50 books in 2020!

[grantmeaname]

Yes, that's true, the newest books are at the bottom. But sometimes users read multiple books between updates, and personally I also like that the quote feature has the added bonus of shrinking the post size dramatically when using the forums on mobile.

[Linea_Norway]

January:
1) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (started in December)
2) The Lie, a memoire of two marriages, catfishing and coming out by William Dameron
3) The Queston of Red by Laksmi Pamuntjak
4) Grønn ungdom hele livet (Green youth my whole life), by Peter Tutein. Only read halfway.
5) Dubbel zes (Double Six) by Daphne Deckers
6) Ventoux by Bert Wagendorp
7) Svamp under mikroskopet (Mushrooms under the microscope) by Jan Nilsson
8) Vi må snakke om bakterier (We need to talk about bacteria) by Jessica Lönn-Stensrud
9) Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
10) Resten av dagen (The Remains of the day) by Kazuo Ishiguro

February:
11) The seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
12) Koke bjørn (Cooking bears) by Mikael Niemi
13) Kijkvoer & Leesgenot (Dutch poetry) by Michèl de Jong and Drs. P.
14) The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
15) Botanikum by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis
16) Skog vil si samfunn (The Word for World is Forest) by Ursula le Guin
17) Blå (Blue) by Maja Lunde
18) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
19) Ulvetider (an Era of Wolves) by Lars Lenth, Petter Böckman and Morten Tønnessen
20) Plukk selv (Forage yourself) by Trond Svendgård
21) Gratis mat av ville planter (Free Food from Wild Plants) by Jens Holmboe

March:
22) Lud-in-the-mist by Hope Mirrlees
23) The Slow Moon Climbs by Susan Mattern
24) Six Degrees by Mark Lynas
25) The Dirtbag's Guide to Life by Tim Mathis
26) The Jakarta Pandemic by Steven Konkoly
27) The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
28) The Good Life by Marian Thurm

April:
29) In Dog we Trust by Neil S. Plakcy
30) In for the Kill by John Lutz
31) Severance by Ling Ma
32) Liv etter liv (Life after Life) by Kate Atkinson
33) The Land of Dreams by Vidar Sundstøl
34) The Alien Factor by Stan Lee

May:
35) 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
36) Grønne, ville nyttevekster i Norge (Green, wild useful plants in Norway) by Norges sopp- og nyttevekstforbund
37) The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
38) Fermentert mat (Fermented Food) by Anne Elisabeth Scheen
39) Tyskerungen (Baby of a German) by Camilla Läckberg
40) How to fossilise your hamster by Mick O'Hare
41) I Trifidenes dager (In the days of the Trifids) by NRK Radioteateret (a radio play)

June:
42) Radical Joy for Hard Times by Trebbe Johnson
43) Plant-man by Daniel Milford
44) Snared by Ed James
45) Het voedsel der Goden en hoe het op Aarde kwam (The Food of the Goods and how it came to Earth) by H.G. Wells
46) Mr Woolf by Jan Kjærstad
47) Przewalskis hest (Przewalski's horse) by Maja Lunde
48) Døgnåpent (Convenience Store Woman) by Sayaka Murata
49) Slutten på verden slik vi kjenner den (The End of the World as we know it) by Erlend Loe

July:
50) Svartedauen (Black Death) by Yngvar Ustvedt

As always, only the last book read.

[dblaace]

   1. The Long Road Back to Boston  by Phillip Fields Ph.D
   2. Fearvana  by Akshay Nanavati
   3. Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person Shonda Rhimes
   4. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
   5. Black Echo by Michael Connelly
   6. Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly
   7. Angels Flight by Michael Connelly
   8. Gray Ghost by William G. Tapply
   9. City of Bones by Michael Connelly
   10. Echo Park by Michael Connelly
   11. Blue on Black by Michael Connelly
   12. Bloody Genius by John Sandford
   13. The Night Fire by Michael Connelly
   14. Patriots of the upcountry by William H.B Thomas
   15. The Crossing by Michael Connelly
   16. The Wrong Side of Goodbye by Michael Connelly
   17. Two Kinds of Truth by Michael Connelly
   18. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
   19. Masked Prey by John Sandford
   20. The Library Book by Susan Orlean

[sui generis]

1.  The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay, finished 01/02/2020 (audio).

2. Golden Gate Gardening: The Complete Guide to Year-Round Food Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area & Coastal California by Pamela Peirce, finished 01/10/2020. 

3. Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions by Gloria Steinem, finished 01/11/2020.

4. Then She Was Gone, by Lisa Jewell, finished 01/13/2020.

5. Meridian, by Alice Walker, finished 01/26/2020.

6. Dawn, by Octavia Butler, finished 01/29/2020.

7. Women & Power: A Manifesto, by Mary Beard, finished 01/31/2020. 

8. Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, finished 02/14/2020.

9. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, by Stuart Turton, finished 02/19/2020 (audio). 

10. There There, by Tommy Orange, finished 2/20/2020. 

11.  The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty (Updated 10th Anniversary Edition), by Peter Singer, finished 2/27/2020 (audio). The book is available for free download here: https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/the-book/

12. The Witches are Coming, by Lindy West, finished 3/7/2020 (audio). 

13. Everything Under, by Daisy Johnson, finished 3/8/2020.

14. This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, finished 3/9/2020 (audio).

15. Still Life, by Louise Penny, finished 3/15/2020.

16. The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett, finished 3/21/2020 (audio).

17. Slow Horses, by Mick Herron, finished 4/4/2020.

18. Adulthood Rites, by Octavia Butler, finished 4/18/20.

19. Imago, by Octavia Butler, finished 4/25/20.

20. The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion, finished 5/7/20.

21. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, by Ronan Farrow, finished 5/7/20 (audio).

22. In the Ring of Fire: A Pacific Basin Journey, by James D. Houston, finished 5/18/20.

23. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo", by Zora Neale Hurston, finished 5/22/20 (audio).

24. Magic for Liars, by Sarah Gailey, finsihed 5/22/20.

25. The Answers, by Catherine Lacey, finished 5/31/20.

26. Circe, by Madeline Miller, finished 6/8/20.

27. The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro, finished 6/17/20.

28. A Room of One's Own, by Virginia Woolf, finished 6/19/20 (audio).

29. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, by Neil deGrasse Tyson, finished 6/28/20 (audio).

30. The Call of the Wild, by Jack London, finished 7/3/20 (audio).  The writing is compelling if you don't listen to the content.  This is hard to say, coming from someone who anthropomorphizes my pets as much as I do, but....I just couldn't get into this way over-anthropomorphized dog!  Appreciated the presumptive realism of the tough life of Yukon gold rush in the late 1800s, and it was a quick read, so <shrug>, glad I finally read it.

[Linea_Norway]

January:
1) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (started in December)
2) The Lie, a memoire of two marriages, catfishing and coming out by William Dameron
3) The Queston of Red by Laksmi Pamuntjak
4) Grønn ungdom hele livet (Green youth my whole life), by Peter Tutein. Only read halfway.
5) Dubbel zes (Double Six) by Daphne Deckers
6) Ventoux by Bert Wagendorp
7) Svamp under mikroskopet (Mushrooms under the microscope) by Jan Nilsson
8) Vi må snakke om bakterier (We need to talk about bacteria) by Jessica Lönn-Stensrud
9) Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
10) Resten av dagen (The Remains of the day) by Kazuo Ishiguro

February:
11) The seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
12) Koke bjørn (Cooking bears) by Mikael Niemi
13) Kijkvoer & Leesgenot (Dutch poetry) by Michèl de Jong and Drs. P.
14) The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
15) Botanikum by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis
16) Skog vil si samfunn (The Word for World is Forest) by Ursula le Guin
17) Blå (Blue) by Maja Lunde
18) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
19) Ulvetider (an Era of Wolves) by Lars Lenth, Petter Böckman and Morten Tønnessen
20) Plukk selv (Forage yourself) by Trond Svendgård
21) Gratis mat av ville planter (Free Food from Wild Plants) by Jens Holmboe

March:
22) Lud-in-the-mist by Hope Mirrlees
23) The Slow Moon Climbs by Susan Mattern
24) Six Degrees by Mark Lynas
25) The Dirtbag's Guide to Life by Tim Mathis
26) The Jakarta Pandemic by Steven Konkoly
27) The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
28) The Good Life by Marian Thurm

April:
29) In Dog we Trust by Neil S. Plakcy
30) In for the Kill by John Lutz
31) Severance by Ling Ma
32) Liv etter liv (Life after Life) by Kate Atkinson
33) The Land of Dreams by Vidar Sundstøl
34) The Alien Factor by Stan Lee

May:
35) 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
36) Grønne, ville nyttevekster i Norge (Green, wild useful plants in Norway) by Norges sopp- og nyttevekstforbund
37) The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
38) Fermentert mat (Fermented Food) by Anne Elisabeth Scheen
39) Tyskerungen (Baby of a German) by Camilla Läckberg
40) How to fossilise your hamster by Mick O'Hare
41) I Trifidenes dager (In the days of the Trifids) by NRK Radioteateret (a radio play)

June:
42) Radical Joy for Hard Times by Trebbe Johnson
43) Plant-man by Daniel Milford
44) Snared by Ed James
45) Het voedsel der Goden en hoe het op Aarde kwam (The Food of the Goods and how it came to Earth) by H.G. Wells
46) Mr Woolf by Jan Kjærstad
47) Przewalskis hest (Przewalski's horse) by Maja Lunde
48) Døgnåpent (Convenience Store Woman) by Sayaka Murata
49) Slutten på verden slik vi kjenner den (The End of the World as we know it) by Erlend Loe

July:
50) Svartedauen (Black Death) by Yngvar Ustvedt
51) the Break by Marian Keyes

As always, only the last book read.

[diapasoun]

1. Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman (library)
2. Classical Mythology, Elizabeth Vandiver (borrowed)
3. The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden (library)
4. Middlegame, Seanan McGuire (library)
5. The Book of the Courtier, Baldassare Castiglione (own, pre-2020)
6. Druid Magic Handbook, John Michael Greer (own, new)
7. Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. LeGuin (own, pre-2020)
8. Beowulf, trans. Gerald Davis (own, pre-2020)
9. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (own, re-read, pre-2020)
10. Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture, Shannon Hayes (own)
11. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, Mary Roach (own)
12. Respect the Spindle, Abby Franquemont (own)
13. The World of Byzantium, Kenneth Harl (borrowed)
14. The Last Wish, Andrzej Sapkowski (borrowed)
15. The Blood of Elves, Andrzej Sapkowski (borrowed)
16. Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik (library)
17. The Social Life of Coffee, Brian Cowan (own, pre-2020)
18. The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch (own, pre-2020)
19. The Natural History of the UC Santa Cruz Campus, Martha Brown et al (library)
20. How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell (library)
21. Record of a Spaceborn Few, Becky Chambers (library)
22. Early Uses of California Plants, Edward K Balls (own, pre-2020)
23. The Vine Witch, Luanne G. Smith (own)

((Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood (library)) DNF'd at 60%. Atwood's a great writer but this was way too fucking grim and just not a sensibility and a view of humanity that I enjoy or want to experience right now.)

Currently reading:

Flour Salt Water Yeast, Ken Forkish (borrowed)
Modern Tarot, Michelle Tea (own)

Pre-2020 books: 7/15

Local natural history and ecology: 2/9

[Serendip]

...
42) Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, Edward Abbey
43) No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life, Thich Nhat Hanh
44) Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World, Tracy Kidder
45) The Art of Being: Erich Fromm
46) To Kill A Mockingbird: Harper Lee
47) So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo--very good, practical info
48) The Book of Strange New Things, Michael Faber *scif-fi premise: a pastor sent to preach to 'aliens' as the world begins to fall apart.. not sure about this one but an interesting diversion

recently finished
49) The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place, Ian Baker (Tibetan Buddhism/adventure--**loved it, took a while to get into but well written and researched)
50) Courting the Wild Twin, Martin Shaw  (mythology, human development)
51) The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind & Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel Van Der Kolk (trauma informed therapy)

working on
52) In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration, Shane O'Mara, written by a professor of experimental brain research--quite interesting so far!

53) Akata Warrior, Nnedi Okorafor: YA, we read the initial book for bookclub so I wanted to check out the followup. (A young Nigerian/American girl discovers her magical powers and continues training in the ways of the 'Leopard Society')--to be honest, it's nice to read something so far away from the daily news

[cerat0n1a]

52) In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration, Shane O'Mara, written by a professor of experimental brain research--quite interesting so far!

Adding this to my next Amazon order - thank you.

[Frugal Lizard]

19) The Punishment She Deserves, Elizabeth George

Currently reading Sapiens.

[cerat0n1a]

1) Behave - Robert Sapolsky.
2) Lonely Planet - 50 natural wonders.
3) Lonely Planet - Hiking in Spain.
4) The Secret Commonwealth - The Book of Dust Volume 2 - Philip Pullman.
5) The University of Hard Knocks, by Ralph Parlette.
6) Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez
7) Connie - Harry Pearson
8) Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage -  ‎Haruki Murakami
9) Small Island - Andrea Levy.
10) Life 3.0 - Max Tegmark. 
11) This thing of Darkness - Harry Thompson
12) The Secret Barrister - Anonymous.
13) Life:A User's Manual - Georges Perec.
14) The Electric Michelangelo - Sarah Hall
15) Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman - Yvon Chouinard
16) Harvest - Jim Crace
17) Educated - Tara Westover
18) The Plague - Albert Camus
19) A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe
20) The return of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
21) The Meursault Investigation - Kamel Daoud.
22) The White Spider - Heinrich Harrer.
23) The Atoms of Language - Mark Baker.
24) The Summer Book - Tove Jansson.
25) Holding - Graham Norton.
26) Cicerone Walking Guide, The Dales Way - Terry Marsh.
27) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson.
28) The West Highland Way. (another walking guide)
29) The 39 Steps - John Buchan.
30) Budapest, nofel i ddysgwyr - Elin Meek.
31) The Eggshell War - Eric Marsh.
32) This Is Memorial Device - David Keanan.
33) Aurora: In search of the northern lights - Melanie Windridge.
34) Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata.
35) Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow - Jerome K Jerome.
36) The Edge of Memory - Patrick Nunn.

37) The Storm before the Storm. The beginning of the end of the Roman Republic - Mike Duncan

[mm1970]

Well, I think COVID has increased my reading!  Last year I hit 27 books, this year I'm already at 22.

1. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer*
2. Y is for Yesterday by Sue Grafton...the end
3. Beyond the Point by Claire Gibson.
4. Working Stiff by Tori Carrington
5. Lights Out, Sleep, Sugar and Survival by T.S.Wiley with Bent Formby, PhD. (terrible book, didn't finish, recycled)
6. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me  (and other concerns) by Mindy Kaling *
7. Once a Runner by John L. Parker Jr.
8. The Orphan Thief by Glynis Peters
9. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
10. Out To Work by Alice Kessler-Harris. * This was subtitled  "a history of wage earning women in the United States".
11.  Three Sisters by Susan Mallery
12.  One Good Deed by David Baldacci. 
13.  What We Forgot to Bury by Marin Montgomery. 
14.  Shock Wave by  John Sandford. 
15.  Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes.  "We don't get fat because we overeat.  We overeat because we get fat."
16.  Invisible Prey by John Sandford. 
17.  Storm Prey by John Sandford
18.  The 131 Method by Chalene Johnson (from the little free library).
19.  Flat Belly Diet by Cynthia Sass, Liz Vaccariello.  Another little free library book. 
20.  Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.
21. The Secret of Red Gate Farm (Nancy Drew) by Carolyn Keene.
22.  Stolen Prey by John Sandford.

Currently reading the Hunger Games

[Luz]

I hit 52 books! Halfway done with my goal for the year! I had a massive three book day today. Time for a well deserved cocktail-and-tv evening! I have one book left on my Kindle, Finding Fontainebleau, and then it's empty and get to turn off airplane mode and send another dozen books over to it!

January
1. A Brief History of Indonesia by Tim Hannigan ★★★☆☆
2. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami ★★★★☆
3. On Love by Alain de Botton ★★★☆☆
4. Fool by Christopher Moore ★★★★☆
5. A Silent Voice, Vol.1 by Yoshitoki Oima ★★★☆☆
6. Cheap by Ellen Ruppel Shell. ★★☆☆☆
7. The Magnolia Story by Chip and Joanna Gaines ★★★★☆
8. The Airbnb Story by Leigh Gallagher ★★★★☆
9. Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl ★★★☆☆
10. The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo ★★★★☆
11. The Curse of Bigness by Tim Wu ★★★☆☆
February
12. The Comic Book Story of Beer by Jonathan Hennessey, Mike Smith, Aaron McConnell, Tom Orzechowski ★★★★☆
13. The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan ★★★★☆
14. The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane ★★★☆☆
15. They Called Us Enemy by George Takei ★★★★☆
16. The World Atlas of Coffee by James Hoffman ★★★★☆
17. Beneath the Vaulted Hills by Sean Russell ★★★★☆
18. The Unknown Craftsman by Soetsu Yanagi ★★★★☆
March
19. The Compass of the Soul by Sean Russell ★★★★☆
20. Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe by Roger McNamee ★★★★☆
21. Switched on Pop: How Popular Music Works, and Why It Matters by Nate Sloan ★★★☆☆
22. How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free by Ernie Zelinsky ★★★★☆
April
23. The Happiness of Pursuit by Chris Guillebeau ★★★☆☆
24. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel ★★★★☆
25. The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers ★★★★☆
26. The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal ★★★★★
27. Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal ★★★★☆
28. The Apprentice by Jacques Pepin ★★★★☆
29. The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell ★★★★☆
30. Secondhand by Adam Minter ★★★★☆
31. Junkyard Planet by Adam Minter ★★★★☆
32. The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski ★★★★☆
33. Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski ★★★★☆
May:
34. Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski ★★★★☆
35. Time of Contempt by Andrzej Sapkowski ★★★★☆
36. Baptism of Fire by Andrzej Sapkowski ★★★★☆
37. The Tower of the Swallow by Andrzej Sapkowski ★★★★★
38. Lady of the Lake by Andrzej Sapkowski ★★★★☆
39. Season of Storms by Andrzej Sapkowski ★★★★☆

40. Who Moved My Blackberry? by Lucy Kellaway ★★★☆☆
41. Expecting Better by Emily Oster ★★★★★. Thanks for the recommendation @arebelspy
42. The Serpent of Venice by Christopher Moore ★★★★☆
43. News of the World by Paulette Jiles ★★★★☆. Read this one aloud with my wife alternating chapters, which was a nice change.
June:
44. The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner ★★★☆☆
45. Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright ★★★★☆
46. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb ★★★★☆
47. The Intelligent Asset Allocator by William Bernstein ★★★☆☆
48. The Word for World is Forest by Ursula LeGuin ★★★★☆
49. Exhalation by Ted Chiang ★★★★☆
50. 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang ★★★★☆
51. Open Borders by Bryan Caplan and Zach Weinersmith ★★★★★
52. An Economist Walks into A Brothel by Allison Schrager ★★★☆☆

I'm curious as to why you gave Open Borders 5 stars. It was on my list earlier this year, but I just couldn't get into it. Maybe I need to try again?

[grantmeaname]

I thought it was a good summary, really accessible, and I love Zach's art style and sense of humor. I really liked how directly it engaged with the counterarguments and how many different perspectives they approached the problem from. To some extent it's confirmation bias since I was already something close to an immigration true believer.

Idk, it was a book I read in one sitting in like 60-90 mins.

[sui generis]

1.  The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay, finished 01/02/2020 (audio).

2. Golden Gate Gardening: The Complete Guide to Year-Round Food Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area & Coastal California by Pamela Peirce, finished 01/10/2020. 

3. Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions by Gloria Steinem, finished 01/11/2020.

4. Then She Was Gone, by Lisa Jewell, finished 01/13/2020.

5. Meridian, by Alice Walker, finished 01/26/2020.

6. Dawn, by Octavia Butler, finished 01/29/2020.

7. Women & Power: A Manifesto, by Mary Beard, finished 01/31/2020. 

8. Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, finished 02/14/2020.

9. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, by Stuart Turton, finished 02/19/2020 (audio). 

10. There There, by Tommy Orange, finished 2/20/2020. 

11.  The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty (Updated 10th Anniversary Edition), by Peter Singer, finished 2/27/2020 (audio). The book is available for free download here: https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/the-book/

12. The Witches are Coming, by Lindy West, finished 3/7/2020 (audio). 

13. Everything Under, by Daisy Johnson, finished 3/8/2020.

14. This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, finished 3/9/2020 (audio).

15. Still Life, by Louise Penny, finished 3/15/2020.

16. The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett, finished 3/21/2020 (audio).

17. Slow Horses, by Mick Herron, finished 4/4/2020.

18. Adulthood Rites, by Octavia Butler, finished 4/18/20.

19. Imago, by Octavia Butler, finished 4/25/20.

20. The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion, finished 5/7/20.

21. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, by Ronan Farrow, finished 5/7/20 (audio).

22. In the Ring of Fire: A Pacific Basin Journey, by James D. Houston, finished 5/18/20.

23. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo", by Zora Neale Hurston, finished 5/22/20 (audio).

24. Magic for Liars, by Sarah Gailey, finsihed 5/22/20.

25. The Answers, by Catherine Lacey, finished 5/31/20.

26. Circe, by Madeline Miller, finished 6/8/20.

27. The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro, finished 6/17/20.

28. A Room of One's Own, by Virginia Woolf, finished 6/19/20 (audio).

29. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, by Neil deGrasse Tyson, finished 6/28/20 (audio).

30. The Call of the Wild, by Jack London, finished 7/3/20 (audio). 

31. A Simple Favor, by Darcey Bell, finished 7/7/20 (audio). Ugh, what a trashy novel. At first it was fun-trash, a mystery that would have lots of twists and reveals like Gone Girl or Girl on the Train.  And sometimes, those kind of books are just what you need (especially when your other book atm is a history and sociological analysis of Russia).  But it jumped the shark midway through,if not before, and the characters became absolute farces by the end.  The movie that was made of it is apparently marketed as a dark comedy, which is hard to imagine but might be the right way to take a farce! The one good thing was the voice actors were spot-on.

[Raenia]

1	Warbreaker	Brandon Sanderson	Own	Reread	1/6/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
2	The Complete Book of Home Organization	Toni Hammersley	Own	Educational	1/7/2020	Nonfiction - Home and Garden
3	Rocannon's World	Ursula LeGuin	Own	TBR List	1/14/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
4	Trickster's Choice	Tamora Pierce	Library	PopSugar	1/17/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
5	The Broken Universe	Paul Melko	Library	Sequel	1/25/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
6	The Devil in the White City	Erik Larson	Library	TBR List	2/3/2020	General Nonfiction
7	Eventide: Tales of the Dragon's Bard	Tracy and Laura Hickman	Library	PopSugar	2/13/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
8	Trickster's Queen	Tamora Pierce	Library	Sequel	2/15/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
9	Gilgamesh the King	Robert Silverberg	Library	PopSugar	2/24/2020	Fiction - Historical
10	The Sparrow	Mary Doria Russell	Library	PopSugar	2/24/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
11	Planet of Exile	Ursula LeGuin	Own	TBR List	2/24/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
12	Children of the Night	Mercedes Lackey	Library	Sequel	2/29/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
13	City of Illusions	Ursula LeGuin	Own	TBR List	3/3/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
14	The Aylesford Skull	James P. Blaylock	Library	Other	3/11/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
15	Starsight	Brandon Sanderson	Library	Sequel	3/13/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
16	The Deep	Rivers Solomon, et al	Library	PopSugar	3/16/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
17	The Dispossessed	Ursula LeGuin	Own	TBR List	3/22/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
18	Blood Price	Tanya Huff	Library	Other	3/29/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
19	Blood Trail	Tanya Huff	Library	Sequel	4/1/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
20	White Sand	Brandon Sanderson, Rik Hoskin	Own	TBR List	4/3/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
21	Meditations	Marcus Aurelius, trans. A.S.L. Farquharson	Library	Educational	4/6/2020	Nonfiction - Philosophy
22	Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions	Johann Hari	Library	TBR List	4/8/2020	Nonfiction - Self-help
23	Hainish Stories	Ursula LeGuin	Own	TBR List	4/10/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
24	The Alloy of Law	Brandon Sanderson	Own	Reread	4/11/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
25	Shadows of Self	Brandon Sanderson	Own	Reread	4/12/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
26	The Bands of Mourning	Brandon Sanderson	Own	Reread	4/13/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
27	The Word for World is Forest	Ursula LeGuin	Own	TBR List	4/19/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
28	The Way of Kings	Brandon Sanderson	Own	Reread	4/26/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
29	Words of Radiance	Brandon Sanderson	Own	Reread	5/1/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
30	Oathbringer	Brandon Sanderson	Own	Reread	5/11/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
31	Hainish Stories Vol 2	Ursula LeGuin	Own	TBR List	5/18/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
32	Winds of Fate	Mercedes Lackey	Own	Reread	5/22/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
33	Winds of Change	Mercedes Lackey	Own	Reread	5/23/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
34	Winds of Fury	Mercedes Lackey	Own	Reread	5/24/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
35	Storm Warning	Mercedes Lackey	Own	Reread	5/25/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
36	Storm Rising	Mercedes Lackey	Own	Reread	5/28/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
37	Storm Breaking	Mercedes Lackey	Own	Reread	5/29/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
38	Owlflight	Mercedes Lackey	Own	Reread	5/30/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
39	Owlsight	Mercedes Lackey	Own	Reread	6/1/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
40	Owlknight	Mercedes Lackey	Own	Reread	6/3/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
41	Five Ways to Forgiveness	Ursula LeGuin	Own	TBR List	6/6/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
42	Sapiens: A brief history of humankind	Yuval N Harari	Library	TBR List	6/14/2020	Nonfiction - History/Biography
43	Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening	Louise Riotte	Library	TBR List	6/20/2020	Nonfiction - Home and Garden
44	The Telling	Ursula LeGuin	Own	TBR List	6/24/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
45	Arcanum Unbounded	Brandon Sanderson	Own	Reread	6/27/2020	Fiction - Fantasy

46	The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall	Anne McCaffrey	Own	Reread	6/28/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
47	Dragonsdawn	Anne McCaffrey	Own	Reread	7/3/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
48	Dragonseye	Anne McCaffrey	Own	Reread	7/4/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
49	Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern	Anne McCaffrey	Own	Reread	7/5/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
50	Nerilka's Story	Anne McCaffrey	Own	Reread	7/6/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
51	Art Through the Eyes of Mad Poets	Ed. Eileen M. D'Angelo	Own	Other	7/7/2020	General Nonfiction

Hit 50 only a little behind my target, but I've been doing more reading (and shorter books!) the past few weeks so should continue to catch up.

[qbird]

1) Where Do I Begin by Elvis Duran
2) Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
3) The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
4) The Printed Letter Bookshop by Katherine Reay
5) Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
6) When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
7) Do Over by Jon Acuff
8) Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
9) The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates
10) The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moye
11) The Other Woman by Sandie Jones
12) Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine by Gail Honeyman
13)The Villa in Italy by Elizabeth Edmondson
14) The 9 faces of HR by Kris Dunn
15) in a dark wood by Ruth Ware
16) Carry On, Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton
17) Love, Warrior by Glennon Doyle
18) HR On Purpose by Steve Browne
19) Open Book by Jessica Simpson
20) The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks
21) Unfu*k Yourself by Gary John Bishop
22) Happiness Is A Choice You Make by John Leland
23) The Light of The World by Elizabeth Alexander
24) Watching You by Lisa Jewell

[sui generis]

1.  The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay, finished 01/02/2020 (audio).

2. Golden Gate Gardening: The Complete Guide to Year-Round Food Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area & Coastal California by Pamela Peirce, finished 01/10/2020. 

3. Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions by Gloria Steinem, finished 01/11/2020.

4. Then She Was Gone, by Lisa Jewell, finished 01/13/2020.

5. Meridian, by Alice Walker, finished 01/26/2020.

6. Dawn, by Octavia Butler, finished 01/29/2020.

7. Women & Power: A Manifesto, by Mary Beard, finished 01/31/2020. 

8. Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, finished 02/14/2020.

9. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, by Stuart Turton, finished 02/19/2020 (audio). 

10. There There, by Tommy Orange, finished 2/20/2020. 

11.  The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty (Updated 10th Anniversary Edition), by Peter Singer, finished 2/27/2020 (audio). The book is available for free download here: https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/the-book/

12. The Witches are Coming, by Lindy West, finished 3/7/2020 (audio). 

13. Everything Under, by Daisy Johnson, finished 3/8/2020.

14. This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, finished 3/9/2020 (audio).

15. Still Life, by Louise Penny, finished 3/15/2020.

16. The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett, finished 3/21/2020 (audio).

17. Slow Horses, by Mick Herron, finished 4/4/2020.

18. Adulthood Rites, by Octavia Butler, finished 4/18/20.

19. Imago, by Octavia Butler, finished 4/25/20.

20. The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion, finished 5/7/20.

21. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, by Ronan Farrow, finished 5/7/20 (audio).

22. In the Ring of Fire: A Pacific Basin Journey, by James D. Houston, finished 5/18/20.

23. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo", by Zora Neale Hurston, finished 5/22/20 (audio).

24. Magic for Liars, by Sarah Gailey, finsihed 5/22/20.

25. The Answers, by Catherine Lacey, finished 5/31/20.

26. Circe, by Madeline Miller, finished 6/8/20.

27. The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro, finished 6/17/20.

28. A Room of One's Own, by Virginia Woolf, finished 6/19/20 (audio).

29. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, by Neil deGrasse Tyson, finished 6/28/20 (audio).

30. The Call of the Wild, by Jack London, finished 7/3/20 (audio). 

31. A Simple Favor, by Darcey Bell, finished 7/7/20 (audio).

32. The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, by Masha Gessen, finished 7/8/20. Very helpful in understanding how Russia got to where they are now, after the late 80s and 90s seemed to promise a different path (at least I'd been wondering for quite a few years now).  Gessen is a good writer, and mixes in personal stories of several specific Russians (not like famous people, just a variety of people living through it) with a lot of history and information on events of note and analysis. 

[Linea_Norway]

January:
1) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (started in December)
2) The Lie, a memoire of two marriages, catfishing and coming out by William Dameron
3) The Queston of Red by Laksmi Pamuntjak
4) Grønn ungdom hele livet (Green youth my whole life), by Peter Tutein. Only read halfway.
5) Dubbel zes (Double Six) by Daphne Deckers
6) Ventoux by Bert Wagendorp
7) Svamp under mikroskopet (Mushrooms under the microscope) by Jan Nilsson
8) Vi må snakke om bakterier (We need to talk about bacteria) by Jessica Lönn-Stensrud
9) Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
10) Resten av dagen (The Remains of the day) by Kazuo Ishiguro

February:
11) The seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
12) Koke bjørn (Cooking bears) by Mikael Niemi
13) Kijkvoer & Leesgenot (Dutch poetry) by Michèl de Jong and Drs. P.
14) The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
15) Botanikum by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis
16) Skog vil si samfunn (The Word for World is Forest) by Ursula le Guin
17) Blå (Blue) by Maja Lunde
18) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
19) Ulvetider (an Era of Wolves) by Lars Lenth, Petter Böckman and Morten Tønnessen
20) Plukk selv (Forage yourself) by Trond Svendgård
21) Gratis mat av ville planter (Free Food from Wild Plants) by Jens Holmboe

March:
22) Lud-in-the-mist by Hope Mirrlees
23) The Slow Moon Climbs by Susan Mattern
24) Six Degrees by Mark Lynas
25) The Dirtbag's Guide to Life by Tim Mathis
26) The Jakarta Pandemic by Steven Konkoly
27) The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
28) The Good Life by Marian Thurm

April:
29) In Dog we Trust by Neil S. Plakcy
30) In for the Kill by John Lutz
31) Severance by Ling Ma
32) Liv etter liv (Life after Life) by Kate Atkinson
33) The Land of Dreams by Vidar Sundstøl
34) The Alien Factor by Stan Lee

May:
35) 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
36) Grønne, ville nyttevekster i Norge (Green, wild useful plants in Norway) by Norges sopp- og nyttevekstforbund
37) The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
38) Fermentert mat (Fermented Food) by Anne Elisabeth Scheen
39) Tyskerungen (Baby of a German) by Camilla Läckberg
40) How to fossilise your hamster by Mick O'Hare
41) I Trifidenes dager (In the days of the Trifids) by NRK Radioteateret (a radio play)

June:
42) Radical Joy for Hard Times by Trebbe Johnson
43) Plant-man by Daniel Milford
44) Snared by Ed James
45) Het voedsel der Goden en hoe het op Aarde kwam (The Food of the Goods and how it came to Earth) by H.G. Wells
46) Mr Woolf by Jan Kjærstad
47) Przewalskis hest (Przewalski's horse) by Maja Lunde
48) Døgnåpent (Convenience Store Woman) by Sayaka Murata
49) Slutten på verden slik vi kjenner den (The End of the World as we know it) by Erlend Loe

July:
50) Svartedauen (Black Death) by Yngvar Ustvedt
51) the Break by Marian Keyes
52) Kurs for utdannelse av soppsakkyndige (Course for education of mushroom controllers) by Norges sopp- og nyttevekstforbund (a reread to refresh my knowledge for this season)

As always, only the last book read.

[Serendip]

52) In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration, Shane O'Mara, written by a professor of experimental brain research--quite interesting so far!

Adding this to my next Amazon order - thank you.

I hope you like it @cerat0n1a !
It's brain-science rich but in an informed way not overly complex or heavy..

[Linea_Norway]

January:
1) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (started in December)
2) The Lie, a memoire of two marriages, catfishing and coming out by William Dameron
3) The Queston of Red by Laksmi Pamuntjak
4) Grønn ungdom hele livet (Green youth my whole life), by Peter Tutein. Only read halfway.
5) Dubbel zes (Double Six) by Daphne Deckers
6) Ventoux by Bert Wagendorp
7) Svamp under mikroskopet (Mushrooms under the microscope) by Jan Nilsson
8) Vi må snakke om bakterier (We need to talk about bacteria) by Jessica Lönn-Stensrud
9) Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
10) Resten av dagen (The Remains of the day) by Kazuo Ishiguro

February:
11) The seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
12) Koke bjørn (Cooking bears) by Mikael Niemi
13) Kijkvoer & Leesgenot (Dutch poetry) by Michèl de Jong and Drs. P.
14) The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
15) Botanikum by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis
16) Skog vil si samfunn (The Word for World is Forest) by Ursula le Guin
17) Blå (Blue) by Maja Lunde
18) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
19) Ulvetider (an Era of Wolves) by Lars Lenth, Petter Böckman and Morten Tønnessen
20) Plukk selv (Forage yourself) by Trond Svendgård
21) Gratis mat av ville planter (Free Food from Wild Plants) by Jens Holmboe

March:
22) Lud-in-the-mist by Hope Mirrlees
23) The Slow Moon Climbs by Susan Mattern
24) Six Degrees by Mark Lynas
25) The Dirtbag's Guide to Life by Tim Mathis
26) The Jakarta Pandemic by Steven Konkoly
27) The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
28) The Good Life by Marian Thurm

April:
29) In Dog we Trust by Neil S. Plakcy
30) In for the Kill by John Lutz
31) Severance by Ling Ma
32) Liv etter liv (Life after Life) by Kate Atkinson
33) The Land of Dreams by Vidar Sundstøl
34) The Alien Factor by Stan Lee

May:
35) 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
36) Grønne, ville nyttevekster i Norge (Green, wild useful plants in Norway) by Norges sopp- og nyttevekstforbund
37) The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
38) Fermentert mat (Fermented Food) by Anne Elisabeth Scheen
39) Tyskerungen (Baby of a German) by Camilla Läckberg
40) How to fossilise your hamster by Mick O'Hare
41) I Trifidenes dager (In the days of the Trifids) by NRK Radioteateret (a radio play)

June:
42) Radical Joy for Hard Times by Trebbe Johnson
43) Plant-man by Daniel Milford
44) Snared by Ed James
45) Het voedsel der Goden en hoe het op Aarde kwam (The Food of the Goods and how it came to Earth) by H.G. Wells
46) Mr Woolf by Jan Kjærstad
47) Przewalskis hest (Przewalski's horse) by Maja Lunde
48) Døgnåpent (Convenience Store Woman) by Sayaka Murata
49) Slutten på verden slik vi kjenner den (The End of the World as we know it) by Erlend Loe

July:
50) Svartedauen (Black Death) by Yngvar Ustvedt
51) the Break by Marian Keyes
52) Kurs for utdannelse av soppsakkyndige (Course for education of mushroom controllers) by Norges sopp- og nyttevekstforbund (a reread to refresh my knowledge for this season)
53) Coffin Road by Peter May

As always, only the last book read.

[cerat0n1a]

1) Behave - Robert Sapolsky.
2) Lonely Planet - 50 natural wonders.
3) Lonely Planet - Hiking in Spain.
4) The Secret Commonwealth - The Book of Dust Volume 2 - Philip Pullman.
5) The University of Hard Knocks, by Ralph Parlette.
6) Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez
7) Connie - Harry Pearson
8) Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage -  ‎Haruki Murakami
9) Small Island - Andrea Levy.
10) Life 3.0 - Max Tegmark. 
11) This thing of Darkness - Harry Thompson
12) The Secret Barrister - Anonymous.
13) Life:A User's Manual - Georges Perec.
14) The Electric Michelangelo - Sarah Hall
15) Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman - Yvon Chouinard
16) Harvest - Jim Crace
17) Educated - Tara Westover
18) The Plague - Albert Camus
19) A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe
20) The return of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
21) The Meursault Investigation - Kamel Daoud.
22) The White Spider - Heinrich Harrer.
23) The Atoms of Language - Mark Baker.
24) The Summer Book - Tove Jansson.
25) Holding - Graham Norton.
26) Cicerone Walking Guide, The Dales Way - Terry Marsh.
27) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson.
28) The West Highland Way. (another walking guide)
29) The 39 Steps - John Buchan.
30) Budapest, nofel i ddysgwyr - Elin Meek.
31) The Eggshell War - Eric Marsh.
32) This Is Memorial Device - David Keanan.
33) Aurora: In search of the northern lights - Melanie Windridge.
34) Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata.
35) Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow - Jerome K Jerome.
36) The Edge of Memory - Patrick Nunn.
37) The Storm before the Storm. The beginning of the end of the Roman Republic - Mike Duncan

38) The Unfolding of Language - Guy Deutscher. Published in 2005 - pretty good introduction to the evolution of languages.

[Linea_Norway]

January:
1) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (started in December)
2) The Lie, a memoire of two marriages, catfishing and coming out by William Dameron
3) The Queston of Red by Laksmi Pamuntjak
4) Grønn ungdom hele livet (Green youth my whole life), by Peter Tutein. Only read halfway.
5) Dubbel zes (Double Six) by Daphne Deckers
6) Ventoux by Bert Wagendorp
7) Svamp under mikroskopet (Mushrooms under the microscope) by Jan Nilsson
8) Vi må snakke om bakterier (We need to talk about bacteria) by Jessica Lönn-Stensrud
9) Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
10) Resten av dagen (The Remains of the day) by Kazuo Ishiguro

February:
11) The seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
12) Koke bjørn (Cooking bears) by Mikael Niemi
13) Kijkvoer & Leesgenot (Dutch poetry) by Michèl de Jong and Drs. P.
14) The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
15) Botanikum by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis
16) Skog vil si samfunn (The Word for World is Forest) by Ursula le Guin
17) Blå (Blue) by Maja Lunde
18) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
19) Ulvetider (an Era of Wolves) by Lars Lenth, Petter Böckman and Morten Tønnessen
20) Plukk selv (Forage yourself) by Trond Svendgård
21) Gratis mat av ville planter (Free Food from Wild Plants) by Jens Holmboe

March:
22) Lud-in-the-mist by Hope Mirrlees
23) The Slow Moon Climbs by Susan Mattern
24) Six Degrees by Mark Lynas
25) The Dirtbag's Guide to Life by Tim Mathis
26) The Jakarta Pandemic by Steven Konkoly
27) The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
28) The Good Life by Marian Thurm

April:
29) In Dog we Trust by Neil S. Plakcy
30) In for the Kill by John Lutz
31) Severance by Ling Ma
32) Liv etter liv (Life after Life) by Kate Atkinson
33) The Land of Dreams by Vidar Sundstøl
34) The Alien Factor by Stan Lee

May:
35) 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
36) Grønne, ville nyttevekster i Norge (Green, wild useful plants in Norway) by Norges sopp- og nyttevekstforbund
37) The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
38) Fermentert mat (Fermented Food) by Anne Elisabeth Scheen
39) Tyskerungen (Baby of a German) by Camilla Läckberg
40) How to fossilise your hamster by Mick O'Hare
41) I Trifidenes dager (In the days of the Trifids) by NRK Radioteateret (a radio play)

June:
42) Radical Joy for Hard Times by Trebbe Johnson
43) Plant-man by Daniel Milford
44) Snared by Ed James
45) Het voedsel der Goden en hoe het op Aarde kwam (The Food of the Goods and how it came to Earth) by H.G. Wells
46) Mr Woolf by Jan Kjærstad
47) Przewalskis hest (Przewalski's horse) by Maja Lunde
48) Døgnåpent (Convenience Store Woman) by Sayaka Murata
49) Slutten på verden slik vi kjenner den (The End of the World as we know it) by Erlend Loe

July:
50) Svartedauen (Black Death) by Yngvar Ustvedt
51) the Break by Marian Keyes
52) Kurs for utdannelse av soppsakkyndige (Course for education of mushroom controllers) by Norges sopp- og nyttevekstforbund (a reread to refresh my knowledge for this season)
53) Coffin Road by Peter May
54) Fallvann (Waterfall water) by Mikael Niemi

As always, only the last book read.

[ahptex]

(1) The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemison
(2) Faithful Place by Tana French
(3) The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
(4) Lessons from Lucy by Dave Barry
(5) The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
(6) Broken Harbor by Tana French
(7) If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home By Now by Christopher Ingraham
(8) The Wisdom Way of Knowing by Cynthia Bourgeault
(9) The Girl with all the Gifts by M. R. Carey
(10) Zealot by Reza Aslan
(11) The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
(12) The Mind-Gut Connection by Emeran Meyer
(13) The Secret Place by Tana French
(14) The Magnolia Story by Chip and Joanna Gaines
(15) Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
(16) American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
(17) Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(18) Lagom (not too little, not too much): The Swedish Art of Living a Balanced, Happy Life by Niki Brantmark
(19) The Trespasser by Tana French
(20) The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
(21) Why We Can't Sleep by Ada Calhoun
(22) Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
(23) One Year to an Organized Life by Regina Leeds
(24) The End of October by Lawrence Wright
(25) The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
(26) The Nature Fix by Florence Wiliams
(27) The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
(28) This is How it Begins by Joan Dempsey
(29) Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
(30) China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan
(31) A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
(32) Severance by Ling Ma

(33) Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
(34) Deep Work by Cal Newport
(35) A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

[cerat0n1a]

1) Behave - Robert Sapolsky.
2) Lonely Planet - 50 natural wonders.
3) Lonely Planet - Hiking in Spain.
4) The Secret Commonwealth - The Book of Dust Volume 2 - Philip Pullman.
5) The University of Hard Knocks, by Ralph Parlette.
6) Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez
7) Connie - Harry Pearson
8) Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage -  ‎Haruki Murakami
9) Small Island - Andrea Levy.
10) Life 3.0 - Max Tegmark. 
11) This thing of Darkness - Harry Thompson
12) The Secret Barrister - Anonymous.
13) Life:A User's Manual - Georges Perec.
14) The Electric Michelangelo - Sarah Hall
15) Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman - Yvon Chouinard
16) Harvest - Jim Crace
17) Educated - Tara Westover
18) The Plague - Albert Camus
19) A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe
20) The return of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
21) The Meursault Investigation - Kamel Daoud.
22) The White Spider - Heinrich Harrer.
23) The Atoms of Language - Mark Baker.
24) The Summer Book - Tove Jansson.
25) Holding - Graham Norton.
26) Cicerone Walking Guide, The Dales Way - Terry Marsh.
27) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson.
28) The West Highland Way. (another walking guide)
29) The 39 Steps - John Buchan.
30) Budapest, nofel i ddysgwyr - Elin Meek.
31) The Eggshell War - Eric Marsh.
32) This Is Memorial Device - David Keanan.
33) Aurora: In search of the northern lights - Melanie Windridge.
34) Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata.
35) Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow - Jerome K Jerome.
36) The Edge of Memory - Patrick Nunn.
37) The Storm before the Storm. The beginning of the end of the Roman Republic - Mike Duncan
38) The Unfolding of Language - Guy Deutscher. Published in 2005 - pretty good introduction to the evolution of languages.

39) Deep Work - Cal Newport.
40) Daily Rituals - Mason Currey

[Splashncash]

1. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (never read it as a kid, felt like I needed to)
2. To the Land of Long Lost Friends by Alexander McCall Smith
3. The Dinner by Herman Koch
4. The Bookshop on the Shore by Jenny Colgan (I'm a sucker for anything with 'bookshop' in the title)
5. The Book of Dreams by Nina George
6. Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder
7. The Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan
8. Beartown by Fredrik Backman.  O.M.G.
9. Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe by Jenny Colgan
10. Summer at the Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan
11. Dear Evan Hansen by Steven Levenson
12. The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris by Jenny Colgan
13. One Day and One Amazing Morning on Orange Street by Joanne Rocklin
14. Brighty of the Grand Canyon by Marguerite Henry
15. The Trouble with May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
16. Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
17. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
18. War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
19. The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
20. More Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin

DNFs:
- The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin  Got stuck in the October chapter.
- Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
- The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
- The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
- Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner

21. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
22. The River by Peter Heller
23. The Martian by Andy Weir
24. The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary

[Serendip]

...
42) Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, Edward Abbey
43) No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life, Thich Nhat Hanh
44) Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World, Tracy Kidder
45) The Art of Being: Erich Fromm
46) To Kill A Mockingbird: Harper Lee
47) So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo--very good, practical info
48) The Book of Strange New Things, Michael Faber *scif-fi premise: a pastor sent to preach to 'aliens' as the world begins to fall apart.. not sure about this one but an interesting diversion
49) The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place, Ian Baker (Tibetan Buddhism/adventure--**loved it, took a while to get into but well written and researched)
50) Courting the Wild Twin, Martin Shaw  (mythology, human development)
51) The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind & Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel Van Der Kolk (trauma informed therapy)

recently finished
52) In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration, Shane O'Mara, written by a professor of experimental brain research--quite interesting
53) Akata Warrior, Nnedi Okorafor: YA, we read the initial book for bookclub so I wanted to check out the followup. (A young Nigerian/American girl discovers her magical powers and continues training in the ways of the 'Leopard Society')--to be honest, it's nice to read something so far away from the daily news

working on
54) The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone, Olivia Laing--I am being blown away by this book, I was expecting something self-helpy but it's a surprising & intelligent look at artists in NY (Warhol/Darger/Wojnarowicz), their experiences of marginalization/isolation/subsequent drastic choices, combined with the authors' very personal experiences of loneliness in NYC. Intelligent, clever, heavy...

55) The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas (continuing my 'walking with classical audiobooks' series :) )

56) Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, Robert.M Sapolsky..just getting started so no opinion yet

[Linea_Norway]

January:
1) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (started in December)
2) The Lie, a memoire of two marriages, catfishing and coming out by William Dameron
3) The Queston of Red by Laksmi Pamuntjak
4) Grønn ungdom hele livet (Green youth my whole life), by Peter Tutein. Only read halfway.
5) Dubbel zes (Double Six) by Daphne Deckers
6) Ventoux by Bert Wagendorp
7) Svamp under mikroskopet (Mushrooms under the microscope) by Jan Nilsson
8) Vi må snakke om bakterier (We need to talk about bacteria) by Jessica Lönn-Stensrud
9) Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
10) Resten av dagen (The Remains of the day) by Kazuo Ishiguro

February:
11) The seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
12) Koke bjørn (Cooking bears) by Mikael Niemi
13) Kijkvoer & Leesgenot (Dutch poetry) by Michèl de Jong and Drs. P.
14) The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
15) Botanikum by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis
16) Skog vil si samfunn (The Word for World is Forest) by Ursula le Guin
17) Blå (Blue) by Maja Lunde
18) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
19) Ulvetider (an Era of Wolves) by Lars Lenth, Petter Böckman and Morten Tønnessen
20) Plukk selv (Forage yourself) by Trond Svendgård
21) Gratis mat av ville planter (Free Food from Wild Plants) by Jens Holmboe

March:
22) Lud-in-the-mist by Hope Mirrlees
23) The Slow Moon Climbs by Susan Mattern
24) Six Degrees by Mark Lynas
25) The Dirtbag's Guide to Life by Tim Mathis
26) The Jakarta Pandemic by Steven Konkoly
27) The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
28) The Good Life by Marian Thurm

April:
29) In Dog we Trust by Neil S. Plakcy
30) In for the Kill by John Lutz
31) Severance by Ling Ma
32) Liv etter liv (Life after Life) by Kate Atkinson
33) The Land of Dreams by Vidar Sundstøl
34) The Alien Factor by Stan Lee

May:
35) 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
36) Grønne, ville nyttevekster i Norge (Green, wild useful plants in Norway) by Norges sopp- og nyttevekstforbund
37) The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
38) Fermentert mat (Fermented Food) by Anne Elisabeth Scheen
39) Tyskerungen (Baby of a German) by Camilla Läckberg
40) How to fossilise your hamster by Mick O'Hare
41) I Trifidenes dager (In the days of the Trifids) by NRK Radioteateret (a radio play)

June:
42) Radical Joy for Hard Times by Trebbe Johnson
43) Plant-man by Daniel Milford
44) Snared by Ed James
45) Het voedsel der Goden en hoe het op Aarde kwam (The Food of the Goods and how it came to Earth) by H.G. Wells
46) Mr Woolf by Jan Kjærstad
47) Przewalskis hest (Przewalski's horse) by Maja Lunde
48) Døgnåpent (Convenience Store Woman) by Sayaka Murata
49) Slutten på verden slik vi kjenner den (The End of the World as we know it) by Erlend Loe

July:
50) Svartedauen (Black Death) by Yngvar Ustvedt
51) the Break by Marian Keyes
52) Kurs for utdannelse av soppsakkyndige (Course for education of mushroom controllers) by Norges sopp- og nyttevekstforbund (a reread to refresh my knowledge for this season)
53) Coffin Road by Peter May
54) Fallvann (Waterfall water) by Mikael Niemi
55) The Humanure Handbook by Joseph Jenkins

As always, only the last book read.

[ahptex]

(1) The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemison
(2) Faithful Place by Tana French
(3) The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
(4) Lessons from Lucy by Dave Barry
(5) The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
(6) Broken Harbor by Tana French
(7) If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home By Now by Christopher Ingraham
(8) The Wisdom Way of Knowing by Cynthia Bourgeault
(9) The Girl with all the Gifts by M. R. Carey
(10) Zealot by Reza Aslan
(11) The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
(12) The Mind-Gut Connection by Emeran Meyer
(13) The Secret Place by Tana French
(14) The Magnolia Story by Chip and Joanna Gaines
(15) Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
(16) American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
(17) Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(18) Lagom (not too little, not too much): The Swedish Art of Living a Balanced, Happy Life by Niki Brantmark
(19) The Trespasser by Tana French
(20) The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
(21) Why We Can't Sleep by Ada Calhoun
(22) Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
(23) One Year to an Organized Life by Regina Leeds
(24) The End of October by Lawrence Wright
(25) The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
(26) The Nature Fix by Florence Wiliams
(27) The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
(28) This is How it Begins by Joan Dempsey
(29) Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
(30) China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan
(31) A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
(32) Severance by Ling Ma
(33) Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
(34) Deep Work by Cal Newport
(35) A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

(36) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

[Splashncash]

1. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (never read it as a kid, felt like I needed to)
2. To the Land of Long Lost Friends by Alexander McCall Smith
3. The Dinner by Herman Koch
4. The Bookshop on the Shore by Jenny Colgan (I'm a sucker for anything with 'bookshop' in the title)
5. The Book of Dreams by Nina George
6. Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder
7. The Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan
8. Beartown by Fredrik Backman.  O.M.G.
9. Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe by Jenny Colgan
10. Summer at the Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan
11. Dear Evan Hansen by Steven Levenson
12. The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris by Jenny Colgan
13. One Day and One Amazing Morning on Orange Street by Joanne Rocklin
14. Brighty of the Grand Canyon by Marguerite Henry
15. The Trouble with May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
16. Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
17. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
18. War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
19. The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
20. More Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin
21. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
22. The River by Peter Heller
23. The Martian by Andy Weir
24. The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary

DNFs:
- The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin  Got stuck in the October chapter.
- Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
- The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
- The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
- Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner

25. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
26. Coconut Layer Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke

[sui generis]

1.  The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay, finished 01/02/2020 (audio).

2. Golden Gate Gardening: The Complete Guide to Year-Round Food Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area & Coastal California by Pamela Peirce, finished 01/10/2020. 

3. Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions by Gloria Steinem, finished 01/11/2020.

4. Then She Was Gone, by Lisa Jewell, finished 01/13/2020.

5. Meridian, by Alice Walker, finished 01/26/2020.

6. Dawn, by Octavia Butler, finished 01/29/2020.

7. Women & Power: A Manifesto, by Mary Beard, finished 01/31/2020. 

8. Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, finished 02/14/2020.

9. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, by Stuart Turton, finished 02/19/2020 (audio). 

10. There There, by Tommy Orange, finished 2/20/2020. 

11.  The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty (Updated 10th Anniversary Edition), by Peter Singer, finished 2/27/2020 (audio). The book is available for free download here: https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/the-book/

12. The Witches are Coming, by Lindy West, finished 3/7/2020 (audio). 

13. Everything Under, by Daisy Johnson, finished 3/8/2020.

14. This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, finished 3/9/2020 (audio).

15. Still Life, by Louise Penny, finished 3/15/2020.

16. The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett, finished 3/21/2020 (audio).

17. Slow Horses, by Mick Herron, finished 4/4/2020.

18. Adulthood Rites, by Octavia Butler, finished 4/18/20.

19. Imago, by Octavia Butler, finished 4/25/20.

20. The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion, finished 5/7/20.

21. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, by Ronan Farrow, finished 5/7/20 (audio).

22. In the Ring of Fire: A Pacific Basin Journey, by James D. Houston, finished 5/18/20.

23. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo", by Zora Neale Hurston, finished 5/22/20 (audio).

24. Magic for Liars, by Sarah Gailey, finsihed 5/22/20.

25. The Answers, by Catherine Lacey, finished 5/31/20.

26. Circe, by Madeline Miller, finished 6/8/20.

27. The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro, finished 6/17/20.

28. A Room of One's Own, by Virginia Woolf, finished 6/19/20 (audio).

29. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, by Neil deGrasse Tyson, finished 6/28/20 (audio).

30. The Call of the Wild, by Jack London, finished 7/3/20 (audio). 

31. A Simple Favor, by Darcey Bell, finished 7/7/20 (audio).

32. The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, by Masha Gessen, finished 7/8/20.

33. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, by Barack Obama, finished 7/16/20 (audio). Nothing in here that I thought was inflammatory, but he did talk about race and other things much more directly than I think he ever did as president, which I found interesting.  It feels appropriate for this time, but maybe it felt revolutionary 15 years ago?  Audio was great, as he read it himself and he does a good job representing voices with other accents and famous people!

[Splashncash]

1. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (never read it as a kid, felt like I needed to)
2. To the Land of Long Lost Friends by Alexander McCall Smith
3. The Dinner by Herman Koch
4. The Bookshop on the Shore by Jenny Colgan (I'm a sucker for anything with 'bookshop' in the title)
5. The Book of Dreams by Nina George
6. Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder
7. The Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan
8. Beartown by Fredrik Backman.  O.M.G.
9. Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe by Jenny Colgan
10. Summer at the Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan
11. Dear Evan Hansen by Steven Levenson
12. The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris by Jenny Colgan
13. One Day and One Amazing Morning on Orange Street by Joanne Rocklin
14. Brighty of the Grand Canyon by Marguerite Henry
15. The Trouble with May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
16. Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
17. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
18. War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
19. The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
20. More Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin
21. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
22. The River by Peter Heller
23. The Martian by Andy Weir
24. The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary
25. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
26. Coconut Layer Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke

DNFs:
- The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin  Got stuck in the October chapter.
- Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
- The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
- The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
- Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner

27. Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

[diapasoun]

1. Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman (library)
2. Classical Mythology, Elizabeth Vandiver (borrowed)
3. The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden (library)
4. Middlegame, Seanan McGuire (library)
5. The Book of the Courtier, Baldassare Castiglione (own, pre-2020)
6. Druid Magic Handbook, John Michael Greer (own, new)
7. Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. LeGuin (own, pre-2020)
8. Beowulf, trans. Gerald Davis (own, pre-2020)
9. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (own, re-read, pre-2020)
10. Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture, Shannon Hayes (own)
11. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, Mary Roach (own)
12. Respect the Spindle, Abby Franquemont (own)
13. The World of Byzantium, Kenneth Harl (borrowed)
14. The Last Wish, Andrzej Sapkowski (borrowed)
15. The Blood of Elves, Andrzej Sapkowski (borrowed)
16. Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik (library)
17. The Social Life of Coffee, Brian Cowan (own, pre-2020)
18. The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch (own, pre-2020)
19. The Natural History of the UC Santa Cruz Campus, Martha Brown et al (library)
20. How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell (library)
21. Record of a Spaceborn Few, Becky Chambers (library)
22. Early Uses of California Plants, Edward K Balls (own, pre-2020)
23. The Vine Witch, Luanne G. Smith (own)

24. Modern Tarot, Michelle Tea (own). Heckin delightful book about the tarot that I recommend highly to anyone who wants to get into the cards.

25. The Field Guide to Birds: California, Mel Baughman (own, pre-2020). Small, compact, highly useful field guide.

Currently reading:

Flour Salt Water Yeast, Ken Forkish (borrowed)
1940s Fashion, Emmanuelle Dirix (own)

Pre-2020 books: 8/15

Local natural history and ecology: 3/9

[cerat0n1a]

1) Behave - Robert Sapolsky.
2) Lonely Planet - 50 natural wonders.
3) Lonely Planet - Hiking in Spain.
4) The Secret Commonwealth - The Book of Dust Volume 2 - Philip Pullman.
5) The University of Hard Knocks, by Ralph Parlette.
6) Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez
7) Connie - Harry Pearson
8) Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage -  ‎Haruki Murakami
9) Small Island - Andrea Levy.
10) Life 3.0 - Max Tegmark. 
11) This thing of Darkness - Harry Thompson
12) The Secret Barrister - Anonymous.
13) Life:A User's Manual - Georges Perec.
14) The Electric Michelangelo - Sarah Hall
15) Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman - Yvon Chouinard
16) Harvest - Jim Crace
17) Educated - Tara Westover
18) The Plague - Albert Camus
19) A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe
20) The return of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
21) The Meursault Investigation - Kamel Daoud.
22) The White Spider - Heinrich Harrer.
23) The Atoms of Language - Mark Baker.
24) The Summer Book - Tove Jansson.
25) Holding - Graham Norton.
26) Cicerone Walking Guide, The Dales Way - Terry Marsh.
27) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson.
28) The West Highland Way. (another walking guide)
29) The 39 Steps - John Buchan.
30) Budapest, nofel i ddysgwyr - Elin Meek.
31) The Eggshell War - Eric Marsh.
32) This Is Memorial Device - David Keanan.
33) Aurora: In search of the northern lights - Melanie Windridge.
34) Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata.
35) Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow - Jerome K Jerome.
36) The Edge of Memory - Patrick Nunn.
37) The Storm before the Storm. The beginning of the end of the Roman Republic - Mike Duncan
38) The Unfolding of Language - Guy Deutscher. Published in 2005 - pretty good introduction to the evolution of languages.
39) Deep Work - Cal Newport.
40) Daily Rituals - Mason Currey

41) The Way Home - Mark Boyle. Really enjoyable, thought-provoking book, about his year spent living without technology. Much better written than his book about living without money for a year, too.

[diapasoun]

@cerat0n1a Is this also available online? I tried to read his book about living without money for a year but DNF'd partway through because of the writing (mostly because of him just asserting things that he believed to be true without backing those things up). If this is a significant improvement, I might be interested...

[cerat0n1a]

@cerat0n1a Is this also available online? I tried to read his book about living without money for a year but DNF'd partway through because of the writing (mostly because of him just asserting things that he believed to be true without backing those things up). If this is a significant improvement, I might be interested...

There are ebook/kindle/audible versions available. He wrote it with a pencil, but obviously it wouldn't have been published without him typing it into a computer.

I think the writing is a lot better than his previous books. I didn't find it particularly preachy, but maybe it's because I was already sympathetic to the idea? (I was a silicon chip design engineer, and am currently spending some of my retirement time writing a textbook on the subject, so I'm probably not exactly his target audience.)

It's not a Walden-esque "isn't everything great when you get away from modern society". He doesn't gloss over the relationship difficulties, or the necessary compromises that come with living in a society which does use technology (e.g. they travel by car and bike sometimes, he helps an elderly neighbour use a mobile phone). He spends quite a bit of time examining why he no longer supports some of his previous beliefs and activist activity.  Quite a lot of it reads like a paean to a rural way of life in Ireland that has nearly disappeared. That may partly explain why I liked it. The way of life he describes feels reminiscent of aspects of my own childhood in England.

[Raenia]

1	Warbreaker	Brandon Sanderson	Own	Reread	1/6/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
2	The Complete Book of Home Organization	Toni Hammersley	Own	Educational	1/7/2020	Nonfiction - Home and Garden
3	Rocannon's World	Ursula LeGuin	Own	TBR List	1/14/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
4	Trickster's Choice	Tamora Pierce	Library	PopSugar	1/17/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
5	The Broken Universe	Paul Melko	Library	Sequel	1/25/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
6	The Devil in the White City	Erik Larson	Library	TBR List	2/3/2020	General Nonfiction
7	Eventide: Tales of the Dragon's Bard	Tracy and Laura Hickman	Library	PopSugar	2/13/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
8	Trickster's Queen	Tamora Pierce	Library	Sequel	2/15/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
9	Gilgamesh the King	Robert Silverberg	Library	PopSugar	2/24/2020	Fiction - Historical
10	The Sparrow	Mary Doria Russell	Library	PopSugar	2/24/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
11	Planet of Exile	Ursula LeGuin	Own	TBR List	2/24/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
12	Children of the Night	Mercedes Lackey	Library	Sequel	2/29/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
13	City of Illusions	Ursula LeGuin	Own	TBR List	3/3/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
14	The Aylesford Skull	James P. Blaylock	Library	Other	3/11/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
15	Starsight	Brandon Sanderson	Library	Sequel	3/13/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
16	The Deep	Rivers Solomon, et al	Library	PopSugar	3/16/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
17	The Dispossessed	Ursula LeGuin	Own	TBR List	3/22/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
18	Blood Price	Tanya Huff	Library	Other	3/29/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
19	Blood Trail	Tanya Huff	Library	Sequel	4/1/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
20	White Sand	Brandon Sanderson, Rik Hoskin	Own	TBR List	4/3/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
21	Meditations	Marcus Aurelius, trans. A.S.L. Farquharson	Library	Educational	4/6/2020	Nonfiction - Philosophy
22	Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions	Johann Hari	Library	TBR List	4/8/2020	Nonfiction - Self-help
23	Hainish Stories	Ursula LeGuin	Own	TBR List	4/10/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
24	The Alloy of Law	Brandon Sanderson	Own	Reread	4/11/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
25	Shadows of Self	Brandon Sanderson	Own	Reread	4/12/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
26	The Bands of Mourning	Brandon Sanderson	Own	Reread	4/13/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
27	The Word for World is Forest	Ursula LeGuin	Own	TBR List	4/19/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
28	The Way of Kings	Brandon Sanderson	Own	Reread	4/26/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
29	Words of Radiance	Brandon Sanderson	Own	Reread	5/1/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
30	Oathbringer	Brandon Sanderson	Own	Reread	5/11/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
31	Hainish Stories Vol 2	Ursula LeGuin	Own	TBR List	5/18/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
32	Winds of Fate	Mercedes Lackey	Own	Reread	5/22/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
33	Winds of Change	Mercedes Lackey	Own	Reread	5/23/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
34	Winds of Fury	Mercedes Lackey	Own	Reread	5/24/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
35	Storm Warning	Mercedes Lackey	Own	Reread	5/25/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
36	Storm Rising	Mercedes Lackey	Own	Reread	5/28/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
37	Storm Breaking	Mercedes Lackey	Own	Reread	5/29/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
38	Owlflight	Mercedes Lackey	Own	Reread	5/30/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
39	Owlsight	Mercedes Lackey	Own	Reread	6/1/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
40	Owlknight	Mercedes Lackey	Own	Reread	6/3/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
41	Five Ways to Forgiveness	Ursula LeGuin	Own	TBR List	6/6/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
42	Sapiens: A brief history of humankind	Yuval N Harari	Library	TBR List	6/14/2020	Nonfiction - History/Biography
43	Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening	Louise Riotte	Library	TBR List	6/20/2020	Nonfiction - Home and Garden
44	The Telling	Ursula LeGuin	Own	TBR List	6/24/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
45	Arcanum Unbounded	Brandon Sanderson	Own	Reread	6/27/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
46	The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall	Anne McCaffrey	Own	Reread	6/28/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
47	Dragonsdawn	Anne McCaffrey	Own	Reread	7/3/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
48	Dragonseye	Anne McCaffrey	Own	Reread	7/4/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
49	Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern	Anne McCaffrey	Own	Reread	7/5/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
50	Nerilka's Story	Anne McCaffrey	Own	Reread	7/6/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
51	Art Through the Eyes of Mad Poets	Ed. Eileen M. D'Angelo	Own	Other	7/7/2020	General Nonfiction

52	The Girl who Heard Dragons	Anne McCaffrey	Own	Reread	7/11/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
53	The Masterharper of Pern	Anne McCaffrey	Own	Reread	7/12/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
54	Dragonflight	Anne McCaffrey	Own	Reread	7/12/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
55	Dragonquest	Anne McCaffrey	Own	Reread	7/16/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
56	The White Dragon	Anne McCaffrey	Own	Reread	7/18/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
57	Dragonsong	Anne McCaffrey	Own	Reread	7/18/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
58	Dragonsinger	Anne McCaffrey	Own	Reread	7/19/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
59	Dragondrums	Anne McCaffrey	Own	Reread	7/19/2020	Fiction - Fantasy

I eyeballed which McCaffrey's to call SF vs Fantasy - I know she considered them all Sci-fi, but to me just because the world technically has a sci-fi origin, doesn't make the book sci-fi if the science/technology aspects are never mentioned or have no bearing on the story.

[Splashncash]

1. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (never read it as a kid, felt like I needed to)
2. To the Land of Long Lost Friends by Alexander McCall Smith
3. The Dinner by Herman Koch
4. The Bookshop on the Shore by Jenny Colgan (I'm a sucker for anything with 'bookshop' in the title)
5. The Book of Dreams by Nina George
6. Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder
7. The Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan
8. Beartown by Fredrik Backman.  O.M.G.
9. Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe by Jenny Colgan
10. Summer at the Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan
11. Dear Evan Hansen by Steven Levenson
12. The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris by Jenny Colgan
13. One Day and One Amazing Morning on Orange Street by Joanne Rocklin
14. Brighty of the Grand Canyon by Marguerite Henry
15. The Trouble with May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
16. Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
17. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
18. War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
19. The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
20. More Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin
21. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
22. The River by Peter Heller
23. The Martian by Andy Weir
24. The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary
25. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
26. Coconut Layer Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke
27. Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

DNFs:
- The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin  Got stuck in the October chapter.
- Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
- The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
- The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
- Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner

28. The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia
29. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman

[qbird]

1) Where Do I Begin by Elvis Duran
2) Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
3) The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
4) The Printed Letter Bookshop by Katherine Reay
5) Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
6) When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
7) Do Over by Jon Acuff
8) Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
9) The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates
10) The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moye
11) The Other Woman by Sandie Jones
12) Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine by Gail Honeyman
13)The Villa in Italy by Elizabeth Edmondson
14) The 9 faces of HR by Kris Dunn
15) in a dark wood by Ruth Ware
16) Carry On, Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton
17) Love, Warrior by Glennon Doyle
18) HR On Purpose by Steve Browne
19) Open Book by Jessica Simpson
20) The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks
21) Unfu*k Yourself by Gary John Bishop
22) Happiness Is A Choice You Make by John Leland
23) The Light of The World by Elizabeth Alexander
24) Watching You by Lisa Jewell
25) Do Nothing by Celeste Headlee

[sui generis]

1.  The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay, finished 01/02/2020 (audio).

2. Golden Gate Gardening: The Complete Guide to Year-Round Food Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area & Coastal California by Pamela Peirce, finished 01/10/2020. 

3. Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions by Gloria Steinem, finished 01/11/2020.

4. Then She Was Gone, by Lisa Jewell, finished 01/13/2020.

5. Meridian, by Alice Walker, finished 01/26/2020.

6. Dawn, by Octavia Butler, finished 01/29/2020.

7. Women & Power: A Manifesto, by Mary Beard, finished 01/31/2020. 

8. Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, finished 02/14/2020.

9. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, by Stuart Turton, finished 02/19/2020 (audio). 

10. There There, by Tommy Orange, finished 2/20/2020. 

11.  The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty (Updated 10th Anniversary Edition), by Peter Singer, finished 2/27/2020 (audio). The book is available for free download here: https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/the-book/

12. The Witches are Coming, by Lindy West, finished 3/7/2020 (audio). 

13. Everything Under, by Daisy Johnson, finished 3/8/2020.

14. This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, finished 3/9/2020 (audio).

15. Still Life, by Louise Penny, finished 3/15/2020.

16. The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett, finished 3/21/2020 (audio).

17. Slow Horses, by Mick Herron, finished 4/4/2020.

18. Adulthood Rites, by Octavia Butler, finished 4/18/20.

19. Imago, by Octavia Butler, finished 4/25/20.

20. The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion, finished 5/7/20.

21. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, by Ronan Farrow, finished 5/7/20 (audio).

22. In the Ring of Fire: A Pacific Basin Journey, by James D. Houston, finished 5/18/20.

23. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo", by Zora Neale Hurston, finished 5/22/20 (audio).

24. Magic for Liars, by Sarah Gailey, finsihed 5/22/20.

25. The Answers, by Catherine Lacey, finished 5/31/20.

26. Circe, by Madeline Miller, finished 6/8/20.

27. The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro, finished 6/17/20.

28. A Room of One's Own, by Virginia Woolf, finished 6/19/20 (audio).

29. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, by Neil deGrasse Tyson, finished 6/28/20 (audio).

30. The Call of the Wild, by Jack London, finished 7/3/20 (audio). 

31. A Simple Favor, by Darcey Bell, finished 7/7/20 (audio).

32. The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, by Masha Gessen, finished 7/8/20.

33. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, by Barack Obama, finished 7/16/20 (audio).

34. We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson, finished 7/25/20 (audio). An odd and short book we listened to on a road trip.  An early form of creepy thriller, I think many techniques, both in movies and later books, come from this author and some from this book specifically, which is considered one of her masterpieces.

[Serendip]

...
42) Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, Edward Abbey
43) No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life, Thich Nhat Hanh
44) Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World, Tracy Kidder
45) The Art of Being: Erich Fromm
46) To Kill A Mockingbird: Harper Lee
47) So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo--very good, practical info
48) The Book of Strange New Things, Michael Faber
49) The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place, Ian Baker
50) Courting the Wild Twin, Martin Shaw 
51) The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind & Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel Van Der Kolk (trauma informed therapy)
52) In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration, Shane O'Mara
53) Akata Warrior, Nnedi Okorafor, YA
54) The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone, Olivia Laing **really enjoyed this one as it was so different than what I expected

recently finished
55) Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing & Life, Anne Lamott (great, funny, classic Lamott)

working on
56) The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
57) Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, Ben Goldfarb

[cerat0n1a]

1) Behave - Robert Sapolsky.
2) Lonely Planet - 50 natural wonders.
3) Lonely Planet - Hiking in Spain.
4) The Secret Commonwealth - The Book of Dust Volume 2 - Philip Pullman.
5) The University of Hard Knocks, by Ralph Parlette.
6) Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez
7) Connie - Harry Pearson
8) Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage -  ‎Haruki Murakami
9) Small Island - Andrea Levy.
10) Life 3.0 - Max Tegmark. 
11) This thing of Darkness - Harry Thompson
12) The Secret Barrister - Anonymous.
13) Life:A User's Manual - Georges Perec.
14) The Electric Michelangelo - Sarah Hall
15) Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman - Yvon Chouinard
16) Harvest - Jim Crace
17) Educated - Tara Westover
18) The Plague - Albert Camus
19) A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe
20) The return of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
21) The Meursault Investigation - Kamel Daoud.
22) The White Spider - Heinrich Harrer.
23) The Atoms of Language - Mark Baker.
24) The Summer Book - Tove Jansson.
25) Holding - Graham Norton.
26) Cicerone Walking Guide, The Dales Way - Terry Marsh.
27) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson.
28) The West Highland Way. (another walking guide)
29) The 39 Steps - John Buchan.
30) Budapest, nofel i ddysgwyr - Elin Meek.
31) The Eggshell War - Eric Marsh.
32) This Is Memorial Device - David Keanan.
33) Aurora: In search of the northern lights - Melanie Windridge.
34) Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata.
35) Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow - Jerome K Jerome.
36) The Edge of Memory - Patrick Nunn.
37) The Storm before the Storm. The beginning of the end of the Roman Republic - Mike Duncan
38) The Unfolding of Language - Guy Deutscher.
39) Deep Work - Cal Newport.
40) Daily Rituals - Mason Currey
41) The Way Home - Mark Boyle.

42) Brief Answers to the big questions - Stephen Hawking
43) Algorithms to live by - Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths

[Linea_Norway]

January:
1) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (started in December)
2) The Lie, a memoire of two marriages, catfishing and coming out by William Dameron
3) The Queston of Red by Laksmi Pamuntjak
4) Grønn ungdom hele livet (Green youth my whole life), by Peter Tutein. Only read halfway.
5) Dubbel zes (Double Six) by Daphne Deckers
6) Ventoux by Bert Wagendorp
7) Svamp under mikroskopet (Mushrooms under the microscope) by Jan Nilsson
8) Vi må snakke om bakterier (We need to talk about bacteria) by Jessica Lönn-Stensrud
9) Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
10) Resten av dagen (The Remains of the day) by Kazuo Ishiguro

February:
11) The seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
12) Koke bjørn (Cooking bears) by Mikael Niemi
13) Kijkvoer & Leesgenot (Dutch poetry) by Michèl de Jong and Drs. P.
14) The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
15) Botanikum by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis
16) Skog vil si samfunn (The Word for World is Forest) by Ursula le Guin
17) Blå (Blue) by Maja Lunde
18) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
19) Ulvetider (an Era of Wolves) by Lars Lenth, Petter Böckman and Morten Tønnessen
20) Plukk selv (Forage yourself) by Trond Svendgård
21) Gratis mat av ville planter (Free Food from Wild Plants) by Jens Holmboe

March:
22) Lud-in-the-mist by Hope Mirrlees
23) The Slow Moon Climbs by Susan Mattern
24) Six Degrees by Mark Lynas
25) The Dirtbag's Guide to Life by Tim Mathis
26) The Jakarta Pandemic by Steven Konkoly
27) The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
28) The Good Life by Marian Thurm

April:
29) In Dog we Trust by Neil S. Plakcy
30) In for the Kill by John Lutz
31) Severance by Ling Ma
32) Liv etter liv (Life after Life) by Kate Atkinson
33) The Land of Dreams by Vidar Sundstøl
34) The Alien Factor by Stan Lee

May:
35) 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
36) Grønne, ville nyttevekster i Norge (Green, wild useful plants in Norway) by Norges sopp- og nyttevekstforbund
37) The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
38) Fermentert mat (Fermented Food) by Anne Elisabeth Scheen
39) Tyskerungen (Baby of a German) by Camilla Läckberg
40) How to fossilise your hamster by Mick O'Hare
41) I Trifidenes dager (In the days of the Trifids) by NRK Radioteateret (a radio play)

June:
42) Radical Joy for Hard Times by Trebbe Johnson
43) Plant-man by Daniel Milford
44) Snared by Ed James
45) Het voedsel der Goden en hoe het op Aarde kwam (The Food of the Goods and how it came to Earth) by H.G. Wells
46) Mr Woolf by Jan Kjærstad
47) Przewalskis hest (Przewalski's horse) by Maja Lunde
48) Døgnåpent (Convenience Store Woman) by Sayaka Murata
49) Slutten på verden slik vi kjenner den (The End of the World as we know it) by Erlend Loe

July:
50) Svartedauen (Black Death) by Yngvar Ustvedt
51) the Break by Marian Keyes
52) Kurs for utdannelse av soppsakkyndige (Course for education of mushroom controllers) by Norges sopp- og nyttevekstforbund (a reread to refresh my knowledge for this season)
53) Coffin Road by Peter May
54) Fallvann (Waterfall water) by Mikael Niemi
55) The Humanure Handbook by Joseph Jenkins
56) Folk med angst (People with fear) by Fredrik Backman
57) Hr. Penumbras døgnåpne bokhandel (Mr. Penumbra's 24 hour open book store) by Robin Sloan

This time, the last 2 books read.

[diapasoun]

1. Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman (library)
2. Classical Mythology, Elizabeth Vandiver (borrowed)
3. The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden (library)
4. Middlegame, Seanan McGuire (library)
5. The Book of the Courtier, Baldassare Castiglione (own, pre-2020)
6. Druid Magic Handbook, John Michael Greer (own, new)
7. Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. LeGuin (own, pre-2020)
8. Beowulf, trans. Gerald Davis (own, pre-2020)
9. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (own, re-read, pre-2020)
10. Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture, Shannon Hayes (own)
11. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, Mary Roach (own)
12. Respect the Spindle, Abby Franquemont (own)
13. The World of Byzantium, Kenneth Harl (borrowed)
14. The Last Wish, Andrzej Sapkowski (borrowed)
15. The Blood of Elves, Andrzej Sapkowski (borrowed)
16. Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik (library)
17. The Social Life of Coffee, Brian Cowan (own, pre-2020)
18. The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch (own, pre-2020)
19. The Natural History of the UC Santa Cruz Campus, Martha Brown et al (library)
20. How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell (library)
21. Record of a Spaceborn Few, Becky Chambers (library)
22. Early Uses of California Plants, Edward K Balls (own, pre-2020)
23. The Vine Witch, Luanne G. Smith (own)
24. Modern Tarot, Michelle Tea (own)
25. The Field Guide to Birds: California, Mel Baughman (own, pre-2020)

26. The Black Death, Dorsey Armstrong (own, pre-2020). Really amazing lecture series on the bubonic plague -- very apropos, for sure, but also a knowledgeable and funny historian taking you through fact and effect in a truly engaging way.

Currently reading:

Flour Salt Water Yeast, Ken Forkish (borrowed)
1940s Fashion, Emmanuelle Dirix (own, pre-2020)
An Essay on Medieval Economic Teaching, George O'Brien (own, pre-2020)

Pre-2020 books: 8/15

Local natural history and ecology: 3/9

[Linea_Norway]

January:
1) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (started in December)
2) The Lie, a memoire of two marriages, catfishing and coming out by William Dameron
3) The Queston of Red by Laksmi Pamuntjak
4) Grønn ungdom hele livet (Green youth my whole life), by Peter Tutein. Only read halfway.
5) Dubbel zes (Double Six) by Daphne Deckers
6) Ventoux by Bert Wagendorp
7) Svamp under mikroskopet (Mushrooms under the microscope) by Jan Nilsson
8) Vi må snakke om bakterier (We need to talk about bacteria) by Jessica Lönn-Stensrud
9) Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
10) Resten av dagen (The Remains of the day) by Kazuo Ishiguro

February:
11) The seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
12) Koke bjørn (Cooking bears) by Mikael Niemi
13) Kijkvoer & Leesgenot (Dutch poetry) by Michèl de Jong and Drs. P.
14) The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
15) Botanikum by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis
16) Skog vil si samfunn (The Word for World is Forest) by Ursula le Guin
17) Blå (Blue) by Maja Lunde
18) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
19) Ulvetider (an Era of Wolves) by Lars Lenth, Petter Böckman and Morten Tønnessen
20) Plukk selv (Forage yourself) by Trond Svendgård
21) Gratis mat av ville planter (Free Food from Wild Plants) by Jens Holmboe

March:
22) Lud-in-the-mist by Hope Mirrlees
23) The Slow Moon Climbs by Susan Mattern
24) Six Degrees by Mark Lynas
25) The Dirtbag's Guide to Life by Tim Mathis
26) The Jakarta Pandemic by Steven Konkoly
27) The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
28) The Good Life by Marian Thurm

April:
29) In Dog we Trust by Neil S. Plakcy
30) In for the Kill by John Lutz
31) Severance by Ling Ma
32) Liv etter liv (Life after Life) by Kate Atkinson
33) The Land of Dreams by Vidar Sundstøl
34) The Alien Factor by Stan Lee

May:
35) 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
36) Grønne, ville nyttevekster i Norge (Green, wild useful plants in Norway) by Norges sopp- og nyttevekstforbund
37) The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
38) Fermentert mat (Fermented Food) by Anne Elisabeth Scheen
39) Tyskerungen (Baby of a German) by Camilla Läckberg
40) How to fossilise your hamster by Mick O'Hare
41) I Trifidenes dager (In the days of the Trifids) by NRK Radioteateret (a radio play)

June:
42) Radical Joy for Hard Times by Trebbe Johnson
43) Plant-man by Daniel Milford
44) Snared by Ed James
45) Het voedsel der Goden en hoe het op Aarde kwam (The Food of the Goods and how it came to Earth) by H.G. Wells
46) Mr Woolf by Jan Kjærstad
47) Przewalskis hest (Przewalski's horse) by Maja Lunde
48) Døgnåpent (Convenience Store Woman) by Sayaka Murata
49) Slutten på verden slik vi kjenner den (The End of the World as we know it) by Erlend Loe

July:
50) Svartedauen (Black Death) by Yngvar Ustvedt
51) the Break by Marian Keyes
52) Kurs for utdannelse av soppsakkyndige (Course for education of mushroom controllers) by Norges sopp- og nyttevekstforbund (a reread to refresh my knowledge for this season)
53) Coffin Road by Peter May
54) Fallvann (Waterfall water) by Mikael Niemi
55) The Humanure Handbook by Joseph Jenkins
56) Folk med angst (People with fear) by Fredrik Backman
57) Hr. Penumbras døgnåpne bokhandel (Mr. Penumbra's 24 hour open book store) by Robin Sloan
58) Maurtuemordene (The anthill murders) by Hans Olav Lahlum

Last book read.

[Frugal Lizard]

20) Code Girls the untold story of the American women code breakers of World War II, Liza Mundy
21) The Story of a New Name, Elena Ferrante
22) Preserving, Pat Crocker

[sui generis]

1.  The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay, finished 01/02/2020 (audio).

2. Golden Gate Gardening: The Complete Guide to Year-Round Food Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area & Coastal California by Pamela Peirce, finished 01/10/2020. 

3. Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions by Gloria Steinem, finished 01/11/2020.

4. Then She Was Gone, by Lisa Jewell, finished 01/13/2020.

5. Meridian, by Alice Walker, finished 01/26/2020.

6. Dawn, by Octavia Butler, finished 01/29/2020.

7. Women & Power: A Manifesto, by Mary Beard, finished 01/31/2020. 

8. Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, finished 02/14/2020.

9. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, by Stuart Turton, finished 02/19/2020 (audio). 

10. There There, by Tommy Orange, finished 2/20/2020. 

11.  The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty (Updated 10th Anniversary Edition), by Peter Singer, finished 2/27/2020 (audio). The book is available for free download here: https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/the-book/

12. The Witches are Coming, by Lindy West, finished 3/7/2020 (audio). 

13. Everything Under, by Daisy Johnson, finished 3/8/2020.

14. This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, finished 3/9/2020 (audio).

15. Still Life, by Louise Penny, finished 3/15/2020.

16. The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett, finished 3/21/2020 (audio).

17. Slow Horses, by Mick Herron, finished 4/4/2020.

18. Adulthood Rites, by Octavia Butler, finished 4/18/20.

19. Imago, by Octavia Butler, finished 4/25/20.

20. The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion, finished 5/7/20.

21. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, by Ronan Farrow, finished 5/7/20 (audio).

22. In the Ring of Fire: A Pacific Basin Journey, by James D. Houston, finished 5/18/20.

23. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo", by Zora Neale Hurston, finished 5/22/20 (audio).

24. Magic for Liars, by Sarah Gailey, finsihed 5/22/20.

25. The Answers, by Catherine Lacey, finished 5/31/20.

26. Circe, by Madeline Miller, finished 6/8/20.

27. The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro, finished 6/17/20.

28. A Room of One's Own, by Virginia Woolf, finished 6/19/20 (audio).

29. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, by Neil deGrasse Tyson, finished 6/28/20 (audio).

30. The Call of the Wild, by Jack London, finished 7/3/20 (audio). 

31. A Simple Favor, by Darcey Bell, finished 7/7/20 (audio).

32. The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, by Masha Gessen, finished 7/8/20.

33. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, by Barack Obama, finished 7/16/20 (audio).

34. We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson, finished 7/25/20 (audio).

35. Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell, finished 7/29/20.  I was really, really enjoying the first half and couldn't believe I was put off for so long from reading it (I got the impression it was a slog and bewildering?).  By the end, I enjoyed it a little less viscerally, but appreciated the effort and still gave it 4 out of 5 stars (rounded up).

[Splashncash]

1. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (never read it as a kid, felt like I needed to)
2. To the Land of Long Lost Friends by Alexander McCall Smith
3. The Dinner by Herman Koch
4. The Bookshop on the Shore by Jenny Colgan (I'm a sucker for anything with 'bookshop' in the title)
5. The Book of Dreams by Nina George
6. Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder
7. The Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan
8. Beartown by Fredrik Backman.  O.M.G.
9. Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe by Jenny Colgan
10. Summer at the Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan
11. Dear Evan Hansen by Steven Levenson
12. The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris by Jenny Colgan
13. One Day and One Amazing Morning on Orange Street by Joanne Rocklin
14. Brighty of the Grand Canyon by Marguerite Henry
15. The Trouble with May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
16. Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
17. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
18. War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
19. The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
20. More Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin
21. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
22. The River by Peter Heller
23. The Martian by Andy Weir
24. The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary
25. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
26. Coconut Layer Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke
27. Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
28. The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia
29. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman

DNFs:
- The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin  Got stuck in the October chapter.
- Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
- The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
- The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
- Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner

30. All Summer Long by Dorothea Benton Frank

[Staunch Aim]

34) War And Peace - Leo Tolstoy - ***** - I loved the epic nature and the characters.  I keep thinking back on Tolstoy's belief that historically significant individuals are only identified as such in hindsight, by fallible humans.  And that these individuals are largely/solely a product of their circumstance, rather than a special composition of elite traits and/or genius.

35) My Dark Vanessa - Kate Elizabeth Russell - *** - The subject matter made this one a difficult read.  A fictional account of a fifteen year old girl abused by her teacher and the aftermath it takes on her adult life.  Affecting.

36) Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets - David Simon - **** - Journalist David Simon embeds himself with Baltimore Homicide for one calendar year and shares his ethnographic observations. I'm looking forward to reading another work of his, On The Corner.  It's a similar project where he installs himself among drug dealers on one Baltimore street corner.  He would later go on to create the HBO series The Wire.

37) Speak of the Devil: How The Satanic Temple Is Changing the Way We Talk About Religion - Joseph P Laycock - ***** - Another ethnography. This one examines the nascent Satanic Temple (TST), a non-theistic religion.  The author shares a short history, then discusses how TST is changing the way that America talks about Satanism, religion, evil and religious plurality.  Supremely interesting.

Currently reading The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

In the queue -
Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard - Douglas Tallamy
The Girl and the Stars - Mark Lawrence
Peace Talks - Jim Butcher

[Splashncash]

...
25. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
26. Coconut Layer Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke
27. Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
28. The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia
29. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
30. All Summer Long by Dorothea Benton Frank

31. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World by Steven Johnson

[Linea_Norway]

January:
1) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (started in December)
2) The Lie, a memoire of two marriages, catfishing and coming out by William Dameron
3) The Queston of Red by Laksmi Pamuntjak
4) Grønn ungdom hele livet (Green youth my whole life), by Peter Tutein. Only read halfway.
5) Dubbel zes (Double Six) by Daphne Deckers
6) Ventoux by Bert Wagendorp
7) Svamp under mikroskopet (Mushrooms under the microscope) by Jan Nilsson
8) Vi må snakke om bakterier (We need to talk about bacteria) by Jessica Lönn-Stensrud
9) Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
10) Resten av dagen (The Remains of the day) by Kazuo Ishiguro

February:
11) The seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
12) Koke bjørn (Cooking bears) by Mikael Niemi
13) Kijkvoer & Leesgenot (Dutch poetry) by Michèl de Jong and Drs. P.
14) The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
15) Botanikum by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis
16) Skog vil si samfunn (The Word for World is Forest) by Ursula le Guin
17) Blå (Blue) by Maja Lunde
18) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
19) Ulvetider (an Era of Wolves) by Lars Lenth, Petter Böckman and Morten Tønnessen
20) Plukk selv (Forage yourself) by Trond Svendgård
21) Gratis mat av ville planter (Free Food from Wild Plants) by Jens Holmboe

March:
22) Lud-in-the-mist by Hope Mirrlees
23) The Slow Moon Climbs by Susan Mattern
24) Six Degrees by Mark Lynas
25) The Dirtbag's Guide to Life by Tim Mathis
26) The Jakarta Pandemic by Steven Konkoly
27) The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
28) The Good Life by Marian Thurm

April:
29) In Dog we Trust by Neil S. Plakcy
30) In for the Kill by John Lutz
31) Severance by Ling Ma
32) Liv etter liv (Life after Life) by Kate Atkinson
33) The Land of Dreams by Vidar Sundstøl
34) The Alien Factor by Stan Lee

May:
35) 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
36) Grønne, ville nyttevekster i Norge (Green, wild useful plants in Norway) by Norges sopp- og nyttevekstforbund
37) The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
38) Fermentert mat (Fermented Food) by Anne Elisabeth Scheen
39) Tyskerungen (Baby of a German) by Camilla Läckberg
40) How to fossilise your hamster by Mick O'Hare
41) I Trifidenes dager (In the days of the Trifids) by NRK Radioteateret (a radio play)

June:
42) Radical Joy for Hard Times by Trebbe Johnson
43) Plant-man by Daniel Milford
44) Snared by Ed James
45) Het voedsel der Goden en hoe het op Aarde kwam (The Food of the Goods and how it came to Earth) by H.G. Wells
46) Mr Woolf by Jan Kjærstad
47) Przewalskis hest (Przewalski's horse) by Maja Lunde
48) Døgnåpent (Convenience Store Woman) by Sayaka Murata
49) Slutten på verden slik vi kjenner den (The End of the World as we know it) by Erlend Loe

July:
50) Svartedauen (Black Death) by Yngvar Ustvedt
51) the Break by Marian Keyes
52) Kurs for utdannelse av soppsakkyndige (Course for education of mushroom controllers) by Norges sopp- og nyttevekstforbund (a reread to refresh my knowledge for this season)
53) Coffin Road by Peter May
54) Fallvann (Waterfall water) by Mikael Niemi
55) The Humanure Handbook by Joseph Jenkins
56) Folk med angst (People with fear) by Fredrik Backman
57) Hr. Penumbras døgnåpne bokhandel (Mr. Penumbra's 24 hour open book store) by Robin Sloan
58) Maurtuemordene (The anthill murders) by Hans Olav Lahlum

August:
59) Harold Fry's utrolige pilegrimsferd (The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry) by Rachel Joice

Last book read.