Reading List
This list was inspired by Pamela Fox's reading list. I've ordered these books by the date I finished them. Before 2013, I reviewed most of the books I read on Goodreads.
2022
Date |
Title |
Author |
Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
8/16/2022 |
A Lady for a Duke |
Alexis Hall |
⭑⭑ |
8/15/2022 |
Here and Now and Then |
Mike Chen |
⭑⭑⭑ |
8/13/2022 |
Harrow the Ninth |
Tamsyn Muir |
⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
8/10/2022 |
The Silence of the Lambs |
Thomas Harris |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
8/5/2022 |
Stranger with My Face |
Lois Duncan |
⭑⭑⭑ |
8/5/2022 |
Locked In Time |
Lois Duncan |
⭑⭑ |
7/29/2022 |
The City We Became |
N.K. Jemisin |
⭑⭑ |
7/26/2022 |
Breasts and Eggs |
Mieko Kawakami |
⭑⭑⭑ |
7/23/2022 |
Gideon the Ninth |
Tamsyn Muir |
⭑⭑⭑ |
6/20/2022 |
Ninefox Gambit |
Yoon Ha Lee |
⭑ |
6/12/2022 |
Coma |
Robin Cook |
⭑⭑ |
6/11/2022 |
This is How You Lose the Time War |
Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone |
⭑ |
5/28/2022 |
Weapons of Math Destruction |
Cathy O'Neil |
⭑⭑ |
5/27/2022 |
Killing Commendatore |
Haruki Murakami |
⭑⭑ |
2/23/2022 |
Amp It Up |
Frank Slootman |
⭑⭑ |
2021
Date |
Title |
Author |
Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
12/4/2021 |
Passing |
Nella Larsen |
⭑⭑⭑ |
5/29/2021 |
Solaris |
Stanislaw Lem |
⭑⭑⭑ |
1/31/2021 |
Stay Gold |
Tobly McSmith |
⭑⭑ |
1/23/2021 |
Jurassic Park |
Michael Crichton |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
1/17/2021 |
Never Split the Difference |
Chris Voss |
⭑⭑⭑ |
2020
Date |
Title |
Author |
Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
12/18/2020 |
Dangerous Visions |
Edited by Harlan Ellison |
⭑⭑⭑ |
12/17/2020 |
Ghost Work |
Mary L. Gray & Siddharth Suri |
⭑⭑⭑ |
12/6/2020 |
How to Improve Your Speculative Fiction Openings |
Robert Qualkinbush |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
12/5/2020 |
Nonviolent Communication |
Marshall B. Rosenberg |
⭑⭑⭑ |
11/8/2020 |
Born a Crime |
Trevor Noah |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
8/14/2020 |
Minor Feelings |
Cathy Park Hong |
⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
8/6/2020 |
The Rape of Nanking |
Iris Chang |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
7/12/2020 |
The Color of Law |
Richard Rothstein |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
7/7/2020 |
The Bluest Eye |
Toni Morrison |
⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
6/30/2020 |
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race |
Reni Eddo-Lodge |
⭑⭑⭑ |
6/27/2020 |
How to Be an Antiracist |
Ibram X. Kendi |
⭑⭑⭑ |
6/14/2020 |
Between the World and Me |
Ta-Nehisi Coates |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
5/25/2020 |
Caramelo |
Sandra Cisneros |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
3/28/2020 |
Gourmet Hound |
Leehama |
⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
1/6/2020 |
The Story of the Lost Child |
Elena Ferrante |
⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
1/5/2020 |
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay |
Elena Ferrante |
⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
1/4/2020 |
The Story of a New Name |
Elena Ferrante |
⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
2019
Date |
Title |
Author |
Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
12/22/2019 |
My Brilliant Friend |
Elena Ferrante |
⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
12/15/2019 |
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore |
Robin Sloan |
⭑ |
12/12/2019 |
The Collector |
John Fowles |
⭑⭑ |
12/2/2019 |
After School Nightmare |
Setona Mizushiro |
⭑⭑⭑ |
11/16/2019 |
The Adoration of Jenna Fox |
Mary E. Pearson |
⭑⭑⭑ |
11/1/2019 |
The Forbidden Game: The Chase |
L.J. Smith |
⭑⭑ |
11/1/2019 |
The Forbidden Game: The Hunter |
L.J. Smith |
⭑⭑⭑ |
10/11/2019 |
Becoming |
Michelle Obama |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
9/28/2019 |
Down Girl |
Kate Manne |
⭑⭑⭑ |
9/16/2019 |
The Black Swan |
Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
7/13/2019 |
The Debt to Pleasure |
John Lanchester |
⭑⭑⭑ |
6/9/2019 |
Mindset |
Carol Dweck |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
5/12/2019 |
White Fragility |
Robin DiAngelo |
⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
4/20/2019 |
A Face Like Glass |
Frances Hardinge |
⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
4/6/2019 |
Road Map for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Activism, and Advocacy for All |
Elisa Camahort Page, Carolyn Green, Jamia Wilson |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
3/24/2019 |
The Art of Thinking Clearly |
Rolf Dobelli |
⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
3/17/2019 |
Thinking in Systems |
Donella Meadows |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
3/12/2019 |
Play Bigger |
Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, Christopher Lochhead, Kevin Maney |
⭑ |
3/10/2019 |
The Power |
Naomi Alderman |
⭑⭑⭑ |
3/4/2019 |
Forever Amber |
Kathleen Windsor |
⭑⭑⭑ |
2/23/2019 |
Mary Rose |
Geoffrey Girard |
⭑⭑ |
2/21/2019 |
The Line of Beauty |
Alan Hollinghurst |
⭑⭑ |
2/19/2019 |
The Devil in the White City |
Erik Larson |
⭑⭑ |
2/10/2019 |
Sing, Unburied, Sing |
Jesmyn Ward |
⭑⭑ |
1/8/2019 |
Designing Your Life |
Bill Burnett, Dave Evans |
⭑⭑⭑ |
2018
Date |
Title |
Author |
Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
12/30/2018 |
The Box Man |
Kobo Abe |
⭑⭑ |
12/30/2018 |
Written on the Body |
Jeanette Winterson |
⭑⭑⭑ |
12/30/2018 |
Between Time and Timbuktu or Prometheus-5 |
David Odell, Kurt Vonnegut |
⭑ |
12/24/2018 |
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: an Introduction |
J.D. Salinger |
⭑⭑⭑ |
12/21/2018 |
Imagine It Forward |
Beth Comstock |
⭑ |
12/19/2018 |
Vicious |
V.E. Schwab |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
11/26/2018 |
Intuition |
Allegra Goodman |
⭑⭑ |
11/23/2018 |
Arcadia |
Tom Stoppard |
⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
10/27/2018 |
The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells |
Andrew Sean Greer |
⭑⭑⭑ |
10/23/2018 |
Dark Matter |
Blake Crouch |
⭑⭑⭑ |
8/25/2018 |
Made for Goodness |
Desmond Tutu, Mpho Tutu |
⭑⭑⭑ |
7/7/2018 |
The Eight |
Katherine Neville |
⭑⭑⭑ |
6/25/2018 |
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk |
David Sedaris |
⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
6/24/2018 |
Jonathan Livingston Seagull |
Richard Bach |
⭑⭑ |
6/23/2018 |
Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh |
Helena Norberg-Hodge |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
6/21/2018 |
Deep and Simple |
Bo Lozoff |
⭑⭑⭑ |
6/17/2018 |
Hamlet's Blackberry |
William Powers |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
6/6/2018 |
Triumph of the City |
Edward Glaeser |
⭑⭑ |
5/28/2018 |
The Stone Sky |
N.K. Jemisin |
⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
5/25/2018 |
JavaScript: The Good Parts |
Douglas Crockford |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
5/21/2018 |
The Obelisk Gate |
N.K. Jemisin |
⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
5/9/2018 |
Damage |
John Lescroat |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
5/7/2018 |
Babel-17 |
Samuel R. Delany |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
5/1/2018 |
A Separate Peace (reread) |
John Knowles |
⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
4/30/2018 |
A Far Better Rest (reread) |
Susanne Alleyn |
⭑⭑⭑ |
4/29/2018 |
A Tale of Two Cities (reread) |
Charles Dickens |
⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
4/23/2018 |
Death Wears a Beauty Mask |
Mary Higgins Clark |
⭑⭑ |
4/18/2018 |
Reset |
Ellen Pao |
⭑ |
4/17/2018 |
Half of a Yellow Sun |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
⭑⭑⭑ |
4/12/2018 |
The Fifth Season |
N.K. Jemisin |
⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
4/11/2018 |
10% Happier |
Dan Harris |
⭑⭑⭑ |
4/9/2018 |
The Martian |
Andy Weir |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
4/6/2018 |
The Red: First Light |
Linda Nagata |
⭑⭑⭑ |
4/2/2018 |
How to Break Up with Your Phone |
Catherine Price |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
4/1/2018 |
Daemon |
Daniel Suarez |
⭑ |
3/25/2018 |
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck |
Mark Manson |
⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
3/22/2018 |
Ready Player One |
Ernest Cline |
⭑ |
3/21/2018 |
Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics |
Dan Harris |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
3/8/2018 |
Why I am Not a Feminist |
Jessa Crispin |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
3/5/2018 |
Parable of the Sower |
Octavia E. Butler |
⭑⭑⭑ |
3/3/2018 |
Welcome to My World |
Johnny Weir |
⭑⭑⭑ |
2/23/2018 |
Nexus |
Ramez Naam |
⭑⭑⭑ |
2/18/2018 |
Bored and Brilliant |
Manoush Zomorodi |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
2/17/2018 |
The Shangri-La Diet |
Seth Roberts |
⭑⭑⭑ |
2/11/2018 |
The Chalice and the Blade |
Riane Eisler |
⭑⭑⭑ |
2/4/2018 |
Eating in the Light of the Moon |
Anita Johnston |
⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
2/1/2018 |
Delusions of Gender |
Cordelia Fine |
⭑⭑ |
2/26/2018 |
The Age of Cryptocurrency |
Paul Vigna, Michael J. Casey |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
1/11/2018 |
Silk Parachute |
John McPhee |
⭑⭑⭑ |
1/6/2018 |
Gomorrah |
Roberto Saviano |
⭑⭑⭑ |
2015
Date |
Title |
Author |
Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
12/29/2015 |
The Arbinger Institute |
⭑⭑⭑ |
|
10/17/2015 |
Eleanor Catton |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
|
7/5/2015 |
Jaron Lanier |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
|
6/19/2015 |
Roald Dahl |
⭑⭑ |
|
6/17/2015 |
Octavia E. Butler |
⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
|
1/29/2015 |
Charles Yu |
⭑⭑⭑ |
|
1/28/2015 |
Isaac Asimov |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
|
1/26/2015 |
Mikhail Bulgakov, tr. Mirra Ginsburg |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
|
1/21/2015 |
Mikhail Bulgakov, tr. Edward Kemp |
⭑⭑⭑ |
|
1/20/2015 |
G.K. Chesterton |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
|
1/18/2015 |
Hooked |
Nir Eyal |
⭑ |
1/12/2015 |
Thomas Pynchon |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
|
1/4/2015 |
Donald A. Norman |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
2014
Date |
Title |
Author |
Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
12/31/2014 |
Dashiell Hammett |
⭑ |
|
10/18/2014 |
Sara Gruen |
⭑⭑ |
|
10/12/2014 |
Jonathan Lethem |
⭑⭑⭑ |
|
6/9/2014 |
H.P. Lovecraft |
⭑ |
|
5/31/2014 |
Italo Calvino |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
|
3/21/2014 |
Jared Diamond |
⭑⭑⭑ |
|
2/27/2014 |
Ronald E. Riggio |
⭑ |
|
2/17/2014 |
Henry David Thoreau |
⭑⭑⭑ |
|
2/7/2014 |
Danell Jones |
⭑⭑⭑ |
|
1/21/2014 |
Scott Murray |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
|
1/15/2014 |
Anne Tyler |
⭑⭑⭑ |
|
1/13/2014 |
Julia Alvarez |
⭑⭑ |
|
1/11/2014 DNF |
Alice McDermott |
⭑ |
|
1/10/2014 |
Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria (The Empty Box and the Zeroth Maria), Volume 2 |
Eiji Mikage |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
1/9/2014 |
Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria (The Empty Box and the Zeroth Maria), Volume 1 |
Eiji Mikage |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
1/5/2014 |
Naoki Urasawa |
⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
|
1/3/2014 |
Penguin Kakumei |
Sakura Tsukuba |
⭑⭑⭑ |
1/2/2014 |
Alistair Croll, Benjamin Yoshkovitz |
⭑ |
|
1/1/2014 |
don Miguel Ruiz |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
2013
Date |
Title |
Author |
Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
12/31/2013 |
T.S. Eliot |
⭑⭑ |
|
12/29/2013 |
Hana-Kimi |
Hisaya Nakajo |
⭑⭑ |
12/27/2013 |
Flora Rheta Schreiber |
⭑⭑⭑ |
|
12/20/2013 |
Lamp No Ousama |
Takako Shigematsu |
⭑⭑ |
12/17/2013 |
Tenshi Ja Nai!! |
Takako Shigematsu |
⭑⭑⭑ |
9/24/2013 |
Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seiden |
⭑⭑ |
|
9/23/2013 |
Laura Klein |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
|
9/16/2013 |
Ash Maurya |
⭑⭑ |
|
7/29/2013 |
Daphne du Maurier |
⭑⭑⭑ |
|
7/11/2013 |
William Gibson |
⭑ |
|
7/5/2013 |
Deepak Chopra, Rudolph E. Tanzi |
⭑⭑ |
|
6/10/2013 |
Yukio Mishima |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
|
5/23/2013 |
Yukio Mishima |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
|
5/22/2013 |
Eric Ries |
⭑ |
|
5/11/2013 |
Neal Stephenson |
⭑⭑ |
|
3/23/2013 |
Jedediah Berry |
⭑⭑⭑ |
|
3/17/2013 |
Tad Wise |
⭑⭑⭑ |
|
3/12/2013 |
Douglas Adams |
⭑⭑⭑ |
|
1/12/2013 |
Jeanette Winterson |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |
|
1/11/2013 |
David Sedaris |
⭑⭑⭑ |
|
1/5/2013 |
|
⭑⭑⭑ |
|
1/5/2013 |
Oliver Sacks |
⭑⭑⭑⭑ |