I try to read a lot. This is an attempt to track that.
Books I especially loved are marked with an asterisk.
Currently Reading
Fiction
- The Lady of the Lake, Andrzej Sapkowski
- Son of Khyber, Keith Baker
- Heretics of Dune, Frank Herbert
- The Odyssey, Emily Wilson
- Her Body and Other Parties: Stories, Carmen Maria Machado
Software Engineering
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications, Martin Kleppmann
2022
- Milk Blood Heat, Dantiel W Moniz
- Squad, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Lisa Sterle
- Severance, Ling Ma
- The Slow Regard of Silent Things, Patrick Rothfuss
2021
- Bubble, Jordan Moris, Sarah Morgan, Tony Cliff
- Cackle, Rachel Harrison
- Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol, Mallory O’Meara
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams*
- The Gates of Night, Keith Baker
- Mad Men and Philosophy, William Irwin et al.
- The Midnight Library, Matt Haig
- Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir
- The Anthropocene Reviewed, John Green
- The Queen of Stone, Keith Baker*
- The Shattered Land, Keith Baker
- Vox Machina Origins: Volume II, Critical Role
- Artemis, Andy Weir
- City of Towers, Keith Baker
- Laziness Does Not Exist, Devon Price, PhD
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab
- The Tower of Swallows, Andrzej Sapkowski
- A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit
- If You Come Softly, Jacqueline Woodson
- On Immunity: An Inoculation, Eula Biss
- Will my Cat Eat My Eyeballs, Caitlin Doughty
- A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles
- Parable of the Talents, Octavia E. Butler
- Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler*
2020
- A Promised Land, Barack Obama
- God Emperor of Dune, Frank Herbert
- Children of Dune, Frank Herbert
- Baptism of Fire, Andrzej Sapkowski
- Galatea, Madeline Miller
- The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller
- Circe, Madeline Miller*
- Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert
- Dune, Frank Herbert*
- The Wise Man’s Fear, Patrick Rothfuss
- Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
- The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
- Blonde Roots, Bernardine Evaristo*
- The Time of Contempt, Andrzej Sapkowski
- Vox Machina: Origins Volume I, Critical Role
- Blood of Elves, Andrzej Sapkowski
- How to be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
- Sword of Destiny, Andrzej Sapkowski
- The Last Wish, Andrzej Sapkowski
- Why Fish Don’t Exist, Lulu Miller*
- Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson
2019
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
- Man’s Search For Meaning, Victor E. Frankl
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J.K. Rowling
- The Martian, Andy Weir
2018
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
- An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, Hank Green
- Bad Blood, John Carreyrou
- Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng*
- Yes We (Still) Can, Dan Pfeiffer
- Einstein, Walter Isaacson
- Paddle Your Own Canoe, Nick Offerman
- Yes Please, Amy Poehler
- Bossypants, Tina Fey
- Turtles All the Way Down, John Green