of Eden -
- The Big Four -
- Kissa by Kissa -
- Strange Pilgrims -
- Fathers and Sons -
- The High Window -
2023
- Farewell, My Lovely -
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - - ×2
- A Streetcar Named Desire -
- The Sun Also Rises -
- The Gate -
- NonNonBa - - ×2
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof -
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North -
- Kusamakura -
- Ten Nights of Dreams -
- The World of Mr. Mulliner -
- The Haunted Hotel -
- Japanese Inn -
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -
- The Glass Menagerie -
- Musashi - - ×2
- Cocktail Time -
- The Bell Jar -
- 1Q84 - - ×2
- The Lost Notebook -
- Kipps -
- Sea of Tranquility -
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - - ×2
- Young Men in Spats -
- After the Quake -
- The October Country -
- Dombey and Son -
- Dandelion Wine -
- The Master of Ballantrae -
- Kokoro -
- Uncle Dynamite -
- The Incredulity of Father Brown -
- Pebble in the Sky -
- The Currents of Space -
- The Stars, Like Dust -
- Heretics of Dune -
- Shuna's Journey -
- Money in the Bank -
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man -
2022
- Sanshirō -
- God Emperor of Dune -
- The Illustrated Man -
- Botchan -
- Jill the Reckless -
- From the Dust Returned -
- The Water of the Wondrous Isles -
- Service with a Smile -
- Nightfall and Other Stories -
- Finch -
- Shriek: An Afterword -
- City of Saints and Madmen -
- Killer, Come Back to Me -
- A Gentleman of Leisure -
- The Mark of Zorro -
- Indiscretions of Archie -
- The End of Eternity -
- The King of Elfland's Daughter -
- The Canterville Ghost -
- The Gods Themselves -
- Lady Windermere's Fan -
- Northanger Abbey -
- An Ideal Husband -
- The Importance of Being Earnest -
- All the Seas in the World -
- Uncle Fred in the Springtime -
- Twenty Years After -
- Catriona -
- Irish Fairy Tales -
- The Sound of Waves -
- Antic Hay -
- Farewell Summer -
- Drawn to Life: Vol. 2 -
- I, Robot - - ×2
- Heavy Weather -
- Summer Lightning -
- Fahrenheit 451 - - ×2
- The Tale of the Heike -
- Tono Monogatari -
- Let's All Kill Constance -
- A Graveyard for Lunatics -
2021
- Death is a Lonely Business -
- Something Wicked This Way Comes -
- The Mill on the Floss -
- The Amateur Cracksman -
- A Gentleman in Moscow -
- Of Love and Other Demons -
- Resurrection -
- The Age of Innocence -
- Designing Graphic Props for Filmmaking -
- First Person Singular -
- Alphabet of Thorn -
- The Changeling Sea -
- 2001: A Space Odyssey -
- The Count of Monte Cristo -
- Mansfield Park -
- I Am a Cat -
- The Art of Wolfwalkers -
- Second Foundation - - ×2
- Foundation and Empire - - ×2
- Foundation - - ×2
- Psmith, Journalist -
- Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories -
- Roadside Picnic -
- number9dream -
- The Countess of Cagliostro -
- Song of the Sea Artbook -
- The Dragon Reborn -
- The Great Hunt -
- Uneasy Money -
- The Eye of the World -
- The Other Wind - - ×2
- Tales from Earthsea - - ×2
- Tehanu - - ×2
- The Farthest Shore - - ×2
- The Tombs of Atuan - - ×2
- A Wizard of Earthsea - - ×2
- Ghostwritten -
- Designing the Secret of Kells -
- Black Swan Green -
- A Passage to India -
2020
- The City and the Stars -
- The Summer Book -
- Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories -
- Taiko -
- Ukridge -
- Acceptance -
- Authority -
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow -
- Annihilation -
- Dracula -
- The Big Sleep -
- Utopia Avenue -
- Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography -
- The Man in the Brown Suit -
- The Son of the Wolf: Tales of the Far North -
- Dance Dance Dance -
- A Wild Sheep Chase -
- Musashi -
- Brave New World - - ×2
- At the Earth's Core -
- Love in the Time of Cholera -
- In the Distance -
- Ysabel -
- The Secret Tomb -
- A Brightness Long Ago -
- The Strange Bird -
- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet -
- Dead Astronauts -
- Everything Is Illuminated -
- Borne -
- Damsel in Distress -
- The Eight Strokes of the Clock -
- Slade House -
- Poirot Investigates -
- The Bone Clocks -
- The Long Knives Are Crying -
- Cloud Atlas -
- The Secret of Sarek -
- The Forgotten Beasts of Eld -
- Middlemarch - - ×2
- Harpist in the Wind -
- Heir of Sea and Fire -
- The Riddle-Master of Hed -
- Kingdom -
- The Teeth of the Tiger -
- Sabaku no Tami -
- The Golden Triangle -
- Onibi -
- Grey Granite -
2019
- Catch-22 -
- The Red House Mystery -
- The Nutcracker -
- Cloud Howe -
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold -
- Sense and Sensibility -
- Dubliners -
- The Marquis of Lossie -
- Malcolm -
- Lord of Emperors -
- Sunset Song -
- Anna Karenina -
- The Club of Queer Trades -
- A Circle of Quiet -
- Macbeth -
- Whose Body? -
- Once and Forever: The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa -
- Sailing to Sarantium -
- Robots and Empire -
- The Lions of Al-Rassan -
- The Crock of Gold -
- Man and Wife -
- March (Trilogy) -
- Foundation and Earth -
- Forward the Foundation -
- The Return of the King - - ×∞
- The Two Towers - - ×∞
- The Murder on the Links -
- Mixing Work with Pleasure -
- The Confessions of Arsène Lupin -
- The Fellowship of the Ring - - ×∞
- The Fall of Gondolin -
- City of Illusions -
- Prelude to Foundation -
- Birchfield Close -
- Foundation's Edge -
- Planet of Exile -
- Rocannon's World -
2018
- Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes -
- Before Ever After: The Lost Lectures of Walt Disney’s Animation Studio -
- Moomin: Vol. 1 -
- Come Again -
- The Cricket on the Hearth -
- No Name -
- True Grit -
- Dune Messiah -
- Dune - - ×2
- Killing Commendatore -
- Armadale -
- One Hundred Years of Solitude -
- The Crystal Stopper -
- The Wonderful Visit -
- 813 -
- Bone - - ×2
- The Robots of Dawn -
- River of Stars -
- The Naked Sun -
- The Caves of Steel -
- The Last Light of the Sun -
- Children of Earth and Sky -
- Under Heaven -
- The History of Mr. Polly -
- The Hollow Needle -
- Drawn to Life: Vol. 1 -
- Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief -
- Emma -
- Kim -
- The Picture of Dorian Gray -
- This Side of Paradise -
- Phantastes -
- Tigana -
- The Garden of Forking Paths -
- Metropolis -
- The Darkest Road -
- The Wandering Fire -
- The Summer Tree -
2017
- Peter and Wendy -
- Love Among the Chickens -
- The Wisdom of Father Brown -
- Something Fresh -
- Many Waters - - ×∞
- A Swiftly Tilting Planet - - ×∞
- A Wind in the Door - - ×∞
- A Wrinkle in Time - - ×∞
- The Woman in White -
- The Moonstone -
- The Wood Beyond the World -
- Ross Poldark -
- The Shepherd of the Hills -
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind - - ×2
- The Secret Adversary -
- The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket -
- The Innocence of Father Brown -
- A Room with a View -
- The Warlord of Mars -
- The Gods of Mars -
- A Princess of Mars -
- Right Ho, Jeeves -
- The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare -
- Dororo, Vol. 1 -
- Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth -
- The Complete Father Brown -
- The Legend of Zelda: Art & Artifacts -
- Around the World in Eighty Days -
- The Scarlet Pimpernel -
- Hundred in the Hand -
- The Elephant Vanishes -
- Sputnik Sweetheart -
- Eighty Two Nineteen -
- Dockwood -
- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress -
- Look Back on Happiness -
- Shallow Soil -
- Pan -
- Dreamers -
- Black Powder War -
- Throne of Jade -
- NonNonBa -
- Wind, Sand and Stars -
- The Wise Man's Fear -
- The Name of the Wind -
2016
- Stone Animals -
- Thank You, Jeeves -
- Mushishi, Vol. 1 -
- The Alchemist -
- A Confederacy of Dunces -
- His Majesty's Dragon -
- The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake -
- The Lathe of Heaven -
- Stranger in a Strange Land -