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my reading list

last updated: 06-05-26

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currently reading

  • Slumrat Rising by Warby Picus
  • From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond edited by Morty Diamond

finished reading

listed in chronological descending order

2026

  • Artemis by Andy Weir
  • Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
  • Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (reread; DNF)
  • The Enlightened Experience: Collected Teachings, Volume 1 by Lama Yeshe
  • The Accidental Buddhist by Dinty W. Moore
  • The Color Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft
  • The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
  • Along the River of Flesh by Kristopher Triana
  • Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett

2025

  • Tampa by Alissa Nutting
  • Full Brutal by Kristopher Triana
  • House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
  • Damned by Chuck Palahniuk
  • Tara: The Feminine Divine by Bokar Rinpoche
  • Girl Flesh by May Leitz
  • Fluids by May Leitz
  • The Invention of Sound by Chuck Palahniuk
  • The Whisperer in Darkness by H.P. Lovecraft
  • The Shadow over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft
  • Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
    • DNF—waiting till I get my Kobo Libra Color so I can annotate properly!
  • Gone to See the River Man by Kristopher Triana
  • The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson
  • Heir to the Empire (Star Wars: Thrawn Trilogy) by Timothy Zahn

2024

  • Light of the Jedi (Star Wars: The High Republic) by Charles Soule
  • The President’s Son by Jon Athan
  • Woom by Duncan Ralston
  • Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite

(2024 and 2025 aren’t exhaustive lists, as I didn’t start keeping track until December 2025; I probably forgot a few titles.)


to be read

politics

  • Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick
  • A Theory of Justice by John Rawls

history

  • The Iron Cage by Rashid Khalidi
  • Righteous Victims by Benny Moore

economics

  • Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
  • Economic Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell

mathematics and science

  • A First Course in Calculus by Serge Lang
  • A Book of Abstract Algebra by Charles C. Pinter
  • Journey Through Genius by William Dunham

trans studies and queer theory

  • A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States: From Margins to Mainstream edited by Carolyn Wolf-Gould, Dallas Denny, Jamison Green, Kyan Lynch
  • Current Critical Debates in the Field of Transsexual Studies edited by Oren Gozlan
  • True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Emily Skidmore
  • The Biopolitics of Gender by Jemima Repo
  • Free Women, Free Men Camille Paglia
  • Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality by Jay Prosser
  • Bodies That Matter by Judith Butler
  • Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

buddhism

  • The Enlightened Experience: Collected Teachings, Volume 2 by Lama Yeshe

world religions

  • Essential Judaism by George Robinson

horror and extreme horror

  • Pure Evil by Kristopher Triana
  • At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
  • The Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft
  • The End of Alice by A.M. Homes
  • My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
  • Again, Harder by Alice Stoehr

star wars

  • Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker by Rae Carson
  • Star Wars Legends: Dark Force Rising by Timothy Zahn
  • Star Wars: Shadow of the Sith by Adam Christopher
  • Star Wars: The Last Order by Kwame Mbalia