[astrangerhere]

My numbers goal is 60 books, which is a little under my yearly average. But my substantive goal is to continue to diversify. I want to read more of the dead tree books my wife purchases and I want to read more "across the aisle" in genres or subjects I have avoided in the past.

UPDATE: This has morphed into me reading more non-American authors. Because I find myself living in 1984, I am having a hard time with the goal of reading cross-aisle perspectives. I guess living in post-truth/pre-fascism kind of kills the desire to read about it.

Short Stories / Essays
1 - "A Horse Story" by Kate Chopin
2 - "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury
3 - "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
4 - "The Seventh Man" by Haruki Murakami
5 - "A Walk to Kobe" by Haruki Murakami
6 - "The Zero Meter Diving Team" by Jim Shepard
7 - "Some Gods of El Paso" by Maria Dahvana Headley
8 - "The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
9 - "A Horseman in the Sky" by Ambrose Bierce
10 - "The Haunted Ceiling" by H.G. Wells
11 - "The Adventure of the American Drifter" by Larry Millett
12 - "Folding Beijing" by Hao Jingfang, translated by Ken Liu
13 - "Kino" by Haruki Murakami
14 - "Astronaut" by Maria Dahvana Headley
15 - "Two Ways of Living" by Robert Reed
16 - "Where I'm Likely to Find It" by Haruki Murakami
17 - "Hesperia and Glory" by Ann Leckie
18 - "Beloved of the Sun" by Ann Leckie
19 - "Excerpts from a Film (1942-1987)" by A.C. Wise
20 - "Bury the Dead" by Ann Leckie
21 - "Ladies' Night: Circling the Bases on Okinawa" by Akemi Johnson
22 - "I Have No Choice but to Keep Looking" by Jennifer Percy (nonfiction for the New York Times Magazine)
23 - "The Red Secretary" by Kameron Hurley
24 - "When Stars Are Scattered" by Spencer Ellsworth
25 - "Airplane" by Haruki Murakami
26 - "Happy Endings" by Margaret Atwood
27 - "The End of the Party" by Graham Greene
28 - "In the Company of Wolves" by Angela Carter
29 - "A Beneficiary" by Nadine Gordimer
30 - "A Wagner Matinee" by Willa Cather
31 - "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
32 - "Hush...Hush Sweet Charlotte" by Kazushige Abe
33 - "In the Year 2889" by Jules Verne
34 - "The Apparition of Mrs. Veal" by Daniel Defoe
35 - "The Answer Is Never: Rewriting The False Narrative Of Childlessness" by Sabine Heinlein
36 - "Seven Birthdays" by Ken Liu
37 - "The Four Suspects" by Agatha Christie
38 - "The Lighthouse Keeper" by Daisy Johnson
39 - "Dreams" by Anton Chekhov
40 - "All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury
41 - "eyes I dare not meet in dreams" by Sunny Moraine
42 - "What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky" by Lesley Nneka Arimah
43 - "Chivalry" by Neil Gaiman
44 - "The Second Bakery Attack" by Haruki Murakami
45 - "The King" by Isaac Babel
46 - "A Love Affair" by Lucia Berlin
47 - "Lost and Found" by Colson Whitehead
48 - "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner
49 - "What We Talk About When We Talk Above Love" by Raymond Carver
50 - "The Wedding Ring" by Maurice le Blanc
51 - "Second Variety" by Phillip K. Dick
52 - "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe
53 - "Correspondence" by Carson McCullers
54 - "The Discovery of Christmas" by Carson McCullers
55 - "Sucker" by Carson McCullers
56 - "The Magic Mirror" by George Macdonald
57 - "Appointment in Samarra" by William Somerset Maugham
58 - "The Faery Handbag" by Kelly Link
59 - "Blue Girl" by Elizabeth Crane
60 - "The Knowers" by Helen Phillips
61 - "Cat Person" by Kristen Roupenian

January 2017
1 - Love is Love [5/5]
2 - The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu [4/5]
3 - Great Expectations by Charles Dickens [4/5]
4 - Nichijou Vol. 1 by Keiichi Arawi [3.5/5]
5 - Death in Venice by Thomas Mann [2.5/5]
6 - Postcards From the Edge by the late, great Carrie Fisher [4/5]
7 - Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [3/5]

February 2017
8 - A Separate Peace by John Knowles [3/5]
9 - Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen [3/5]
10 - Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo [3/5]
11 - Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama [3.5/5]
12 - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers [3.5/5]
13 - Authority by Jeff VanderMeer [3.5/5]
14 - Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer [2.5/5]

March 2017
15 - The Ruined Map by Kobo Abe [4/5]
16 - The Hunt for Vulcan: And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe by Thomas Levenson [4.5/5]
17 - Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman [4/5]
18 - Night and Day by Virginia Woolf [3/5]
19 - Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau [4/5]
20 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams [2.5/5]
21 - The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu [3.5/5]
22 - On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder [3/5]
23 - Master Keaton Vol. 1 by Naoki Urasawa [4/5]

April 2017
24 - A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age by Daniel Levitin [3.5/5]
25 - East of West: The Apocalypse, Year Two by Jonathan Hickman[5/5]
26 - The Iliad by Homer (translated by WHD Rouse) [4/5]
27 - Master Keaton Vol. 2 by Naoki Urasawa [4/5]
28 - American Gods by Neil Gaiman [4/5]
29 - The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde [5/5]
30 - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood [2/5]

May 2017
31 - The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury [4/5]
32 - Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty [3.5/5]
33 - Moshi Moshi by Banana Yoshimoto [3/5]
34 - The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion [5/5]
35 - Essex County by Jeff Lemire [4/5]
36 - Under the Harrow by Flynn Berry [3/5]
37 - Hidden Empire by Kevin J. Anderson [3.5/5]
38 - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce [2.5/5]
39 - Under a Midnight Sun by Keigo Higashino [3.5/5]

June 2017
40 - Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation into Space by Margot Lee Shetterley [4/5]
41 - Serena by Ron Rash [4/5]
42 - Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky [3/5]
43 - A Talent for Murder by Andrew Wilson [2.5/5]
44 - All Systems Red by Martha Wells [3.5/5]
45 - Reputations by Juan Gabriel Vásquez [4/5]

July 2017
46 - Forest of Stars - Kevin J. Anderson [3.5/5]
47 - The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories edited by Theodore Goosen [5/5]
48 - Master Keaton Vol 3 by Naoki Urasawa [4/5]
49 - Above the Waterfall by Ron Rash [4.5/5]
50 - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler [3/5]
51 - The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan [3/5]
52 - Wonder Woman Omnibus Vol. 1 by George Perez [5/5]
53 - Every Heart a Doorway - Seanan McGuire [4/5]
54 - "The Art of Space Travel" by Nina Allen [4.5/5]
55 - Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher [4/5]
56 - The Silver Pigs (Marcus Didius Falco #1) by Lindsey Davis [3.5/5]
57 - Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson [4/5]
58 - The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley [3.5/5]
59 - Inspector Imanishi Investigates (published in Japanese as Suna no Utsawa) by Seicho Mastumoto [4/5]

August 2017
60 - Hyperion by Dan Simmons [3.5/5]
61 - Death's End by Cixin Liu [4/5]
62 - The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons [dropped]
63 - Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero [3/5]
64 - The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe
65 - Trading in Danger by Elizabeth Moon [2.5/5]
66 - A Death in the Family by James Agee [4/5]
67 - The Diary of a Dead Officer by Arthur Graeme West [4/5]
68 - The Warden by Anthony Trollope [4/5]
69 - Dissolution by SJ Sansom [4/5]
70 - Gently Does It by Alan Hunter [4/5]
71 - The Gun by Fuminori Nakamura [4/5]

September 2017
72 - What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund [5/5]
73 - House of Names by Colm Tóibín [4/5]
74 - Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer [3/5]
75 - I Will Have Vengeance by Maurizio de Giovanni [4/5]
76 - Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope [3/5]
77 - Blood Curse by Maurizio de Giovanni [4/5]
78 - Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson [4/5]
79 - The Hours by Michael Cunningham [5/5]
80 - Everyone in Their Place: The Summer of Commissario Ricciardi by Maurizio de Giovanni [3.5/5]

October 2017
81 - Dracula by Bram Stoker [3.5/5]
82 - Provenance by Ann Leckie [4/5]
83 - Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley [3.5/5]
84 - The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock by Mary Worsley [4/5]
85 - The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman [3/5]
86 - Shadows in Bronze by Lindsey Davis [4/5]
87 - Central Station by Lavie Tidhar [3.5/5]
88 - Gently by the Shore by Alan Hunter [3.5/5]

November 2017
89-91 The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien [4/5]
92 - The Colors of Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley [3/5]
93 - Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone by Richard Lloyd Parry [5/5]
94 - As the Crow Flies by Melanie Gillman [2.5/5]
95 - Barbary Station by R.E. Stearns [2.5/5]
96 - Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz [4/5]
97 - Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll [3/5]

December 2017
98 - Beartown by Frederik Backman [4.5/5]
99 - The Nakano Thrift Shop by Hiromi Kawakami [4/5]
100 - Sylvie and Bruno Concluded by Lewis Carroll [2/5]
101 - Tinkers by Paul Harding [5/5]
102 - The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott [5/5]
103 - The Man With the Dark Beard by Annie Haynes [3.5/5]
104 - Missing Person by Patrick Modiano [4/5]