/reading
I’m a slow, easily distracted reader. But this is everything I have read (or at least, that I’ve remembered to track) since 2012. If I had something to say about a book, you can find it in the “notes” underneath the title.
2025
Uncommon People
We
I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom
The Message
Perfect Organism: An Alien: Isolation Companion
2024
Moonbound
Intermezzo
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels
How to Spot a Fascist
All Fours
Displeasure Island
The Last Murder at the End of the World
North Woods
Velocity Weapon
Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies
The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations
From Malin Head to Mizen Head: A Journey Around The Sea Area Forecast
Chain-Gang All-Stars
Critical Hits
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
2023
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused
Tress of the Emerald Sea
Legends & Lattes
The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
Escape: How a generation shaped, destroyed and survived the internet
National Treasure Hunt: One Step Short of Crazy
Far from the Light of Heaven
Devil House
2022
How High We Go in the Dark
Haven
Elder Race
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road
Autumn
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Sea of Tranquility
The Poppy War
Slade House
Several People Are Typing
Matrix
Sea State
Boundless Realm: Deep Explorations Inside Disney's Haunted Mansion
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (The Siege #1)
2021
This is How You Lose the Time War
Project Hail Mary
No One Is Talking About This
The Devil and the Dark Water
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
The Lathe of Heaven
The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
Authority
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
House of M
OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea
The Glass Hotel
Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape
The Stars My Destination
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
2020
A Children's Bible
Death by Video Game: Tales of Obsession from the Virtual Frontline
Beowulf: A New Translation
Piranesi
A Ghost in the Throat
Semiosis (Semiosis Duology, #1)
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack (10th Anniversary Edition)
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
Trout Fishing in America
The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western
Exhalation
Heir to the Empire (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #1)
2019
All the Birds in the Sky
The Power
The Chain
Normal People
Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Treasure (Dirk Pitt)
Typeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies
Akira, Vol. 6
Akira, Vol. 5
All the Names They Used for God
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
Akira, Vol. 4
Circe
2018
America
The Ballad of Black Tom
Akira, Vol. 3
Akira, Vol. 2
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
Akira, Vol. 1
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
The Long Earth: (Long Earth 1)
The Yellow Wallpaper
Fight Club
A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn, #1)
Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right
The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits
The Witch
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
The Complete Maus
Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes: A No-Bullshit Guide to World Mythology
Sea of Rust
La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust, #1)
The Underground Railroad
2017
Queenpin
Artemis
Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View (From a Certain Point of View #1)
Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
Ghost (Track, #1)
Lincoln in the Bardo
The BFG
Alex Cox's Introduction to Film: A Director's Perspective
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
2016
Stories of Your Life and Others
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Between the World and Me
The Book of Lost Things
2015
Caliban's War
Endtroducing.....
The Earthsea Quartet (Earthsea Cycle, #1-4)
On the Shortness of Life
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Breathing Machine: Growing Up in the Digital Age
Altered Carbon
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Infinite Jest
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Black Moon
Havoc, in Its Third Year
The Internet Of Garbage
Warlock
In the Woods
Wolf in White Van
The Forever War
The Girl on the Train
Seveneves
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Shovel Ready
Mort
Leviathan Wakes
Stoner
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
The Greek Myths
Right Ho, Jeeves
Annihilation
Crooked Little Vein
Station Eleven
2014
Neverwhere
Ancillary Sword
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Foundation
The Descent
Seconds
Lexicon
Epic Fail: Bad Art, Viral Fame, and the History of the Worst Thing Ever
Ancillary Justice
Life as We Knew It
The Martian
Black Hole
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
Here Are The Young Men
Hatchet
Dept. of Speculation
Under the Skin
Far North
Dark Eden
Ready Player One
Zen in the Art of Archery: Training the Mind and Body to Become One
All You Need Is Kill
2013
Horns
The Rook
Lost At Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries
Go Ask Alice
The Mirage
Gun Machine
Spin
Both Flesh and Not
The Sisters Brothers
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
John Dies at the End
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir