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)
- Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
- Kissing Kosher by Jean Meltzer
- Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
- Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
- The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World by Laura Imai Messina
- Hooked: How Crafting Saved my Life by Sutton Foster
- Forge by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Written in Blood: A True Story of Murder and a Deadly 16-Year-Old Secret that Tore a Family Apart by Diane Fanning
- Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree
- Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It by Gabriel Wyner
- American Injustice: Inside Stories from The Underbelly of the Criminal Justice System by David S. Rudolf
- Ashes by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Spanish for Music Teachers by Jacob Prosek
- Not My Father's Son by Alan Cumming
- It Sounds Like This by Anna Meriano
- Changing Planes by Ursula K. LeGuin
- Leslie Fucking Jones by Leslie Jones
- How to Be Fine: What We learned from Living by the Rules of 50 Self-Help Books by Jolenta Greenberg, Kristen Meinzer
- The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
- The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwa
- The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani
- Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline
- Feelings: A Story in Seasons by Manjit Thapp
- Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape by Jenna Miscavige Hill
- All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
- Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life by Amber Scorah
- The Jewish Wedding Now by Anita Diamant
- Riding So High: The Beatles and Drugs by Joe Goodden
- Mexikid by Pedro Martin
- In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune
- My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
- The First Date Prophecy by Danny Tamberelli, Kate Tamberelli
- The Road Trip Rewind by Danny Tamberelli, Kate Tamberelli
- The It Girl by Ruth Ware
- Dietland by Sarai Walker
- White Horse by Erika T. Wurth
- Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
- The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story by Vivek J. Tiwary
- Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
- I Don't Care About Your Band: Lessons Learned from Romantic Disappointments by Julie Klausner
- Draw Your World: How to Sketch and Paint Your Remarkable Life by Samantha Dion Baker
- The Urban Sketching Handbook Sketch Now, Think Later: Jump Into Urban Sketching with Limited Time, Tools and Techniques by Mike Yoshiaki Daikubara
- Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Draw Your Day: An Inspiring Guide to Keeping a Sketch Journal by Samantha Dion Baker
- Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka
- Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place by Neema Avashia
- The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
- How to Be a Normal Person by TJ Klune
- The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- The Forest of Wool and Steel by Natsu Miyashita
- One Last Stop by Casey McQuinston
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
- Grown Ups by Emma Jane Unsworth
- Clutter Busting: Letting Go of What's Holding You Back by Brooks Palmer
- The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
- I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger
- A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw
- You Are Only Just Beginning: Lessons for the Journey Ahead by Morgan Harper Nichols
- The Farewell Tour by Stephanie Clifford
- The Pairing by Casey McQuinston
- How to Write One Song by Jeff Tweedy
- Two Under the Indian Sun by Rumer Godden, Jon Godden
- Before We Forget Kindness by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King
- Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherinee May
- How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
- The Undercurrent by Sarah Sawyer
- Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
- Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Anna Lembke
- Girlfriend on Mars by Deborah Willis
2023
- Organizing Solutions for People With ADHD by Susan C. Pinsky
- Sweaterweather by Sara Varon
- Consumed by Aja Barber
- How Y'All Doing? by Leslie Jordan
- The Souther Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
- Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuinston
- The Wonders by Paddy O'Reilly
- Knitting Under the Influence by Claire LaZebnik
- Talking as Fast as I can by Lauren Graham
- Venco by Cherie Dimaline
- The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
- Everything Comes Next by Naomi Shihab Nye
- Someone Should Pay for Your Pain by Franz Nicolay
- Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me by Ron Miscavige
- The Unbinding of Mary Read by Miriam McNamara
- The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
- Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
- The $64 Tomato by William Alexander
- Seeking Slow: Reclaim Moments of Calm in your day by Melanie Barnes
- To Me I Wed by K.M. Jackson
- The Ash Family by Molly Dektar
- On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
- Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
- Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
- Madame Xanadu: Disenchanted by Matt Wagner
- I Have Some Questions for you by Rebecca Makkai
- Madame Xanadu: Exodus Noir by Matt Wagner
- How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind by Dana K. White
- Madame Xanadu: Broken House of Cards by Matt Wagner
- Madame Xanadu: Extra Sensory by Matt Wagner
- Ways to Disappear by Idra Novey
- You Just Need to Lose Weight and 19 other myths about fat people by Aubrey Gordon
- Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult
- The Humans by Matt Haig
- Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young
- Symphony of Secrets by Brendan Slocumb
- Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
- Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon
- Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing by Emilyn Lynn Paulson
- Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
- I'm Wearing Tunics Now: On Growing Older, Better, and a Hell of a Lot Louder by Wendi Aarons
- Thank You For Listening by Julia Whelan
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
- Why Woo Woo Works: The Surprising Science Behind Meditation, Reiki, Crystals and Other Alternative Practices by David R. Hamilton
- The Lost Art of Doing Nothing: How the Dutch Unwind with Niksen by Maartje Willems
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- A Billion Years: My Escape from a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology by Mike Rinder
- The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
- The Talisman by Stephen King, Peter Straub
- The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis
- Hello, Molly! A Memoir by Molly Shannon
- Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living by Nick Offerman
- The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
- The Book Woman's Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson
- How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
- Go See the Principal: True Tales from the School Trenches by Gerry Brooks
- Once More With Feeling by Elissa Sussman
- The Summer of Songbirds by Kristy Woodson Harvey
- What you are looking for is in the library by Michiko Aoyama
- Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
- In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women are Still on Trial by Mona Chollet
- Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- The Cloisters by Kathy Hays
- Tales from the Cafe by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- Before Your Memory Fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- Before we Say Goodbye by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
- Christmas with Louisa May Alcott
- Legends & Lattes by Travis Balder
2022
- No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work by Liz Fosslein & Mollie West Duffy
- The New Bohemians Handbook by Justina Blakeney
- Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price
- Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
- Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home by Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Petersen
- Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagasaki
- Order From Chaos: The Everyday Grind of Staying Organized with Adult ADHD by Jaclyn Paul
- Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: The Story of Schitt's Creek by Daniel Levy and Eugene Levy
- If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson
- Ponzinomics: The Untold Story of Multi-Level Marketing by Robert L. FitzPatrick
- The Thing About Luck by Cynthia Kadohata, Julia Kuo
- Behind You by Jacqueline Woodson
- The Dulcimer Boy by Tom Seidler, Brian Selznick
- The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V.E. Schwab
- The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
- A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraquib
- The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James
- The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum
- True Biz by Sara Novic
- Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
- The Archived by Victoria Schwab
- The Unbound by Victoria Schwab
- The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- Written in My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon
- Smoke Gets in your Eyes & other lessons from the crematory by Caitlin Doughty
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (audiobook en espanol)
- Go Tell the Bees I am Gone by Diana Gabaldon
- Yiddish for Pirates by Gary Barwin
- I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy
- The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness by Emily Anthes
- People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn
- The Body by Stephen King
- Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson
- The Green Mile by Stephen King
- Dreaming of You: a novel in verse by Melissa Lozada-Oliva
- The Joy of Knitting by Lisa R. Myers
- Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd by Alan Bradley
- The Hoarder in You: How to Live a Happier, Healthier, Uncluttered Life by Dr. Robin Zasio
- At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
- Decluttering at the Speed of Life: Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff by Dana K. White
- Rez Dogs by Joseph Bruchac
2021
- An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon
- The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
- How to Keep House While Drowning by K.C. Davis
- Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
- The Girls by Emma Cline
- Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro
- Untamed by Glennon Doyle
- Black Dove White Raven by Elizabeth Wein
- Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
- The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray
- Return of the Trickster by Eden Robinson
- From Away by Jessica Shay
- So Close to Being the Shit, Y'all Don't Even Know by Retta
- Everything's Trash, but it's Okay by Phoebe Robinson
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
- Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
- Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
- Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
- Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein
- Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Starfish by Lisa Fipps
- Jonesy: Nine Lives on the Nostromo by Rory Lucey
- Klezmer: Book One: Tales of the Wild Easy by Joann Sfar
- Stop Pretending: What Happened when my big sister went crazy by Sonya Sones
- The Golem and the Jinni by Helen Wecker
- The Other Einstein by Marie Beneditct
- Running Against the Tide by Captain Lee
- She Memes Well by Quinta Brunson
- Lucky Charming by Kate Chastain
- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
- Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs and other questions about dead bodies by Caitlin Doughty
- Hotel No Tell by Daphne Uviller
- Troublemaker by Leah Remini
- Sitting Pretty: The View from my Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig
- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
- Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell
- Lose Well by Chris Gethard
- Towards the end of"Other America": Anti-Racist Resources for White People Taking Action for Black Lives Matter by Chris Crass
- The Pearl Thief by Elizabeth Wein
- Fair Play by Eve Rodsky
- Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
- Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes by Phoebe Robinson
- The Vacationers by Emma Straub
- Obie is Man Enough by Schuyler Bailar
- What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon
- The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer
- 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)
- All Hopped Up and Ready to Go: Music from the Streets of New York 1927-1977 by Tony Fletcher
- Digger by Ursula Vernon
- In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed by Carl Honore
- The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
- Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
- The Book of Help: A Memoir in Remedies by Megan Griswold
- The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman
- A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon
- Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
- Misfortune by Wesley Stace
- Starry River of the Sky by Grace Lin
- When the Sea Turned to Silver by Grace Lin
- Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
- House Arrest by K.A. Holt
- The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
- Becoming Better Grownups: Rediscovering What Matters and Remembering How to Fly by Brad Montague
- Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
- China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan
- Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan
- Hope Nation edited by Rose Brock
- Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
- If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
- The Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
- A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow
- This Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
- Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin by Sabrina Fulton and Tracy Martin
- Real Men Knit by Kwana Jackson
- March Book One by John Lewis
- March Book Two by John Lewis
- March Book Three by John Lewis
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- New Kid by Jerry Craft
- Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger
- Who Do You Serve? Who do You Protect: Police Violence and Resistance in the United States
- These Witches Don't Burn by Isabel Sterling
- This Coven Won't Break by Isabel Sterling
- The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
- Song of a Trickster by Eden Robinson
- Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
2019
- Calypso by David Sedaris
- Enlightened Sexism by Susan J. Douglas
- Spark Joy by Marie Kondo
- Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son by Sholem Aleichem
- Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory
- Hunger by Roxane Gay
- You Can't Touch My Hair. And other things I still have to explain. by Phoebe Robinson
- I Might Regret This: Essays by Abbi Jacobson
- Catapult: Stories by Emily Fridlund
- The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
- Moorhead and the Music Machine by Andrew Rae
- What Your Clutter is Trying to Tell You: Uncover the Message in the Messand Reclaim Your Life by Kerri L. Richardson
- The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family From a Lifetime of Clutter by Margareta Magnusson
- Sumo by Thien Pham
- The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well by Meik Wiking
- On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
- Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder
- Sheepish: Two Women, Fifty Sheep, & Enough Wool to Save the Planet by Catherine Friend
- Good News from Outer Space by John Kessel
- Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons by Lynn Peril
- Knitting Pearls: Writers Writing About Knitting by Ann Hood
- Where the Crawdads Sings by Delia Owens
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- The Anglophile by Laurie Gwen Shapiro
- This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki
- It Occurs to me that I am America: New Stories and art ed. Jonathan Santloper
- Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
- Super in the City by Daphne Uviller
- Mason-Dixon Knitting
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel Savit
- Sima's Undergarments for Women
- Queer Eye
- Sonata for Jukebox by Geoffrey O'Brien
- Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
- Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
- For Every One by Jason Reynolds
- Flight by Sherman Alexie
- Eleanorr Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
- My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
- Digital Minimalism: On Living Better with Less Technology by Cal Newport
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg
- Woodswoman by Anne LaBastille
- Well-Read Black Girl by Glory Edim
- American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearts by Jeffrey Toobin
- I Still Dream About You by Fannie Flagg
- Artemis by Andy Weir
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- The Red Address Book by Sofia Lundberg
- Cataloochee by Wayne Caldwell
- The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon
- Adequate Yearly Progress by Roxanna Elden
- Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton
- Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results by James Clear
- The Dreamers by Karon Thompson Walker
- Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present by Peter Vronsky
- Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
- The Diviners by Libba Bray
- The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti
2018
- Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
- The Year of Less by Cait Flanders
- Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon
- Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor by Lynda Barry
- Republic of Outsiders: The Power of Amateurs, Dreamers, and Rebels by Alissa Quart
- Nemesis by Philip Roth
- Loving Day by Mat Johnson
- The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse by Alan Bradley
- Falling Boy by Alison McGhee
- The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less by Barry Schwartz
- Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
- The Atomic City Girls by Janet Beard
- A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- Death of a Rebel: A Biography of Phil Ochs by Marc Eliot
- Little First Everywhere by Celeste Ng
- Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood
- Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
- Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
- Little Moments of Love: A Catana Comics Collection by Catana
- Never a Dull Moment 1971: The Year that Rock Exploded by David Hepworth
- Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
- Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie
- When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
- Everybody into the Pool: True Tales by Beth Lisick
- Gonzalez & Daughter Trucking Co by Maria Amparo Escandon
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman
- The Antiques by Kris D'Agostino
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- Flat Broke with Two Goats: A Memoir of Appalachia by Jennifer McGaha
- Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement
- The Light Fantastic by Sarah Combs
- The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
- News of the World by Paulette Jiles
- The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel
- Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
- I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- Jell-O Girls: A Family History by Allie Rowbottom
- People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
- The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
- Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
- Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan
- Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach
- Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
- The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
- There There by Tommy Orange
- You are a Badass by Jen Sincero
- Shadows of the Workhouse by Jennifer Worth
- Falling Up by Leslie Odom, Jr.
- Homeland by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
2017
- Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- Unfuck your Habitat: You're Better than Your Mess by Rachel Hoffman
- Let Your Voice Be Heard: The Life and Times of Pete Seeger by Anita Silvey
- American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
- The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
- Faith: California Scheming by Jody Hauser
- Sula by Toni Morrison
- Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World by Rob Sheffield
- The Lord God Bird by Russell Mill
- Secrets of the Cicada Summer by Andrea Beaty
- Same Difference and Other Stories by Derek Kirk Kim
- The Game by Diana Wynne Jones
- M Train by Patti Smith
- Some Things that Stay by Sarah Willias
- Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
- High Tide in Tucson by Barbara Kingsolver
- A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
- Ghosts by Raina Telegmeier
- The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
- A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
2016
- And All Our Wounds Forgiven by Julius Lester
- The Blind Contessa's New Machine by Carey Wallace
- Supreme Courtship by Christopher Buckley
- Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman
- The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
- America Street: A Multicultural Anthology of Stories by Anne Mazer
- Jessica Jones: Alias, Vol. 4 by Brian Michael Bendis
- Runaways: The Complete Collection Volume 2 by Brian K. Vaughan
- The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
2015
- Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
- Witches on the Road Tonight by Sheri Holman
- Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
- The Namesake by Jumpa Lahiri
- It's Always Something by Gilda Radner
- Where the River Ends by Charles Martin
- Hector and the Search for Happiness by Francois Lelord
- Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
- Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
- Here I Stand by Paul Robeson
- A Life in Stitches: Knitting My Way Through Love Loss and Laughter by Rachael Herron
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
- True Grit by Charles Portis
- Nimona by N.D. Stevenson
- Your Illustrated Guide to Becoming One With the Universe by Yumi Sakugara
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- Swampland! by Karen Russell
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by gtfoterf
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ibid.
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Subway Love by Nora Raleigh Baskin
- One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
- The True Blue Scouts of the Sugar Man Swamp by Kathi Appelt
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- The Party Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
- Couch by Benjamin Barzybom
- Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage
- Juniper Berry: a tale of terror and temptation by M.P. Kozlowsky
- Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- Sandrine's Letter to Tomorrow by Dedra Johnson
- The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times by Jennifer Worth
- Riding Solo with the Golden Horde by Richard Hill
- The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
- Good-bye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton
- Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
- Speaking from Among the Bones by Alan Bradley
- Heft by Liz Moore
- Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
- Dreamwood by Heather Mackley
- 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)
- One Day by David Nicholls
- A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Madeleine L’Engle & Hope Larson
- Love Goes to Buildings on Fire by Will Hermes*
- Greyhound by Stefan Piper
- Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of my Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman
- The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein*
- The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
- I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron
- The Frozen Thames by Helen Humphreys
- Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver*
- Slanted and Enchanted by Kaya Oakes
- Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut
- Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists*
- Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
- Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading by Maureen Corrigan
- Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut*
- Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Giver by Lois Lowry*
- Dark Victory, The Life of Bette Davis by Ed Sikov
- The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
- Don’t Expect Magic by Kathy McCullough
- Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 by David Petersen
- The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye by Robert Kirkman
- Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
- The Walking Dead, Vol. 2: Miles Behind Us by Robert Kirkman
- The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings
- The Walking Dead, Vol. 3: Safety Behind Bars by Robert Kirkman
- The Walking Dead, Vol. 4: The Heart’s Desire by Robert Kirkman
- The Walking Dead, Vol. 5: The Best Defense by Robert Kirkman
- Film Music: A Very Short Introduction by Kathryn Kalinak
- The Sleepy Hollow Family Almanac by Kris D’Agostino*
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald*
- Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal by Conor Grennan
- The Matzo Ball Heiress by Laurie Gwen Shapiro
- Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed*
- Between Boyfriends by Kim Gee*
- Cool, Calm & Contentious by Merrill Markoe
- The Walking Dead, Vol. 6: This Sorrowful Life by Robert Kirkman
- Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed
- The Golden Compass (Northern Lights) by Philip Pullman
- Positively 4th Street: The Lives of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina by David Hajdu
- Pastoralia by George Saunders
- I Dreamed I was a Very Clean Tramp by Richard Hell
- The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- Wonder by R. J. Palacio
- Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands by Michael Chabon
- Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
- A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
- The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
- The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
- The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine
- Crazy Heart by Thomas Cobb
- Little Fish by Ramsey Beyer
- The Fallback Plan by Leigh Stein
2012
- Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
- Kiss & Tell by MariNaomi
- Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? By Mindy Kaling
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- The Mind’s Eye by Oliver Sacks
- Absolute Sandman, Volume 1 by Neil Gaiman
- Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
- BITCHfest edited by Lisa Jervis & Andi Zeisler
- Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Swimming to Cambodia by Spalding Gray
- Morning, Noon and Night by Spalding Gray
- Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
- Looking for Alaska by John Green
- Paper Towns by John Green
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
- If You Can’t Live Without Me, Why Aren’t You Dead Yet?! by Cynthia Heimel
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
- Heartburn by Nora Ephron
- The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson
- I Was Told There’d Be Cake by Sloane Crosley
- Impossible Vacation by Spalding Gray
- An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
- My Life in France by Julia Child
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- Middle School General Music: The Best Part of Your Day by Elizabeth Ann McAnally
- Music Madness for Middle School by Lynn Howard
- How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
- The Recently Deflowered Girl by Edward Gorey
- The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
- The Night Train by Clyde Edgerton
- The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
- Nerd Do Well by Simon Pegg
- Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
2011
- The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
- The Medium is the Massage by Marshal McLuhan and Quentin Fiore
- The Zombies: Hung Up On A Dream by Claes Johansen
- Lost at Sea by Bryan Lee O’Malley
- The Godfather by Mario Puzo
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Monster in a Box by Spalding Gray
- The Adults by Alison Espach
- Bound for Shady Grove by Steven Harvey
- Ryan Adams & the Cardinals: A View of Other Windows by Neal Casal
- Post Office by Charles Bukowski
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
- Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
- It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music by Amanda Petrusich
- The Beatles in Rishikesh by Paul Saltzman
- Bossypants by Tina Fey
- Women by Charles Bukowski
- My First New York edited by New York Magazine
- Boardwalk Empire by Nelson Johnson
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
- A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
- Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
- After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
- From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World by Clinton Heylin
- Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
- The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction by Robert J. McMahon
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
- Artifact: Notebooks from Hell 1974-1980 by Richard Hell
- Retromania by Simon Reynolds
- Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
- A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley
- The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J. K. Rowling
- Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
- Life, the Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams
- So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams
2010
- Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn
- Fargo Rock City by Chuck Klosterman
- What to Listen for in Music by Aaron Copland
- Conversations with Woody Allen by Eric Lax
- A Trip to the Stars by Nicholas Christopher
- The Jazz Loft Project by Sam Stephenson
- John Peel: Margrave of the Marshes by John Peel
- The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
- Sing and Shine On! By Nick Page
- Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
- Have Mercy! Confessions of the Original Rock ‘n’ Roll Animal By Wolfman Jack with Byron Laurson
- This Book is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All by Marilyn Johnson
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
- Vinyl Junkies by Brett Milano
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
- Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life by Steve Almond
- Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
- Mrs. Miniver by Jan Struther
- Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
- Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. by Sam Wasson
- The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
- Talking to Girls About Duran Duran by Rob Sheffield
- Losing Mum and Pup by Christopher Buckley
- The Monsters of Templeton by Lorrie Groff
- A Very Short Introduction to Music by Nicholas Cook
- Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
- Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O’Malley
- Scott Pilgrim Versus the World by Bryan Lee O’Malley
- Scott Pilgrim & The Infinite Sadness by Bryan Lee O’Malley
- The Weed That Strings The Hangman’s Bag by Alan Bradley
- This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
- Orlando by Virginia Woolf
- Lost Horizon by James Hilton
- Run with the Hunted by Charles Bukowski
- Sifting Through the Madness by Charles Bukowski
- Lulu in Hollywood by Louise Brooks
- Just Kids by Patti Smith
2009
- The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004 ed. Dave Eggers
- Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley
- The Secret Life of Harry Houdini: the Making of America’s First Superhero by William Kalush and Larry Sloman
- For the End of Time: the Story of the Messiaen Quartet by Rebecca Rischin
- Rock ‘n’ Roll Wisdom: What Psychologically Astute Lyrics Teach us about Life and Love by Barry Farber
- Boomsday by Christopher Buckley
- Take the Cannoli by Sarah Vowell
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
- Foreskin’s Lament by Shalom Auslander
- The Wild Party by March/Spiegelman
- The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
- Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
- Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music by Greg Kot
- The Beats: A Graphic History edited by Paul Buhle
- Dexter in the Dark by Jeff Lindsay
- The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
- Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Dr. Oliver Sacks
- Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui by Karen Kingston
- Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer by Novella Carpenter
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv
- Don’t Get Too Comfortable by David Rakoff
- The Magicians by Lev Grossman
- Circus Parade by Jim Tully
- Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman
- The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
- Lowboy by John Wray
- Radio On: A Listener’s Diary by Sarah Vowell
2008
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
- Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut
- Love is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield
- The Witches by Roald Dahl
- Mix Tape by Thurston Moore
- Black Hole by Charles Burns
- Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
- Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda
- Papillon by Henri Charrière
- The Collected Cloth by Jack Terricloth
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
- Banco by Henri Charrière
- New Brunswick, New Jersey, Goodbye by Ronen Kauffman
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
- The Inner Game of Music by Barry Green
- Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
- How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers
- You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
- Naked by David Sedaris
- Diary by Chuck Palahniuk
- The Best American Nonrequired Reading [2007] edited by Dave Eggers
- Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
- The Film Club by David Gilmour
- The Best American Nonrequired Reading [2002] edited by Dave Eggers
- The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
- Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
- When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
- Flash Fiction Forward anthology
- The Best American Nonrequired Reading [2008] edited by Dave Eggers
- The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett
- The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
2007
- Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland
- Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
- Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
- Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
- Women and Popular Music: Sexuality, Identity, and Subjectivity by Sheila Whiteley
- The Rum Diaries by Hunter S. Thompson
- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Without Feathers by Woody Allen
- The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
- The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
- Bakshish by Jack Terricloth
- Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
- Maus I by Art Spiegleman
- Maus II by Art Spiegleman
- Harry Potter 7 by JK Rowling
- Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Educating Esmé by Esmé Cordell
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
- Songbook by Nick Hornby
- Matilda by Roald Dahl
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
- James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
- The Bohemian Manifesto by Lauren Stover
- Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
- How soon is Never? by Marc Spitz
- A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
- The BFG by Roald Dahl
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