Reading List

Books are listed newest to oldest. For a more comprehensive page with ratings and reviews, and albeit a quite annoying design, view my other reading list. This page is a work in progress. Crossed out = DNF.

Currently reading

  1. The Shining by Stephen King, started Oct 2026
  2. Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree, started Oct 2026
  3. Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Takaski Kojima (translator), started Sep 2026

2026

Notable this year: I’ve started listening to audiobooks.

  1. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
  2. The Will of the Many by James Islington
  3. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (audiobook)
  4. Junji Ito’s Cat Diary: Yon & Mu by Junji Ito
  5. Severance by Ling Ma (audiobook)
  6. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
  7. Book Lovers by Emily Henry
  8. Uzumaki by Junji Ito, Yuji Oniki (translator)
  9. Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
  10. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
  11. Beach Read by Emily Henry
  12. The Correspondent by Virginia Evans (audiobook)
  13. Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker
  14. The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn’t a Guy At All by Sumiko Arai
  15. Butter by Asako Yuzuki, Polly Barton (translator) (audiobook)
  16. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez, Edith Grossman (translator) (audiobook)
  17. Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
  18. Loving, Ohio by Matthew Erman, Sam Beck (illustrator)
  19. Moonbound by Robin Sloan
  20. Absolute Batman (Vol. 2) by Scott Snyder, Nick Dragotta, Frank Martin
  21. The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Sōji Shimada, Ross MacKenzie (translator), Shika MacKenzie (translator)
  22. Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
  23. Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
  24. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
  25. Snotgirl by Bryan Lee O'Malley, Leslie Hung (illustrator), Mickey Quinn (colorist), Maré Odomo (letterer)
  26. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, Ros Schwartz (translator)
  27. Batman: Dark Patterns by Dan Watters, Hayden Sherman, Triona Farrell
  28. The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen
  29. Our Diaries, Ourselves: How Diarists Chronicle Their Lives and Document Our World by Betsy Rubiner
  30. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
  31. A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna
  32. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
  33. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
  34. The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
  35. The Odyssey by Homer, Emily Wilson (translator)
  36. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
  37. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
  38. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
  39. Strange Buildings by Uketsu, Jim Rion (translator)
  40. You Know What You Did by K.T. Nguyen
  41. The Labyrinth House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji, Ho-Ling Wong (translator)
  42. The Mill House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji, Ho-Ling Wong (translator)
  43. Batman & Robin: Year One by Mark Waid, Chris Samnee, Matheus Lopes
  44. Closing Act by Chris W. Kim
  45. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
  46. Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees by Patrick Horvath, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou (letterer)
  47. The Nice House on the Lake by James Tynion IV, Álvaro Martínez Bueno (artist), Jordie Bellaire (colorist)
  48. Sympathy Tower Tokyo by Rie Qudan, Jesse Kirkwood (translator)
  49. Strange Houses by Uketsu, Jim Rion (translator)
  50. The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji, Ho-Ling Wong (translator)
  51. The Man Who Died Seven Times by Yasuhiko Nishizawa, Jesse Kirkwood (translator)
  52. Absolute Wonder Woman by Kelly Thompson, Hayden Sherman, Mattia De Iulis, Jordie Bellaire
  53. Strange Pictures by Uketsu, Jim Rion (translator)
  54. Carrie by Stephen King
  55. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
  56. 2120 by George Wylesol
  57. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (audiobook)
  58. Pattern Design: a book for students treating in a practical way of the anatomy, planning & evolution of repeated ornament by Lewis F. Day
  59. There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
  60. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
  61. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (audiobook)
  62. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green (audiobook)
  63. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking by Samin Nosrat, Wendy MacNaughton (illustrator)

2025

Notable this year: I read a lot of DC comics.

  1. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
  2. The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
  3. Song of the Seabirds by Narsid
  4. War and the Maiden by riotbones
  5. WHEN I WAS A CHILD, I WATCHED A MAN DISMEMBER A DOVE by Alex Siple
  6. INJEST by Mapurl
  7. Dream Loop by Vakueva Nina (@inkpangur)
  8. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
  9. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
  10. Hawkeye by Matt Fraction and David Aja
  11. Liar Game by Shinobu Kaitani
  12. Batman / Superman: World’s Finest by Mark Waid and Dan Mora
  13. Batgirl by Scott Peterson, Kelley Puckett, Damion Scott, and Robert Campanella
  14. DC vs. Vampires by James Tynion IV, Matthew Rosenberg, and Otto Schmidt
  15. Red Robin by Christopher Yost and Ramón Bachs
  16. World’s Finest: Teen Titans by Mark Waid, Emanuela Lupacchino, and Jordie Bellaire
  17. Batman and Robin by Joshua Williamson and Simone Di Meo
  18. Tim Drake: Robin by Meghan Fitzmartin and Riley Rossmo
  19. Robin by Joshua Williamson and Gleb Melnikov
  20. Nightwing by Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo
  21. The Mist by Stephen King
  22. When I Arrived at the Castle by E.M. Carroll

2024

  1. The Killing Joke by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland
  2. Batman: Year One by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli
  3. A Guest in the House by E.M. Carroll
  4. Codebreaking: A Practical Guide by Elonka Dunin and Klaus Schmeh
  5. Batman: Wayne Family Adventures by StarBite and CRC Payne
  6. Framed Ink 2: Frame Format, Energy, and Composition for Visual Storytellers by Marcos Mateu-Mestre
  7. Framed Ink: Drawing and Composition for Visual Storytellers by Marcos Mateu-Mestre
  8. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
  9. Hum by Helen Phillips
  10. Of Thunder and Lightning by Kimberly Wang
  11. The Heroic Legend of Arslan (Arslan Senki) by Hiromu Arakawa
  12. Amongst Us by Shilin Huang

2023

Notable this year: a bunch of science fiction.

  1. Pet Sematary by Stephen King
  2. The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
  3. Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
  4. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
  5. How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
  6. Dune by Frank Herbert
  7. Bleach by Kubo Tite
  8. Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto
  9. Boruto: Naruto Next Generations by Ukyo Kodachi and Mikio Ikemoto
  10. Spy × Family by Tatsuya Endo
  11. The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
  12. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
  13. The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin, Ken Liu (translator)
  14. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
  15. A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
  16. Destiny Comic Collection (vol. 1) by Bungie
  17. The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart
  18. How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
  19. Flux by Jinwoo Chong
  20. The Writer & the Witch by Robin Sloan

2022

  1. 7 Seeds by Yumi Tamura
  2. Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
  3. Field Notes on Science & Nature by Michael R. Canfield (editor)
  4. Making Comics by Scott McCloud
  5. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud
  6. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
  7. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
  8. Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
  9. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
  10. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  11. Cultish: The Language of Fanatacism by Amanda Montell
  12. The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis

2021

  1. The Wake by Scott Snyder, Sean Murphy

2020

  1. New Waves by Kevin Nguyen

2019

  1. Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
  2. Remember It!: The Names of People You Meet, All of Your Passwords, Where You Left Your Keys, and Everything Else You Tend to Forget by Nelson Dellis and Adam Hayes (illustrator)
  3. Women Talking by Miriam Toews
  4. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
  5. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
  6. This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
  7. Frankissstein: A Love Story by Jeanette Winterson
  8. Recursion by Blake Crouch
  9. White Tears by Hari Kunzru
  10. Wilder Girls by Rory Power
  11. Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
  12. Version Control by Dexter Palmer
  13. Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
  14. Hawkeye by Matt Fraction and David Aja
  15. Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine K. Albright
  16. My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
  17. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
  18. Borne by Jeff VanderMeer

2018

  1. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
  2. The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
  3. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
  4. i love this part by Tillie Walden
  5. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
  6. A Stranger in the House by Shari Lapena
  7. The Martian by Andy Weir
  8. Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
  9. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
  10. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
  11. The Shining by Stephen King
  12. Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer

2017

  1. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  2. Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
  3. Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
  4. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
  5. White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
  6. How Did We Get into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature by George Monbiot
  7. Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao
  8. Hiroshima by John Hersey