Reading list
What I’m reading and my opinions and all that.
2022
Title | Author | Date | Thoughts |
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The Watchers | by A. M. Shine | April | |
The Atlas Six | by Olivie Blake | March | |
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 |
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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 | ||
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 |
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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.