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Books I have Read Since 2020

*indicates reread

2020:

  1. Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey*
  2. The Journey Home by Edward Abbey
  3. Walden by David Henry Thoreau
  4. Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty by W.L. Rusho
  5. Finding Everett Ruess by David Roberts
  6. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
  7. Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
  8. All the Wild That Remains by David Gessner
  9. The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
  10. The Journey Home by Edward Abbey*
  11. Fire on the Mountain by Edward Abbey
  12. The Fool’s Progress by Edward Abbey
  13. Down the River by Edward Abbey
  14. Black Sun by Edward Abbey
  15. The Brave Cowboy by Edward Abbey
  16. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 by Hunter S. Thompson
  17. Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
  18. Industrial Society and its Future by Theodore Kaczynski

2021:

  1. The Land of Little Rain by Mary Hunter Austin
  2. Beyond the Wall by Edward Abbey
  3. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  4. The New West of Edward Abbey by Ann Ronald
  5. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
  6. The Desert by John. C Van Dyke
  7. One Life at a Time, Please by Edward Abbey
  8. Confessions of a Barbarian by Edward Abbey
  9. Hayduke Lives! by Edward Abbey
  10. Family Happiness by Leo Tolstoy
  11. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
  12. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
  13. The Three-Body Problem by Ciu Lixin
  14. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
  15. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
  16. The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Gosh
  17. High Aztech by Ernest Hogan
  18. Native Studies Keywords edited by Stephanie Nohelani Teves, Andrea Smith, and Michelle Raheja
  19. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
  20. The Heirs of Columbus by Gerald Vizenor
  21. The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
  22. Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey*
  23. Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
  24. Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson
  25. Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
  26. Robopocalypse by Daniel Wilson
  27. Moonshot by Hope Nicholson
  28. A Voice Crying in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey
  29. High Aztech by Ernest Hogan*
  30. Pharmako-AI by K. Allado-McDowell
  31. The Vegetarian by Han Kang
  32. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
  33. Leave Society by Tao Lin
  34. The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
  35. Postcards from Ed by Edward Abbey
  36. The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline

2022:

  1. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
  2. Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
  3. Resist Much, Obey Little edited by James Hepworth and Gregory McNamee
  4. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
  5. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
  6. Deserts and Desert Environments by Julie Laity
  7. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin
  8. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
  9. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
  10. Black Sun by Edward Abbey*
  11. The Land of Little Rain by Mary Hunter Austin*
  12. In Wilderness Is the Preservation of the World edited by Eliot Porter
  13. Cactus Thorn by Mary Hunter Austin
  14. Lost Borders by Mary Hunter Austin
  15. Demian by Hermann Hesse
  16. Catching Fire by Daniel Hahn
  17. The Science of Departures by Adalber Salas Hernández
  18. The Animal Days by Keila Vall de la Ville
  19. Land of Women by María Sánchez
  20. Tideline by Krystyna Dabrowska
  21. Earth Apples by Edward Abbey
  22. Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri
  23. The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
  24. M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang
  25. Fun Home by Allison Bechdel
  26. Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq*

2023:

  1. The Fool’s Progress by Edward Abbey*
  2. Abbey’s Road by Edward Abbey*
  3. Fire on the Mountain by Edward Abbey*
  4. Down the River by Edward Abbey*
  5. A Voice Crying From the Wilderness by Edward Abbey*
  6. Resist Much, Obey Little edited by James Hepworth and Gregory McNamee*
  7. Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories by Sandra Cisneros
  8. The Land of Little Rain by Mary Hunter Austin*
  9. The Desert: Further Studies in Natural Appearance by John Charles Van Dyke*
  10. Acid West by Joshua Wheeler
  11. Bears Ears: Landscape of Refuge and Resistance by Andrew Gulliford
  12. Beyond the Wall by Edward Abbey*
  13. Good News by Edward Abbey
  14. Cactus Country by Edward Abbey
  15. The Hidden Canyon by Edward Abbey
  16. Desert Images by Edward Abbey
  17. Cactus Thorn by Mary Hunter Austin*
  18. So Far From God by Ana Castillo
  19. The Journey Home by Edward Abbey*
  20. Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
  21. One Life at a Time, Please by Edward Abbey*
  22. The Brave Cowboy by Edward Abbey*
  23. All the Wild That Remains by David Gessner*
  24. The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey*
  25. Red by Terry Tempest Williams
  26. The Haunted Southwest by Cordelia Barrera
  27. The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
  28. The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons by John Wesley Powell
  29. Cactus Thorn by Mary Hunter Austin*
  30. Black Sun by Edward Abbey*
  31. The Abstract Wild by Jack Turner
  32. The Rain God by Arturo Islas
  33. Run, River, Run by Ann Zwinger
  34. Man in the Landscape by Paul Shepard
  35. Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams
  36. I Thought There Would Be More Wolves by Sara Ryan
  37. Wilderness and the American Mind by Roderick Nash
  38. It’s Your Misfortune and None of My Own by Stephen Bly
  39. Lost Borders by Mary Hunter Austin*
  40. Goodbye to a River by John Graves
  41. The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
  42. Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner
  43. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
  44. The Southwest in American Literature and Art by David Teague
  45. Bedrock and Paradox by David Pozza
  46. The Idea of Wilderness by Max Oelschlager
  47. The Wilderness Condition edited by Max Oelschlager
  48. Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins
  49. The Legacy of Conquest by Patricia Nelson Limerick
  50. Hayduke Lives! by Edward Abbey*
  51. Coyote in the Maze edited by Peter Quigley
  52. Slickrock by Edward Abbey
  53. The Death of Nature by Carolyn Merchant
  54. In Praise of Mountain Lions by Edward Abbey
  55. The New West of Edward Abbey by Ann Ronald*
  56. Uncommon Ground edited by William Cronon
  57. Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa
  58. The Ecocriticism Reader edited by Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm
  59. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko*
  60. Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey*
  61. The Abstract Wild by Jack Turner*
  62. Cactus Thorn by Mary Hunter Austin*
  63. The Novelist by Jordan Castro
  64. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer*
  65. Black Sun by Edward Abbey*
  66. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko*
  67. The Capitol Reef Reader edited by Stephen Trimble

2024:

  1. The Cactus Hunters by Jared Margulies
  2. Capitol Reef: Canyon Country Eden by Rose Houk
  3. Capitol Reef: The Story Behind the Scenery by Virgil and Helen Olson
  4. Siddartha by Hermann Hesse
  5. Dwellers of the Rainbow by Rose Houk
  6. Rock Glow, Sky Shine by Stephen Trimble
  7. The Modern Temper by Joseph Wood Krutch
  8. Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey*
  9. Der Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse*
  10. Cactus Thorn by Mary Hunter Austin*
  11. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson*
  12. The Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse
  13. Reflections by Idries Shah
  14. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller*
  15. Black Sun by Edward Abbey*
  16. The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
  17. Jonathan Troy by Edward Abbey
  18. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko*
  19. Appalachian Wilderness by Edward Abbey
  20. Inherit the Holy Mountain by Mark Stoll
  21. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka*
  22. Running the Light by Sam Tallent
  23. The Journey Home by Edward Abbey*
  24. Abbey’s Road by Edward Abbey*
  25. Down the River by Edward Abbey*
  26. Beyond the Wall by Edward Abbey*
  27. One Life at a Time, Please by Edward Abbey*
  28. High Aztech by Ernest Hogan*
  29. Dark River by Louis Owens
  30. Submission by Michel Houellebecq
  31. Demian by Hermann Hesse*
  32. The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
  33. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
  34. Edward Abbey: A Life by James Cahalan
  35. The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen
  36. Bitter Water Opera by Nicolette Polek
  37. High Aztech by Ernest Hogan*
  38. Birds of the Texas Coast by Ron Grimes & B.C. Robison
  39. The Fall by Albert Camus
  40. The Assault by Harry Mulisch
  41. Dark River by Louis Owens*
  42. Resist Much, Obey Little by James Hepworth and Gregory McNamee*
  43. Abbey in America: A Philosopher’s Legacy in a New Century by John Murray
  44. This Incomparable Land by Thomas Lyon
  45. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko*
  46. Der Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse*
  47. Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq
  48. Wandering by Hermann Hesse
  49. The Assault by Harry Mulisch*
  50. Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey*

2025:

  1. The Land of Little Rain by Mary Hunter Austin*
  2. Wandering by Hermann Hesse*
  3. Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty by W.L. Rusho*
  4. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
  5. The Carpenter Years by Arthur Cohen
  6. The Assault by Harry Mulisch*
  7. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko*
  8. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 by Hunter S. Thompson*
  9. Small Town Author by John Erickson
  10. Where the Jackals Howl by Amos Oz
  11. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
  12. My Struggle Book 1 by Karl Ove Knausgaard
  13. Panther in the Basement by Amos Oz
  14. Ghost in the Archive by Jennifer Loyd
  15. The Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse*
  16. It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over by Anne De Marcken
  17. Confluence by Zak Podmore
  18. Stoner by John Williams
  19. The History of Ancient Israel by Michael Grant
  20. The Land of Little Rain by Mary Hunter Austin*
  21. Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey*
  22. Cactus Thorn by Mary Hunter Austin*
  23. The Iliad by Homer
  24. Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre
  25. The Land of Little Rain by Mary Hunter Austin*
  26. Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey*
  27. Gypsy Alibi by Bob Livingston
  28. Cactus Thorn by Mary Hunter Austin*
  29. Divinely Guided by Valerie Mathes
  30. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard*
  31. The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
  32. Rock Glow, Sky Shine by Stephen Trimble*
  33. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
  34. On the Beach at Night Alone by Walt Whitman
  35. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
  36. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy*
  37. Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse