February 2026 Spins

 

Hollywood In-Jokes Triple Play

 

We watched a triple play of loosely-thematically-linked films yesterday that I'd very much like to shout into the void about. An interesting trio of movies that consisted of one of my all-time favorites, something completely new-to-me, and something I'd seen before but appreciated much more this time around.

It's not a secret that Hollywood loves Hollywood. We've seen it thousands of times over. Sunset Boulevard, La La Land, The Artist, All About Eve. One only needs to dip a toe into the films of any given era to get deluged by screenwriters and actors writing and acting about writing and acting. I guess it goes with the age-old advice of "write what you know." First, a little bit about each film, and then I'll try and tie them all together.

America's Sweethearts (2001) dir. Joe Roth, co-written by Billy Crystal and Peter Tolan. Cast includes: John Cusack, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Julia Roberts, Billy Crystal, Stanley Tucci, Hank Azaria, Alan Arkin, and Christopher Walken. The basic premise is the comedy/drama surrounding a press junket for a film starring an estranged married couple who made a living out of churning out rom-coms. It moves quickly and quippy. It's not high art but it's also not "just" a rom-com. The commentary on the vapidity of Hollywood is there--the self-importance of the press, the celebrity bubble, the reclusive auteur filmmaker. Every actor delivers their lines perfectly. It successfully spoofs many rom-com tropes, sometimes in rapid succession. This is a go-to choice for me when I need something light and funny.

The Muse (1999) dir. Albert Brooks, co-written by Albert Brooks and Monica Mcgowan Johnson. Cast includes: Albert Brooks, Andie MacDowell, Sharon Stone. This was a new one to me but I've been an Albert Brooks fan for some time. The premise of "working with a Muse" was bizarre and twisty with much to say about the flightiness of Hollywood, the real difficulties of writer's block, and gender role expectations within a marriage. Overall I found it entertaining and quirky. Who doesn't love a manic pixie dream -woman- portrayed here by Sharon Stone. I adored the cameos from famous directors Marty Scorcese, James Cameron, and most delightfully, Rob Reiner. This film approaches Hollywood from the angle of the screenwriter rather than the actors and producers, with Brooks' character constantly reminding the people around him that he has to sell scripts to pay the bills! As fantastical as the premise was, it was definitely grounded in his lived experience (coping with being past his prime) which was an interesting lens.

For Your Consideration (2006) dir. Christopher Guest, co-written by Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy. Cast includes Catherine O'Hara, Parker Posey, Harry Shearer, Ed Begley Jr., Jennifer Coolidge, Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy, along with so many fun bit parts from their posse of improv geniuses. Here we have a classic Christopher Guest ensemble comedy with some new elements. A film-within-a-film lends itself to more traditional filming techniques, a studio trying to wrest creative control from the writers, spoofs of Hollywood gossip TV talk shows, snippets of interviews (rather than relying on the mocumentary "all-interview" approach), and actors of all stripes trying to put on a meaningful performance (and, as a result, garner award season buzz) despite the slightly ludicrous premise of the film-in-film Home for Purim (WWII drama about a terminally-ill Jewish matriarch celebrating her favorite holiday). The very first scene struck me particularly hard since we just lost Catherine O'Hara. Watching her lip sync to a Bette Davis scene felt entirely "her" and not in character whatsoever. She was such a talented actor with insane range. This film felt like a great vehicle for showcasing that aspect of her--a real, working actor. 

Something I love about all three movies is the ability to weave in so many throw-away jokes and ideas that could never stand as a plot on their own, but do well in the madcap worlds their writers create. America's Sweethearts does a grade-A send-up of the more ludicrous aspects of opportunistic "wellness retreats." The Muse finds Brooks pitching a hypothetical aquarium-themed comedy starring Jim Carrey that cracked me up but wouldn't be something I rushed to the theaters for. Guest/Levy let us in on the Madlib-esque social dynamics of an estranged daughter bringing home her girlfriend for a minor Jewish holiday. All of these writers have a handle on how to take a joke--especially a stupid one--just far enough without losing you. I appreciate the windows into the filmmaking process, even more so because it has been distorted--turned into a caricature of itself. Even the most odious character types are somehow lovable. Clearly, it's not just Hollywood that loves Hollywood, but me too.

Records I spun in January 2026

 

         

  

2025 Reading Wrap-Up

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Highly recommended:

Fiction

• Audition for the Fox by Martin Cahill - lean, mean fantasy about fighting fascism
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck - disturbingly relevant 90 years later
• Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (narrated by Arian Moayed)- an engrossing meditation on finding meaning in death (and life)
• Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li - a group of Chinese-American students embroiled in a heist to repatriate stolen art and artifacts
• Roots by Alex Haley (narrated by Avery Brooks) - there simply are no words

Non-fiction

• The Memory Palace by Nate DiMeo - short form essays about history hidden in plain sight
• Something in the Woods Loves You by Jarod K. Anderson - mental health memoir and paean to the natural world
• Apple (Skin to the Core) by Eric Gansworth - coming up on a reservation near Buffalo, NY
• For Small Creatures Such as We by Sasha Sagan - all about gatherings and ways we establish traditions and give our lives meaning from an atheist's perspective
• Yoko by David Sheff - you think you know, but you don't! an icon
• Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit - essays on George Orwell, finding simple beauty, and resisting fascism

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 4^th 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