I love to read, and I love to track things. Here, I track some of the (non-technical) books I have read.
As I don't have much time these days, most of my recent reading is done via audiobook in the car. Dates are when the book was finished, and are often approximate, or unlisted, and the list is almost surely incomplete.
2024
Nov 2024: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
25 Oct 2024: Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline
7 Oct 2024: Everybody Fights by Kim and Penn Holderness
21 Sep 2024: The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
20 Sep 2024: The Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
31 Jul 2024: Unfinished Tales by J.R.R. Tolkein
17 May 2024: The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson
5 May 2024: Mistborn III by Brandon Sanderson
19 Apr 2024: Mistborn II by Brandon Sanderson
5 Apr 2024: Mistborn I by Brandon Sanderson
25 Mar 2024: The Golden Ball and Other Stories by Agatha Christie
23 Feb 2024: The Claw of the Consiliator by Gene Wolfe
20 Feb 2024: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. Dick
17 Jan 2024: Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
2023
28 Dec 2023: The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
14 Dec 2023: On Language by Noam Chomsky
10 Dec 2023: The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse
3 Dec 2023: The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkeini (second reading)
2023: The Destroyer of Worlds by Matt Ruff
2023: The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte
2023: Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
2023: Behave by Robert M. Sapolsky
2023: Sumerian Mythology by Simon Lopez
Apr 2023: How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
13 Apr 2023: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
31 Mar 2023: Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth by Bart D. Ehrman
30 Mar 2023: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (second reading)
8 Mar 2023: I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
7 Mar 2023: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien (second reading)
27 Feb 2023: Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
24 Feb 2023: The Godfather by Mario Puzo
8 Feb 2023: Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
19 Jan 2023: The King In Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
13 Jan 2023: The Importantance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
2022
19 Dec 2022: Stardust by Neil Gaiman
9 Dec 2022: Contact by Carl Sagan
4 Nov 2022: The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
23 Oct 2022: Solving the Procrastination Puzzle by Timothy Pychyl
12 Oct 2022: The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
12 Sep 2022: Understanding Complexity by Scott E. Page
26 Aug 2022: The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
15 Aug 2022: Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui
31 Jul 2022: Lifespan by David Sinclair
29 Jul 2022: Jerusalem's Lot by Stephen King
24 Jun 2022: The Faerie Queene (Book II) by Edmund Spenser
21 Jun 2022: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (second reading)
5 Jan 2022: The Magus by John Fowles
2021
4 Nov 2021: Redwall by Brian Jacques (second reading)
16 Sep 2021: Joyland by Stephen King
7 Sep 2021: TGC: The Secret Life of Words by Anne Curzan
27 Aug 2021: Collected Works by H.P. Lovercraft
29 Jul 2021: Pax Romana by Adrian Goldsworthy
28 Jun 2021: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
7 Jun 2021: The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Jester
28 May 2021: Reflections on the Self by Judda Krishnamurti
4 May 2021: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
10 Apr 2021: Complete Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm
2020
21 Dec 2020: Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
28 Nov 2020: Egyptian Mythology by Matt Clayton
23 Nov 2020: The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
20 Nov 2020: Math Through the Ages by William P. Berlinghoff and Fernando Q. Gouvêa
6 Nov 2020: Trapped in Space by Jack Williamson (second reading)
31 Oct 2020: Children of Húrin by J.R.R. Tolkien
21 Oct 2020: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry(second reading)
22 Sep 2020: King Rat by James Clavell
20 Sep 2020: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien(second reading)
13 Aug 2020: A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
31 Jul 2020: TGC: The Art of Storytelling by Hannah B. Harvey
27 Jun 2020: White Fang by Jack London
7 Jun 2020: The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King
13 May 2020: Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
20 Mar 2020: The Mosquito by Timothy Winegard
9 Mar 2020: The Young King by Oscar Wilde
9 Mar 2020: The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde
9 Mar 2020: The Remarkable Rocket by Oscar Wilde
8 Mar 2020: The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde
8 Mar 2020: The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
7 Mar 2020: Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick
6 Mar 2020: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
21 Feb 2020: The Lives of Bees by Thomas Seeley
17 Feb 2020: The Dark Tower VII by Stephen King
9 Feb 2020: The Dark Tower VI by Stephen King
1 Feb 2020: Tresaure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
26 Jan 2020: The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss
23 Jan 2020: Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
13 Jan 2020: Something Deeply Hidden by Sean Carroll
5 Jan 2020: Becoming by Michelle Obama
2 Jan 2020: The Dark Tower V by Stephen King
2019
24 Nov 2019: On Old Age by Cicero
22 Nov 2019: The Dark Tower IV by Stephen King
31 Oct 2019: The Dark Tower III by Stephen King
16 Oct 2019: The Dark Tower II by Stephen King
8 Oct 2019: The Mind-Gut Connection by Emeran Mayer
23 Sep 2019: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (tr. Edith Grossman)
9 Aug 2019: The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
17 Jul 2019: Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
24 Jun 2019: The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
14 Jun 2019: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
23 May 2019: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
15 May 2019: The Plague by Albert Camus
2 May 2019: Arguably by Christopher Hitchens
27 Mar 2019: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
15 Mar 2019: TGC: An Introduction to Archaeology by Susan Foster McCarter
2 Mar 2019: The Faerie Queene (Book I) by Edmund Spenser
28 Feb 2019: The Way of Zen by Alan Watts
23 Feb 2019: How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
1 Feb 2019: TTC-Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon by Suzanne Desan
2 Jan 2019: The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
2018
28 Dec 2018: The Meaning of It All by Richard Feynman
28 Dec 2018: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
6 Dec 2018: Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
1 Dec 2018: The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
15 Nov 2018: Grit by Angela Duckworth
8 Nov 2018: Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
19 Oct 2018: Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut
10 Oct 2018: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
17 Sep 2018: Artemis by Andy Weir
6 Sep 2018: Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
22 Aug 2018: Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
15 Aug 2018: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
9 Aug 2018: A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
7 Aug 2018: Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
27 Jul 2018: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
19 Jul 2018: Everybody Lies: Big Data by Seth Stephens-Davidowitzv
12 Jul 2018: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
1 Jul 2018: Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
28 Jun 2018: The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
27 Jun 2018: Corolaine by Neil Gaiman
22 Jun 2018: The Martian by Andy Weir
8 Jun 2018: Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
28 May 2018: Hope I Shall Arrive Soon by Phillip K. Dick
28 May 2018: The Variable Man by Phillip K. Dick
27 May 2018: The Days of Perky Pat by Phillip K. Dick
27 May 2018: Faith of Our Fathers by Phillip K. Dick
27 May 2018: The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford by Phillip K. Dick
26 May 2018: The Electic Ant by Phillip K. Dick
25 May 2018: Five Red Poppies by Douglass Sherley
25 May 2018: First Inaugural Address by Thomas Jefferson
25 May 2018: Children of the Zodiac by Rudyard Kipling
24 May 2018: TTC: Games People Play by Scott P. Stevens
11 May 2018: TTC: Money and Banking by Michael K. Salemi
5 May 2018: Upon the Dull Earth by Phillip K. Dick
3 May 2018: Colony by Phillip K. Dick
30 Apr 2018: TTC: Cognitive Behavior Therapy by Jason M. Satterfield
23 Apr 2018: Zadig by Voltaire
21 Apr 2018: Beyond the Bayou by Kate Chopin
21 Apr 2018: The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
3 Apr 2018: The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
14 Mar 2018: Lying by Sam Harris (second reading)
13 Mar 2018: The Meaning of Human Existence by Edward O. Wilson
5 Mar 2018: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
21 Feb 2018: God Bless You Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
15 Feb 2018: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
29 Jan 2018: The Tibetan Book of the Dead by Padmasambhava
26 Jan 2018: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
21 Jan 2018: TTC-The Story of Human Language by John McWhorter
3 Jan 2018: Death's End by Cixin Liu
2017
8 Dec 2017: The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
21 Nov 2017: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
26 Sep 2017: Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
29 Aug 2017: The Beauties by Anton Chekhov
27 Aug 2017: Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
11 Aug 2017: The Terrible Old Man by H. P. Lovecraft
11 Aug 2017: Novelty Act by Phillip K. Dick
6 Aug 2017: Hitch 22 by Christopher Hitchens
21 Jul 2017: Classic English Rhetoric by Ward Farnsworth
16 Jul 2017: The Kiss by Kate Chopin
16 Jul 2017: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
10 Jul 2017: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
8 Jun 2017: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
1 Jun 2017: B is for Beer by Tom Robbins
30 May 2017: Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
10 May 2017: My Ántonia by Willa Cather.
29 Apr 2017: Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud
29 Apr 2017: 95 Theses by Martin Luther
29 Apr 2017: Mere Christiantiy by C.S. Lewis
26 Apr 2017: Common Sense by Thomas Paine
24 Apr 2017: Carrie by Stephen King
21 Apr 2017: The Door In the Wall by H.G. Wells
20 Apr 2017: Shogun by James Clavell
22 Feb 2017: The Last of the Masters by Phillip K. Dick
20 Feb 2017: The Penal Colony by Franz Kafka
18 Feb 2017: Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
6 Feb 2017: Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
26 Jan 2017: The Handmaid's Tale by Margeret Atwood
11 Jan 2017: Sherlock Holmes: His Last Bow by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2016
28 Dec 2016: A Heartbreaking Work of Straggering Genius by David Eggers
24 Dec 2016: The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger by Stephen King
30 Nov 2016: Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
18 Nov 2016: Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
12 Nov 2016: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
29 Oct 2016: Autofac by Philip K. Dick
29 Oct 2016: How Music Works by David Byrne
9 Oct 2016: The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
17 Sep 2016: A Separate Reality by Carlos Castaneda
15 Sep 2016: TTC-Great Ideas of Philosophy by Daniel N. Robinson
13 Aug 2016: American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Summer 2016: I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Summer 2016: Sherlock Holmes: The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Summer 2016: Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
Summer 2016: Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Summer 2016: A Fight With a Cannon by Herman Melville
Summer 2016: The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe
Summer 2016: The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
Summer 2016: The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
Summer 2016: The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Summer 2016: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
15 May 2016: Night by Elie Wiesel
10 May 2016: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
20 Apr 2016: Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut.
20 Mar 2016: The Illiad by Homer.
10 Mar 2016: David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcoln Galdwell.
10 Jan 2016: O Pioneers! by Willa Cather.
2015
Summer 2015: 1984 by George Orwell
Summer 2015: Brewmaster's Art: The History and Science of Beermaking by Charles W. Bamforth
Fall 2015: Lisey's Story by Stephen King
Fall 2015: The Republic by Plato
Fall 2015: Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Fall 2015: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Spring 2015: Paradise Lost by John Milton
Spring 2015: The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
Winter 2015: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Winter 2015: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
2015: Sherlock Holmes: The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2015: Sherlock Holmes: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2015: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2015: Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2015: Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2015: Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2015: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
2015: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
2015: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: by Michael Chabon
2015: Tis by Frank McCourt
2015: A Moveable Feast by Earnest Hemmingway
2015: The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
2015: The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda
2014
Fall 2014: The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Winter 2014: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Winter 2014: The Shining by Stephen King
2014: Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
2014: Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Summer 2014:On Writing by Stephen King
2013
2013:Dune by Frank Herbert
2013:Candide by Voltaire
2013:Gilgamesh by unknown
2013:Beowulf by unknown
2013:The Silmarilion by J.R.R. Tolkien
Sometime before
The Odyssey by Homer
It by Stephen King
Cujo by Stephen King
The Dead Zone by Stephen King
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
MacBeth by William Shakespeare
The Sonnets (most of them) by William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Othello by William Shakespeare
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
The Bible: Old Testament
The Bible: New Testament
The Dhammapada
The Quran
The Bhagavad Gita
The End of Faith by Sam Harris
The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris
Lying by Sam Harris
Free Will by Sam Harris
Waking Up by Sam Harris
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
River Out of Eden by Richard Dawkins
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins
Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
The Portable Atheist by Christopher Hitchens
God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
Demian by Hermann Hesse
Peter Camenzind by Hermann Hesse
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
The Catch in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Lord of the Files by William Golding
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
When the Tripods Came by John Christopher
Trapped in Space by Jack Williamson
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl
The Twits by Roald Dahl
The BFG by Roald Dahl
The Witches by Roald Dahl
Matilda by Roald Dahl
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More by Roald Dahl
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Crime and Punishmen by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft
The Oedipus Cycle by Sophocles
Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Howl by Allan Ginsberg
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Hiroshima by John Hersey
Deathwatch by Robb White
The Big Wave by Pearl S. Buck
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell
The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
The Mists Of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
First Light by Richard Preston
The Red Queen by Matt Ridley
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
The Return of the Indian by Lynne Reid Banks
The Secret of the Indian by Lynne Reid Banks
The Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop
The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
The Elements of Style by Strunk and White
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Stand and Deliver by Dale Carnegie
In Search of Memory by Eric Kandel
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
What Do You Care What Other People Think? by Richard Feynman
Tips on Physics by Richard Feynman
A Mathematician's Apology by G. H. Hardy
Not Taco Bell Material by Adam Corolla
A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus by John Gray
Sonnets by William Shakespeare
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
The Surrealist Manifesto by André Breton
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Gilgamesh by unknown
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
The Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
What I Believe by Bertrand Russell
Why I Am Not A Christian by Bertrand Russell
A Free Man's Worship by Bertrand Russell
Religion and Science by Bertrand Russell
The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan
Dealing With Dragons by Patricia Wrede
Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana by Michael Azerrad
Dubliners by James Joyce
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Desert Notes, River Notes by Barry Lopez
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
How to Play Winning Chess by Fred Reinfeld
Gamesmanship by Stephen Potter
Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers by Paul Hoffman
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
The Second Book of Go by Richard Bozulich
SeinLanguage by Jerry Seinfeld
Number the Stars by Lowis Lowry
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Charolette's Web by E. B. White
Hatchet by Gary Paulson
Freckle Juice by Judy Blume
Toad Food and Measle Soup by Christine McDonnell
Bunnicula (series) by James Howe
Sideways Stories from Wayside School (series) by Louis Sachar
The Boxcar Children (series) by Gertrude Chandler Warner
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
