Books
What I've read over the last five years or so.
387
books read
by 262 authors across 14 genres
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Duarte is back with his weirdo Rome planet, takes Medina station
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| Title | Author | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eisenhorn Omnibus | Abnett, Dan | WH40K | Inquisitor Eisenhorn does w40k inquisitor things. Subpar mystery, nice atmosphere |
| First and Only | Abnett, Dan | WH40K | W40K but about the normal human soldiers, not space marines. a fun romp |
| Horus Rising | Abnett, Dan | WH40K | W40K Space marine Horus Heresy pt 1 |
| Prospero Burns | Abnett, Dan | WH40K | A thousand sons but from the POV of the Space Wolves Awooooooooo |
| The Happiness Advantage | Achor, Shawn | Nonfiction | Informative book on how pursuing happiness benefits your entire life |
| Prediction machines: the simple ecopnomics of Artificial Intelligence | Agrawal, Ajay et al | Nonfiction | Great recource about adopting AI into business and the things to consider thereof |
| Fascism | Albright, Madeline | Nonfiction | Good information about the rising trend of fascism in the world today |
| Unsong | Alexander, Scott | Fantasy | Alt history, angels are real and the names of God cause strange things to happen |
| The Weight of Our Sky | Alkaf, Hanna | Historical Fiction | Malaysian race riots of 1969 from the perspective of a little girl with OCD. VERY GOOD OCD portrayal |
| The Art of the Con | Amore, Anthony M | Nonfiction | Art cons, forgeries and thefts. Interesting read! |
| Roboute Guilliman: Lord of Ultramar | Annandale, David | WH40K | The Ultramarines take some world or smth, all about Rowboat Girlyman |
| Our Wives Under the Sea | Armfield, Julia | Horror | Deep sea explorer comes back wrong to her wife, turns into a deep sea fish |
| Mosquitoland | Arnold, David | Literature | Mim the goblin teenager goes on an adventure to rescue her mom |
| Foundation Trilogy | Asimov, Issiac | Science Fiction | Wonderful triliogy with a very detailed universe. Books read like an intersteller poker game, with plans on plans on plans |
| i, Robot | Asimov, Issiac | Science Fiction | Amazing collection of short stories about the robot takeover |
| The Caves of Steel | Asimov, Issiac | Science Fiction | Sci-fi murder mystery |
| Bunny | Awad, Mona | Literature | Mean Girls explode rabbits into frankenstein boyfriends |
| The Windup Girl | Bacigalupi, Paolo | Science Fiction | Calorie exec in climate-starved Thailand falls in love with a robot prostitute during a coup |
| Consider Phlebas | Banks, Iain M | Science Fiction | Shapeshifing special agent goes in pursuit of an AI escaped to a dead world |
| The Player of Games | Banks, Ian M | Science Fiction | Dude wins a chess tourney and overthrows an empire. Also 3 genders. |
| American Fairy Tales | Baum, Frank L | Folklore | Modern fairy tales, have good stories that are more fun than standard ancient myths. |
| Arc | Baxter, Stephen | Science Fiction | Ender's Game but kids are explorers and the author is only _slightly_ less of a pervert |
| Manifold: Time | Baxter, Stephen | Science Fiction | sentient squids & time fuckery |
| Raft | Baxter, Stephen | Science Fiction | Elysium but the good ending and with space whales |
| Halo: Cryptum | Bear, Greg | Science Fiction | Halo forerunner series 1 |
| Halo: Primordium | Bear, Greg | Science Fiction | Halo forerunner series 2 |
| Timescape | Benford, Gregory | Science Fiction | Using iridium to talk to the past to stop global warming |
| Girl Dinner | Blake, Olivia | Light Lit | Sorority girls are actually cannibals? |
| The Exorcist | Blatty, William Peter | Horror | Regan! The demon girl! A wonderful ghost story |
| 2666 | Bolano, Robert | Literature | Somewhat Murikami like tale of people in Mexico exposing murders and gangs, but getting locked up and life happens |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Bradbury, Ray | Science Fiction | Dystopian, anti-literary society at its best (worst?) |
| The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies | Brynjolfsoson, Erik and McAfee, Andrew | Nonfiction | Economic study on how increasing automation will change to future economy |
| At Home | Bryson, Bill | Nonfiction | Quaint history of the home, homiliness, and why we have the rooms that we do |
| I'm a stranger here myself | Bryson, Bill | Nonfiction | A collection of delightful essays on living in America |
| Harmless Like You | Buchanan, Rowan Hisyao | Literature | Yuki is a harmless wannabe artist who maries (and leaves) her harmless husband Edison |
| Miles Errant | Bujold, Lois McMaster | Science Fiction | Space Opera with some really dark torture scenes. Weird clone family drama, too |
| The Curse of Chalion | Bujold, Lois McMaster | Science Fiction | Entertaining trash fantasy novel |
| A Clockwork Orange | Burgess, Anthony | Literature | Wonderfully crafted dystopian novel |
| Death Masks | Butcher, Jim | Light Lit | Dresden & Michael vs evil demons and shroud of Turin |
| Fool's Moon | Butcher, Jim | Light Lit | Dresden & wolf friends vs evil werewolf |
| Grave Peril | Butcher, Jim | Light Lit | Dresden vs spoopy ghosts |
| Storm Front | Butcher, Jim | Light Lit | Detective Harry Dresden vs evil weather wizard |
| Summer Knight | Butcher, Jim | Light Lit | Dresden & Michael vs mean vampires and fairies |
| Bloodchild | Butler, Octavia | Short Stories | Super dark, gritty, realistic stories about humans and aliens |
| Clay's Ark | Butler, Octavia | Science Fiction | Weird, man... More character study than scifi. 5/10 |
| Parable of the Sower | Butler, Octavia | Science Fiction | Post-apocalyptic moses girl starts a new religion called Earthseed |
| Xenogenisis Trilogy | Butler, Octavia | Science Fiction | Aliens give humanity a second chance in exchange for their children. Nice world-building and weird aliens |
| The Stranger | Camu, Albert | Literature | Good intro to existantialism, goes well with Vonnegurt |
| The Stranger | Camus, Albert | Literature | French wretch murders someone for fun, dies because living is too much work |
| Ender's Game | Card, Orson Scott | Science Fiction | Incredible Sci-Fi about a military academy to train kids to fight aliens |
| Ender's Shadow | Card, Orson Scott | Science Fiction | Ender's Game from another POV, and is its own incredible story |
| How to Win Friends and Influence People | Carnagie, Dale | Nonfiction | Basic advice: if you're genuinely interested in other people, other people will like you |
| What We Talk About When We Talk About Love | Carver, Raymond | Short Stories | Great collection of short stories that are incredibly human and extremely relatable. Read aloud with friends. |
| A Lost Lady | Cather, Willa | Literature | Fun little read about life in the midwest during and after the depression |
| A Closed and Common Orbit | Chambers, Becky | Science Fiction | Same universe as other works, great themes about choosing one's own family |
| Record of a Spaceborn Few | Chambers, Becky | Science Fiction | Life in the Exodan space stations |
| The Galaxy, and the Ground Within | Chambers, Becky | Science Fiction | Canterbury tales but with more aliens |
| The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet | Chambers, Becky | Science Fiction | Finally a sci-fi book with weird, non-humanoid aliens! |
| The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Chbosky, Stephen | Teen Trash | A big, jumbled heap of all the contravertial issues of 1999 that fails to have any meaningful plot or characters |
| Stories of your life and others | Chiang, Ted | Short Stories | Wonderful short stories, themes about free will, time travel |
| Algorithms to Live By | Christian, Brian and Griffiths, Tom | Nonfiction | Great intersection of computer science, ethics, and self-help. 37% optimal stopping |
| And then there were none | Christie, Agatha | Thriller | 10 people on an island getting killed one by one |
| Rainbow Six | Clancey, Tom | Thriller | Reads like a COD game, but incredibly detailed with interesting military stratigies |
| The haunting of tram car 015 | Clark, P Djeli | Fantasy | Egyptian detectives out a ghost from a tram car |
| Childhood's End | Clarke, Arthur C | Science Fiction | Great golden-age sci-fi about Aliens invading Earth |
| Rendezvous with Rama | Clarke, Arthur C | Science Fiction | One of the most interesting premises for a Sci-Fi book I've encountered |
| Piranesi | Clarke, Susanna | Literature | Guy is trapped in an infinitely large house full of statues. |
| The Alchemist | Coelho, Paulo | Literature | Preachy parable about listening to your heart and following your dreams. Like Ishmael but less trees more Jesus |
| What's Left? How Liberals lost their way | Cohen, Nick | Nonfiction | Very good analysis of the changes of the liberal left in Engliand and the West in the early 2000's |
| Heart of Darkness | Conrad, Joseph | Literature | Interesting read, its reputation preceeds it, and I'm sure it was terrifying by 1890's standards. |
| Abaddon's Gate | Corey, James S A | Science Fiction | Solar system gateway is built, humans gotta explore it |
| Babylon's Ashes | Corey, James S A | Science Fiction | Rise of the free navy, Duarte fucks off to his own planet |
| Caliban's War | Corey, James S A | Science Fiction | More protomolecule BS starring Holden and that detective |
| Cibola Burn | Corey, James S A | Science Fiction | I think this is the one with the colony planet vs corpos |
| Leviathan Falls | Corey, James S A | Science Fiction | Duarte becomes an agent of one of the WH40K chaos gods but is killed somehow idk |
| Leviathan Wakes | Corey, James S A | Science Fiction | James Holden and friends start a solar system conflict |
| Nemisis Games | Corey, James S A | Science Fiction | Crew members take personal time while that kid drops rocks |
| Persepolis Rising | Corey, James S A | Science Fiction | Duarte is back with his weirdo Rome planet, takes Medina station |
| Tiamet's Wrath | Corey, James S A | Science Fiction | Old-ass Holden and Naiomi do resistance things, Dr Okoye learns about alien stuff |
| Galaxy in Flames | Counter, Ben | WH40K | pt 3 of W40K Horus Heresy |
| The Culture Code | Coyle, Daniel | Nonfiction | Vulnrability creates team cooperation and company culture |
| Airframe | Crichton, Michael | Thriller | Airplane manufacturer investigates a lethal turbulance incident among a hostile union and media |
| Jurassic Park | Crichton, Michael | Thriller | Open Door > Get On Floor > Walk Your Favourite Dinosaur |
| The Andromeda Strain | Crichton, Michael | Thriller | Riviting medical thriller, great plot and storytelling |
| The Terminal Man | Crichton, Michael | Thriller | A computer hacker man goes on a rampage! |
| Dark Matter (Crouch) | Crouch, Blake | Science Fiction | Travel between parallel universes to find your best self, literally |
| Recursion | Crouch, Blake | Science Fiction | Woman creates a chair that lets you go back into time via memories and change things. Generic time travel thriller |
| Blue Gold | Cussler, Clive | Light Lit | Mary-sue, self-insert 007 fanfiction for racist boomers |
| House of Leaves | Danielewski, Mark Z | Horror | One of the scariest books I've read, will challenge your perceptions of reality |
| Halo Hunters in the Dark | David, Peter | Science Fiction | More Halo soldiers going pew pew pew |
| Zero K | DeLillo, Don | Science Fiction | A billionare old man buys cyropreservation services for him and his wife in a strange Central Asian bunker |
| Ragnar Blackmane | Dembski-Bowden, Aaron | Science Fiction | Blackmane does more than just kill things, but he also kills a lot of things lmao |
| The Master of Mankind | Dembski-Bowden, Aaron | WH40K | The Emperor is losing the war in the webway |
| Ubik | Dick, Phillip K | Science Fiction | Ubik! It's what plants crave! |
| Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom | Doctorow, Cory | Science Fiction | Julius is part of the Ad-hocracy administrating Disney World in a post-death society |
| All the Light We Cannot See | Doerr, Anthony | Literature | Beautful story about a blind girl in WWII France and a cursed diamond |
| 50 Years of Data Science | Donoho, David | Nonfiction | Data Science is better than statistics,smd professors |
| The Idiot | Dostoyevsky, Fydor | Literature | Poor Prince Muishkin; he did nothing wrong but be honest |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Dumas, Alexander | Literature | The OG revenge story. Edmund Dantes FTW! |
| Rebecca | DuMaurier, Daphne | Literature | Last night I dreamt of Manderley again |
| Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race | Eddo-Lodge, Reni | Nonfiction | Deep review of systemic racism and the barriers to conversations it poses |
| A Visit From the Goon Squad | Egan, Jennifer | Literature | Great book about growing old, characters are great and human. See also Faulkner's As I Lay Dying |
| Manhattan Beach | Egan, Jennifer | Literature | Anna the diving girl! Dives to the bottom of the bay on a journey to find her dad |
| The Candy House | Egan, Jennifer | Literature | Basically a sequal to goon squad |
| This is How You Lose the Time War | el-Mohtar, Amal | Light Lit | Two secret time agents fall in love like in The Notebook |
| Axiom's end | Ellis, Lindsay | Science Fiction | Space race happens a lot earlier because aliens |
| Freshwater | Emezi, Akwaeke | Literature | African girl with Gods inside her learns to embrace the madness |
| A Sunny Place for Shady People | Enriquez, Mariana | Short Stories | The BEST kind of ghost stories, coming at you from Argentina |
| Malazan 1: Gardens of the Moon | Erikson, Steven | Fantasy | Malazan empire attempts to siege Dahrujistan and you, the reader, are clueless |
| Malazan 2: Deadhouse Gates | Erikson, Steven | Fantasy | Coltaine's chain of dogs |
| Malazan 3: Memories of Ice | Erikson, Steven | Fantasy | Siege of Capustan rise of Treach/Trake the tiger of summer, end of the bridgeburners |
| Malazan 4: House of Chains | Erikson, Steven | Fantasy | Karsa Orblong becomes the knight of house chains |
| Malazan 5: Midnight Tides | Erikson, Steven | Fantasy | Letheri and Tiste Edur brothers mirror each other. Bug the divine manservant. |
| Malazan 6: The Bonehunters | Erikson, Steven | Fantasy | Back in the Seven Cities, Y'Ghatan burns and Tavore becomes her own |
| Malazan 7: Reaper's Gate | Erikson, Steven | Fantasy | Fall of letheras. Bonehunters guerilla war. Karsa duels the emperor. Icarium glowers then does weird magic shit |
| As I Lay Dying | Faulkner, William | Literature | Incredible narrative structure. Great story about familial disfunction told from different, dishonest POVs |
| Light in August | Faulkner, William | Literature | Wonderfully flawed characters play out this tale of southern racist charm |
| Tender is the Night | Fitzgerald, F Scott | Romance | First part is an incredible romance, second part is a great murder-thriller |
| Goldfinger | Fleming, Ian | Light Lit | Wow I never realized how much of a misogynistic alcoholic James Bond is |
| Sharp Objects | Flynn, Gillian | Thriller | Journalist girl who cuts herself covers a murder story in her hometown and discovers family issues |
| Halo New Blood | Forbeck, Matt | Light Lit | Halo soldiers go pew pew pew |
| Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future | Ford, Martin | Nonfiction | Study on the social impacts of an increasingly automated economy |
| We are all completely beside ourselves | Fowler, Karen Joy | Literature | A girl was raised alongside a chimp as part of her psychologist father's experiment |
| The Collector | Fowles, John | Thriller | A young man wins the lottery, buys a farmhouse in the British countryside, and kidnaps a woman to lock in his basement |
| The Magus | Fowles, John | Literature | Shutter Island x the great gatsby |
| Lessons in Chemistry | Garmus, Bonnie | Literature | Elizabeth Zott supper at six |
| In a Dark Place: The Story of a True Haunting | Garton, Ray | Horror | Ghost stories, when they pretend to be real, are soooo dull |
| Burning Chrome | Gibson, William | Short Stories | Collection of early Gibson short stories, fav was "Fragments of a holographic rose" |
| Burning Chrome | Gibson, William | Short Stories | Short sci fi stories. Fav are fragments of a holographic rose, the winter market |
| Count Zero | Gibson, William | Science Fiction | Art buyer helps an old rich man die. Also corporate kidnap job goes wrong |
| Mona Lisa Overdrive | Gibson, William | Science Fiction | Gibson has an incredible sci-fi dystopian universe. Dark, Cynical, and full of mystery. |
| Neuromancer | Gibson, William | Science Fiction | Rogue AI, interbred future families, and alcoholic anti-heroes. Standard cyberpunk fare, but Gibson invented it. |
| Blink | Gladwell, Malcolm | Nonfiction | Instincts are powerful and first impressions can be crafted |
| When a Crocodile Eats the Sun | Godwin, Peter | Nonfiction | Memiors of growing up in Zimbabwe and lamenting at how things have worsened since |
| Maybe You Should Talk to Someone | Gottlieb, Lori | Autobiography | A therapist goes to therapy to talk about the theraputic process (and get therapy) |
| Give and Take | Grant, Adam | Nonfiction | Great approach to relationships, networking, and lifetime happiness |
| Looking For Alaska | Green, John | Teen Trash | Catcher in the Rye but with shittier, modern characters and the same plotline as all of Green's other books |
| The Faults in Our Stars | Green, John | Teen Trash | Incredibly effective if it's your first Green novel. |
| Swallowing Mercury | Greg, Wioletta | Autobiography | Memories of growing up a poor girl in 1980's Poland |
| The Invisible Hotel | Ham, Yeji Y | Literature | Bathtub full of bones |
| Moth Smoke | Hamid, Mohsin | Literature | Fight club but in Pakistan and with more self-destruction and less likable characters |
| Great at Work | Hansen, Morten | Nonfiction | Productivity and teamwork in the corporate landscape |
| Orbital | Harvey, Samantha | Literature | Love letter to the astronauts on the ISS. Great description of disorienting timelessness |
| The Blind Owl | Hedayat, Sadegh | Literature | Dusty and horny Iraqi man sleeps with a dead(?) body |
| Starship Troopers | Heinlein, Robert A | Science Fiction | Great political commentary on war from an alien-killing epic |
| Stranger in a Strange Land | Heinlein, Robert A | Science Fiction | Mary Sue Martian confirms chauvanism |
| Catch-22 | Heller, Joseph | Literature | One of my favourite anti-war novels. Love you, Snowden! |
| The old man and the sea | Hemmingway, Earnest | Literature | Old guy catches a big fish but sharks ate it up oh nooooo |
| Dune | Herbert, Frank | Fantasy | Incredibly sci-fi fantasy novel comprable with LOTR but with giant sand worms |
| Hiroshima | Hersey, John | Nonfiction | Shows you just how fucked up stuff gets when you drop an atomic bomb on a city |
| Beneath the Wheel | Hesse, Hermann | Literature | Handbook for the tortured intellectual, who is too smart for his own good |
| Siddhartha | Hesse, Hermann | Literature | Good philosophy, nice Buddhist story to reflect on |
| October Sky (Rocket Boys) | Hickam, Homer | Autobiography | Light, wholesome story about country boys building rockets and winning the science fair |
| The Talented Mr Ripley | Highsmith, Patricia | Thriller | Fucking awful |
| Heart Shaped Box | Hill, Joe | Horror | Nice little ghost story with Rock & Roll & Motorcycles. |
| NOS4A2 | Hill, Joe | Horror | Creative and disturbing horror |
| The Sun Does Shine | Hinton, Anthony Ray | Autobiography | Story of an innocent man who spent 30 years on Alabama's death row |
| A Thousand Splendid Suns | Hosseini, Khaled | Literature | Fun little read, good for putting a nice damper on your happy mood. Child abuse warning. |
| To Live | Hua, Yu | Literature | Famous Chinese novel of an idiot starving his way through the cultural revolutions |
| A High Wind Rises in Jamaica | Hughes, Richard | Literature | Kids get captured by pirates and immediately forget that it's a bad thing |
| Les Mis | Hugo, Victor | Literature | Wonderful book with amazing themes and better characters |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Hugo, Victor | Literature | Fuckin everybody in this book is a terrible person except Esmerelda and her goat. Great story though |
| A Prayer for Owen Meany | Irving, John | Literature | Incredible book about God's plans for a tiny New-England boy and his friend John. |
| The World According to Garp | Irving, John | Literature | Crazy characters and a wild ride throughout |
| We'll Prescribe You A Cat | Ishida, Syou | Light Lit | Cats dressing as humans dispense cats as psychotherapy |
| Klara and The Sun | Ishiguro, Kazuo | Literature | Klara is a very observative robot who becomes a real girl |
| Never Let Me Go | Ishiguro, Kazuo | Literature | If The Faults in Our Stars took place in the same world as House of the Scorpion. Good, sad read. |
| The Buried Giant | Ishiguro, Kazuo | Literature | Wonderful story, great pacing. The mysteries and importance of memories (and dragons) |
| The Remains of the Day | Ishiguro, Kazuo | Literature | An old Butler goes on a road trip and thinks about dignity |
| The Haunting of Hill House | Jackson, Shirley | Horror | Elenor and rich guilded era friends investigate a haunted house |
| The Fifth Season | Jemisin, N K | Science Fiction | Rock magic 1 |
| The Obelisk Gate | Jemisin, N K | Science Fiction | Rock magic 2 |
| The Stone Sky | Jemisin, N K | Science Fiction | rock Magic 3 |
| The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window | Jonasson, Jonas | Light Lit | Reads like a Wes Anderson film. Very quirky and fun read. |
| When Breath Becomes Air | Kalanithi, Paul | Autobiography | Paul is a neurosurgeon who dies from cancer while writing this book |
| Hellbound Hearts | Kane, Paul | Short Stories | Kinky pinhead demons |
| The Vegetarian | Kang, Han | Literature | Human beings are meant to be plants |
| All my Friends are Superheros | Kaufman, Andrew | Short Stories | Fun little read, quick feel-good romance with quirky characters. |
| Breasts and Eggs | Kawakami, Mieko | Literature | Woman wants to get preggo but dislikes sex (and men) therefore sperm donor |
| Dharma Bums | Kerouac, Jack | Literature | Made me yearn for the Pacific-Northwest and 1950's American Buddhism |
| On The Road | Kerouac, Jack | Literature | Great mood-piece from the beatnik generation |
| Flowers for Algernon | Keys, Daniel | Literature | Very sad but intriguing and hearbreaking novel |
| The Pheonix Project | Kim, Gene | Nonfiction | The Fountainhead tells the story of DevOps |
| Misery | King, Stephen | Horror | AAAAHHHH! |
| The Shining | King, Stephen | Horror | Great, scary horror! |
| Space Wolf Trilogy | King, William | Science Fiction | Ragnar Blackmane is Wolf Lord of the space wolves doing wolf things. Awooooo~~ |
| Something New Under the Sun | Kleeman, Alexandra | Science Fiction | Climate fiction, Patrick Hamelin goes to hollywood and gets weird dementia from the wat-r |
| We used to live here | Kliewer, Marcus | Horror | A redditor wrote a haunted house story |
| Terms of Enlistment | Kloos, Marko | Light Lit | Space marine romp with women characters that doesn't make a big deal about having women in space |
| The life changing magic of tidying up | Kondo, Marie | Nonfiction | Teaches the KonMari method of tidying up- quite useful! |
| Into Thin Air | Krakauer, Jon | Nonfiction | Memior of author's experience on a tragic journey up Mt. Everest |
| Under the Banner of Heaven | Krakauer, Jon | Nonfiction | Crazy Mormon listens to God's call to kill his brother's wife and baby. Book asks, "why?" |
| Babel | Kuang, RF | Literature | Language translation Harry Potter pulls a racially-motivated Les Mis |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Kundera, Milan | Literature | Beautiful philosophy of life, love, and time. |
| Gods Without Men | Kunzru, Hari | Literature | Knock-off Murakami tries to write one of the sub-plots of Infinite Jest |
| Shadow Divers | Kurson, Robert | Historical Fiction | Deep-water scuba divers seek trasure and history |
| Endurance | Lansing, Alfred | Historical Fiction | The incredible story of Shackleton's arctic voyage, shipwreck, and survival |
| In the Garden of Beasts | Larson, Eric | Nonfiction | Great recounting of ambassador to pre-WW2 Germany's life in the 3rd reich. Scary modern parallels. |
| Issiac's Storm | Larson, Eric | Historical Fiction | Fun little read, great storytelling |
| The Devil in the White City | Larson, Eric | Nonfiction | Riviting and horrifying tale of world's fair and first serial killer |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Larsson, Stieg | Thriller | Detective novel with relatable characters and horribly morbid antagonists. Chile abuse warning. |
| The Spy who came in from the Cold | le Carre, John | Thriller | A double-agent double-crosses to catch other double-agents. But it the whole thing a setup? |
| Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy | le Carre, John | Thriller | Double double agent spy novel. A bit confusing |
| A Wizard of Earthsea | le Guin, Ursula K | Fantasy | Ged/Sparrowhawk rises, goes to not-hogwarts, and summons a deamon |
| Rocanon's World | le Guin, Ursula K | Science Fiction | Early Haimish cycle, Rocanon discovers the secrets of telepathy on a medieval world with flying beasts |
| Tehanu | le Guin, Ursula K | Fantasy | Some dumb kid comes across Ged and the tomb girl but the kid is actually a dragon. Best earthsea IMO |
| The Farthest Shore | le Guin, Ursula K | Fantasy | Ged goes for a long boat ride to save the dragons |
| The Lathe of Heaven | le Guin, Ursula K | Science Fiction | Guy's dreams come true, but he gets manipulated by a mean dream-doctor |
| The Left Hand of Darkness | le Guin, Ursula K | Science Fiction | Strange Androgynous humans on an icy planet are convinced to join the galactic union |
| The Tombs of Atuan | le Guin, Ursula K | Fantasy | Ged goes tomb raiding and frees the head priestess |
| Dallergut Dream Department Store | Lee, Miye | Light Lit | Young spirit girl gets a job at the dream department store selling actual dreams |
| Return to the Dallergut Dream Department Store | Lee, Miye | Light Lit | It's the first book, but more! |
| The Basics of Bitcoins and Blockchains | Lewis, Antony | Nonfiction | Good overview & understanding of bitcoin, blockchain, etherium, and DeFi |
| The Big Short | Lewis, Michael | Nonfiction | Hedge funds betting on the 2008 financial crisis |
| Get In Trouble | Link, Kelly | Short Stories | Very fun and interesting short stories, incredibly human characters with small but meaningful plotlines. |
| Death's End | Liu Cixin | Science Fiction | Part of the most interesting science fiction series I've ever read |
| The Dark Forest | Liu Cixin | Science Fiction | My favorite of the series. Swordbreaker ftw! |
| Three Body Problem | Liu Cixin | Science Fiction | Some of the most original and creative science fiction I've ever read |
| Apollo 13 | Lovell, Jim | Thriller | Riviting space thriller written by the guy who lived through it |
| Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie | Lubar, David | Light Lit | Light coming-of-age story about high school freshman kid |
| The Desert of Stars | Lumpkin, John J | Science Fiction | Physics-based ship-to-ground combat with fun human-interest stories. Startship troopers meets James S A Corey |
| Through Struggle, The Stars | Lumpkin, John J | Science Fiction | Physics-based ship to ship space combat by the designer of Terra Invicta |
| Bird Box | Malerman, Josh | Thriller | "Scary" story about meme zombie virus and a preggo lady. Okay |
| The Subtle are of not giving a Fuck | Manson, Mark | Nonfiction | Self-help type book about control and responsibility |
| The Tunnels of Cu Chi | Marigold, Tom and Penycate, John | Nonfiction | Amazing stories from people who lived and fought in Vietnames tunnels |
| Love in the Time of Cholera | Marquez, Gabriel Garcia | Literature | Florentino Aritzia wants to fuck old people. And young people, too. |
| One Hundered Years of Solitude | Marquez, Gabriel Garcia | Literature | Amazing tale of multi-generational family, magical realism at its best |
| Life of Pi | Martel, Yann | Literature | Riviting survival tale of a boy and his tiger |
| Swan Song | McCammond, Robert | Science Fiction | Post-apocalyptic nuclear winter gives one girl magic powers of plant growth |
| Blood Meridian | McCarthy, Cormac | Literature | Violent, bloody, wild wild west |
| No Country for Old Men | McCarthy, Cormac | Literature | Extremely violent and savage, the theme is hard to discover under all the blood and death |
| The Road | McCarthy, Cormac | Literature | I'm not crying, you're crying.... Somebody get me a comma, please. |
| Secrets to Winning at Office Politics | McIntyre, Marie G | Nonfiction | Actual good advice on working in corporacracy |
| I'll be gone in the dark | McNamara, Michelle | Nonfiction | Author investigates a serial rapist/murderer in LA in the 80's, solves the case too! |
| A Thousand Sons | McNeill, Graham | WH40K | Start of the fall of Magnus the read and the Thousand Sons chapter |
| False Gods | McNeill, Graham | WH40K | More W40K space marines, not a big fan of McNiel's prose, it's quite droll |
| The Crimson King | McNeill, Graham | WH40K | All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Magnus together again |
| The Outcast Dead | McNeill, Graham | WH40K | Loyal space marines from traitor leigons team up |
| Thinking in Systems: A Primer | Meadows, Donella H | Nonfiction | Designing software and human processes from a systems perspective. Good stuff! |
| Song of Achilles | Miller, Madeline | Literature | Achilles / Patrocles yaoi fanfic |
| A Canticle for Leibowitz | Miller, Walter | Science Fiction | Jesuits but in the fallout universe but written in the 1950's |
| Strange | Mistry, Rohinton | Historical Fiction | The story of a family of poor Undesirables during India's constitutional crisis years |
| Bone Clocks | Mitchell, David | Fantasy | Soul carnivors vs Horology and poor Holly Sykes caught in the middle |
| Cloud Atlas | Mitchell, David | Literature | Incredible book, great characters and themes. |
| Ghostwritten | Mitchell, David | Literature | Less-good Goon Squad, short stories in the same universe. Remember chinese mountain tea shop woman |
| Slade House | Mitchell, David | Short Stories | Short stories from the Soul Carnivors' world |
| The Art of Invisibility | Mitnick, Kevin | Nonfiction | Paranoid white-hat ex-con teaches you how to hide from the FBI online |
| Lies of Silence | Moore, Brian | Thriller | A fun romp about the IRA getting even and blowing up cars outside hotels |
| Altered Carbon | Morgan, Robert | Science Fiction | Kovachs investigates a murder in an era when people live on flash drives |
| Tatami Galaxy | Morimi, Tomihiko | Literature | The wretch, an unnmed student, is tied to Ozu no matter what club he joins |
| Rental Person Who Does Nothing | Morimoto, Shoji | Autobiography | People send this Japanese dude twitter DMs and he just shows up and does nothing |
| Home | Morrison, Tony | Literature | Offers a concerning view of the black community and how racist America affects it |
| The Bluest Eye | Morrison, Tony | Literature | Really sad novel about growing up black in racist America. Child abuse warning |
| Death in her hands | Moshfegh, Ottessa | Literature | Old lady dies in the woods |
| Lapvona | Moshfegh, Ottessa | Literature | Deformed Malek loves killing his brothers, and everyone in the village sucks |
| My Year of Rest and Relaxtion | Moshfegh, Ottessa | Literature | A rich girl tries to sleep away an entire year, and mostly succeeds without consequences |
| Island of a thousand mirrors | Munaweera, Nayomi | Historical Fiction | The Sri Lankan civil war from the perspective of girls on either side of the conflict |
| 1Q84 | Murakami, Haruki | Literature | Murakami is a dirty old man. Child abuse warning. |
| Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World | Murakami, Haruki | Literature | More fun Murakami with all the expected craziness |
| Kafka on the Shore | Murakami, Haruki | Literature | Kind of pointless, with a winding meandering story that feels like it should mean something but doesn't. |
| Wind-up Bird Chronicle | Murakami, Haruki | Literature | Great book, wonderfully modern and pointless. One of those stories where everything happens but nothing is achieved. |
| Convenience Store Woman | Murata, Sayaka | Light Lit | She wants to work at a convenience store. So she do. |
| Lolita | Nabokov, Vladimir | Literature | The prose is absolutely beautiful; the topic is absolutely revolting |
| Ultramarine | Navarro, Mariette | Literature | twenty freighter crewmen go swimming, twenty one climb back on board |
| Last Days | Nevill, Adam | Horror | Documentary director gets hired to make a documentary about a doomsday cult, but things get spooky |
| Ringworld | Niven, Larry | Science Fiction | 3 unlucky people and Teela Brown journey to the Ringworld |
| Logan's Run | Nolan, William F & Johnson, George Clayton | Science Fiction | No one over 21 is allowed to live, but Logan, the ex-DS man, thinks he can outrun his fate |
| Master and Commander | O'Brian, Patrick | Historical Fiction | Cap'n Jack and his mighty fine crew, they sailed across the ocean blue! |
| To Be a Machine | O'Connell, Mark | Nonfiction | A look at the 2010's transhumanist movement of people who want to live forever |
| Wise Blood | O'Conner, Flannery | Literature | Features one of the weirdest and most oddball characters I've ever met |
| The Third Policeman | O'Nolan, Brian | Literature | A basement-dwelling scholar helps kill a man then spends his time in a special purgetory-hell. Very confusing |
| Running in the Family | Ondaatje, Michael | Nonfiction | Memior about the author's grandparents' time as gentry in Sri Lanka during the roaring 20's and onward |
| There There | Orange, Tommy | Literature | While a sad American Indian story, it manages to not lose itself in tragedy and tells a gripping story |
| 1984 | Orwell, George | Science Fiction | One of the progenitors of dystopian fiction and has always been at war with Ocenia. |
| Animal Farm | Orwell, George | Literature | Four legs good, two legs better! |
| Where the Crawdads Sing | Owens, Delia | Literature | Mary Sue swamp girl becomes naturist scientist girl boss |
| Dark Matter (Paver) | Paver, Michelle | Horror | British boy goes on an expedition to Svalbard, meets a ghosty friend |
| We are Satelites | Pinsker, Sara | Science Fiction | Everyone and their kids gets a chip in their head, but maaaaybe it's not a good idea?? |
| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | Pirsig, Robert | Nonfiction | Chautauqua on Quality and also the guy's son Chris |
| The Bell Jar | Plath, Sylvia | Autobiography | Esther Greenwood is one of the best female protagonists ever written |
| Bel Canto | Pratchett, Anne | Romance | Best case of Stockholm Syndrome you'll have all year |
| Commonwealth | Pratchett, Anne | Literature | Authors writing about authors is narscisistic af |
| The Amber Spyglass | Pullman, Phillip | Fantasy | Wonderful fantasy series about the hubris of man and giant, armored polar bears. Great social commentary |
| The Golden Compass | Pullman, Phillip | Fantasy | Wonderful fantasy series about the hubris of man and giant, armored polar bears. Great social commentary |
| The Subtle Knife | Pullman, Phillip | Fantasy | Wonderful fantasy series about the hubris of man and giant, armored polar bears. Great social commentary |
| Atlas Shrugged | Rand, Ayn | Literature | Interesting read about how great capitalism is and how much socialism sucks for the rich |
| The Employees | Ravn, Olga | Science Fiction | HR interviews human (and neo-human) employees about alient objects |
| Starting Strength | Rippetoe, Mark | Nonfiction | 101 on barbell training |
| The Calculating Stars | Robinette, Mary Kowal | Science Fiction | Due to meteor impact in the 1950's, humans need to leave Earth ASAP |
| Green Mars | Robinson, Kim Stanley | Science Fiction | Mid-year mars settlement and terraforming, space communism. Hiroko is my problematic fave |
| Red Mars | Robinson, Kim Stanley | Science Fiction | Humans colonize mars & their early settlements up to a failed violent revolution |
| The Ministry for the future | Robinson, Kim Stanley | Science Fiction | UN like agency tries to save the world from climate change after a heat wave disaster in India |
| Carve the Mark | Roth, Veronica | Teen Trash | If the main character lovers turn out to be brother-sister, it's basically Star Wars |
| The Name of The Wind | Rothfuss, Patrick | Fantasy | Mary Sue Harry Potter |
| The God of Small Things | Roy, Arundhati | Literature | Child Abuse Warning |
| The Happiness Project | Rubin, Gretchen | Nonfiction | Story of one author's quest to be happier over a year |
| The Sparrow | Russell, Mary Doria | Science Fiction | How far will God go to punish the faithful? Jesuits are the first to make contact with Aliens |
| How to Argue With a Racist | Rutherford, Adam | Nonfiction | Tip: Find common ground and work from there |
| Madhouse at the End of the Earth | Sancton, Julian | Nonfiction | The Belgica did the first antarctic wintering and it drove everybody mad |
| Dawnshard | Sanderson, Brandon | Fantasy | Rysn and her pet go on a sailing adventure |
| Edgedancer | Sanderson, Brandon | Fantasy | Lift and Herald Nalan face off over an orphanage |
| Mistborn: The Final Empire | Sanderson, Brandon | Fantasy | Good worldbuilding and magics. MC is a bit of a Mary Sue, but the story is good nontheless |
| Oathbringer | Sanderson, Brandon | Fantasy | Dalinar comes into his own as Bondsmith; Kaladin matures, Shallan has an identity crisis, Jasneh is badass |
| Rhythm of War | Sanderson, Brandon | Fantasy | Uritheriu gets invaded! Shallan and Adolin stuck in Shadesmar |
| The Hero of Ages | Sanderson, Brandon | Fantasy | Good worldbuilding and magics. MC is a bit of a Mary Sue, but the story is good nontheless |
| The Way of Kings | Sanderson, Brandon | Fantasy | Sword of the rings, book 1: Shardswords and shardplates fuuuuuuck I want more |
| The Well of Ascension | Sanderson, Brandon | Fantasy | Good worldbuilding and magics. MC is a bit of a Mary Sue, but the story is good nontheless |
| Wind and Truth | Sanderson, Brandon | Fantasy | The thrilling finale, Kaladin and Szeth buddy cop movie, Dalainar stars in a clip show |
| Words of Radiance | Sanderson, Brandon | Fantasy | The parshendi awaken, Kaladin gets over his ego, Shallan comes into her powers, Dalinar embraces the knights radiant |
| The Witcher Heptogy | Sapkowski, Andrzej | Fantasy | Geralt and Ciri adventures! Featuring Yennifer and other people with strange names |
| Blindness | Saramago, Jose | Literature | A plague of blindness sweeps the world, then passes |
| Lincoln in the Bardo | Saunderson, George | Literature | Short, quaint read. Rather philosophical and intimate |
| Zero Zero Zero | Saviano, Robert | Nonfiction | Cocaine is a worldwide industry and capitalism's #1 problematic fave |
| Lock In | Scalzi, John | Science Fiction | Mystery thriller about human vegetables that control robots |
| Starter Villain | Scalzi, John | Thriller | Charlie takes over his uncle's secret volcano lair (and evil plots) to become a temporary villian |
| Like Switch: an ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over | Schafer, Jack and Karlins, Marvin | Nonfiction | Possible a worse title than Carnagie. Great advice, love the eyebrow twitch |
| The Lovely Bones | Sebold, Alice | Literature | Fun little read about how the world will carry on without you. Child abuse warning. |
| The Killer Angels | Shaara, Michael | Historical Fiction | The battle of Gettysburg, told well with many perspectives from all sides |
| The Digital Ape | Shadbolt, Nigel | Nonfiction | How to reconcile technology with human biology |
| Is there no place on earth for me? | Sheehan, Susan | Nonfiction | Life of Sylvia Frumpkin, a schizophrenic in the New York mental health system in the 1970's and 80's |
| Designing Bots | Shevat, Amir | Nonfiction | Technical work crap |
| I Remember You | Sigurdardottir, Yrsa | Horror | In Iceland a little ghost boy wants to be reunited with his parents |
| Endymion | Simmons, Dan | Science Fiction | I don't even remember what happened in this one TBH |
| Fall of Hyperion | Simmons, Dan | Science Fiction | Space Canterbury tales pt 2: electric Boogaloo. Getting back to normal SF series |
| Hyperion | Simmons, Dan | Science Fiction | Space Canterbury tales |
| The Terror | Simmons, Dan | Horror | Horrifying at times but not scary. Ship stuck in the arctic, hunted by some creature |
| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Smith, Betty | Literature | Francie is a poor Irish girl who reads too much. Story of a poor Brooklyn family at turn of the century |
| This Weightless World | Soto, Adam | Literature | An ensemble of characters are affected differntly by first contact |
| And I don't want to live this life anymore | Spungen, Deborah | Nonfiction | A memior about her daughter, who was killed in a very high-profile murder in the 90's |
| Station Eleven | St. John Mandel, Emily | Literature | A post-apocalyptic acting troupe proves mere survival to be insufficient. Wacky premise, meh book |
| Halo: Contact Harvist | Staten, Joseph | Science Fiction | Halo soldiers go pew pew pew |
| East of Eden | Steinbeck, John | Literature | Absolutely epic. Great characters and themes, re-read! |
| Cryptonomicon | Stephenson, Neil | Thriller | Code-breaking thriller. Adds tons of historic WWII detail into the modern day story |
| Quicksilver | Stephenson, Neil | Fantasy | Enlightenment Yaoi harem fanfiction with occasional vagabond pirate interludes. |
| Snow Crash | Stephenson, Neil | Science Fiction | A fun read, but lacked substance-- a literary action movie. |
| Zodiac | Stephenson, Neil | Thriller | Nice light thriller featuring boats and dumping in Boston harbor. |
| The Agony and the Ecstasy | Stone, Irving | Historical Fiction | Incredibe book on the life and art of Michaelangelo, pretty much a 750-page love letter to marble |
| Ghost Story | Straub, Peter | Horror | Okay ghost story. Old men haunted by ghosts of the past |
| This Divided Island | Subramanian, Samanth | Historical Fiction | Account of the Sri Lankan civil war. |
| Sweet Bean Paste | Sukegawa, Durian | Light Lit | Old lady with leoparsy teaches an ex-con to make Japanese sweets |
| Flight of the Eisenstein | Swallow, James | Science Fiction | pt 4 of Horus heresy, not as much fun as the others |
| The Buried Dagger | Swallow, James | WH40K | Events leading up to the siege of Terra |
| The Black Swan | Taleb, Nassim Nicholas | Nonfiction | About the rare events that change everything. Extremistan and Mediocrastan |
| The Joy Luck Club | Tan, Amy | Literature | Stories of Chinese refugees and their inability to connect with their kids |
| The Goldfinch | Tartt, Donna | Literature | God bless Boris. Wonderful story about art theft and growing up |
| The Secret History | Tartt, Donna | Literature | Owen Meany but literally every character is worse |
| The Fellowship of the Ring | Tolkien, J R R | Fantasy | Difinitive work of the genre, great read if you can get through it |
| The Hobbit | Tolkien, J R R | Fantasy | Difinitive work of the genre, great read if you can get through it |
| The Return of the King | Tolkien, J R R | Fantasy | Difinitive work of the genre, great read if you can get through it |
| The Two Towers | Tolkien, J R R | Fantasy | Difinitive work of the genre, great read if you can get through it |
| Anna Karenina | Tolstoy, Leo | Literature | Kitty & Levin OTP 4 ever, everyone else can piss off. Good characters, but about 200 pages too long. |
| Halo Kilo 6 Trilogy | Traviss, Karen | Science Fiction | Spec ops Halo soldiers sell wepons to both sides in an alien war |
| The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn | Twain, Mark | Literature | There's a reason it's a classic |
| Annhiliation | Vandermeer, Jeff | Horror | If SCP wikia had a novella |
| Authority | Vandermeer, Jeff | Horror | Sequel to Annhiliation, kind of dull. There's a third book, but I never finished it because dullness |
| A Fire Upon the Deep | Vinge, Vernor | Science Fiction | A blight starts taking over the galaxy, two kids and hive mind dog-packs gotta save 'em |
| Breakfast of Champions | Vonnegurt, Kurt | Literature | Absolutely wonderful novel about how silly life in America can be |
| Cat's Cradle | Vonnegurt, Kurt | Literature | Absolutely wonderful novel about how silly life on Earth can be |
| Player Piano | Vonnegurt, Kurt | Science Fiction | Dystopia novel about machines replacing humans at work. Good read |
| Slaughterhouse Five | Vonnegurt, Kurt | Literature | Absolutely wonderful novel about how silly life can be. |
| Unfamiliar Fishes | Vowell, Sarah | Nonfiction | Missionary takeover of Hawaii |
| Complexity | Waldorp, M Mitchell | Nonfiction | Ocean's 11 of academics founds the scientific study of complex systems |
| Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams | Walker, Matthew | Nonfiction | Goddamnit get some sleep, now! |
| So Far Gone | Walter, Jess | Literature | Granpa Kinnick tried to resue his grandkids from alt-right nutjobs |
| Project Hail Mary | Weir, Andrew | Science Fiction | The Martian but on the moon |
| The Martian | Weir, Andrew | Science Fiction | Very good, scientific survival story. Robinson Crusoe on Mars, space thriller. |
| The Intuitionist | Whitehead, Colson | Literature | This book is about elevators, but also not. |
| The Picture of Dorian Grey | Wilde, Oscar | Literature | Fun little read, wasn't a big fan of the characters |
| Exactly | Winchester, Simon | Nonfiction | History of precision engineering |
| Hot Water | Wodehouse, PG | Light Lit | Geft doesn't want to become the American Ambassador to France |
| Joy in the Morning | Woodhouse, P. G. | Light Lit | Hilarious pastoral screwball comedy. Reminded me of twelfth night |
| Black Boy | Wright, Richard | Autobiography | Indicative of the Harlem Renaissance, great book to get an idea of segregated America |
| Diary of a void | Yagi, Emi | Literature | Japanese woman pretends to be preggo to get out of work lmao |
| Kitchen | Yoshimoto, Banana | Literature | Two short stories about losing people you love |
| Butter | Yuzuki, Asako | Literature | A journalist learns to cook while interviewing a serial killer lady |
| Trust factor: The science of creating high-performance companies | Zak, Paul J | Nonfiction | Institutional trust is important not only in government, but in companies and leadership groups |
| We | Zamyatin, Yevgeny | Science Fiction | Dystopian story that inspired a genre. I'll take a pink check, please! |
| The Age of Surveilance Capitalism | Zuboff, Shoshana | Nonfiction | An in-depth study of how capitalism forces companies to choose between ethics and staying competitive |
| Accelerando | Stross, Charles | Science Fiction | Carousel of Progress following the world's first IRL streamer, his children, and his cat aineko |
| A madman dreams of Turing machines | Levin, Janna | Historical Fiction | Turing and Gödel live parallel, tragic lives |
| Beware of Chicken | Casualfarmer | Light Lit | Mary sue self insert pastoral Minecraft fanfic |
| Rainbow's End | Vinge, Verner | Science Fiction | Robert Wu gets althezimers cured so hard he's a teenager again, but he can't write poems any more. |
| Tress of the Emerald Sea | Sanderson, Brandon | Fantasy | Phantom tollbooth about a practical pirate heroine |
| Tom's Crossing | Danielewski, Mark Z | Literature | Two kids and a ghost save two horses through a mountain pass |
| That old ace in the hole | Prolx, Annie | Literature | Bob Dollar drifts through the TX/OK panhandle and serves as a vehicle for better characters' stories. |
| The thin man | Hammet, Dashiell | Thriller | I treated this book as a drinking companion and drank whenever the main characters did. I do not remember how it ended. |
| Practical Deamonkeeping | Moore, Christopher | Light Lit | A screwball comedy, of sorts, with a demon in goblin mode in a small NorCal town |