books recently read - jan/feb 2024

How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement by Fredrik deBoer

Every Man for Himself and God Against All by Werner Herzog 

Mobility by Lydia Kiesling 

Writing for Busy Readers by Todd Rogers and Jessica Lasky-Fink

Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky

books recently read - nov/dec 2023

Dayswork by Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel

Spaceships Over Glasgow by Stuart Braithwaite

Hollow by B. Catling

The Guest by Emma Cline

Exit Interview by Kristi Coulter

Ultra-Processed People by Chris Tulleken 

Harold by Steven Wright 

books recently read - jul/aug 2023

The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Monsters by Claire Dederer

Momo by Michael Ende

The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost

Hiroshima by John Hersey 

Western Lane by Chetna Maroo

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness 

The White Mosque by Sofia Samatar

The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe

books recently read - may/jun 2023

How to be Animal by Melanie Challenger

All My Sins Remembered by Joe Haldeman

Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World by Barry Lopez

I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

After the Apocalypse by Maureen F. McHugh

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller 

The Guest Lecture by Martin Riker

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

books recently read - mar/apr 2023

Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman

Just After the Wave by Sandrine Collette 

Writing on the Job by Martha B. Coven

My Nemesis by Charmaine Craig

The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin

Ohio by Stephen Markley

These Precious Days by Ann Patchett

Fieldwork by Iliana Regan

Devotion by Patti Smith

Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith

books recently read - jan/feb 2023

The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa

Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown

The Leopard by Guiseppe di Lampedusa

Chevy in the Hole by Kelsey Ronan

The Future is Analog by David Sax 

The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Midlife by Kieran Setiya

The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan

books recently read - nov/dec 2022

Ancient Sorceries by Algernon Blackwood 

The Twilight World by Werner Herzog

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer

Germinal by Emile Zola

books recently read - jul/aug 2022

Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham

Cogan's Trade by George V. Higgins

Remainder by Tom McCarthy 

Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy

The Employees by Olga Ravn

The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is by Justin E.H. Smith

The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch