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I tend to be a voracious reader, and I read widely. This list has its origins in an old signature file which I would update periodically with the current book that I was reading. That gradually transmogrified itself into the current massive archive with brief reviews.
| What I've been reading lately |
| Number of books read and reviewed each year | |
|---|---|
| 1995* |  (28) |
| 1996 | (47) |
| 1997 | (74) |
| 1998 | (61) |
| 1999 | (62) |
| 2000 | (27) |
| 2001 | (51) |
| 2002 | (60) |
| 2003 | (37) |
| 2004 | (36) |
| 2005 | (32) |
| 2006 | (46) |
| 2007 | (109) |
| 2008 | (78) |
| 2009 | (65) |
| 2010 | (68) |
| 2011 | (98) |
| 2012 | (129) |
| 2013 | (114) |
| 2014 | (101) |
| 2015 | (88) |
| 2016 | (82) |
| 2017 | (76) |
| 2018 | (67) |
| 2019 | (95) |
| 2020 | (90) |
| 2021 | (85) |
| 2022 | (101) |
| 2023 | (124) |
| 2024 | (155) |
| 2025 | (129) |
| * Partial year | |
[Finished 4 December 2025] I heard one of the stories from this on the New Yorker fiction podcast and was intrigued enough to check out the whole collection and this is great stuff.
Nocturno de Chile
by Roberto Bolaño
[Finished 3 December 2025] Bolaño eligió interesantemente su narrador en esta novela, un sacerdote de Opus Dei que también es un poeta. La exploración de preguntas éticas da mucho para pensar.
To Your Scattered Bodies Go
by Philip José Farmer
[Finished 1 December 2025] One of these classics of science fiction which made for a compelling read, albeit one which does reflect some of the social mores of Farmer’s time.
Point Counter Point
by Aldous Huxley
[Finished 29 November 2025] A novel that really didn’t do much for me.
Dismembered Rhetoric: English Recusant Writing, 1580 to 1603
by Ceri Sullivan
[Finished 21 November 2025] Sullivan comes at writing about the recusants from a perspective of rhetoric which ended up being a more surprising window into the writing than I would have imagined as she considers the various strategies employed by the authors and how they influenced and were influenced by their contemporaries.
Made by Hand: Searching for Meaning in a Throwaway World
by Mark Frauenfelder
[Finished 21 November 2025] I’d read a number of Frauenfelder’s blog posts at Boing Boing (which is where I first heard of this book many years ago) and while I’m not inspired to follow many of his sojourns into DIY endeavors, others did seem intriguing.
Historia universal de la infamia
by Jorge Luis Borges
[Finished 19 November 2025] Cuentos tempranos de Borges que no da mucho para mí.
Pure Colour
by Sheila Heti
[Finished 18 November 2025] Not really to my liking.
Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
by Jennifer Vanderbes
[Finished 15 November 2025] Kind of maddening to see the sort of short-sightedness that was typical of the 50s and 60s and how we’re rushing back to that era.
Rule Britannia
by Daphne du Maurier
[Finished 12 November 2025] Kind of weird to read in the wake of Brexit and 2025 geopolitics, but ultimately kind of a trifle.