Books read, 2023-4
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bironicCatching up on year-end roundups. Let's see if I have the oomph to reply to comments or post mini-reviews of any of these.
2023
1. *The Fire Line - Fernanda Santos
2. Less - Andrew Sean Grier [A] ♥
3. *How to plant a room and grow a happy home. - Morgan Doane and Erin Hardi
4. *Decorating with Plants - Baylor Chapman
5. *A Swim in a Pond in the Rain - George Saunders [A]
6. *Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - David Grann [A]
*Yes, Please - Amy Poehler [A] -- bailed
*Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer [A] -- bailed
7. Less Is Lost - Andrew Sean Grier [A]
*The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg [A] -- DNF
*10% Happier - Dan Harris [A] -- DNF
*The 1619 Project - Nikole Hannah-Jones et al [A] -- DNF
8. *I Like to Watch - Emily Nussbaum [A]
9. *The Blink of an Eye - Walter Murch
10. Nona the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir ♥
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan [A] -- DNF
11. *You Just Need to Lose Weight - Aubrey Gordon [A]
*Bad Feminist - Roxane Gay [A] -- bailed
*Hunger - Roxane Gay [A] -- bailed
*Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens - Eddie Izzard [A] -- bailed
12. *Al Franken, Giant of the Senate - Al Franken [A]
*Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble - Nora Ephron [A] -- DNF
AUTUMN READING CHALLENGE
13. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut ✓
14. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad ✓
15. Translation State - Ann Leckie ♥
16. *Paddle Your Own Canoe - Nick Offerman [A]
17. The Iron Children - Rebecca Fraimow (friend)
18. The Time Machine - HG Wells ✓
19. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
20. *Growing Joy - Maria Failla [A]
21. *Ten Steps to Nanette - Hannah Gadsby [A]
22. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller ✓ ♥
23. Boyfriend Material - Alexis Hall [A]
24. *The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl - Issa Rae [A]
25. *Second Opinions - Jerome Groopman ✓
26. *Stories from the Shadows: Reflections of a Street Doctor - James J. O'Connell
27. *Being a Woman Surgeon - ed. Preeti R. John ✓
28. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
29. Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett [A]
30. *Hallucinations - Oliver Sacks [A]
31. *The Denial of Death - Ernest Becker ✓
32. *The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco ✓ -- DNF
*What an Owl Knows - Jennifer Ackerman [A] -- DNF
/AUTUMN READING CHALLENGE
33. *If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? - Alan Alda [A]
34. *Calm the F*ck Down - Sarah Knight [A]
In progress:
1. Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens [A]
2024
1. Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens [A]
2. *Little Weirds - Jenny Slate [A]
3. *4,000 Weeks - Oliver Burkeman [A]
4. Glengarry Glenross - David Mamet [A]
5. *Animal Wise - Virginia Morell [A]
6. *I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki - Baek Sehee transl. Anton Hur [A]
7. *The Mind's Eye - Oliver Sacks [A]
8. *Lonely Planet: Sweden & *DK Eyewitness: Sweden
9. *Queer Ducks - Eliot Schrefer [A]
10. *Do No Harm - Henry Marsh [A]
11. Spaceman of Bohemia - Jaroslav Kalfar
12. *The Making of a Manager - Julie Zhou [A]
13. *Boy - Roald Dahl [A]
14. *Do Less - Kate Northrup
15. *The 99% Invisible City - Roman Mars [A] -- incomplete
16. *Going Solo - Roald Dahl [A]
17. *Your Dad Stole My Rake - Tom Papa [A]
18. *Houseplant - Fran Bailey & Zia Allaway; *The New Plant Collector - Darryl Cheng
AUTUMN READING CHALLENGE
19. *Knife - Salman Rushdie
20. Not Half Badger - Zoe Chant (friend)
21. *Who Moved My Cheese - Spencer Johnson
22. *On Animals - Susan Orlean ♥
23. Termush - Sven Holm
24. Whalefall - Daniel Kraus
25. The Book of Love - Kelly Link
26. Confessions of a Candy Snatcher - Phoebe Sinclair (friend)
27. The Book of Tofu - William Shurtleff & Akiko Aoyagi
28. The Husbands - Holly Gramazio
29. Lady Eve's Last Con - Rebecca Fraimow (friend)
30. Annihilation - Jeff Vandermeer
31. Authority - Jeff Vandermeer
32. *It Came from the Closet - ed. Joe Vallese [A]
33. Acceptance - Jeff Vandermeer
34. *This Is Going To Hurt - Adam Kay [A] ♥
35. Hench - Natalie Walschots
36. Foundation - Isaac Asimov ✓
/AUTUMN READING CHALLENGE
37. *An Immense World - Ed Yong [A]
38. *Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why - Alexandra Petri [A]
39. Interior Chinatown - Charles Yu
In progress:
1. *Small Victories - Anne Lamott [A] ♥
2. *The Light Eaters - Zoe Schlanger
*nonfiction
[A] audiobook
✓ Operation Read More Books You've Owned For Ages
2023
1. *The Fire Line - Fernanda Santos
2. Less - Andrew Sean Grier [A] ♥
3. *How to plant a room and grow a happy home. - Morgan Doane and Erin Hardi
4. *Decorating with Plants - Baylor Chapman
5. *A Swim in a Pond in the Rain - George Saunders [A]
6. *Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - David Grann [A]
*Yes, Please - Amy Poehler [A] -- bailed
*Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer [A] -- bailed
7. Less Is Lost - Andrew Sean Grier [A]
*The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg [A] -- DNF
*10% Happier - Dan Harris [A] -- DNF
*The 1619 Project - Nikole Hannah-Jones et al [A] -- DNF
8. *I Like to Watch - Emily Nussbaum [A]
9. *The Blink of an Eye - Walter Murch
10. Nona the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir ♥
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan [A] -- DNF
11. *You Just Need to Lose Weight - Aubrey Gordon [A]
*Bad Feminist - Roxane Gay [A] -- bailed
*Hunger - Roxane Gay [A] -- bailed
*Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens - Eddie Izzard [A] -- bailed
12. *Al Franken, Giant of the Senate - Al Franken [A]
*Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble - Nora Ephron [A] -- DNF
AUTUMN READING CHALLENGE
13. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut ✓
14. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad ✓
15. Translation State - Ann Leckie ♥
16. *Paddle Your Own Canoe - Nick Offerman [A]
17. The Iron Children - Rebecca Fraimow (friend)
18. The Time Machine - HG Wells ✓
19. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
20. *Growing Joy - Maria Failla [A]
21. *Ten Steps to Nanette - Hannah Gadsby [A]
22. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller ✓ ♥
23. Boyfriend Material - Alexis Hall [A]
24. *The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl - Issa Rae [A]
25. *Second Opinions - Jerome Groopman ✓
26. *Stories from the Shadows: Reflections of a Street Doctor - James J. O'Connell
27. *Being a Woman Surgeon - ed. Preeti R. John ✓
28. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
29. Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett [A]
30. *Hallucinations - Oliver Sacks [A]
31. *The Denial of Death - Ernest Becker ✓
32. *The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco ✓ -- DNF
*What an Owl Knows - Jennifer Ackerman [A] -- DNF
/AUTUMN READING CHALLENGE
33. *If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? - Alan Alda [A]
34. *Calm the F*ck Down - Sarah Knight [A]
In progress:
1. Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens [A]
2024
1. Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens [A]
2. *Little Weirds - Jenny Slate [A]
3. *4,000 Weeks - Oliver Burkeman [A]
4. Glengarry Glenross - David Mamet [A]
5. *Animal Wise - Virginia Morell [A]
6. *I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki - Baek Sehee transl. Anton Hur [A]
7. *The Mind's Eye - Oliver Sacks [A]
8. *Lonely Planet: Sweden & *DK Eyewitness: Sweden
9. *Queer Ducks - Eliot Schrefer [A]
10. *Do No Harm - Henry Marsh [A]
11. Spaceman of Bohemia - Jaroslav Kalfar
12. *The Making of a Manager - Julie Zhou [A]
13. *Boy - Roald Dahl [A]
14. *Do Less - Kate Northrup
15. *The 99% Invisible City - Roman Mars [A] -- incomplete
16. *Going Solo - Roald Dahl [A]
17. *Your Dad Stole My Rake - Tom Papa [A]
18. *Houseplant - Fran Bailey & Zia Allaway; *The New Plant Collector - Darryl Cheng
AUTUMN READING CHALLENGE
19. *Knife - Salman Rushdie
20. Not Half Badger - Zoe Chant (friend)
21. *Who Moved My Cheese - Spencer Johnson
22. *On Animals - Susan Orlean ♥
23. Termush - Sven Holm
24. Whalefall - Daniel Kraus
25. The Book of Love - Kelly Link
26. Confessions of a Candy Snatcher - Phoebe Sinclair (friend)
27. The Book of Tofu - William Shurtleff & Akiko Aoyagi
28. The Husbands - Holly Gramazio
29. Lady Eve's Last Con - Rebecca Fraimow (friend)
30. Annihilation - Jeff Vandermeer
31. Authority - Jeff Vandermeer
32. *It Came from the Closet - ed. Joe Vallese [A]
33. Acceptance - Jeff Vandermeer
34. *This Is Going To Hurt - Adam Kay [A] ♥
35. Hench - Natalie Walschots
36. Foundation - Isaac Asimov ✓
/AUTUMN READING CHALLENGE
37. *An Immense World - Ed Yong [A]
38. *Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why - Alexandra Petri [A]
39. Interior Chinatown - Charles Yu
In progress:
1. *Small Victories - Anne Lamott [A] ♥
2. *The Light Eaters - Zoe Schlanger
*nonfiction
[A] audiobook
✓ Operation Read More Books You've Owned For Ages
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Date: Jan. 5th, 2025 04:03 am (UTC)