A list of books (and other media) I’ve read/consumed, from elementary school onward1:

(In Progress) The Book of Dragons (Collection)

(In Progress) Nekomonogatari: Shiro (Novel)

  • Tags: “Light Novel” “Supernatural”

(In Progress) The City of Brass (Novel)


Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Collection)

  • Author: Haruki Murakami
  • Completed: 2017-06-16

Broken Stars (Collection)

  • Translator: Ken Liu
  • Rating: 9/10
  • Completed: 2020-04-30T07:38:54-04:00
  • Tags: “Asian Literature” “Sci-Fi”

Conservation of Shadows (Collection)

  • Author: Yoon Ha Lee
  • Rating: 9/10
  • Completed: 2020-09-28T08:08:44-04:00
  • Tags: “Fantasy” “Linguistics” “Sci-Fi”

Exhalation: Stories (Collection)

  • Author: Ted Chiang
  • Rating: 9/10
  • Completed: 2020-08-20T08:13:26-04:00
  • Tags: “Anthology” “Asian-American” “Sci-Fi”

Invisible Planets (Collection)

  • Tags: “Asian Literature” “Sci-Fi”

LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction – Issue 6 (Collection)

Look at the Birdie (Collection)

  • Author: Kurt Vonnegut

Men Without Women (Collection)

  • Author: Haruki Murakami

Stories of Your Life And Others (Collection)

  • Author: Ted Chiang
  • Tags: “Asian-American” “Sci-Fi”

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 (Collection)

  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2020-02-11T20:15:38-05:00
  • Tags: “Sci-Fi”

The Best of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency (Collection)

  • Rating: 8/10
  • Completed: 2019-10-13T19:35:35-04:00
  • Tags: “Comedy” “Satire”

The Better of McSweeney’s (Collection)

  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2018-11-27T20:43:09-05:00
  • Tags: “Comedy” “Satire”

The Elephant Vanishes (Collection)

  • Author: Haruki Murakami

The Found and the Lost (Collection)

  • Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Completed: 2018-02-10
  • Tags: “Fantasy”

The Fox’s Tower and Other Tales (Collection)

  • Author: Yoon Ha Lee
  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2020-11-22T19:41:28-05:00
  • Tags: “Anthology” “Asian-American” “Supernatural”
  • Author: Ken Liu
  • Rating: 8/10
  • Completed: 2020-10-16T21:20:00-04:00
  • Tags: “Asian-American” “Historical” “Parenting” “Sci-Fi” “Supernatural”
  • Author: Ken Liu
  • Rating: 10/10
  • Completed: 2017-05-20
  • Tags: “Asian-American” “Fantasy” “Sci-Fi” “Silkpunk”

The Reincarnated Giant (Collection)

  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2018-10-10T20:37:46-04:00
  • Tags: “Sci-Fi”

Welcome to the Monkey House (Collection)

  • Author: Kurt Vonnegut

Where the Wild Ladies Are (Collection)

1984 (Novel)

  • Author: George Orwell

1Q84 (Novel)

  • Author: Haruki Murakami
  • Completed: 2017-03-11

5 Centimeters Per Second: One More Side (Novel)

  • Author: Makoto Shinkai
  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2019-03-12T19:35:17-04:00
  • Tags: “Depressing” “Romance”

A Lily Blooms in Another World (Novel)

  • Author: Ameko Kaeruda
  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2020-10-17T08:52:19-04:00
  • Tags: “Isekai” “Romance” “Villainess” “Yuri”

A Streetcar Named Desire (Novel)

  • Author: Tennessee Williams

A Wild Sheep Chase (Novel)

  • Author: Haruki Murakami
  • Rating: 8/10
  • Completed: 2018-06-26T19:19:20-04:00

A Wizard of Earthsea (Novel)

  • Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Completed: 2018-05-19

Acceptance (Novel)

  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2019-04-07T22:20:14-04:00
  • Tags: “Catastrophe” “Supernatural”

After Life (Novel)

  • Author: Simon Funk
  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2019-10-10T19:24:25-04:00
  • Tags: “Sci-Fi”

Altered Carbon (Novel)

  • Author: Richard K. Morgan
  • Tags: “Cyberpunk”

American Gods (Novel)

  • Author: Neil Gaiman
  • Rating: 8/10
  • Completed: 2019-12-26T00:08:19-05:00
  • Tags: “Supernatural”

Anathem (Novel)

  • Author: Neal Stephenson
  • Tags: “Catastrophe” “Sci-Fi”

Ancillary Justice (Novel)

  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2020-08-13T08:13:47-04:00
  • Tags: “Drama” “Sci-Fi”

Animal Farm (Novel)

  • Author: George Orwell

Annihilation (Novel)

  • Author: Jeff VanderMeer
  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2019-04-06T22:37:43-04:00
  • Tags: “Catastrophe” “Supernatural”

Authority (Novel)

  • Author: Jeff VanderMeer
  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2019-04-07T15:47:02-04:00
  • Tags: “Catastrophe” “Psychological”

Bakemonogatari, Part 1 (Novel)

  • Author: Nisio Isin
  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2019-11-23T20:27:08-05:00
  • Tags: “Romance” “School” “Supernatural”

Bakemonogatari, Part 2 (Novel)

  • Author: Nisio Isin
  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2019-11-24T20:27:33-05:00
  • Tags: “Romance” “School” “Supernatural”

Bakemonogatari, Part 3 (Novel)

  • Author: Nisio Isin
  • Rating: 8/10
  • Completed: 2019-12-05T19:52:13-05:00
  • Tags: “Romance” “School” “Supernatural”

Because I’m a Woman, My Sexist Party Leader Kicked Me Out, So I Teamed Up With a Mythical Sorceress (Novel)

  • Author: Ameko Kaeruda
  • Rating: 10/10
  • Completed: 2019-10-27T21:43:01-05:00
  • Tags: “Comedy” “Fantasy” “Satire”

Beloved (Novel)

  • Author: Toni Morrison

Brave New World (Novel)

  • Author: Aldous Huxley

Carrie (Novel)

  • Author: Stephen King

Chemistry (Novel)

  • Author: Weike Wang
  • Rating: 8/10
  • Completed: 2019-09-19T18:30:19-04:00
  • Tags: “Asian-American”

China Rich Girlfriend (Novel)

  • Author: Kevin Kwan
  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2018-08-00

Circe (Novel)

  • Rating: 9/10
  • Completed: 2020-08-06T08:17:26-04:00
  • Tags: “Mythology”

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (Novel)

  • Author: Haruki Murakami

Convenience Store Woman (Novel)

  • Author: Sayaka Murata
  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2018-07-29T16:53:30-04:00

Crazy Rich Asians (Novel)

  • Author: Kevin Kwan
  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2018-08-00

Cryptonomicon (Novel)

  • Author: Neal Stephenson

Daemon (Novel)

  • Author: Daniel Suarez

Death’s End (Novel)

  • Author: Cixin Liu
  • Completed: 2017-01-00

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Novel)

  • Author: Philip K. Dick

Dune (Novel)

  • Author: Frank Herbert
  • Rating: 10/10
  • Completed: 2017-08-17

Dune Messiah (Novel)

  • Author: Frank Herbert

Ender’s Game (Novel)

  • Author: Orson Scott Card

Eragon (Novel)

  • Author: Christopher Paolini

Flowers for Algernon (Novel)

  • Author: Daniel Keyes

Frankenstein (Novel)

  • Author: Mary Shelley

Freedom™ (Novel)

  • Author: Daniel Suarez

Gifts (Novel)

  • Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2020-02-15T13:55:43-05:00
  • Tags: “Fantasy”

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Novel)

  • Author: Haruki Murakami

Hear the Wind Sing (Novel)

  • Author: Haruki Murakami
  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2019-05-21T20:32:15-04:00

Heart of Darkness (Novel)

  • Author: Joseph Conrad

Hollow (Novel)

  • Author: Owen Egerton
  • Rating: 8/10
  • Completed: 2019-05-27T21:39:50-04:00

I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (Novel)

  • Author: Yoru Sumino
  • Rating: 9/10
  • Completed: 2019-01-03T21:17:36-05:00

I, Robot (Novel)

  • Author: Issac Asimov

If Cats Disappeared From the World (Novel)

  • Author: Genki Kawamura
  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2019-02-05T21:29:02-05:00

Inferno (Novel)

  • Author: Dante Alighieri

Into the Wild (Novel)

  • Author: Jon Krakauer

Invisible Man (Novel)

  • Author: Ralph Ellison

Kafka on the Shore (Novel)

  • Author: Haruki Murakami

Kimi no na wa. Another Side: Earthbound (Novel)

  • Author: Makoto Shinkai

Kizumonogatari (Novel)

  • Author: Nisio Isin
  • Rating: 8/10
  • Completed: 2019-12-14T22:13:33-05:00

Legends of the Condor Heroes 1: A Hero Born (Novel)

  • Author: Jin Yong
  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2019-01-28T23:12:42-05:00

Life of Pi (Novel)

  • Author: Yann Martel

Love in the Time of Cholera (Novel)

  • Author: Gabriel García Márquez

Mariel of Redwall: A Tale from Redwall (Novel)

  • Author: Brian Jacques
  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2019-04-29T21:33:05-04:00

Martin the Warrior (Novel)

  • Author: Brian Jacques
  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2019-04-29T21:33:51-04:00

Metamorphosis (Novel)

  • Author: Franz Kafka

Mossflower (Novel)

  • Author: Brian Jacques
  • Completed: 2018-06-02

Mythology (Novel)

  • Author: Edith Hamilton

Nekomonogatari: Kuro (Novel)

  • Author: Nisio Isin
  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2020-09-04T15:54:21-04:00
  • Tags: “Light Novel” “School” “Supernatural”

Neuromancer (Novel)

  • Author: William Gibson
  • Rating: 10/10

Night (Novel)

  • Author: Elie Wiesel

Ninefox Gambit (Novel)

  • Author: Yoon Ha Lee
  • Rating: 8/10
  • Completed: 2019-05-02T22:32:52-04:00

Nisemonogatari, Part 1 (Novel)

  • Author: Nisio Isin
  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2020-01-14T23:50:37-05:00

Nisemonogatari, Part 2 (Novel)

  • Author: Nisio Isin
  • Rating: 8/10
  • Completed: 2020-01-28T23:06:24-05:00

Norwegian Wood (Novel)

  • Author: Haruki Murakami

Notes of a Crocodile (Novel)

  • Author: Qiu Miaojin
  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2020-07-30T22:39:27-04:00
  • Tags: “Asian Literature” “College” “Coming of Age” “LGBTQ”

Of Mice and Men (Novel)

  • Author: John Steinbeck

Oryx and Crake (Novel)

  • Author: Margaret Atwood
  • Completed: 2017-03-17

Outcast of Redwall (Novel)

  • Author: Brian Jacques
  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2019-04-29T21:34:27-04:00

Pachinko (Novel)

  • Author: Min Jin Lee
  • Rating: 9/10
  • Completed: 2020-05-16T08:48:07-04:00
  • Tags: “Drama” “Historical”

Pain, Pain, Go Away (Novel)

  • Author: Sugaru Miaki
  • Rating: 10/10
  • Completed: 2020-09-04T08:00:42-04:00
  • Tags: “Abuse” “Depressing” “Psychological” “Romance” “Suicide”

Parasite In Love (Novel)

  • Author: Sugaru Miaki
  • Rating: 9/10
  • Completed: 2020-08-31T08:01:11-04:00
  • Tags: “Age Gap” “Depressing” “Romance” “Suicide”

Phoenix Extravagant (Novel)

  • Author: Yoon Ha Lee
  • Rating: 9/10
  • Completed: 2020-10-25T12:24:49-04:00
  • Tags: “Action” “Asian-American” “Fantasy” “Historical”

Pinball, 1973 (Novel)

  • Author: Haruki Murakami
  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2019-05-23T21:26:09-04:00

Player Piano (Novel)

  • Author: Kurt Vonnegut
  • Completed: 2018-10-31

Ptolemy’s Gate (Novel)

  • Author: Jonathan Stroud

Quicksilver (Novel)

  • Author: Neal Stephenson

REAMDE (Novel)

  • Author: Neal Stephenson

Raven Stratagem (Novel)

  • Author: Yoon Ha Lee
  • Rating: 8/10
  • Completed: 2019-08-08T20:02:14-04:00

Red Scarf Girl (Novel)

  • Author: Ji-li Jiang

Redwall (Novel)

  • Author: Brian Jacques

Revenant Gun (Novel)

  • Author: Yoon Ha Lee
  • Rating: 9/10
  • Completed: 2019-10-06T20:40:54-04:00

Seveneves (Novel)

  • Author: Neal Stephenson
  • Rating: 8/10
  • Completed: 2020-04-11T09:31:21-04:00
  • Tags: “Catastrophe” “Sci-Fi”

Severance (Novel)

  • Author: Ling Ma
  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2019-06-20T22:04:49-04:00

Siddhartha (Novel)

  • Author: Hermann Hesse

Slaughterhouse Five (Novel)

  • Author: Kurt Vonnegut

Snow Crash (Novel)

  • Author: Neal Stephenson
  • Rating: 9/10

Snow Falling on Cedars (Novel)

  • Author: David Guterson

Song of Solomon (Novel)

  • Author: Toni Morrison
  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2019-03-01T18:11:19-05:00

South of the Border, West of the Sun (Novel)

  • Author: Haruki Murakami

Starting Over (Novel)

  • Author: Sugaru Miaki
  • Rating: 9/10
  • Completed: 2020-08-25T08:12:02-04:00
  • Tags: “Depressing” “Romance” “Supernatural” “Time Travel”

Storm Front (Dresden Files) (Novel)

  • Author: Jim Butcher

Tales from Earthsea (Novel)

  • Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Rating: 8/10
  • Completed: 2019-03-19T22:44:24-04:00

Tehanu (Novel)

  • Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Rating: 8/10
  • Completed: 2019-06-22T22:25:04-04:00

The Amber Spyglass (Novel)

  • Author: Philip Pullman
  • Tags: “Fantasy” “Religion”

The Amulet of Samarkand (Novel)

  • Author: Jonathan Stroud

The Bellmaker (Novel)

  • Author: Brian Jacques
  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2019-05-25T21:57:45-04:00

The Broken Kingdoms (Novel)

  • Author: N.K. Jemisin
  • Rating: 8/10
  • Completed: 2019-07-07T23:38:31-04:00

The Burning God (Novel)

The City We Became (Novel)

The Dark Forest (Novel)

  • Author: Cixin Liu
  • Rating: 9/10

The Diamond Age (Novel)

  • Author: Neal Stephenson

The Dispossessed (Novel)

  • Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Rating: 6/10
  • Completed: 2017-04-01

The Dragon Republic (Novel)

  • Author: R.F. Kuang
  • Rating: 9/10
  • Completed: 2020-01-05T22:05:41-05:00
  • Tags: “Fantasy” “Historical”

The Farthest Shore (Novel)

  • Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Rating: 8/10
  • Completed: 2019-06-15T20:33:32-04:00

The Fifth Season (Novel)

  • Author: N.K. Jemisin
  • Rating: 9/10
  • Completed: 2019-05-10T19:22:28-04:00

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Novel)

  • Author: Stieg Larsson

The Girl Who Played With Fire (Novel)

  • Author: Stieg Larsson

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Novel)

  • Author: Stieg Larsson

The Golden Compass (Novel)

  • Author: Philip Pullman

The Golem’s Eye (Novel)

  • Author: Jonathan Stroud

The Great Gatsby (Novel)

  • Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Handmaid’s Tale (Novel)

  • Author: Margaret Atwood

The Heart Goes Last (Novel)

  • Author: Margaret Atwood
  • Rating: 8/10
  • Completed: 2018-05-17

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Novel)

  • Author: Douglas Adams

The Hundred Secret Senses (Novel)

  • Author: Amy Tan

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Novel)

  • Author: N.K. Jemisin
  • Rating: 8/10
  • Completed: 2019-05-17T08:01:45-04:00

The Invisibility Cloak (Novel)

  • Author: Ge Fei
  • Completed: 2017-07-22

The Joy Luck Club (Novel)

  • Author: Amy Tan

The Kingdom of Gods (Novel)

  • Author: N.K. Jemisin
  • Rating: 8/10
  • Completed: 2020-03-03T21:37:43-05:00
  • Tags: “Fantasy”

The Lathe of Heaven (Novel)

The Left Hand of Darkness (Novel)

  • Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Rating: 8/10
  • Completed: 2018-07-19T21:07:03-04:00

The Lost Years of Merlin (Novel)

  • Author: T. A. Barron
  • Tags: “Fantasy”

The Martian (Novel)

  • Author: Andy Weir
  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2018-10-26T20:03:45-04:00

The Name of the Wind (Novel)

  • Author: Patrick Rothfuss

The Night is Short, Walk on Girl (Novel)

  • Author: Tomihiko Morimi
  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2019-11-06T18:47:34-05:00

The Obelisk Gate (Novel)

  • Author: N.K. Jemisin
  • Rating: 8/10
  • Completed: 2019-06-06T21:01:36-04:00

The Odyssey (Novel)

  • Author: Homer

The Other Wind (Novel)

  • Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Rating: 9/10
  • Completed: 2019-03-15T23:19:31-04:00

The Plum in the Golden Vase (Jin ping mei) (Novel)

  • Translator: David Tod Roy

The Poppy War (Novel)

  • Author: R.F. Kuang
  • Rating: 9/10
  • Completed: 2019-12-14T00:32:17-05:00

The Power of One (Novel)

  • Author: Bryce Courtenay

The Subtle Knife (Novel)

  • Author: Philip Pullman
  • Tags: “Fantasy” “Religion”

The Testaments (Novel)

  • Author: Margaret Atwood
  • Rating: 9/10
  • Completed: 2020-10-09T21:01:40-04:00
  • Tags: “Religion” “Speculative”

The Three-Body Problem (Novel)

  • Author: Cixin Liu

The Tombs of Atuan (Novel)

  • Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Rating: 8/10
  • Completed: 2019-06-10T21:28:49-04:00

The Waking Land (Novel)

  • Author: Callie Bates
  • Completed: 2017-07-16

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Novel)

  • Author: Haruki Murakami

The Wise Man’s Fear (Novel)

  • Author: Patrick Rothfuss
  • Completed: 2018-06-01

Three Days of Happiness (Novel)

  • Author: Sugaru Miaki
  • Rating: 10/10
  • Completed: 2020-10-22T08:12:59-04:00
  • Tags: “Depressing” “Light Novel” “Romance” “Supernatural”

To Kill a Mockingbird (Novel)

  • Author: Harper Lee

Walkaway (Novel)

  • Author: Cory Doctorow
  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2018-10-07T13:49:32-04:00

Weathering With You (Novel)

  • Author: Makoto Shinkai
  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2019-11-20T19:00:12-05:00

You Shine in the Moonlit Night (Novel)

  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2019-09-26T19:08:34-04:00

Your Story (Novel)

Antigone (Play)

  • Author: Sophocles

The Crucible (Play)

  • Author: Arthur Miller

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus (Play)

  • Author: Christopher Marlowe

2086 (Short Story)

A Layer of Catherines (Short Story)

A Voyage to Queensthroat (Short Story)

Abandoning a Cat (Short Story)

  • Author: Haruki Murakami
  • Rating: 8/10
  • Completed: 2019-10-12T13:28:33-04:00

Charms (Short Story)

Dying Lessons (Short Story)

Eventual Consistency (Short Story)

  • Author: Zero HP Lovecraft
  • Rating: 8/10
  • Completed: 2020-09-09T08:17:29-04:00

Flash Crash (Short Story)

Foxfire, Foxfire (Short Story)

Give the Family My Love (Short Story)

God Shaped Hole (Short Story)

  • Author: Zero HP Lovecraft
  • Rating: 8/10
  • Completed: 2020-07-03T15:33:40-04:00
  • Tags: “Cyberpunk” “Horror”

Green New Deal (Short Story)

  • Author: Zero HP Lovecraft
  • Rating: 7/10
  • Completed: 2020-09-09T08:16:01-04:00
  • Tags: “Dystopia” “Speculative” “Suicide”

Hair (Short Story)

In the Absence of Instructions to the Contrary (Short Story)

In-Body (Short Story)

Key Performance Indicators (Short Story)

  • Author: Zero HP Lovecraft
  • Rating: 8/10
  • Completed: 2020-09-09T08:16:59-04:00
  • Tags: “Cyberpunk” “Dystopia”

Kino (Short Story)

Like Faded Joy (Short Story)

Lulu (Short Story)

Murmuration (Short Story)

Omakase (Short Story)

Relative Fortune (Short Story)

Running Shoes (Short Story)

  • Author: Ken Liu
  • Completed: 2020-09-21T22:40:50-04:00
  • Tags: “Asian-American” “Supernatural”

Techno-Rat (Short Story)

The Battle of Candle Arc (Short Story)

  • Author: Yoon Ha Lee
  • Rating: 8/10
  • Completed: 2020-09-21T23:00:40-04:00
  • Tags: “Sci-Fi”

The First Emperor’s Games (Short Story)

  • Author: Ma Boyong
  • Translator: Ken Liu
  • Rating: 9/10
  • Completed: 2020-04-29T07:30:31-04:00
  • Tags: “Comedy” “Historical” “Sci-Fi”

The Gig Economy (Short Story)

The Kingdom That Failed (Short Story)

The Longest Season in the Garden of the Tea-Fish (Short Story)

The Poster (Short Story)

The Snow of Jinyang (Short Story)

The Women of Our Occupation (Short Story)

Them Ships (Short Story)

Thus, A New Enemy Appears Before Him. (Short Story)

  • Rating: 8/10
  • Completed: 2020-10-18T15:26:16-04:00
  • Tags: “Comedy”

To Dad and to Someone in Memory (Short Story)

  • Author: Yoru Sumino
  • Rating: 8/10
  • Completed: 2020-12-07T23:03:10-05:00
  • Tags: “Depressing” “Parenting”

Tru Luv (Short Story)

With the Beatles (Short Story)

  1. at least, when I can remember them.