Books I’ve Read

I started tracking books I read in Goodreads in 2008, but I kept forgetting to update the my profile & when Amazon bought Goodreads I decided that was as good a time as any to delete my account. For a bit after, I tried to keep track of what I read in various notebooks, but, as with Goodreads, I’d either forget to write down what I had read, or I’d lose the notebook. So now, beginning in 2014, I’m going to try to collect what I’ve read here. I only note the month and year that I complete a book, not when I started it.

So far it seems to be working.

**2024**

  1. LaValle, Victor. The Changeling. 2/2024

**2023**

  1. Solan, Robin. Mr. Menumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. 7/2023
  2. Riggs, Ben. Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons. 3/2023
  3. Doyle, Arthur Conan. A Study In Scarlet. 1/2023

**2022**

  1. Johnson, Steven. Enemy of all Mankind. 11/2022
  2. Russell, Ralph Robert Goddard. My Father’s Face: A Memoir. 9/2022
  3. Bendis, Brian Michael. Pearl, Vol. 2. 9/2022
  4. Connelly, Michael. The Concrete Blonde. 9/2022
  5. Connelly, Michael. The Black Ice. 8/2022
  6. Connelly, Michael. The Black Echo. 7/2022
  7. Doyle, Mike. Morning Glass: The Adventures of Legendary Waterman Mike Doyle. 6/2022
  8. Bendis, Brian Michael. Pearl, Vol. 1. 5/2022
  9. Gould, Howard Michael. Last Looks. 5/2022
  10. Bolaño, Roberto. Distant Star. 3/2022
  11. Mausse, Tristan. Displacement Myth Approach: A Fantastic Acid Book. 2/2022
  12. Orange, Tommy. There There. 1/2022

**2021**

  1. Nestor, James. Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What The Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves. 10/2021
  2. Easwaran, Eknath (trans). The Bhagavad Gita. 9/2021
  3. Andreini, Marc. The Gift: A Collage of Stories from a California Surfboard Builder and his Community. 7/2021
  4. Talbot, David. Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love. 6/2021
  5. Thompson, Ahmir. Mo’ Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove. 3/2021

**2020**

  1. Huntington, Forest. Van Life: Your Home on the Road. 12/2020
  2. Snyder, Gary. Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems. 08/2020
  3. Suzuki, Shunryu. Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind. 08/2020
  4. White, Jonathan. Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean. 07/2020
  5. Brown, Daniel James. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. 04/2020
  6. Steinbeck, John. In Dubious Battle. 04/2020

**2019**

  1. Margaret Kilgallen: That’s Where the Beauty Is. 12/2019
  2. Chandler, Raymond. The High Window. 12/2019
  3. Keefe, Patrick Radden. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland. 09/2019
  4. Gyasi, Yaa. Homegoing. 07/2019
  5. Baldwin, James. If Beale Street Could Talk. 05/2019
  6. Tyson, Neil deGrasse. Astrophysics for People  in a Hurry. 05/2019
  7. Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. 04/2019
  8. Ford, Sean. Only Skin: New Tales of the Slow Apocalpyse. 03/2019
  9. Moshfegh, Ottessa. My Year of Rest and Relaxion. 01/2019
  10. Joyce, James. Dubliners. 01/2019

** 2018 **

  1. Una. Becoming Unbecoming. 11/2018
  2. Bourdain, Anthony. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. 07/2018
  3. L’Engle, Madeleine. A Wrinkle In Time. 03/2018
  4. Sacharoff, Shanta Nimbark. Other Avenues are Possible: Legacy of the People’s Food System of the San Francisco Bay Area. 02/2018
  5. Eggers, Dave. The Circle. 02/2018
  6. Rojas, Clare. Everything Flowers. 01/2018

** 2017 **

  1. Tomalin, Nicholas & Ron Hall. The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst. 12/2017
  2. Benjes-Small, Candice & Rebecca K. Miller. The New Instruction Librarian. 11/2017
  3. US Sailing. Basic Keelboat: The National Standard for Quality Sailing Instruction. 09/2017
  4. Cousteau, Jean-Michel. My Father, the Captain: My Life with Jacques Cousteau. 08/2017
  5. Buchanan, Heidi E. & Beth A. McDonough. The One-Shot Library Instruction Survival Guide. 08/2017
  6. Hannold, Alex. Alone on the Wall. 06/2017
  7. Lyle, Erick (ed). Streetopia. 05/2017
  8. Nguyen, Viet Thanh. The Sympathizer. 04/2017
  9. Bell, W. Kamau. The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell (ARC). 02/2017
  10. Michener, James A. Chesapeake. 01/2017

** 2016 **

  1. Olney, Ross R. The Young Sportsman’s Guide to Surfing. 10/2016
  2. Bach, Richard. Jonathan Livingston Seagull. 09/2016
  3. Heinz, Wayne. Catch Rockfish, Lincod, and Other Bottomfish. 09/2016
  4. Sheely, Terry W. Bait-Fishing for Trout. 08/2016
  5. Finnegan, William. Barbarian Days. 08/2016
  6. Steinbeck, John. Of Mice And Men. 07/2016
  7. McCarthy, Cormac. All The Pretty Horses. 07/2016
  8. Jackson, Blair. Garcia: An American Life. 06/2016
  9. Kobek, Jarrett. I Hate The Internet. 05/2016
  10. Baudrillard, Jean. America. 03/2016
  11. Fante, John. West Of Rome. 02/2016
  12. Costeau, Jacques-Yves. The Silent World. 01/2016

** 2015 **

  1. Steinbeck, John. Cannery Row. 12/2015
  2. Kolbert, Elizabeth. The Sixth Extinction. 12/2015
  3. Palumbi, Stephen R. & Carolyn Sotka. The Death & Life of Monterey Bay. 12/2015
  4. Cunningham, Liz. Ocean Country. 11/2015
  5. Steinbeck, John. East of Eden. 10/2015
  6. Kaiser, James. Yosemite: The Complete Guide. 10/2015
  7. Kaling, Mindy. Is Everyone Hanging Out With Me? 09/2015.
  8. Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. 09/2015
  9. Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid’s Tale. 09/2015
  10. Fletcher, Colin. The Man Who Walked Through Time. 08/2015
  11. Lopez, Gerry. Surf Is Where You Find It. 08/2015
  12. Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me. 07/2015
  13. Weschler, Lawrence. Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees. 06/2015
  14. Flynn, Gillian. Gone Girl. 05/2015
  15. Gordon, Kim. Girl in a Band. 05/2015
  16. Rimbaud, Arthur. A Season in Hell & The Drunken Boat. 04/2015
  17. Drury, Bob & Tom Clavin. The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, an American Legend. 04/2015
  18. Gilliam, Harold. Weather of the San Francisco Bay Region (California Natural History Guides 63). 03/2015
  19. Doyle, Tom. Man on the Run: Paul McCartney in the 1970s. 03/2015
  20. Ruen, Max. A Dirty Trade. 02/2015
  21. Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit. 02/2015
  22. Lynch, David. Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity. 01/2015
  23. Muir, John. My First Summer in the Sierra. 01/2015
  24. Baldessari, John. More Than You Wanted to Know About John Baldessari, Vol. 1. 01/2015

** 2014 **

  1. Decker, Barbara and Robert. Road Guide to Death Valley National Park. 12/2014
  2. Clowes, Daniel. Wilson. 12/2014
  3. Moore, Alan. V for Vendetta. 12/2014
  4. Lowenthal, Steve. Dance of Death: The Life of John Fahey, American Guitarist. 12/2014
  5. Ruen, Max. The Crooked Finger. 09/2014
  6. Matsen, Brad. Jacques Cousteau: The Sea King. 08/2014
  7. Abbey, Edward. Desert Solitaire. 08/2014
  8. Simon, David. Homicide. 07/2014
  9. Thoreau, Henry David. Walden. 05/2014
  10. Felch, Jason & Ralph Frammolino. Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World’s Richest Museum. 05/2014
  11. Kilham, Benjamin. Out on a Limb: What Black Bears Have Taught Me about Intelligence and Intuition. 03/2014
  12. Lesh, Phil. Searching for the Sound. 03/2014
  13. Roberts, Suzanne. Almost Somewhere. 02/2014

** 2013 **

  1. Doyle, Arthur Conan. A Study In Scarlet. 11/2013
  2. Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Sign of the Four. 11/2013
  3. Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. 10/2013
  4. Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol. 09/2013
  5. Marx, Karl. The Communist Manifesto. 09/2013
  6. Young, Neil. Waging Heavy Peace. 08/2013
  7. Stryker, Cole. Hacking the Future. 04/2013
  8. Beamish, Christian. The Voyage of the Cormorant. 03/2013
  9. Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. 03/2013

** 2012 **

  1. Wolfe, Tom. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. 11/2012
  2. Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. 10/2012
  3. Fotheringham, William. Merckx: Half Man, Half Bike. 08/2012
  4. Fuller, R. Buckminster. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. 06/2012
  5. Kerouac, Jack. The Dharma Bums. 06/2012
  6. Petersen, Grant. Just Ride: A Radically Practical Guide to Riding Your Bike. 06/2012
  7. Donahue, Heather. Growgirl: Once Upon a Time She Made The Blair Witch Project. Then She Went to Pot. Literally. 03/2012

** 2011 **

  1. Horowitz, Anthony. The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel. 12/2011
  2. Casey, Susan. The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean. 11/2011
  3. Philbrick, Nathaniel. Why Read Moby-Dick?. 11/2011
  4. Murakami, Haruki. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. 09/2011
  5. Deutsch, Rick. One Best Hike: Yosemite’s Half Dome. 08/2011
  6. Smith, Arthur C. The Natural History of the San Francisco Bay Region (California Natural History Guides). 06/2011
  7. Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick. 05/2011
  8. Santis, Marie De. California Currents: An Exploration of the Ocean’s Pleasures, Mysteries, and Dilemmas. 05/2011
  9. Starr, Kevin. California: A History. 04/2011
  10. Casey, Susan. The Devil’s Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America’s Great White Sharks. 03/2011
  11. Colendich, George. Ding Repair Scriptures. 02/2011

** 2010 **

  1. Conners, Peter. White Hand Society: The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg. 12/2010
  2. Weisbecker, Allan. In Search of Captain Zero: A Surfer’s Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road. 12/2010
  3. Brautigan, Richard. The Abortion: An Historical Romance, 1966. 08/2010
  4. Bukowski, Charles. Ham on Rye. 08/2010
  5. Steinbeck, John. Travels with Charley: In Search of America. 07/2010
  6. McGann, Bill. The Story of the Tour de France, Volume 2: 1965-2007. 05/2010

** 2009 **

  1. McGann, Bill. The Story of the Tour de France, Volume 1: 1903-1964. 10/2009

** 2008 **

  1. Goossen, E.C. Stuart Davis. 12/2008
  2. Heatley, David. My Brain is Hanging Upside Down. 12/2008
  3. Auster, Paul. Man in the Dark. 10/2008
  4. Kerouac, Jack. On the Road. 09/2008
  5. Novalis. Hymns to the Night. 09/2008
  6. Daniel, Bill. Mostly True: The Story of Bozo Texino. 07/2008
  7. Francois, Leydet,. The Last Redwoods and the Parkland of Redwood Creek. 06/2008
  8. Watts, Alan. Zen and the Beat Way. 06/2008
  9. Borges, Jorge Luis. Labyrinths. 05/2008
  10. Brautigan, Richard. A Confederate General From Big Sur. 04/2008
  11. Foucault, Michel. This is Not a Pipe. 04/2008
  12. Goldblatt, Andrew. The Giants and the Dodgers: Four Cities, Two Teams, One Rivalry. 03/2008
  13. London, Barbara. A Short Course In Canon Photography: A Guide To Great Pictures. 03/2008
  14. Miller, Henry. Stand Still Like the Hummingbird. 03/2008
  15. Nabokov, Vladimir. The Eye. 03/2008
  16. Pynchon, Thomas. The Crying of Lot 49. 03/2008