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I generally strive for a book per week, but this is by no means a steadfast goal. For a list of series and their status, check [the bottom of this page](#book-series).

<details><summary>Works in Progress</summary>
<ul>
<li>Norman Boutin - Empress Theresa</li>
<li>Jim Butcher - Storm Front</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - Unseen Academicals</li>
</ul>
</details>

To keep the page somewhat manageable, I've collapsed the lists by years:

<details><summary>2022</summary>
<ul>
<li>Tade Thompson - Rosewater</li>
<li>Tobias Buckell - The Placement Agency</li>
<li>Sarah Gailey - Drones to Ploughshares</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - Night Watch</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - The Wee Free Men</li>
<li>Pat Cadigan - The Final Performance of the Amazing Ralphie</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - Monstrous Regiment</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - A Hat Full of Sky</li>
<li>Mary Robinette Kowal - The Relentless Moon</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - Going Postal</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - Thud!</li>
<li>Stephen King - Afterlife</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - Wintersmith</li>
</ul>
</details>

<details><summary>2021</summary>
<ul>
<li>Edgar Rice Burroughs - A Princess of Mars</li>
<li>Bill Hammack - Fatal Flight</li>
<li>Madeleine L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time</li>
<li>Jo Nesb&oslash; - Headhunters</li>
<li>Michael Wall - Out There</li>
<li>Yahtzee Croshaw - Differently Morphous</li>
<li>Jessica Bruder - Nomadland</li>
<li>David Graeber - Bullshit Jobs</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - The Last Hero</li>
<li>Terry Bisson - Bears Discover Fire, and Other Stories</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents</li>
<li>Albert-László Barabási - Bursts</li>
<li>Stephen King - 1408</li>
<li>John Twelve Hawks - The Traveler</li>
<li>Mira Grant - Parasite</li>
<li>Mary Robinette Kowal - The Fated Sky</li>
<li>Tsugumi Ohba - Death Note Volume 3</li>
<li>Monica Hughes - Devil on My Back</li>
<li>Esther Friesner - A Birthday</li>
<li>Martha Wells - Network Effect</li>
<li>Mira Grant - Symbiont</li>
<li>Mary Robinette Kowal - The Lady Astronaut of Mars</li>
<li>Seanan McGuire - Sparrow Hill Road</li>
<li>V E Schwab - Vicious</li>
<li>Stephen King - The Colorado Kid</li>
<li>V E Schwab - Vengeful</li>
<li>Barry J Hutchison - Dial D for Deadman</li>
<li>Connie Willis - At the Realto</li>
<li>Barry J Hutchison - Dead Inside</li>
<li>Mira Grant - Chimera</li>
<li>August Marion - Vegetablemen in Peanut Town</li>
<li>Martha Wells - Fugitive Telemetry</li>
<li>Barry J Hutchison - Dead in the Water</li>
<li>Andy Weir - Project Hail Mary</li>
<li>Ernest Cline - Armada</li>
<li>Isaac Asimov - Foundation</li>
<li>Isaac Asimov - Foundation and Empire</li>
<li>Isaac Asimov - Second Foundation</li>
<li>Samuel R Delany - Babel-17</li>
<li>James S A Corey - Leviathan Wakes</li>
<li>James S A Corey - Caliban's War</li>
<li>Richard Ayoade - The Grip of Film</li>
<li>Lynne Martin - Home Sweet Anywhere</li>
<li>James S A Corey - Abaddon's Gate</li>
<li>James S A Corey - Cibola Burn</li>
<li>James S A Corey - Nemesis Games</li>
<li>James S A Corey - Babylon's Ashes</li>
<li>James S A Corey - Persepolis Rising</li>
<li>James S A Corey - Tiamat's Wrath</li>
<li>James S A Corey - Drive</li>
<li>James S A Corey - The Churn</li>
<li>James S A Corey - The Expanse Origins</li>
<li>James S A Corey - Gods of Risk</li>
<li>James S A Corey - The Vital Abyss</li>
<li>James S A Corey - Strange Dogs</li>
<li>Ray Bradbury - A Sound of Thunder</li>
<li>Frank Herbert - Dune</li>
<li>Bob Mortimer - And Away...</li>
<li>James S A Corey - The Butcher of Anderson Station</li>
<li>James S A Corey - The Last Flight of the Cassandra</li>
<li>James S A Corey - Leviathan Falls</li>
<li>James S A Corey - Auberon</li>
</ul>
</details>

<details><summary>2020</summary>
<ul>
<li>Iain M Banks - The Player of Games</li>
<li>Iain M Banks - The State of the Art</li>
<li>Robert Harris - The Fear Index</li>
<li>Iain M Banks - Use of Weapons</li>
<li>Junji Ito - Frankenstein</li>
<li>John Scalzi - Zoe's Tale</li>
<li>Junji Ito - Smashed</li>
<li>Peter Watts - Blindsight</li>
<li>Philip K Dick - Confessions of a Crap Artist</li>
<li>Tsugumi Ohba - Death Note Volume 1</li>
<li>Philip Reeve - Infernal Devices</li>
<li>Tsugumi Ohba - Death Note Volume 2</li>
<li>Robert A Heinlein - Have Space Suit, Will Travel</li>
<li>China Miéville - Embassytown</li>
<li>Erlend Loe - Naiv.Super.</li>
<li>Junji Ito - Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon &amp; Mu</li>
<li>Martha Wells - Compulsory</li>
<li>Stephen King - Secret Window, Secret Garden</li>
<li>Yahtzee Croshaw - Mogworld</li>
<li>David Wong - What the Hell Did I Just Read</li>
<li>George R R Martin - Nightflyers</li>
<li>George R R Martin - Override</li>
<li>George R R Martin - Weekend in a War Zone</li>
<li>George R R Martin - And Seven Times Never Kill Man</li>
<li>George R R Martin - Nor the Many-Colored Fires of a Star Ring</li>
<li>George R R Martin - A Song for Lya</li>
<li>Peter Watts - The Things</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - The Truth</li>
<li>Stephen King - Gwendy's Button Box </li>
<li>Stephen King - The Music Room</li>
<li>Philip Reeve - A Darkling Plain</li>
<li>Dennis E Taylor - We Are Legion (We Are Bob)</li>
<li>Stephen King - Elevation</li>
<li>Stephen King - Laurie</li>
<li>Dennis E Taylor - For We Are Many</li>
<li>Dennis E Taylor - All These Worlds</li>
<li> John Steakley - Armor</li>
<li>Richard Ayoade - Ayoade on Top</li>
<li>John Scalzi - The Last Emperox</li>
<li>Dennis E Taylor - Heaven's River</li>
<li>Ernest Cline - Ready Player Two</li>
<li>MT Anderson - Feed</li>
</ul>
</details>

<details><summary>2019</summary>
<ul>
<li>Adam Mansbach - Go the Fuck to Sleep</li>
<li>Philip Reeve - Predator's Gold</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - Hogfather</li>
<li>Junji Ito - Fixed Face</li>
<li>Stephen King - The Jaunt</li>
<li>Stephen King - End of Watch</li>
<li>Junji Ito - Tomie</li>
<li>Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House</li>
<li>John Scalzi - The Ghost Brigades</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - Jingo</li>
<li>Adam Mansbach - You Have to Fucking Eat</li>
<li>MK England - The Disasters</li>
<li>John Scalzi - The Last Colony</li>
<li>Oliver Langmead - Dark Star</li>
<li>Warren Ellis - Trees</li>
<li>Ann Leckie - Ancillary Justice</li>
<li>Gary Taubes - Why We Get Fat</li>
<li>Drew Magary - The Postmortal</li>
<li>Junji Ito - Near Miss</li>
<li>Junji Ito - Meet Again</li>
<li>John Scalzi - The Other Large Thing</li>
<li>Junji Ito - Shiver</li>
<li>John Scalzi - The Collapsing Empire</li>
<li>Dilwyn Horvat - Operation Titan</li>
<li>Matthew P Walker - Why We Sleep</li>
<li>Stephen King - Rage</li>
<li>Kim Stanley Robinson - Blue Mars</li>
<li>John Scalzi - The Consuming Fire</li>
<li>Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - Thief of Time</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - The Last Continent</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - Carpe Jugulum</li>
<li>Naoki Urasawa - Pluto 1</li>
<li>Naoki Urasawa - Pluto 2</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - The Fifth Elephant</li>
<li>Neil Gaiman - American Gods</li>
<li>Martha Wells - All Systems Red</li>
<li>Naoki Urasawa - Pluto 3</li>
<li>Martha Wells - Artificial Condition</li>
<li>Martha Wells - Rogue Protocol</li>
<li>Martha Wells - Exit Strategy</li>
<li>Naoki Urasawa - Pluto 4</li>
<li>Yuval Noah Harari - Homo Deus</li>
<li>Naoki Urasawa - Pluto 5</li>
<li>Stephen King - Cell</li>
<li>Stephen King - The Long Walk</li>
<li>Naoki Urasawa - Pluto 6</li>
<li>Ryan North - Machine of Death</li>
<li>Stephen King - The Shining</li>
<li>Naoki Urasawa - Pluto 7</li>
<li>Naoki Urasawa - Pluto 8</li>
<li>Mary Robinette Kowal - The Calculating Stars</li>
<li>Mary Robinette Kowal - We Interrupt This Broadcast</li>
<li>Stephen King - Doctor Sleep</li>
<li>Yahtzee Croshaw - Will Destroy the Galaxy for Cash</li>
<li>Iain M Banks - Consider Phlebas</li>
<li>Philip Pullman - Northern Lights</li>
<li>Philip Pullman - The Subtle Knife</li>
<li>Philip Pullman - The Amber Spyglass</li>
</ul>
</details>

<details><summary>2018</summary>
<ul>
<li>Andrew Weir - Artemis</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - The Colour of Magic</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - The Light Fantastic</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - Equal Rites</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - Mort</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - Sourcery</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - Wyrd Sisters</li>
<li>Charles Forsman - The End of the Fucking World</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - Pyramids</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - Guards! Guards!</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - Eric</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - Moving Pictures</li>
<li>Manu Saadia - Trekonomics The Economics of Star Trek</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - Reaper Man</li>
<li>Tim Marshall - Prisoners of Geography</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - Witches Abroad</li>
<li>Yuval Noah Harari - Sapiens</li>
<li>Alan Moore - Batman The Killing Joke</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - Death and What Comes Next</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - Small Gods</li>
<li>Stephen King - Finders Keepers</li>
<li>Neal Shusterman - Unwind</li>
<li>Sam Harris - Wake Up A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - Lords and Ladies</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - Theatre of Cruelty</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - Men at Arms</li>
<li>Stephen King - The Langoliers</li>
<li>Jon Nielson - Look</li>