#95books

Inspired by Ryan Fitzpatrick: https://ryanfitzpatrick.ca/95books/

Setting myself a goal of 95 books and logging them on here (personal reads marked for privacy).


2025

  1. Paris: The Novel Paperback – Edward Rutherfurd (Anchor) – carried over from 2024
  2. The God Of The Woods – Liz Moore (Riverhead)
  3. The Inheritance and other dark tales – Stephen Tallevi (Library & Archives Canada)
  4. Penny Bloods: Gothic Tales of Dangerous Women – ed. Nicole C. Dittmer (The British Library)
  5. Cymbeline – William Shakespeare (Penguin)
  6. Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice For Living Your Best Life – Ali Wong (Random House)
  7. The Dead – James Joyce (Penguin)
  8. A Different Darkness and Other Abominations – Luigi Musolino (Valancourt)
  9. Diavola – Jennifer Thorne (Tor Nightfire)
  10. The Gold Standard Fallacy of ABA: A Reference Guide for Therapists, Educators, & Parents by Julie Roberts (Neurobloom)
  11. Speculative Fiction For Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology ed. – Alex Hernandez, Matthew David Goodwin, and Sarah Rafael Garcia (Mad Creek)
  12. The Power – Naomi Alderman (Back Bay)
  13. Miss Kim Knows and other stories – Cho Nam-Joo (Scribner)
  14. How You Were Born – Kate Cayley (Book*hug)
  15. Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Need Abolition – Silky Shah (Haymarket)
  16. Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen a memoir – Suzanne Scanlon (Penguin)
  17. Pretend I’m Dead – Jen Beagin (Simon & Schuster)
  18. The Part That Burns – Jeannine Ouellette (Split Lip)
  19. What Are You Going Through – Sigrid Nunez (Riverhead)
  20. Question authority : a polemic about trust in five meditations – Mark Kingwell (Biblioasis)
  21. Fruit Of The Drunken Tree – Ingrid Rojas Contreras (Doubleday)
  22. Playing The Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the game that made a nation – John Carlin (Penguin)
  23. Rugby For Dummies – Matthew Brown (John Wiley & Sons)
  24. The Relaxation Response – Herbert Benson (Harper Touch)
  25. Catching the big fish : meditation, consciousness, and creativity – David Lynch (Penguin)
  26. When Things Fall Apart – Pema Chödrön (Shambhala)
  27. The Language of My Captor – Shane McCrae (Wesleyan)
  28. Pig – Sam Sax (Simon & Schuster)
  29. Harrow The Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)- Tamsyn Muir (TOR)
  30. The Only Safe Place Is The Dark – Warren Wagner (Ghoulish)
  31. Selected Poetry and Prose – Dylan Thomas (William Collins)
  32. Under Milk Wood – Dylan Thomas (William Collins)
  33. Room To Dream – David Lynch & Krystine McKenna (Random House)
  34. The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas – Dylan Thomas (Dent)
  35. The Demonologist – Andrew Pyper (Simon & Schuster)
  36. As You Like It – William Shakespeare (Arden)
  37. If It Bleeds: New Fiction – Stephen King (Scribner)
  38. Almost Brown – Charlotte Gill (Viking)
  39. Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves – Sophie Gilbert (Penguin)
  40. Mongrels – Stephen Graham Jones (William Morrow)
  41. Monstrillo – Gerardo Sámano Córdova (Zando)
  42. Sincerely, Your Autistic Child: What People on the Autism Spectrum Wish Their Parents Knew About Growing Up, Acceptance, and Identity- ed. Sharon daVanport, Emily Paige Ballou (Random House)
  43. Her Body And Other Parties – Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf)
  44. Parable Of The Sower – Octavia E. Butler (Four Walls Eight Windows)
  45. Empire Of Normality: Neurodiversity & Capitalism – Robert Champman (Pluto)
  46. Sex Magic: Diagrams Of Love – Ithell Colquhoun (Tate)
  47. The Art Spirit – Robert Henri (Basic)
  48. Putting the Rabbit in the Hat – Brian Cox (Grand Central)
  49. Girl In A Band – Kim Gordon (Harper Collins)
  50. Surrealist Women’s Writing: A Critical Exploration – ed. Anna Watz (Manchester)
  51. From The Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, And Finding My Way – Jesse Thistle (Simon & Schuster)
  52. Cacti & other poems – Jerm Curtin (Southword)

2024

  1. A Good House for Children by Kate Collins (Mariner Books)
  2. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier (audiobook) narrated by Alexandra O’Karma
  3. Drifts – Kate Zambreno (Penguin Random House)
  4. The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien (audiobook) narrated by Jim Norton
  5. Intimacies – Katie Kitamura (audiobook Traci Kato-Kiriyama)
  6. Yara – Tamara Faith Berger (Coach House Books)
  7. Palmares – Gayl Jones (audiobook Sonella Nankani)
  8. Poetry is Queer – KIRBY (Palimpsest Press)
  9. Dr. Who And The Giant Robot by Terence Dicks (Target Book)
  10. Amberes – Roberto Bolaño (Vintage Español)
  11. Will I Think Of You? – Leonard Nimoy (Dell)
  12. Matrix – Lauren Groff (Penguin audiobook – Adjoa Andoh)
  13. Thick – Tressie McMillan Cottom
  14. Paradise Rot – Jenny Hval (audiobook Brie Jackman)
  15. Le Jour des cendres – Jean-Christophe Grangé (Albin Michel)
  16. Brother and Sister – Diane Keaton (read by Diane Keaton -Random House audiobook)
  17. The Book Of Delights – Ross Gay (Algonquin)
  18. Velvet Was The Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (audiobook – Gisela Chípe)
  19. Lute – Jennifer Thorne (Nightfire)
  20. La Vorágine – José Eustasio Rivera (La Atenas De América)
  21. Women And Other Monsters – Jess Zimmerman (audiobook – Vanessa Moyen)
  22. The Age Of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael – edited by Sanford Schwartz (Random House)
  23. Study for Obedience – Sarah Bernstein (author read audiobook)
  24. Tripticks – Ann Quin (And Other Stories)
  25. Winter’s Cold Girls – Lisa Bird (Caitlin)
  26. Selected Poems of Ezra Pound – Ezra Pound (New Directions)
  27. Cunning Folk – Adam L.G. Nevill (audiobook – Peter Walters)
  28. Vicious – V.E. Schwab (audiobook – Jeremy Arthur)
  29. She Must Be Mad – Charly Cox (HQ)
  30. Tender Is The Flesh – Agustina Bazterrica (trans. Sarah Moses) (Scribner)
  31. The Wall – Marlen Haushofer (New Directions)
  32. Death Glitch – Tamara Kneese (Yale)
  33. Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître – Michael Cecchi-Azzolina (audiobook narrated by author)
  34. Every Man For Himself And God Against All: A Memoir- Werner Herzog (Penguin)
  35. Empty Wardrobes – Maria Judite de Carvalho (trans. Margaret Jull Costa, Two Lines)
  36. A Certain Hunger – Chelsea G. Summers (The Unnamed Press)
  37. The Horror of Haglin House: The Violet Thorn Mysteries 1 – M.R.C. Kasasian (audiobook narrated by Emma Gregory
  38. The Loneliness Files Paperback – Athena Dixon (Tin House Books)
  39. England’s Hidden Reverse, revised and expanded edition: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground – David Keenan (Strange Attractor)
  40. No Longer Human – Osamu Dazai (New Directions)
  41. In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan (audiobook – narrated by Bronson Pinchot)
  42. Poèmes saturniens – Paul Verlaine (Folio)
  43. La Première gorgée de bière – Philippe Delerm (L’arpenteur)
  44. Be Useful: Seven Tools For Life- Arnold Schwarzenegger (Penguin)
  45. The Theatre And Its Double – Antonin Artaud (Evergreen)
  46. Atmospheric Disturbances – Rivka Galchen (Harper Collins)
  47. Personal read.
  48. Frank Zappa and the And – ed. Paul Carr (Ashgate)
  49. Psychoanalysis and the unconscious – D.H. Lawrence (Viking)
  50. Personal read
  51. Personal read
  52. Detransition, Baby – Torrey Peters (Penguin)
  53. Personal read.
  54. The Sofa: A Moral Tale – Crébillon Fils (trans. Bonamy Dobrée) (The Folio Society)
  55. Good Girl – Anna Fitzpatrick (Flying)
  56. The H-spot : the feminist pursuit of happiness – Jill Filipovic (Nation)
  57. A Hedonist Manifesto: The Power to Exist – Michel Onfray (Columbia University)
  58. Sex And Rage – Eve Babitz (Counterpoint)
  59. The Snow Queen – Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  60. Personal Read
  61. The Best Of The Spirit – Wil Eisner (DC Comics)
  62. The Night Eaters: She Eats the Night (The Night Eaters Book #1): A Graphic Novel by Marjorie Liu (Author), Sana Takeda (Illustrator), (Harry N. Abrams)
  63. Kuntalini – Tamara Faith Berger (Badlands) – reread
  64. Inside MAD: The “Usual Gang of Idiots” Pick Their Favorite MAD Spoofs – The Editors of Mad Magazine (Liberty Street)
  65. Norman Pettingill – Johnny Ryan (Fantagraphics)
  66. The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories – Oscar Wilde (Dover)
  67. Superman: The Dailies 1939-1942 (Sterling)
  68. On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint – Maggie Nelson (Graywolf)
  69. Funny Weather: Art In A Emergency – Olivia Laing (W.W. Norton and Co.)
  70. Rent Boy – Gary Indiana (Serpent’s Tail)
  71. Bad Behavior – Mary Gaitskill (Vintage)
  72. Will Eisner’s The Spirit – Darwyn Cooke, J. Bone , Dave Stewart (DC)
  73. La Garage Hermétique – Moebius (Les Humanoïdes Associés)
  74. Justine, or, The misfortunes of virtue – Marquis de Sade (Oxford)
  75. The Forty Rules of Love – Elif Shafak (Penguin)
  76. The Disaster Artist – Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell (Simon and Schuster)
  77. Continent – Aaron Boothby (Penguin)
  78. Cuentos Rusos – (various) – Editorial Porrúa, S.A.
  79. Veils of Distortion: How the News Media Warps Our Minds – John Zada (Terra Incognita)
  80. Because They Wanted To: Stories – Mary Gaitskill (Simon & Schuster)
  81. The Skeleton’s Holiday – Leonora Carrington (Penguin)
  82. The World Inside – Robert Silverberg (Orb)
  83. Complete Stories – Clarice Lispector (New Directions)
  84. The Way The Crow Flies – Ann- Marie MacDonald (Harper)
  85. Hello Beautiful – Ann Napolitano (The Dial)
  86. An Apartment In Uranus – Paul B. Preciado (MIT)
  87. Outer Dark – Cormac McCarthy (Picador)
  88. A Good Man Is Hard To Find – Flannery O’Connor (Harcourt)
  89. Girl Trouble – Carol Dyhouse (Zed)
  90. The Goldblum Variations – Helen McClory (Penguin)
  91. Child Of God – Cormac McCarthy (Knopf Doubleday)
  92. The Passenger – Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knoff)
  93. I hate to see that evening sun go down – William Gay (The Free Press)
  94. Stella Maris – Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knoff)
  95. The Classic Stories – H.P. Lovecraft (Oxford)
  96. Necromonicon – H.P. Lovecraft (Avon)
  97. What I’d Rather Not Think About – Jente Posthum (Sarah Timmer Harvey) (Scribe)
  98. The Details – Ia Genber (Kira Josefss) (Harpervia)
  99. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind – Chuck Barris (Ebury)
  100. DallerGut Dream Department Store – Lee Mi-ye (Sandy Joosun Lee) (Wildfire)
  101. Doppleganger – Naomi Klein (Alfred A. Knoff)
  102. Personal read
  103. (finishing from 2023)Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me from Success – Miki Berenyi (Rough Trade)
  104. Personal read
  105. Drumming with Dead Can Dance: and Parallel Adventures – Peter Ulrich (Red Hen)
  106. Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx – Stefan Kanfer (Penguin)
  107. (finishing)I’m Glad My Mom Died – Jennette McCurdy (Simon & Schuster)
  108. Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cintematic Odyssey – Richard Ayoade (Faber & Faber)
  109. Thirst – Marina Yuszczuk (Dutton)
  110. Of Love and Other Demons – Gabriel García Márquez (Penguin)
  111. Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy (Penguin)
  112. Bunnicula -Debra & James Howell (Atheneum)
  113. Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation – John Carlin (Nimbus)
  114. Not Your Rescue Project : Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice – Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam (Haymarket)
  115. Supplication – Nour Abi-Nakhoul (Strange Light)
  116. I Am David – Ann Holme (Harper Collins)
  117. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré