Books I've Read

I've kept track of all the books I've read since around 2019, listing them in the backs of a specific sketchbook each year. I've somehow managed to find almost all of those sketchbooks, so here I present them for your entertainment and as a backup. They are in chronological order of completion within the year (e.g. this year the first book I read was The Wilderness Cure).

Currently reading: The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability by Annette Kehnel, translated by Gesche Ipsen

⛹=memoir ⚛=non-fiction/essays ☙=fiction/🖱=interactive fiction

Year: 2026|2025|2024|2023|2022|2021|2020|2019 Page bottom

2026

1. A Door Into Ocean - Joan Slonczewski

2025

1. The Wilderness Cure - Mo Wilde
2. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - V.E. Schwab
3. Wild Signs and Star Paths - Tristan Gooley
4. The Stepford Wives - Ira Levin
5. Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole - Isabel J. Kim ⊿
6. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
7. Piss Kinksters Against Capitalism - xfleshpotx 🖱
8. Bi - Julia Shaw
9. Hijab Butch Blues - Lamya H. ⛹
10. Something That May Shock and Discredit You - Daniel Mallory Ortberg ⛹
11. Black Teacher - Beryl Gilroy ⛹
12. Wanderland: A Search For Magic In The Landscape - Jini Reddy ⛹
13. He Fucked the Girl Out of Me - Taylor McCue 🖱️
14. The Cub-Hunting Season - Steve Ferris
15. No Place to Be - 🖼
16. Funky Animal Frolics Vol. 1 🖼 - Hella
17. The Land issue #26 (magazine)
18. Variations - Juliet Jacques
19. Guards, Guards! - Terry Pratchett
20. History of the Makhnovist Movement 1917-1921 - Peter Arshinov
21. Folklore and Legends of Cornwall - Anon [most of it]
22. What Manner of Man - St John Starling
23. Grand Union - Zadie Smith
24. The Eurasian Beaver - by Róisín Campbell-Palmer et al
25. The Barker #4 - Collie Bridgers (editor)⊿
26. The Ethical Slut (3rd Ed.) - Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy
27. Morning Wood and Morning Wood Ch. 02 - SpicySalami ⊿
28. The Gospel According To... - Sergey Khazov-Cassia, translated by Reuben Woolley
29. The Compost Reader #2
30. The History of the Countryside - Oliver Rackham (so far up to Chapter 8*)
31. Body Art Issue #18 (magazine)
32. 7 Trillion Nerves - xfleshpotx🖱
33. Mimic Girl Madness - xfleshpotx(Reread from earlier this year)🖼
34. Orangepeel, Onionskin - Vesta Z and Oscar "Pepperbloom"🖱
35. 2025.01.06 (mon), 3p-4p - Callie Jennings ⊿
36. Boyish - Emily Black ⊿
37. Lost Levenshulme Issue 2 - Levenshulme Old Library ⊿

On pause:

Creative Interventions Toolkit (skimread about 200/570 pages in one sitting)

Erotism - George Bataille

*Taking a break - usually don't log books on pause in the main list but it's halfway through a book of hundreds of pages!

🖱 This year I started keeping track of interactive fiction (e.g. visual novels or similar games) I complete. I believe I started playing Adastra this year, however am very slow with longer games so don't know when I'll get round to finishing it. Also, not listed here but very important is the snippets of stories my dear friend Laura has read me that she's written.

Ongoing webseries: Quarter and Apollo - Pace 🖼

Total: 37 🕮: 18/37 ☙: 9/37 ⚛: 9/37 ⊿: 8/37 ⛹: 4/37 🖼: 3/37 🖱: 4/37

2024

1. Ammonite - Nicola Griffith
2. My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness - Nagata Kabi 🖼
3. The Book of Form and Emptiness - Ruth Ozeki
4. The Sluts - Dennis Cooper
5. Amygdalytropolis - B.R. Yeager
6. The Anxious Person's Guide to Non-monogamy - Lola Phoenix
7. My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Otessa Moshfegh
8. Boy Parts - Eliza Clark
9. Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall-Kimmerer
10. Dungeon Meshi vols 1-12 - Ryo Kyuki 🖼
11. Anya's Ghost - Vera Brosgol 🖼
12. Laziness Does Not Exist - Devon Price
13. The Word for World is Forest - Ursula K. Le Guin
14. Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl - Carrie Brownstein
15. The Book of Trespass - Nick Hayes
16. Dungeon Meshi vol. 13 - Ryo Kyuki 🖼
17. The Worlds of Russian Village Women - Laura J Olson and Svetlana Adonyeva
18. My Cat Yugoslavia - Pajtim Statovci
19. Dungeon Meshi vol. 14 - Ryo Kyuki 🖼
20. Antiman - Rajiv Mohabir
21. Deer Man - Geoffroy Delorme
22. Rooted - Sarah Langford
23. Time To Orbit: Unknown - Derin Edala
24. Polluted Sex - Lauren Foley
25. I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter - Isabel Fall ⊿
26. Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science - Jessica Hernandez
27. Are You My Mother? - Alison Bechdel 🖼
28. Here - Richard McGuire 🖼
29. Traditional Woodland Crafts - Raymond Tabor
30. ST4T - Maria Diakos ⊿
31. Transvestite Geography - Alana Storm ⊿
32. Jewish-SchizoQueer - Digital Freegans ⊿
33. Brother Maternitas - Viktor Athelstatt ⊿
34. Eve - Una 🖼

• The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon - Sei Shōnagon, Ivan Morris (Translator).
• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy - Lawrence Sterne

2023

1. The Belly of the Beast - Da'Shaun Harrison
2. Females - Andrea Long Chu
3. Girl, Woman, Other - Bernadette Evaristo ♪
4. She Who Became the Sun - Shelley Parker-Chan ♪
5. A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin ♪
6. The Tombs of Atuan - Ursula K. Le Guin ♪
7. The Farthest Shore - Ursula K. Le Guin ♪
8. The Fight for Turtle Island - Aragorn!
9. Magical Boy vol. 2 - The Kao 🖼
10. Бабушка велела кланяться и передать, что просит прощения - Фредрик Бакман
11. Please Miss - Grace Lavery
12. Transgender Marxism - Elle O'Rourke and Jules Joanne Gleeson
13. 920London - Remy Boydell 🖼
14. Kisses for Jet - Joris Bas Baker 🖼
15. The Wind's Twelve Quarters - Ursula K. Le Guin
16. Last Exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Junior
17. Bloom - Kevin Panetta and Savanna Ganuchean 🖼
18. Children of the Whales - Abi Umeda 🖼
19. Witch Hat Atelier vol. 1 - Kamome Shirahama 🖼
20. Sveta - Magdalena Watson, Royal Armories ⊿
21. How to read water - Tristan Gooley
22. House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
23. Sabrina - Nick Drsano 🖼
24. Tell Me I'm Worthless - Alison Rumfitt
25. Youngman: selected diaries of Lou Sullivan - edited by Zach Ozma

Total: 25 🕮:12/25 🖼: 7/25 ♪: 5/25 ⊿: 1/25
☙:16/25 ⚛:6/25 ⛹:3/25
Started: Trans Love - edited by Freiya Benson.

2022

1. How to be Ace - Rebecca Burgess 🖼
2. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
3. The Mother - Laura Graham⊿
4. Grit - Silas Denver Melvin
5. 2nd Time Around - James Earl Hardy
6. Threads of Life - Clare Hunter
7. Rainbow Milk - Paul Mendez
8. Peter Darling - Austin Chant
9. Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating - Adiba Jaigirdar
10. "Separate and Equal"? - Martha A. Ackelbberg ⊿
11. Life Without Law - published by Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness ⊿
12. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - Paul Torday
13. The Henna Wars - Adiba Jaigirdar
14. Carol, or the Price of Salt - Patricia Highsmith
15. Uncomfortable Labels - Laura Kate Dale
16. Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall-Kimmerer
17. Detransition, Baby - Torrey Peters
18. Euphoria Prints - Rudy Tomala ⊿
19. From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond - editor Morty Diamond
20. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars - Kai Cheng Thom
21. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong
22. Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
23. Manhunt - Gretchen Felker-Martin
24. Worn: A People's History of Clothing - Sofi Thanhauser
25. Pinky and Pepper Forever - Eddy Atoms 🖼
26. Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett
27. Nevada - Imogen Binnie
28. Rubyfruit Jungle - Rita Mae Brown
29. The Umbrella Academy - Gerard Way 🖼
30. My Brother's Husband - Gengoroh Tagame 🖼
31. Omaha the Cat Dancer vols 1-16 - Reed Waller and Kate Worley 🖼
32. Unmasking Autism - Devon Price ♪
33. Death Note vols. 1&2 🖼
34. Death Note vols. 3&4 🖼
35. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams
36. Normal People - Sally Rooney
37. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams

2021

2020

1. Sensible Footwear - Kate Charlesworth 🖼
2. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
3. Aquicorn Cove - Katie O'Neill 🖼
4. None of the Above - I.W. Gregorio
5. The Bear and the Nightingale - Katherine Arden
6. Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
7. I Have Not Known a Grief Like This - Modern Poetry in Translation No. 3 2019
8. Gender Queer - Maia Kobabe 🖼
9. Heartstopper vol. 3 - Alice Oseman 🖼
10. The Pigeon Ace - Enid Marx 🖼
11. Unicorn - Amrou Al-Khadhi
12. Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas - Adam Kay
13. Normal People - Sally Rooney
14. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams
15. The School for Good and Evil - Soman Chaihani
16. Dracula - Bram Stoker
17. A Room with a View - E.M. Forster
18. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl - Andrea Lawlor
19. The Back O' Beyond Arc 1 - Jon Walker 🖼
20. Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi Chapter 1-2 - Dan Healey
21. Kill My Mother - Jules Feiffer 🖼
22. Andorra - Max Frisch
23. Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams
24. I Was Born for This - Alice Oseman
25. Sawn-Off Tales - David Gaffney
26. My Cousin Rachel - Daphne Du Maurier
27. Loveless - Alice Oseman
28. Dreadnought - April Daniels
29. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers
30. Prisoners of Geography - Tim Marshall
31. These Witches Don't Burn - Isabel Sterling
32. Der Kaukasische Kreidekreis - Bertolt Brecht
33. Your Silence Will Not Protect You - Audre Lorde
34. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
35. Gender Queer - Maia Kobabe 🖼
36. This Winter - Alice Oseman
37. Nick and Charlie - Alice Oseman
38. The Library - ? [unsure what this is referring to] 🖼
39. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

• Eragon - Christopher Paolini
• Москва — Петушки - Венедикт Васильевич Ерофеев
• White Rabbit Red Wolf - Tom Pollock

2019

1. Maus - Art Spiegelman 🖼
2. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
3. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
4. Heartstopper vol. 1 - Alice Oseman
5. Radio Silence - Alice Oseman
6. It's Not About the Burqa - Mariam Khan
7. Ghost World - Daniel Clowes 🖼
8. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
9. Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi 🖼
10. Skullduggery Pleasant - Derek Landy
11. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge
12. Maurice - E.M. Forster
13. Heartstopper vol. 2 - Alice Oseman
14. The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall
15. The Bad Doctor: The Troubled Life and Times of Dr Iwan James - Ian Williams 🖼
16. Finn Family Moomintroll - Tove Jannson
17. 1984 - George Orwell
18. Proud - compiled by Juno Dawson
19. This is Not a Drill - Extinciton Rebellion
20. Genesis (in the Bible)
21. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hasseini
22. Once & Future - Amy Rose Capetta & Cori McCarthy
23. The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe - Romain Puertolas
24. Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
25. This is Going to Hurt - Adam Kay