Here’s this year’s reading list for me, with my favorites in bold.

1. Wonder Valley by Ivy Pochoda
2. The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
3. The Martians by Kim Stanley Robinson
4. Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community by Wendell Berry
5. Dawn to Dusk by Will Troyer
6. Lost in the Valley of Death by Harley Rustad
7. Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
8. Into Brown Bear Country by Will Troyer
9. Cloistered by Catherine Coldstream
10. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
11. Out of the Woods by Lynn Darling
12. Almost Anywhere by Krista Schlyer
13. Walking the Americas by Levison Wood
14. Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson
15. The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
16. Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
17. Pescadero by Hollis Brady
18. Skeletons on the Zahara by Dean King
19. Kindred by Octavia Butler
20. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
21. All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
22. River Woman, River Demon by Jennifer Givhan
23. Fledgling by Octavia Butler
24. A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
25. The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez
26. Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
27. All Systems Red by Martha Wells
28. Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
29. The Singer’s Gun by Emily St. John Mandel
30. Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
31. The Truth About Immigration by Zeke Hernandez
32. The Leavers by Lisa Ko
33. Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
34. The Comfort of Crows by Margaret Renkl
35. Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow
36. The Bezzle by Cory Doctorow
37. Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors
38. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
39. Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers
40. Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea
41. News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel García Márquez
42. The Deluge by Stephen Markley
43. Long Distance by Bill McKibben
44. Reamde by Neal Stephenson
45. The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
46. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
47. The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly
48. The Witch Elm by Tana French
49. Trespassing Across America by Ken Ilgunas
50. Outlandish by Morgan Sjogren
51. Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
52. Table for Two by Amor Towles
53. Playground by Richard Powers
54. Memoirs of a Military Wife by Zola Stoltz