A list of books I've read starting in 2019. If it's listed here, it was read for pleasure or curiosity and not for work. Tracking for motivation, curiosity, patterns, and remembrance. Both new and re-read (r) books are in quasi-alphabetical order.

2025

Le Guin, Ursula K. Tehanu
------. The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
Weis, Margaret; Hickman, Tracy. Dragons of Spring Dawning (r)

2024

Buchanan, Kyle. Blood, Sweat, & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road
Enrique, Álvaro. You Dreamed of Empires
King, Stephen. On Writing
Le Guin, Ursula K. A Wizard of Earthsea (r)
-----. The Tombs of Atuan
-----. The Farthest Shore
Martin, Steve. An Object of Beauty
Myers, Mike. Canada
Pullman, Philip. Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling
Weis, Margaret; Hickman, Tracy. Dragons of Autumn Twilight (r)
------. Dragons of Winter Night (r)
Wells, Martha. All Systems Red
------. Artifical Condition
------. Exit Strategy
------. Rogue Protocol
------. Network Effect
------. Fugitive Telemetry
------. System Collapse

2023

Tolkien, J.R.R. The Fall of Númenor
------. The Hobbit (r)
------. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (r)
------. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (r)
------. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (r)
------. Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth

2022

Brooks, Terry. The Sword of Shannara (r)
Clarke, Arthur C. Rendezvous with Rama
Jansson, Tove. The Moomins & The Great Flood (r)
Ishiguro, Kazuo. Klara and the Sun
Otomo, Katsuhiro. Akira, Vol. 1 (r)
------. Akira, Vol. 2 (r)
------. Akira, Vol. 3
------. Akira, Vol. 4
------. Akira, Vol. 5
------. Akira, Vol. 6
Spiegelman, Art. Maus (r)
Tolkien, J.R.R. Beren and Lúthien
------. The Children of Húrin
------. The Fall of Gondolin
------. The Silmarillion (r)
Tolmie, Sarah. The Fourth Island
------. All the Horses of Iceland

2021

Battle-Baptiste, Wendy; Rusert, Ben (eds.). W.E.B. Du Bois's Data Portraits Visualizing Black America
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me
El-Mothar, Amal; Gladstone, Max. This is How You Lose the Time War
Ishiguro, Kazuo. The Buried Giant
Lemire, Jeff; Sorrentino, Andrea; Stewart, Dave. Gideon Falls: The Black Barn
------. Gideon Falls: Original Sins
------. Gideon Falls: Stations of the Cross
------. Gideon Falls: The Pentoculus
------. Gideon Falls: Wicked Worlds
------. Gideon Falls: The End
Mœbius. The World of Edena
Murakami, Haruki. Dance, Dance, Dance
Pollan, Michael. How to Change Your Mind
Unknown. Sir Gawain & The Green Knight
Yanagi, Soetsu. The Beauty of Everyday Things

2020

Abdurraqib, Hanif. Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest
Albers, Josef. Interaction of Color
Alexander, Lloyd. The Book of Three (r)
------. The Black Cauldron
------. The Castle of Llyr
------. Taran Wanderer
------. The High King
Burke, Sue. Interference
Chödrön, Pema. Comfortable with Uncertainity
Gibson, William. Agency
------. The Peripheral
Johnston, E.K. Ashoka
Kobayashi, Makoto. What's Michael?
Mann, Charles. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Nestor, James. Breath
Oluo, Ijeoma. So you want to talk about race
Pullman, Philip. Serpentine
Thunberg, Greta. No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
Wong, Liam. TO:KY:OO

2019

Burke, Sue. Semiosis
Gibson, William. Neuromancer (r)
Pullman, Philip. La Belle Sauvage (r)
------. The Secret Commonwealth
Moore, Alan; Gibbons, Dave. Watchmen (r)
Okorafor, Nnedi. Binti
------. Binti: Home
------. Binti: The Night Masquerade
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