Reading

Reading So Far in 2024 (44 books)

A Year of Fiction

• The Tyrant’s Law by Daniel Abraham

• The Widow’s House by Daniel Abraham

• The Spider’s War by Daniel Abraham

• This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

• System Collapse by Martha Wells

• Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

• Bookshops and Bondedust by Travis Baldree

• Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

• Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

• Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

• Ball Lightening by Cixin Liu

• Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

• The Burning God by R F Kuang

• Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

• Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

• Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

• Storm Front by Jim Butcher

• Fool Moon by Jim Butcher

• Grave Peril by Jim Butcher

• Summer Knight by Jim Butcher

• Death Masks by Jim Butcher

• Blood Rites by Jim Butcher

• Dead Beat by Jim Butcher

• Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher

• White Night by Jim Butcher

• Small Favor by Jim Butcher

• Turn Coat by Jim Butcher

• Changes by Jim Butcher

• Side Jobs by Jim Butcher

• Ghost Story by Jim Butcher

• Cold Days by Jim Butcher

• Shadowed Souls by Jim Butcher and Kerrie L Hughes

• Skin Game by Jim Butcher

• Brief Cases by Jim Butcher

• Peace Talks by Jim Butcher

• Battle Ground by Jim Butcher

• The Law by Jim Butcher

• The Sword of Kaigen by M L Wang

• Rise of the Ranger by Philip C Quaintrell

• Empire of Dirt by Philip C Quaintrell

• Relic of the Gods by Philip C Quaintrell

• All Friends are Necessary by Tomas Moniz

• Trust by Hernan Diaz

• Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

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Favorites

• A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark

• A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers

• When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo

Fiction

• The Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan

• A Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan

• The Path of Daggers by Robert Jordan

• Winters Heart by Robert Jordan

• Crossroads of Twilight by Robert Jordan

• Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan

• The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson

• Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson

• A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson

• New Spring by Robert Jordan

• The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

• Neuromancer by William Gibson

• Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown

• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

• Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

• The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson

• Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson

• The Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson

• Impact Winter by Travis Beacham

• A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark

• Dawnshard by Brandon Sanderson

• A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

• A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine

• Dawn by Octavia E. Butler

• Adulthood Rites by Octavia E. Butler

• Imago by Octavia E. Butler

• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

• A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

• Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

• The Galaxy and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers

• The Lost Metal by Brandon Sanderson

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

• A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers

• A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

• The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo

• When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo

• Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo

• Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

• Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

• Beneath the Sugary Sky by Seanan McGuire

• In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire

• Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire

• Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire

• Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire

• The Expert System’s Brother by Adrian Tchaikovsky

• The Expert System’s Champion by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Non-Fiction

• That All Shall Be Saved by David Bentley Hart

• The Way of Chuang Tzu by Thomas Merton

• Things My Sun Needs to Know about the World by Fredrik Backman

• Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach

• The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou

Poetry

• Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans

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Favorites

• And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman

• Mortality by Christopher Hitchens

• Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now by Maya Angelou

Fiction

• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

• The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

• Perelandra by C. S. Lewis

• 2001 by Arthur C. Clarke

• The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

• Candide by Voltaire

• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

• Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson

• The Grownup by Gillian Flynn

• And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman

• The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman

• Hell Divers 4: Wolves by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

• Hell Divers 3: Deliverance by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

• Hell Divers 2: Ghosts by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

• Hell Divers by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

• Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis

• Forward the Foundation by Isaac Asimov

• Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov

• Foundation and Earth by Isaac Asimov

• Petals to the Metal by The McElroys

• Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov

• Micromegas by Voltaire

• Entanglements by Rae Armantrout

• Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov

• Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov

• Foundation by Isaac Asimov

• How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang

• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

• The Dragon Republic by R. F. Kuang

• The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang

Non-Fiction

• Good Strategy/Bad Strategy by Richard P. Rumelt

• Executing Grace by Shane Claiborne

• The Practice by Seth Godin

• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

• Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou

• Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now by Maya Angelou

• Liminal Thinking by Dave Gray, Richard Saul Wurman

• Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris

• A Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi

• The Art of War by Sun Tzu

• Mortality by Christopher Hitchens

• I'm Still Here by Austin Channing Brown

• Always Day One by Alex Kantrowitz

• Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell

• Seriously... I'm Kidding by Ellen DeGeneres

• The Sin of Certainty by Peter Enns

• Atomic Habits by James Clear

• A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis

Poetry

• At Blackwater Pond by Mary Oliver

• And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou

• Bhagavad Gita translated by Stephen Mitchell

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Favorites

• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Fiction

• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan

• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

• A Little Life by Hanya Yanahihara

• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

• The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss

• The Chemist by Stephenie Meyer

• The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

• The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

• Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey

• Artemis by Andy Weir

• Iron Gold by Pierce Brown

• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

• Binti: The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor

• Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor

• Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

• Death's End by Cixin Liu

• The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu

• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

• The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

• Mistborn: The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson

• Mistborn: The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson

• Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

Non-Fiction

• Evicted by Matthew Desmond

• Surprised by Hope by N. T. Wright

• Inspired by Marty Cagan

• Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

• Paddle Your Own Canoe by Nick Offerman

• How was Venice Built? by Giovanni Distefano

• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

• Paul: a Biography by N.T. Wright

• Devotion (Why I Write) by Patti Smith

• It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried and David Hansson

• Planet Funny by Ken Jennings

• The Prodigal Prophet by Timothy Keller

• Letters to the Church by Francis Chan

• Chaos Monkey by Antonio Garcia Martinez

• Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda

• The Art of Reading by Damon Young

• 300 Arguments by Sarah Manguso

• Gratitude by Oliver Sacks

• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

• Bossypants by Tina Fey

• Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg

• Competing Against Luck by Clayton M. Christensen

• GRIT by Angela Duckworth

• Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown

• In the Plex by Steven Levy

• Every Good Endeavor by Timothy Keller

Poetry

• The Trouble with Poetry by Billy Colins

• Geography III: Poems by Elizabeth Bishop

• Venture of the Infinite Man by Pablo Nerudo

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Favorites

• The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Carey

• The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee

• My Bright Abyss by Christian Wiman

Fiction

• Oblivion by David Foster Wallace

• Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace

• Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

• The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkein

• The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkein

• The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkein

• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkein

• The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Carey

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

• Housekeeping: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson

• Home: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson

• Lila: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson

• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J. K. Rowling

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling

• Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince by J. K. Rowling

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling

• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling

• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling

• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling

• Tinkers by Paul Harding

• The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Non-Fiction

• Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans

• The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferris

• Algorithms to Live By by Tom Griffiths and Brian Christia

• Every Riven Thing by Christian Wiman

• Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• Create Now! by Marlo Johnson

• Envelope Poems by Emily Dickenson

• Big Magic by Elisabeth Gilbert

• Between You and Me by Mary Norris

• A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis

• Your Inner Critic is a Big Jerk by Danielle Krystal

• Kissinger by Walter Isaacson

• The Everything Store by Brad Stone

• Creativity, Inc. by Amy Wallace and Ed Catmull

• Alibaba by Duncan Clark

• Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli

• Zero to One by Peter Theil

• David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell

• The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee

• The Virgin Way by Richard Branson

• The Data Warehouse Toolkit by Ralph Kimball and Margy Ross

• Mastering Data Warehouse Design by C. Imhoff, N. Galemmo, J. Geiger

• I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

• The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

• The Problem of Pain by C. S. Lewis

• My Bright Abyss by Christian Wiman

• Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

• Relativity by Albert Einstein