A chronological list of everything I've read since I started keeping track.
- Bold are strongly recommended.
- Italics are re-reads.
- "DNF" marks books I didn't finish. I only started tracking abandoned books properly in 2024.
If I've written anything about the book, it's linked below.
An archive of blog posts arranged by month is here.
2022
- Horrorstör - Grady Hendrix
- The Plague Stones - James Brogden
- Universal Harvester - John Darnielle
- The Cartographers - Peng Shepherd
- The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Matrix - Jonathan Aycliffe
- The Temple of Elemental Evil 9 Thomas M. Reid
- Eversion - Alastair Reynolds
- The Incorruptiles - John Hornor Jacobs
- Metabolize, if Able - Clay AD
- Mary Toft; or, the Rabbit Queen - Dexter Palmer
- Dreamland - Rosa Rankin-Gee
- Win - Harlen Coben
- Water Shall Refuse Them - Lucie McKnight Hardy
- The Collected Works of Billy the Kid - Michael Ondaatje
- The Night Visitors - Richard V. Hirst and Jenn Ashworth
- Last Orders - Graham Swift
- The Beast House Trilogy - Richard Layman
- No Safe House - Linwood Barclay
- Revenger - Alastair Reynolds
- Shadow Captain - Alastair Reynolds
- Bone Silence - Alastair Reynolds
- Hummingbird Salamander - Jeff VanderMeer
- Hex - Jenni Fagan
- Artifact Space - Miles Cameron
- Black Lake Manor - Guy Morpuss
- Cold Iron - Miles Cameron
2023
- Beartown - Fredrik Backman
- Tell Me I'm Worthless - Alison Rumfitt
- Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- The Bird King - G. Willow Wilson
- Autobiography of Red - Anne Carson
- A Time To Kill - John Grisham
- It Came From The Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror - Joe Vallese et al
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
- The Dying Earth - Jack Vance
- The Shipping News - Annie Proulx
- The Heart Goes Last - Margaret Atwood
- The Prestige - Christopher Priest
- Cat & Mouse - James Patterson
- House Of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
- Annihilation - Jeff VanderMeer
- Authority - Jeff VanderMeer
- Acceptance - Jeff VanderMeer (DNF)
- Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs
- Silver Nitrate - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- The Whispering Muse - Laura Purcell
- The Holy Terrors - Simon R. Green
- Imaginary Fried - Stephen Chbosky
- Duma Key - Stephen King
- Tasting Victory: The Life and Wines of the World's Favourite Sommelier - Gerard Basset
- This Is How You Lose The Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
- Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth - Xiaolu Guo
- Bone White - Ronald Malfi
- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
- The Empress of Salt and Fortune - Nghi Vo
- And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
- The Only Harmless Great Thing - Brooke Bolander
- Artemis - Andy Weir
- Mutant Circuit - Mark Jaskowski
- The Mimicking of Known Successes - Malka Older (DNF)
- Crom Cruach - Valkyrie Loughcrewe
- One Arm Shorter Than The Other - Gigi Ganguly
- A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
- The Murders of Molly Southbourne - Tade Thompson
- Crooked House - Agatha Christie
- The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels - Janice Hallett
- The Virgins - Pamela Erens
2024
- The Bee Sting - Paul Murray
- Eight Detectives - Alex Pavesi (DNF)
- Chain Gang All-Stars - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- Dead Silence - S.A. Barnes
- All The Little Bird-Hearts - Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow (DNF)
- Cinema Viscera - Sam Richard et al
- Poor Things - Alasdair Grey
- Strangers - Tachi Yamada
- The Summer of the Ubume - Natsuhiko Kyoguko (DNF)
- The House of Doors - Tan Twan Eng (DNF)
- Friday Night Lights - H.G. Bissinger
- They Were Here Before Us - Eric LaRocca
- How To Build A Boat - Elaine Feeney
- The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie
- Before They Are Hanged - Joe Abercrombie
- The Last Argument of Kings - Joe Abercrombie
- Best Served Cold - Joe Abercrombie
- The Heroes - Joe Abercrombie
- Red Country - Joe Abercrombie
- A Little Hatred - Joe Abercrombie
- The Book of Taliesin - Rowan Williams and Gwyneth Lewis
- The Trouble With Peace - Joe Abercrombie
- The Wisdom Of Crowds - Joe Abercrombie
- The Escape Room - L.D. Smithson
- The Cloisters - Katy Hays
- Eon - Greg Bear
- The Last Murder At The End Of The World - Stuart Turton
- Murder Road - Simone St. James
- The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan
- Numero Zero - Umberto Eco
- Someone You Can Build A Nest In - John Wiswell
- How Much of These Hills Is Gold - C Pam Zhang
- How To Solve Your own Murder - Kristen Perrin (DNF)
- End Of Story - A.J. Finn
- They Never Find The Bodies In Whispering Pines - Sean Malia Thompson (DNF)
- The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
- The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett
- Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett
- Mort - Terry Pratchett
- Sourcery - Terry Pratchett
- Wyrd Sisters - Terry Pratchett
- Ghost Station - S.A. Barnes
- Elder Race - Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Pyramids - Terry Pratchett
- Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
- Eric - Terry Pratchett
- Who Goes There? - John W. Campbell
- The Bruising of Qilwa - Naseem Jamnia (DNF)
- Blood, Sweat, and Chrome - Kyle Buchanan
- The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers (DNF)
- Yes!: My Improbable Journey to the Main Event of WrestleMania - Daniel Bryan
- The Ship Beneath The Ice - Mensun Bound
- Hardcore History: The Story of The ECW - Scott E. Williams (DNF)
- Moving Pictures - Terry Pratchett
- The Traitors - C.A. Lynch
- Looking Glass Sound - Catriona Ward
- Bear Season - Gemma Fairclough
- Ringworld - Larry Niven
- Basilisk - Scott Bradley (DNF)
- Call Me By Your Name - André Aciman
- Blood and Mascara - Colin Krainin
- Nothing But The Rain - Naomi Salman
- Green Fuse Burning - Tiffany Morris
- Reaper Man - Terry Pratchett
- Far From The Light Of Heaven - Tade Thompson
- The Instrumentalist - Harriet Constable
- Isolation Island - Louise Minchin
- Beartooth - Callan Wink
- Redwall - Brian Jacques
- Cinema Viscera - Sam Richards et al
- The Haunting of Blackwater - Marcia Armandi (DNF)
- The Bullet Swallower - Elizabeth Gonzalez James
- Upright Women Wanted - Sarah Gailey
- Rage - Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman
- Roadwork - Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman
- When The Tiger Came Down The Mountain - Nghi Vo
- Into The Riverlands - Nghi Vo
- Mammoths At The Gates - Nghi Vo
- Orbital - Samantha Harvey (DNF)
- The Brides of High Hill - Nghi Vo
- Western Lane - Chetna Maroo
- The Skin and Its Girl - Sarah Cypher
- Off-Time Jive - A.Z. Louise
- Babel - R.F. Kuang
- In Ascension - Martin MacInnes
- Sift - Alissa Hattman
- Headshot - Rita Bullwinkel
- Prophet Song - Paul Lynch
- The Lies of The Ajungo - Moses Ose Utomi
- Horror Movie - Paul Tremblay
- The Library Of Broken Worlds - Alaya Dawn Johnson (DNF)
- Creation Lake - Rachel Kushner
- The Water Outlaws - S.L. Huang
- To Shape A Dragon's Breath - Moniquill Blackgoose (DNF)
- Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinniman (DNF)
- No Gods, No Monsters - Cadwell Turnbull
- The Saint of Bright Doors - Vajra Chandrasekera
- Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon - Wole Talabi (DNF)
- Sordidez - E.G. Condé (DNF)
- The Truth of The Aleke - Moses Ose Utomi
- Black Chalk - Christopher J. Yates (DNF)
- The Flesh Inherent - Perry Meester
- The Secret History - Donna Tartt
- The Beauty - Aliya Whiteley
- The Siege of Burning Grass - Premee Mohammed
- Empire Of Silence - Christopher Ruocchio (DNF)