Books Of 2024

 

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1. Knight's Redemption by Sherilee Gray
2. The Little Liar by Mitch Albom
3. Ghost Eaters by Clay McLeod Chapman
4. Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie
5. Dragon's Captive by Kara Lockharte
6. Awakened Lust by Kat T. Scott
7. Trail Of The Lost by Andrea Lankford
8. Code Name Blue Wren by Jim Popkin
9. It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders
10. Life In Five Senses by Gretchen Rubin
11. Every Rising Sun by Jamila Ahmed *
12. The Ferryman by Justin Cronin
13. Three Fires by Denise Mina
14. White Women by Regina Jackson and Saira Rao
15. Orbital by Samantha Harvey
16. Spies by Calder Walton
17. All The Blood We Share by Camilla Bruce
18. The Eden Test by Adam Sternbergh
19. Period by Kate Clancy
20. Data Baby by Susannah Breslin
21. Whalefall by Daniel Kraus
22. The Surviving Sky by Kritika Rao
23. Anna O by Matthew Blake
24. Searching For Savanna by Mona Gable
25. Wade In The Water by Nyani Nkrumah
26. The Little Book of Aliens by Adam Frank
27. Life On Other Planets by Aomawa Shields
28. His Sub by Ellis O. Day
29. Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem by Laurie Notaro *
30. Skin by Kathe Koja
31. Hot And Bothered by Jancee Dunn
32. Blood by Dr. Jen Gunter
33. His Name Is Killian by Ella Adamian
34. Lost In The Moment And Found by Seanan McGuire
35. Mislaid In Parts Half-Known by Seanan McGuire
36. Learned By Heart by Emma Donoghue
37. Bluegate Fields by Anne Perry
38. Wheat Belly by William Davis
39. Falling Awake by Jon Kabat- Zinn
40. Untangled by Koshin Paley Ellison
41. Atomic Habits by James Clear
42. Spare by Prince Harry
43. How To Make People Like You In 90 Seconds Or Less by Nicholas Boothman
44. Radically Happy by Phakchok Rinpoche and Erric Solomon*
45. You: Staying Young by Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz
46. True Love by Thich Nhat Hanh
47. How Not To Kill Yourself by Clancy Martin
48. Learning To Love Midlife by Chip Conley
49. The Spark Factor by Molly Maloof
50. Drunk-ish by Stefanie Wilder-Taylor
51. I Never Thought Of It That Way by Monica Guzman
52. What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic by Annie Kotowicz
53. Sorry For The Inconvenience by Farah Naz Rishi
54. Aries by Gemma James
55. Taurus by Gemma James
56. Gemini by Gemma James
57. Cancer by Gemma James
58. Leo by Gemma James
59. Autistic State Of Mind by Kayla Francis
60. Virgo by Gemma James
61. Adult Autism Support Guide by Maxine Kelly
62. Fluent In 3 Months by Benny Lewis
63. Staring At The Sun: Overcoming The Terror of Death by Irvin Yalom
64. Hello Sleep by Jade Wu
65. Untangled by Lisa Damour
66. Young Forever by Mark Hyman
67. Be The Sea by Clara Ward
68. Dopamine Detox by Thibaut Meurisse
69. No Time To Panic by Matt Gutman
70. The Master by Kresley Cole
71. The Joy Of Costco by David and Susan Schwartz
72. Weird by Olga Khazan
73. Up To Speed by Christine Yu*
74. The Awakening by Nora Roberts

Books Of 2023

 

1. Fairy Tale by Stephen King
2. City Of Incurable Women by Maud Casey
3. The Maid and The Orcs by Finley Fenn (reread)
4. The Seven Levels Of Intimacy by Matthew Kelly*
5. The Big Dark Sky by Dean Koontz*
6. Tangled In Tinsel by Trilina Pucci-
7. Innocence by Dean Koontz*
8. Cruel Paradise by JT Geissinger-
9. The Self-Healing Mind by Gregory Scott Brown*
10. The Red by Tiffany Reisz+
11. Training In Tenderness by Dzigar Kongtrul
12. The Institute by Stephen King
13. Awake Where You Are by Martin Aylward*
14. Used by Leann Ryans
15. Hallowed Hookup by Crissy Larson
16. Atomic Anna by Rachel Barenbaum*
17. The Comfort Book by Matt Haig
18. Crave To Conquer by Zoey Ellis
19. Forbidden Deviant Games by Lucy Smoke
20. Ashley Bell by Dean Koontz
21. The Time Paradox by Philip Zombardo and John Boyd
22. Devoted by Dean Koontz
23. The Prisoner by B. A. Paris
24. If Your Mouth Could Talk by Dr. Kami Hoss
25. The Taking by Dean Koontz
26. The Lies Of The Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi
27. San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities By Michael Schellenberger+
28. The End of The World Is Just The Beginning by Peter Zeihan*
29. The Beauty And The Orcs by Finley Fenn
30. The New Hire by Ellis O Day
31. The Strange by Nathan Ballingrud
32. Midlife Bites by Jen Mann
33. All That Is Wicked by Kate Winkler Dawson
34. The Half Life of Valery K by Natasha Pulley
35. Invasion by Luke Harding
36. Coming Undone: A Memoir by Terri White
37. Little Rabbit by Alyssa Songsiridej
38. Lost In The Valley Of Death by Harley Rustad
39. The Stolen Year by Anya Kamenetz
40. Elsewhere by Dean Koontz*
41. I Am Behind You by John Ajvide Lindqvist
42. Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins
43. The Butcher and The Wren by Alaina Urquhart
44. A Bend In The Stars by Rachel Barenbaum
45. Intuitive Fasting by Will Cole
46. The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley
47. Toxic Superfoods by Sally K Norton
48. Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey
49. A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle
50. A  Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
51. Sarah Plain And Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
52. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone by J K Rowling
53. Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets by J K Rowling
54. Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban by J K Rowling
55. Wonder by R J Palacio
56. Men In Bed by Barbara Keesling
57. The Memory Of Animals by Claire Fuller
58. The Jasad Heir by Sara Hashem
59. World's Best Spicy Food by Lonely Planet
60. Next Level by Stacy T Sims*
61. The Great Reclamation by Rachel Heng*
62. Dune Shacks of Provincetown by Jane Paradise
63. Saha by Cho Nam-Joo
64. Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake*
65. The Born Again Runner by Pete Magill
66. The Revivalists by Christopher M Hood
67. Fast Like A Girl by Dr. Mindy Pelz
68. Heart To Heart by H.H. The Dalai Lama
69. Haven by Emma Donoghue
70. Slenderman by Kathleen Hale
71. Meet Me In Another Life by Catriona Silvey
72. The Hanging City by Charlie Holmberg
73. Bakhita by Veronique Olmi*
74. After Death by Dean Koontz
75. The 12 Hour Walk by Colin O'Brady
76. Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
77. Viruses: A Natural History by Marilyn J. Roossinck
78. Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig
79. The Quiet Tenant by Clemence Michallon
80. Pandora's Gamble by Alison Young
81. Haunted San Jose by Elizabeth Kile
82. Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order by Steven Strogatz
83. Cosmogenesis by Brian Thomas Swimme*
84. The High Sierras: A Love Story by Kim Stanley Robinson*
85. The Crane Husband by Kelly Barnhill
86. The Immunity Solution by Leo Nissola
87. The Source Field Investigations by David Wilcock
88. Upgrade by Blake Crouch
89. Ten Thousand Stitches by Olivia Atwater
90. Becoming Free Indeed by Jinger Duggar Vuolo
91. Nestlings by Nat Cassidy
92. Always Hungry? by David Ludwig MD, PhD
93. Plays Well With Others by Eric Barker
94. The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism by Keyu Jin
95. The Future by Naomi Alderman
96. Fool Proof by Tess Wilkonson-Ryan

Books Of 2022

 

I set a goal of 120 books on Goodreads, but I'll be happy to beat last year's 24 books. 

1. Pestilence by Laura Thalassa
2. War by Laura Thalassa
3. Famine by Laura Thalassa
4. Death by Laura Thalassa
5. Cruel King by Rina Kent -
6. Flames of Chaos by Amelia Hutchins
7. Ashes of Chaos by Amelia Hutchins
8. Ruins of Chaos by Amelia Hutchins
9. Born to Be Bound by Addison Cain
10. Fighting Destiny by Amelia Hutchins-
11. Born to Be Broken by Addison Cain
12. Reborn by Addison Cain
13. Stolen by Addison Cain
14. Corrupted by Addison Cain
15. Brutal Mate by Lee Savino
16. Ruthless Surrender by Zoe Blake
17. All These Pieces of Me by C. E. Kilgore
18. Primal Possession by Tabitha Black
19. The Mistwalker by Regine Abel
20. Gild by Raven Kennedy
21. Rhapsodic by Laura Thalassa
22. The Queen of All That Dies by Laura Thalassa
23. The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
24. Obey: Lesson One by Raven Jayne
25. Tempt: Lesson Two by Raven Jayne
26. Take: Lesson Three by Raven Jayne
27. Submit: Lesson Four by Raven Jayne
28. Offer: Lesson Five by Raven Jayne
29. Play: Lesson Six by Raven Jayne
30. Trust: Lesson Seven by Raven Jayne
31. Break: Lesson Eight by Raven Jayne
32. Master: Lesson Nine by Raven Jayne
33. Choose: Lesson Ten by Raven Jayne
34. Vanilla To Kinky: The Beginner's Guide To  BDSM and Kink by Jonathan Wolf
35. Saints Of The Syndicate: The Syndicate #1 by Natalie Nicole
36. A Psychological Approach To D/s Relationships by Alexander M. Basil
37. Velocities by Kathe Koja
38. This Love Hurts by Nikita
39. Quicksilver by Dean Koontz
40. BDSM: The Ultimate Handbook For The Dom And Sub: Training For The More Experienced Players by Richard Welps
41. Reminders Of Him by Colleen Hoover
42. The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
43. Birthday Girl by Penelope Douglas
44. The Menopause Manifesto by Jennifer Gunter
45. Cheat Sheets For Life by Ayesha Ratnayake
46. A Ruin Of Roses by K F Breene
47. How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
48. The Extinction Trials by A. G. Riddle
49. The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis
50. The Lady And The Orc by Finley Fenn
51. The Heiress And The Orc by Finley Fenn
52. The Mind Gut Connection by Emeran Mayer
53. Hell House by Richard Matheson
54. I Hear You by Michael Sorensen
55. Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals The Secrets Of The Universe by Steven Strogatz
56. The Librarian and The Orc by Finley Fenn
57. The Duchess and The Orc by Finley Fenn
58. The Midwife And The Orc by Finley Fenn
59. Sex Positive Talks To Have With Kids by Melissa Pintor Carnagey
60. The Pragmatist's Guide to Sexuality by Malcolm and Simone Collins
61. The Maid And The Orcs by Finley Fenn
62. The Mage's Match by Finley Fenn
63. Cold City by Cathy McSporran
64. Orc's Toy by Celeste King
65. Sight by Nathan Sellers
66. My Evil Mother: A Short Story by Margaret Atwood
67. Crash by Drew Jordan
68. Hide by Drew Jordan
69. The Myths Of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky
70. Expose by Drew Jordan
71. The Maid by Nita Prose
72. Wind/Pinball by Haruki Murakami
73. Beautifully Cruel by J T Geissinger
74. The New Normal  by Jennifer Ashton
75. Rescued By The Orc Chieftain by Celeste King
76. What To Eat When You Want To Get Pregnant by Nicole Avena
77. Her Soul To Take by Harley Laroux
78. Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
79. Fox & I by Catherine Raven
80. Consent: A Memoir by Vanessa Springora
81. Ritual Wellness CBD by Blair Lauren Brown
82. You Can't F*ck Up Your Kids by Lindsay Powers
83. Tempted: Slave Queen of The Underworld by Kay Allison
84. Den of Monsters by Avery Song
85. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
86. The One by John Marrs
87. The Fifth Doll by Charlie Holmberg
88. All Joy And No Fun by Jennifer Senior
89. How To Stop Time by Matt Haig
90. Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
91. Buttons And Lace by Penelope Sky
92. The Book Of Longings by Sue Monk Kid
93. Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce
94. The Other Emily by Dean Koontz
95. Jackpot by Michael Mechanic
96. The Perishing by Natashia Deon
97. The Little Book Of Hygge by Meik Wiking
98. Artemis by Andy Weir
99. Amateur Hour by Kimberly Harrington
100. Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine by Klara Hveberg
101. Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
102. Awake At 3am by Suzannah Neufeld
103. Quantum Girl Theory by Erin Kate Ryan
104. My Annihilation by Fuminori Nakamura
105. Cribsheet: A Data Driven Guide To Better, More Relaxed Parenting From Birth To Preschool by Emily Oster
106. The 22 Murders of Madison May by Max Barry
107. Trejo by Danny Trejo
108. The Swallowed Man by Edward Carey
109. Legends Of The North Cascades by Jonathan Evison
110. Humans by Brandon Stanton
111. Talking To Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
112. Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
113. Rabbits by Terry Miles
114. The Awakened Brain by Lisa Miller
115. The Book Of Accidents by Check Wendig
116. I'm Still Here: Black Dignity In a World Made For Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
117. The Panic Years by Nell Frizzell
118. Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations by Dan Ariely
119. Why I Am Not A Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto by Jessa Crispin
120. Viral: The Search For The Origin of COVID-19 by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley
121. Taken By The Demon Lord by Ember Cross
122. Owned By The Demon Lord by Ember Cross
123. Pestilence by Laura Thalassa (reread)
124. War by Laura Thalassa (reread)
125. Famine by Laura Thalassa (reread)
126. Death by Laura Thalassa (reread)
127. You Feel It Just Below The Ribs by Janina Mattheson and Jeffrey Cranor
128. A Soul To Keep by Opal Reyne
129. Alpha's Moon by Rene Rose and Lee Savino 
130. Does It Hurt by H.D. Carlton
131. Unwinding Anxiety by Judson Brewer
132. Everything After by Jill Santopolo
133. Eat Fat, Get Thin by Mark Hyman
134. Burntcoat by Sarah Hall
135. Brutal Claim by Lee Savino
136. You'll Never Believe What Happened To Lacey by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar
137. Surviving The White Gaze by Rebecca Carroll
138. Rexor by Ella Maven
139. It Could Happen Here by Jonathan Greenblatt
140. Fridge Love by Kristen Hong
141. Finding Their Omega by Mina Carter
142. My Brutal Alpha by Jupiter Belle
143. Maxwell's Demon by Steven Hall
144. Road of Bones by Christopher Golden
145. Personal Effects: What Recovering The Dead Teaches Me About Caring For The Living by Robert A. Jensen
146. Woke Racism by John McWhorter
147. My Heart by Semezdin Mehmedinovic
148. Master of Sin by Sienna Snow
149. The Governess and the Orc by Finley Fenn
150. The CIA Insider's Guide To Disappearing and Living Off the Grid by John Kiriakou
151. The Other Side of Night by Adam Hamdy*

Books Of 2021

1. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
2. The Devil In The White City by Erik Larson 
3. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami *
4. The Visitors by Catherine Burns
5. The Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
6. Fly Away by Kristin Hannah
7. You Cannot Die by Ian Currie *
8. The Cipher by Kathe Koja
9. Swan Song by Robert McCammon
10. City Of Ash And Red by Hye-Young Pyun
11. Extremities by Kathe Koja
12. Weaveworld by Clive Barker*
13. A Head Full Of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
14. Hard Boiled Wonderland and The End Of The World by Haruki Murakami
15. Breath by James Nestor
16. Penpal by Dathan Auerbach
    
17. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
18. Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
19. Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
20. Kiya: Hope Of The Pharoah by Katie Hamstead
21. Kiya: Mother Of A King by Katie Hamstead
22. Kiya: Rise Of A New Dynasty
23. Recursion by Blake Crouch
24. Bed Stuy by Jerry McGill
25. The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Books Of 2020

2019 beat 2018 by 3 books! (66 books in 2019!) Let's keep this going...

1. The Girls by Emma Cline
2. The Name Of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
3. The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time by Mark Haddon
4. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
5. The Dinner by Herman Koch
6. Verity by Colleen Hoover
7. The Ten Loves Of Mr. Nishimo by Kawakami Hiromi
8. Delay Don't Deny by Gin Stephens
9. The Obesity Code by Jason Fung
10. The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo
11. The Subtle Art Of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
12. Positive Discipline by Jane Nelson
13. The Physics of God by Joseph Selbie *
14. Black History In Its Own Words by Ronald Wimberly
15. Defining Moments In Black History by Dick Gregory
16. Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
17. Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 by Albert Marrin

Books Of 2019

Well, 2018 was one of my best years for book reading yet! Let's see if I can keep up the trend and beat 2018's record!

1. The Troop by Nick Cutter
2. The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks
3. The Woman In The Window by A.J. Finn
4. Peach by Emma Glass
5. The Diving Bell and The Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
6. Elevation by Stephen King
7. The Stranger In The Woods by Michael Finkel
8. Unbury Carol by Josh Malerman
9. I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O'Farrell
10. The Good Son by You-Jeong Jeong
11. The Suicide Club by Rachel Heng
12. Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
13. The Witch Elm by Tana French
14. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
15. Bedfellow by Jeremy Shipp
16. The Anomaly by Michael Rutger
17. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
18. In An Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire
19. A Taste For Monsters by Matthew J. Kirby
20. Finding Freedom by Jarvis Jay Masters
21. House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
22. The Death Of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Westaway
23. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
24. The Atrocities by Jeremy Shipp
25. The Cabin At The End Of The World by Paul Tremblay
26. Ecstasy by Mary Sharrat
27. We Were The Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
28. My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
29. The Opposite of Spoiled by Ron Lieber
30. Last Tango In Cyberspace by Steven Kotler
31. The Black Tides of Heaven by Jy Yang
32. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
33. Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
34. The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
35. Moonwalking With Einstein by Josh Foer
36. The Killing Lessons by Saul Black
37. The Poppy War by R. R. Kuang
38. Remind Me Again What Happened by Joanna Luloff
39. The Girl Who Saved The King Of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson
40. Sadness, Love, Openness: The Buddhist Path of Joy by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche
41. The Secrets of People Who Never Get Sick by Gene Stone
42. The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
43. We Went To The Woods by Caite Dolan-Leach
44. The Seven Or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna by Juliet Grames
45. In Another Time by Jillian Cantor
46. The Complete Guide To Fasting by Dr. Jason Fung
47. Perfecting Patience by H.H. The Dalai Lama
48. Brain Maker by David Perlmutter
49. Grain Brain by David Perlmutter
50. Advanced Lucid Dreaming: The Power of Supplements by Thomas Yuschak
51. The Rending and The Nest by Kaethe Schwehn
52. Periodic Fasting by Cristian Vlad Zot
53. Rapt by Winifred Gallagher
54. The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
55. I'm Just Happy To Be Here by Janelle Hantchett
56. Quantum Consciousness by Peter Smith
57. The Gunslinger by Stephen King
58. Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
59. Killing Commendatore by Haruki Marukami
60. Born A Crime by Trevor Noah
61. A Kingdom Of Dreams by Judith McNaught
62. The Elephant In The Room by Tommy Tomlinson
63. Love Poems For Married People by John Kenney
64. Anyone by Charles Soule
65. The Little Blue Kite by Mark Z. Danielewski
66. The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson

Books Of 2018

1. Netherspace by Andy Lane and Nigel Foster
2. Nest by Terry Goodkind
3. Leonard by William Shatner
4. Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag
5. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
6. Ramses The Damned: The Passion Of Cleopatra by Anne Rice and Christopher Rice
7. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
8. Oh Crap, Potty Training by Jamie Glowacki
9. Never Get Angry Again by David J. Lieberman
10. The Lying Game by Ruth Ware
11. Icefall by John All
12. Tomorrow's Kin by Nancy Kress
13. You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann
14. Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
15. The End Times: New Information For Personal Peace (Kryon #1) by Lee Carroll
16. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch*
17. Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
18. We Are Water by Wally Lamb
19. The Bear by Claire Cameron
20. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt*
21. Rethinking School by Susan Wise Bauer
22. Homeschooling FAQs: 101 Questions Every Homeschooling Parent Should Ask by Tamra Orr
23. An Excess Male by Maggie Shen King
24. Love and Death In The Sunshine State by Cutter Wood
25. Some Hell by Patrick Nathan
26. The Outsider by Stephen King
27. The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
28. Surviving Death: Evidence Of The Afterlife by Leslie Kean
29. The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch
30. Fire and Fury: Inside The Trump White House by Michael Wolff
31. Since We Fell by Dennis Lehane
32. The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
33. Mapping The Interior by Stephen Graham Jones
34. The Book of M by Peng Shepard
35. And Every Morning The Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrick Backman
36. Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit Of Zen by Shunryu Suzuki
37. The Substitute by Nicole Lundrigan 
38. The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50 by Jonathan Rauch
39. All The Ugly And Wonderful Things by Brynn Greenwood
40. The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine
41. The Silent Corner by Dean Koontz
42. The Blind by A.F. Brady
43. Best Day Ever by Kaira Rouda
44. Lie To Me by J.T. Ellison
45. Bird Box by Josh Malerman
46. The Passage by Justin Cronin
47. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
48. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
49. I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
50. My Husband's Wife by Jane Corry
51. I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
52. We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
53. Bring Me Back by B. A. Paris
54. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
55. The Vegetarian by Han King
56. The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair by Joel Dicker
57. The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor
58. A House Without Windows by Nadia Hashimi
59. The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret and My Search For The Real Me by Paul Fronczak
60. More Than This by Patrick Ness
61. Find Me Gone by Sarah Meuleman
62. Waiting For Eden by Elliot Ackerman
63. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Books Of 2017

1. What's Going On In There: How The Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years Of Life by Lise Eliot Ph.D.
2. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
3. Undress Me In The Temple Of Heaven by Susan Gilman
4. Spark Joy by Marie Kondo
5. The Beauty Of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb
6. The Wonder by Emma  Donaghue
7. The Gloaming by Melanie Finn 
8. The Secret History by Donna Tartt 
9. The Happiest Toddler On The Block by Harvey Karp 
10. The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho 
11. The Attachment Connection by Ruth Newton
12. The Culture Code by Clotaire Rapaille 
13. Papillon by Henri Charriere *
14. The Life We Bury by Allen Eskins
15. Don't Breathe A Word by Jennifer McMahon
16. The Wanderers by Meg Howry 
17. I'll Take You There by Wally Lamb 
18. Behind The Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo 
19. On Living by Kerry Egan 
20. The Summer Dragon by Todd Lockwood *
21. All Our Wrong Tomorrows by Elan Mastai 
22. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
23. The Shadow Of What Was Lost by James Islington
24. The Other Me by Saskia Sarginson
25. The Delight of Being Ordinary by Roland Merullo
26. Teaching Montessori In the Home: The Preschool Years by Elizabeth Hainstock
27. The Tourist by Robert Dickinson
28. Beartown by Fredrik Backman
29. The Heart Of Henry Quantum by Pepper Harding
30. Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Woman Living History by Karen Blumenthal
31. The Removers by Andrew Meredith
32. 10% Human by Alanna Collen
33. The Resurrection of Joan Ashby by Cherise Wolas *
34. Halls Of Law by V. M. Escalada
35. Lola by Melissa Scrivner Love
36. I Will Find You by Joanna Connors
37. The Case For Impeachment by Allan J. Lichtman
38. Master Professor by Tara Sue Me
39. The Spontaneous Fulfillment Of Desire by Deepak Chopra

Books of 2016

1. "And The Mountains Echoed" by Khaled Hosseini *
2. "Main Street Vegan" by Victoria Moran
3. "Cows" by Matthew Stokoe
4. "The China Study" by T. Colin Campbell and Thomas Campbell
5. "One And Only: The Freedom of Having An Only Child" by Lauren Sandler
6. "The Sound Of Glass" by Karen White
7. "Adultery" by Paulo Coelho
8. "Where Or When" by Anita Shreve
9. "Shantaram" by Gregory David Roberts *
10. "Sweetness In The Belly" by Camilla Gibbs
11. "Unaccustomed Earth" by Jhumpa Lahiri
12. "Alice" by Christina Henry
13. "My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry" by Fredrik Backman *
14. "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak
15. "The Ocean At The End Of The Lane" by Neil Gaiman
16. "The Light Between Oceans" by M. L. Stedman
17. "May We Be Forgiven" by A.M. Homes
18. "The New York Trilogy" by Paul Auster
19. "Spook" by Mary Roach
20. "The Husband's Secret" by Liane Moriarty
21. "Method 15/33" by Shannon Kirk
22. "They Left Us Everything" by Plum Johnson
23. "Adeline" by Norah Vincent
24. "Looking For Alaska" by John Green
25. "Wool" by Hugh Howey
26. "A Man Called Ove" by Fredrik Backman

Books Of 2015

1. "Mindful Birthing" by Nancy Bardacke
2. "City Of Veils" by Zoe Ferraris
3. "Miss New India" by Bharati Mukherjee
4. "One Amazing Thing" by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
5. "Rooftops of Tehran" by Mahbod Seraji*
6. "The Cuban Missile Crisis" by Charles River Editors

hellogoodbye

because I had to do something
(my little love)

 I am writing this for you

a memory

of an ephemeral spark

too subtle to remain

you are loved 
(my little love)
forever 

Books Of 2014

 

In 2013 I managed to read 26 books, which was 2 less than in 2012. It was definitely a very busy year with our wedding (June 3rd 2013), out of town house guests, my brother's wedding (September 1st 2013, even though we only attended through Skype) and our 3 week long honeymoon. This SHOULD be a quieter year, so here's hoping I can at least hit 50 books for 2014.

1. "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
2. "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
3. "Still Life With Woodpecker" by Tom Robbins
4. "Born To Run" by Christopher McDougall
5. "The Mango Season" by Amulya Malladi
6. "Serving Crazy With Curry" by Amulya Malladi
7. "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides
8. "The Eye Of The World" by Robert Jordan
9. "The Great Hunt" by Robert Jordan
10. "The Dragon Reborn" by Robert Jordan
11. "The Shadow Rising" by Robert Jordan
12. "The Fires Of Heaven" by Robert Jordan
13. "Brida" by Paulo Coelho
14. "The State Of Me" by Nasim Marie Jafry
15. "Handpicked" by Siew Siang Tay
16. "How They Were Found" by Matt Bell
17. "Looking For Salvation At The Dairy Queen" by Susan Gregg Gilmore
18. "Apathy And Other Small Victories" by Paul Neilan
19. "The Bonesetter's Daughter" by Amy Tan
20. "The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms" by N.K. Jemisin
21. "The Glass Demon" by Helen Grant
22. "Glamorama" by Bret Easton Ellis
23. "Breastfeeding Made Simple" by Nancy Mohrbacher and Kathleen Kendall-Tackett
24. "I Am Malala" by Malala Yousefzai *
25. "A Brief History of Everything" by Ken Wilbur *
26. "I Am Not Spock" by Leonard Nimoy

La Vita Nuova

"In that book which is
My memory . . .
On the first page
That is the chapter when
I first met you
Appear the words . . .
Here begins a new life."

- Dante Alighieri

Books Of 2013

Only 28 books read last year, but it was a busy year with 2 moves, getting engaged, a trip to Hawaii and all the other things. Here's hoping I can hit at least 60 this year!

1. "50 Shades Of Grey" by E. L. James
2. "50 Shades Darker" by E. L. James
3. "50 Shades Freed" by E. L. James
4. "The Seat Of The Soul" by Gary Zukav
5. "Beyond The Quantum" by Michael Talbot
6. "Essence Of The Heart Sutra" by The Dalai Lama
7. "Memoirs Of A Geisha" by Arthur Golden
8. "To Die For" by Sandra Byrd
9. "Breath By Breath" by Larry Rosenberg
10. "The World We Found" by Thrity Umrigar
11. "Fidelity" by Thich Nhat Hanh
12. "Blink of an Eye" by Ted Dekker *
13. "Bonk" by Mary Roach
14. "The Land Of Decoration" by GraceMcCleen
15. "The Shack" by Wm. Paul Young *
16. "Beyond Madison Avenue" by  Denice Fernandez (62 pages, but it counts!!)
17. "Mutant Message Down Under" by Marlo Morgan
18. "Have A Little Faith" by Mitch Albom
19. "Threats" by Amelia Gray
20. "Twelve Steps To A Compassionate Life" by Karen Armstrong
21. "Tiger Hills" by Sarita Mandanna
22. "The Consumerist Manifesto" by Charles J. Seldan
23. "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
24. "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card
25. "City of Bones" by Michael Connelly
26. "The Gun Seller" by Hugh Laurie

11 Years Of Reading!

2002 - 39 books
2003 - 17 books
2004 - 47 books
2005 - 13 books
2006 - 53 books
2007 - 51 books
2008 - 44 books
2009 - 29 books
2010 - 88 books
2011 - 55 books
2012 - 28 books

464 books read in 11 years. Not too bad.

Books of 2012

55 books last year. But one of them was over 1000 pages! This year's goal will still be 60.

1. "Four Past Midni'ght" by Stephen King
2. "Open To Desire" by Mark Epstein
3. "Power Talking" by George R. Walther
4. "Eleven Minutes" by Paulo Coelho
5. "The Seer Of Egypt" by Pauline Gedge
6. "Cutting For Stone" by Abraham Verghese
7. "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
8. "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
9. "Mockingjay"  by Suzanne Collins
10. "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" by Seth Grahame-Smith
11. "Your Brain: The Missing Manual" by Matthew MacDonald
12. "Tomorrow's God" by Neale Donald Walsch *
13. "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon" by Stephen King *
14. "Transition" by Iain M. Banks
15. "The Innkeeper" by John Piper
16. "Limitless Mind" by Russell Targ
17. "Precision Nirvana" by Dean H. Shapiro
18. "Sudden Awakening" by Eli Jaxon-Bear
19. "Gardens of Water" by Alan Drew
20. "This Book Will Save Your Life" by A. M. Homes
21. "Life Expectancy" by Dean Koontz
22. "The Sound And The Fury" by William Faulkner
23. "Lunar Park" by Bret Easton Ellis
24. "The Taking" by Dean Koontz
25. "The Intimates" by Ralph Sassone
26. "Island Beneath The Sea" by Isabel Allende
27. "2013! The Beginning Is Here" ed. by Jim Young
28. "Zen Physics" by David Darling *

2011 In Review

• Laguna Clara
• Santa Clara
• San Jose
• West Park
• Max
• Crystal
• Quitting smoking
• The Ji's
• BS at the Denver airport and in the plane
• San Francisco, Niagara Falls, The Rockies, Colorado, New Jersey, New York, State College, Santa Cruz, Pebble Beach
• Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
• My mom and Rollie
• Janice
• Napa, American Canyon, Calistoga
• Wine tasting in a castle 
• Old Faithful geyser
• Petrified Forest
• Kindle for my birthday
• Little angel Sara Jane
• cops
• Sacramento, Lake Tahoe, Reno
• Chris and Robi
• Yosemite National Park
• Hiking
• Sore feet
• Camelbaks
• My Dad
• San Francisco, Santa Cruz
• Sam
• San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, San Diego
• Reno for Christmas
• Kindle for P for xmas
• New year's eve at home

The Reality Of The Forgotten

Some days it is better to not go back into that past in your head. It's better not to reminisce or go over the material things and words from before.

You only end up remembering things you wish you hadn't.

The reality of the forgotten is a much much better place.

"Remembering is only a new form of suffering."

Charles Baudelaire  

What I Want Out Of Life

In order for one to get or have what one wants, first one must actually know what one wants. So I will here delineate what I truly want from this life.

• to be happy
• to be more involved in Buddhism
• to be a better person
• to be truly loved by my partner
• to be healthy
• to quit smoking
• to travel the world
• my son to be happy and successful
• to have more knowledge
• to make my partner happy in the ways that I am able
• for my partner to find something he can make money at so he doesn't have to work so hard or so often, freeing his time so he can pursue the interests and desires of his heart
• to realize my purpose
• to connect with my partner on a spiritual level
• to find the core of peace within myself
• to truly forgive those I haven't
• to find joy in writing again

Books of 2011

I far surpassed my goal of 60 books last year (I read 88 books!!). This year I will keep my goal of 60 (while keeping my sights at 89) and see what happens.

1. "The Grapes Of Wrath" by John Steinbeck
2. "The Twice Born" by Pauline Gedge *
3. "The Walk" by Richard Paul Evans *
4. "The Unnamed" by Joshua Ferris
5. "The Right Decision" by James Stein (what a stupid book)
6. "The Case Of The Midwife Toad" by Arthur Koestler
7. "The Unheard Cry For Meaning" by Viktor E. Frankl
8. "The Great Wall Of China and Other Short Works" by Franz Kafka
9. "Empress" by Shan Sa
10. "Turtle Moon" by Alice Hoffman
11. "The Eyes Of The Dragon" by Stephen King (read also sometime in the 80's) *
12. "Illusions" by Richard Bach
13. "Sacrament" by Clive Barker *
14. "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
15. "Teach Yourself Postmodernism" by Glenn Ward
16. "Transcendental Meditation" by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (discusses benefits but not enough about technique)
17. "Breathless" by Dean Koontz *
18. "Some Girls" by Jillian Lauren
19. "Music For Torching" by A. M. Homes
20. "For You Mom, Finally" by Ruth Reichel
21. "2 States: The Story Of My Marriage" by Chetan Bhagat
22. "Love In A Headscarf" by Shelina Zahra Janmohamed *
23. "Dexter Is Delicious" by Jeff Lindsay
24. "The Measure Of Madness" by Cheryl Paradis
25. "What is God?" by Jacob Needleman *
26. "The Genius In All Of Us" by David Shenk
27. "Escape From The Land Of Snows" by Stephan Talty
28. "The Path To Love" by Deepak Chopra
29. "The Cross Gardener" by Jason F. Wright *
30. "Room" by Emma Donoghue *
31. "A Stolen Life" by Jaycee Dugard
32. "Sold" by Patricia McCormick
33. "Burned Alive" by Souad
34. "I Am Nujood, Age 10 And Divorced" by Nujood Ali
35. "Medium Raw" by Anthony Bourdain
36. "Look For Me" by Edeet Ravel
37. "S'Mother" by Adam Chester
38. "F My Life" by Maxime Valette
39. "Before I Go To Sleep" by S. J. Watson
40. "The Crowning Glory Of Calla Lily Ponder" by Rebecca Wells
41. "The Husband" by Dean Koontz
42. "By The Light Of The Moon" by Dean Koontz **
43. "Relentless" by Dean Koontz
44. "What The Night Knows" by Dean Koontz
45. "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
46. "Every Time We Say Goodbye" by Jamie Zeppa
47. "Teachings Of The Heart" by Tae Heng Se Nim
48. "Healing Anger" by The Dalai Lama
49. "It's Easier Than You Think" by Sylvia Boorstein
50. "The Geography Of Thought" by Richard E. Nisbett
51. "What The Buddha Taught" by Walpola Rahula
52. "The Passion Test" by Janet Bray Attwood and Chris Attwood
53. "The Voice Of The Night" by Dean Koontz
54. "Under The Dome" by Stephen King (1074 pages!)
55. "The Four Agreements" by Don Miguel Ruiz