Since this site didn’t get spun up until 2025, I decided to add the books I read this year and last, to make it more fun. Already cultivating my 2026 to-read list…

2024

Nonfiction

• Zen Mind, Beginner Mind - Shunryu Suzuki
• Turn this World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture - Nora Samaran
• The Creative Act: A Way of Being - Rick Rubin
• Managing Psychic Abilities - Mary Shultan (x2)
• Peace is Every Step - Thich Nhat Hanh
• The Sixth Extinction - Elizabeth Kolbert
• Liberated to the Bone - Susan Raffo

Fiction

• The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro
• Meet Us By the Roaring Sea - Akil Kumarasamy
• Stone Butch Blues - Leslie Feinberg
• Whiskey Tango Foxtrot - David Shafer
• Head Full of Ghosts - Paul Tremblay
• Smoke - Dan Vyleta
• Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird - Agustina Bazterrica
• Fruiting Bodies - Kathryn Harlan
• The Heart Goes Last - Margaret Atwood (audiobook)
• Sacrificial Animals - Kailee Pedersen
• Gnomon - Nick Harkaway
• Her Body and Other Parties - Carmen Machiado

2025

Nonfiction

• Healing Resistance - Kazu Haga
• White Rage - Carol Anderson
• Pagan Visions for a Sustainable Future - various authors
• Love in a Fucked Up World - Dean Spade
• Learning to Live in the Dark - Wen Stephenson
• Pageboy - Elliot Page (audiobook)
• The Shallows - Nicholas Carr
• We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival - Various Authors
• Unmasking Autism - Devon Price, PhD (audiobook)

Fiction

• Road to Ruin - Hana Lee
• Girl One - Sarah Flannery Murphy
• Homegoing - Yaa Gyasa
• Persepolis - Marijane Satrapi
• The Woods All Black - Lee Mandelo
• The Butcher of the Forest - Premee Mohamed
• The City and Its Uncertain Walls - Haruki Murakami
• The Blackheart Man - Nalo Hopkinson
• There, There - Tommy Orange
• Never Whistle at Night - various authors
• Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk
• Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
• Navola - Paolo Bacigalupi
• The Archive Undying -Emily Mieko Candon
• The City In Glass - Nghi Vo
• Not a Speck of Light - Laird Bard
• Recursion - Blake Crouch
• Pattern Recognition - William Gibson

Poetry

• The Mansuit - Zachary Schomberg (poetry)
• Dear God, Dear Yellow - Noor Hindi
• Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers - Jake Skeets
• The Infinitesimals - Laura Kasischke