Bookshelf

A list of books I've read over the last few years. Books that have notes are underlined; a list of only the books that I've written up notes for is here. Excellent books have a star.

Last updated January 2023.

2023

6 books
  • Energy by Richard Rhoades
  • Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
  • There is No Antimimetics Division by Sam Hughes
  • The Keep by Jennifer Egan
  • Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
  • Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds

2022

47 books
  • The Pocket Guide to Action by Kyle Eschenroeder
  • The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
  • The Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya
  • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
  • Fool's Fate by Robin Hobb
  • The Golden Fool by Robin Hobb
  • Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb
  • Ship of Destiny by Robin Hobb
  • The Mad Ship by Robin Hobb
  • Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb
  • Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
  • Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb
  • Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb
  • When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
  • Beyond the Blue Event Horizon by Frederik Pohl
  • The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov
  • After Babel by George Steiner
  • Triumph of the City by Edward Glaeser
  • The Emperor's Tomb by Steve Berry
  • Scale by Geoffrey West
  • The Alexandria Link by Steve Berry
  • The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
  • The Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel
  • The Unreal and the Real by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
  • Where Is My Flying Car by J Storrors Hall
  • Six Memos for the Next Millenium by Italo Calvino
  • A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
  • A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
  • A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller
  • Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The Light of All that Falls by James Islington
  • An Echo of Things to Come by James Islington
  • The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington
  • On The Road by Jack Kerouac
  • The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
  • Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
  • Superpower by Ross Garnaut
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
  • The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef
  • Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
  • The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
  • Naming the Mind by Kurt Danzinger
  • Selected Non-Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
  • The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter
  • Mort by Terry Prachett

2021

58 books
  • Richer, Wiser, Happier by William Green
  • Matrix by Lauren Groff
  • Three Moments of an Explosion by China Miéville
  • Working Backwards by Carr and Bryar
  • The City and the City by China Miéville
  • A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
  • Use of Weapons by Iain Banks
  • Mindwise by Nicholas Epley
  • How to Take Smart Notes by Sonke Ahrens
  • The One Impossible Labyrinth by Matthew Reilly
  • Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
  • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
  • A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
  • How Asia Works by Joe Studwell
  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat by Oliver Sacks
  • A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
  • The Theory That Would Not Die by Sharon McGrayne
  • A Short Stay In Hell by Steven Peck
  • Friendly Ambitious Nerd by Visakan Veerasamy
  • The Aleph by Jorge Borges
  • Longitude by Dava Sobel
  • Influence by Robert Cialdini
  • Pandora's Star by Peter Hamilton
  • Judas Unchained by Peter Hamilton
  • The Alexandria Link by Steve Berry
  • The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry
  • The Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
  • To Sell is Human by Daniel Pink
  • Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
  • Superforcasting by Tetlock and Gardener
  • The Big Change by Frederick Allen
  • China, A History by John Keay
  • Early Riser by Jasper Fforde
  • Down Under by Bill Bryson
  • Sources of Power by Gary Klein
  • Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Our Mathematical Universe by Max Tegmark
  • Darkdawn by Jay Kristoff
  • Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff
  • Nevernight by Jay Kristoff
  • The Choice by Edith Eger
  • So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport
  • A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin
  • Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
  • Exhalation by Ted Chiang
  • The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner
  • Excession by Iain M Banks
  • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson
  • The Enigma of Reason by Mercier and Sperber
  • Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
  • Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
  • Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
  • Endurance by Alfred Lansing
  • The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant
  • The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
  • The Elephant in the Brain by Simler and Hanson
  • The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
  • The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhoades

2020

50 books
  • Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chaing
  • The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
  • Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
  • How To Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard
  • The Man Who Solved the Market by Gregory Zuckerman
  • Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Antifragile by Nassim Taleb
  • Fooled By Randomness by Nassim Taleb
  • The Saints of Salvation by Peter Hamilton
  • Salvation Lost by Peter Hamilton
  • Salvation by Peter Hamilton
  • Human Transit by Jarrett Walker
  • Atomic Habits by James Clear
  • Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Fermat's Last Theorem by Amir Aczel
  • The Spy Who Came In From The Cold by John Le Carré
  • The Body by Bill Bryson
  • The Two Lost Mountains by Matthew Reilly
  • Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
  • Alchemy by Rory Sutherland
  • Idea Makers by Stephen Wolfram
  • Exhalation by Ted Chiang
  • The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
  • Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff
  • Unfinished Business by Vivian Gornick
  • Dune by Frank Herbert
  • The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
  • The Way We Eat Now by Bee Wilson
  • The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
  • If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
  • Ficciones by Jorge Borges
  • On The Move by Oliver Sacks
  • The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin
  • Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
  • The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  • The Anarchy by William Dalrymple
  • Ventus by Karl Schroeder
  • The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
  • The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
  • Short Story Collection by Philip K Dick
  • The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • The Information by James Gleick
  • The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
  • The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick
  • Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
  • Nudge by Thaler and Sunstein
  • Grass For His Pillow by Lian Hearn
  • Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn
  • Factfulness by Hans Rosling
  • Salvation Lost by Peter F Hamilton