On 2023-10-18 I deleted my Goodreads account and decided to manage my to-read list myself. Right now it's a lot of tagged Obsidian files that are built into a table using Dataview. This is it.
I've split into fiction and non-fiction, as well as a bunch of unsorted books too because sorting through this data extract is kinda boring. I'm going to try and keep this to one book per author because otherwise this will be fucking unmanageable.
Got a recommendation? Hit me up!
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| The House of the Spirits | Isabel Allende |
| The Wind Knows My Name | Isabel Allende |
| Sirens & Muses | Antonia Angress |
| Our Wives Under the Sea | Julia Armfield |
| Black Buck | Mateo Askaripour |
| The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood |
| Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead | Emily R. Austin |
| Bunny | Mona Awad |
| Black Swans | Eve Babitz |
| New Animal | Ella Baxter |
| Fun Home | Alison Bechdel |
| Checkout 19 | Claire-Louise Bennett |
| Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail | Ashley Herring Blake |
| We Have To Do Something | Max Booth |
| The Aleph and Other Stories | Jorge Luis Borges |
| Small Game | Blair Braverman |
| Milk Fed | Melissa Broder |
| Jillian | Halle Butler |
| Wonder Boys | Michael Chabon |
| The School for Good Mothers | Jessamine Chan |
| Stories of Your Life and Others | Ted Chiang |
| Yolk | Mary H.K. Choi |
| Disorientation | Elaine Hsieh Chou |
| Boy Parts | Eliza Clark |
| Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell | Susanna Clarke |
| The Guest | Emma Cline |
| The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho |
| Parallel Hells | Leon Craig |
| House of Leaves | Mark Z. Danielewski |
| Devil House | John Darnielle |
| This is How You Lose the Time War | Amal El-Mohtar |
| The Virgin Suicides | Jeffrey Eugenides |
| Manhunt | Gretchen Felker-Martin |
| Pizza Girl | Jean Kyoung Frazier |
| Count Zero | William Gibson |
| Olga Dies Dreaming | Xochitl Gonzalez |
| Rocannon's World | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| I Who Have Never Known Men | Jacqueline Harpman |
| Horrorstor | Grady Hendrix |
| My Best Friend's Exorcism | Grady Hendrix |
| Motherthing | Ainslie Hogarth |
| Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine | Gail Honeyman |
| Black Leopard, Red Wolf | Marlon James |
| The Vegetarian | Han Kang |
| Before the Coffee Gets Cold | Toshikazu Kawaguchi |
| A House with Good Bones | T. Kingfisher |
| Woman, Eating | Claire Kohda |
| Babel | R.F. Kuang |
| Kink | R.O. Kwon |
| Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke | Eric LaRocca |
| The Boys From Brazil | Ira Levin |
| Peach Pit | Molly Llewellyn |
| No One Is Talking About This | Patricia Lockwood |
| The Water Cure | Sophie Mackintosh |
| Station Eleven | Emily St. John Mandel |
| A Memory Called Empire | Arkady Martine |
| Sorrow and Bliss | Meg Mason |
| Hell House | Richard Matheson |
| Kraken | China Mieville |
| Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body | Megan Milks |
| Rizzio | Denise Mina |
| The Starless Sea | Erin Morgenstern |
| #thighgap | Chandler Morrison |
| Lapvona | Ottessa Moshfegh |
| Hot Stew | Fiona Mozley |
| Alecto the Ninth | Tamsyn Muir |
| Earthlings | Sayaka Murata |
| The Book of Queer Saints | Mae Murray |
| Whale | Cheon Myeong-Kwan |
| Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 | Cho Nam-joo |
| Animals Eat Each Other | Elle Nash |
| Julia | Sandra Newman |
| Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones | Torrey Peters |
| Sisters of the Vast Black | Lina Rather |
| Hidden Pictures | Jason Rekulak |
| Morbid Obsessions | Frankie Miren, Alison Rumfitt |
| My Dark Vanessa | Kate Elizabeth Russell |
| I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki | Baek Se-hee |
| Roadside Picnic | Arkady Strugatsky |
| The Books of Jacob | Olga Tokarczuk |
| Annihilation | Jeff VanderMeer |
| Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace |
| The Just City | Jo Walton |
| The Doloriad | Missouri Williams |
| Frankissstein | Jeanette Winterson |
| Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit | Jeanette Winterson |
| To Paradise | Hanya Yanagihara |
| Nightbitch | Rachel Yoder |
| Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow | Gabrielle Zevin |
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| None of the Above | Travis Alabanza |
| Ways of Seeing | John Berger |
| In Defence of Dogs | John Bradshaw |
| Man, Play and Games | Roger Caillois |
| The Combahee River Collective Statement | The Combahee River Collective |
| Self Defense | Elsa Dorlin |
| To Believe in Women | Lillian Faderman |
| Eat Like You Care | Gary L. Francione |
| The Ego and the Id | Sigmund Freud |
| The Role of Theology and Bias in Bible Translation | Rolf Furuli |
| The Dawn of Everything | David Graeber |
| Every Man for Himself and God Against All | Werner Herzog |
| Takeaway | Angela Hui |
| Why Did You Stay | Rebecca Humphries |
| The Black Jacobins | C.L.R. James |
| Sparks | Ian Johnson |
| Doppelganger | Naomi Klein |
| Raw Dog | Jamie Loftus |
| The Marriage Act | John Marrs |
| The Big Con | Mariana Mazzucato |
| I'm Glad My Mom Died | Jennette McCurdy |
| Inventing Reality | Michael Parenti |
| Conflict is Not Abuse | Sarah Schulman |
| Whipping Girl | Julia Serano |
| SCUM Manifesto | Valerie Solanas |
| Different Class | Duncan Stone |
| Word and Spirit at Play | Jean-Jacques Suurmond |
| Nobody Passes | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore |
| The Mushroom at the End of the World | Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing |
| Ultra-Processed People | Chris van Tulleken |
| Out of the Woods | Luke Turner |
| Russia Without Putin | Tony Wood |
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Call Us What We Carry | Amanda Gorman |
| while they sleep (under the bed is another country) | Raquel Salas Rivera |
| The T(y)ranny | Alison Rumfitt |
| Time Is a Mother | Ocean Vuong |