I’m always looking for new books to read, while building up impossible lists of books to read. So I’m wiping out the various wishlists (mostly) and gathering them here, while ruthlessly cutting them down.
Soon, I’ll post the list of recommended reading I got lately, from other people.
Nonfiction:
- Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants, by Robert Sullivan
- The Physiology of Taste, by Jean Brillat-Savarin
- The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales, by Franz Zaver von Schonwerth
- The London Underworld in the Victorian Period, by Henry Mayhew.
- Spinsters Abroad: Victorian Lady Explorers, by Dea Burkitt.
- A People’s History of the United States, by Howard Zinn.
- Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl.
- A Natural History of the Senses, by Diane Ackerman.
- The Year without Summer, by William K. Klingaman.
- The Disappearing Spoon, by Sam Kean.
- The Poisoner’s Handbook, by Deborah Blum.
- This Is Your Brain on Parasites, by Kathleen McAuliffe.
- Ravens in Winter, by Bernd Heinrich.
- SPQR, by Mary Beard.
- Paperbacks from Hell, by Grady Hendrix.
- The Tale of Tales, by Giambattista Basile.
- Crow Planet, by Lyanda Lynn Haupt.
- The Face of Battle, by John Keegan.
- Clausewitz: On War.
- Furiously Happy, by Jenny Lawson.
- She-Wolves, by Helen Castor.
- Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren.
Fiction:
- The Red Right Hand, by Joel Townsley Rogers.
- The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov.
- Murder as a Fine Art, by David Morrell.
- Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino.
- Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem.
- Ka, John Crowley.
- Haunted Castles, Ray Russell.
- My Best Friend’s Exorcism, by Grady Hendrix
- Pontypool Changes Everything, by Tony Burgess.
- The Beckoning Fair One, by Oliver Onions.
- The Elementals, by Michael McDowell.
- An English Ghost Story, by Kim Newman (I really just want to read more of his stuff in general.)
- Burnt Offerings, by Robert Marasco.
- The Secret of Crickley Hall, by James Herbert.
- Bone White, by Ronald Malfi.
- The Seventh Function of Language, by Laurent Binet.
- Gifts for the One Who Comes After, by Helen Marshall.
- Home, by Nndedi Okafor.
- Road Brothers, by Mark Lawrence.
- Ruin and Rising, by Leigh Bardugo.
- Bitch Planet, by Kelly DeConnick.
- Mr. Splitfoot, by Samantha Hunt.
- Gray Sister, by Mark Lawrence.
- Asylum, or rather three different books of the same name, by Madeleine Roux, Patrick McGrath, and John Harwood.
- The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas.
- The Giver, by Lowis Lowry.