A list of the books I’ve read, along with the month and year in which I finished each one. An asterisk indicates it is a “best of” book: one of the very best I read that year. “a” means audiobook.
2022
Amongst Our Weapons, Ben Aaronovitch (reading now)
I Am Not Sidney Poitier, Percival Everett (reading now)
*In a Lonely Place, Dorothy Hughes (10/22)
The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Nghi Vo (10/22)
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, Ruth Franklin (9/22)
The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales (9/22)
The Wee Free Men, Terry Pratchett (9/22, a)
Just Kids, Patti Smith (9/22)
Song of Achilles, Madeleine Miller (9/22)
The Liar’s Dictionary, Eley Williams (DNF, 9/22, a)
What Abigail Did That Summer, Ben Aaronovitch (9/22, a)
Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee (9/22)
Let Me Tell You, Shirley Jackson (9/22)
*Network Effect, Martha Wells (9/22, a)
We Need New Names, NoViolet Bulowayo (9/22)
Light From Uncommon Stars, Ryka Aoki (DNF, 9/22)
*The Trees, Percival Everett (9/22)
October Man, Ben Aaronovitch (9/22, a)
The Invisible Library, Genevieve Cogman (DNF, 9/22)
The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu, Tom Lin (9/22)
False Value, Ben Aaronovitch (8/22, a)
*Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Togarczuk (8/22)
The Dog Stars, Peter Heller (8/22)
*Slow Horses, Mick Herron (8/22)
*Pastoral, André Alexis (8/22)
*Tehanu, Ursula LeGuin (8/22, a)
The Word is Murder, Anthony Horowitz (DNF, a, 8/22)
The Furthest Station, Ben Aaronovitch (8/22, a)
Our Last Echoes, Kate Alice Marshall (8/22)
Family Happiness, Laurie Colwin (re-read, 7/22)
Lies Sleeping, Ben Aaronovitch (7/22, a)
The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin (DNF, 7/22)
*The Group, Mary Karr (7/22)
Dept of Speculation, Jenny Offill (7/22)
The Mountains Wild, Sarah Stewart Taylor (DNF, 7/22)
*The Farthest Shore, Ursula LeGuin (7/22)
The Tombs of Atuan, Ursula LeGuin (7/22)
*A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula LeGuin (7/22)
Diary of a Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith (7/22)
*The Infinite Blacktop, Sara Gran (7/22, a)
The Pillow Friend, Lisa Tuttle (7/22)
*A Month in the Country, J. L. Carr (7/22)
The Breaking Point, Daphne Du Maurier (7/22)
A Thousand Ships, Natalie Haynes (7/22)
*How the Word Is Passed, Clint Smith (7/22)
Annihilation, Jeff Vandermeer (7/22)
The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison (7/22)
Les années, Annie Ernaux (7/22)
*Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway, Sara Gran (7/22, a)
The Rash Resolve, Eliza Haywood (7/22)
Collected Stories, Jean Stafford (DNF, 7/22)
*Sous les vents de Neptune, Fred Vargas (7/22)
The Hanging Tree, Ben Aaronovitch (6/22)
The Dream of the Celt, Mario Vargas Llosa (6/22)
All the Names They Used for God, Anjali Sachdeva (6/22)
A Theology in Outline: Can These Bones Live?, Robert Jenson (6/22)
The Apostles’ Creed, Ben Myers (6/22)
The Loft, Marlen Haushofer (6/22)
Paper Menagerie, Ken Liu (6/22)
Throne of Jade, Naomi Novik (6/22, a)
Tell No Tales, Eva Dolan (6/22)
Jakob von Gunten, Robert Walser (6/22)
A Company of Swans, Eva Ibbotson (6/22)
As We Are Now, May Sarton (6/22)
*Feminism Is For Everybody, bell hooks (6/22)
Exit Strategy, Martha Wells (5/22, a)
File Under:, Lemony Snicket (5/22)
Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers (5/22)
Make It Scream, Make It Burn, Leslie Jamison (5/22)
Sistersong, Lucy Holland (DNF, 5/22)
The Essential Plays, Chekhov (5/22)
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie King (re-read, 5/22, a)
The Dry, Jane Harper (5/22)
The Mabinogion (5/22)
The Beet Queen, Louise Erdrich (re-read, 5/22)
What Angels Fear, C.S. Harris (5/22)
Foxglove Summer, Ben Aaronovitch (5/22)
Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell (5/22)
By the Shores of Silver Lake, Laura Ingalls Wilder (re-read, 5/22, a)
*His Majesty’s Dragon, Naomi Novik (5/22, a)
*Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner (5/22)
Cold Earth, Ann Cleeves (5/22)
Wylding Hall, Elizabeth Hand (4/22)
Taste, Stanley Tucci (4/22, a)
Butter Honey Pig Bread, Francesca Ekwuyasi (4/22)
Rogue Protocol, Martha Wells (4/22, a)
The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden (DNF, 4/22, a)
These Happy Golden Years, Laura Ingalls Wilder (re-read, 4/22, a)
*Consequences, Penelope Lively (4/22)
Artificial Conditions, Martha Wells (4/22, a)
*The Living Mountain, Nan Shepherd (4/22)
Broken Homes, Ben Aaronovitch (4/22, a)
*The City of Good Death, Priyanka Champaneri (4/22)
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, Danielle Evans (4/22)
A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine (4/22)
*Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (4/22, a)
The Prettiest Star, Carter Sickels (4/22)
*The Autobiography of Malcolm X (3/22)
*We All Hear Stories in the Dark, Robert Shearman (3/22)
*Things We Lost in the Fire, Mariana Enriquez (3/22, a)
*Mrs. Caliban, Rachel Ingalls (3/22)
Whispers Underground, Ben Aaronovitch (3/22, a)
All Over Creation, Ruth Ozeki (3/22)
Rattlesnake Ridge, Phil Simmons (DNF)
Moon Over Soho, Ben Aaronovitch (3/22, a)
Quartet in Autumn, Barbara Pym (3/22)
Harrow the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (3/22)
The Devotion of Suspect X, Keigo Higashino (3/22)
*Rivers of London, Ben Aaronovitch (2/22)
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion (2/22)
How Long ‘Til Black Future Month, NK Jemisin (2/22)
Starlight, Stella Gibbons (2/22)
Bottom Liner Blues, K.C. Constantine (1/22)
Our Lady of the Nile, Scholastique Mukasonga (1/22)
The Odd Women, George Gissing (1/22)
Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde (1/22)
*Whiskey When We’re Dry, John Larison (1/22)
The Golem and the Jinni, Helen Wecker (1/22)
La gangrène et l’oubli, Benjamin Stora (1/22)
All Systems Red, Martha Wells (1/22)
Hotel du Lac, Anita Brookner (1/22)
Zami, Audre Lorde (1/22)
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