Reading List

Books are listed newest to oldest. Formats include novels, novellas, short stories, nonfiction, comics, and manga. For a more comprehensive page with ratings and reviews, and albeit a quite annoying design, view my old reading list. This page is a work in progress. Pardon the dust.

Last updated: 3 April 2026

Currently reading

  1. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Robin Buss (translator), started Jan 2026

Next up

These are my current library books. Based on prior evidence, it is quite likely I will not actually get around to reading these before I have to return them, but I like to be optimistic.

  1. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  2. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

2026

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

  1. The Man Who Died Seven Times by Yasuhiko Nishizawa, Jesse Kirkwood (translator)
  2. Absolute Wonder Woman by Kelly Thompson, Hayden Sherman, Mattia De Iulis, Jordie Bellaire
  3. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Robin Buss (translator)
  4. Strange Pictures by Uketsu
  5. Carrie by Stephen King
  6. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
  7. 2120 by George Wylesol
  8. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  9. Pattern Design: a book for students treating in a practical way of the anatomy, planning & evolution of repeated ornament by Lewis F. Day
  10. There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
  11. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
  12. 11/22/63 by Stephen King
  13. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green
  14. 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. The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen
  17. World’s Finest: Teen Titans by Mark Waid, Emanuela Lupacchino, and Jordie Bellaire
  18. Batman and Robin by Joshua Williamson and Simone Di Meo
  19. Tim Drake: Robin by Meghan Fitzmartin and Riley Rossmo
  20. Robin by Joshua Williamson and Gleb Melnikov
  21. Nightwing by Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo
  22. The Mist by Stephen King
  23. When I Arrived at the Castle by E.M. Carroll

2024

  1. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
  2. The Killing Joke by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland
  3. Batman: Year One by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli
  4. A Guest in the House by E.M. Carroll
  5. Codebreaking: A Practical Guide by Elonka Dunin and Klaus Schmeh
  6. Batman: Wayne Family Adventures by StarBite and CRC Payne
  7. Framed Ink 2: Frame Format, Energy, and Composition for Visual Storytellers by Marcos Mateu-Mestre
  8. Framed Ink: Drawing and Composition for Visual Storytellers by Marcos Mateu-Mestre
  9. The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy At All by Arai Sumiko
  10. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
  11. Hum by Helen Phillips
  12. Of Thunder and Lightning by Kimberly Wang
  13. The Heroic Legend of Arslan (Arslan Senki) by Hiromu Arakawa
  14. Amongst Us by Shilin Huang

2023

Notable this year: a bunch of science fiction.

  1. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
  2. Pet Sematary by Stephen King
  3. The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
  4. Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
  5. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
  6. How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
  7. Dune by Frank Herbert
  8. Bleach by Kubo Tite
  9. Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto
  10. Boruto: Naruto Next Generations by Ukyo Kodachi and Mikio Ikemoto
  11. Spy × Family by Tatsuya Endo
  12. The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
  13. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
  14. The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin (translated by Ken Liu)
  15. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
  16. A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
  17. Destiny Comic Collection (vol. 1) by Bungie
  18. The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart
  19. How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
  20. Flux by Jinwoo Chong
  21. 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