It seems worthwhile to try to track my book acquisition more or less as it happens, so that it won't be quite so daunting when December arrives and I want to look back. So here goes:
Oxygen: The molecule that made the world Nick Lane Kindle 31xii22
Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, Natalie Hodges Kindle 1i23
Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius Nick Hornby Kindle 3i23
What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology Addy Pross Kindle 11i23
Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970 11i23
Urban Lichens: A Field Guide for Northeastern North America Jessica L Allen et al. 11i23
Sand: The Never-Ending Story Michael Welland 13i23
Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils Dale E. Greenwalt Kindle 16i23
A Geoscience Guide to the Burgess Shale: Geology and Paleontology in Yoho National Park 17i23
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History Stephen Jay Gould 17i23
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory Janet Malcolm 19i23
Mountains of the Mind: Adventures in Reaching the Summit Robert Macfarlane 22i23
Barefoot Boy with Cheek Max Shulman Kindle 22i23
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia David Graeber Kindle 24i23
Confessions of a Word Lush James Harbeck Kindle 24i23
Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence James Bridle Kindle 26i23
Life at the Edge of Sight: A Photographic Exploration of the Microbial World Scott Chimileski et al. 27i23
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World Tyson Yunkaporta Kindle 27i23
Ernst Haeckel Art Forms in Nature (Plates 1-100) Unique Journal Kindle 29i23
In the Company of Microbes: Ten Years of Small Things Considered Moselio and Judith Schaechter Kindle 30i23
The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization Vince Beiser 30i23
Rocked in Time Charles Degelman 30i23
The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel. 40th Ed. Rainer Willmann and Julia Voss 1ii23
Photographs Not Taken Kindle Edition: A Collection of Photographers' Essays Will Steacy Kindle 2ii23
The Curious Observer's Guide to Slime Mold of UC Santa Cruz and Beyond Carrie Niblett 5ii23 (sent to John)
Evolution and Geological Significance of Larger Benthic Foraminifera Marcelle K. BouDagher-Fadel Kindle 6ii23
Biostratigraphic and Geological Significance of Planktonic Foraminifera Marcelle K. BouDagher-Fadel Kindle 6ii23
Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society Paul Goodman [1966] Kindle 7ii23
Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative Peter Brooks Kindle 11ii23
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Malcolm Harris Kindle 13ii23
The Lichen Museum Laurie A Palmer Kindle 16ii23
The Velveteen Rabbit Margery Williams 18ii23
The Tree of Meaning: Language, Mind and Ecology Robert Bringhurst 18ii23
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir Roz Chast 19ii23
Ashes Alvaro Ortiz 20ii23
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade Kindle 20ii23
The Guest Lecture Martin Riker Kindle 21ii23
Arch-Conspirator Veronica Roth Kindle 21ii23
Samuel Johnson's Eternal Return Martin Riker Kindle 22ii23
Memento Mori and Depictions of Death: An Image Archive for Artists and Designers Kale James 20ii23
Annotations to Finnegans Wake Roland McHugh 24ii23
Finnegan's Wake James Joyce Kindle and Audiobook 24ii23
Annals of the Former World John McPhee Kindle 26ii23
A Slice through America: A Geological Atlas David Kassel 26ii23
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology Simon Winchester 26ii23
Dark Matter Blake Crouch 3iii23
Cloud Cuckoo Land Anthony Doerr 3iii23
A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles
Laurie Lipton Drawing Laurie Lipton
Drawing the Human Figure: A Drawing Reference Book and Image Archive for Artists and Designers Kale James 3iii23
Focus: Found Faces: Your World, Your Images Lark Books 5iii23
Faces in Places: Photos of Faces in Everyday Places Jody Smith 5iii23
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision Frijof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi 6iii23
An Atlas of Geographical Wonders: From Mountaintops to Riverbeds Gilles Palsky et al. 6iii23
The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance Dan Egan Kindle 6iii23
This Other Eden Paul Harding Kindle 9iii23
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life Erving Goffman Kindle 12iii23
Art Forms in Nature by Ernst Haeckel (Kale James) 20iii23
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology Chris Miller Kindle 20iii21
Harvard Square: A Love Story Catherine J. Turco Kindle 20iii23
The Echo Maker Richard Powers Kindle 21iii23
Flux Jinwoo Chong Kindle 22iii23
The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher Lewis Thomas Kindle 26iii23
The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem Audible + Kindle 27iii23
Sea-life & Monsters of the Deep: An Image Archive of 561 Downloadable Images for Artists and Designers Kale James 27iii23
How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms Chris Wiggins and Matthew L Jones Kindle 30iii23
The Waste Land Martin Rowson 30iii23
My Name Is Lucy Barton Elizabeth Strout Audible 4iv23
Oh William Elizabeth Strout Audible 6iv23
The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials, Book 1 Philip Pullman Audible 7iv23
Dictionary of Correspondences: The key to Biblical interpretation George Nicholson/Emanuel Swedenborg 7iv23
Cooking Ingredients Christine Ingram 10iv23
The Miracle on Monhegan Island Elizabeth Kelly Kindle 13iv23
Hav Jan Morris Kindle 13iv23
His Dark Materials: The Subtle Knife (Book 2) Philip Pullman Audible 17iv23
Photography After Frank Philip Gefter 17iv23
The Creative ProcessBrewster Ghiselin 20iv23
The Amber Spyglass Philip Pullman Audible 21iv23
Lichens: Toward a Minimal Resistance Vincent Zonca and Jody Gladding Kindle 21iv23
The Slow Road to Deadhorse: An Englishman's Discoveries and Reflections on the Backroads of North America James Anthony 22iv23
Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean Christina Gerhardt 22iv23
Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence Paperback Sarah E Thompson 25iv23
When We Were Free to Be: Looking Back at a Children's Classic and the Difference It Made Lori Rotskoff and Laura L Lovett Kindle 26iv23
Houses without Names: Architectural Nomenclature and the Classification of America's Common Houses
Monday or Tuesday Virginia Woolf Kindle 29iv23
Stoney Places Frederic Berthoff Kindle 30iv23
The New Dictionary Of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know ED Hirsch et al. 3v23
Take Ivy Shosuke Ishizu et al. 7v23
Neologisms: New words since 1960 Jonathon Green 8v23
Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman George Steiner Kindle 9v23
The Science Book: From Darwin to Dark Energy, 250 Milestones in the History of Science Clifford Pickover Kindle 9v23
The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World Iain McGilchrist Kindle 11v23
The Flavor Thesaurus: A Compendium of Pairings, Recipes and Ideas for the Creative Cook Niki Segnit 16v23
The Flavor Thesaurus: More Flavors: Plant-Led Pairings, Recipes, and Ideas for Cooks Niki Segnit 18v23
Her Fearful Symmetry Audrey Niffenegger Audible 18v23
The Tenniel Illustrations to the “Alice” Books, 2nd edition Michael Hancher 19v23
Dubliners James Joyce Kindle 22v23
The Venice Sketchbook Rhys Bowen Kindle 22v23
No Angel Penny Vincenzi Kindle 23v23
City of the Mind Penelope Lively Kindle 27v23
The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky Kindle and Audible 27v23
The Magician's Daughter HG Parry Kindle and Audible 27v23
Edith Sitwell: Avant Garde Poet, English Genius Richard Greene 28v23
Luminous Fish: Tales of Science and Love Lynn Margulis 29v23
Utopia Avenue David Mitchell Audible 3vi23
Alexandra David-Neel: Portait of an Adventurer Ruth Middleton 5vi23
Night of the Living Rez Morgan Talty Kindle 5vi23
The Language of the Face: Stories of Its Uniquely Expressive Features Frank Gonzalez-Crussi 6vi23
The Glass Bead Game Hermann Hesse Kindle and Audible 6vi23
A Natural Curiosity Margaret Drabble 6vi23
The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons: A Semi-serious A-to-Z Archive Bob Mankoff and David Remnick 7vi23
The Story of My Heart Richard Jefferies 8vi23
The Glass Bead Game: Mercury and Hazel Paul Pilkington 8vi23
Death of Virgil Hermann Broch Kindle 8vi23
The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years Ulbe Bosma Audible 8vi23
The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You Margareta Magnusson Kindle 9vi23
Awake in the Dream World: The Art of Audrey Niffenegger Audrey Niffenegger 11vi23
Hermann Hesse (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) Jesse Zuba and Harold Bloom 12vi23
The Journey to the East Hermann Hesse Kindle 14vi23
The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Volume XI — Index 17vi23
Entangled Life: The Illustrated Edition: How Fungi Make Our Worlds Merlin Sheldrake 17vi23
The Footnote: A Curious History Anthony Grafton 17vi23
Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend Thomas Mann 18vi23
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic Simon Winchester Kindle and Audible 22vi23
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think Jennifer Ackerman 25vi23
Eighth Day Wonder — Jerry N. Uelsmann Moa Petersén 26vi23
The Night Bookmobile Audrey Niffenegger 30vi23
The Fraud Zadie Smith Kindle 3vii23
The Death and Life of Great American Cities Jane Jacobs 4vii23
Social History of Knowledge: From Gutenberg to Diderot Peter Burke 5vii23
A Social History of Knowledge II: From the Encyclopaedia to Wikipedia Peter Burke 5vii23
No One Is Talking About This Patricia Lockwood Kindle and Audible 5vii23
Mill Town Kerri Arsenault 8vii23
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet David Mitchell Kindle 9vii23
How to Be Animal: A New History of What It Means to Be Human Melanie Challenger Kindle 10vii23
The Savage Within: The Social History of British Anthropology, 1885-1945 Henrika Kuklick 13vii23
The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography JB Harley and Paul Laxton 13 vii23
The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future (Margaret Mead: The Study of Contemporary Western Culture, 6) Robert B. Textor, editor 14vii23
The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened Bill McKibben Kindle 17vii23
Creation Gore Vidal Kindle and Audible 18vii23
Integral Ecology: Uniting Multiple Perspectives on the Natural World Sean Esbjorn-Hargens and Michael E Zimmermann Kindle 19vii23
Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America Eric R Eaton and Kenn Kaufman 24vii23
Empire and Communications Harold Innis Kindle 28vii23
Objects That Aren't: A Surrealist Approach To Identifying Photographic Images Marques Vickers 30vii23
Invitation To the Dance: A Handbook to Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time Hilary Spurling 2viii23
Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends kindle 2viii23
A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement Anthony Powell 9viii23 (3 other volumes bought at Barnswallow Books in September)
Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite Rudy Rucker Kindle 9viii23
Splendor and Misery: A Novel of Harvard Faye Levine 18viii23
Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future Jean M Twenge Kindle 18viii23
Childhood and Society Erik H Erikson Kindle 19viii23
The Life Cycle Completed (Extended Version): A Review Erik H Erikson and Joan M Erikson Kindle 19viii23
Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069 William Strauss and Howe Kindle 20viii23Neil
Sundaland: The History of the Asian Landmass that Started Sinking After the Ice Age Charles River Editors Kindler 20viii23
The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny William Strauss and Neil Howe Kindle 21viii23
Team Human Douglas Rushkoff Kindle 22viii23
A History of Water Edward Wilson-Lee 26viii23
Black Swan Green David Mitchell Kindle 27viii23
The Narrow Road Between Desires (Kingkiller Chronicle) Patrick Rothfuss Kindle 31viii23
H. L. Mencken: The Days Trilogy: Happy Days / Newspaper Days / Heathen Days / Days Revisited HL Mencken 4ix23
The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters Sean B Carroll Kindle 5ix23
Slade House David Mitchell Kindle 7ix23
Number9Dream David Mitchell Kindle 9ix23
Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov 11ix23
The Common Reader Virginia Woolf Kindle 13ix23
Jung on Active Imagination CG Jung Kindle 15ix23
Nature's Evil Alexander Etkind 18ix23
The Mountain and the Valley Ernest Buckler 19ix23
The Leaves of Southwell Nikolaus Pevsner 20ix23
When Brains Dream: Understanding the Science and Mystery of Our Dreaming Minds: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep Antonio Zadra and Robert Stickgold Kindle 21ix23
Iban Woman Golda Mowe Kindle 22ix23
Difficult Folk?: A Political History of Social Anthropology David Mills Kindle 22ix23
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Bill Watterson 27ix23
H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: The First, Second, and Third Series HL Mencken Kindle 28ix23
A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories Terry Pratchett 3x23
A Sleeping Tiger: Ethnicity, Class, and New Dayak Dreams in Urban Sarawak Clare Boulanger 3x23
Max Ernst-Loplop: The Artist in the Third Person Werner Spies 4x23
The Hundred Headless Woman Max Ernst 5x23
Une Semaine De Bonte: A Surrealistic Novel in Collage Max Ernst 5x23
The Red Book: A Reader's Edition CG Jung Kindle 5x23
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies — How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths Michael Shermer 6x23
Surrealism Beyond Borders Stephanie D'Alessandro 6x23
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America Pekka Hämäläinen Audible and Kindle 8x23
Mona of the Manor Armistead Maupin Kindle 8x23
And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropolgist Looks at America Margaret Mead 10x23
Pandora's Box: The Changing Aspects of a Mythical Symbol Dora Panofsky 11x23
Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future Oliver Franklin-Wallis Kindle 12x23
Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places Ursula Le Guin Kindle 12x23
Vile Bodies Evelyn Waugh Kindle 13x23
Fish and Dicks: Case Files from the Digby Neck and Islands Fish-Gutting Service and Detective Agency Jim Prime and Ben Robicheau 16x23
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin Erik Larson 17x23
Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East Pico Iyer 17x23
Remedios Varo: Science Fictions Caitlin Haske;; and Tere Arcq 19x23
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America Heather Cox Richardson Kindle and Audible 19x23
Cloud Atlas David Mitchell Kindle 20x23
The MANIAC Benjamin Labatut Kindle 24x23
Weird Medieval Guys: How to Live, Laugh, Love (and Die) in Dark Times Olivia Swarthout 26x23
Goin' Down the Road with Robert Frank Brian Graham 26x23
The House of Doors Tan Twan Eng Kindle and Audible 28x23
Cryptonomicon Neal Stepenson Kindle 29x23
Oxymoronica Mardy Grothe 30x23
Iowa Agriculture: A History of Farming, Family and Food Darcy Dougherty Maulsby Kindle 30x23
A History of Nebraska Agriculture: A Life Worth Living Jody Lamp and Melody Dobson Kindle 30x23
Reconsidering Regions in an Era of New Nationalism Alex Finkelstein and Anne Hyde Kindle 31x23
TheGift of Rain Tan Twan Eng Kindle 31x23
Squeeze Me Carl Hiaasen 1xi23
All Over the Map: Rethinking American Regions Edward Ayers 3xi23
The Ugly American William J Lederer and Eugene Burdick Kindle 4xi23
The Chequer Board Nevil Shute Kindle 4xi23
The Deceptive American William J Lederer and Eugene Burdick 4xi23
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington Leonora Carrington 5xi23
Leonora: A novel inspired by the life of Leonora Carrington Elena Poniatowska 5xi23
Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith John Szwed Kindle 9xi23
Our Town Thornton Wilder Kindle 12xi23
Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History Kristina R Gaddy 16xi23
How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World Deb Chachra Kindle 18xi23
Illegal: A Graphic Novel Eoin Colfer 19xi23
The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West Patricia Nelson Limerick 23xi23
In the American Grain William Carlos Williams Kindle 23xi23
The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England Peter C Mancall Kindle 23xi23
The Three Jameses; a Family of Minds, Henry James, Sr., William James, Henry James C Hartley Grattan 24xi23
String Figures and How to Make Them: A Study of Cat's Cradle in Many Lands Caroline F Jayne 29xi23
The Varieties of Religious Experience A Study in Human Nature Kindle 23xi23
A Buckeye Titan William E Smith Kindle 26xi23
Jim and the Flims Rudy Rucker Kindle 30xi23
Of Two Minds: An Anthropologist Looks at American Psychiatry T.M. Luhrmann 4xii23
History of the American Frontier - 1763-1893 Frederic L Paxson 5xii23
Derangements of My Contemporaries: Miscellaneous Notes Li Shangyin 5xii23
Arhoolie Records Down Home Music: The Stories and Photographs of Chris Strachwitz Joel Selvin and Chris Strachwitz 5xii23
History of the American Frontier - 1763-1893 Frederic L Paxson Kindle 5xii23
Clarence John Laughlin: Prophet without Honor AJ Meek 6xii23
Topographies: Aerial Surveys of the American Landscape Stephen Shore 6xii23
Selectred Nonfiction, 1962-2007 JG Ballard Kindle 12xii23
The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí Salvador Dalí 14xii23
Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver Audible 15xii23
Sundials: Their Theory and Construction Albert Waugh 17xii23
Megaliths, Myths and Men: An Introduction to Astro-Archaeology Peter Lancaster Brown 18xii23
The Diary of Alice James Alice James 19xii23
Marilyn Monroe: The Biography Donald Spoto 22xii23
Cryptonomicon Neil Stephenson Audible 22xii23
Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic Emily Monosson 23xii23
Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else David Balzer 23xii23
Ways of Curating Hans Ulrich Obrist Kindle 23xii23
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds Jennifer Ackerman 27xii23
National Geographic Family Reference Atlas 5th Edition National Geographic 30xii23
Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe Robert Lanza Kindle 30xii23
How Life Works: A User's Guide to the New Biology Philip Ball Kindle 30xii23