It’s time for my annual ritual of recounting the tomes I read over the past year.

I find I am still doubting the... usefulness... of keeping track, except it has proven useful in looking up recollections, bookmarks, and random snaps of pages that appear in “on this day” posts on the socials.

And I am disturbed, as I reread some books that I recall having a “profound” impact on me... that I don’t remember the book. At. All.

Like how can it have an effect on me when every word appears brand new. Am I really getting something new out of the text? When everything is... new?

I am also reading less fiction. And I’m finding books that I start and don’t finish. It used to feel uncomfortable to quit something I began, yet now it feels like I’m wasting what time I have left. Progress? Maybe.

1. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
2. The Courage to Be Disliked - Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi
3. The Mountain Is You - Brianna Wiest
4. Later - Stephen King
5. Thinking in Systems - Donella Meadows
6. The Angel’s Game - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
7. The Tall Stranger - Louis L’amour
8. Silent Power - Stuart Wilde
9. Meeting the Shadow - Connie Zweig & Jeremiah Abrams
10. The Spy Who Loved Me - Ian Fleming
11. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
12. The Alabaster Girl - Zan Perrion
13. Get Inside Her - Marni Kinrys
14. Differentiate or Die - Jack Trout
15. Codependent No More - Melody Beattie
16. A Drinking Life - Pete Hamill
17. South of No North - Charles Bukowski
18. The Wisdom of Insecurity - Alan Watts
19. The Art of Being Alone - Renuka Gavrani
20. Penpreneur - Scott P. Scheper
21. Radical Honesty - Brad Blanton