One hobby I enjoy is reading. I also enjoy making lists and tracking what I do over time. So here I list books I have finished since moving to Grinnell Iowa.
| Title | Author | Finished | Wildcard | Marlie Lu | December 2022 |
|---|---|---|
| Warcross | Marie Lu | December 2022 |
| Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century | Jessica Bruder | December 2022 |
| Every Heart a Doorway | Seanan McGuire | November 2022 |
| Blood of Elves | Andrzej Sapkowski | November 2022 |
| Chosen Ones | Veronica Roth | November 2022 |
| A Snake Falls to Earth | Darcie Little Badger | November 2022 |
| Lessons from Plants | Beronda L. Montgomery | November 2022 |
| Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? | Beverly Daniel Tatum | November 2022 |
| The Bone Witch | Rin Chupeco | November 2022 |
| My Beloved World | Sonia Sotomayor | October 2022 |
| Leave the World Behind | Rumaan Alam | October 2022 |
| The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms | N.K. Jemisin | September 2022 |
| How high we go in the dark | Sequoia Nagamatsu | September 2022 |
| Akata Witch | Nnedi Okorafor | September 2022 |
| The Giver of Stars | Jojo Moyes | September 2022 |
| Fire Keeper’s Daughter* | Angeline Boulley | September 2022 |
| The Last Thing He Told Me | Laura Dave | August 2022 |
| The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula K. LeGuin | August 2022 |
| The Lincoln Highway | Amor Towles | August 2022 |
| The Westing Game | Ellen Raskin | August 2022 |
| The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue | V.E. Schwab | August 2022 |
| The Girl in His Shadow | Audrey Blake | August 2022 |
| Lakewood | Megan Giddings | July 2022 |
| The Rise of Magicks (Chronicles of the One Series) | Nora Roberts | July 2022 |
| The Butterfly Effect | Rachel Mans McKenny | July 2022 |
| Illuminae | Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff | July 2022 |
| The Care Manifesto | The Care Collective | July 2022 |
| Wonder | R.J. Palacio | July 2022 |
| Of Blood and Bone (Chronicles of the One Series) | Nora Roberts | June 2022 |
| Pachinko | Min Jin Lee | June 2022 |
| The City We Became | N.K. Jemisin | June 2022 |
| A Desolation Called Peace | Arkady Martine | June 2022 |
| A Man Called Ove | Fredrik Backman | May 2022 |
| Weapons of Math Destruction | Cathy O’Neil | May 2022 |
| The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson) | Rick Riordan | May 2022 |
| Disability Visibility | Alice Wong (ed) | April 2022 |
| Slaughterhouse Five | Kurt Vonnegut | April 2022 |
| Legendborn | Tracy Deonn | April 2022 |
| Sold on a Monday | Kristina McMorris | April 2022 |
| Little Faith* | Nickolas Butler | March 2022 |
| A Memory Called Empire | Arkady Martine | March 2022 |
| The One | John Marrs | March 2022 |
| Matrix | Lauren Groff | March 2022 |
| The Ten Thousand Doors of January | Alix E. Harrow | February 2022 |
| Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching | Jarvis R. Givens | February 2022 |
| Black Sun | Rebecca Roadhorse | January 2022 |
| Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates | January 2022 |
| Severance | Ling Ma | January 2022 |
| The House in the Cerulean Sea | T.J. Klune | January 2022 |
| Lovecraft Country | Matt Ruff | January 2022 |
| American Dirt | Jeanine Cummins | January 2022 |
| Such a Fun Age | Kiley Reid | December 2021 |
| Ruin and Rising (Shadow and Bone Trilogy) | Leigh Bardugo | December 2021 |
| Black, Brown, Bruised: How Racialized STEM Education Stifles Innovation | Ebony Omotola McGee | December 2021 |
| The Space Between Worlds* | Micaiah Johnson | December 2021 |
| Siege and Storm (Shadow and Bone Trilogy) | Leigh Bardugo | December 2021 |
| W.E.B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits Visualizing Black America | Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt Rusert (Editors) | December 2021 |
| The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien | December 2021 |
| Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone Trilogy) | Leigh Bardugo | December 2021 |
| Spinning Silver | Naomi Novik | November 2021 |
| Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows Duology) | Leigh Bardugo | November 2021 |
| Nine Perfect Strangers | Liane Moriarty | November 2021 |
| The Midnight Library | Matt Haig | November 2021 |
| Technically Wrong | Sara Wachter-Boettcher | October 2021 |
| Mexican Gothic | Silvia Moreno-Garcia | October 2021 |
| Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides | October 2021 |
| Six of Crows (Six of Crows Duology) | Leigh Bardugo | October 2021 |
| Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children series) | Seanan McGuire | September 2021 |
| Oryx and Crake | Margaret Atwood | September 2021 |
| Scythe | Neal Shusterman | August 2021 |
| Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children series) | Seanan McGuire | August 2021 |
| The Sparrow | Mary Doria Russell | August 2021 |
| In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children series) | Seanan McGuire | August 2021 |
| Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children series) | Seanan McGuire | July 2021 |
| Down Among the Sticks and Bones (Wayward Children series) | Seanan McGuire | July 2021 |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | July 2021 |
| The Vanishing Half* | Brit Bennett | July 2021 |
| Invisible Women: Data Bias in a world designed for Men | Caroline Criado-Perez | July 2021 |
| A Visit from the Goon Squad | Jennifer Eagan | July 2021 |
| #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice | Sarah J. Jackson, Moya Bailey, and Brooke Foucault Welles | June 2021 |
| Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children series) | Seanan McGuire | June 2021 |
| Kindred* | Octavia Butler | June 2021 |
| Middlegame | Seanan McGuire | June 2021 |
| Living a Feminist Life | Sara Ahmed | June 2021 |
| The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread* | Cailin O’Connor and James Owen | May 2021 |
| The Three Body Problem | Liu Cixin | May 2021 |
| The Water Dancer | Ta-Nehisi Coates | May 2021 |
| The Calculating Stars | Mary Robinette Kowal | April 2021 |
| The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes | Suzanne Collins | April 2021 |
| The Housekeeper and the Professor | Yoko Agawa | April 2021 |
| Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | March 2021 |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four* | George Orwell | March 2021 |
| Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo | March 2021 |
| Heavy: An American Memoir* | Kiese Laymon | Feb. 2021 |
| Sword of Destiny (The Witcher series) | Andrzej Sapkowski | Feb. 2021 |
| The Plot Against America | Philip Roth | Jan. 2021 |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Jan. 2021 |
| Dune | Frank Herbert | Jan. 2021 |
| Reverie* | Ryan La Sala | Jan. 2021 |
| Before we were yours | Lisa Wingate | Jan. 2021 |
| The Alice Network | Kate Quinn | Jan. 2021 |
| The Age of Miracles | Karen Thompson Walker | Dec. 2020 | The Last Wish (The Witcher series) | Andrzej Sapkowski | Dec. 2020 |
| Year One (Chronicles of the One Series) | Nora Roberts | Dec. 2020 |
| Binti | Nnedi Okorafor | Nov. 2020 |
| There there | Tommy Orange | Nov. 2020 |
| So you want to talk about race | Ijeoma Oluo | Oct. 2020 |
| Something Wicked this way comes | Ray Bradbury | Oct. 2020 |
| The Lager Queen of Minnesota | J. Ryan Stradal | Oct. 2020 |
| Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the Cafeteria? | Beverly Daniel Tatum | Oct. 2020 |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson | Oct. 2020 |
| Braiding Sweetgrass | Robin Wall Kimmerer | Sept. 2020 |
| When the Emperor was Divine* | Julie Otsuka | Sept. 2020 |
| Uprooted* | Naomi Novik | Sept. 2020 |
| Scarlet Odyssey | C.T. Rwizi | Aug 2020 |
| The Road | Cormac McCarthy | Aug 2020 |
| Station Eleven | Emily St. John Mandel | Aug 2020 |
| Find Me | Laura van Den Berg | July 2020 |
| The Name of the Wind | Patrick Rothfuss | July 2020 |
| The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness | Michelle Alexander | June 2020 |
| Blindness | José Saramago | June 2020 |
| The Princess Bride | William Goldman | June 2020 |
| A Conjuring of Light (Shades of Magic Series) | V.E. Schwab | June 2020 |
| The Stone Sky (Broken Earth Series) | N.K. Jemisin | May 2020 |
| Well-Read Black Girl (An Anthology) | Gloria Edim (Editor) | May 2020 |
| Parasite | Mira Grant | May 2020 |
| Lucky Boy | Shanthi Sekaran | May 2020 |
| The Obelisk Gate (Broken Earth Series) | N.K. Jemisin | May 2020 |
| Mistborn: The Final Empire | Brandon Sanderson | April 2020 |
| Ready Player One | Ernest Cline | April 2020 |
| The Mothers | Brit Bennett | April 2020 |
| Funny, You Don’t Look Autistic | Michael McCreary | April 2020 |
| Stories of Your Life and Others | Ted Chiang | March 2020 |
| Seraphina | Rachel Hartman | March 2020 |
| Little Fires Everywhere | Celeste Ng | March 2020 |
| The Fifth Season (Broken Earth Series)* | N.K. Jemisin | Feb. 2020 |
| Ask Again, Yes | Mary Beth Keane | Feb. 2020 |
| Mathematics for Human Flourishing | Francis Su | Jan. 2020 |
| The Elegance of the Hedgehog | Muriel Barbery | Jan. 2020 |
| A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic Series) | V.E. Schwab | Jan. 2020 |
| Becoming | Michelle Obama | Jan. 2020 |
| All Systems Red | Martha Wells | Jan. 2020 |
| Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls | Alissa Nutting | Dec. 2019 |
| Where the Crawdads Sing* | Delia Owens | Dec. 2019 |
| A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic Series) | V. E. Schwab | Dec. 2019 |
| Fun Home | Alison Bechdel | Nov. 2019 |
| Just Mercy* | Bryan Stevenson | Nov. 2019 |
| H is for Hawk* | Helen Macdonald | Nov. 2019 |
| Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood* | Trevor Noah | Nov. 2019 |
| The Power | Naomi Alderman | Oct. 2019 |
| Childhood’s End | Arthur C. Clarke | Oct. 2019 |
| The Book of Unknown Americans | Cristina Henriquez | Oct. 2019 |
| Educated: A Memoir | Tara Westover | Oct. 2019 |
| The Shining | Stephen King | Oct. 2019 |
| Enrique’s Journey* | Sonia Nazario | Sept. 2019 |
| Good Omens | Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett | Sept. 2019 |
| A Gentleman in Moscow | Amor Towles | August 2019 |
| What Works for Women at Work | Joan C. Williams and Rachel Dempsey | July 2019 |
| The Power of Habit | Charles Duhigg | July 2019 |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Stieg Larsson | July 2019 |
| This Blessed Earth | Ted Genoways | July 2019 |
* It is hard for me to choose favorites, because I love so many books. Nevertheless, the starred entries are books I would not hesitate to recommend.
