Monday, February 17, 2025

Everything I've Ever Read For as Long as I Have Kept Track of What I Read, From College to the Present

Back in the day (2006-2013), I used to keep a running .txt or .doc file where I would add the title of each book I finished that year. I didn't go in for ratings much, but found that just seeing the title would be enough to jog my memory. And of course, I love a good collection/list/challenge to consume more and more. Then came along some fun book tracking apps (see: the post like 3 chronologically before this one) that dealt in novelty and were quickly overtaken by the growing Jungle and enhanced with shiny book giveaways.... and I sold my data for a song. No more (except for the free ebooks I can get through the library). I switched all my data over to StoryGraph and will also be returning to my less tech-y style of documentation. And it shall live on this here blog, as is tradition for things such as "Best Albums" lists (can't remember the last time I was qualified to make one of those).


2024 (Here is where I both aimed and failed to finish 100 books, and aimed and succeeded at abandoning the Jungle for The Story Graph. Could be that I was planning a wedding and interviewing/starting a new job)

  1. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
  2. Kissing Kosher by Jean Meltzer
  3. Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
  4. Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
  5. The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World by Laura Imai Messina
  6. Hooked: How Crafting Saved my Life by Sutton Foster
  7. Forge by Laurie Halse Anderson
  8. Written in Blood: A True Story of Murder and a Deadly 16-Year-Old Secret that Tore a Family Apart by Diane Fanning
  9. Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree
  10. Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It by Gabriel Wyner
  11. American Injustice: Inside Stories from The Underbelly of the Criminal Justice System by David S. Rudolf
  12. Ashes by Laurie Halse Anderson
  13. Spanish for Music Teachers by Jacob Prosek
  14. Not My Father's Son by Alan Cumming
  15. It Sounds Like This by Anna Meriano
  16. Changing Planes by Ursula K. LeGuin
  17. Leslie Fucking Jones by Leslie Jones
  18. How to Be Fine: What We learned from Living by the Rules of 50 Self-Help Books by Jolenta Greenberg, Kristen Meinzer
  19. The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
  20. The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwa
  21. The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani
  22. Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline
  23. Feelings: A Story in Seasons by Manjit Thapp
  24. Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape by Jenna Miscavige Hill
  25. All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
  26. Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life by Amber Scorah
  27. The Jewish Wedding Now by Anita Diamant
  28. Riding So High: The Beatles and Drugs by Joe Goodden
  29. Mexikid by Pedro Martin
  30. In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune
  31. My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
  32. The First Date Prophecy by Danny Tamberelli, Kate Tamberelli
  33. The Road Trip Rewind by Danny Tamberelli, Kate Tamberelli
  34. The It Girl by Ruth Ware
  35. Dietland by Sarai Walker
  36. White Horse by Erika T. Wurth
  37. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
  38. The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story by Vivek J. Tiwary
  39. Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
  40. I Don't Care About Your Band: Lessons Learned from Romantic Disappointments by Julie Klausner
  41. Draw Your World: How to Sketch and Paint Your Remarkable Life by Samantha Dion Baker
  42. The Urban Sketching Handbook Sketch Now, Think Later: Jump Into Urban Sketching with Limited Time, Tools and Techniques by Mike Yoshiaki Daikubara
  43. Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  44. Draw Your Day: An Inspiring Guide to Keeping a Sketch Journal by Samantha Dion Baker
  45. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka
  46. Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place by Neema Avashia
  47. The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
  48. How to Be a Normal Person by TJ Klune
  49. The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs
  50. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  51. The Forest of Wool and Steel by Natsu Miyashita
  52. One Last Stop by Casey McQuinston
  53. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
  54. Grown Ups by Emma Jane Unsworth
  55. Clutter Busting: Letting Go of What's Holding You Back by Brooks Palmer
  56. The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
  57. I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger
  58. A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw
  59. You Are Only Just Beginning: Lessons for the Journey Ahead by Morgan Harper Nichols
  60. The Farewell Tour by Stephanie Clifford
  61. The Pairing by Casey McQuinston
  62. How to Write One Song by Jeff Tweedy
  63. Two Under the Indian Sun by Rumer Godden, Jon Godden
  64. Before We Forget Kindness by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
  65. The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King
  66. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherinee May
  67. How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
  68. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
  69. The Undercurrent by Sarah Sawyer
  70. Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
  71. Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Anna Lembke
  72. Girlfriend on Mars by Deborah Willis

2023

  1. Organizing Solutions for People With ADHD by Susan C. Pinsky
  2. Sweaterweather by Sara Varon
  3. Consumed by Aja Barber
  4. How Y'All Doing? by Leslie Jordan
  5. The Souther Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
  6. Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuinston
  7. The Wonders by Paddy O'Reilly
  8. Knitting Under the Influence by Claire LaZebnik
  9. Talking as Fast as I can by Lauren Graham
  10. Venco by Cherie Dimaline
  11. The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
  12. Everything Comes Next by Naomi Shihab Nye
  13. Someone Should Pay for Your Pain by Franz Nicolay
  14. Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me by Ron Miscavige
  15. The Unbinding of Mary Read by Miriam McNamara
  16. The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
  17. Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
  18. The $64 Tomato by William Alexander
  19. Seeking Slow: Reclaim Moments of Calm in your day by Melanie Barnes
  20. To Me I Wed by K.M. Jackson
  21. The Ash Family by Molly Dektar
  22. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
  23. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
  24. Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
  25. Madame Xanadu: Disenchanted by Matt Wagner
  26. I Have Some Questions for you by Rebecca Makkai
  27. Madame Xanadu: Exodus Noir by Matt Wagner
  28. How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind by Dana K. White
  29. Madame Xanadu: Broken House of Cards by Matt Wagner
  30. Madame Xanadu: Extra Sensory by Matt Wagner
  31. Ways to Disappear by Idra Novey
  32. You Just Need to Lose Weight and 19 other myths about fat people by Aubrey Gordon
  33. Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult
  34. The Humans by Matt Haig
  35. Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young
  36. Symphony of Secrets by Brendan Slocumb
  37. Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
  38. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
  39. Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon
  40. Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing by Emilyn Lynn Paulson
  41. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
  42. I'm Wearing Tunics Now: On Growing Older, Better, and a Hell of a Lot Louder by Wendi Aarons
  43. Thank You For Listening by Julia Whelan
  44. Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
  45. Why Woo Woo Works: The Surprising Science Behind Meditation, Reiki, Crystals and Other Alternative Practices by David R. Hamilton
  46. The Lost Art of Doing Nothing: How the Dutch Unwind with Niksen by Maartje Willems
  47. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  48. A Billion Years: My Escape from a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology by Mike Rinder
  49. The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
  50. The Talisman by Stephen King, Peter Straub
  51. The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis
  52. Hello, Molly! A Memoir by Molly Shannon
  53. Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living by Nick Offerman
  54. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
  55. The Book Woman's Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson
  56. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
  57. Go See the Principal: True Tales from the School Trenches by Gerry Brooks
  58. Once More With Feeling by Elissa Sussman
  59. The Summer of Songbirds by Kristy Woodson Harvey
  60. What you are looking for is in the library by Michiko Aoyama
  61. Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
  62. In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women are Still on Trial by Mona Chollet
  63. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
  64. The Cloisters by Kathy Hays
  65. Tales from the Cafe by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
  66. Before Your Memory Fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
  67. Before we Say Goodbye by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
  68. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
  69. Christmas with Louisa May Alcott
  70. Legends & Lattes by Travis Balder


2022

  1. No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work by Liz Fosslein & Mollie West Duffy
  2. The New Bohemians Handbook by Justina Blakeney
  3. Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price
  4. Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
  5. Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home by Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Petersen
  6. Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagasaki
  7. Order From Chaos: The Everyday Grind of Staying Organized with Adult ADHD by Jaclyn Paul
  8. Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  9. Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: The Story of Schitt's Creek by Daniel Levy and Eugene Levy
  10. If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson
  11. Ponzinomics: The Untold Story of Multi-Level Marketing by Robert L. FitzPatrick
  12. The Thing About Luck by Cynthia Kadohata, Julia Kuo
  13. Behind You by Jacqueline Woodson
  14. The Dulcimer Boy by Tom Seidler, Brian Selznick
  15. The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V.E. Schwab
  16. The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
  17. A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraquib
  18. The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James
  19. The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum
  20. True Biz by Sara Novic
  21. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
  22. The Archived by Victoria Schwab
  23. The Unbound by Victoria Schwab
  24. The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer
  25. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
  26. Written in My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon
  27. Smoke Gets in your Eyes & other lessons from the crematory by Caitlin Doughty
  28. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (audiobook en espanol)
  29. Go Tell the Bees I am Gone by Diana Gabaldon
  30. Yiddish for Pirates by Gary Barwin
  31. I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy
  32. The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness by Emily Anthes
  33. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn
  34. The Body by Stephen King
  35. Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson
  36. The Green Mile by Stephen King
  37. Dreaming of You: a novel in verse by Melissa Lozada-Oliva
  38. The Joy of Knitting by Lisa R. Myers
  39. Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd by Alan Bradley
  40. The Hoarder in You: How to Live a Happier, Healthier, Uncluttered Life by Dr. Robin Zasio
  41. At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
  42. Decluttering at the Speed of Life: Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff by Dana K. White
  43. Rez Dogs by Joseph Bruchac

2021

  1. An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon
  2. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
  3. How to Keep House While Drowning by K.C. Davis
  4. Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
  5. The Girls by Emma Cline
  6. Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro
  7. Untamed by Glennon Doyle
  8. Black Dove White Raven by Elizabeth Wein
  9. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
  10. The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray
  11. Return of the Trickster by Eden Robinson
  12. From Away by Jessica Shay
  13. So Close to Being the Shit, Y'all Don't Even Know by Retta
  14. Everything's Trash, but it's Okay by Phoebe Robinson
  15. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
  16. Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
  17. Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
  18. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
  19. Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein
  20. Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
  21. Starfish by Lisa Fipps
  22. Jonesy: Nine Lives on the Nostromo by Rory Lucey
  23. Klezmer: Book One: Tales of the Wild Easy by Joann Sfar
  24. Stop Pretending: What Happened when my big sister went crazy by Sonya Sones
  25. The Golem and the Jinni by Helen Wecker
  26. The Other Einstein by Marie Beneditct
  27. Running Against the Tide by Captain Lee
  28. She Memes Well by Quinta Brunson
  29. Lucky Charming by Kate Chastain
  30. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
  31. Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs and other questions about dead bodies by Caitlin Doughty
  32. Hotel No Tell by Daphne Uviller
  33. Troublemaker by Leah Remini
  34. Sitting Pretty: The View from my Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig
  35. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
  36. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell
  37. Lose Well by Chris Gethard
  38. Towards the end of"Other America": Anti-Racist Resources for White People Taking Action for Black Lives Matter by Chris Crass
  39. The Pearl Thief by Elizabeth Wein
  40. Fair Play by Eve Rodsky
  41. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
  42. Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes by Phoebe Robinson
  43. The Vacationers by Emma Straub
  44. Obie is Man Enough by Schuyler Bailar
  45. What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon
  46. The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer
  47. Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Nedraw Glover Tawwab

2020 (I've just gotten to this point and dropped my jaw to think what feels like 'last year' was 5 years ago)

  1. All Hopped Up and Ready to Go: Music from the Streets of New York 1927-1977 by Tony Fletcher
  2. Digger by Ursula Vernon
  3. In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed by Carl Honore
  4. The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
  5. Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
  6. The Book of Help: A Memoir in Remedies by Megan Griswold
  7. The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman
  8. A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon
  9. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
  10. The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
  11. Misfortune by Wesley Stace
  12. Starry River of the Sky by Grace Lin
  13. When the Sea Turned to Silver by Grace Lin
  14. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
  15. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
  16. House Arrest by K.A. Holt
  17. The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
  18. Becoming Better Grownups: Rediscovering What Matters and Remembering How to Fly by Brad Montague
  19. Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
  20. China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan
  21. Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan
  22. Hope Nation edited by Rose Brock
  23. Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
  24. If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
  25. The Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
  26. A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow
  27. This Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell
  28. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
  29. Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin by Sabrina Fulton and Tracy Martin
  30. Real Men Knit by Kwana Jackson
  31. March Book One by John Lewis
  32. March Book Two by John Lewis
  33. March Book Three by John Lewis
  34. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
  35. New Kid by Jerry Craft
  36. Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger
  37. Who Do You Serve? Who do You Protect: Police Violence and Resistance in the United States
  38. These Witches Don't Burn by Isabel Sterling
  39. This Coven Won't Break by Isabel Sterling
  40. The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
  41. Song of a Trickster by Eden Robinson
  42. Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker

2019

  1. Calypso by David Sedaris
  2. Enlightened Sexism by Susan J. Douglas
  3. Spark Joy by Marie Kondo
  4. Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son by Sholem Aleichem
  5. Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory
  6. Hunger by Roxane Gay
  7. You Can't Touch My Hair. And other things I still have to explain. by Phoebe Robinson
  8. I Might Regret This: Essays by Abbi Jacobson
  9. Catapult: Stories by Emily Fridlund
  10. The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
  11. Moorhead and the Music Machine by Andrew Rae
  12. What Your Clutter is Trying to Tell You: Uncover the Message in the Messand Reclaim Your Life by Kerri L. Richardson
  13. The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family From a Lifetime of Clutter by Margareta Magnusson
  14. Sumo by Thien Pham
  15. The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well by Meik Wiking
  16. On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
  17. Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder
  18. Sheepish: Two Women, Fifty Sheep, & Enough Wool to Save the Planet by Catherine Friend
  19. Good News from Outer Space by John Kessel
  20. Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons by Lynn Peril
  21. Knitting Pearls: Writers Writing About Knitting by Ann Hood
  22. Where the Crawdads Sings by Delia Owens
  23. Becoming by Michelle Obama
  24. The Anglophile by Laurie Gwen Shapiro
  25. This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki
  26. It Occurs to me that I am America: New Stories and art ed. Jonathan Santloper
  27. Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
  28. Super in the City by Daphne Uviller
  29. Mason-Dixon Knitting
  30. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  31. Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel Savit
  32. Sima's Undergarments for Women
  33. Queer Eye
  34. Sonata for Jukebox by Geoffrey O'Brien
  35. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
  36. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
  37. For Every One by Jason Reynolds
  38. Flight by Sherman Alexie
  39. Eleanorr Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
  40. My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
  41. Digital Minimalism: On Living Better with Less Technology by Cal Newport
  42. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  43. The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg
  44. Woodswoman by Anne LaBastille
  45. Well-Read Black Girl by Glory Edim
  46. American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearts by Jeffrey Toobin
  47. I Still Dream About You by Fannie Flagg
  48. Artemis by Andy Weir
  49. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
  50. The Red Address Book by Sofia Lundberg
  51. Cataloochee by Wayne Caldwell
  52. The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon
  53. Adequate Yearly Progress by Roxanna Elden
  54. Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton
  55. Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results by James Clear
  56. The Dreamers by Karon Thompson Walker
  57. Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present by Peter Vronsky
  58. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
  59. The Diviners by Libba Bray
  60. The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti

2018

  1. Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
  2. The Year of Less by Cait Flanders
  3. Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon
  4. Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor by Lynda Barry
  5. Republic of Outsiders: The Power of Amateurs, Dreamers, and Rebels by Alissa Quart
  6. Nemesis by Philip Roth
  7. Loving Day by Mat Johnson
  8. The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse by Alan Bradley
  9. Falling Boy by Alison McGhee
  10. The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less by Barry Schwartz
  11. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
  12. The Atomic City Girls by Janet Beard
  13. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
  14. The Martian by Andy Weir
  15. Death of a Rebel: A Biography of Phil Ochs by Marc Eliot
  16. Little First Everywhere by Celeste Ng
  17. Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood
  18. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
  19. Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
  20. Little Moments of Love: A Catana Comics Collection by Catana
  21. Never a Dull Moment 1971: The Year that Rock Exploded by David Hepworth
  22. Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
  23. Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie
  24. When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
  25. Everybody into the Pool: True Tales by Beth Lisick
  26. Gonzalez & Daughter Trucking Co by Maria Amparo Escandon
  27. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman
  28. The Antiques by Kris D'Agostino
  29. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
  30. Flat Broke with Two Goats: A Memoir of Appalachia by Jennifer McGaha
  31. Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement
  32. The Light Fantastic by Sarah Combs
  33. The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
  34. News of the World by Paulette Jiles
  35. The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel
  36. Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
  37. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
  38. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
  39. Jell-O Girls: A Family History by Allie Rowbottom
  40. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
  41. The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
  42. Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
  43. Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan
  44. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach
  45. Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
  46. The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
  47. There There by Tommy Orange
  48. You are a Badass by Jen Sincero
  49. Shadows of the Workhouse by Jennifer Worth
  50. Falling Up by Leslie Odom, Jr.
  51. Homeland by Barbara Kingsolver
  52. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
  53. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 

2017

  1. Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman
  2. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
  3. Unfuck your Habitat: You're Better than Your Mess by Rachel Hoffman
  4. Let Your Voice Be Heard: The Life and Times of Pete Seeger by Anita Silvey
  5. American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
  6. The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
  7. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
  8. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
  9. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
  10. Faith: California Scheming by Jody Hauser
  11. Sula by Toni Morrison
  12. Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World by Rob Sheffield
  13. The Lord God Bird by Russell Mill
  14. Secrets of the Cicada Summer by Andrea Beaty
  15. Same Difference and Other Stories by Derek Kirk Kim
  16. The Game by Diana Wynne Jones
  17. M Train by Patti Smith
  18. Some Things that Stay by Sarah Willias
  19. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
  20. High Tide in Tucson by Barbara Kingsolver
  21. A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
  22. Ghosts by Raina Telegmeier
  23. The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
  24. A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett

2016 

  1. And All Our Wounds Forgiven by Julius Lester
  2. The Blind Contessa's New Machine by Carey Wallace
  3. Supreme Courtship by Christopher Buckley
  4. Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman
  5. The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
  6. America Street: A Multicultural Anthology of Stories by Anne Mazer
  7. Jessica Jones: Alias, Vol. 4 by Brian Michael Bendis
  8. Runaways: The Complete Collection Volume 2 by Brian K. Vaughan
  9. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

2015

  1. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
  2. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
  3. Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
  4. Witches on the Road Tonight by Sheri Holman
  5. Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
  6. The Namesake by Jumpa Lahiri
  7. It's Always Something by Gilda Radner
  8. Where the River Ends by Charles Martin
  9. Hector and the Search for Happiness by Francois Lelord
  10. Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
  11. Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
  12. Here I Stand by Paul Robeson
  13. A Life in Stitches: Knitting My Way Through Love Loss and Laughter by Rachael Herron
  14. Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
  15. True Grit by Charles Portis
  16. Nimona by N.D. Stevenson
  17. Your Illustrated Guide to Becoming One With the Universe by Yumi Sakugara
2014 (from here on out I'm transcribing from The Jungle app)
  1. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  2. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
  3. Swampland! by Karen Russell
  4. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by gtfoterf
  5. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ibid.
  6. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  7. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  8. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  9. Subway Love by Nora Raleigh Baskin
  10. One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
  11. The True Blue Scouts of the Sugar Man Swamp by Kathi Appelt
  12. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
  13. The Party Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
  14. Couch by Benjamin Barzybom
  15. Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage
  16. Juniper Berry: a tale of terror and temptation by M.P. Kozlowsky
  17. Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
  18. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
  19. Sandrine's Letter to Tomorrow by Dedra Johnson
  20. The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times by Jennifer Worth
  21. Riding Solo with the Golden Horde by Richard Hill
  22. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
  23. Good-bye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton
  24. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
  25. Speaking from Among the Bones by Alan Bradley
  26. Heft by Liz Moore
  27. Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
  28. Dreamwood by Heather Mackley
  29. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

2013 (Notably, this was the last year that I saved this list outside the Jungle, even as I was adopting the app)

  1. One Day by David Nicholls
  2. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
  3. A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Madeleine L’Engle & Hope Larson
  4. Love Goes to Buildings on Fire by Will Hermes*
  5. Greyhound by Stefan Piper
  6. Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of my Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman
  7. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein*
  8. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
  9. Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
  10. I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron
  11. The Frozen Thames by Helen Humphreys
  12. Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver*
  13. Slanted and Enchanted by Kaya Oakes
  14. Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut
  15. Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists*
  16. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
  17. Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading by Maureen Corrigan
  18. Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut*
  19. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
  20. The Giver by Lois Lowry*
  21. Dark Victory, The Life of Bette Davis by Ed Sikov
  22. The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
  23. Don’t Expect Magic by Kathy McCullough
  24. Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 by David Petersen
  25. The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye by Robert Kirkman
  26. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
  27. The Walking Dead, Vol. 2: Miles Behind Us by Robert Kirkman
  28. The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings
  29. The Walking Dead, Vol. 3: Safety Behind Bars by Robert Kirkman
  30. The Walking Dead, Vol. 4: The Heart’s Desire by Robert Kirkman
  31. The Walking Dead, Vol. 5: The Best Defense by Robert Kirkman
  32. Film Music: A Very Short Introduction by Kathryn Kalinak
  33. The Sleepy Hollow Family Almanac by Kris D’Agostino*
  34. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald*
  35. Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal by Conor Grennan
  36. The Matzo Ball Heiress by Laurie Gwen Shapiro
  37. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed*
  38. Between Boyfriends by Kim Gee*
  39. Cool, Calm & Contentious by Merrill Markoe
  40. The Walking Dead, Vol. 6: This Sorrowful Life by Robert Kirkman
  41. Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed
  42. The Golden Compass (Northern Lights) by Philip Pullman
  43. Positively 4th Street: The Lives of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina by David Hajdu
  44. Pastoralia by George Saunders
  45. I Dreamed I was a Very Clean Tramp by Richard Hell
  46. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
  47. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
  48. Wonder by R. J. Palacio
  49. Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands by Michael Chabon
  50. Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
  51. A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
  52. The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
  53. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
  54. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
  55. The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine
  56. Crazy Heart by Thomas Cobb
  57. Little Fish by Ramsey Beyer
  58. The Fallback Plan by Leigh Stein

2012

  1. Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
  2. Kiss & Tell by MariNaomi
  3. Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell
  4. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
  5. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? By Mindy Kaling
  6. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
  7. The Mind’s Eye by Oliver Sacks
  8. Absolute Sandman, Volume 1 by Neil Gaiman
  9. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
  10. BITCHfest edited by Lisa Jervis & Andi Zeisler
  11. Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro
  12. Swimming to Cambodia by Spalding Gray
  13. Morning, Noon and Night by Spalding Gray
  14. Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
  15. Looking for Alaska by John Green
  16. Paper Towns by John Green
  17. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
  18. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
  19. If You Can’t Live Without Me, Why Aren’t You Dead Yet?! by Cynthia Heimel
  20. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
  21. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
  22. Heartburn by Nora Ephron
  23. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson
  24. I Was Told There’d Be Cake by Sloane Crosley
  25. Impossible Vacation by Spalding Gray
  26. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
  27. My Life in France by Julia Child
  28. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  29. Middle School General Music: The Best Part of Your Day by Elizabeth Ann McAnally
  30. Music Madness for Middle School by Lynn Howard
  31. How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
  32. The Recently Deflowered Girl by Edward Gorey
  33. The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
  34. The Night Train by Clyde Edgerton
  35. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
  36. Nerd Do Well by Simon Pegg
  37. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
  38. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  39. The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

2011

  1. The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
  2. The Medium is the Massage by Marshal McLuhan and Quentin Fiore
  3. The Zombies: Hung Up On A Dream by Claes Johansen
  4. Lost at Sea by Bryan Lee O’Malley
  5. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
  6. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  7. Monster in a Box by Spalding Gray
  8. The Adults by Alison Espach
  9. Bound for Shady Grove by Steven Harvey
  10. Ryan Adams & the Cardinals: A View of Other Windows by Neal Casal
  11. Post Office by Charles Bukowski
  12. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
  13. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
  14. It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music by Amanda Petrusich
  15. The Beatles in Rishikesh by Paul Saltzman
  16. Bossypants by Tina Fey
  17. Women by Charles Bukowski
  18. My First New York edited by New York Magazine
  19. Boardwalk Empire by Nelson Johnson
  20. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  21. The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
  22. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
  23. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
  24. Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
  25. After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
  26. From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World by Clinton Heylin
  27. Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
  28. The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction by Robert J. McMahon
  29. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
  30. Artifact: Notebooks from Hell 1974-1980 by Richard Hell
  31. Retromania by Simon Reynolds
  32. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
  33. A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley
  34. The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J. K. Rowling
  35. Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
  36. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  37. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
  38. Life, the Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams
  39. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams

2010

  1. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn
  2. Fargo Rock City by Chuck Klosterman
  3. What to Listen for in Music by Aaron Copland
  4. Conversations with Woody Allen by Eric Lax
  5. A Trip to the Stars by Nicholas Christopher
  6. The Jazz Loft Project by Sam Stephenson
  7. John Peel: Margrave of the Marshes by John Peel
  8. The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
  9. Sing and Shine On! By Nick Page
  10. Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
  11. Have Mercy! Confessions of the Original Rock ‘n’ Roll Animal By Wolfman Jack with Byron Laurson
  12. This Book is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All by Marilyn Johnson
  13. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
  14. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
  15. Vinyl Junkies by Brett Milano
  16. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
  17. Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life by Steve Almond
  18. Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
  19. Mrs. Miniver by Jan Struther
  20. Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
  21. Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. by Sam Wasson
  22. The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
  23. Talking to Girls About Duran Duran by Rob Sheffield
  24. Losing Mum and Pup by Christopher Buckley
  25. The Monsters of Templeton by Lorrie Groff
  26. A Very Short Introduction to Music by Nicholas Cook
  27. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
  28. Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O’Malley
  29. Scott Pilgrim Versus the World by Bryan Lee O’Malley
  30. Scott Pilgrim & The Infinite Sadness by Bryan Lee O’Malley
  31. The Weed That Strings The Hangman’s Bag by Alan Bradley
  32. This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
  33. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
  34. Lost Horizon by James Hilton
  35. Run with the Hunted by Charles Bukowski
  36. Sifting Through the Madness by Charles Bukowski
  37. Lulu in Hollywood by Louise Brooks
  38. Just Kids by Patti Smith

2009

  1. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004 ed. Dave Eggers
  2. Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley
  3. The Secret Life of Harry Houdini: the Making of America’s First Superhero by William Kalush and Larry Sloman
  4. For the End of Time: the Story of the Messiaen Quartet by Rebecca Rischin
  5. Rock ‘n’ Roll Wisdom: What Psychologically Astute Lyrics Teach us about Life and Love by Barry Farber
  6. Boomsday by Christopher Buckley
  7. Take the Cannoli by Sarah Vowell
  8. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
  9. Foreskin’s Lament by Shalom Auslander
  10. The Wild Party by March/Spiegelman
  11. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
  12. Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
  13. Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music by Greg Kot
  14. The Beats: A Graphic History edited by Paul Buhle
  15. Dexter in the Dark by Jeff Lindsay
  16. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
  17. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Dr. Oliver Sacks
  18. Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui by Karen Kingston
  19. Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer by Novella Carpenter
  20. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  21. Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv
  22. Don’t Get Too Comfortable by David Rakoff
  23. The Magicians by Lev Grossman
  24. Circus Parade by Jim Tully
  25. Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman
  26. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
  27. Lowboy by John Wray
  28. Radio On: A Listener’s Diary by Sarah Vowell


2008

  1. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
  2. Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut
  3. Love is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield
  4. The Witches by Roald Dahl
  5. Mix Tape by Thurston Moore
  6. Black Hole by Charles Burns
  7. Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
  8. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
  9. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  10. The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda
  11. Papillon by Henri Charrière
  12. The Collected Cloth by Jack Terricloth
  13. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
  14. Banco by Henri Charrière
  15. New Brunswick, New Jersey, Goodbye by Ronen Kauffman
  16. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
  17. The Inner Game of Music by Barry Green
  18. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
  19. How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers
  20. You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers
  21. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
  22. Naked by David Sedaris
  23. Diary by Chuck Palahniuk
  24. The Best American Nonrequired Reading [2007] edited by Dave Eggers
  25. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
  26. The Film Club by David Gilmour
  27. The Best American Nonrequired Reading [2002] edited by Dave Eggers
  28. The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
  29. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
  30. Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
  31. Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
  32. Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
  33. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
  34. Flash Fiction Forward anthology
  35. The Best American Nonrequired Reading [2008] edited by Dave Eggers
  36. The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett
  37. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

2007

  1. Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland
  2. Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
  3. Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
  4. Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
  5. Women and Popular Music: Sexuality, Identity, and Subjectivity by Sheila Whiteley
  6. The Rum Diaries by Hunter S. Thompson
  7. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
  8. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  9. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
  10. Without Feathers by Woody Allen
  11. The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
  12. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
  13. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
  14. Bakshish by Jack Terricloth
  15. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
  16. Maus I by Art Spiegleman
  17. Maus II by Art Spiegleman
  18. Harry Potter 7 by JK Rowling
  19. Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
  20. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  21. Educating Esmé by Esmé Cordell
  22. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
  23. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
  24. Songbook by Nick Hornby
  25. Matilda by Roald Dahl
  26. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
  27. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
  28. The Bohemian Manifesto by Lauren Stover
  29. Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
  30. How soon is Never? by Marc Spitz
  31. A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
  32. The BFG by Roald Dahl

A Selection of Undated Reads

A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Animal Farm by George Orwell