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This is my incomplete reading history, roughly in reserve chronological order. Linked titles lead to either Amazon, or reviews. The date is the date of completion.

2024

2023

2022

2021

  • December 2021
    • Attachment Theory by Thais Gibson
  • October 2021
  • June 2021
    • The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters
  • May 2021
    • Stasiland by Anna Funder
  • February 2021
    • Staring at the Sun by Irvin D. Yalom
    • State of Exception by Giorgio Agamben
    • This Is Me Letting You Go by Heidi Priebe

2020

  • August 2020
    • Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
    • Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman
  • July 2020
    • Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
    • Growing Pains by Gwynne Dyer
    • A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green
    • I’m Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya
    • This Morning I Met a Whale by Michael Morpurgo
  • June 2020
    • Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words by Bill Bryson
    • Kill All Normies by Angela Nagle [Goodreads review]
    • Don’t Be Evil by Rana Foroohar [Goodreads review]
    • Miniatures by John Scalzi
    • Hitler: Downfall by Volker Ullrich [Goodreads review]
  • May 2020
    • The Last Emperox by John Scalzi
  • April 2020
    • Pilot Error by Dan Moren
    • Call Me American by Abdi Nor Iftin
  • March 2020
    • Skunk Works by Ben Rich
  • February 2020
    • Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin
  • January 2020
    • No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
    • Missoula by Jon Krakauer
    • We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    • The Egg by Andy Weir
    • This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

2019

  • December 2019
    • To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
    • Love’s Executioner by Irvin D. Yalom
    • Super Pumped by Mike Isaac
  • November 2019
    • Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
    • In My Mind’s Eye by Jan Morris
  • October 2019
    • Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
    • Unfollow by Megan Phelps-Roper
    • The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
  • September 2019
    • A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
    • Head On by John Scalzi
  • July 2019
    • Harry’s Last Stand by Harry Leslie Smith
  • June 2019
    • The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh
  • May 2019
    • The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
  • April 2019
    • Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J.K. Rowling
    • Service Included by Phoebe Damrosch
    • First Time by Kate Monro
  • March 2019
    • The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
    • An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
  • February 2019
    • Fluent Forever by Gabriel Wyner
    • Quiet by Susan Cain
  • January 2019
    • The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi
    • This Is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay
    • Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
    • The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling
    • A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
    • Many Ways to Say I Love You by Fred Rogers
    • Very Good Lives by J.K. Rowling
    • Guns by Stephen King

2018

  • December 2018
    • She Commands Me and I Obey by Ann Leckie
    • Night’s Slow Poison by Ann Leckie
    • The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit
  • November 2018
    • Orbiting the Giant Hairball by Gordon MacKenzie
  • September 2018
    • The Prodigal Tongue by Lynne Murphy
  • August 2018
    • Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
  • June 2018
    • Conspiracy by Ryan Holiday
  • May 2018
    • Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
  • February 2018
    • The Gift of the Gab by David Crystal
  • January 2018
    • My Shit Life So Far by Frankie Boyle
    • The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
    • Chess Tactics by Paul Littlewood
    • Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939 by Volker Ullrich

2017

  • November 2017
    • All Over The Place Geraldine DeRuiter
    • The Secret History by Donna Tartt
  • September 2017
    • Fortune’s Pawn by Rachel Bach
  • August 2017
    • Representation Theory of Finite Groups by Benjamin Steinberg
    • Kind of Blue by Ken Clarke
  • July 2017
    • The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi
  • June 2017
    • The Caledonian Gambit by Dan Moren
    • The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
    • PHP for Absolute Beginners by Jason Lengstorf
    • The Joy of Tax by Richard Murphy
  • May 2017
    • Doing Good Better by William MacAskill
    • It’s All Too Much by Peter Walsh
    • Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski
  • April 2017
    • Sum by David Eagleman
  • March 2017
    • The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
  • February 2017
    • What Is Populism? by Jan-Werner Müller
  • January 2017
    • On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
    • The Passage by Justin Cronin

2016

  • October 2016
    • Russian Roulette by Anthony Horowitz
    • Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences by Nicholas J. Higham
    • Paper Towns by John Green
    • The Dispatcher by John Scalzi
  • September 2016
    • The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
  • August 2016
    • The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
    • A Handbook of Scotland’s Trees by Fiona Martynoga
    • Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by John Tiffany
    • Propaganda by Edward L. Bernays
    • Shrill by Lindy West
  • July 2016
    • The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
    • Human Transit by Jerrett Walker
    • Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
    • Scorpia Rising by Anthony Horowitz
    • Symmetric Inverse Semigroups by Stephen Lipscomb
    • Starship Troopers by by Robert A. Heinlein
  • June 2016
    • EU Referendum 2016: A Guide to Voters by David Torrance
    • The Mathematics of Love by Hannah Fry
    • I Think You’ll Find it’s a Bit More Complicated Then That by Ben Goldacre
  • May 2016
    • The Manual, Volume 5 by Andy McMillan
    • The File by Timothy Garton Ash
    • Stagecoach by Christiam Wolmar
  • April 2016
    • I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
  • March 2016
    • Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
  • February 2016
    • On Either Side – the East Coast Main Line by David Dunning
    • Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
  • January 2016
    • Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon
    • Alex’s Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos
    • What If? by Randall Munroe
    • When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

2015

  • December 2015
    • How to Count by Steven Frank
    • Disunited Kingdom by Iain Macwhirter
  • October 2015
    • Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie
  • July 2015
    • This Hollow Union by John Scalzi
    • Can Long Endure by John Scalzi
    • To Stand or Fall by John Scalzi
    • Nicola Sturgeon: A Political Life by David Torrance
    • The Great Movies by Roger Ebert
    • Man V. Nature by Diane Cook
    • The Skies Belong to Us by Brendan Koerner
    • A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
  • June 2015
    • Marcurial: The Definitive Guide by Bryan O’Sullivan
    • The Second Book of General Ignorance by John Lloyd
    • Crocodile Tears by Anthony Horowitz
    • Hack Attack by Nick Davies
    • The Life of the Mind by John Scalzi
  • May 2015
    • So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
  • April 2015
    • The Dream Shall Never Die by Alex Salmond
    • Becoming Steve Jobs by Brent Schlender
  • March 2015
    • The Magazine: The Book by Glenn Fleishman
    • Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
  • February 2015
    • Cockpit Confidential by Patrick Smith
    • Double Header by Diphallic Dude
  • January 2015
    • 100 Days of Hope and Fear by David Torrance
    • Worrisome Wilf’s Beastly Bedtime by Sean Baldwin
    • Whiffy Wilson by Caryl Hart
    • Scottish Independence by Gavin McCrone
    • Dataclysm by Christian Rudder
    • The Three Monarchs by Anthony Horowitz
    • Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz
    • The Vegetarian Myth by Lierre Keith
    • The 100 Most Pointless Things in the World by Alexander Armstrong

2014

  • December 2014
    • The Martian by Andy Weir
    • OS X YosemiteL The Ars Technica Review by John Siracusa
    • Command and Control by Eric Schlosser
    • The People’s Referendum by Peter Goeghegan
    • The 45% Hangover by Stuart MacBride
  • October 2014
    • Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie
  • September 2014
    • Blood, Iron and Gold by Christian Wolmar
    • Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton
  • August 2014
    • Pandora’s Star by Peter F. Hamilton
    • The Box by Marc Levinson
    • It’s Only a Movie by Mark Kermode
    • What Money Can’t Buy by Michael Sandel
    • Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz
    • I Can Make You Hate by Charlie Brooker
    • The Android’s Dream by John Scalzi
    • Lock In by John Scalzi
  • July 2014
    • 10% Happier by Dan Harris
    • The Psychopath Test by Jon Ranson
    • The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes by Adrian Conan Doyle
    • Bad Astronomy by Philip Plait
    • The Big Necessity by Rose George
    • Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch
    • An Economist Gets Lunch by Tyler Cowen
  • June 2014
    • The Drunkard’s Walk by Leonard Mlodinow
    • Creativity, Inc by Ed Catmull
    • The Little Book of Contentment by Leo Babauta
    • Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
    • Ark Angel by Anthony Horowitz
    • Dear Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
    • The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
  • May 2014
    • Ninety Percent of Everything by Rose George
    • Unlocked by John Scalzi
    • The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing You Who Are by Alan Watts
  • March 2014
    • The Subterranean Railway by Christian Wolmar
    • Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
    • Scorpia by Anthony Horowitz
  • February 2014
    • Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl
    • A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
    • Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre
    • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future by Michael J. Fox
  • January 2014
    • The Hell of it All by Charlie Brooker
    • On Writing Well by William Zinsser
    • Both Flesh and Not: Essays by David Foster Wallace
    • The Shape of Design by Frank Chimero
    • I Suck at Girls by Justin Halpern
    • Bacon: A Love Story by Heather Lauer
    • The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
    • Why Can’t Elephants Jump? by New Scientist Magazine

2013

  • October 2013
    • A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin
    • Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern
    • David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell
  • September 2013
    • How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
  • August 2013
    • The Human Division by John Scalzi
    • The Physics of Star Trek Lawrence M. Krauss
    • Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
    • 1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off by John Lloyd
  • July 2013
    • The Art of Intrusion by Kevin Mitnick
    • Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
    • Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze? by New Scientist Magazine
  • June 2013
    • The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
    • A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
    • Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson
    • Eagle Strike by Anthony Horowitz
  • April 2013
    • The Road by Cormac McCarthy
    • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
  • February 2013
    • The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
    • Women Without Men by Shahrnush Parsipur
  • January 2013
    •  Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself by David Lipsky
    • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
    • Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
    • Insanely Simple by Ken Segall
    • Why Do Men Have Nipples? by Mark Leyner
    • Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture by Ellen Ruppel Shell

2012

  • December 2012
    • Steak by Mark Schatzker
    • Dirty Sexy Politics by Meghan McCain
    • The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkein
    • Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
  • November 2012
    • Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
  • October 2012
    • A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
  • September 2012
    • A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
    • This is Water by David Foster Wallace
  • August 2012
    • The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
    • Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz
    • Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
    • A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
    • Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
    • The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick
    • The Minority Report by Philip K. Dick
    • Life Itself by Roger Ebert
    • The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
  • July 2012
    • Economyths by David Orrell
    • The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
    • Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
    • A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
  • June 2012
    • Point Blank by Anthony Horowitz
    • God, No! by Penn Jillette
    • Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi
    • Redshirts by John Scalzi
    • Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden
  • May 2012
    • Cosmos by Carl Sagan
    • Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick
    • The Ones Who Walk Away from Omela by Ursula K. Le Guin
    • The God Engines by John Scalzi
  • March 2012
    • The Corner by David Simon & Ed Burns
    • The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • February 2012
    • The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
    • Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
    • Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
    • Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi
    • The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  • January 2012
    • His Last Bow by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    • Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
    • Do You Think You’re Clever? by John Farndon
    • The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
    • I, Partridge: We Need To Talk About Alan by Alan Partridge
    • Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets by David Simon

2011

2010

2009

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