Books I've read

(for books I've read more than once, dates refer to the most recent reading, not the first)

2026

Fiction

• "Hearth Stories, Issue 5", Multiple Authors
• "Dark Age", Pierce Brown
• "Erewhon", Samuel Butler

Non-Fiction

• "This is for Everyone", Tim Berners-Lee

2025

Fiction

• "Hearth Stories, Issue 4", Multiple Authors
• "Mirrorshades", Multiple Authors
• "Red Rising", Pierce Brown
• "Golden Son", Pierce Brown
• "Morning Star", Pierce Brown
• "Iron Gold", Pierce Brown
• "The Mountain in the Sea", Ray Nayler
• "Night Flight", Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• "Holy Fire", Bruce Sterling
• "Tomrrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow", Gabrielle Zevin

Non-Fiction

• "Death of a Pirate", Adrian Johns
• "One No, Many Yeses: A Journey to the Heart of the Global Resistance Movement", Paul Kingsnorth
• "Real England: The Battle Against the Bland", Paul Kingsnorth
• "Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity", Lawrence Lessig
• "The Limits to Growth", Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers and William W. Behrens III
• "My First Summer in the Sierra", John Muir
• "The Net Delusion", Evgeny Morozov
• "Amusing Ourselves to Death", Neil Postman
• "Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology", Neil Postman
• "Wilding", Isabella Tree

2024

Fiction

• "Hearth Stories, Issue 1", Multiple Authors
• "Hearth Stories, Issue 2", Multiple Authors
• "Hearth Stories, Issue 3", Multiple Authors
• "The L-shaped Room", Lynne Reid Banks
• "The Jewels of Aptor", Samuel R. Delany
• "Walkaway", Cory Doctorow
• "Orbital", Samantha Harvey

Non-Fiction

• "Silent Spring", Rachel Carson
• "The Kon-Tiki Expedition", Thor Heyerdahl (shortened and simplified)
• "Tools for Conviviality", Ivan Illich
• "A Short History of Progress", Ronald Wright

2023

Fiction

• "The Monkey Wrench Gang", Edward Abbey (finished in Jan 2024 but read majority Dec 2023)
• "Distress", Greg Egan
• "Austral", Paul McAuley
• "The Elephant Vanishes", Haruki Murakami
• "Distraction", Bruce Sterling

Non-Fiction

• "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness: Notes from a Secret Journal (Vox Clamantis in Deserto)", Edward Abbey
• "The Starship and the Canoe", Kenneth Brower
• "The Lonely Sea and the Sky", Francis Chichester
• "The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah", Masanobu Fukuoka
• "Think Like a Mountain", Aldo Leopold
• "We Belong to Gaia", James Lovelock
• "West with the Night", Beryl Markham
• "What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry", John Markoff
• "Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet", George Monbiot
• "The Uninhabitable Earth", David Wallace-Wells

2022

Fiction

• "The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy", Douglas Adams
• "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe", Douglas Adams
• "Burning Chrome", William Gibson
• "Neuromancer", William Gibson
• "The Worlds of Frank Herbert", Frank Herbert
• "Cancer Ward", Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• "Termination Shock", Neal Stephenson

Non-Fiction

• "Desert Solitaire", Edward Abbey
• "Whole Earth Discipline", Stewart Brand
• "Kodoku: Sailing alone across the Pacific", Kenichi Horie
• "Cape Horn: The Logical Route", Bernard Moitessier
• "The Greatest Aventure", Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones
• "My Adventurous Life", Dick Smith

2021

Fiction

• "Professor Spindlebrock's Little Blue Book of Traveling Spells", Joseph Lyman
• "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World", Haruki Murakami
• "Killing Comendatore", Haruki Murakami
• "The Big U", Neal Stephenson
• "Zodiac", Neal Stephenson
• "A Good Old-Fashioned Future", Bruce Sterling
• "Crystal Express", Bruce Sterling
• "Globalhead", Bruce Sterling
• "Heavy Weather", Bruce Sterling

Non-Fiction

• "A World of My Own: The first ever non-stop solo round the world voyage", Robin Knox-Johnston

2020

Fiction

• "Agency", William Gibson
• "Spook Country", William Gibson
• "Perihelion Summer", Greg Egan
• "Zeitgeist", Bruce Sterling
• "Dhalgren", Samuel R. Delany

Non-Fiction

• "A Sand Country Almanac", Aldo Leopold
• "The Long Way", Bernard Moitessier

2019

Fiction

• "Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology", Assorted Authors
• "Record of a Spaceborn Few", Becky Chambers
• "The Man in the High Castle", Philip K Dick
• "A Farewell to Arms": Ernest Hemmingway
• "Fall, or Dodge in Hell": Neal Stephenson
• "The Feed", Nick Clark Windo

2018

Fiction

• "Oryx and Crake", Margaret Atwood
• "The Circle", Dave Eggers
• "Chapterhouse Dune", Frank Herbert
• "The Postmortal", Drew Magary
• "Logan's Run", William F. Nolan & George Clayton Johnson
• "Fight Club", Chuck Palahniuk
• "The Artificial Kid", Bruce Sterling

Non-Fiction

• "Last Flight of the Pigeon", Simon Clode
• "Just Ride", Grant Petersen

2017

Fiction

• "The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet", Becky Chambers
• "A Closed and Common Orbit", Becky Chambers
• "Permutation City", Greg Egan
• "The Great Passage", Shion Miura
• "The First Circle", Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• "We", Yevgeny Zamyatin

Non-Fiction

• "Less is Enough: On Architecture and Asceticism", Pier Vittorio Aureli
• "Down and Out in Paris and London", George Orwell
• "The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things", Bruce Sterling
• "Civil Disobedience", Henry David Thoreau

Some time between around 2010 and 2016...

Fiction

• "The Doubt Factory", Paolo Bacigalupi
• "The Windup Girl", Paolo Bacigalupi
• "2001: A Space Odyssey", Arthur C. Clarke
• "Nova", Samuel R. Delany
• "For the Win", Cory Doctorow
• "Diaspora", Greg Egan
• "The Great Gatsby", F. Scott Fitzgerald
• "The Peripheral", William Gibson
• "Dune", Frank Herbert
• "Dune Messiah", Frank Herbert
• "Children of Dune", Frank Herbert
• "God Emperor of Dune", Frank Herbert
• "The Old Man and the Sea", Ernest Hemmingway
• "Altered Carbon", Richard K. Morgan
• "Black Man", Richard K. Morgan
• "The Future is Japanese", Multiple Authors
• "IQ84", Haruki Murakami
• "Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore", Robin Sloan
• "Diamond Age", Neal Stephenson
• "REAMDE", Neal Stephenson
• "Seveneves", Neal Stephenson
• "The Caryatids", Bruce Sterling
• "Islands in the Net", Bruce Sterling

Non-Fiction

• "Commodore: A Company on the Edge", Brian Bagnall
• "Making Things", Bruce Sterling
• "Walden", Henry David Thoreau