Reading

A running log of books I've read, with notes and quotes.

Currently Reading

2026

5 books

• The Regicide Report — Charles Stross (read February 22–February 26 · ebook)
• The Terraformers — Annalee Newitz (read January 24–February 13 · print)
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight — Unknown (read January 1–January 20 · audio)
• On the Calculation of Volume III — Solvej Balle (read January 8–January 14 · print)
• The Dagger in Vichy — Alastair Reynolds (read December 30, 2025–January 7, 2026 · print)

2025

40 books

• The Walking Man: Expanded Edition — Jirō Taniguchi (read December 9–December 30 · print)
• Far from the Light of Heaven — Tade Thompson (read December 20–December 24 · print · owned)
• The Butcher's Masquerade — Matt Dinniman (read December 7–December 15 · print)
• The Gate of the Feral Gods — Matt Dinniman (read November 28–December 4 · print)
• The Two Towers — J.R.R. Tolkien (read October 9–November 29 · audio)
• Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Finally Make Time for What Counts — Oliver Burkeman (read February 12–November 28 · print · owned)
• Katabasis — R.F. Kuang (read November 4–November 27 · print)
• The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook — Matt Dinniman (read October 22–November 2 · print)
• The Ministry for the Future — Kim Stanley Robinson (read October 12–October 21 · print · owned)
• Slaughterhouse-Five — Kurt Vonnegut (read October 9–October 12 · print)
• Carl's Doomsday Scenario — Matt Dinniman (read October 6–October 9 · print)
• Downbelow Station — C.J. Cherryh (read August 25–October 5 · print)
• Spinning Silver — Naomi Novik (read August 20–August 31 · audio)
• Beyond the Hallowed Sky: Book One of the Lightspeed Trilogy — Ken MacLeod (read August 15–August 24 · print · owned)
• Lincoln in the Bardo — George Saunders (read July 28–August 22 · print)
• Dungeon Crawler Carl — Matt Dinniman (read August 13–August 14 · print)
• On the Calculation of Volume II — Solvej Balle (read August 11–August 14 · print)
• Night Shift — Eileen Gunn (read August 12–August 12 · print)
• On the Calculation of Volume I — Solvej Balle (read August 10–August 10 · print)
• Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir (read August 2–August 5 · audio)
• A Case of Conscience — James Blish (read July 9–July 19 · print)
• Walkaway — Cory Doctorow (read June 9–June 20 · print)
• Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir — Craig Mod (read May 5–May 18 · print)
• Train Dreams — Denis Johnson (read March 27–May 4 · print)
• The Human Front — Ken MacLeod (read April 28–May 3 · print)
• Annihilation — Jeff VanderMeer (read April 10–May 2 · audio)
• Pattern Recognition — William Gibson (read April 16–April 27 · print)
• The Vaster Wilds — Lauren Groff (read April 5–April 9 · audio)
• A Conventional Boy — Charles Stross (read March 31–April 4 · print)
• Translation State — Ann Leckie (read March 16–March 27 · print)
• Our Man in Havana — Graham Greene (read March 12–March 15 · print)
• Bones of the Earth — Michael Swanwick (read March 10–March 12 · print)
• Scattered All Over the Earth — Yoko Tawada (read February 3–March 10 · print · owned)
• Nuclear War : A Scenario — Annie Jacobsen (read February 23–March 4 · print)
• Orbital — Samantha Harvey (read February 11–February 24 · audio)
• Penric's Progress — Lois McMaster Bujold (read January 22–February 3 · print)
• The Two of Swords: Volume Three — K.J. Parker (read January 16–January 21 · print)
• The Two of Swords, Volume Two — K.J. Parker (read January 7–January 16 · print)
• Beautyland — Marie-Helene Bertino (read January 5–January 8 · audio)
• Interior Chinatown — Charles Yu (read January 3–January 6 · print)

2024

43 books

• The Two of Swords, Volume One — K.J. Parker (read December 9–December 24 · print)
• Blue Mars — Kim Stanley Robinson (read October 29–December 10 · audio)
• Inversions — Iain M. Banks (read November 26–December 6 · print · owned)
• Sundiver — David Brin (read October 2–October 31 · print)
• The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun — Gretchen Rubin (read October 2–October 28 · audio)
• The Fountains of Paradise — Arthur C. Clarke (read September 14–September 30)
• Children of Time — Adrian Tchaikovsky (read September 2–September 12 · print)
• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet — Becky Chambers (read August 14–August 27 · print)
• BRZRKR, Vol. 2 — Keanu Reeves, Matt Kindt (read August 23–August 25 · print)
• BRZRKR, Vol. 3 — Keanu Reeves, Matt Kindt (read August 25–August 25 · print)
• BRZRKR, Vol. 1 — Keanu Reeves, Matt Kindt (read August 21–August 22 · print)
• Distraction — Bruce Sterling (read August 12–August 15 · print)
• Cryoburn — Lois McMaster Bujold (read August 10–August 12 · print)
• The Flowers of Vashnoi — Lois McMaster Bujold (read August 8–August 9 · ebook)
• Captain Vorpatril's Alliance — Lois McMaster Bujold (read August 4–August 7 · print)
• Diplomatic Immunity — Lois McMaster Bujold (read July 31–August 3 · print)
• Winterfair Gifts — Lois McMaster Bujold (read July 31–July 31 · ebook)
• A Civil Campaign — Lois McMaster Bujold (read July 29–July 31 · print)
• Treasure Island — Robert Louis Stevenson (read July 17–July 26 · ebook)
• Babel — R.F. Kuang (read July 7–July 15 · print · owned)
• Moonbound — Robin Sloan (read June 20–June 27 · print)
• The Mountain in the Sea — Ray Nayler (read June 1–June 20 · print)
• The Big Time — Fritz Lieber (read May 27–June 1 · ebook)
• Dust — Hugh Howey (read May 10–May 31 · audio)
• H.M.S. Surprise — Patrick O'Brian (read April 15–May 27)
• Shift — Hugh Howey (read April 30–May 9 · audio)
• Wool — Hugh Howey (read April 26–April 29 · audio)
• System Collapse — Martha Wells (read April 10–April 18 · audio)
• The Green Hills of Earth — Robert A. Heinlein (read April 3–April 16 · print)
• Fugitive Telemetry — Martha Wells (read April 6–April 10 · audio)
• Network Effect — Martha Wells (read March 29–April 3 · audio)
• Things Become Other Things — Craig Mod (read January 10–March 30 · print)
• Exit Strategy — Martha Wells (read March 27–March 28 · audio)
• Starter Villain — John Scalzi (read March 27–March 27 · print)
• A Half-Built Garden — Ruthanna Emrys (read January 1–March 27 · print · owned)
• Rogue Protocol — Martha Wells (read March 22–March 25 · audio)
• Artificial Condition — Martha Wells (read March 20–March 22 · audio)
• All Systems Red — Martha Wells (read March 19–March 19 · audio)
• Komarr — Lois McMaster Bujold (read March 13–March 18 · ebook)
• Green Mars — Kim Stanley Robinson (read February 28–March 13 · audio)
• Red Mars — Kim Stanley Robinson (read February 11–February 28 · audio)
• New York 2140 — Kim Stanley Robinson (read January 21–February 11 · audio)
• Blackout — Connie Willis (read January 12–January 30 · ebook)

2023

58 books

• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer — Martin J. Sherwin, Kai Bird (read July 5–December 31 · print · owned)
• Animal Farm — George Orwell (read December 22–December 29 · audio)
• To Say Nothing of the Dog — Connie Willis (read September 27–December 26 · ebook)
• Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life — Anna Funder (read September 25–December 23 · print)
• The Fellowship of the Ring — J.R.R. Tolkien (read November 6–December 17 · print)
• Invisible Sun — Charles Stross (read December 7–December 13 · audio)
• Dark State — Charles Stross (read December 4–December 6 · audio)
• Empire Games — Charles Stross (read December 2–December 3 · audio)
• The Trade of Queens — Charles Stross (read November 24–December 2 · audio)
• The Revolution Business — Charles Stross (read November 22–November 24 · audio)
• The Merchants' War — Charles Stross (read November 17–November 22 · audio)
• The Clan Corporate — Charles Stross (read November 14–November 17 · audio)
• The Hidden Family — Charles Stross (read November 10–November 14 · audio)
• The Family Trade — Charles Stross (read November 7–November 10 · audio)
• How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing — KC Davis (read October 26–November 9 · print)
• Dracula — Bram Stoker (read October 22–November 7 · audio)
• Shaman — Kim Stanley Robinson (read October 11–October 22 · audio)
• The Hallowed Hunt — Lois McMaster Bujold (read September 23–October 20 · print)
• An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us — Ed Yong (read August 25–October 4 · audio)
• The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England — Brandon Sanderson (read September 13–September 20 · print)
• The Kaiju Preservation Society — John Scalzi (read September 9–September 13 · print)
• Paladin of Souls — Lois McMaster Bujold (read August 31–September 7 · print)
• The Curse of Chalion — Lois McMaster Bujold (read August 21–August 29 · print · reread · owned)
• The Coming — Joe Haldeman (read August 18–August 20 · print · owned)
• Sourdough — Robin Sloan (read August 14–August 17 · print)
• The Graveyard Book — Neil Gaiman (read August 7–August 17 · audio)
• Memory — Lois McMaster Bujold (read August 14–August 15 · print)
• Legends & Lattes — Travis Baldree (read August 5–August 13 · print)
• Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock — Jenny Odell (read April 18–August 13 · print · owned)
• Mirror Dance — Lois McMaster Bujold (read August 5–August 11 · print)
• American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1960-1966 (Loa #321): The High Crusade / Way Station / Flowers for Algernon / . . . and Call Me Conrad — Poul Anderson, Clifford D. Simak (read July 8–August 5 · ebook)
• Rose/House — Arkady Martine (read July 2–July 5 · ebook)
• Season of Skulls — Charles Stross (read June 16–June 21 · ebook)
• The Best of Elizabeth Hand — Elizabeth Hand (read January 26–June 2 · print · owned)
• Marie Kondo's Kurashi at Home: How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life — Marie Kondo (read April 1–June 1 · ebook)
• American Gods — Neil Gaiman (read May 17–May 29 · audio)
• A Desolation Called Peace — Arkady Martine (read May 7–May 28 · print · owned)
• Doomsday Book — Connie Willis (read May 9–May 19 · ebook)
• Brothers in Arms — Lois McMaster Bujold (read May 3–May 6 · print)
• Post Captain — Patrick O'Brian (read April 13–May 2 · print · owned)
• The Last Days of New Paris — China Miéville (read April 2–April 15 · audio)
• Borders of Infinity — Lois McMaster Bujold (read February 25–April 15 · print)
• Ethan of Athos — Lois McMaster Bujold (read April 8–April 12 · print · owned)
• Cetaganda — Lois McMaster Bujold (read April 3–April 8 · print)
• The City & The City — China Miéville (read March 16–April 1 · print)
• A Psalm for the Wild-Built — Becky Chambers (read March 26–March 30 · audio)
• Stranger in a Strange Land — Robert A. Heinlein (read March 20–March 26 · audio)
• Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World — Cal Newport (read March 9–March 15 · print · owned)
• A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences — Shannon Mattern (read January 9–March 8 · print · owned)
• The Vor Game — Lois McMaster Bujold (read February 26–March 1 · print)
• Forever Peace — Joe Haldeman (read February 21–February 24 · print · owned)
• Characters and Viewpoint — Orson Scott Card (read January 2–February 18 · owned)
• The Demolished Man — Alfred Bester (read February 10–February 12 · print · owned)
• The Warrior's Apprentice — Lois McMaster Bujold (read February 4–February 9 · print)
• Barrayar — Lois McMaster Bujold (read January 17–January 22 · print)
• Deep Roots — Ruthanna Emrys (read January 7–January 17)
• The State of the Art — Iain M. Banks (read January 3–January 7 · print · owned)
• Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology — Bruce Sterling (read August 17, 2022–January 3, 2023 · print · owned)

2022

39 books

• Homage to Catalonia — George Orwell (read October 27–December 27 · print)
• Einstein's Dreams — Alan Lightman (read October 26–December 16 · ebook)
• Bone Silence — Alastair Reynolds (read October 8–November 6 · audio)
• Before the Coffee Gets Cold — Toshikazu Kawaguchi (read October 11–October 23 · print)
• Orwell's Roses — Rebecca Solnit (read October 10–October 15 · audio)
• Shadow Captain — Alastair Reynolds (read September 26–October 6 · audio)
• Revenger — Alastair Reynolds (read September 15–September 24 · audio)
• Norwegian Wood: Chopping, Stacking, and Drying Wood the Scandinavian Way — Lars Mytting (read September 5–September 22 · print)
• Bullshit Jobs: A Theory — David Graeber (read June 30–September 13 · audio)
• China Mountain Zhang — Maureen F. McHugh (read August 20–August 29 · print)
• Gideon the Ninth — Tamsyn Muir (read August 18–August 19 · print · owned)
• The Farthest Shore — Ursula K. Le Guin (read August 17–August 18 · ebook)
• Laserwriter II — Tamara Shopsin (read August 17–August 17 · print)
• Comfort Me with Apples — Catherynne M. Valente (read August 17–August 17 · print)
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle — Shirley Jackson (read August 16–August 16 · print)
• All the Horses of Iceland — Sarah Tolmie (read August 16–August 16 · print)
• Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach — Kelly Robson (read August 15–August 16 · print)
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb — Richard Rhodes (read July 13–August 15 · print · owned)
• Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base — Annie Jacobsen (read July 19–August 1 · audio)
• The Devil You Know — K.J. Parker (read July 13–July 14 · print)
• Lonesome Dove — Larry McMurtry (read January 18–July 13 · print)
• The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life — Anu Partanen (read May 16–July 5 · ebook)
• Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories — Charlie Jane Anders (read October 23, 2021–July 2, 2022 · print · owned)
• Interview with the Vampire — Anne Rice (read May 30–June 28 · audio)
• Shards of Honour — Lois McMaster Bujold (read June 21–June 26 · ebook)
• Station Eleven — Emily St. John Mandel (read June 12–June 21 · print)
• Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 — Nathaniel Philbrick (read June 12–June 18 · audio)
• The Alteration — Kingsley Amis (read June 1–June 12 · print)
• Gardens of the Moon — Steven Erikson (read April 4–May 14 · print)
• Ajax Penumbra 1969 — Robin Sloan (read May 13–May 13 · audio)
• Escape from Yokai Land — Charles Stross (read May 11–May 13 · audio)
• Lost in a Good Book — Jasper Fforde (read April 30–May 11 · audio)
• Elder Race — Adrian Tchaikovsky (read March 29–April 3 · print)
• Uprooted — Naomi Novik (read March 19–April 1 · audio)
• A Mist of Grit and Splinters — Graydon Saunders (read March 14–March 23 · ebook)
• My Beautiful Life — K.J. Parker (read February 22–March 17 · print · owned)
• Quantum of Nightmares — Charles Stross (read February 14–February 22 · ebook · owned)
• Mightier than the Sword — K.J. Parker (read January 16–January 19 · print)
• A Gentleman in Moscow — Amor Towles (read January 6–January 16 · print)

2021

29 books

• The Demon Lover — Juliet Dark (read November 11–December 22 · print)
• Dragonflight — Anne McCaffrey (read December 5–December 19 · print)
• The Man Who Would Be King — Rudyard Kipling (read December 2–December 5 · print)
• Prosper's Demon — K.J. Parker (read November 28–November 30 · print)
• Moominpappa at Sea — Tove Jansson (read October 23–November 9)
• Comet in Moominland — Tove Jansson (read October 16–October 23 · print)
• The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin — H.W. Brands (read April 7–October 14 · print)
• Sun of Suns: Book One of Virga — Karl Schroeder (read September 6–September 20 · ebook · owned)
• The Memory Police — Yōko Ogawa (read August 30–September 5 · print · owned)
• Guards! Guards! — Terry Pratchett (read August 21–August 29 · print)
• Zeitgeist — Bruce Sterling (read August 18–August 20 · print)
• Children of Dune — Frank Herbert (read August 16–August 18 · print · reread)
• The Art of Taking It Easy: How to Cope with Bears, Traffic, and the Rest of Life's Stressors — Brian King (read July 16–August 17)
• Piranesi — Susanna Clarke (read August 15–August 16 · print)
• Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore — Robin Sloan (read August 11–August 15 · ebook)
• Dune Messiah — Frank Herbert (read August 6–August 10 · print · reread)
• Solaris — Stanisław Lem (read June 30–July 18 · print)
• Camp Concentration — Thomas M. Disch (read June 24–June 29 · print · owned)
• A Canticle for Leibowitz — Walter M. Miller, Jr. (read June 13–June 24 · print)
• Gateway — Frederik Pohl (read June 7–June 12 · print)
• The Stars My Destination — Alfred Bester (read June 1–June 6 · print · owned)
• Light — M. John Harrison (read May 19–May 31 · print)
• Rogue Protocol — Martha Wells (read March 21–March 24 · ebook)
• Artificial Condition — Martha Wells (read March 19–March 21 · ebook)
• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones — James Clear (read February 6–March 19 · print · owned)
• The Million — Karl Schroeder (read March 9–March 12)
• Dead Lies Dreaming — Charles Stross (read February 6–February 25 · ebook · owned)
• The Club Dumas — Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Sonia Soto (read January 11–February 5 · print · owned)
• Mort — Terry Pratchett (read January 11–January 20 · print)