reading
I read a lot. Mostly novels. I tend to get my non-fiction in article or essay form more than as a full length book. Though that is by no means a rule.
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Reading Lists
These lists are not necessarily complete, as I do not always remember to log here. They are mostly so that I can remember more easily the things I have read. That said, feel free to peruse and see if anything seems like something you'd like!
Currently Reading
- In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
To Read?
A list of books that are on my radar. I may or may not get to any of them.
- Day by Michael Cunningham (not out until 2024)
- The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami (awaiting english translation)
- The Purple Land by W.H. Hudson
Read In 2023
Titles marked with an asterisk (*) at the end are links to legal free downloads in various formats. All other links are Wikipedia links. This list does not include the many many many children's books I read to my child each year.
- System Collapse by Martha Wells
- Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon
- A Prayer for the Crown Shy by Becky Chambers
- A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
- The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
- A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
- Children of God by Mary Doria Russell
- The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
- Galactic Pot-Healer by Philip K Dick
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick
- Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- The Employees by Olga Ravn
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
- Where Highways Cross by J. S. Fletcher
- Greene Ferne Farm* by Richard Jefferies
- The Dewy Morn* by Richard Jeffries
- The Lifted Veil* by George Eliot
- Amaryllis at the Fair* by Richard Jeffries
- After London* by Richard Jeffries
Read In 2022
Titles marked with an asterisk (*) at the end are links to legal free downloads in various formats. All other links are Wikipedia links. This list does not include the many many many children's books I read to my child each year.
- The Land of Little Rain* by Mary Austin
- The House on the Borderland* by William Hope Hodgson
- If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe by Jason Pargin (David Wong)
- Fairy Tale by Stephen King
- The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay
- A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
- Dimension of Miracles by Robert Sheckley
- Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
- To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
- Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
- Network Effect by Martha Wells
- Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
- Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
- Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
- All Systems Red by Martha Wells
- Stringers by Chris Panatier
- Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer
- The Moon Pool* by Abraham Merrit
Read In 2021
This year's list was written when I compiled the 2022 list. I didnt record dates of when I read everything, so this may not be 100% accurate and may include 2020 or 2019 books, and the order of reading is likely off. Future year's editions will be more accurate.
Titles marked with an asterisk (*) at the end are links to legal free downloads in various formats. All other links are Wikipedia links. This list does not include the many many many children's books I read to my child each year.
- Wizard and Glass by Stephen King
- The Waste Lands by Stephen King
- The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King
- The Gunslinger by Stephen King
- Congo by Michael Chrichton
- The Institute by Stephen King
- Death's End by Cixin Liu
- The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
- The Three-body Problem by Cixin Liu
- Blood Music by Greg Bear
- The Strange Bird by Jeff VanderMeer
- Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
- Climbing the Mango Trees by Madhur Jaffrey
- The Revenant by Michael Punke
- The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth
- 2061: Odyssey Three by Arthur C. Clarke
- 2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke
- Wildlife by Richard Ford
- Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut