Bookshelf

Intermittently updated, certainly not complete. I try to keep my StoryGraph up to date.

2026

  • Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz
  • Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
  • North Woods by Daniel Mason
  • The Last Delivery by Evan Dahm
  • Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontĂ«
  • Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
  • On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle
  • The Case of the Missing Men by Kris Bertin
  • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
  • Absolute Martian Manhunter, Vol. 1: Martian Vision by Deniz Camp
  • The Truth of Carcosa by Jacob Rollinson

2025

  • Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
  • Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett (reread)
  • Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
  • The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
  • World Within the World: Collected Minicomix and Short Works 2010-2022 by Julia Gfrorer
  • Karma Doll by Jonathan Ames
  • The Extra Man by Jonathan Ames (reread)
  • The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman
  • Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (reread)
  • We Learn Nothing by Tim Kreider
  • The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
  • Blindsight by Peter Watts
  • Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
  • Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
  • I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
  • Our Share of Night by Mariana EnrĂ­quez
  • Satantango by LászlĂł Krasznahorkai
  • Soviet Milk by Nora Ikstena
  • The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke
  • The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica

2024

  • Paying for it by Chester Brown
  • The Zothique Cycle by Clark Ashton Smith
  • Tarot by Taschen
  • News from Nowhere by William Morris

2023

  • Songs of the Dying Earth: A Tribute to Jack Vance by Various
  • Albion by Peter Ackroyd
  • Blake by Peter Ackroyd
  • Dark Ladies by Fritz Leiber
  • The Power Broker by Robert Caro

2022

  • Nancy by Olivia James
  • Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach
  • Virconium by M John Harrison
  • Blood on Satan's Claw by Robert Wynne Simmons

2021

  • Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
  • A Promised Land by Barack Obama
  • Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • Wagnerism - Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music by Alex Ross
  • Godzilla: Half Century War by James Stokoe
  • By Force Alone by Lavie Tidhar
  • Or What You Will by Jo Walton
  • The Lady from the Black Lagoon by Mallory O'Meara
  • A Year Without Pants by Scott Berkun
  • Educated by Tara Westover
  • Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
  • Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff Vandermeer
  • Voice of the Fire by Alan Moore
  • Inhabitants of the Lake by Ramsey Campbell
  • Dark Entries by Robert Aickman

2020

  • Things in Jars by Jess Kidd
  • The Sadeian Woman by Angela Carter
  • The Hunger by Whitley Strieber
  • Rebel Cinderella - From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes by Adam Hochschild
  • The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
  • The Overstory by Richard Powers
  • The Night Ocean by Paul LaForge
  • The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
  • The Odyssey by Homer, Emily Wilson
  • Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
  • The Haunting of Drearcliff Grange School by Kim Newman
  • Life for Sale by Yukio Mishima
  • The Storm Before the Storm by Mike Duncan
  • The secret history by Donna Tartt
  • The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
  • Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh
  • Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

2019

  • Creatures of Want and Ruin by Molly Tanzer
  • VALIS by Phillip K Dick
  • Born to Be Posthumous - The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery
  • Bowlaway by Elizabeth McKracken
  • Deep Roots by Ruthanna Emrys
  • The Drawing of the Dark by Tim Powers
  • The Face in the Frost by John Bellairs
  • History of Hell by Alice K Turner
  • The House with a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs
  • Lords of Chaos by Michael Moynihan and Didrik Soderlind
  • Radicalized by Cory Doctorow
  • Say nothing - a true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe.
  • Neuromancer by William Gibson
  • The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
  • Creatures of Will and Temper by Molly Tanzer
  • We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
  • It Came from Something Awful - How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office by Dale Beran
  • The Fisherman by John Langan
  • Stony the Road - Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

2018

  • The Changeling by Victor LaValle
  • Declare by Tim Powers
  • Doom Patrol Vol 1 Brick by Brick by Gerard Way
  • Haussmann or the distinction by Paul LaFarge
  • Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger
  • How to change your mind by Michael Pollan
  • Johnny Appleseed by Paul Buhle & Noah Van Sciver
  • Lovecraft Country - A Novel by Matt Ruff
  • The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School by Kim Newman
  • Slow Days, Fast Company - The World, the Flesh, and L.A. by Eve Babitz
  • Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti
  • Universal Harvester by John Darnielle
  • We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix
  • Winter Tide by Ruthanna Emrys
  • X-Men Grand Design by Ed Piskor
  • You Were Never Really Here by Jonathan Ames