Currently reading
This page is to keep track of books I’m reading, to ensure I don’t have six unfinished books in progress, and to remind me to finish the ones I’ve started. I’m always reading or re-reading something, the re-reads are in italic.
Everything under a month is a book that I finished reading that month, there is also a section for “did not finish” at the bottom of the page. I'll be updating on a StoryGraph page, see my 2024 and 2023 wrap-ups.
Totals for all books, re-reads, library books, and did not finish
In progress:
Helen Czerski, "Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life"
Seneca, "Letters from a Stoic"
Eric Barker, "Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know about Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong"
January 2024 (7 total, 2 re-reads, 4 library)
Heather Fawcett, "Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands" (Emily Wilde #2) (Library book)
Olivia Blacke, "A New Lease on Death" (Library book)
James Patterson, Brian Sitts, "Holmes, Marple & Poe" (Library book)
James Patterson, Brian Sitts, "Holmes Is Missing" (Holmes, Marple & Poe #2)
James Lovegrove, "Sherlock Holmes: The Thinking Engine" (Library book)
Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Study in Scarlet" (Sherlock Holmes #1)
Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Sign of the Four" (Sherlock Holmes #2)
February 2025 (4 total, 1 re-read)
Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (Sherlock Holmes #3)
Thomas Cleary, "The Code of the Samurai: A Modern Translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu of Taira Shigesuke"
Rupert Holmes, "Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide"
March 2025 (4 total, 1 library)
Obery M. Hendricks Jr , "Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith"
Jon Gnagy, "Learn To Draw"
Caroline Fleck , "Validation: How the Skill Set That Revolutionized Psychology Will Transform Your Relationships, Increase Your Influence, and Change Your Life" (Library book)
Charlie Haylock, "Sloightly On Th' Huh! An Affectionate Look at the Suffolk Dialect"
April 2025 (5 total, 3 library)
Elly Conway, "Argylle"
Simone St. James, "Murder Road"
Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Karen White, "The Author's Guide to Murder" (Library book)
Mary E. Pearson, "The Courting of Bristol Keats" (Library book)
Heather Fawcett, "Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales" (Emily Wilde #3) (Library book)
May 2025 (4 total, 1 library)
Deanna Raybourn, "Kills Well with Others" (Killers of a Certain Age #2) (Library book)
Noom, "The Noom Kitchen: 100 Healthy, Delicious, Flexible Recipes for Every Day"
Joseph Nguyen, "Don't Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering"
Ethan Kross, "Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It"
June 2025 (3 total, 1 library)
Jesse Q. Sutanto, "Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers" (Library book)
Rob Hart, "Assassins Anonymous"
Ngaio Marsh, "Artists in Crime" (Inspector Roderick Alleyn #6)
Did not finish (11 total, 1 re-read, 3 library)
Neal Stephenson, "Anathem" (So much weird, unnecessary, jargon! So much.)
Dan Heath, "Reset" (Library book) (Returned by accident, want to finish)
Susan Magsamen, Ivy Ross, "Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us" (Library book) (Somewhat repetitive, showing multiple arts that affect your mental state)
Sue Grafton, "A is for Alibi" (Bored with the story)
James Patterson, "Kiss The Girls" (I'm not reading rape as entertainment)
Devon Price, "Laziness Does Not Exist" (Library book) (Repetitive, but I get the main point)
Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" (Sherlock Holmes #4) (On hold for a bit)
Ethan Kross, "Shift: Managing Your Emotions--So They Don't Manage You" (Will get back to this one)
Dervla McTiernan, "The Murder Rule" (Library book) (Did not care about any of the characters)
Alice Bell, "Grave Expectations" (Story and characters fell flat for me)
Trish Hall, "Writing to Persuade: How to Bring People Over to Your Side" (All the useful info is in the introduction)