A reverse-chronological list of books read (or re-read) since I began keeping track in 2016, mostly fiction. All-time favorites at top, other top picks highlighted below.

Last Update: Oct 4, 2024

  • Favorites

  • The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Musashi - Eiji Yoshikawa
  • Nausicäa of the Valley of the Wind - Hayao Miyazaki
  • Bone - Jeff Smith
  • Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
  • Wind, Sand, and Stars - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins

  • Currently Reading

  • Shōgun - James Clavell
  • Collected Stories - Roald Dahl

  • 2024

  • Moonbound - Robin Sloan
  • Eugene Onegin - Alexander Pushkin
  • The Reivers - William Faulkner
  • Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
  • The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
  • The Glass Key - Dashiell Hammett
  • The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Little Sister - Raymond Chandler
  • How Do You Live? - Genzaburo Yoshino
  • Everything That Rises Must Converge - Flannery O'Connor
  • Lilith - George MacDonald
  • The Seagull - Anton Chekov
  • My Cousin Rachel - Daphne du Maurier
  • The Inugami Curse - Seishi Yokomizo
  • The Secret of Father Brown - G.K. Chesterton
  • Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
  • Neuromancer - William Gibson
  • The Honjin Murders - Seishi Yokomizo
  • The Violent Bear It Away - Flannery O'Connor
  • The Lady in the Lake - Raymond Chandler
  • Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
  • Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
  • East of Eden - John Steinbeck
  • The Big Four - Agatha Christie
  • Kissa by Kissa - Craig Mod
  • Strange Pilgrims - Gabriel García Márquez
  • Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
  • The High Window - Raymond Chandler

  • 2023

  • Farewell, My Lovely - Raymond Chandler
  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie - ×2
  • A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams
  • The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
  • The Gate - Natsume Sōseki
  • NonNonBa - Shigeru Mizuki - ×2
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams
  • The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Matsuo Bashō
  • Kusamakura - Natsume Sōseki
  • Ten Nights of Dreams - Natsume Sōseki
  • The World of Mr. Mulliner - P.G. Wodehouse
  • The Haunted Hotel - Wilkie Collins
  • Japanese Inn - Oliver Statler
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
  • The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams
  • Musashi - Eiji Yoshikawa - ×2
  • Cocktail Time - P.G. Wodehouse
  • The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
  • 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami - ×2
  • The Lost Notebook - John Canemaker
  • Kipps - H.G. Wells
  • Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. John Mandel
  • Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami - ×2
  • Young Men in Spats - P.G. Wodehouse
  • After the Quake - Haruki Murakami
  • The October Country - Ray Bradbury
  • Dombey and Son - Charles Dickens
  • Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury
  • The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Kokoro - Natsume Sōseki
  • Uncle Dynamite - P.G. Wodehouse
  • The Incredulity of Father Brown - G.K. Chesterton
  • Pebble in the Sky - Isaac Asimov
  • The Currents of Space - Isaac Asimov
  • The Stars, Like Dust - Isaac Asimov
  • Heretics of Dune - Frank Herbert
  • Shuna's Journey - Hayao Miyazaki
  • Money in the Bank - P.G. Wodehouse
  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce

  • 2022

  • Sanshirō - Natsume Sōseki
  • God Emperor of Dune - Frank Herbert
  • The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury
  • Botchan - Natsume Sōseki
  • Jill the Reckless - P.G. Wodehouse
  • From the Dust Returned - Ray Bradbury
  • The Water of the Wondrous Isles - William Morris
  • Service with a Smile - P.G. Wodehouse
  • Nightfall and Other Stories - Isaac Asimov
  • Finch - Jeff Vandermeer
  • Shriek: An Afterword - Jeff Vandermeer
  • City of Saints and Madmen - Jeff Vandermeer
  • Killer, Come Back to Me - Ray Bradbury
  • A Gentleman of Leisure - P.G. Wodehouse
  • The Mark of Zorro - Johnston McCulley
  • Indiscretions of Archie - P.G. Wodehouse
  • The End of Eternity - Isaac Asimov
  • The King of Elfland's Daughter - Lord Dunsany
  • The Canterville Ghost - Oscar Wilde
  • The Gods Themselves - Isaac Asimov
  • Lady Windermere's Fan - Oscar Wilde
  • Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
  • An Ideal Husband - Oscar Wilde
  • The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
  • All the Seas in the World - Guy Gavriel Kay
  • Uncle Fred in the Springtime - P.G. Wodehouse
  • Twenty Years After - Alexandre Dumas
  • Catriona - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Irish Fairy Tales - James Stephens
  • The Sound of Waves - Yukio Mishima
  • Antic Hay - Aldous Huxley
  • Farewell Summer - Ray Bradbury
  • Drawn to Life: Vol. 2 - Walt Stanchfield
  • I, Robot - Isaac Asimov - ×2
  • Heavy Weather - P.G. Wodehouse
  • Summer Lightning - P.G. Wodehouse
  • Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury - ×2
  • The Tale of the Heike - Eiji Yoshikawa
  • Tono Monogatari - Shigeru Mizuki
  • Let's All Kill Constance - Ray Bradbury
  • A Graveyard for Lunatics - Ray Bradbury

  • 2021

  • Death is a Lonely Business - Ray Bradbury
  • Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
  • The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
  • The Amateur Cracksman - E. W. Hornung
  • A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
  • Of Love and Other Demons - Gabriel García Márquez
  • Resurrection - Leo Tolstoy
  • The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
  • Designing Graphic Props for Filmmaking - Annie Atkins
  • First Person Singular - Haruki Murakami
  • Alphabet of Thorn - Patricia A. McKillip
  • The Changeling Sea - Patricia A. McKillip
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
  • The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
  • Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
  • I Am a Cat - Natsume Sōseki
  • The Art of Wolfwalkers - Charles Solomon
  • Second Foundation - Isaac Asimov - ×2
  • Foundation and Empire - Isaac Asimov - ×2
  • Foundation - Isaac Asimov - ×2
  • Psmith, Journalist - P.G. Wodehouse
  • Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
  • Roadside Picnic - Arkady Strugatsky
  • number9dream - David Mitchell
  • The Countess of Cagliostro - Maurice Leblanc
  • Song of the Sea Artbook - Tomm Moore
  • The Dragon Reborn - Robert Jordan
  • The Great Hunt - Robert Jordan
  • Uneasy Money - P.G. Wodehouse
  • The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan
  • The Other Wind - Ursula K. Le Guin - ×2
  • Tales from Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin - ×2
  • Tehanu - Ursula K. Le Guin - ×2
  • The Farthest Shore - Ursula K. Le Guin - ×2
  • The Tombs of Atuan - Ursula K. Le Guin - ×2
  • A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin - ×2
  • Ghostwritten - David Mitchell
  • Designing the Secret of Kells - Tomm Moore
  • Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
  • A Passage to India - E.M. Forster

  • 2020

  • The City and the Stars - Arthur C. Clark
  • The Summer Book - Tove Jansson
  • Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories - Oscar Wilde
  • Taiko - Eiji Yoshikawa
  • Ukridge - P.G. Wodehouse
  • Acceptance - Jeff VanderMeer
  • Authority - Jeff VanderMeer
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving
  • Annihilation - Jeff VanderMeer
  • Dracula - Bram Stoker
  • The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
  • Utopia Avenue - David Mitchell
  • Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography - Frank Lloyd Wright
  • The Man in the Brown Suit - Agatha Christie
  • The Son of the Wolf: Tales of the Far North - Jack London
  • Dance Dance Dance - Haruki Murakami
  • A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
  • Musashi - Eiji Yoshikawa
  • Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - ×2
  • At the Earth's Core - Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez
  • In the Distance - Hernán Díaz
  • Ysabel - Guy Gavriel Kay
  • The Secret Tomb - Maurice Leblanc
  • A Brightness Long Ago - Guy Gavriel Kay
  • The Strange Bird - Jeff VanderMeer
  • The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet - David Mitchell
  • Dead Astronauts - Jeff VanderMeer
  • Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Borne - Jeff VanderMeer
  • Damsel in Distress - P.G. Wodehouse
  • The Eight Strokes of the Clock - Maurice Leblanc
  • Slade House - David Mitchell
  • Poirot Investigates - Agatha Christie
  • The Bone Clocks - David Mitchell
  • The Long Knives Are Crying - Joseph M. Marshall III
  • Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
  • The Secret of Sarek - Maurice Leblanc
  • The Forgotten Beasts of Eld - Patricia A. McKillip
  • Middlemarch - George Eliot - ×2
  • Harpist in the Wind - Patricia A. McKillip
  • Heir of Sea and Fire - Patricia A. McKillip
  • The Riddle-Master of Hed - Patricia A. McKillip
  • Kingdom - Jon McNaught
  • The Teeth of the Tiger - Maurice Leblanc
  • Sabaku no Tami - Hayao Miyazaki
  • The Golden Triangle - Maurice Leblanc
  • Onibi - Atelier Sentô
  • Grey Granite - Lewis Grassic Gibbon

  • 2019

  • Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
  • The Red House Mystery - A.A. Milne
  • The Nutcracker - E.T.A. Hoffmann
  • Cloud Howe - Lewis Grassic Gibbon
  • Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Gabriel García Márquez
  • Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
  • Dubliners - James Joyce
  • The Marquis of Lossie - George MacDonald
  • Malcolm - George MacDonald
  • Lord of Emperors - Guy Gavriel Kay
  • Sunset Song - Lewis Grassic Gibbon
  • Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
  • The Club of Queer Trades - G.K. Chesterton
  • A Circle of Quiet - Madeleine L'Engle
  • Macbeth - William Shakespeare
  • Whose Body? - Dorothy L. Sayers
  • Once and Forever: The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa - Kenji Miyazawa
  • Sailing to Sarantium - Guy Gavriel Kay
  • Robots and Empire - Isaac Asimov
  • The Lions of Al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay
  • The Crock of Gold - James Stephens
  • Man and Wife - Wilkie Collins
  • March (Trilogy) - John Lewis
  • Foundation and Earth - Isaac Asimov
  • Forward the Foundation - Isaac Asimov
  • The Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien - ×∞
  • The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien - ×∞
  • The Murder on the Links - Agatha Christie
  • Mixing Work with Pleasure - Toshio Suzuki
  • The Confessions of Arsène Lupin - Maurice Leblanc
  • The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien - ×∞
  • The Fall of Gondolin - J.R.R. Tolkien
  • City of Illusions - Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Prelude to Foundation - Isaac Asimov
  • Birchfield Close - Jon McNaught
  • Foundation's Edge - Isaac Asimov
  • Planet of Exile - Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Rocannon's World - Ursula K. Le Guin

  • 2018

  • Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes - Maurice Leblanc
  • Before Ever After: The Lost Lectures of Walt Disney’s Animation Studio - Don Hahn
  • Moomin: Vol. 1 - Tove Jansson
  • Come Again - Nate Powell
  • The Cricket on the Hearth - Charles Dickens
  • No Name - Wilkie Collins
  • True Grit - Charles Portis
  • Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert
  • Dune - Frank Herbert - ×2
  • Killing Commendatore - Haruki Murakami
  • Armadale - Wilkie Collins
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
  • The Crystal Stopper - Maurice Leblanc
  • The Wonderful Visit - H.G. Wells
  • 813 - Maurice Leblanc
  • Bone - Jeff Smith - ×2
  • The Robots of Dawn - Isaac Asimov
  • River of Stars - Guy Gavriel Kay
  • The Naked Sun - Isaac Asimov
  • The Caves of Steel - Isaac Asimov
  • The Last Light of the Sun - Guy Gavriel Kay
  • Children of Earth and Sky - Guy Gavriel Kay
  • Under Heaven - Guy Gavriel Kay
  • The History of Mr. Polly - H.G. Wells
  • The Hollow Needle - Maurice Leblanc
  • Drawn to Life: Vol. 1 - Walt Stanchfield
  • Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief - Maurice Leblanc
  • Emma - Jane Austen
  • Kim - Rudyard Kipling
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
  • This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Phantastes - George MacDonald
  • Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay
  • The Garden of Forking Paths - Jorge Luis Borges
  • Metropolis - Thea von Harbou
  • The Darkest Road - Guy Gavriel Kay
  • The Wandering Fire - Guy Gavriel Kay
  • The Summer Tree - Guy Gavriel Kay

  • 2017

  • Peter and Wendy - J.M. Barrie
  • Love Among the Chickens - P.G. Wodehouse
  • The Wisdom of Father Brown - G.K. Chesterton
  • Something Fresh - P.G. Wodehouse
  • Many Waters - Madeleine L'Engle - ×∞
  • A Swiftly Tilting Planet - Madeleine L'Engle - ×∞
  • A Wind in the Door - Madeleine L'Engle - ×∞
  • A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle - ×∞
  • The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
  • The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
  • The Wood Beyond the World - William Morris
  • Ross Poldark - Winston Graham
  • The Shepherd of the Hills - Harold Bell Wright
  • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind - Hayao Miyazaki - ×2
  • The Secret Adversary - Agatha Christie
  • The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket - Edgar Allan Poe
  • The Innocence of Father Brown - G.K. Chesterton
  • A Room with a View - E.M. Forster
  • The Warlord of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • The Gods of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • A Princess of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Right Ho, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
  • The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare - G.K. Chesterton
  • Dororo, Vol. 1 - Osamu Tezuka
  • Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth - Chris Ware
  • The Complete Father Brown - G.K. Chesterton
  • The Legend of Zelda: Art & Artifacts - Nintendo
  • Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel - Emmuska Orczy
  • Hundred in the Hand - Joseph M. Marshall III
  • The Elephant Vanishes - Haruki Murakami
  • Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
  • Eighty Two Nineteen - Luke Whittaker
  • Dockwood - Jon McNaught
  • The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein
  • Look Back on Happiness - Knut Hamsun
  • Shallow Soil - Knut Hamsun
  • Pan - Knut Hamsun
  • Dreamers - Knut Hamsun
  • Black Powder War - Naomi Novik
  • Throne of Jade - Naomi Novik
  • NonNonBa - Shigeru Mizuki
  • Wind, Sand and Stars - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • The Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
  • The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss

  • 2016

  • Stone Animals - Kelly Link
  • Thank You, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
  • Mushishi, Vol. 1 - Yuki Urushibara
  • The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
  • A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
  • His Majesty's Dragon - Naomi Novik
  • The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake - Aimee Bender
  • The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein