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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 | (133) |
| 2026 |  (1) |
| * Partial year | |
[Finished 1 January 2026] Ugh, I’m way behind. No reviews for a bit to catch up.
Metallic Realms
by Lincoln Michel
[Finished 27 December 2025] Ugh, I’m way behind. No reviews for a bit to catch up.
Burger's Daughter
by Nadine Gordimer
[Finished 20 December 2025] Ugh, I’m way behind. No reviews for a bit to catch up.
Holy Days: The World of the Hasidic Family
by Lis Harris
[Finished 18 December 2025] Ugh, I’m way behind. No reviews for a bit to catch up.
The Burning Heart of the World
by Nancy Kricorian
[Finished 17 December 2025] Ugh, I’m way behind. No reviews for a bit to catch up.
Shakespeare's Kitchen
by Lore Segal
[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.