Library

Greatest Books of All Time (According to Me) The cover of a Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki, featuring illustrations hinting at a young girl, an airplane, ocean waves, a book, and trees.
To-Read

Nonfiction and Academic

Internet and Digital Theory
  • The Siren's Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource, Chris Hayes, 2025
  • A Tumblr Book: Platform and Cultures, Allison McCracken, Alexander Cho, Louisa Stein, 2020
  • The Two Revolutions, Avery Dame-Griff, 2023
  • Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet, Finn Brunton, 2013
Cultural Theory
  • Fat in Four Cultures: A Global Ethnography of Weight, Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian, 2025
  • The Normal and The Pathological, Georges Canguilhem, 1966
  • Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle, Silvia Federici, 2012
  • Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism, Robert Chapman, 2023
  • Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty, 2013
  • Against Technoableism: Rethinking who Needs Improvement, Ashley Shew, 2023
  • How to be an Anticapitalist in the 21st Century, Erik Olin Wright, 2019
  • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment without Burnout, Cal Newport, 2024
  • Men who Hate Women: The Extremism Nobody is Talking About, Laura Bates, 2020
  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer, 2013
  • The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy, Murray Bookchin, 1982
  • The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy, David Graeber, 2013
  • Consumed: The Need for Collective Change, Aja Barber, 2023
  • Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, David Graeber, 2004
  • The Cow in the Elevator: An Anthropology of Wonder, Tulasi Srinivas, 2018
Nature
  • Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature, Alexandra Brewis, Cindi Sturtzreetharan, Jessica Hardin, 2021
  • Native: Life in a Vanishing Landscape, Patrick Laurie, 2020
  • Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild, Lucy Jones, 2020
  • The Way Home: Tales from a Life Without Technology, Mark Boyle, 2019
  • A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There, Aldo Leopold, Charles W. Schwartz, 1949
  • Walden, Henry David Thoreau, 1854
  • The Enchanted Life: Unlocking the Magic of the Everyday, Sharon Blackie, 2018
Paganism and Witchcraft
  • The Anti-Consumerist Druid: How I Beat my Shopping Addiction Through Connection with Nature, Katrina Townsend, 2022
  • The Modern Craft: Powerful Voices on Witchcraft Ethics, Alice Tarbuck, Claire Askew, 2022
  • Twilight of the Godlings: The Shadowy Beginnings of Britain's Supernatural Beings, Francis Young, Claire Askew, 2023
  • Folk Witchcraft: A Guide to Lore, Land, and the Familiar Spirit for the Solitary Practitioner, Roger J. Home, 2019
Folklore
  • The Penguin Book of Ghosts , Jenniger Westwood, Jacqueline Simpson, 2008
  • Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A Map of Folk Horror , Kier-la Janisse
  • Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape , Jeremy Harte, 2022
  • The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary , Hana Videen, 2023
  • Hunt for the Shadow Wolf: The Lost History of Wolves in Britain , Derek Gow, 2024
History
  • Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History , Sidney W. Mintz, 1985
  • In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveller's Tale , Amitav Ghosh, 1993
  • Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World, Malcolm Harris, 2023
Archaeology
  • Death in Irish Prehistory, Gabriel Cooney, 2023
Memoir
  • Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen, Rebecca May Johnson, 2022
  • Journal of a Solitude, May Sarton, 1973
  • Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness, William Styron, 1990
Mental Health
  • How to Keep House While Drowning, KC Davis, 2020
  • First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Through Anxiety, Sarah Wilson, 2017

Fiction

English
  • So Not my Type, Dana Hawkins, 2025
  • Butter, Asako Yuzuki, 2017
  • A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers, 2021
  • Scythe, Neal Shusterman, 2016
  • The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey, 2012
  • Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk, 2009
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin, 2022
  • Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir, 2019
  • Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide, Rupert Holmes, 2023
  • The Farm, Joanne Ramos, 2019
  • House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski, 2000
  • Now You're One of Us, Asa Nonami, 1993
  • The Ruins, Scott Smith, 2006
  • Forests of the Night, Tanith Lee, 1989
  • The Vaster Wilds, Lauren Groff, 2023
  • The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin, 1969
  • Poison Study, Maria V. Snyder, 2005
  • A Discovery of Witches, Deborah Harkness, 2011
  • Annihilation, Jeff Vandermeer, 2014
Spanish
  • Pedro Páramo, Juan Rulfo, 1955
  • El Asombroso Viaje de Pomponio Flato, Eduardo Mendoza, 2008

Graphic Novels

Books I DNF
  • The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco. I really thought I was going to love it, but I just found it SO slow. I tried to reread it twice and no dice.