Current Reads

April 2024
When the Sea Turned to Silver, Grace Lin
Zen and the Birds of Appetite, Thomas Merton

November 2021-March 2024
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, David Graber and David Wengrow

March 2024
The Power of Babel, John McWhorter

January 2024
And There Was Light, Jacques Lusseyran

October 2023
River of the Gods, Candice Millard

May 2023
In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse, Joseph Marshall III
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, A Slave, Frederick Douglass

June 2022
Abel’s Island, William Stieg

May 2022
Starry River of the Sky, Grace Lin

April 2022
The Forgotten Desert Mothers, Laura Swan

March 2022
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories (Scribner's), Ernest Hemingway
Seeds of Contemplation, Thomas Merton

February 2022
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Grace Lin
Charlotte's Web, E. B. White

September 2021
The Moon is Down, John Steinbeck

July 2021
State and Revolution/The Teachings of Karl Marx, V. Lenin
The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu

March 2021
Pirate Latitudes, Michael Crichton
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky (finally)

October 2020
"Born in Heresy," David P. Gushee
Guts, Raina Telgemeier
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
Stargazing, Jen Wang

September 2020
Bhagavad Gita, translated by Eknath Easwaran

August 2020
Augie and the Green Knight, Zach Weinersmith

July 2020
The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton
Epidemics and Plagues, Richard Walker

May 2020
Leadership on the Line, Ronald A. Heifetz & Marty Linsky

March 2020
The Buddha: Young Seeker, Paul Mantrell

January 2020
My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George

December 2019
Not Since Galileo, Stewart Mims

November 2019
The Crossover, Kwame Alexander, illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile
Tao Te Ching, Ursula K. LeGuin
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, Chuck Klosterman

September 2019
Ghosts, Raina Telgemeier

August 2019
Coyote Blue, Christopher Moore

July 2019
The Plague, Albert Camus
A Thrice-Told Tale, Margery Wolf
The Spirit of Intimacy, Sobonfu Somé
Retail Selling Made Easy, Ron Martin

June 2019
Good Omens, Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Indian Summer, Thomas Jefferson Mayfield
The River of Consciousness, Oliver Sacks (this one too)
The Road to Character, David Brooks (this took since, like, December)
Kamehameha: The Rise of a King, David Kawika Eyre

May 2019
Bone: Rose, Jeff Smith

March 2019
King George: What Was His Problem?, Steve Shenkins

February 2019
My Brother Sam Is Dead, James Lincoln and Christopher Collier

January 2019
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, George R.R. Martin

November 2018
Summer Meditations, Vaclav Havel

September 2018
A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking

August 2018
Hondo, Louis L'Amour
Hawai'i Nei - Island Plays, Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl

July 2018
Stories of Hawaii, Jack London
Educated: A Memoir, Tara Westover (audiobook)
The Story of Philosophy, Will Durant
The Color of Magic, Terry Pratchett

June 2018
Binti: The Night Masquerade,
Binti: Home, Nnedi Okorafor

May 2018
Monstrous Regiment, Terry Pratchett
A Different Drummer, William Melvin Kelley

April 2018
Binti, Nnedi Okorafor
The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller

January 2018
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey

September 2017
The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman

August 2017
Lamb, Christopher Moore

July 2017
The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester

June 2017
How Jesus Became God, Bart Ehrman

May 2017
The Knockoff: A Novel, Jo Piazza and Lucy Sykes

April 2017
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Foundation, Isaac Asimov
Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
The Serpent of Venice, Christopher Moore
Smoke and Mirrors, Neil Gaiman
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, JK Rowling, (reread)
Stories, arranged by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio

March 2017
Inner Skiing, Timothy Galwey and Bob Kriegel
The Aloha Shirt, Dale Hope

February 2017
Orlando, Virginia Woolf
The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
The Gift: Poems by Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky
Maori Myths and Tribal Legends, Antony Alpers
Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman (reread)

December 2016
Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse

November 2016
The Log of a Snow Survey, Patrick Armstrong
The Art of War for Zombies: Apocalypse Edition
The Martian, Andy Weir (amazing audio)

October 2016
Wisdom from The World According to Mr. Rogers, Fred Rogers
Equus, Peter Shaffer
Three Hainish Novels, Ursula K. Le Guin (first two read way back in the spring, but City of Illusions was the last, and the best, and amazing)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
How To Have a Good Day, Caroline Webb

September 2016
Native Son, Richard Wright
Originals, Adam Grant

August 2016
Indian Tales, Jaime de Angulo
(The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare)

July 2016
Duino Elegies, Rainer Maria Rilke
White Teeth, Zadie Smith

June 2016
The Long Patrol, Brian Jacques

May 2016
H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald

April 2016
Candide, Voltaire
How to Win Friends & Influence People, Dale Carnegie

(finished in) March 2016
Moby Dick, Herman Melville

January/February 2016
Tao te Ching, Jane English and Gia fu-Feng translation
The Way of Chuang Tzu, Thomas Merton

November 2015
The Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff
The Te of Piglet, Benjamin Hoff

October 2015
"Who Will Greet You At Home," Lesley Nneka Arimah
Bossypants, Tina Fey

September 2015
"At The Dam," Joan Didion

August 2015
Crewel Lye, Piers Anthony

July 2015
A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James

June 2015
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

April 2015
Pygmalion, Bernard Shaw

March 2015
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston

January 2015
The World of Ice and Fire

November 2014
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
"Gómez Palacio," Roberto Bolaño

October 2014
Nine Stories, JD Salinger
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, Malcolm Gladwell
"In the Penal Colony," Franz Kafka
"Boat," Leah Christianson

September 2014
You Are the Placebo: Making your Mind Matter, Dr. Joe Dispenza

"A Report to an Academy,"
"A Country Doctor,"
"The Judgment," Franz Kafka

"Falling," James Dickey
"August Heat," William Fryer Harvey
The Aeneid, Virgil

August 2014
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Big Ol' Billy Shakes

July 2014
"Guy Walks Into a Bar," Simon Rich
Bone, Jeff Smith (Again)
A Whole Lot of O. Henry Shorts, But Not All 212- That's Too Crazy

June 2014
Meditations, Marcus Aurelius

2005 O. Henry Prize Stories Collection

May 2014
"Il drago e le farfalle" e altre storie, Italo Calvino
The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety, Alan Watts

Heart of Darkness,
Youth: a Narrative, Joseph Conrad

March 2014
Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury
Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy

January 2014
"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream," Harlan Ellison
Insane City, Dave Barry

December 2013
Gulp. Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, Mary Roach
"Losing The War," Lee Sandlin

November 2013
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
A Dance With Dragons, George R. R. Martin

October 2013
Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The Jaunt," Stephen King
A Pocketful of Rye, Agatha Christie
The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
Krapp's Last Tape, Samuel Beckett

September 2013
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway

August 2013
The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
The Iliad, Homer
Wild, Cheryl Strayed
Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
A History of Britain: 3500 BC- 1603 AD, Simon Schama

July 2013
A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers

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