book list
Catalogue of books read grouped by year. Not exhaustively complete, especially prior to 2021.
★ recommended, 🗑 not recommended, ⮽ didn’t finish, ⟳ reread
2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026
2010 2011 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
2026 (6)
★ Orality and Literacy - Walter J Ong
⟳★ The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
The Mimicking of Known Successes - Malka Older
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi - Shannon Chakraborty
The Map of Knowledge - Violet Moller
The Saint of Bright Doors - Vajra Chandrasekera
2025 (22)
⮽ The Creative Act: A Way of Being - Rick Rubin
The Carrion Throne - Chris Wraight
⟳★ A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula le Guin
⟳★ The Tombs of Atuan - Ursula le Guin
⟳★ The Farthest Shore - Ursula le Guin
Tehanu - Ursula le Guin
Tales from Earthsea - Ursula le Guin
The Other Wind - Ursula le Guin
⮽ A Pipeline Runs Through It - Keith Fisher (21%)
Lake of Darkness - Adam Roberts
Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky
Orbital - Samantha Harvey
⮽ He Died With A Falafel In His Hand - John Birmingham
⮽★ Mean Streak - Rick Morton
⮽ Japanese Death Poems - Yoel Hoffman (37%)
Fairyland - Paul McAuley
⮽ The City in Glass - Nghi Vo (27%)
★ On Love and Barley - Basho
The Rose Field - Philip Pullman
⮽ Ghost Cities - Siang Lu
Halcyon Years - Alastair Reynolds
★ Flow Down Like Silver - Ki Longfellow
2024 (12)
Mosul - Ben Mckelvey
Comm Check - Michael Cabbage and William Harwood
Liftoff - Eric Berger
Hopeland - Ian McDonald
Void Star - Zachary Mason
High - Adam Roberts
★ Empire of the Sun - J G Ballard
Malarkoi - Alex Pheby
The Secret of Life - Paul MacAuley
★ Blade - Linda Nagata
⮽ 🗑 Neverness - David Zindell
★ The Good War - Studs Terkel
2023 (22)
Politics on the Edge - Rory Stewart
Beyond the Burn Line - Paul McAuley
🗑 This Is How You Lose The Time War - Amal el-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
★ Celestis - Paul Park
Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain
And Away… - Bob Mortimer
Roadside Picnic - Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Monkey Suit - Alastair Reynolds
⟳ Absolution Gap - Alastair Reynolds
⟳ Redemption Ark - Alastair Reynolds
⟳ Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds
Lud-in-the-Mist - Hope Mirrlees
Book of Roads and Kingdoms - Richard Fidler
⮽ Together We Will Go - J Michael Straczynski
⮽ Becoming a Writer, Staying a Writer - J Michael Straczynski
1491 - Charles C Mann
The Word for World is Forest - Ursula le Guin
Planet of Exile - Ursula le Guin
City of Illusions - Ursula le Guin
★ Rocannon’s World - Ursula le Guin
Bulldozed - Nikka Savva
One Hundred Years of Dirt - Rick Morton
2022 (16)
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup - John Carreyrou
Charmed Life - Diana Wynne Jones
Escaping Gravity: My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age - Lori Garver
⮽ The Absolute Book - Elizabeth Knox
Debt: The First 5000 Years - David Graeber
★ Needle - Linda Nagata
Eversion - Alastair Reynolds
Weaponized - Neal Asher
Jack Four - Neal Asher
The Secret Commonwealth - Philip Pullman
La Belle Sauvage - Philip Pullman
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
The Game: A Portrait of Scott Morrison - Sean Kelly
The Year of Living Dangerously - Christopher Koch
Eisenhorn - Dan Abnett
★ The Dawn of Everything - David Graeber & David Wengrow
2021 (7)
Inhibitor Phase - Alastair Reynolds
Uncompromising Honor - David Weber
⟳ Interesting Times - Terry Pratchett
★ The Places In Between - Rory Stewart
Mordew - Alex Pheby
The Saints of Salvation - Peter F Hamilton
The World of Edena - Mobius
2020 (37)
★ Book of the Long Sun - Gene Wolfe
★ The Scar - China Mievelle
⮽ The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy
The Light Brigade - Kameron Hurley
The Flight of the Eisenstein (Horus Heresy 4) - James Swallow
Galaxy in Flames (Horus Heresy 3) - Ben Counter
⮽ A Peculiar Peril - Jeff VanderMeer
A Memory of Light - Robert Jordan
Towers of Midnight - Robert Jordan
The Gathering Storm - Robert Jordan
Knife of Dreams - Robert Jordan
Crossroads of Twilight - Robert Jordan
Winter’s Heart - Robert Jordan
The Path of Daggers - Robert Jordan
A Crown of Swords - Robert Jordan
⟳ Lord of Chaos - Robert Jordan
⟳ The Fires of Heaven - Robert Jordan
⟳ The Shadow Rising - Robert Jordan
⟳ The Dragon Reborn - Robert Jordan
⟳ The Great Hunt - Robert Jordan
⟳ The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan
⮽ Instantiation - Greg Egan
The Human (Rise of the Jain 3) - Neal Asher
⟳ Sourcery - Terry Pratchett
Mort - Terry Pratchett
Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett
⟳ The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett
⟳ The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
⮽ We Can’t Say We Didn’t Know - Sophie McNeill
⮽ Bone Silence - Alastair Reynolds
⮽ The Masnavi (Book 1) - Jalal al-Din Rumi
False Gods (Horus Heresy 2) - Graham McNeill
Horus Rising (Horus Heresy 1) - Dan Abnett
The Ice Age - A Very Short Introduction - Jamie Woodward
★⮽ The Pillow Book - Sei Shonagon
Linesman - S. K. Dunstall
Salvation Lost - Peter Hamilton
2019 (7)
A Rising Thunder - David Weber
Mission of Honor - David Weber
The Warship - Neal Asher
★ Dracula - Bram Stoker
★ Edges - Linda Nagata
★ Silver - Linda Nagata
Salvation - Peter F Hamilton
2018 (14)
Flag in Exile - David Weber
Snuff - Terry Pratchett
Honor Among Enemies - David Weber
In Enemy Hands - David Weber
Echoes of Honor - David Weber
Ashes of Victory - David Weber
Among the Ruins - Syria Past and Present - Christian C Sahner
Infinity Engine - Neal Asher
The Odyssey - Homer trans. Emily Wilson
And Quiet Flows the Don - Mikhail Sholokhov trans. Stephen Garry
The Anubis Gates - Tim Powers
War of Honor - David Weber
At All Costs - David Weber
The Soldier - Neal Asher
2017 (14)
★ Chernobyl Prayer - Svetlana Alexeivich
Girl at War - Sara Novic
On Basilisk Station - David Weber
Darkness Weaves - Karl Edward Wagner
Bloodstone - Karl Edward Wagner
Line War - Neal Asher
War Factory - Neal Asher
The Honor of the Queen - David Weber
The Short Victorious War - David Weber
The Silk Roads - Peter Frankopan
Field of Dishonor - David Weber
★ Wisdom Sits in Places - Keith Basso
Writings from Ancient Egypt - Toby Wilkinson
Dark Crusade - Karl Edward Wagner
2016 (8)
Dark Intelligence - Neal Asher
The Technician - Neal Asher
Black Hole Blues - Janna Levin
Titan - Stephen Baxter
★ Hiroshima - John Hersey
The Jewel in the Skull - Michael Moorcock
The Biggest Estate on Earth - Bill Gammage
Thud! - Terry Pratchett
2015 (5)
The Complete Conan Saga - Robert E Howard
Something Coming Through - Paul McAuley
Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie
Elminster - Ed Greenwood
Voyage - Stephen Baxter
2014 (5)
Proxima - Stephen Baxter
Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea - Adam Roberts
Fluency - Jennifer Foehner Wells
Annihilation - Jeff Vandermeer
Ultima - Stephen Baxter
2013 (1)
On the Steel Breeze - Alastair Reynolds
2011 (11)
Moxyland - Lauren Beukes
The Dervish House - Ian McDonald
I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me - Trevor Paglen
The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi
The Ware Tetraology - Rudy Rucker
Wikiworld - Paul Di Filippo
★ Vast - Linda Nagata
A Fire Upon The Deep - Vernor Vinge
Stalingrad - Anthony Beevor
Swords and Devilry - Fritz Leiber
Permutation City - Greg Egan
2010 (5)
Tulipmania - Anne Goldgar
Startide Rising - David Brin
The Fuller Memorandum - Charles Stross
Yellow Blue Tibia - Adam Roberts
Kraken - China Mieville