Born in Winchester, MA.
Raised in Yokosuka, Ewa Beach, Okinawa, Naples, Monterey, Rota, and Mānoa.
Living in Portland, OR.
Filipino-American.
Son of O’ahu.
Navy Brat.
Gnome Collector.
Sad Clown Enthusiast.
Mattress Tag Ripper Offer.
Read List 2025
1. Crime and Punishment
2. Mickey7
3. The Clown
4. Nausea *
5. 1984 *
6. The Coming Insurrection
7. Halo: The Fall of Reach *
8. On Tyranny
9. Solaris
10. Count Zero
11. Buddhist Warfare
12. The Vinland Sagas
13. False Gods
14. Pity the Reader
15. The Power and the Glory *
16. Halo: The Flood
17. Slaughterhouse-Five
18. Absalom, Absalom!
19. Johnny Got His Gun
20. The Martian
21. Galaxy in Flames
22. The Essential Schopenhauer
23. Love Is a Dog from Hell
24. The Poppy War
25. Beautiful Losers
26. Fahrenheit 451 *
27. The Flight of Eisenstein
28. The Convenience Store by the Sea
29. Slapstick
30. 1Q84
31. The Bear Went Over the Mountain
32. Mona Lisa Overdrive
33. Hunchback
34. Nightmare Alley
35. The Shining
36. Doctor Sleep
37. I Am Legend
38. Between Two Fires
39. Tears of the Trufflepig
40. The Wind in the Willows
2. Mickey7
3. The Clown
4. Nausea *
5. 1984 *
6. The Coming Insurrection
7. Halo: The Fall of Reach *
8. On Tyranny
9. Solaris
10. Count Zero
11. Buddhist Warfare
12. The Vinland Sagas
13. False Gods
14. Pity the Reader
15. The Power and the Glory *
16. Halo: The Flood
17. Slaughterhouse-Five
18. Absalom, Absalom!
19. Johnny Got His Gun
20. The Martian
21. Galaxy in Flames
22. The Essential Schopenhauer
23. Love Is a Dog from Hell
24. The Poppy War
25. Beautiful Losers
26. Fahrenheit 451 *
27. The Flight of Eisenstein
28. The Convenience Store by the Sea
29. Slapstick
30. 1Q84
31. The Bear Went Over the Mountain
32. Mona Lisa Overdrive
33. Hunchback
34. Nightmare Alley
35. The Shining
36. Doctor Sleep
37. I Am Legend
38. Between Two Fires
39. Tears of the Trufflepig
40. The Wind in the Willows
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Edward Ashton
Heinrich Böll
Jean-Paul Sartre
George Orwell
The Invisible Committee
Eric Nylund
Timothy Snyder
Stanisław Lem
William Gibson
Michael Jerryson
Anonymous
Graham McNeill
Kurt Vonnegut & Suzanne McConnell
Graham Greene
William Dietz
Kurt Vonnegut
William Faulkner
Dalton Trumbo
Andy Weir
Ben Counter
Arthur Schopenhauer
Charles Bukowski
R.F. Kuang
Leonard Cohen
Ray Bradbury
James Swallow
Sonoko Machida
Kurt Vonnegut
Haruki Murakami
William Kotzwinkle
William Gibson
Saou Ichikawa
William Lindsay Gresham
Stephen King
Stephen King
Richard Matheson
Christopher Buehlman
Fernando A. Flores
Kenneth Grahame
Edward Ashton
Heinrich Böll
Jean-Paul Sartre
George Orwell
The Invisible Committee
Eric Nylund
Timothy Snyder
Stanisław Lem
William Gibson
Michael Jerryson
Anonymous
Graham McNeill
Kurt Vonnegut & Suzanne McConnell
Graham Greene
William Dietz
Kurt Vonnegut
William Faulkner
Dalton Trumbo
Andy Weir
Ben Counter
Arthur Schopenhauer
Charles Bukowski
R.F. Kuang
Leonard Cohen
Ray Bradbury
James Swallow
Sonoko Machida
Kurt Vonnegut
Haruki Murakami
William Kotzwinkle
William Gibson
Saou Ichikawa
William Lindsay Gresham
Stephen King
Stephen King
Richard Matheson
Christopher Buehlman
Fernando A. Flores
Kenneth Grahame
* = re-read
Read List 2024
1. Dune *
2. Dune Messiah
3. Children of Dune
4. World Hypotheses: A Study in Evidence
5. Kitchen
6. Red Rising
7. Golden Son
8. Morning Star
9. Lolita
10. The Myth of Sisyphus
11. Life for Sale
12. God Emperor of Dune
13. Heretics of Dune
14. Chapterhouse: Dune
15. The Stranger *
16. A Moveable Feast
17. The Master and Margarita
18. How To Do Things with Words
19. Madness
20. A Clockwork Orange *
21. Neuromancer
22. Blood Meridian
23. Ways of Seeing
24. 2001: A Space Odyssey
25. Camp Concentration
26. Chain-Gang All-Stars
27. The Devastation of Baal
28. Hey Whipple, Squeeze This
29. Flight
30. The Defining Decade *
31. A Confederacy of Dunces
32. Drunk Tank Pink *
33. Malarkoi
34. Ham on Rye
35. Norwegian Wood
36. The Hobbit
37. The Fellowship of the Ring
38. The Two Towers
39. The Return of the King
40. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
41. Childhood’s End
42. Horus Rising
43. On Humanism
44. True Biz
2. Dune Messiah
3. Children of Dune
4. World Hypotheses: A Study in Evidence
5. Kitchen
6. Red Rising
7. Golden Son
8. Morning Star
9. Lolita
10. The Myth of Sisyphus
11. Life for Sale
12. God Emperor of Dune
13. Heretics of Dune
14. Chapterhouse: Dune
15. The Stranger *
16. A Moveable Feast
17. The Master and Margarita
18. How To Do Things with Words
19. Madness
20. A Clockwork Orange *
21. Neuromancer
22. Blood Meridian
23. Ways of Seeing
24. 2001: A Space Odyssey
25. Camp Concentration
26. Chain-Gang All-Stars
27. The Devastation of Baal
28. Hey Whipple, Squeeze This
29. Flight
30. The Defining Decade *
31. A Confederacy of Dunces
32. Drunk Tank Pink *
33. Malarkoi
34. Ham on Rye
35. Norwegian Wood
36. The Hobbit
37. The Fellowship of the Ring
38. The Two Towers
39. The Return of the King
40. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
41. Childhood’s End
42. Horus Rising
43. On Humanism
44. True Biz
Frank Herbert
Frank Herbert
Frank Herbert
Stephen Pepper
Banana Yoshimoto
Pierce Brown
Pierce Brown
Pierce Brown
Vladimir Nabokov
Albert Camus
Yukio Mishima
Frank Herbert
Frank Herbert
Frank Herbert
Albert Camus
Ernest Hemingway
Mikhail Bulgakov
J.L. Austin
Roald Dahl
Anthony Burgess
William Gibson
Cormac McCarthy
John Berger
Arthur C. Clarke
Thomas M. Disch
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Guy Haley
Luke Sullivan
Sherman Alexie
Meg Jay
John Kennedy Toole
Adam Alter
Alex Pheby
Charles Bukowski
Haruki Murakami
J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien
Ken Kesey
Arthur C. Clarke
Dan Abnett
Richard Norman
Sara Nović
Frank Herbert
Frank Herbert
Stephen Pepper
Banana Yoshimoto
Pierce Brown
Pierce Brown
Pierce Brown
Vladimir Nabokov
Albert Camus
Yukio Mishima
Frank Herbert
Frank Herbert
Frank Herbert
Albert Camus
Ernest Hemingway
Mikhail Bulgakov
J.L. Austin
Roald Dahl
Anthony Burgess
William Gibson
Cormac McCarthy
John Berger
Arthur C. Clarke
Thomas M. Disch
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Guy Haley
Luke Sullivan
Sherman Alexie
Meg Jay
John Kennedy Toole
Adam Alter
Alex Pheby
Charles Bukowski
Haruki Murakami
J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien
Ken Kesey
Arthur C. Clarke
Dan Abnett
Richard Norman
Sara Nović
* = re-read
Read List 2023
1. The Sound and the Fury *
2. The History of Iceland
3. The Last Wish (The Witcher #0.5)
4. Interviews with Francis Bacon
5. As I Lay Dying
6. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
7. Exquisite Corpse
8. The Virgin Suicides
9. Catch-22
10. Jurassic Park
11. Either/Or
12. American Prometheus
13. Mordew
14. Naked Lunch
15. Sword of Destiny (The Witcher #0.7)
16. Intruder in the Dust
17. Dracula
18. Chernobyl Prayer
19. American Psycho
20. Blood of Elves (The Witcher #1)
21. God Is Not Great
22. Animal Farm *
23. Chess Story
24. Our Man in Havana
25. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
26. Roadside Picnic
2. The History of Iceland
3. The Last Wish (The Witcher #0.5)
4. Interviews with Francis Bacon
5. As I Lay Dying
6. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
7. Exquisite Corpse
8. The Virgin Suicides
9. Catch-22
10. Jurassic Park
11. Either/Or
12. American Prometheus
13. Mordew
14. Naked Lunch
15. Sword of Destiny (The Witcher #0.7)
16. Intruder in the Dust
17. Dracula
18. Chernobyl Prayer
19. American Psycho
20. Blood of Elves (The Witcher #1)
21. God Is Not Great
22. Animal Farm *
23. Chess Story
24. Our Man in Havana
25. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
26. Roadside Picnic
William Faulkner
Gunnar Karlsson
Andrzej Sapkowski
David Sylvester
William Faulkner
Stephen King
Poppy Z. Brite
Jeffrey Eugenides
Joseph Heller
Michael Crichton
Søren Kierkegaard
Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin
Alex Pheby
William S. Burroughs
Andrzej Sapkowski
William Faulkner
Bram Stoker
Svetlana Alexievich
Bret Easton Ellis
Andrzej Sapkowski
Christopher Hitchens
George Orwell
Stefan Zweig
Graham Greene
Haruki Murakami
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
Gunnar Karlsson
Andrzej Sapkowski
David Sylvester
William Faulkner
Stephen King
Poppy Z. Brite
Jeffrey Eugenides
Joseph Heller
Michael Crichton
Søren Kierkegaard
Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin
Alex Pheby
William S. Burroughs
Andrzej Sapkowski
William Faulkner
Bram Stoker
Svetlana Alexievich
Bret Easton Ellis
Andrzej Sapkowski
Christopher Hitchens
George Orwell
Stefan Zweig
Graham Greene
Haruki Murakami
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
* = re-read