There had been one stretch of time when Joe had believed he was almost a hopeless case. Fortunately, afterward, reading had enchanted him. It was those fabricated stories that had saved him, that had brought changes to the look of his life. But stories were only a part of Joe’s life, the sole part possessing meaning. Joe had not thought that in the world there could be a man like Kim, who lived altogether inside of fabrication.

-- Can Xue trans. by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen, The Last Lover

• My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Nagata Kabi 12.30
• The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle (reread) 12.30
• Now Wait for Last Year by Philip K. Dick 12.29
• A Geological Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park by Arnold N. Palmer 12.28
• The Last Planet by Andre Norton (reread) 12.23
• Treasury of Finnish Love: Poems, Quotations, & Proverbs in Finnish and English edited by Börje Vähämäki 12.21
• Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides by Euripides trans. by Anne Carson 12.11
• Prince of Chaos by Roger Zelazny 12.06
• Knight of Shadows by Roger Zelazny 12.05
• Exiles of the Stars by Andre Norton (reread) 12.04
• Moon of Three Rings by Andre Norton (reread) 12.01
• The Cloud of Unknowing by anon. trans. by John M. Watkins 11.22
• The Cloud of Unknowing by anon. trans. by Ira Progoff 11.20
• Verdant Gnosis: Cultivating the Green Path Vol. 1 edited by Catamara Rosarium, Marcus McCoy, and Dr. Jenn Zahrt 11.17
• Swan by Mary Oliver 11.15
• Ashkenazi Herbalism: Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews by Deatra Cohen and Adam Siegel 11.11
• The Machinery of Life by David S. Goodsell 11.04
• Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to the Self by Anodea Judith 10.31
• This Immortal by Roger Zelazny 10.27
• The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire, trans. by various 10.20
• The Starry Rift by James Tiptree Jr. (reread) 10.16
• Barefoot Doctor by Can Xue trans. by Karen Gernant and Zeping Chen 10.13
• The Cybernetic Hypothesis by Tiqqun 10.03
• Titan Unveiled by Ralph Lorenz and Jacqueline Mitton 09.30
• Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF: South Korean Popular Religion in Motion by Laurel Kendall 09.23
• The Chicken Qabalah of Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford by Lon Milo DuQuette 09.16
• Inferno by Dante Alighieri trans. by John Ciardi 09.14
• Fountain of Wisdom by anon. trans. by Mark Verman & original commentary by David Chaim Smith 09.08
• (h)Auroræ by Gabriel McCaughry 09.01
• An Anthology of Finnish Folktales edited & trans. by Helena Henderson 08.25
• The Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot trans. by Keith Bosley 08.23
• The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite 08.20
• The Strand Magazine vol LXVI 2022 08.12
• Girl on Heaven's Pier by Eeva-Liisa Manner trans. by Terhi Kuusisto 07.27
• A Victorian Naturalist: Beatrix Potter's Drawings from the Armitt Collection edited by Eileen Jay 07.21
• Foxfire 2: Ghost Stories, Spring Wild Plant Foods, Spinning and Weaving, Midwifing, Burial Customs, Corn Shuckin's, Wagon Making, and More Affairs of Plain Living edited by Eliot Wigginton 06.20
• Forerunner by Andre Norton (reread) 06.09
• The King's Damosel by Vera Chapman 06.04 [this one did NOT age well and deserves a big trigger warning]
• The Green Knight by Vera Chapman 06.01
• Ordeal in Otherwhere by Andre Norton (reread) 05.31
• Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld by Patrick Harpur 05.15
• Werewolf Tales edited by Algernon Blackwood 05.13
• Mother Dear by Nova Lee Maier 05.03
• Entering the Desert: Pilgrimage into the Hinterlands of the Soul by Craig Williams 05.01
• Mysticism: A Study and an Anthology by F. C. Happold 04.30
• Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage by Rachel E. Gross 04.18
• Ealdwood by CJ Cherryh 04.10
• The Lais of Marie de France by Marie de France trans. by Glyn Burgess and intro. by Keith Busby 04.08
• Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis trans. by Carl Wildman 04.03
• The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values by Brian Christian 03.30
• Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters by Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salomé trans. by Edward Snow and Michael Winkler 03.25
• Fadeout by Joseph Hansen 03.24
• The Martian by Andy Weir 03.21
• Quantum Computing for Everyone by Dr. Chris Bernhardt 03.19
• Dinner by César Aira trans. by Katherine Silver 03.12
• The World According to Physics by Jim Al-Khalili 03.11
• The Last Lover by Can Xue trans. by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen 03.09
• A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers 03.08
• Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine by Dr. Robert H. Lustig [just... don't] 03.07
• Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland by Lisa Schneidau 03.07
• Future of Ice: Poems and Stories of a Japanese Buddhist by Miyazawa Kenji trans. by Hiroaki Sato 03.06
• A History of Finland by Dr. Henrik Meinander 03.05
• Speleology: Caves and the Cave Environment by Drs. George W. Moore and Nicholas Sullivan, illust. by John Schoenherr 03.04
• The Hot Body Diet by Michelle Lewin and Dr. Samar Yorde 03.03 [as much as I admire Michelle Lewin, this book is as cringy as it sounds]
• The Hall of the Singing Caryatids by Victor Pelevin trans. by Andrew Bromfield 02.22
• Cræft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts by Dr. Alexander Langlands 02.17
• Byron: Selected Poems by Lord Byron 01.20
• Privacy Is Hard and Seven Other Myths: Achieving Privacy Through Careful Design by Dr. Jaap-Henk Hoepman 01.05
• Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer 01.02
• Authority by Jeff VanderMeer 01.02

Abandoned:

• Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman at about ~50%