Reading list
What I’m reading and my opinions and all that.
2022
| Title | Author | Date | Thoughts |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Expert System's Brother | by Adrian Tchaikovsky | November | |
| Defending Elysium | by Brandon Sanderson | November | |
| The Fisherman | by John Langan | November | I enjoyed the fractal nature of it |
| The Atlas Paradox | by Olivie Blake | November | |
| The Creeper | by A. M. Shine | November | |
| The Spare Man | by Mary Robinette Kowal | October | My cocktail ingredients shopping list |
| Thistlefoot | by GennaRose Nethercott | October | |
| From the Wreck | by Jane Rawson | October | |
| The Golden Enclaves | by Naomi Novik | October | Nice job tying the trilogy together |
| Ballad for Sophie | by Filipe Melo | September | Gorgeous graphic novel with exceptional story |
| End of the World House | by Adrienne Celt | September | |
| Dead Silence | by S. A. Barnes | September | Actually dang spooky |
| How High We Go in the Dark | by Sequoia Nagamatsu | September | Great book, horribly sad |
| A Half-Built Garden | by Ruthanna Emrys | September | Wasn’t really for me |
| Fairy Tale | by Stephen King | September | Has an Ending |
| Babel | by R. F. Kuang | September | Made promises and then didn’t hold to them |
| A Prayer for the Crown-Shy | by Becky Chambers | September | |
| A Psalm for the Wild-Built | by Becky Chambers | September | Loved it |
| Eversion | by Alastair Reynolds | September | Fascinating read, well-knit together |
| Klara and the Sun | by Kazuo Ishiguro | September | Fascinating read |
| On Writing | by Stephen King | August | |
| Under the Whispering Door | by TJ Klune | August | |
| A Discovery of Witches | by Deborah Harkness | July | Abandoned; I feel this book comes dangerously close to glorifying abusive behaviours |
| Under Fortunate Stars | by Ren Hutchings | July | Neat concept well executed |
| The Night Circus | by Erin Morgenstern | July | Really enjoyed the prose |
| Jack Four | by Neal Asher | July | I didn’t actually like this, felt like reading a video game |
| Ordinary Monsters | by J. M. Miro | July | |
| Mordew | by Alex Pheby | July | Feels wildly all over the place, wouldn’t read again |
| Hummingbird Salamander | by Jeff Vandermeer | July | |
| Drunk on All Your Strange New Words | by Eddie Robson | June | |
| Inhibitor Phase | by Alastair Reynolds | June | |
| The Bone Orchard | by Sara A. Mueller | June | I went into this with no idea what to expect and I was surprised by how unique it feels |
| Stringers | by Chris Panatier | June | Very popcorny, but would’t read again |
| Eyes of the Void | by Adrian Tchaikovsky | June | |
| Until the Last of Me | by Sylvain Neuvel | June | |
| Gallant | by V. E. Schwab | May | |
| Last Exit | by Max Gladstone | May | |
| Ogres | by Adrian Tchaikovsky | May | |
| The Shadow People | by Graham Masterton | May | Went too far into gruesome for me, abandoned |
| Sea of Tranquility | by Emily St. John Mandel | April | |
| The Watchers | by A. M. Shine | April | I enjoyed this a lot |
| The Atlas Six | by Olivie Blake | March | |
| The Cartographers | by Peng Shepherd | March | |
| The Kaiju Preservation Society | by John Scalzi | March | |
| The Silent Patient | by Alex Michaelides | March | |
| Devil House | by John Darnielle | March | |
| The Long Earth | by Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter | February | |
| Termination Shock | by Neal Stephenson | January | |
| The Two of Swords: Part Three | by K.J. Parker | January | |
| The Two of Swords: Part Two | by K.J. Parker | January |
2021
| Title | Author | Date | Thoughts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stories of Your Life and Others | by Ted Chiang | December | Very tasty bits of short sci fi |
| Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language | by Gretchen McCulloch | December | This book is incredible and helps me level up how I communicate remotely |
| Leviathan Falls | by James S. A. Corey | I didn’t finish this and I’m not sure why | |
| The Two of Swords: Part One | by K.J. Parker | December | The setting is GoT-ish but the tone is more like subtly like Hitchhiker's Guide |
| Elder Race | by Adrian Tchaikovsky | December | Did not realize it was a short story, majorly bummed out to accidentally run into the end |
| Cytonic | by Brandon Sanderson | December | I love the process of an AI learning emotions |
| The Apollo Murders | by Chris Hadfield | November | Not fair to be both an astronaut AND an author |
| The Lost Pianos of Siberia | by Sophy Roberts | October | |
| The Unfinished Land | by Greg Bear | October | |
| Utopia Avenue | by David Mitchell | October | Kinda fell off of it |
| Tears of the Truffle-Pig | by Fernando A. Flores | October | |
| The Last Graduate | by Naomi Novik | October | Should not be as sticky as it is and yet |
| The Scavenger Door | by Suzanne Palmer | October | Aw yeah |
| The Exiled Fleet | by J. S. Dewes | October | |
| The Hunt for Red October | by Tom Clancy | September | Keeps moving forward, all men only men |
| The Art of Logic | by Eugenia Cheng | September | Actively made me better at thinking |
| Clear and Present Danger | by Tom Clancy | September | |
| Billy Summers | by Stephen King | September | I would do naughty things to be able to write characters like King |
| The Great Mistake | by Jonathan Lee | August | |
| A History of What Comes Next | by Sylvain Neuvel | August | |
| The Library of the Dead | by T. L. Huchu | August | Not really about the library of the dead |
| The Big Short | by Michael Lewis | August | History repeats |
| Black Sun | by Rebecca Roanhorse | August | New level of squeamish in some scenes |
| Later | by Stephen King | July | |
| Turn the Ship Around! | by L. David Marquet | July | Love that he digs into his method failing as well as thriving |
| The Last Watch | by J.S. Dewes | Compelling idea, good characterization in points of views | |
| The Hidden Palace | by Helene Wecker | Fascinating followup to The Golem and the Djinni | |
| A Master of Djinn | by P. Daeli Clark | Fell off, never got back to it | |
| The Lost Future of Pepperharrow | by Natasha Pulley | Like a totally different book from the first, not satisfying | |
| Project Hail Mary | by Andy Weir | COMMUNICATION | |
| The Lost Apothecary | by Sara Penner | ||
| The Invisible Life of Addie Larue | by V. E. Schwab | The best cover | |
| The Mask of Mirrors | by M. A. Carrick | Fell off, didn't finish | |
| A Memory Called Empire | by Arkady Martine | ||
| The Watchmaker of Filigree Street | by Natasha Pulley | Compelling | |
| The Forever War | by Joe Haldeman | ||
| The Starless Sea | by Erin Morgenster | Beautiful writing | |
| To Sleep in a Sea of Stars | by Christopher Paolini | ||
| The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet | by Becky Chambers | Pleasant read, optimistic | |
| Velocity Weapon | by Megan E. O'Keefe | ||
| Seveneves | by Neal Stephenson | ||
| Beowulf | by Maria Dahvana Headley | Bro! | |
| Bone Silence | by Alastair Reynolds | ||
| Revenger | by ALastair Reynolds | ||
| Rhythm of War | by Brandon Sanderson | ||
| Org Design for Design Orgs | by Merholz & Skinner | ||
| Radical Candor | by Kim Scott | Good ideas, often used as an excuse to be a jerk | |
| Mismatch | by Kat Holmes | Wonderful read around inclusive design | |
| Post-Truth | by Matthew D'Ancona | ||
| The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist | by Adrian Tomine | Lovely graphic novel | |
| How to Rule an Empire and Get Away With It | by K. J. Parker | ||
| Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City | by K. J. Parker | Fun and quick | |
| A Peculiar Peril | by Jeff Vandermeer | Honestly, I have trouble getting into Vandermeer after his original trilogy | |
| A History of the World in Twelve Maps | by Jerry Brotton | ||
| Finder | by Suzanne Palmer | Aw yea | |
| Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | by Philip K. Dick | Finally got to it | |
| Sixteenth Watch | by Myke Cole | ||
| The Doors of Eden | by Adrian Tchaikovsky |
2020
| Title | Author | Date | Thoughts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early Risers | by Jasper Fforde | ||
| The Hollow Ones | by Guillemo del Toro & Chuck Hogan | ||
| Upheaval | by Jared Diamond | ||
| Great North Road | by Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| Bird by Bird | by Anne Lamott | I like this a lot | |
| Kingdom of Copper | by S. A. Chakraborty | I love this cultural mythology | |
| The Empire of Gold | by S. A. Chakraborty | I love this cultural mythology | |
| Dead Astronauts | by Jeff Vandermeer | Fell off | |
| Fuzzy Nation | by John Scalzi | Dunno what I expected, wasn't that, loved it | |
| Why I'm No Longer Talking About Race | by Reni Eddo-Lodge | ||
| Take Off Your Pants: Outline Your Books for Faster, Better Writing | by Libbie Hawker | Excellent read to procrastinate writing | |
| The Ten Thousand Doors of January | by Alix E. Harrow | Lovely, bought a copy for my mom after | |
| A Deadly Education | by Naomi Novik | Popcorn | |
| The Light Brigade | by Kameron Hurley | ||
| The Migration | by Helen Marshall | ||
| Shards of Earth | by Adrian Tchaikovsky | Meh, doesn't live up to the rest of the author's work | |
| If It Bleeds | by Stephen King | Don't usually like novellas, but these struck a chord | |
| The Last Astronaut | by David Wellington | ||
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | by Douglas Adams | Must read every year | |
| Cage of Souls | by Adrian Tchaikovsky | ||
| The City We Became | by N. K. Jemisin | Fell off | |
| The Priory of the Orange Tree | by Samantha Shannon | ||
| Driving the Deep | by Suzanne Palmer | ||
| The Escapement | by K. J. Parker | ||
| Evil for Evil | by K. J. Parker | Interesting how I can't decide who's the good characters | |
| Devices and Desires | by K. J. Parker | Nice prose | |
| The Library of the Unwritten | by A. J. Hackwith | ||
| The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat | by Oliver Sacks | ||
| The Hidden Life of Trees | by Peter Wohlleben | ||
| Through the Language Glass | by Guy Deutscher | ||
| The Last Emperox | by John Scalzi | ||
| Salvation | by Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| Gravity | by Tess Gerritsen | ||
| Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behaviour | by Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| The Lies of Locke Lamora | by Scott Lynch | ||
| The Book Thief | by Merkus Zusak | ||
| The Anatomy of a Story | by John Truby | ||
| The Buried Giant | by Kazuo Ishiguro | ||
| Ninth House | by Leigh Bardugo | Best cover | |
| Wanderers | by Chuck Wendig | Aw yeah kickin off a pandemic | |
| Hogfather | by Terry Pratchett | ||
| Good Strategy Bad Strategy | by Richard Rumelt | ||
| Children of Ruin | by Adrian Tchaikovsky | ||
| Children of Time | by Adrian Tchaikovsky | ||
| The Terror | by Dan Simmons | ||
| Skyward | by Brandon Sanderson | ||
| Supernova Era | by Cixin Liu | ||
| The Quantum Magician | by Derek Künsken | ||
| Starsight | by Brandon Sanderson | ||
| The Testaments | by Maraget Atwood | ||
| The Da Vinci Code | by Dan Brown | ||
| Angels and Demons | by Dan Brown | ||
| The Institute | by Stephen King | ||
| The Silent Patient | by Alex Michaelides | ||
| The Memory Police | by Yōko Ogawa | ||
| First Cosmic Velocity | by Zach Powers | ||
| A Gentleman in Moscow | by Amor Towles | Really enjoyed this |
Missing thoughts are just me not remembering exactly what I thought at the time.