a list books i've read

books marked with a ❀ are ones i found particularly meaningful, and am likely to recommend.

books marked with a 🐈 feature talking cats, and books marked with a 🦇 feature vampires :D

all of these books are ones that i have finished. i don't make a habit of finishing books i don't enjoy reading.

2024

• Night's Edge by Liz Kerin (2023) 🦇
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith (2000)
• Hi Honey, I'm Homo! Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture by Matt Baume (2023, audiobook)
• Molly Molloy and the Angel of Death by Maria Vale (2023)
• 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (2009)
• Rice Boy by Evan Dahm (print paperback 2017; original comic published online 2006-2008) ❀
• The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro (2015) ❀
• Dark Moon, Shallow Sea by David R. Slayton (2023)
• The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix (2020) 🦇
• Cat Out of Hell by Lynn Truss (2015) ❀ 🐈
• From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty (2017, audiobook) ❀
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (2008, audiobook)
• The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong (2000)
• Stardust by Neil Gaiman (1997)

2023

• Geometry of Grief: Reflections on Mathematics, Loss, and Life by Michael Frame (2021) ❀
• The Thief of Always by Clive Barker (1992)
• Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz (2014)
• The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay (2022) 🦇
• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (2021) ❀
• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (1959) ❀
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (2016)
• Trans/Formations: Controversies in Contextual Theology edited by Lisa Isherwood and Marcella Althaus-Reid (2009) ❀
• The Cat Who Saved Books by Sōsuke Natsukawa (2017) 🐈
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (2013)
• Juniper & Thorn by Ava Reid (2022)
• Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology by Patrick S. Cheng (2011) ❀
• Sula by Toni Morrison (1973)
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (2002) 🐈
• It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood (2022) ❀
• Project Nought by Chelsey Furedi (2023)

a few books read before 2023

(if i remembered it for this list, it has a ❀)

• Daytripper by Gabriel Bá and Fabio Moon (2011)
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (1993)
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (2005)
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1866)
• The Neverending Story by Michael Ende (1979)
• Did God Kill Jesus?: Searching for Love in History's Most Famous Execution by Tony Jones (2015)
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (1970)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967)
• Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez (1981)
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (1985)
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein (1957)