Five stars
- Becoming the Iceman by Wim Hof and Justin Rosales
- Werner Herzog – a Guide for the Perplexed, Paul Cronin
- The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
- The Harmless People, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
- Man of Montmartre; a novel based on the life of Maurice Utrillo, Steven & Ethel Longstreet
- A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, Donald Miller
- The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson
- A Throne of Bones, Vox Day
- A Sea of Skulls, Vox Day
- Brings the Lightning (The Ames Archives #1), Peter Grant
- The Shadow of the Torturer, Gene Wolfe
- The Claw of the Conciliator, Gene Wolfe
- The Sword of the Lictor, Gene Wolfe
- The Citadel of the Autarch, Gene Wolfe
- Listen to the Echoes – The Ray Bradbury Interviews, Sam Weller
- INVESTOR-Z Series (21 volumes), Norifusa Mita
- The Knight, Gene Wolfe
- The Wizard, Gene Wolfe
Four stars
- Taghri’s Prize, Peter Grant
- Rocky Mountain Retribution, Peter Grant
- Gold on the Hoof, Peter Grant
- A River of Horns, Peter Grant
- Stones of Silence (Cochrane’s Company #1), Peter Grant
- Airless Storm (Cochrane’s Company #2), Peter Grant
- Pride of the Damned (Cochrane’s Company #3), Peter GrantMoon Palace, Paul Auster
- Oracle Night, Paul Auster
- Imagine This, Julia Baird (John Lennon’s sister)
- Earthly Powers (audio book, read by Gordon Griffin), Anthony Burgess
- You’ve Had Your Time, Anthony Burgess
- Flame Into Being: The Life and Work of D.H. Lawrence, Anthony Burgess
- Little Wilson and Big God, Anthony Burgess
- The Long Day Wanes, Anthony Burgess
- The Wim Hof Method, Wim Hof (tho personally, I recommend Becoming the Iceman by Wim Hof and Justin Rosales for anyone just curious about this phenomenon)
- The Unveiling of Timbuctoo, Galbraith Welch
- Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome (audio book, read by Ian Carmichael)
Three stars
- Designing Writing Assignments, Traci Gardner
- The Midnight Ground, Eric Dontigney
- Chronicles of Wasted Time, Malcolm Muggeridge
- The Promethean, Owen Stanley
- Crisis in Higher Education, Jeffrey R. Docking
Two stars
- Dear, Dear Brenda, Henry Miller & Brenda Venus
- The Bedford Guide for Writing Tutors, Leigh Ryan
- A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers, Erika Lindemann
- Victoria: A Novel of 4th Generation War, Thomas Hobbes
Unfinished/gave up
- How to Take Smart Notes, Soenke Ahrens
- Escalante’s Dream, David Roberts
- Writer Teaches Writing, Donald M. Murray
- A Tutor’s Guide, Bennett A. Rafoth
- The Harvard Tutor’s College Essay Handbook, Katerina Manoff
- To Paint is to Love Again, Henry Miller (actually very interesting: I listened to the audio book on YT)
- The Books in My Life, Henry Miller (inspiring but rather intense; to be taken in small doses)
- Henry Miller on Writing, Henry Miller (ditto)