# **Currently reading**
| Book Title | Author | Review |
| ---------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------- | ------------------------- |
| A Walker in the Evening | Nick Owchar | 🚶➡️🚶➡️🚶➡️🚶➡️🚶➡️ |
| Designing Futures: Speculation, Critique, Innovation | Benedikt Groß & Eileen Mandir | |
| Digital Mindset | Paul Leonardi and Tsedal Neeley | 🗑️ |
| Speculative Everything | Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby | |
| The Waves | Virginia Woolf | 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 |
| Thinking in Systems | Donna H. Meadows | 😕🫤😐🙂🥰 |
| Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop | Hwang Boreum | 📖❤️📖❤️📖 |
## **To read and reread**
| Book Title | Author | Review |
| ---------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------- | ---------- |
| 1Q84 | Haruki Murakami | |
| Closing the Loop | Sheryl Cababa | |
| Kamusari Tales Told at Night | Shion Miura | |
| Kitchen | Banana Yoshimoto | |
| Kokoro | Natsume Soseki | ❤️❤️❤️❤️💔 |
| Systems Thinking Made Simple | Derek Cabrera and Laura Cabrera | |
| The Memory Police | Yoko Ogawa | |
| The Three Pure Land Sutras | Hisao Inagaki & Harold Stewart | |
| Life and Zen Poetry of Santoka Taneda | Sumita Oyama, William Scott Wilson | |
| For All My Walking | Santoka Taneda, Burton Watson | |
| The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | Ron Hansen | |
| Radiant Star | Ann Leckie | |
## **Backlog**
| Book Title | Author | Review |
| ------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------- | ------------- |
| Baha’i Basics | Frances Worthington | |
| Beyond Sticky Notes | KA McKercher | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Designs for the Pluriverse | Arturo Escobar | |
| Entangled Life | Merlin Sheldrake | |
| Exhalation | Ted Chiang | |
| Kamusari Tales Told at Night | Shion Miura | |
| Lake of Souls | Ann Leckie | ⭐⭐⭐ |
| Ministry for the Future | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| Salt | Mark Kurlansky | |
| Seven Surrenders | Ada Palmer | |
| Taking the Path of Zen | Robert Aiken | |
| The 99% Invisible City | Kurt Kohlstedt, Roman Mars | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| The Dark Forest | Cixin Liu | |
| The Design of Everyday Things | Don Norman | |
| The Diamond Sutra | Red Pine | |
| The Gateless Barrier: The Wu-Men Kuan (Mumonkan) | Robert Aiken | |
| The Gateless Gate | Koun Yamada | |
| The Heart Sutra | Red Pine | |
| The Information | James Gleick | |
| The Mushroom at the End of the World | Anna Tsing | |
| The Secret Lives of Color | Kassia St. Clair | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| The Tangled Tree | David Quammen | |
| The Threefold Lotus Sutra | Michio Shinozaki, Brook Zipryn, David Earhart | |
| The Veiled Throne | Ken Liu | |
| The Zen Teaching of Huang Po | Huang Po, John Blofeld | |
| To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf | |
| Vimalakirti’s Advice | Thomas Cleary | |
| Water, Wood, and Wild Things | Hannah Kirshner | 🗾👩🍳🍶🐗❤️ |
| ドクター・ドリトル アフリカへ行く | ヒュー・ロフティング | |
| ミラーさん | みんなの日本語 | |
| 星の王子さま | サンテグジュペリ | |
| 注文の多い料理店 | 宮沢賢治 | |
## **Reading goal: Twelve books in twelve months: 2026**
| Book title | Author | Review | Completed |
| -------------------------- | -------------- | ------ | --------- |
| Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | January |
| A Prayer for the Crown-Shy | Becky Chambers | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | February |
| The Great Passage | Shion Miura | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | March |
| 🥲 | 🥲 | 🥲 | 🥲 |
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