Bookshelf
This is a list of books I’ve read since early 2023, more or less in order.
- The Passenger Seat Vijay Khurana
- Clockwork Boys T. Kingfisher
- Slow Gods Claire North
- Lives of Bitter Rain Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Red and the Wolves Cherry Zong
- The Eleventh Hour Salman Rushdie
- Days of Shattered Faith Adrian Tchiakovsky
- The Causal Angel Hannu Rajaniemi
- The Sabbath Abraham Joshua Heschel
- The Fractal Prince Hannu Rajaniemi
- Katabasis R. F. Kuang
- Transcription Ben Lerner
- Flesh David Szalay
- The Dispossessed Ursula K Le Guin
- Within a Budding Grove Marcel Proust
- Slow Productivity Cal Newport
- Swann's Way Marcel Proust
- The Dual State Ernst Fraenkel
- Everything Is Tuberculosis John Green
- The Strategy of the Genes C. H. Waddington
- The Backyard Bird Chronicles Amy Tan
- The Chosen and the Beautiful Nghi Vo
- The Incandescent Emily Tesh
- Amusing Ourselves to Death Neil Postman
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz
- Mickey7 Edward Ashton
- The Importance of Being Ernest Oscar Wilde
- The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K Le Guin
- Children of Time Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Sync: the Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order Steven Strogatz
- The Three Arched Bridge Ismail Kadare
- Atomic Habits James Clear
- The City in the Middle of the Night Charlie Jane Anders
- Gender Queer Maia Kobabe
- Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates
- White Fragility Dr. Robin Diangelo
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century Thomas Piketty
- Astro City: Metrobook 1 [Kurt Busiek Brent E. Anderson Alex Ross]
- Getting Things Done David Allen
- Deep Work Cal Newport
- The Hidden Lives of Owls Leigh Calvez
- Things Become Other Things Craig Mod
- The World Beyond Your Head Matthew B Crawford
- The Body Keeps the Score Bessel van der Kolk
- Copaganda Alec Karakatsanis
- In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays Bertrand Russell
- Achieving Our Country Richard Rorty
- The Pencil Henry Petroski
- Sourdough Robin Sloan
- The Black Swan Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- You Are Here David Nicholls
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information [Edward Tufte]
- Bringer of Dust J. M. Miro
- House of Open Wounds Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- A Day of Fallen Night Samantha Shannon
- Eurydice Sarah Ruhl
- No Time to Spare Ursula K. Le Guin
- Midnight Riot Ben Aaronovitch
- To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause Benjamin Nathans
- The Other Wind Ursula K Le Guin
- Tales from Earthsea Ursula K Le Guin
- Leviathan Wakes James Corey
- The Science of Reading Adrian Johns
- Reynard’s Tale Ben Hatke
- The Monster of Elendhaven Jennifer Giesbrecht
- Tehanu Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Farthest Shore Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Tombs of Atuan Ursula K. Le Guin
- A Wizard of Earthsea Ursula K. Le Guin
- What is Life? Erwin Schrödinger
- The Book of Lost Things John Connolly
- Metal From Heaven August Clarke
- The Beauty in Breaking Michele Harper, MD
- An Enquiry on Human Understanding David Hume
- Going Postal Terry Pratchett
- The Light of Other Days Arthur C. Clarke
- Quantum Thief Hannu Rajaniemi
- James Percival Everett
- Let Us Descend Jesmyn Ward
- The Idiot Elif Batuman
- One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
- Happy Brain, Happy Life Wendy Suzuki
- Soul Music Terry Pratchett
- The Conquest of Bread Peter Kropotkin
- Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore Robin Sloan
- Fight, Magic, Items Aiden Moher
- Joyful Militancy carla bergman and Nick Montgomery
- The Ministry of Time Kaliene Bradley
- A Magical Girl Retires Park Seolyeon
- The Great Good Place Ray Oldenburg
- Elite Capture Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
- Let This Radicalize You Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba
- Patriot Alexei Navalny
- The Apothecary Diaries, Volume 8 Natsu Hyūga
- Faster James Gleick
- The Apothecary Diaries, Volume 7 Natsu Hyūga
- Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer
- The Apothecary Diaries, Volume 6 Natsu Hyūga
- Hope in the Dark Rebecca Solnit
- Ink Blood Sister Scribe Emma Törzs
- The Apothecary Diaries, Volume 5 Natsu Hyūga
- The Apothecary Diaries, Volume 4 Natsu Hyūga
- The Apothecary Diaries, Volume 3 Natsu Hyūga
- The Apothecary Diaries, Volume 2 Natsu Hyūga
- The Apothecary Diaries, Volume 1 Natsu Hyūga
- Neurotribes Steve Silberman
- City of Last Chances Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Martyr! Kaveh Akbar
- Frostbite Nicola Twilley
- When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi
- Fit Nation Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
- The Victorian Internet Tom Standage
- The World We Make N. K. Jemisin
- Do You Dream of Terra-Two? Temi Oh
- Freakonomics Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
- The Craft of Research Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams, Joseph Bizup, William T. Fitzgerald
- Translation State Ann Leckie
- Kindling Traci Chee
- Vagina Obscura Rachel E. Gross
- The Last Gifts of the Universe Riley August
- Bird by Bird Anne Lamott
- Space Oddity Catherynne M. Valente
- The Science of Last Things Ellen Wayland-Smith
- Wind and Truth Brandon Sanderson
- The Book of Minds Phillip Ball
- The Wishing Game Meg Shaffer
- The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
- The Portrait of Dorian Grey Oscar Wilde
- A Guide to Stoicism St George William Joseph Stock
- The Right to the City Henri Lefebvre
- Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill
- The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells
- The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx
- Candide Voltaire
- Moving Pictures Terry Pratchett
- Mutual Aid Dean Spade
- Mort Terry Pratchett
- Dawn Octavia E. Butler
- Godkiller Hannah Kaner
- The Bright Sword Lev Grossman
- The City We Became N. K. Jemisin
- How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology Phillip Ball
- The Golden Compass Phillip Pullman
- Tress and the Emerald Sea Brandon Sanderson
- This Is How You Lose the Time War Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
- Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution R. F. Kuang
- Still Alice Lisa Genova
- Moonbound Robin Sloan
- Reaper Man Terry Pratchett
- Eric Terry Pratchett
- Chaos: Making a New Science James Gleick
- The Color Purple Alice Walker
- How Not to be Wrong Jordan Ellenberg
- The Fault in Our Stars John Green
- Fungi: Discover the Science and Secrets Behind the World of Mushrooms Lynne Boddy, Ashby Ali
- Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex Matilda Bickers, peech breshear, Janis Luna
- And Then? And Then? What Else? David Handler (AKA Lemony Snicket)
- The Sunlit Man Brandon Sanderson
- Piranesi Susanna Clarke
- Sourcery Terry Pratchett
- Tremendous Trifles G. K. Chesterton
- The Time Machine H. G. Wells
- The Light Fantastic Terry Pratchett
- The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern
- Cells to Civilizations Enrico Coen
- The Color of Magic Terry Pratchett
- The Radium Girls Kate Moore
- A Lesson Before Dying Earnest Gaines
- Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie
- Advice for a Young Investigator Santiago Ramon y Cajal
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue V. E. Schwab
- Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind Molly McGhee
- Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law Richard Rothstein and Leah Rothstein
- The Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus
- Yumi and the Nightmare Painter Brandon Sanderson
- In Search of Mechanisms: Discoveries across the Life Sciences Carl F. Craver and Lindley Darden
- The Kamogawa Food Detectives Hisashi Kashiwai
- Field Notes from a Catastrophe Elizabeth Kolbert
- Poverty, By America Matthew Desmond
- Lords of Uncreation Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin
- Azazeel Youssef Ziedan
- The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins
- Paper Daughter M. Elaine Mar
- Eyes of the Void Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Wetware Dennis Bray
- Shards of Earth Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Even Though I Knew the End C. L. Polk
- Hyperion Dan Simmons
- The Drunkard's Walk Leonard Mlodinow
- American Prometheus Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
- Dracula Bram Stoker
- Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 Anna Deavere Smith
- The Street Ann Petry
- Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
- Passing Nella Larson
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself Harriet Jacobs
- Thinking in Systems Donella Meadows
- Tao Te Ching Laozi, Gia-fu Feng
- The Information James Gleick
- Genentech Sally Smith Hughes
- Ordinary Monsters J. M. Miro
- Slapstick or Lonesome No More! Kurt Vonnegut
- The Infinity Particle Wendy Xu
- The Ascent of Information Caleb Scharf
- The Best Writing on Mathematics 2015 Mircea Pitici
- A Guide to Midwestern Conversation Taylor Kay Phillips
- The Moth Keeper K. O’Neill
- Epithet Erased: Prison of Plastic Brendan Blaber
- These Burning Stars Bethany Jacobs
- Starter Villain John Scalzi
- Perilous Times Thomas D. Lee
- Priory of the Orange Tree Samantha Shannon
- Starship Troopers Robert Anson Heinlein
- The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander
- Empire of Illusion Chris Hedges
- The Archive Undying Emma Mieko Candon
- The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison
- Parable of the Talents Octavia E. Butler
- Parable of the Sower Octavia E. Butler
- Crying in H Mart Michelle Zauner
- Moby Dick Herman Melville
- The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan
- A Prayer for the Crown-Shy Becky Chambers
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot
- After the Funeral Agatha Christie
- The Best We Could Do Thi Bui
- The Future Is Disabled Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Jellyfish Age Backwards Nicklas Brendborg
- The Mimicking of Known Successes Malka Older
- How the Word Is Passed Clint Smith
- Foundation Isaac Asimov
- The Mythical Man-month Frederick P. Brooks (Jr.)
- We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I Raja Shehadeh
- Wild Massive Scotto Moore
- A Psalm for the Wild-Built Becky Chambers
- Stolen Focus Johann Hari
- The Rock Eaters Brenda Peynado
- Killers of a Certain Age Deanna Raybourn
- Tidesong Wendy Xu
- Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
- Animal Farm George Orwell
- The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson
- Hooky Miriam Bonastre Tur
- On Writing Well William Zinsser
- Entangled Life Merlin Sheldrake
- The Butchering Art Lindsey Fitzharris
- Hood Feminism Mikki Kendall
- Song of Solomon Toni Morrison
- The Gene Siddharta Mukherjee
- The Song of the Cell Siddharta Mukherjee