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 2026

1. The Brothers Karamazov

2. Polostan

3. The Nickel Boys

4. On Writing *

5. The Devils

6. Post Office

7. The Book of Disquiet

8. Descent of Angels

9. Project Hail Mary

10. The Sound and the Fury *

11. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry *

12. Our Man in Havana *

13. Babel

14. Catch-22 *

15. Closing Time

16. Hyperion

17. Normal People

18. Klara and the Sun

19. Breakfast of Champions *

20. The Virgin Suicides *

21. A Year in Provence

22. The Song of Achilles

23. All the Pretty Horses

24. The Bluest Eye

25. Vineland

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Neal Stephenson

Colson Whitehead

Stephen King

Joe Abercrombie

Charles Bukowski

Fernando Pessoa

Mitchel Scanlon

Andy Weir

William Faulkner

Mildred D. Taylor

Graham Greene

R.F. Kuang

Joseph Heller

Joseph Heller

Dan Simmons

Sally Rooney

Kazuo Ishiguro

Kurt Vonnegut

Jeffrey Eugenides

Peter Mayle

Madeline Miller

Cormac McCarthy

Toni Morrison

Thomas Pynchon

* = re-read

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

41. Deliverance Lost

42. I, Robot

43. The Gunslinger

44. More of Paul Harvey’s The Rest of the Story

45. Konrad Curze: The Night Haunter

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

Gav Thorpe

Isaac Asimov

Stephen King

Paul Aurandt Jr. and Paul Harvey

Guy Haley

* = 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

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

* = re-read

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