Books I'd like to read, have read, have put down and hope to return to, and have abandoned finishing.
Fiction
- To Read
- Monster Verse: Poems Human and Inhuman (Collected by Tony Barnstone and Michelle Mitchell-Foust) (In progress!)
- ❤ The Third Bear (Jeff Vandermeer) (In progress!)
- Borne (Jeff Vandermeer)
- The Year's Best Dark and Fantasy Horror 2017 (Edited by Paula Guran)
- The Bear and the Nightingale (Katherine Arden)
- Throne of the Crescent Moon (Saladin Ahmed)
- The Mermaid (Cristina Henry)
- The Alchemists of Loom (Elise Kova)
- Nod (Adrian Barnes)
- Nectar in a Sieve (Kamala Markandaya)
- The Orphan Master's Son (Adam Johnson)
- Neverwhere (Neil Gaiman)
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne)
- Trigger Warning (Neil Gaiman)
- Emperor of the Eight Islands (Lian Hearn)
- Atlantis and Other Places (Harry Turtledove)
- Read
- ❤ Einstein's Dreams (Alan Lightman)
- ❤ City of Saints and Madmen (Jeff Vandermeer)
- Sinless (Sarah Tarkoff)
- ❤ The Fox Woman (Kij Johnson)
- ❤ In the House in the Dark of the Woods (Laird Hunt)
- ❤ Three Parts Dead (Max Gladstone)
- Hiatus
- Poems Bewitched and Haunted (Selected by John Hollander)
- A Natural History of Dragons (Marie Brennan) (May abandon)
- Two Serpents Rise (Max Gladstone)
- Abandoned
- The City of Brass (S. A. Chakraborty)
- The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe (Kij Johnson)
Nonfiction
- To Read
- The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Steven Pinker)
- The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Steven Pinker)
- The Penguin Book of Hell (Collected by Scott G. Bruce)
- Inca Myths (Collected by Gary Urton)
- Yupa Folktales (Collected by Johannes Wilbert)
- The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Steven Pinker)
- Pale Blue Dot (Carl Sagan)
- The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language
- Read
- ❤ The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Carl Sagan)
- Hiatus
- ❤ The Language Instinct (Steven Pinker)
- ❤ Conceptual Spaces (Nik Gardenfors)
- Signs of the Inka Khipu (Gary Urton)
- The Sun's Heartbeat: And Other Stories from the Life of the Star That Powers Our Planet (Bob Berman)
- Abandoned