Rek Bell

A list of books I've read, that I want to read and that I'm currently reading.

• Currently reading
• Want to read
• 2024 reading list
• 2023 reading list
• 2022 reading list
• 2021 reading list
• 2020 reading list
• 2019 reading list
• 2018 reading list
• 2017 reading list
• 2016 reading list
• 2015 reading list

Currently reading

• The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann

Want to read

• Enstein's Dreams, Alan Lightman

2024 reading list

• Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman
• I Will Fight No More Forever, by Merrill D. Beal
• In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
• Le Rêve de l'escalier, Dino Buzzati
• Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder(won't finish it)
• Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
• West in the Night, Beryl Markham
• Les Enfants Terrible, Jean Cocteau
• Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
• The Martian, Andy Weir
• The Last Great Sea, Terry Glavin
• The Tartar Steppe, Dino Buzzati
• The Great Gatsby, F.Scott Fitzgerald
• The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson

2023 reading list

• The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
• The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, Selma Lagerlöf
• Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell
• Robot, Adam Wisniewski-Snerg
• Sylvie and Bruno, Lewis Caroll
• Lord of the Flies, William Golding
• Roadside Picnic, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
• The Magic of Lewis Carroll, John Fisher
• The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster
• Courier Sud, Antoine de St-Exupéry
• The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West, Edward Abbey
• Le Péril Bleu, Maurice Renard
• Energy and Equity, Ivan Illich

2022 reading list

• Le Petit Prince, Antoine de St-Exupéry
• Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
• Life, the Universe, and Everything, Douglas Adams
• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Douglas Adams
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
• The Stories of Ray Bradbury, Ray Bradbury
• The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks
• Watership Down, Richard Adams
• The Curve of Time, Wylie Blanchett
• The Stranger, Albert Camus
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson
• The Complete Cosmicomics, Italo Calvino
• Underland, Robert Macfarlane
• Fresh: A Perishable History, Susanne Freidberg
• A Beginner's Guide to Japan, Pico Iyer
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (Did not finish. Can't read authors that use rape/sexual violence as mechanisms to titillate readers)

2021 reading list

• Finn Family Moomintroll, Tove Jansson
• Collection of stories, Ray Bradbury
• The Summer Book, Tove Jansson
• The Swarm, Frank Schatzing
• Noah of the Blood Sea, Yu Satomi
• Terre des Hommes, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Mingming & the Art of Minimal Ocean Sailing, Roger Taylor
• Nature as Measure, Wes Jackson
• Moby Dick, Herman Melville
• The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst, Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall
• Farenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
• A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold
• The Complete Rigger’s Apprentice Brion Toss
• The Monkey Wrench Gang, Edward Abbey
• What are People for?, Wendell Berry

2020 reading list

• Gulliver's travels, Jonathan Swift
• The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
• The Machineries of Joy, Ray Bradbury
• Frankenstein, Junji Ito
• Sailing the farm, Kenneth Neumeyer
• Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health, Marion Nestle
• Single-handed sailing tips, Andrew Evans
• The long way, Bernard Moitessier
• Golden apples of the sun, Ray Bradbury
• Cyberiad, Stanislaw Lem
• Solaris, Stanislaw Lem
• Don't Go Back to School: A Handbook for Learning Anything, Kio Stark
• Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
• Preserving the Japanese way, Nancy Singleton Hachisu
• Dracula, Bram Stoker
• Our History Is the Future, Nick Estes
• Made to break, Giles Slade
• Dark Mountain Manifesto, Paul Kingsnorth and Dougald Hine
• Growing up absurd: problem of youth in the organized system, Paul Goodman
• The Politics of Food, Marianne E. Lien and Brigitte Nerlich

2019 reading list

• The Genius of birds, Jennifer Ackerman
• Don't even think about it: why our brains are wired to ignore climate change, George Marshall
• Bartleby the Scrivener, Herman Melville
• How to do nothing: resisting the attention economy, Jenny Odell
• Walking, Henry David Thoreau
• Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
• The one-straw revolution, Masanobu Fukuoka
• On the road to Babadag, Andrzej Stasiuk
• Petit manuel de resistance contemporaine, Cyril Dion
• The dispossessed, Ursula Le Guin
• A letter to my 14-year-old self, Lyra Mckee
• The Twits, Roald Dahl
• DOMU, Katsuhiro Otomo
• Akira collection, Katsuhiro Otomo
• The Definitive H.P Lovecraft: 67 tales of horror, H. P. Lovecraft
• The Te of Piglet, Benjamin Hoff
• Presence, Amy Cuddy

2018 reading list

• Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation, Bill Nye
• Don Quixote, Cervantes
• A calendar of wisdom, Tolstoy
• Infinite jest, David Foster Wallace
• Dirk Holistic's Detective Agency, Douglas Adams
• Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Murakami Haruki
• Bird in a Cage, Rebecca Roher
• Queer: A Graphic History, Meg-John Barker
• Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
• Don't sleep, there are snakes, Daniel L. Everett
• On Trails, Robert Moor
• Seraffyn's Oriental Adventure, Lin Pardey
• Aesop's fables, Aesop
• The sixth extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert
• The Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff
• On Food And Cooking, Harold McGee
• Death, the duck and the tulip, Wolf Erlbruch
• Animal Farm, George Orwell and Russel Baker
• Last Chance To See, Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine
• The Arabian Nights, Anonymous

2017 reading list

• Flatland, Edwin Abbott
• Fourteen: A Daughter’s Memoir, Leslie Nack
• How Not To Die, Michael Greger
• How To Be a Woman, Caitlin Moran
• Solar lottery, Philip K. Dick
• Kokoro, Natsume Soseki
• North To The Night, Alvah Simon
• Storm tactics, Lin and Larry Pardey
• Walden, Henry David Thoreau

2016 reading list

• Smoke gets in your eyes, Caitlin Doughty
• Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared M. Diamond
• Box wine sailors, Amy McCullough
• The Circle, Dave Eggers
• Pictures From The Water Trade, John David Morley

2015 reading list

• Through the Woods, Emily Caroll
• Essex County, Jeff Lemire
• This One Summer, Tamaki Mariko
• I kill giants, Ken Niimura
• The Underwater Welder, Jeff Lemire
• Koko be good, Jen Wang

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