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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, there's the [Reading List Series](/reading-series/) page.

<details><summary>Works in Progress</summary>
<ul>
<li>Norman Boutin - Empress Theresa</li>
<li>James S A Corey - Babylon's Ashes</li>
</ul>
</details>

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

<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>
</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>
<li>Terry Pratchett - Troll Bridge</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - Soul Music</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - Interesting Times</li>
<li>Hitoshi Iwaaki - Parasyte</li>
<li>Junji Ito - The Enigma of Amigara Fault</li>
<li>One - Onepunch-Man 1</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - Maskerade</li>
<li>Junji Ito - Uzumaki</li>
<li>Yahtzee Croshaw - Jam</li>
<li>Jeff VanderMeer - Annihilation</li>
<li>Anthony Horowitz - Oblivion</li>
<li>Joe Haldeman - More Than the Sum of His Parts</li>
<li>Kim Stanley Robinson - Red Mars</li>
<li>Junju Ito - Children of the Earth</li>
<li>Orson Scott Card - Speaker for the Dead</li>
<li>Terry Pratchett - Feet of Clay</li>
<li>Robert Silverberg - The Book of Skulls</li>
<li>Junji Ito - Gyo</li>
<li>Gillian Flynn - The Grownup</li>
<li>Kim Stanley Robinson - Green Mars</li>
<li>Philip Reeve - Mortal Engines</li>
</ul>
</details>

<details><summary>2017</summary>
<ul>
<li>David Wolman - The End of Money</li>
<li>John Scalzi - The Dispatcher</li>
<li>Patrick Ness - A Monster Calls</li>
<li>Suzanne Collins - Mockingjay</li>
<li>John Temple - American Pain</li>
<li>Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games</li>
<li>John Scalzi - Redshirts</li>
<li>Yahtzee Croshaw - Will Save the Galaxy for Food</li>
<li>John P Logsdon - Starliner</li>
<li>Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle</li>
<li>Albert Camus - The Stranger</li>
<li>Alan Weisman - The World Without Us</li>
<li>Anu Partanen - The Nordic Theory of Everything</li>
<li>Anthony Horowitz - Necropolis</li>
<li>Michel Faber - Under the Skin</li>
<li>Ben Goldacre - Bad Science</li>
<li>Blake Crouch - Wayward</li>
<li>Blake Crouch - Pines</li>
<li>Blake Crouch - The Last Town</li>
<li>J K Rowling - The Philosophers Stone</li>
<li>J K Rowling - The Chamber of Secrets</li>
<li>J K Rowling - The Prisoner of Azkaban</li>
<li>Michael Chabon - The Yiddish Policemens Union</li>
<li>Arthur C Clarke - The Fountains of Paradise</li>
<li>Stephen King - Mr Mercedes</li>
<li>J K Rowling - The Goblet of Fire</li>
<li>J K Rowling - The Order of the Phoenix</li>
<li>J K Rowling - The Half-Blood Prince</li>
<li>Philip K Dick - The Impossible Planet</li>
<li>Philip K Dick - The Hood Maker</li>
<li>J K Rowling - The Deathly Hallows</li>
<li>Philip K Dick - The Commuter</li>
<li>Alfred Bester - The Stars My Destination</li>
<li>Louis Sachar - Holes</li>
<li>Arthur C Clark - Childhood's End</li>
<li>Andy Weir - The Egg</li>
<li>Stephen King - Misery</li>
<li>John Scalzi - Old Man's War</li>
</ul>
</details>

<details><summary>2016</summary>
<ul>
<li>José Saramago - Blindness</li>
<li>Philip K Dick - Vulcans Hammer</li>
<li>Philip K Dick - Paycheck</li>
<li>Daryl Gregory - Afterparty</li>
<li>Warren Ellis - Gun Machine</li>
<li>Ward Moore - Greener Than You Think</li>
<li>Greg Sestero &amp; Tom Bissell - The Disaster Artist</li>
<li>H P Lovecraft - The Shunned House</li>
<li>Philip K Dick - Our Friends From Frolix 8</li>
<li>Anthony Horowitz - Ravens Gate</li>
<li>Philip K Dick - Clans of the Alphane Moon</li>
<li>Matt Haig - The Humans</li>
<li>Spider Robinson - The Callahan Chronicles</li>
<li>H G Wells - The Time Machine</li>
<li>Paula Hawkins - The Girl on the Train</li>
<li>Cormack McCarthy - No Country for Old Men</li>
<li>Philip K Dick - Lies, Inc.</li>
<li>Kurt Vonnegut - Cats Cradle</li>
<li>Philip K Dick - Nick and the Glimmung</li>
<li>Philip K Dick - The Game Players of Titan</li>
<li>Randall Munroe - What If?</li>
<li>Philip K Dick - Counter Clock World</li>
<li>Philip K Dick - Dr Futurity</li>
<li>Kim Stanley Robinson - Aurora</li>
<li>Philip K Dick - VALIS</li>
<li>J G Ballard - High-Rise</li>
<li>Anthony Horowitz - Evil Star</li>
<li>Greg Bear - Hull Zero Three</li>
<li>Gregory Benford - Timescape</li>
<li>Philip K Dick - The Divine Invasion</li>
<li>Philip K Dick - The Transmigration of Timothy Archer</li>
<li>Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451</li>
<li>Walter M Miller - A Canticle for Leibowitz</li>
<li>Olaf Stapledon - Star Maker</li>
<li>Orson Scott Card - Enders Game</li>
<li>Frederick Pohl - Beyond the Blue Event Horizon</li>
<li>H P Lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness</li>
<li>William Shatner - TekWar</li>
<li>Warren Ellis - Crooked Little Vein</li>
<li>F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby</li>
<li>Fredrik Backman - A Man Called Ove</li>
<li>Maurice Sendak - Where the Wild Things Are</li>
<li>Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl</li>
<li>Timothy Leary - The Psychedelic Experience</li>
<li>Grant Naylor - Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers</li>
<li>Grant Naylor - Better Than Life</li>
<li>Grant Naylor - Last Human</li>
<li>Grant Naylor - Backwards</li>
<li>Frederik Pohl - Heechee Rendezvous</li>
<li>Suzanne Collins - Catching Fire</li>
<li>Anthony Horowitz - Nightrise</li>
<li>Ray Bradbury - The Martian Chronicles</li>
</ul>
</details>

<details><summary>2015</summary>
<ul>
<li>Michael Crichton - The Andromeda Strain</li>
<li>George Orwell - Animal Farm</li>
<li>Ursula K Le Guin - The Lathe of Heaven</li>
<li>Carl Sagan - Contact</li>
<li>Richard Matheson - I Am Legend</li>
<li>Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club</li>
<li>Louis Theroux - The Call of the Weird</li>
<li>Kurt Vonnegut - Sirens of Titan</li>
<li>Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon</li>
<li>Lewis Caroll - Alice in Wonderland</li>
<li>Olaf Stapledon - The Last and First Men</li>
<li>Arkady &amp; Boris Strugatsky - Roadside Picnic</li>
<li>H P Lovecraft - The Shadow Over Innsmouth</li>
<li>Philip K Dick - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch</li>
<li>Andrew Weir - The Martian</li>
<li>Frederick Pohl - Gateway</li>
<li>Philip K Dick - Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said</li>
<li>Douglas Adams - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy</li>
<li>John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men</li>
<li>H G Wells - The War of the Worlds</li>
<li>Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis</li>
<li>Joe Haldeman - The Forever War</li>
<li>H G Wells - The Invisible Man</li>
<li>Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five</li>
<li>Philip K Dick - Dr Bloodmoney</li>
<li>Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting</li>
<li>Frederick Pohl - Man Plus</li>
<li>Greg Bear - Eon</li>
<li>John Wyndham - Day of the Triffids</li>
<li>Arthur C Clark - 2001 A Space Odyssey</li>
<li>Philip K Dick - Now Wait for Last Year</li>
<li>Arthur C Clark - Rendezvous with Rama</li>
<li>Cormac McCarthy - The Road</li>
<li>Richard Matheson - The Shrinking Man</li>
<li>David Wong - John Dies at the End</li>
<li>Frederick Pohl - The Space Merchants</li>
<li>Greg Bear - Blood Music</li>
<li>David Wong - This Book is Full of Spiders</li>
<li>Charles Stross - A Colder War</li>
<li>Philip K Dick - The Cosmic Puppets</li>
<li>Robert A Heinlein - Starship Troopers</li>
<li>Stephen King - Under the Dome</li>
<li>Philip K Dick - A Maze of Death</li>
<li>Ernest Cline - Ready Player One</li>
<li>Philip K Dick - The Penultimate Truth</li>
<li>Poul Anderson - Tau Zero</li>
<li>Guillermo del Toro &amp; Chuck Hogan - The Strain</li>
<li>Hunter S Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas</li>
<li>Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho</li>
<li>Robert A Heinlein - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress</li>
<li>Cormac McCarthy - The Sunset Limited</li>
<li>Lois Lowry - The Giver</li>
<li>Steven Gould - Jumper</li>
<li>Hiroshi Sakurazaka - All You Need is Kill</li>
</ul>
</details>

<details><summary>2014</summary>
<ul>
<li>John Brunner - Stand on Zanzibar</li>
<li>Philip K Dick - Ubik</li>
<li>Philip K Dick - The Man in the High Castle</li>
<li>Philip K Dick - We Can Remember It For You Wholesale</li>
<li>Philip K Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep</li>
<li>Philip K Dick - A Scanner Darkly</li>
<li>Philip K Dick - Martian Time Slip</li>
<li>Philip K Dick - Galactic Pot Healer</li>
<li>Harlan Ellison - I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream</li>
<li>Aldous Huxley - Brave New World</li>
<li>Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception</li>
<li>Max Brooks - World War Z</li>
</ul>
</details>