| as of | title | author | status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-07 | The Dispossessed | Ursula Le Guin | next |
| 2026-03-07 | Gödel, Escher, Bach | Douglas Hofstadter | begun; resume soon™ |
| 2026-03-07 | The Nature of Order | Christopher Alexander | begun; resume soon™ |
| finished | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-06 | The Snow Leopard | Peter Mathiessen |
| 2026-03-03 | Galatea 2.2 | Richard Powers |
| 2026-02-21 | Caste | Isabel Wilkerson |
| 2026-02-09 | Ancillary Justice | Ann Leckie |
| 2026-01-27 | The Free People's Village | Sim Kerns |
| 2025-11-17 | Shopkeeping | Peter Miller |
| 2025-11-14 | Slow Down | Kōhei Saitō |
These are books of any genre that I consider to have notably influenced my mind or spirit. These authors, by prosody and planning, have unveiled, made tenable, things true and perhaps even useful. In so doing, they earn their high place on my bookself [sic].
Oh, and I realized during compilation that these are all white men. Stand by for overdue rectification.
Literary fiction. Markson presents a fictional author's last novel. The entire work consists of carefully aligned facts about dozens of historical artists of all media. The fictional author interjects only a few times, but somehow these alongside the particular facts chosen vividly frame the shape of the author's life and mind. A masterwork of implication.
Literary fiction.
I have read and loved The Overstory, Bewilderment, Generosity, Playground, Orfeo, and Galatea 2.2.
Ergodic literary fiction. Kinda scary. Mind bending. A triumph of storytelling. (Or story-in-story-in-story-telling?)