Completed & Current
| TITLE | AUTHOR | PUB DATE | REC | STATUS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NOW | The Violent Bear It Away | Flannery O’Connor | 1960 | ☐ | ☐ |
| NOW | Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present | David Lehman (ed.) | 2003 | ☐ | ☐ |
| NOW | The Way of the Writer | Charles R. Johnson | 2016 | ☐ | ☐ |
| NOW | J R | William Gaddis | 1975 | ☐ | ☐ |
| NOW | Pale Fire | Vladimir Nabokov | 1962 | ☐ | ☐ |
| 2025-12-28 | James | Percival Everett | 2024 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-12-26 | Perfection | Vincenzo Latronico (Sophie Hughes, trans.) | 2024 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-12-25 | The Bee Sting | Paul Murray | 2023 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-12-21 | 1984 | George Orwell | 1949 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-12-19 | What We Can Know | Ian McEwan | 2025 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-12-18 | The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | 1943 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-12-12 | The New Diary | Tristine Rainer | 1978 | 🤷 | ✔️ |
| 2025-12-10 | The Book of Strange New Things | Michel Faber | 2014 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-12-06 | New American Writing (No. 34) | Various | 👍 | ✔️ | |
| 2025-12-05 | ACM (Another Chicago Magazine (No. 36) | Various | 👍 | ✔️ | |
| 2025-12-05 | Jubilat (No. 27) | Various | 👍 | ✔️ | |
| 2025-11-28 | A Trick of Light (Gamache 7) | Louise Penny | 2011 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-11-25 | Bury Your Dead (Gamache 6) | Louise Penny | 2010 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-11-21 | The Brutal Telling (Gamache 5) | Louise Penny | 2009 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-11-17 | A Rule Against Murder (Gamache 4) | Louise Penny | 2008 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-11-15 | The Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro | 1989 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-11-13 | A Rule Against Murder | Louise Penny | 2008 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-11-12 | Anathem | Neal Stephenson | 2008 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-11-11 | Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | 1955 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-11-03 | 180 More: Poems for Every Day | Billy Collins (ed.) | 2005 | 🤷 | ✔️ |
| 2025-11-03 | Spy Sinker | Len Deighton | 1990 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-11-02 | Casino Royale | Ian Fleming | 1953 | 🤷 | ✔️ |
| 2025-10-28 | American Linden | Matthew Zapruder | 2002 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-10-27 | Gunnywolf | Megan Snyder-Camp | 2016 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-10-26 | The Phoenix Pencil Company | Allison King | 2023 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-10-23 | The Threepenny Review (Winter 2024) | Various | 2024 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-10-22 | Do-It-Yourself Guide to the Big Motherfuckin’ Sad | Adam Gnade | 2021 | 🤷 | ✔️ |
| 2025-10-21 | Lonesome Dove | Larry McMurtry | 1985 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-10-20 | Fever of Unknown Origin | Campbell McGrath | 2020 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-10-20 | Safekeeping | Abigail Thomas | 2000 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-10-19 | _Spy Line _ | Len Deighton | 1989 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-10-18 | Intermezzo | Sally Rooney | 2024 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-10-14 | Please | Jericho Brown | 2008 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-10-13 | Orbital | Samantha Harvey | 2023 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-10-12 | Complete Steps to a Life Less Shitty | Adam Gnade | 2022 | 🤷 | ✔️ |
| 2025-10-12 | should our undoing come down upon us white | Jill Osier | 2013 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-10-11 | Modern Life | Matthea Harvey | 2017 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-10-11 | Sad Little Breathing Machine | Matthea Harvey | 2004 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-10-04 | Box 88 | Charles Cumming | 2020 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-10-01 | The Sentence is Death | Anthony Horowitz | 2019 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-09-30 | Creation Lake | Rachel Kushner | 2014 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-09-29 | Spy Hook | Len Deighton | 1988 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-09-26 | Word of Mouth | Catherine Bowman (ed) | 2003 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-09-25 | London Match | Len Deighton | 1985 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-09-24 | Poetry Northwest (??) | Various | 👍 | ✔️ | |
| 2025-09-23 | Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes | James Parker | 2024 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-09-23 | The Word is Murder | Anthony Horowitz | 2017 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-09-21 | You Are Here- Poetry and the Natural World | Ada Limón (ed) | 2024 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-09-18 | Erasure | Percival Everett | 2001 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-09-15 | A Small Town in Germany | John le Carré | 1968 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-09-15 | All Tangled Up with the Living | Louis Jenkins | 2017 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-09-13 | Big Bear, Little Bear | David Brierly | 1998 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-09-10 | Mexico Set | Len Deighton | 1984 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-09-09 | A Book of Luminous Things | Czesław Miłosz | 1996 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-09-08 | The Necessity of Wildfire | Caitlin Scarano | 2024 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-09-04 | The Stainless Steel Rat | Harry Harrison | 1961 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-09-01 | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | John le Carré | 1963 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-08-31 | The Mechanical | Ian Tregillis | 2015 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-08-30 | Death Comes for the Archbishop | Willa Cather | 1927 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-08-27 | Berlin Game | Len Deighton | 1983 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-08-25 | Raylan | Elmore Leonard | 2012 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-08-21 | A Delicate Truth | John le Carré | 2013 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-08-17 | Riding the Rap | Elmore Leonard | 1995 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-08-14 | Silverview | John le Carré | 2021 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-08-12 | Pronto | Elmore Leonard | 1993 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-08-11 | Agent Running in the Field | John le Carré | 2019 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-08-08 | The Knopf National Poetry Month Collection | Various | 2009 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-08-07 | A Murder of Quality | John le Carré | 1962 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-08-05 | Call for the Dead | John le Carré | 1961 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-07-31 | Good Poems | Various | 2002 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-07-29 | Shards of Earth | Adrian Tchaikovsky | 2021 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-07-18 | The Spy Coast | Tess Gerritsen | 2023 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-07-18 | Fugitive Telemetry | Martha Wells | 2021 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-07-14 | The Book of (More) Delights | Ross Gay | 2023 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-07-14 | The Russia House | John le Carré | 1989 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-07-13 | Isaac Steele and the Best Idea in the Universe | Daniel Rigby | 2023 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-07-06 | Isaac Steele and the Forever Man | Daniel Rigby | 2023 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-06-29 | Additional Attendee | Josh Harper | 2024 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-06-25 | Writing Flash Fiction | Carly Berg | 2021 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-06-17 | Everyone on This Train is a Suspect | Benjamin Stevenson | 2024 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-06-04 | The Book of Delights | Ross Gay | 2018 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-05-25 | A Dream About Lightning Bugs | Ben Folds | 2019 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-05-23 | Babel | R. F. Kuang | 2022 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-05-19 | Why We Read | Shannon Reed | 2021 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-05-14 | System Collapse | Martha Wells | 2023 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-04-21 | A Foreign Country | Charles Cumming | 2012 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-04-20 | Titanium Noir | Nick Harkaway | 2023 | 👍 | ✔️ |
| 2025-01-28 | The Inner Game | Dominic Lawson | 2024 | 👍 | ✔️ |
Miscellaneous
Incomplete. I should fill in from notes in my journals… but I probably won’t!
- 2025-10-01 | from A Century of Poetry in the New Yorker (Kevin Young, ed) ✔️
- 2025-10-02 | from A Century of Poetry in the New Yorker (Kevin Young, ed) ✔️
- 2025-10-02 | from “A Good Man is Hard to Find” (Flannery O’Connor) ✔️
- 2025-10-02 | from Collected Works (Lorine Niedecker) ✔️
- 2025-10-05 | “Alfred, Lord Tennyson – the most Victorian laureate” (Philip Larkin) ✔️
- 2025-11-07 | “Pity the Monster: The Letters of John Berryman” (Jeffrey Meyers) ✔️
- 2025-11-10 | “SPIEGEL Interview with Umberto Eco ‘We Like Lists Because We Don’t Want to Die’” (Umberto Eco & Susanne Beyer) ✔️
- 2025-11-13| “Must you chew so loud? The trials of suffering from ‘misophonia’” (Samantha Weinberg) v
- 2025-11-19 | “The dawn of the post-literate society” (James Marriott) ✔️
- 2025-11-21 | “The Strangest Letter of the Alphabet: The Rise and Fall of Yogh” (Collin Gorrie) ✔️
- 2025-12-13 | from Rules of the Dance (Mary Oliver) ✔️
- 2025-12-13 | from The Penguin Book of Elegy (Kevin Young, ed) ✔️
Tabled
I set books aside to resume later for many reasons (none of which are about quality) such as wanting to read in a different format, wait until I’ve read something else, or read in proper series order. Or I just wasn’t in the mood, but I want to remember to come back to it someday.
- American Spy (Lauren Wilkinson) 💤
- NEW MICRO: Exceptionally Short Fiction James Thomas & Robert Scotellaro (Editors) 💤
- The Power and the Glory (Graham Greene) 💤
- Very Short Stories by Sean Hill 💤
- Feel Free (Zadie Smith) 💤
- 2025-05-14 | Karla’s Choice (Nick Harkaway) 💤
- 2025-05-14 | The Prefect (Alastair Reynolds) 💤
- 2025-09-07 | Bad English (Ammon Shea) 💤
- 2025-09-22 | 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think (Brianna Wiest) 💤
- 2025-10-22 | Everything that Rises (Joseph Stroud) 💤
- 2025-10-31 | In Brief (Judith Kitchener, ed) 💤
WNF
I rarely stop reading a book with prejudice, but sometimes I just can’t envision a future me who has time for these.
- 2025-05-15 | Red to Black (Alex Dryden) 🚫
- 2025-07-18 | Renegade (Joel Shepherd) 🚫
- 2005-09-01| Luna: New Moon (Ian McDonald) 🚫
- 2025-09-06 | The Secret Generations (John Gardner) 🚫
- 2025-11-02 | Live and Let Die (Ian Fleming) 🚫
- 2025-12-13 | Rumors of My Demise (Evan Dando & Jim Ruland) 🚫