Reading

I love reading, though I learned this about myself surprisingly late. It wasn't until my thirties that I discovered the true joy that comes from getting lost in a good book. That said, I've been keeping track of what I read for years, publishing the list for the first time back in 2019. Today I keep it going because a public list encourages me to read more.

2026

1. The Demon-Haunted World, by Carl Sagan
2. Diaspora, by Greg Egan
3. Take Me To Your Leader, by Neil deGrasse Tyson
4. Table for Two, by Amor Towles
5. Mavericks (Expeditionary Force), by Craig Alanson
6. Black Ops (Expeditionary Force), by Craig Alanson
7. Trouble on Paradise (Expeditionary Force), by Craig Alanson
8. Paradise (Expeditionary Force), by Craig Alanson
9. Zero Hour, by Craig Alanson
10. Rules of Civility, by Amor Towles
11. SpecOps (Expeditionary Force), by Craig Alanson
12. Columbus Day, by Craig Alanson
13. Exhalation, by Ted Chiang
14. CATCH-22, by Joseph Heller
15. The Bookshop, by Penelope Fitzgerald
16. Everyone In This Bank Is A Thief, by Benjamin Stevenson
17. The User Illusion, by Tor Norretranders
18. Mortal Questions, by Thomas Nagel
19. Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, by David Eagleman
20. The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, by Ursula K. Le Guin
21. The Masters, by Ursula K. Le Guin
22. Children of Strife, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
23. A Short history of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson
24. Not Till We Are Lost, by Dennis E. Taylor
25. Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
26. Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt
27. Heaven's River, by Dennis E. Taylor
28. All These Worlds, by Dennis E. Taylor
29. For We Are Many, by Dennis E. Taylor
30. We Are Legion (We Are Bob), by Dennis E. Taylor
31. When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows, by Steven Pinker
32. If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, by Eliezer Yudkowsky
33. World War Z, by Max Brooks
34. The End of the Affair, by Graham Greene

2025

1. The Testaments, by Margaret Atwood
2. The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
3. Everyone This Christmas Has A Secret, by Benjamin Stevenson
4. A Promised Land, by Barack Obama
5. Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro
6. The Coming Wave, by Mustafa Suleyman
7. Source Code, by Bill Gates
8. The Caves of Steel, by Isaac Asimov
9. Elephants Can Remember, by Agatha Christie
10. Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson
11. The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
12. Necronomicon, by H. P. Lovecraft
13. The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
14. A Hanging, by George Orwell
15. You Like It Darker, by Stephen King
16. Shooting an Elephant, by George Orwell
17. The Fry Chronicles, by Stephen Fry
18. The Redemption of Time, by Baoshu
19. Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect, by Benjamin Stevenson
20. Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone, by Benjamin Stevenson
21. A Spy Alone, by Charles Beaumont
22. The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank
23. The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
24. Odyssey, by Stephen Fry
25. Dracula, by Bram Stoker
26. The Room Next Door, by Wendy Walker
27. Becoming, by Michelle Obama
28. The Testaments, by Margaret Atwood
29. The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
30. Gentleman Lookbook, by Bernhard Roetzel
31. When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows..., by Steven Pinker
32. The World of Jeeves, by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
33. Troy, by Stephen Fry
34. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
35. The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
36. The Singularity Is Nearer, by Ray Kurzweil
37. Journey to the Center of the Earth, by Jules Verne
38. Children of Memory, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
39. Children of Ruin, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
40. Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky

2024

1. A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
2. Coming Up for Air, by George Orwell
3. The Lion and the Unicorn, by George Orwell
4. The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin
5. Thank you, Jeeves, by P G Wodehouse
6. Just Good Manners, by William Hanson
7. Help I S*xted My Boss, by William Hanson, Jordan North
8. The Works of Rudyard Kipling, by Rudyard Kipling
9. H. G. Wells, by H. G. Wells
10. Nineteen Eighty-four, by George Orwell
11. Animal Farm, by George Orwell
12. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
13. Starry Messenger, by Neil deGrasse Tyson
14. The Four Horsemen, by Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett & Christopher Hitchens
15. Shards of Earth, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
16. A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare
17. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, by Douglas Adams
18. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, by Douglas Adams
19. Death's End, by Cixin Liu
20. The Dark Forest, by Cixin Liu
21. The Three-Body Problem, by Cixin Liu
22. Beyond Good and Evil, by Friedrich Nietzsche
23. Cunk on Everything, by Philomena Cunk
24. The ABC Murders, by Agatha Christie
25. Life, the Universe, and Everything, by Douglas Adams
26. Don't Hang Up, by Benjamin Stevenson
27. For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
28. From Tailors with Love (hardback), by Peter Brooker, Matt Spaiser
29. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin, by Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, Tom Waltz
30. Style and the Man, by Alan Flusser, Alan J. Flusser
31. Mythos, by Stephen Fry
32. Heroes, by Stephen Fry
33. Debrett's New Guide to Etiquette & Modern Manners, by John Morgan
34. The Ernest Hemingway Collection, by Ernest Hemingway
35. Animal Farm & 1984, by George Orwell
36. Ghost Stories, by Stephen Fry
37. Happy, by Derren Brown
38. Hallowe'en Party, by Agatha Christie
39. Mythos, by Stephen Fry
40. The Art of Deception, by Kevin Mitnick

2023

1. Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
2. Macbeth, by William Shakespeare
3. Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare
4. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne
5. The Unreal and the Real - Selected Stories, by Ursula K. Le Guin
6. Fry's Ties, by Stephen Fry
7. Quantum Supremacy, by Michio Kaku
8. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
9. The Hippopotamus, by Stephen Fry
10. Making History, by Stephen Fry
11. P.G. Wodehouse Volume 1: The Jeeves Collection, by P.G. Wodehouse

2022

1. The House at Pooh Corner, by A. A. Milne
2. Letters from a Stoic, by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
3. The Odyssey, by Homer
4. Plato : Five Dialogues, by Plato
5. Dressing the Man, by Alan Flusser
6. Gentleman, by Bernhard Roetzel
7. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe, by Sean Carroll

2021

1. Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904, by Anton Chekhov
2. The Lincoln Highway, by Amor Towles
3. On Sparta, by Plutarch
4. The Tao of Pooh, by Benjamin Hoff
5. The Modern Gentleman's Handbook, by Charles Tyrwhitt
6. All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr
7. How the World Really Works, by Vaclav Smil
8. The Art of Invisibility, by Kevin Mitnick
9. Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection, by Arthur Conan Doyle
10. Cosmic Queries, by Neil deGrasse Tyson
11. Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir
12. The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Burglar, by Maurice Leblanc
13. Purgatory, by Dante Alighieri
14. The Inferno of Dante, by Dante Alighieri
15. The Martian, by Andy Weir
16. Black Hole Survival Guide, by Janna Levin

2020

1. A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles
2. Red Dragon, by Thomas Harris
3. Silence of the Lambs, by Thomas Harris
4. Hannibal, by Thomas Harris
5. Hannibal Rising, by Thomas Harris
6. Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius
7. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. A Guide to the Good Life, by William B Irvine
9. A New Stoicism, by Lawrence C. Becker
10. Brief Answers to the Big Questions, by Stephen Hawking
11. Discourses, Fragments, Handbook, by Epictetus
12. Conspiracy, by Michael Shermer
13. Permanent Record, by Edward Snowden
14. Ready Player Two, by Ernest Cline
15. Space at the Speed of Light: The History of 14 Billion Years for People Short on Time, by Dr. Becky Smethurst
16. Letters from an Astrophysicist, by Neil deGrasse Tyson
17. Every Tool's a Hammer, by Adam Savage
18. The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect, by Judea Pearl & Dana Mackenzie
19. Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World, by Matt Parker

2019

1. War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
2. The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904, by Anton Chekhov
3. The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, by William Blake
4. On the Future - Prospects for Humanity, by Martin Rees
5. An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, by Chris Hadfield
6. Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie
7. Elon Musk, by Ashlee Vance
8. Artemis, by Andy Weir
9. Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
10. The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake, by William Blake
11. Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes
12. Accessory to War, by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Avis Lang
13. Undeniable, by Bill Nye
14. Jukebox Joyride, by Jacob Stein & Jason Rabinowitz
15. Alien III, by William Gibson
16. Dune, by Frank Herbert
17. Dune Messiah, by Frank Herbert
18. Children of Dune, by Frank Herbert
19. Armada, by Ernest Cline
20. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
21. The Future of the Mind, by Michio Kaku

2018

1. Everything All at Once, by Bill Nye
2. Bluffer's Guide To Etiquette, by William Hanson
3. Gumption, by Nick Offerman
4. I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov
5. Ghost in the Wires, by Kevin Mitnick
6. Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline
7. The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins
8. Endurance, by Scott Kelly
9. Foundation, by Isaac Asimov
10. Einstein's Cosmos, by Michio Kaku
11. Paddle Your Own Canoe, by Nick Offerman
12. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, by Neil deGrasse Tyson
13. Death by Black Hole, by Neil deGrasse Tyson

2017

1. Influx, by Daniel Suarez
2. The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien
3. Spaceman, by Mike Massimino
4. Good Clean Fun, by Nick Offerman
5. Daemon, by Daniel Suarez
6. The Greatest Story Ever Told — So Far, by Lawrence M. Krauss
7. A Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking
8. The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins

2016

1. My Outdoor Life, by Ray Mears

2015

1. Pale Blue Dot, by Carl Sagan
2. The Art of War, by Sun Tzu
3. Play Money, by Julian Dibbell

2014

1. The Fellowship of the Ring, by J. R. R. Tolkien
2. The Two Towers, by J. R. R. Tolkien
3. The Return of the King, by J. R. R. Tolkien
4. Come Together, by Josie Lloyd & Emlyn Rees

2013

1. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J. K. Rowling
2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J. K. Rowling
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J. K. Rowling

2012

1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, by J. K. Rowling
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by J. K. Rowling
3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by J. K. Rowling
4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, by J. K. Rowling