Reading
373 books.
2022
- The Reservoir by David Duchovny; 2 pages; ★ ;
- The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- LaserWriter II by Tamara Shopsin; ★ ★ ;
- Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention- and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari; 357 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy by Christopher Leonard; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3) by Dan Simmons; 563 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2) by Dan Simmons; 517 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The War on the West by Douglas Murray; 308 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Road Ahead by Bill Gates; 286 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble by Dan Lyons; ★ ★ ;
- Abaddon's Gate (The Expanse, #3) by James S.A. Corey; 539 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, #5) by Robert Jordan; 912 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel; 259 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Happy at Any Cost: The Revolutionary Vision and Fatal Quest of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh by Kirsten Grind; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time, #4) by Robert Jordan; 1007 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Long Way by Bernard Moitessier; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Caliban's War (The Expanse, #2) by James S.A. Corey; 624 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Dragon Reborn (The Wheel of Time, #3) by Robert Jordan; 624 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Great Hunt (The Wheel of Time, #2) by Robert Jordan; 705 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life by Twyla Tharp; 247 pages; ★ ★ ;
2021
- Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1) by James S.A. Corey; 592 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- First Person Singular: Stories by Haruki Murakami; 245 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Busy Doing Nothing by Rekka Bellum; 218 pages;
- San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities by Michael Shellenberger; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture by Matt Goulding; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Classic Krakauer: After the Fall, Mark Foo's Last Ride and Other Essays from the Vault by Jon Krakauer; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern; 498 pages; ★ ★ ;
- Water, Wood, and Wild Things: Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town by Hannah Kirshner; 368 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst by Nicholas Tomalin; 275 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Looking for the Lost: Journeys Through a Vanishing Japan by Alan Booth; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino; 400 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir; 476 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan by Will Ferguson; 344 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- After Dark by Haruki Murakami; 191 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Tokyo Junkie: 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys . . . and Baseball by Robert Whiting; 384 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Drood by Dan Simmons; 775 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1) by John le Carré; 381 pages; ★ ★ ;
- The Abominable by Dan Simmons; 663 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks; 286 pages; ★ ★ ;
2020
- Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer; 288 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste by Bianca Bosker; 346 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike, #5) by Robert Galbraith; 944 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers by Andy Greenberg; 368 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Children of Time (Children of Time, #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky; 600 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Stand by Stephen King; 1152 pages; ★ ★ ;
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino; 165 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Peripheral (Jackpot #1) by William Gibson; 485 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag; 143 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Tales from the Loop by Simon Stålenhag; 128 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse; 152 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse; 256 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Pine Barrens by John McPhee; 157 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman; 312 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel; 302 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Lonely Planet Journeys: Lost Japan by Alex Kerr; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1) by Vernor Vinge; 613 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- For Fukui's Sake: Two Years In Rural Japan by Sam Baldwin; 198 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7) by J.K. Rowling; 759 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Time of Contempt (The Witcher, #2) by Andrzej Sapkowski; 331 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process by John McPhee; 208 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World by Joseph Menn; 256 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Grit A-Plenty by Dillon Wallace; 108 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Three Parts Dead (Craft Sequence, #1) by Max Gladstone; ★ ★ ;
- Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1) by John Steinbeck; 181 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Terror by Dan Simmons; 769 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson; 675 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Blood of Elves (The Witcher, #1) by Andrzej Sapkowski; 398 pages; ★ ★ ;
2019
- Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1) by Dan Simmons; 600 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6) by J.K. Rowling; 652 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport; 302 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Permanent Record by Edward Snowden; 339 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5) by J.K. Rowling; 912 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2) by Margaret Atwood; 431 pages; ★ ★ ;
- Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1) by Margaret Atwood; 389 pages; ★ ★ ;
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky; 671 pages; ★ ★ ;
- The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention by William Rosen; 370 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Fighting Monks and Burning Mountains by Paul Barach; 359 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- 1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3) by Haruki Murakami; 925 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Crack in Space by Philip K. Dick; 188 pages; ★ ★ ;
- A Perfect Spy by John le Carré; ★ ★ ;
- The Roads to Sata: A 2000-Mile Walk Through Japan by Alan Booth; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Mote in God's Eye (Moties, #1) by Larry Niven; 596 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- A Tokyo Romance by Ian Buruma; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon; 428 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov; 372 pages; ★ ★ ;
- Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett; 491 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston; 326 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Bigger Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Male Body by Michael Matthews; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (ALA Notable Books for Adults) by Eric Schlosser; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Severance by Ling Ma; 291 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun, #1) by Gene Wolfe; 262 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Dance Dance Dance (The Rat, #4) by Haruki Murakami; 393 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs by Ken Kocienda; 264 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1) by Mary Doria Russell; 419 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight; 400 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou; 339 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Hitch 22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens; 435 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- VALIS by Philip K. Dick; 242 pages; ★ ;
- Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1) by Kim Stanley Robinson; 572 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami; 188 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic by Mike Duncan; 327 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1) by Robert Jordan; 800 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3) by Brandon Sanderson; 1248 pages; ★ ;
- White by Kenya Hara; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson; 600 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
2018
- It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2) by Brandon Sanderson; 1087 pages; ★ ★ ;
- The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3) by J.R.R. Tolkien; 404 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed by Ben R. Rich; 382 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1) by Brandon Sanderson; 1007 pages; ★ ★ ;
- Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami; 308 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #1-3) by George R.R. Martin; 355 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami; 704 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe; 241 pages; ★ ★ ;
- Dune (Dune, #1) by Frank Herbert; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway; 192 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- I'm Off Then: Losing and Finding Myself on the Camino de Santiago by Hape Kerkeling; ★ ;
- How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Beach by Alex Garland; 436 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2) by J.R.R. Tolkien; 322 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki; 432 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro; 258 pages; ★ ★ ;
- An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro; 206 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Designing Design by Kenya Hara; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1) by J.R.R. Tolkien; 398 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Magicians (The Magicians, #1) by Lev Grossman; 402 pages; ★ ★ ;
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro; 1246 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami; 467 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Evolutionary Void (Void, #3) by Peter F. Hamilton; 694 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick; 231 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3) by Haruki Murakami; 353 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1) by Robert M. Pirsig; 540 pages; ★ ★ ;
- The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power by Niall Ferguson; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics by Mark Lilla; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Clans of the Alphane Moon by Philip K. Dick; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany; 801 pages; ★ ;
- The Quantum Thief (Jean le Flambeur, #1) by Hannu Rajaniemi; 336 pages; ★ ★ ;
- Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan; 447 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- A Geek in Japan: Discovering the Land of Manga, Anime, Zen, and the Tea Ceremony by Hector Garcia Puigcerver; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Diary of a Tokyo Teen: A Japanese-American Girl Travels to the Land of Trendy Fashion, High-Tech Toilets and Maid Cafes by Christine Mari Inzer; 127 pages; ★ ★ ;
- Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3) by Liu Cixin; 604 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Awakening Your Ikigai: How the Japanese Wake Up to Joy and Purpose Every Day by Ken Mogi; 224 pages; ★ ★ ;
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami; 607 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Experience of Insight: A Simple & Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation by Joseph Goldstein; 169 pages; ★ ★ ;
- A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy by Miyamoto Musashi; 192 pages; ★ ★ ;
- Where We Want to Live: Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities by Ryan Gravel; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2) by Liu Cixin; 512 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
2017
- Rising Sun by Michael Crichton; 399 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Black Notebook by Patrick Modiano; ★ ★ ;
- The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1) by Cixin Liu; 399 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel; 333 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Time Out of Joint by Philip K. Dick; 255 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport; 296 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Walkaway by Cory Doctorow; ★ ★ ;
- George Lucas: A Life by Brian Jay Jones; 550 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Hotel Valhalla Guide to the Norse Worlds by Rick Riordan; 160 pages; ★ ;
- Gratitude by Oliver Sacks; 49 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Dude and the Zen Master by Jeff Bridges; ★ ★ ;
- Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy; 351 pages; ★ ★ ;
- Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman; 304 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson; 624 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance; 264 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
2016
- The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.; 322 pages; ★ ★ ;
- The Long Cosmos (The Long Earth, #5) by Terry Pratchett; 377 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Bands of Mourning (Mistborn, #6) by Brandon Sanderson; 448 pages; ★ ★ ;
- Porcelain: A Memoir by Moby; ★ ★ ;
- The Man From Bejing by Henning Mankell; 16 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Just Kids by Patti Smith; 304 pages; ★ ★ ;
- Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1) by Robin Sloan; 288 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern Mind by Justin Pollard; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1) by Ransom Riggs; 352 pages; ★ ★ ;
- TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking by Chris J. Anderson; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett; 331 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Hacking: The Art of Exploitation w/CD by Jon Erickson; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Ryokan: Japan's Finest Spas and Inns by Akihiko Seki; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Mindfulness in Plain English by Henepola Gunaratana; 208 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Genocidal Organ by Project Itoh; 297 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan; 152 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Temporal Void by Peter F. Hamilton; 746 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis; 291 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) by N.K. Jemisin; 468 pages; ★ ★ ;
- Antifrágil: Coisas que beneficiam da desordem by Nassim Nicholas Taleb; 558 pages; ★ ★ ;
- The Dreaming Void (Void, #1) by Peter F. Hamilton; 630 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami; 400 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Against a Dark Background by Iain M. Banks; 480 pages; ★ ★ ;
- Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis; 218 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Emperor of Any Place by Tim Wynne-Jones; 324 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style by W. David Marx; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Gothic: The Evolution of a Dark Subculture by Emma Baxter-Wright, Hywel Livingstone, Chris Roberts; 224 pages; ★ ★ ;
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown; 260 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Cyberspace by Douglas Rushkoff; 272 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Martian by Andy Weir; 384 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens; 489 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers by Leonard Koren; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Warheart (Sword of Truth, #15; Richard and Kahlan, #4) by Terry Goodkind; 464 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Wabi-Sabi: Further Thoughts by Leonard Koren; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Long Utopia (The Long Earth #4) by Terry Pratchett; 373 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka; 201 pages; ★ ★ ;
- No Picnic on Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, A Perilous Climb by Felice Benuzzi; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Rome's Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar by Rob Goodman; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
2015
- The Fly Trap by Fredrik Sjöberg; ★ ★ ;
- The Man Who Japed by Philip K. Dick; 168 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull; 368 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel; 195 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone; 384 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions by Guy Kawasaki; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu; 273 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Spook Country (Blue Ant, #2) by William Gibson; 371 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli; 140 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee; 323 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace; 1088 pages; ★ ★ ;
- Lock In (Lock In, #1) by John Scalzi; 336 pages; ★ ★ ;
2014
- House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski; 710 pages; ★ ★ ;
- A Murder on the Appian Way (Roma Sub Rosa, #5) by Steven Saylor; 400 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Art of UNIX Programming by Eric S. Raymond; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.; 179 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson; 192 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Kingdom Beyond the Waves (Jackelian, #2) by Stephen Hunt; 506 pages; ★ ★ ;
- High Performance Browser Networking: What Every Web Developer Should Know about Networking and Web Performance by Ilya Grigorik; 400 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement by David Graeber; ★ ★ ★ ;
- To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski; 251 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- S. by J.J. Abrams; 469 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1) by Dan Simmons; 500 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Handcrafted Modern: At Home with Mid-century Designers by Leslie Williamson; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.; 275 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Grass Crown (Masters of Rome, #2) by Colleen McCullough; ★ ★ ★ ;
2013
- Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1) by Ernest Cline; 374 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better by Richard G. Wilkinson; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node by Mike Amundsen; 244 pages; ★ ★ ;
- The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1) by Robert Galbraith; 456 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman; 181 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand; 704 pages; ★ ★ ;
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt; 268 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Lords and Lemurs: Mad Scientists, Kings with Spears, and the Survival of Diversity in Madagascar by Alison Jolly; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson; 499 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk; 218 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Foundation (Foundation, #1) by Isaac Asimov; 244 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell; 301 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Henry VIII: The King and His Court by Alison Weir; 642 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time by Mark Adams; 333 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Street Smarts: Adventures on the Road and in the Markets by Jim Rogers; 258 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier by Edward L. Glaeser; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Little Brother (Little Brother, #1) by Cory Doctorow; 382 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance, #1) by N.K. Jemisin; 427 pages; ★ ★ ;
- A Memory of Light (The Wheel of Time, #14) by Robert Jordan; 912 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy by John R. Hale; 395 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Silence of the Grave (Inspector Erlendur #4) by Arnaldur Indriðason; 280 pages; ★ ★ ;
- Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami; 296 pages; ★ ;
2012
- Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1) by China Miéville; 710 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1) by Steven Erikson; 657 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1) by Charles Stross; 345 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Reamde by Neal Stephenson; 1044 pages; ★ ★ ;
- Dark Force Rising (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #2) by Timothy Zahn; 439 pages; ★ ★ ;
- Heir to the Empire (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #1) by Timothy Zahn; 404 pages; ★ ★ ;
- American Gods (American Gods, #1) by Neil Gaiman; 635 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3) by Suzanne Collins; 390 pages; ★ ★ ;
- Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) by Suzanne Collins; 391 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) by Suzanne Collins; 374 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Berlin 1961 by Frederick Kempe; 579 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick; 204 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1) by Colleen McCullough; 1076 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- God, No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales by Penn Jillette; 254 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Soulless (Parasol Protectorate, #1) by Gail Carriger; 357 pages; ★ ;
- The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann; 339 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson; 397 pages; ★ ★ ;
- Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu by J. Maarten Troost; 239 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Tequila Oil: Getting Lost in Mexico by Hugh Thomson; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway; 471 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell; 213 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
2011
- Contact by Carl Sagan; 580 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan; 459 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3) by Dan Brown; 509 pages; ★ ★ ;
- The Forever War (The Forever War, #1) by Joe Haldeman; 278 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway; 96 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Zero History (Blue Ant, #3) by William Gibson; 404 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks; 272 pages; ★ ★ ;
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson; 630 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Rework by Jason Fried; 279 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard, #2) by Scott Lynch; 558 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson; 438 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Japanese Devil Fish Girl and Other Unnatural Attractions (Japanese Devil Fish Girl #1) by Robert Rankin; 373 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Sorcerers and Their Apprentices: How the Digital Magicians of the MIT Media Lab Are Creating the Innovative Technologies That Will Transform Our Lives by Frank Moss; 254 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Courage of the Early Morning by William Arthur Bishop; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Why Does E=mc²? by Brian Cox; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island by Terry L. Hunt; 237 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5) by George R.R. Martin; 1125 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4) by George R.R. Martin; 1061 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3) by George R.R. Martin; 1177 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2) by George R.R. Martin; 969 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss; 396 pages; ★ ★ ;
- Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton; 304 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1) by James Clavell; 1152 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently, #1) by Douglas Adams; 306 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim: A Midlife Misadventure on Spain's Camino de Santiago by Jane Christmas; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Todd Gilbert; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century by James Howard Kunstler; ★ ★ ;
2010
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius; 254 pages; ★ ★ ;
- An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming by Nigel Lawson; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Elantris (Elantris, #1) by Brandon Sanderson; 638 pages; ★ ★ ;
- Towers of Midnight (The Wheel of Time, #13) by Robert Jordan; 863 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Power Hungry: The Myths of ""Green"" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future by Robert Bryce; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4) by J.K. Rowling; 734 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror by H.P. Lovecraft; 184 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Makers by Cory Doctorow; 416 pages; ★ ★ ;
- For the Win by Cory Doctorow; 477 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Walking on Eggs: The Astonishing Discovery of Thousands of Dinosaur Eggs in the Badlands of Patagonia by Luis M. Chiappe; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Get Smarter: Life and Business Lessons by Seymour Schulich; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Shooting in the Wild: An Insider's Account of Making Movies in the Animal Kingdom by Chris Palmer; 222 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Retromancer by Robert Rankin; 348 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Calculating God: A Novel by Robert J. Sawyer; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Theogony / Works and Days by Hesiod; 112 pages; ★ ★ ;
- The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) by Stieg Larsson; 480 pages; ★ ★ ;
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller; 453 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place by Bjørn Lomborg; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Schneier on Security by Bruce Schneier; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
2009
- The Gathering Storm (The Wheel of Time, #12) by Robert Jordan; 824 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3) by Brandon Sanderson; 572 pages; ★ ★ ;
- The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2) by Brandon Sanderson; 592 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Difference Engine by William Gibson; 429 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Tricking of Freya by Christina Sunley; 344 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1) by Brandon Sanderson; 537 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- How to Live on Mars: A Trusty Guidebook to Surviving and Thriving on the Red Planet by Robert Zubrin; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Time Machine by H.G. Wells; 118 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Digital SLR Handbook by John Freeman; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Genesis by Bernard Beckett; 150 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1) by Scott Lynch; 499 pages; ★ ★ ;
- How To Get Rich by Felix Dennis; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens; ★ ★ ;
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy; 241 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking by Charles Seife; 294 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Iliad by Homer; 150 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2) by Jules Verne; 269 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson; 204 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Trial of Flowers (City #1) by Jay Lake; 263 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture by David Kushner; 339 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Escapement (Clockwork Earth #2) by Jay Lake; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Lord of Emperors (The Sarantine Mosaic #2) by Guy Gavriel Kay; 448 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Knife of Dreams (The Wheel of Time, #11) by Robert Jordan; 860 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
2008
- The January Dancer (Spiral Arm, #1) by Michael Flynn; 350 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- World Without End (Moontide and Magic Rise, #1) by Sean Russell; 606 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1) by George R.R. Martin; 835 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Minority Report by Philip K. Dick; 103 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick; 219 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- What Is Life?: Investigating the Nature of Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology by Ed Regis; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil; 652 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Sailing to Sarantium (The Sarantine Mosaic, #1) by Guy Gavriel Kay; 448 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie; 288 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks; 400 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin; 237 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors by Nicholas Wade; 314 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder by Vincent Bugliosi; 352 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky; 327 pages; ★ ★ ;
- JPod by Douglas Coupland; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Atomic Sushi by Simon May; 218 pages; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists by Neil Strauss; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Dragons of the Dwarven Depths (Dragonlance: The Lost Chronicles, #1) by Margaret Weis; 594 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1) by Michael Crichton; 327 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas; 580 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel; 354 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
1
- The Rise of Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #4) by Dan Simmons; 709 pages; ★ ★ ★ ;
- Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change by W. David Marx; ★ ★ ;
- Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division by Peter Hook; ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac; 307 pages; ★ ★ ;
- The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success by Ross Douthat; ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ;
- Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein; 336 pages; ★ ;
- Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection by John E. Sarno MD; ★ ★ ;