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Currently Reading

• Mistborn: The Final Empire – Brandon Sanderson
• Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World – Anne-Laure Le Cunff
• Nudge: The Final Edition – Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
• The Science of Storytelling – Will Storr (audio)

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2025

1. Messengers: Who We Listen To, Who We Don’t, and Why – Stephen Martin, Joseph Marks (audio)
2. Swamp Sweets – Jana Deleon
3. 21 Big Ideas That Will Change Your Life: Timeless Wisdom of the Greatest Minds in History – Darius Foroux
4. The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel – Jasper Fforde
5. Don’t Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering – Joseph Nguyen (audio)
6. Fortune Funhouse – Jana Deleon
7. Perfectly Ordinary: Buddhist Teachings for Everyday Life – Alex Kakuyo
8. Gators and Garters – Jana Deleon
9. Bullets and Beads – Jana DeLeon
10. Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear – Elizabeth Gilbert (re-read)
11. Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff and It’s All Small Stuff – Richard Carlson
12. Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life (Audio)
13. Swamp Santa – Jana DeLeon
14. A Little History of Philosophy – Nigel Warburton
15. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
16. The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century – Steven Pinker (audio)
17. Cajun Fried Felony – Jana Deleon
18. It’s Easier Than You Think – Sylvia Boorstein (reRead)
19. Fortune Furlough – Jana Deleon
20. Lord of the Flies – William Golding (technically a reRead, but it’s been decades)
21. Reel of Fortune – Jana DeLeon
22. Simple Truths: Clear & Gentle Guidance on the Big Issues in Life – Kent Nerburn
23. Own Your Weird – Jason Zook
24. Meditations for Mortals – Oliver Burkeman

2024

1. Change of Fortune – Jana DeLeon
2. A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Selected from the World’s Sacred Texts – Leo Tolstoy
3. Managing Oneself – Peter Drucker
4. Hook, Line and Blinker – Jana DeLeon
5. Fortune Hunter – Jana DeLeon
6. Later Gator – Jana DeLeon
7. Hurricane Force – Jana DeLeon
8. Gator Bait – Jana DeLeon
9. Candle and Crow – Kevin Hearne
10. The Ministry of Time – Kaliane Bradley
11. The Morning Fox: Stories of Love, Loss, and Hope – John P. Weiss
12. Where Good Ideas Come From – Steven Johnson (re-read)
13. How to Read a Book – Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (DNF)
14. Service Model – Adrian Tchaikovsky
15. I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom: A Novel – Jason Pargin
16. Swamp Sniper – Jana DeLeon
17. Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman (audio)
18. A Wizard of Earthsea – Ursula K. Le Guin
19. Foundation and Earth – Isaac Asimov
20. Queen of Angels – Greg Bear [DNF]
21. Lethal Bayou Beauty – Jana DeLeon
22. Louisiana Longshot – Jana DeLeon
23. The Artificially Intelligent Creative: How Anyone Can Create Anything with AI – Srinivas Rao
24. The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck – Sarah Knight
25. The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin
26. Blood Bound – Patricia Briggs
27. Small Things Like These – Claire Keegan
28. Moon Called – Patricia Briggs
29. The Fall of Hyperion – Dan Simmons
30. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection – Charles Duhigg
31. The Problems Of Philosophy – Bertrand Russell [DNF]
32. Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You – Ali Abdaal [DNF]
33. Magic Triumphs – Ilona Andrews
34. Hyperion – Dan Simmons
35. Grow the F*ck Up: How to Be an Adult and Get Treated Like One – Sarah Knight
36. The Odyssey – Homer (Audio)
37. Magic Shifts – Ilona Andrews
38. Magic Breaks – Ilona Andrews
39. The Mystery of the Blue Train – Agatha Christie
40. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story – Kara Swisher
41. Magic Rises – Ilona Andrews
42. What Life Should Be About: Elegant Essays on the Things That Matter – John P. Weiss
43. Ringworld Engineers – Larry Niven
44. Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results – Shane Parrish
45. Ringworld – Larry Niven
46. Magic Slays (Kate Daniels Book 5) – Ilona Andrews
47. Inferno – Dante (Audio)
48. The Light Fantastic: A Novel of Discworld – Terry Pratchett (DNF)
49. The Colour of Magic: Discworld, Book 1 – Terry Pratchett
50. Blitz: A Novel (The Rook Files) – Daniel O’Malley

2023

1. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living – Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman
2. Stiletto – Daniel O’Malley
3. Where Good Ideas Come From – Steven Johnson (audio)
4. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes – Morgan Housel
5. The Rook: A Novel – Daniel O’Malley
6. It Can’t Happen Here – Sinclair Lewis
7. What’s Our Problem? – A Self-help Book for Societies – Tim Urban
8. Ancillary Mercy – Ann Leckie
9. Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It – Ethan Kross (audio)
10. Ancillary Sword – Ann Leckie
11. Ancillary Justice – Ann Leckie
12. A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor – Hank Green
13. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing: A Novel – Hank Green
14. The War of Art – Steven Pressfield (Audio, re-read)
15. Tough Titties – Laura Belgray
16. Seven Stories Stories That Should Be Movies – David Gerrold
17. Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street – John Brooks
18. Excellent Advice for Living – Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier – Kevin Kelly
19. Do the Work – Steven Pressfield (re-read)
20. Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation – Benjamin P. Hardy
21. Heaven’s River (Bobiverse Book 4) – Dennis Taylor
22. All These Worlds (Bobiverse Book 3) – Dennis Taylor
23. From Strength to Strength – Arthus C. Brooks (Audio)
24. For We Are Many (Bobiverse Book 2) – Dennis Taylor
25. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
26. We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse Book 1) – Dennis Taylor
27. It’s Easier Than You Think – Sylvia Boorstein
28. Colossus and the Crab – D.F.Jones
29. The Fall of Colossus – D.F.Jones
30. Colossus – D.F.Jones
31. Letters from a Stoic – Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Gave up.)
32. When Things Fall Apart – Pema Chodron (Gave up. Again.)
33. A.I. Apocalypse – William Hertling
34. Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears – William Hertling
35. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
36. 10% Happier Revised Edition: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works–A True Story – Dan Harris
37. Magic Bleeds – Ilona Andrews
38. The Anthropocene Reviewed – John Green
39. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (audio) – David J. Epstein
40. Magic Strikes – Ilona Andrews
41. Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants to Be – Steven Pressfield
42. Tiny Thunder: Irresistible Messaging for an Overwhelmed World – Sue Rice
43. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution – Walter Isaacson (audio)

2022

1. Turtles All the Way Down – John Green
2. The Peripheral – William Gibson (Paused)
3. Discipline is Destiny – Ryan Holiday
4. Dune: House Atreides – Brian Herbert (Paused)
5. The Expectation Effect – David Robson
6. Mentats of Dune – Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
7. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness – Eric Jorgenson
8. Deep Work – Cal Newport (Audio)
9. Sisterhood of Dune – Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
10. Dune: The Battle of Corrin – Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
11. On the Shortness of Life – Seneca
12. Hi, I’m an Atheist!: What That Means and How to Talk About It with Others – David G. McAfee
13. The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy, and Human Nature – Robert Greene (gave up, again)
14. Parable of the Sower – Octavia Butler
15. No Time to Spare – Ursula K. Le Guin
16. Dune: The Machine Crusade – Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
17. Building a Second Brain – Tiago Forte
18. Courage is Calling – Ryan Holiday
19. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones – James Clear
20. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse – Charlie Mackesy
21. Dune: The Butlerian Jihad – Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
22. Revolt in 2100 – Robert Heinlein
23. Magic Burns (Kate Daniels, Book 2) – Ilona Andrews
24. Magic Bites (Kate Daniels, Book 1) – Ilona Andrews
25. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals – Oliver Burkeman
26. Steal Like an Artist – Austin Kleon (re-read)
27. Everything I Know About Life I Learned from Powerpoint – Russell Davies
28. The Empress of Salt and Fortune – Nghi Vo
29. Your Head is a Houseboat: A Chaotic Guide to Mental Clarity – Campbell Walker
30. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes (DNF)
31. Termination Shock: A Novel – Neal Stephenson

2021

1. The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation – Thich Nhat Hanh
2. This is How They Tell Me the World Ends – Nicole Perlroth
3. Hell on $5 a Day – Greg Bulmash
4. Second Foundation – Isaac Asimov
5. Foundation and Empire – Isaac Asimov
6. Foundation – Isaac Asimov
7. The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t
8. Stupid Things I Won’t Do When I Get Old: A Highly Judgmental, Unapologetically Honest Accounting of All the Things Our Elders Are Doing Wrong
9. Paper & Blood: Book Two of the Ink & Sigil series
10. Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day
11. Numbers Don’t Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World
12. The Moth Presents All These Wonders: True Stories About Facing the Unknown
13. How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
14. Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries Book 6)
15. 90 Days of Daily Creative Motivation
16. On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down
17. How to Think like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education
18. Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel
19. Embracing the Unknown: Life Lessons from the Tibetan Book of the Dead
20. Exit Strategy: The Murderbot Diaries
21. Rogue Protocol: The Murderbot Diaries
22. The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
23. Artificial Condition: The Murderbot Diaries
24. All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries
25. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
26. The Unstoppable Creative: Creative People Are Meant To Change The World
27. The Elements of Eloquence: Secrets of the Perfect Turn of Phrase
28. Show Your Work
29. Messengers: Who We Listen To, Who We Don\’t, and Why
30. The Victorian Internet
31. Accidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content
32. Damn Fine Story: Mastering the Tools of a Powerful Narrative
33. “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman

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