Here are all the books I’ve read sorted by the month I finished them. My favourites are in bold.

Yearly book target: 6/50

CURRENTLY READING:

• K-Punk - Mark Fisher
• A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again - David Foster Wallace
• Crude Capitalism - Adam Hanieh
• A Quiet Place - Seicho Matsumoto

FEBRUARY

• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World - Haruki Murakami
• After the Quake - Haruki Murakami

JANUARY 2026

• The City & The City - China Miéville
• Dark Matter - Blake Crouch
• Give People Money - Annie Lowrey
• Eating Viet Nam - Graham Holliday

DECEMBER 2025

• An Editor’s Burial - ed. by David Brendel
• Medium Raw - Anthony Bourdain
• A Cook’s Tour - Anthony Bourdain
• Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said - Philip K. Dick
• Time Out of Joint - Philip K. Dick
• Quit Your Band - Ian F. Martin
• The Dark Forest - Cixin Liu
• Question 7 - Richard Flanagan

NOVEMBER 2025

• The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. Le Guin
• Rocannon’s World - Ursula K. Le Guin
• Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - Paul Torday
• Flower Factory - Richard Foster
• Men Without Women - Haruki Murakami
• Diary of a Madman and Other Stories - Nikolai Gogol
• Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain

OCTOBER 2025

• Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
• Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
• Ubik - Philip K. Dick
• The Rule of Four - Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
• Let Us Compare Mythologies - Leonard Cohen
• The Door Into Summer - Robert Heinlein

SEPTEMBER 2025

• Idoru - William Gibson
• Spycatcher - Peter Wright and Paul Greengrass
• The Fuller Memorandum - Charles Stross
• Elantris - Brandon Sanderson
• The Difference Engine - William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
• The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu
• Alan Turing: The Enigma - Andrew Hodges

AUGUST 2025

• Equoid - Charles Stross
• Mistborn: Secret History - Brandon Sanderson
• Down on the Farm - Charles Stross
• The Hero of Ages (Mistborn 3) - Brandon Sanderson
• The Jennifer Morgue - Charles Stross

JULY 2025

• Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau
• Walden - Henry David Thoreau
• We’ll Prescribe You a Cat - Syou Ishida
• The Collector - John Fowles
• The Atrocity Archives - Charles Stross

JUNE 2025

• The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect - Roger Williams

MAY 2025

• The Well of Ascension (Mistborn 2) - Brandon Sanderson
• Musonius Rufus Lectures and Sayings - Cynthia King
• Saints - Amy Jeffs
• Meno - Plato
• The Way of the Hermit - Ken Smith
• Existentialism & Humanism - Jean-Paul Sartre
• Protagoras - Plato
• The Weird of the White Wolf - Michael Moorcock

APRIL 2025

• The Sailor on the Seas of Fate - Michael Moorcock
• Dartmoor’s Mysterious Megaliths - Brian Byng
• Hothouse - Brian Aldiss
• Without Ever Reaching the Summit - Paolo Cognetti
• The Tombs of Atuan - Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Mycocultural Revolution - Peter McCoy
• The Luddites - Malcolm I. Thomis

MARCH 2025

• The Mist - Stephen King
• The Epic of Gilgamesh - trans. and ed. by Benjamin R. Foster
• Elric of Melnibone - Michael Moorcock
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver
• The Plantagenets - Dan Jones
• The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• As Long as Nothing Happens, Nothing Will - Zhang Jie

FEBRUARY 2025

• The Incredulity of Father Brown - G. K. Chesterton
• Breast and Eggs - Mieko Kawakami
• Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie
• Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

JANUARY 2025

• Confessions of a Mask - Yukio Mishima
• Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
• Selected Essays of Francis Bacon - Francis Bacon, ed. by J. Max Patrick

DECEMBER 2024

• As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
• Scarcity Brain - Michael Easter
• Kino’s Journey Vol. 2 - Keiichi Sigsawa
• Second Nature - Michael Pollan
• Man and His Symbols - Carl Jung
• Kino’s Journey Vol. 1 - Keiichi Sigsawa

NOVEMBER 2024

• Medieval Graffiti - Matthew Champion
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
• The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien

OCTOBER 2024

• Men At Arms - Terry Pratchett
• Treacle Walker - Alan Garner
• King Arthur and His Knights - Sir Thomas Malory, ed. by R. T. Davies
• Starve Acre - Andrew Michael Hurley
• The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett
• Father Brown - G. K. Chesterton

SEPTEMBER 2024

• The Mothman Prophecies - John A. Keel
• Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges
• Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
• The Righteous Mind - Jonathan Haidt
• The Man Who Was Thursday - G. K. Chesterton

AUGUST 2024

• A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett

JULY 2024

• Cabin Porn - Zach Klein
• The Trespasser’s Companion - Nick Hayes

JUNE 2024

• The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

MAY 2024

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X As Told to Alex Haley - Malcolm X

APRIL 2024

• Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion
• A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles

MARCH 2024

• Night Sky with Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong
• Dune - Frank Herbert
• Time is a Mother - Ocean Vuong

FEBRUARY 2024

• Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair - Pablo Neruda

JANUARY 2024

• The Premonitions Bureau - Sam Knight
• The Monkey Wrench Gang - Edward Abbey
• John Constantine Hellblazer #1, Original Sins - Jamie Delano, John Ridgway, Alfredo Alcala, Rick Veitch and Tom Mandrake

DECEMBER 2023

• Songs of Innocence and of Experience - William Blake
• The Theban Plays (King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone) - Sophocles
• Electra and Other Plays (Philoctetes, Women of Trachis, Electra, Ajax) - Sophocles

NOVEMBER 2023

• The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller

OCTOBER 2023

• The Secret History - Donna Tartt

SEPTEMBER 2023

• The Last of The Wine - Mary Renault
• Storyland - Amy Jeffs

JUNE 2023

• The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea - Yukio Mishima
• Selected Poems - Langston Hughes
• Cider With Rosie - Laurie Lee

MAY 2023

• The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
• The Unfortunates - B.S. Johnson
• Classics: a Very Short Introduction - Mary Beard and John Henderson

APRIL 2023

• Translations - Brian Friel
• The View from the Cheap Seats - Neil Gaiman
• Carrie - Stephen King
• The Sandman: Act II - Neil Gaiman and Dirk Maggs
• On Writing - Stephen King
• V for Vendeta - Alan Moore
• Heaven - Mieko Kawakami

MARCH 2023

• Babel: An Arcane History - R.F. Kuang
• The Gunslinger (Dark Tower 1) - Stephen King
• Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain - Amy Jeffs
• The Scandal of the Century: And Other Writings - Gabriel García Márquez
• An Introduction to Greek Philosophy - David Roochnik
• Tress of the Emerald Sea - Brandon Sanderson
• Wyrd Sisters - Terry Pratchett

FEBRUARY 2023

• Devil House - John Darnielle
• Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis - Sigmund Freud
• The Final Empire (Mistborn 1) - Brandon Sanderson
• The Sandman (Audible) - Neil Gaiman and Dirk Maggs
• Twenty-One Stories - Graham Greene

JANUARY 2023

• The Word For World Is Forest - Ursula K. Le Guin
• Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
• Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu (Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin)
• Animal Farm - George Orwell
• The City Is A Labyrinth - Sarah Kate Istra Winter
• Cursed Bunny - Bora Chung
• Atomic Habits - James Clear

JUNE 2022

• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
• Universal Harvester - John Darnielle

MAY 2022

• How to Blow Up a Pipeline - Andreas Malm