FICTION

• Strange Pictures - Uketsu
  • interesting, but not really worth a reread, and the final case that tied everything together wasn't as tight as the others
• Tower of Fools - Andrzej Sapkowski
• The Book of Elsewhere - China Mieville
  • based on BRZRKR by Keanu Reeves
• Pilgrim: A Medieval Horror - Mitchell Lüthi
• The Creepy and the Freaky - Kamentotsu
  • completed this year
• Magus of the Library - Mitsu Izumi
  • ongoing manga
• Starving Saints
  • dropped - descriptions too vague and muddy
• Ura Baito
  • completed this year
• The Atrocity Archives - Charles Stross
  • note: mc is annoying, not sure if i'll continue the series despite the world-building
• Eko Eko Azarak
  • binge-read
• Sensei! Bokutachi ga Sekai wo Horoboshimasu
  • ongoing manga

FANFICS

• Detroit Metal Shitty - kurushi
  • Detroit Metal City (manga) fic that treats metal music seriously and not just as an edgy funny quirky weird haha subculture, unlike the source material.

NON-FICTION

• A History of the World in 6 Glasses - Tom Standage
  • note: very western-centric
• The Core of an Onion - Mark Kurlansky
• The Crone's Book of Words - Valerie Worth (reread)
• The Weird and the Eerie - Mark Fisher
• Paper: Paging Through History - Mark Kurlansky
• Nonviolent Communication - Marshall Rosenberg
• Magical Folkhealing: Herbs, Oils, and Recipes for Health, Healing, and Magic - DJ Conway
  • note: TERRIBLE. a collection of disorganized appendices with zero discussion of theory and mechanics and no citations.
• Hallucinations - Oliver Sacks
• Casarett & Doull's Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons
• Hill's Manual of Social and Business Forms
• Witch in Darkness - Kelly-Ann Maddox
• The Nerd Reich - Gil Duran
• The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper - Roland Allen
  • note: fairly enjoyable and informative, but still missing the chinese, islamic, and hindu history of paper production and use
• Pickled, Potted, & Canned - Sue Shephard
  • note: annoyingly praises colonial and imperial figures, and is missing a bunch of basic processes that aren't from europe or usa