{"id":5297,"date":"2026-05-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/?p=5297"},"modified":"2026-05-10T22:03:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T05:03:32","slug":"every-book-i-read-in-my-thirties-reading-from-2016-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/?p=5297","title":{"rendered":"Every Book I Read in my Thirties: Reading from 2016\u20132026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve been keeping track of what I read since 2008, when I was in my last year of college. I had always liked to read but I had been wondering where my time went, so I started keeping a list, and this evolved into my books of the year posts<\/a>. In 2018, I put together a books of the decade post<\/a>, reflecting on what I had read in the last ten years. I had been assuming I would do another books of the decade post in 2028, but then I realized I had a more interesting, somewhat less arbitrary option: all the books of my thirties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today is my fortieth birthday! It’s a little strange to think about how time just keeps on keeping on like that, but I do feel good about who I am and who I continue to become. I am looking forward to discovering the person I will be in another ten years and my forthcoming “Every Book I Read in my Forties” post (ETA: May 2036). A very important part of who I am is what I have read and thought about, a process you all have a front-row seat to here with the blog (consider subscribing<\/a>!). I love being able to make connections between things I’ve read and see how an idea develops over multiple books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In analyzing ten years’ of reading habits, I found the premium version of Storygraph<\/a> to be very helpful (follow me on Storygraph<\/a>, if you use it!). Although I keep a spreadsheet of what I read, it’s a lot nicer to have a service to figure some of these things out for me. Still, Storygraph doesn’t do it all, so thank you to my past self for keeping track of this stuff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stats<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On to the numbers! <\/p>\n\n\n\n