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Finished
**The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich, by Evan Osnos**
**Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations, by Alton Brown**
Continuing
**Asimov’s Guide to the Bible, by Isaac Asimov**
**The System of the World, by Neal Stephenson**
**The Angel of Indian Lake, by Stephen Graham Jones**
Started
**Twelve Months, by Jim Butcher**
**The Buried Giant, by Kazuo Ishiguro**
**The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of Resilience, by Plestia Alaqad**
Finished:
Lost Lambs, by Madeline Cash
The Best American Short Stories 2025, by Celeste Ng (editor)
Started: Hunger and Thirst, by Claire Fuller
**The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid**
Finally got around to this one after seeing it hyped everywhere for like 2 years lol. About halfway through and damn, Evelyn is such a compelling character – she’s messy but you can’t look away. The whole framing device with the journalist is working really well too
Finished:
**The History of the Ancient World, by Susan Wise Bauer**
**McCarthyism in the Suburbs, by Allison Hepler**
**Iris and the Dead, by Miranda Schreiber**
**The Bookbinder’s Secret, by A.D. Bell**
**Circumstances Affecting the Heat of the Sun’s Rays, by Amanda Quaid**
Started: ***Brigands & Breadknives*** **by Travis Baldree**
Following with: ***The Mountains of Mourning*** **by Lois McMaster Bujold**
Finished:
**Death Masks, by Jim Butcher**
**Blood Rites, by Jim Butcher**
Started:
**Side Jobs, by Jim Butcher**
**Brief Cases, by Jim Butcher**
**Dead Beat, by Jim Butcher**
Yay for rereads! Refreshing myself on the series since it’s been 6 years since I last read it, and we’ve got a new book out, with a new novella coming later this year, and hopefully the next book next year. (Mirror, Mirror is 40% complete already.)
**FINISHED :**
*A Lady of Rooksgrave Manor*, by Kathryn Moon.
*Make Me a Monster*, by Kalynn Bayron.
*Haunt*, by A.J. Merlin.
*Vampire Academy*, by Richelle Mead.
*Les Mots*, by Jean-Paul Sartre.
*How To Be Perfect*, by Michael Schur.
**STARTED :**
*Célèbre à en mourir*, by Alain Gagnol.
**Talks with T. G. Masaryk, by Karel Čapek**
Biography of TGM, the first Czechoslovak president, as recorded by Karel Čapek in interviews.
I’ve finished the first part about his upbringing and education. It’s curious how he pursued intellectual self-education while a blacksmithing apprentice, and eventually ended up as a professor of philosophy/sociology.
I’ve long been interested in Masaryk’s study on Marxism (Otázka sociální) and this provides a lot of context. Notably, TGM started as a devout catholic, lifelong platonist that led him to creationism :-(, but otherwise an exceptionally heterodox thinker.
Started:
**Wise Blood, by Flannery O’Connor**
**April Fool’s, by Richie Tankersley Cusick**
Finished:
**To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee**
Started & Finished:
**The Husband Stitch, by Carmen Maria Machado**
**The Invitation, by Diane Hoh**
**The Diary, by Sinclair Smith**
**The Waitress, by Sinclair Smith**
**French Kiss, by Robyn Turner**
**Teacher’s Pet, by Richie Tankersley Cusick**
**The Yearbook, by Peter Lerangis**
**The Fever, by Diane Hoh**
Ongoing:
**The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, by C.S. Lewis**
**A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini**
Continued:
**The Strange Order of Things, by Antonio Damasio**
Started/finished:
**Coeds and Cattails, by Jana DeLeon**
**This is Your Brain on Music, by Daniel J Levitin** – more music theory than I was expecting, but also uses music to present much more about memory and learning than I expected. I’m definitely going to come back to spend more time with this.
**Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir**
Started:
**Recursion, by Blake Crouch** – my head hurts
Started:
***Love in the Time of Cholera,*** by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Finished:
***The Lady of the Lake,*** by Andrzej Sapkowski
Finished:
The Dark Half, by Stephen King
The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead
Started:
Four Past Midnight, by Stephen King
Finished: Last Argument Of Kings by Joe Abercrombie
Started: Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett (almost at the end of my Discworld journey!!)
The Devil’s Chessboard *- David Talbot*
Old Babes in the Wood – *Margaret Atwood*
**War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy**. I progress. Big guns go boom. Men fall down a lot.
**Perdido Street Station, by China Mieville.** Well, *that’s* clearly the most horrifying thing ever.
**The Inca, by Kevin Lane.** I honestly don’t know much about the Inca, so I’ve picked up what I thought might be a brief and accessible overview. I foresee a trip down a rabbit hole…
**All Creatures Great and Small, by James Herriot.** This will never fail to make me happy