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Books I'm reading or have read. Authors I've spent significant time with get their own sections; everything else sits in the single-title list below.

Read 177

Lemony Snicket 15

A Series of Unfortunate Events
  • The Bad Beginning (1999)
  • The Reptile Room (1999)
  • The Wide Window (2000)
  • The Miserable Mill (2000)
  • The Austere Academy (2000)
  • The Ersatz Elevator (2001)
  • The Vile Village (2001)
  • The Hostile Hospital (2001)
  • The Carnivorous Carnival (2002)
  • The Slippery Slope (2003)
  • The Grim Grotto (2004)
  • The Penultimate Peril (2005)
  • The End (2006)
Supplementary
  • Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography (2002)
  • The Beatrice Letters (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #12.5) (2006)

J.R.R. Tolkien 14

The Lord of the Rings
  • The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3) (1959)
  • The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)
  • The Two Towers (1954)
  • The Return of the King (1955)
The History of Middle-Earth
  • The Book of Lost Tales 1 (1983)
  • The Book of Lost Tales 2 (1984)
  • The Lays of Beleriand (1985)
  • The Shaping of Middle-Earth (1986)
  • The Lost Road and Other Writings (1987)
Standalones
  • The Children of Húrin (2007)
  • The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (1937)
  • The Silmarillion (1977)
  • The Tolkien Reader (1995)
  • Unfinished Tales (1980)

Karl Ove Knausgård 9

My Struggle (Min Kamp)
  • My Struggle: Book 1 (2009)
  • My Struggle: Book 2 (2009)
  • My Struggle: Book 3 (2009)
  • My Struggle: Book 4 (2010)
  • My Struggle: Book 5 (2010)
  • My Struggle: Book 6 (2011)
The Morning Star series
  • The Morning Star (2020)
  • The Wolves of Eternity (2021)
Other
  • Winter (2015)

C.S. Lewis 8

The Chronicles of Narnia
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)
  • Prince Caspian (1951)
  • The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952)
  • The Silver Chair (1953)
  • The Horse and His Boy (1954)
  • The Magician’s Nephew (1955)
  • The Last Battle (1956)
Other
  • Mere Christianity (1952)

J.K. Rowling · Harry Potter 7

  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (1997)
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998)
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999)
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000)
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003)
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005)
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007)

Madeleine L'Engle · Time Quintet 5

  • A Wrinkle in Time (1962)
  • A Wind in the Door (1973)
  • A Swiftly Tilting Planet (1978)
  • Many Waters (1986)
  • An Acceptable Time (1989)

Clive Cussler 5

  • Arctic Drift (2008)
  • Black Wind (2004)
  • Crescent Dawn (2010)
  • Treasure of Khan (2006)
  • Trojan Odyssey (2003)

Robert Jordan · The Wheel of Time 3

  • The Eye of the World (1990)
  • The Great Hunt (1990)
  • The Dragon Reborn (1991)

Christopher Paolini · Inheritance Cycle 3

  • Eragon (2002)
  • Eldest (2005)
  • Brisingr (2008)

Friedrich Nietzsche 3

  • Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
  • On the Genealogy of Morals (Penguin Classics) (1887)
  • The Joyous Science (Penguin Classics) (1882)

Ray Bradbury 3

  • Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
  • The Illustrated Man (1951)
  • The Martian Chronicles (1950)

Single titles 102

A

  • Desert Solitaire · Edward Abbey (1968)
  • Julien's Primer of Drug Action · Claire D. Advokat (1975)
  • Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV) · Anonymous (2001)
  • Njal's Saga · Anonymous (1270)
  • The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World · David W. Anthony (2007)
  • Meditations · Marcus Aurelius (180)

B

  • On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho · Matsuo Bashō (1985)
  • The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches · Matsuo Bashō (1694)
  • A Desert Harvest: New and Selected Essays · Bruce Berger (2019)
  • Ficciones · Jorge Luis Borges (1944)
  • Wuthering Heights · Emily Brontë (1847)
  • Goodnight Moon · Margaret Wise Brown (1947)

C

  • Invisible Cities · Italo Calvino (1972)
  • Arrival · Ted Chiang (2002)
  • House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest · Craig Childs (2007)
  • Frindle · Andrew Clements (1996)
  • Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane · Suzanne Collins (2004)

D

  • The Tale of Despereaux · Kate DiCamillo (2003)
  • Notes from Underground · Fyodor Dostoevsky (1864)
  • The City of Ember · Jeanne DuPrau (2003)
  • The People of Sparks · Jeanne DuPrau (2004)
  • The Lessons of History · Will Durant (1968)

E

  • Silas Marner · George Eliot (1861)

F

  • The Great Gatsby · F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
  • Chainsaw Man, Vol. 1: Dog and Chainsaw · Tatsuki Fujimoto (2019)

G

  • My Side of the Mountain · Jean Craighead George (1959)
  • Faust: Part One · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1808)
  • Lord of the Flies · William Golding (1954)
  • No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters · Ursula K. Le Guin (2017)
  • Ha, Ha, Ha. Delightful: Selected Epigrams · William Guppy (2020)
  • The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium · Martin Gurri (2014)

H

  • A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order · Richard N. Haass (2017)
  • Pan · Knut Hamsun (1894)
  • The Scarlet Letter · Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
  • Trade Is Not a Four-Letter Word: How Six Everyday Products Make the Case for Trade · Fred P. Hochberg (2020)
  • Selected Poems and Fragments · Friedrich Hölderlin (1843)
  • The Iliad · Homer (-800)
  • Platform · Michel Houellebecq (2001)
  • Crossing the Aisle: How Bipartisanship Brought Tennessee to the Twenty-First Century and Could Save America · Keel Hunt (2018)

I

  • Introduction to Neuropsychopharmacology · Leslie L. Iversen (2008)

K

  • Essays in Idleness and Hōjōki · Yoshida Kenkō (1212)
  • The Dharma Bums · Jack Kerouac (1958)
  • Flowers for Algernon · Daniel Keyes (1966)
  • How to Make Love to a Despot: An Alternative Foreign Policy for the Twenty-First Century · Steve D. Krasner (2020)
  • The Last Wolf / Herman · László Krasznahorkai (2016)

L

  • The Maniac · Benjamín Labatut (2023)
  • When We Cease to Understand the World · Benjamín Labatut (2020)
  • Independent People · Halldór Laxness (1934)
  • To Kill a Mockingbird · Harper Lee (1960)
  • A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There · Aldo Leopold (1949)
  • Leave Society · Tao Lin (2021)
  • The Hour of the Star · Clarice Lispector (1977)
  • At the Mountains of Madness · H.P. Lovecraft (1936)

M

  • History Has Begun: The Birth of a New America · Bruno Maçães (2020)
  • A Game of Thrones · George R.R. Martin (1996)
  • Bigger Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Male Body · Michael Matthews (2011)
  • Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge · Terence McKenna (1992)
  • Coming Into the Country · John McPhee (1977)
  • New Moon · Stephenie Meyer (2006)
  • Twilight · Stephenie Meyer (2005)
  • The Sound of Waves · Yukio Mishima (1954)
  • Cloud Atlas · David Mitchell (2004)
  • Norwegian Wood · Haruki Murakami (1987)
  • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle · Haruki Murakami (1994)

N

  • Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited · Vladimir Nabokov (1966)
  • Transparent Things (Vintage International) · Vladimir Nabokov (1972)
  • Shiloh · Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (1991)
  • The Heights of Macchu Picchu · Pablo Neruda (1950)
  • Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair · Pablo Neruda (1924)

O

  • Upstream: Selected Essays · Mary Oliver (2016)

P

  • Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business · Dolly Parton (1994)
  • Hatchet · Gary Paulsen (1987)
  • How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence · Michael Pollan (2018)
  • Swann’s Way · Marcel Proust (1913)

R

  • Where the Red Fern Grows · Wilson Rawls (1961)
  • Letters to a Young Poet · Rainer Maria Rilke (1929)
  • Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training · Mark Rippetoe (2005)

S

  • The Catcher in the Rye · J.D. Salinger (1951)
  • The Way of Kings · Brandon Sanderson (2010)
  • Warbreaker · Brandon Sanderson (2009)
  • A Hangman's Diary: The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573-1617 · Franz Schmidt (1928)
  • Hamlet · William Shakespeare (1601)
  • Twelfth Night · William Shakespeare (1623)
  • Hyperion · Dan Simmons (1989)
  • The Fall of Hyperion · Dan Simmons (1990)
  • Crossing to Safety · Wallace Stegner (1987)
  • The Spectator Bird · Wallace Stegner (1976)
  • Travels with Charley: In Search of America · John Steinbeck (1961)
  • Snow Crash · Neal Stephenson (1992)
  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead · Tom Stoppard (1967)

T

  • Sculpting in Time · Andrei Tarkovsky (1984)
  • I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky · Arseny Tarkovsky (2015)
  • Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future · Peter Thiel (2014)
  • Light and Shade: Conversations with Jimmy Page · Brad Tolinski (2012)
  • Anna Karenina · Leo Tolstoy (1878)
  • Autumn Sonata: Selected Poems · Georg Trakl (1998)

V

  • The Ice Palace · Tarjei Vesaas (1963)

W

  • String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis · David Foster Wallace (2014)
  • This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life · David Foster Wallace (2009)
  • Blindsight · Peter Watts (2006)
  • Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science · Charles Wheelan (2002)
  • New Found Land: Lewis and Clark's Voyage of Discovery · Allan Wolf (2004)