• The Fish of Gold and Other Finnish Folk Tales translated by Inkeri Väänänen-Jensen 11.17
• Spaceflight by Michael J. Neufeld 10.28
• Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind by Peter Godfrey-Smith 10.26
• Teach Yourself Geology by David Rothery 10.22
• Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time by Brian Aldiss 10.19
• Voorloper by Andre Norton (reread) 10.16
• Why Privacy Matters by Neil Richards 10.12
• Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom 10.05 [this one was barely within my tolerance before a DNF and I’m thinking maybe I should’ve just DNF’ed]
• Civilizations of Ancient Iraq by Benjamin R. Foster and Karen Polinger Foster 09.28
• Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction by various edited by Jack Dann 09.22
• A History of the Ancient Near East by Marc Van De Mieroop 09.19
• Star Mother by Sydney J. Van Scyoc 08.31
• The Blue Sky by Galsan Tschinag trans. by Katharina Rout 08.39
• My Life with the Chimpanzees by Jane Goodall 08.25
• Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev trans. by Richard Freeborn 08.24
• Seven Trips Through Time and Space by various edited by Groff Conklin 08.24 [aged extremely badly; multiple of these stories would have been too much even in the 60s in terms of sexism… I don’t know why I finished]
• The Measure of Sorrow: Stories by J. Ashley-Smith 08.22
• No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering by Thích Nhất Hạnh 08.19
• The Torah JBS edition 08.18
• Dr. Bloodmoney by Philip K. Dick 08.17
• The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks 08.17
• In Plain Sight: An Investigation into UFOs and Impossible Science by Ross Coulthart 08.15 [credibility really strained with this one— useful for creative writing project inspiration but not particularly reliable otherwise]
• The Blackjack Life by Nathaniel Tilton 08.08
• Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy: The Secret World of Corporate Espionage by Eamon Javers 08.05
• Buddhism for Beginners by Thubten Chödrön 07.31
• God Pictures in Korean Contexts by Laurel Kendall, Jongsung Yang, and Yul Soo Yoon 07.27
• Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick 07.22
• Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy by Mircea Eliade trans. by Willard R. Trask 07.20
• Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA by Amaryllis Fox 06.26
• A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick 06.25
• The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes— and Its Implications by David Deutsch 06.19
• Sea Mammals: The Past and Present Lives of Our Oceans’ Cornerstone Species by Annalisa Berta 06.10
• Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology by Valentino Braitenberg 05.26
• What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy by Thomas Nagel 05.24
• Satellites of the Outer Planets: Worlds in Their Own Right by David A. Rothery 05.24
• Winter of Artifice: Three Novelettes by Anaïs Nin 05.19
• Hyperdream by Hélène Cixous trans. by Beverley Bie Brahic 05.18
• Planet Mercury: From Pale Pink Dot to Dynamic World by David A. Rothery 05.17
• Brain-Computer Interfacing: An Introduction by Rajesh P. N. Rao 05.14
• Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell 05.12
• CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans by Henry T. Greely 05.04
• Programming the Human Biocomputer by John C. Lilly 04.29
• Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee 04.28
• Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto by Alan Stern & David Grinspoon 04.23
• A Mismatch of Salience: Explorations of the Nature of Autism From Theory to Practice by Damian E. M. Milton 04.18
• High Altitude Vegetable Gardening: A Guide to Organic Abundance at Any Elevation by Kevin Korb 04.16
• This Alien Shore by C. S. Friedman (reread) 04.07
• Tales of Nevèrÿon by Samuel Delany 04.02
• This Tree Grows Out of Hell: Mesoamerica and the Search for the Magical Body by Ptolemy Tompkins 03.28
• Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives by Brian L. Weiss 03.24 [absolutely not recommended I don’t know why I bothered finishing this]
• Cunningham’s Encyclopedia of Crystal, Gem, and Metal Magic by Scott Cunningham 03.21
• The Faded Sun: Shon’Jir by CJ Cherryh 03.20
• Yurth Burden by Andre Norton (reread) 03.19
• Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner by Scott Cunningham 03.17
• Extraterrestrial Languages by Daniel Oberhaus 03.16
• Archeology of the Mammoth Cave Area by various, edited by Patty Jo Watson 03.14
• The Liquid Light of Sex: Kundalini Rising at Midlife Crisis by Barbara Hand Clow 03.12
• The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective by Carl Sagan 03.10
• Korean Shamanism — Muism by Kim Tae-kon, translated & edited by Chang Soo-kyung 03.09
• Mind Design III: Philosophy, Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence by various, edited by John Haugeland, Carl F. Craver, and Colin Klein 03.09
• Io Typhon: A Hymnal by Harper Feist 02.29
• Year of the Unicorn by Andre Norton (reread) 02.18
• The Epic of Gilgamesh translated and edited by Benjamin R. Foster 02.17
• The Faded Sun: Kesrith by CJ Cherryh 02.16
• Graceful Exits: How Great Beings Die by various, translated by various, compiled & edited by Sushila Blackman 02.14
• How We Live Is How We Die by Pema Chödrön 02.11
• Guide to the Manta & Devil Rays of the World by Guy Stevens, Daniel Fernando, Marc Dando, and Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara 02.08
• Verdant Gnosis: Cultivating the Green Path Vol. 2 by various, edited by Catamara Rosarium, Marcus McCoy, and Jenn Zahrt 02.06
• Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature by various, edited by Connie Zweig and Jeremiah Abrams 02.03
• Reincarnation Through the Zodiac by Joan Hodgson 01.31
• You Were Born for This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance by Chani Nicholas 01.29
• The Stars Within You: A Modern Guide to Astrology by Juliana McCarthy 01.28
• Carmilla and Laura by SD Simper 01.15
• Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur 01.08

Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels:

• Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End #1 by Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe 10.29
• Record of Lodoss War: The Grey Witch Issues #1 - 22 by Ryo Mizuno & Yoshihiko Ochi (reread) 05.08

DNF:

• Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self by Alice Miller