Been a super interesting year so far. I’ve never been a graphic novel reader, but I decided to go through The Sandman. And the companions to His Dark Materials barely qualify as “books,” but they’re definitely offset by some of the heavy hitters in here. Two books are re-reads because I’m reading the Aru Shah books for my kid’s bedtime. No idea how many I’ll get to this year, but I’ll be perfectly satisfied if I finish Remembrance of Things Past and nothing else.

The list:



1 - Silence (Shusaku Endo)
2 - Bitch: On the Female of the Species (Lucy Cooke)
3 - The Godfather (Mario Puzo)
4 - The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
5 - Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret. (Judy Blume)
6 - The Buried Giant (Kazuo Ishiguro)
7 - The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
8 - The Unconsoled (Kazuo Ishiguro)
9 - Altar of Eden (James Rollins)
10 - Red String Theory (Lauren Kung Jessen)
11 - The Sandman vol. 1: Preludes & Noctures (Neil Gaiman)
12 - The Sandman vol. 2: The Doll’s House (Neil Gaiman)
13 - The Sandman vol. 3: Dream Country (Neil Gaiman)
14 - The Sandman vol. 4: Season of Mists (Neil Gaiman)
15 - The Sandman vol. 5: A Game of You (Neil Gaiman)
16 - The Sandman vol. 6: Fables & Reflections (Neil Gaiman)
17 - Devils (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
18 - The Sandman vol. 7: Brief Lives (Neil Gaiman)
19 - The Sandman vol. 8: Worlds’ End (Neil Gaiman)
20 - The Sandman vol. 9: The Kindly Ones (Neil Gaiman)
21 - Northwind (J.D. Kirk)
22 - The Sandman vol. 10: The Wake (Neil Gaiman)
23 - The Sandman: Endless Nights (Neil Gaiman)
24 - The Sandman: Overture (Neil Gaiman)
25 - Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal (Christopher Moore)
26 - The Golden Compass (Philip Pullman)
27 - Bel-Ami (Guy de Maupassant)
28 - The Subtle Knife (Philip Pullman)
29 - The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
30 - The Amber Spyglass (Philip Pullman)
31 - The Collectors (Philip Pullman)
32 - Aru Shah and the End of Time (Roshani Chokshi)
33 - Once Upon a Time in the North (Philip Pullman)
34 - A Dirty Job (Christopher Moore)
35 - Lyra’s Oxford (Philip Pullman)
36 - Secondhand Souls (Christopher Moore)
37 - Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 (Stephen Puleo)
38 - The Lightning Thief (Rick Riordan)
39 - Yellowface (R.F. Kuang)
40 - Raw Dog: The Naked Truth about Hot Dogs (Jamie Loftus)
41 - War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
42 - Lessons in Chemistry (Bonnie Grams)
43 - Aru Shah and the End of Time (Roshani Chokshi), re-read
44 - Remembrance of Things Past vol. 1: Swann’s Way (Marcel Proust)
45 - Aru Shah and the Song of Death (Roshani Chokshi)
46 - Noir (Christopher Moore)
47 - Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
48 - Aru Shah and the Song of Death (Roshani Chokshi), re-read
49 - The Wager (David Grann)
50 - Remembrance of Things Past vol. 2: Within a Budding Grove (Marcel Proust)
51 - Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes (Roshani Chokshi)
52 - Aru Shah and the City of Gold (Roshani Chokshi)
53 - Aru Shah and the Nectar of Immortality (Roshani Chokshi)
54 - The Sting of the Wild (Justin O. Schmidt)
55 - The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife (Lucy Cooke)
56 - Entangled Life: How Fungi Make our Worlds, Change our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Merlin Sheldrake)
57 - Pedestrianism: When Watching People Walk was America’s Favorite Spectator Sport (Matthew Algeo)
58 - Remembrance of Things Past vol. 3: The Guermantes Way (Marcel Proust)

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