Book Log

A Living Log of Books That Have Entered My Life

2026

An Ethical Guide to Murder – Jenny Morris – 1/5/26

2025

The Year of Less (Re-read) – Cait Flanders – 12/19/25

Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer – 12/9/25

Get Good With Money – Tiffany Aliche – 11/25/25

Never Rescue a Rogue – Virginia Heath – 8/20/25

My Roommate Is a Vampire – Jenna Levine – 8/15/25

The Neighbor Favor – Kristina Forest – 8/12/25

I Hope This Finds You Well – Natalie Sue – 8/10/25

Without You, There Is No Us (Re-read) – Suki Kim – 8/4/25

The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man’s Quest to Be a Better Husband – David Finch – 7/30/25

Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America’s Stolen Land – Noé Álvarez – 7/21/25

The Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run – Martinus Evans – 7/21/25

Fat Girls Hiking: An Inclusive Guide to Getting Outdoors at Any Size or Ability – Summer Michaud-Skog – 6/23/25

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail – Cheryl Strayed – 6/20/25

The Fruit Cure: The Story of Extreme Wellness Turned Sour – Jacqueline Alnes – 6/6/25

The Backyard Bird Chronicles – Amy Tan – 5/29/25

Narcotopia: In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel That Survived the War on Drugs – Patrick Winn – 5/29/25

Raised by a Serial Killer: The Story of a Girl Who Survived Her Father – April Balascio – 5/23/25

Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts – Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard – 5/20/25

The Woman in Me – Britney Spears – 5/18/25

Solito: A Memoir – Javier Zamora – 5/16/25

Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education – Sola Mahfouz (with Malaina Kapoor) – 5/13/25

Narcas: The Secret Rise of Women in Latin America’s Cartels – Deborah Bonello – 5/12/25

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism – Amanda Montell – 5/9/25

Hidden Figures – Margot Lee Shetterly – 5/7/25

The Natural History of Crime – Patricia Wiltshire – 4/29/25

The Cocaine Diaries: A Venezuelan Prison Nightmare – Jeff Farrell and Paul Keany – 4/23/25

The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story – Hyeonseo Lee – 4/21/25

Hey Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing – Emily Lynn Paulson – April 2025

The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un – Anna Fifield – 3/31/25

Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee – A Look Inside North Korea – Jang Jin-sung – 3/25/25

Rinsed: From Laundromats to Luxury Brands – Geoff White – 3/20/25

The Lazarus Heist: From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea’s Global Cyber War – Geoff White – 3/18/25

Buy What You Love Without Going Broke – Jen Smith and Jill Sirianni – 3/13/25

The Language of Lenormand: A Practical Guide for Everyday Divination – Erika Robinson – March 2025

Tiananmen Square: A Novel – Lia Wen – 2/19/25

The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves – J.B. MacKinnon – 1/23/25

How to Let Things Go: A Japanese Monk’s Guide to a Better Life – Shunmyo Masuno – 1/22/25

Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto – Tricia Hersey – 1/21/25

Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World’s Worst Diseases – Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen – Dropped 1/14/25

The Art of Frugal Hedonism: A Guide to Spending Less While Enjoying Everything More – Annie Raser-Rowland and Adam Grubb – 1/13/25

The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer – 1/10/25

The Year of Less (Re-read) – Cait Flanders – 1/2/25

2024

Clever Girl Finance: Ditch Debt, Save Money and Build Real Wealth – Bola Sokunbi – 12/16/24

Not Forgotten: The True Story of My Imprisonment in North Korea – Kenneth Bae (with Mark Tabb) – 12/2/24

Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea’s Elite – Suki Kim – 11/29/24

The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag – Kang Chol-Hwan (with Pierre Rigoulot) – 11/26/24

North Korea’s Hidden Revolution: How the Information Underground Is Transforming a Closed Society – Jieun Baek – 11/20/24

Arriving Late: The Lived Experiences of Women with Autism – Jodi Lamanna – 11/7/24

Odd Girl Out: An Autistic Woman in a Neurotypical World – Laura James – 11/2/24

Women and Girls on the Autism Spectrum – Sarah Hendrickx – 10/24/24

Everyone Feels This Way – Paige Layle – 10/21/24

But You Don’t Look Autistic At All – Bianca Toeps – 10/18/24

The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir – Kelly Bishop – 9/25/24

Just for the Summer – Abby Jimenez – 9/13/24

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches – Sangu Mandanna – 9/13/24

The Hard Road Out: One Woman’s Escape from North Korea – Jihyun Park (with Seh-Lynn Chai) – June 2024

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea – Barbara Demick – June 2024

We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation – Eric Garcia – June 2024

Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity – Devon Price – June 2024

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban – Malala Yousafzai (with Christina Lamb) – June 2024

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019 – Edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain – June 2024

I’m Glad My Mom Died – Jennette McCurdy – 6/14/24

Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden – Camille T. Dungy – 5/13/24

The Year of Less – Cait Flanders – May 2024

Sociopath: A Memoir – Patric Gagne, PhD – May 2024

American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent – Tamer Elnoury (with Kevin Maurer) – May 2024

Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocide – Tahir Hamut Izgil – May 2024

In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom – Yeonmi Park – May 2024

The Body Is Not an Apology – Sonya Renee Taylor – April 2024

10% Happier – Dan Harris – 4/6/24