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2025

  1. Dilexit Nos by Pope Francis
  2. The Eye of Darkness by George Mann
  3. Secret Empire by Steve Englehart

A Non-Exhaustive List of All Time Favorites (Nonfiction)

A Non-Exhaustive List of All Time Favorites (Fiction)

2024

  1. Filterworld by Kyle Chayka
  2. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver ✨
  3. Underworld by Don Delillo
  4. Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh ✨
  5. Dilla Time by Dan Charnas
  6. The Fallen Star by Claudia Gray
  7. Dynasty of Evil by Drew Karpyshyn
  8. The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer ✨
  9. Rule of Two by Drew Karpyshyn
  10. Sleep to Heal by Abhinav Singh
  11. The Source by Woodson Merrell
  12. Path of Destruction by Drew Karpyshyn
  13. The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu ✨
  14. The Puzzler by A.J. Jacobs
  15. Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow
  16. A History of Fake Things on the Internet by Walter Scheirer
  17. The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson ✨
  18. Number Go Up by Zeke Faux
  19. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  20. Contact by Carl Sagan ✨

2023

  1. The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler ✨
  2. Affluenza by John de Graaf, David Wann, and Thomas H. Naylor (Audiobook)
  3. Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jasmyn Ward
  4. The Bill of Obligations by Richard Haas
  5. Under the Dome by Stephen King
  6. Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana by James H. Madison ✨
  7. Wild Mercy by Mirabai Starr ✨
  8. Terraform by Propaganda
  9. The Pale King by David Foster Wallace ✨
  10. Thrawn: Treason by Timothy Zahn
  11. Thrawn: Alliances by Timothy Zahn
  12. The Need to be Whole by Wendell Berry ✨
  13. Thrawn by Timothy Zahn
  14. Xenogenesis Trilogy by Octavia Butler ✨
  15. Evicted by Matthew Desmond
  16. Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
  17. Down the River unto the Sea by Walter Mosley
  18. Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey ✨
  19. Race: Challenge to Religion by Mathew H. Ahmann
  20. The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
  21. The Recovering by Leslie Jamison ✨
  22. Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe ✨
  23. How To Do Nothing by Jenny Odell (Reread) (Audiobook)
  24. Provocations: The Spiritual Writings of Soren Kierkegaard edited by Charles E. Moore

2022

  1. The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
  2. Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
  3. The Meaning of Marriage by Tim Keller
  4. Trust Exercise by Susan Choi ✨
  5. The Day The World Stops Shopping by J.B. MacKinnon
  6. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
  7. Long Division by Kiese Laymon ✨
  8. The Rising Storm by Cavan Scott
  9. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
  10. V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
  11. Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
  12. The Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule
  13. White Noise by Don DeLillo ✨
  14. Slaughterhouse Five (re-read) by Kurt Vonnegut
  15. Maus by Art Spiegelman
  16. Life and Holiness by Thomas Merton
  17. Tough by Terry Crews ✨
  18. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
  19. All The Shah’s Men by Stephen Kinzer
  20. The Likeness by Tana French ✨
  21. Stolen Focus by Johann Hari ✨
  22. Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson
  23. The Cloud of Unknowing by Anonymous
  24. Dawn of the New Everything by Jaron Lanier
  25. The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis
  26. Witches and Witch Hunts: A History of Persecution by Milton Meltzer
  27. Cultish by Amanda Montell
  28. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski ✨

2021

  1. Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen ✨
  2. The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
  3. The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
  4. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
  5. The Circadian Code by Satchin Panda, PhD ✨
  6. Beautiful World, Where Are You? by Sally Rooney ✨
  7. Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke
  8. Antkind by Charlie Kaufman
  9. Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov
  10. Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
  11. Foundation by Isaac Asimov
  12. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons ✨
  13. No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood ✨
  14. Essentialism by Greg McKeown
  15. Strength to Love by Martin Luther King, Jr.
  16. A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
  17. The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
  18. Futureproof by Kevin Roose
  19. Exhalation by Ted Chiang
  20. Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
  21. All About Love: New Visions (re-read) by bell hooks
  22. Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang ✨
  23. Atomic Habits (Audiobook) James Clear ✨
  24. Steve Jobs (Audiobook) by Walter Isaacson ✨
  25. The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
  26. On Social Justice by St. Basil the Great
  27. Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson