the ~molten home library

All the books at my house that I haven't read yet, in no particular order.
Mostly collected haphazardly from used bookstores, or received as gifts.

Now reading

Tomorrow Will Be Different - Sarah McBride. Memoirs of a transgender political activist.

Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami. Not sure how I missed this one when I read most of his others.
Typhoon - Joseph Conrad.
Artemis - Andy Weir. Dad said this was pretty good. We each got it for each other, Xmas 2017.

Jesus' Son - Denis Johnson. Skipped around, not sure how many to go.
Blow-up - Julio Cortázar. One more story to go.
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol. About halfway through.
Italian Folktales - Italo Calvino. Perfectly bizarre bedtime stories.
The Complete Cosmicomics - Italo Calvino. Not sure if short stories or novel.
Sherlock Holmes in America - various mystery novelists. Read about half of them at the beach one summer.

The Museum of Eterna's Novel (The First Good Novel) - Macedonio Fernández. Strange, interesting book, by a friend of Borges. Read about half of it, but would need to start over.
White Noise - Don DeLillo.
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace. Actually read about a third of this back in high school, but would need to start over. Got frustrated with the floppy unweildy paperback for refering to all the footnotes.
Black Swan Green - David Mitchell.
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - David Mitchell. I really liked Cloud Atlas, couldn't get into this one though.

Moon Over SoHo - Ben Aaronovich. Second of the Rivers of London supernatural detective stories. First one (Midnight Riot) was pretty entertaining.
Cuba Libre - Elmore Leonard.
Tinker, Tailor, Solder, Spy - John Le Carre.

To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis. Maybe the British humor is going over my head. Can't seem to get into this one.
The Pleasure of my Company - Steve Martin. His other novel Shopgirl was pretty good.
Sovereign - April Daniels. Second in the Dreadnaught trans teen superhero series.
Almost Perfect - Brian Katcher. A trans teen romance.
The Karaoke Singer's Guide to Self Defense - Tim Kinsella. Read the beginning. Maybe he should stick to songwriting.

Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy.
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison. Received from secret santa forever ago.
Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata.
Howards End. E.M. Forester. A Vintage Books paperback edition, once owned by "Monk" Malloy.
Green Mansions - W.H. Hudson.
Nostromo - Joseph Conrad.
You Can't Go Home Again - Thomas Wolfe. Read half a while ago, would need to restart.
Light in August - William Faulkner.
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe.

Snuff - Terry Pratchett. Not sure if this is a good starting point in Discworld.
Mistborn - Brendon Sanderson. Read the first chapter multiple times, couldn't get into it. Also the book smells weird.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs. Haven't saw the movie, either.
Hollow City - Ransom Riggs. The sequel to above.
The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan. First of the Wheel of Time series, recommended by Mindy B. I'm feeling kind of intimidated to start such a long series, especially when the consensus online is that it's kind of long winded and full of filler.
The Great Hunt - Robert Jordan. Book 2.
The Dragon Reborn - Robert Jordan. Book 3.
King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table - Roger Lancelyn Green.

The Songs of Distant Earth - Arthur C. Clarke.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams.
Time Enough for Love - Robert Heinlein.
The 5th Wave - Rick Yancey. Saw part of the movie and found it meh. Also my sister said the sequels weren't as good.
The Infinite Sea - Rick Yancey. See above.
Wild Animus - Rick Shapero. Someone randomly gave this to me when I was walking on campus.
The Martian - Andy Weir. Saw the movie, was bored.

Physics of the Future - Michio Kaku.
The Dancing Bees - Tania Munz.
On Trails - Robert Moore.
The Invention of Nature - Andrea Wulf. Story of A. Humboldt.
The Innovators - Walter Isaacson.
Leonardo Da Vinci - Walter Isaacson.
The Idea Factory - Jon Gertner. Story of Bell Labs. I read part of this, I think.
Number Freak - Derrick Niederman.
Delusions of Gender - Cordelia Fine. She had a conclusion, and found plenty of evidence to support it. Got tiring after first couple chapters.
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind - William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer.
The Ancient Engineers - L. Sprague de Camp
The Zombie Survival Guide - Max Brooks.
Soonish - Kelly and Zach Weinersmith. From the creator of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.