books I've read 2019
(*)=love (nothing)=fine (-)=don't bother
1. *Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
2. -You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman
3. *The Idiot by Elif Batuman
4. Milkman by Anna Burns
2018
1. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
2. Birdbox by Josh Malerman
3. The Power by Naomi Alderman (It was on Obama's top book list 2017)
4. -The Afterlives by Thomas Pierce
5. -Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bison
6. *Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh (recommended by David Sedaris at his reading)
7. -The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
8. Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
2017
1. *A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
2. *Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
3. -What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
4. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
5. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
(read a lot of Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed but its not really a book to sit and read through)
6. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
7. -Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood
8. *Wild by Cheryl Strayed
9. Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
10. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
11. The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
12. *Hall of Small Mammals by Thomas Pierce
13. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
(July 19, 2017 -- hopefully beat my record of 17 books by the end of the year!)
14. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
15. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
16. *Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
17. When You're Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris (2nd time reading)
2016
1. The Hitchhiker's Guild to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
2. *A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
3. -a visit from the goon squad by jennifer egan
4. -The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (this book is terrible)
5. -Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
6. Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs (this book is not funny)
7. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Tom Sawyer sucks)
This list is upsetting. I blame my lack of reading on Pokemon Go for the first half of year and reading too many shitty books ruined the rest of my motivation.
2015
1. Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
2. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
3. -Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham
4. *Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (loved most of this book but...UGH)
5. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
6. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
7. the curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon
8. Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
9. Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
10. Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes (fastest I've read a book since Gone Girl)
11. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
12. -Hector and the Search for Happiness by François Lelord
13. *The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
2014
1. *The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Tales of Horror and the Macabre
2. *Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
4. -The Mummy by Anne Rice
5. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
6. -Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
7. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
8. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
9. *The Shining by Stephen King
10. Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
11. -Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
12. Dr. Bloodmoney by Philip K. Dick
13. -Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas by Tom Robbins
2013
1. Horror Times Ten by Alden H. Norton (short stories)
2. *Just Kids by Patti Smith
3. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
4. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
5. Forever by Judy Blume
6. *The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
7. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
8. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
9. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
10. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
11. *The Time Machine and Other Stories by HG Wells
-(Read 100 pages of World War Z by Max Brooks and gave up)
12. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
2012
1. *Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
2. *The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
3. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
4. *A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
5. *When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
6. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
7. Barrel Fever by David Sedaris
8. Naked by David Sedaris
9. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
10. *Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
11. *The Stranger by Albert Camus
2011
1. *Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
2. Animal Farm by George Orwell
3. Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
4. *1984 by George Orwell
5. *The Littlest Hitler by Ryan Boudinot
6. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
7. -One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
8. *The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
9. *Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
10. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
11. -Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
12. *Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
13. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
14. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
15. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
16. Bossypants by Tina Fey
17. *Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
1. *Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
2. -You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman
3. *The Idiot by Elif Batuman
4. Milkman by Anna Burns
2018
1. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
2. Birdbox by Josh Malerman
3. The Power by Naomi Alderman (It was on Obama's top book list 2017)
4. -The Afterlives by Thomas Pierce
5. -Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bison
6. *Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh (recommended by David Sedaris at his reading)
7. -The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
8. Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
2017
1. *A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
2. *Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
3. -What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
4. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
5. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
(read a lot of Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed but its not really a book to sit and read through)
6. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
7. -Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood
8. *Wild by Cheryl Strayed
9. Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
10. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
11. The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
12. *Hall of Small Mammals by Thomas Pierce
13. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
(July 19, 2017 -- hopefully beat my record of 17 books by the end of the year!)
14. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
15. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
16. *Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
17. When You're Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris (2nd time reading)
2016
1. The Hitchhiker's Guild to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
2. *A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
3. -a visit from the goon squad by jennifer egan
4. -The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (this book is terrible)
5. -Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
6. Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs (this book is not funny)
7. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Tom Sawyer sucks)
This list is upsetting. I blame my lack of reading on Pokemon Go for the first half of year and reading too many shitty books ruined the rest of my motivation.
2015
1. Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
2. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
3. -Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham
4. *Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (loved most of this book but...UGH)
5. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
6. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
7. the curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon
8. Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
9. Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
10. Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes (fastest I've read a book since Gone Girl)
11. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
12. -Hector and the Search for Happiness by François Lelord
13. *The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
2014
1. *The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Tales of Horror and the Macabre
2. *Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
4. -The Mummy by Anne Rice
5. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
6. -Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
7. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
8. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
9. *The Shining by Stephen King
10. Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
11. -Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
12. Dr. Bloodmoney by Philip K. Dick
13. -Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas by Tom Robbins
2013
1. Horror Times Ten by Alden H. Norton (short stories)
2. *Just Kids by Patti Smith
3. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
4. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
5. Forever by Judy Blume
6. *The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
7. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
8. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
9. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
10. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
11. *The Time Machine and Other Stories by HG Wells
-(Read 100 pages of World War Z by Max Brooks and gave up)
12. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
2012
1. *Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
2. *The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
3. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
4. *A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
5. *When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
6. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
7. Barrel Fever by David Sedaris
8. Naked by David Sedaris
9. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
10. *Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
11. *The Stranger by Albert Camus
2011
1. *Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
2. Animal Farm by George Orwell
3. Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
4. *1984 by George Orwell
5. *The Littlest Hitler by Ryan Boudinot
6. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
7. -One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
8. *The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
9. *Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
10. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
11. -Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
12. *Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
13. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
14. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
15. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
16. Bossypants by Tina Fey
17. *Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris