Currently Reading
- Meditations for Mortals – Oliver Burkeman – (ebook)
- The Morning Fox: Stories of Love, Loss, and Hope – John P. Weiss
- Where Good Ideas Come From – Steven Johnson (re-read)
- The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century – Steven Pinker (audio)
Daily Reading
- A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Selected from the World’s Sacred Texts – Leo Tolstoy
Read
2024
- How to Read a Book – Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (DNF)
- Service Model – Adrian Tchaikovsky
- I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom: A Novel – Jason Pargin
- Swamp Sniper – Jana DeLeon
- Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman (audio)
- A Wizard of Earthsea – Ursula K. Le Guin
- Foundation and Earth – Isaac Asimov
- Queen of Angels – Greg Bear [DNF]
- Lethal Bayou Beauty – Jana DeLeon
- Louisiana Longshot – Jana DeLeon
- The Artificially Intelligent Creative: How Anyone Can Create Anything with AI – Srinivas Rao
- The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck – Sarah Knight
- The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin
- Blood Bound – Patricia Briggs
- Small Things Like These – Claire Keegan
- Moon Called – Patricia Briggs
- The Fall of Hyperion – Dan Simmons
- Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection – Charles Duhigg
- The Problems Of Philosophy – Bertrand Russell [DNF]
- Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You – Ali Abdaal [DNF]
- Magic Triumphs – Ilona Andrews
- Hyperion – Dan Simmons
- Grow the F*ck Up: How to Be an Adult and Get Treated Like One – Sarah Knight
- The Odyssey – Homer (Audio)
- Magic Shifts – Ilona Andrews
- Magic Breaks – Ilona Andrews
- The Mystery of the Blue Train – Agatha Christie
- Burn Book: A Tech Love Story – Kara Swisher
- Magic Rises – Ilona Andrews
- What Life Should Be About: Elegant Essays on the Things That Matter – John P. Weiss
- Ringworld Engineers – Larry Niven
- Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results – Shane Parrish
- Ringworld – Larry Niven
- Magic Slays (Kate Daniels Book 5) – Ilona Andrews
- Inferno – Dante (Audio)
- The Light Fantastic: A Novel of Discworld – Terry Pratchett (DNF)
- The Colour of Magic: Discworld, Book 1 – Terry Pratchett
- Blitz: A Novel (The Rook Files) – Daniel O’Malley
2023
- The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living – Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman
- Stiletto – Daniel O’Malley
- Where Good Ideas Come From – Steven Johnson (audio)
- Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes – Morgan Housel
- The Rook: A Novel – Daniel O’Malley
- It Can’t Happen Here – Sinclair Lewis
- What’s Our Problem? – A Self-help Book for Societies – Tim Urban
- Ancillary Mercy – Ann Leckie
- Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It – Ethan Kross (audio)
- Ancillary Sword – Ann Leckie
- Ancillary Justice – Ann Leckie
- A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor – Hank Green
- An Absolutely Remarkable Thing: A Novel – Hank Green
- The War of Art – Steven Pressfield (Audio, re-read)
- Tough Titties – Laura Belgray
- Seven Stories Stories That Should Be Movies – David Gerrold
- Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street – John Brooks
- Excellent Advice for Living – Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier – Kevin Kelly
- Do the Work – Steven Pressfield (re-read)
- Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation – Benjamin P. Hardy
- Heaven’s River (Bobiverse Book 4) – Dennis Taylor
- All These Worlds (Bobiverse Book 3) – Dennis Taylor
- From Strength to Strength – Arthus C. Brooks (Audio)
- For We Are Many (Bobiverse Book 2) – Dennis Taylor
- Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
- We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse Book 1) – Dennis Taylor
- It’s Easier Than You Think – Sylvia Boorstein
- Colossus and the Crab – D.F.Jones
- The Fall of Colossus – D.F.Jones
- Colossus – D.F.Jones
- Letters from a Stoic – Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Gave up.)
- When Things Fall Apart – Pema Chodron (Gave up. Again.)
- A.I. Apocalypse – William Hertling
- Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears – William Hertling
- The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 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
- Magic Bleeds – Ilona Andrews
- The Anthropocene Reviewed – John Green
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (audio) – David J. Epstein
- Magic Strikes – Ilona Andrews
- Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants to Be – Steven Pressfield
- Tiny Thunder: Irresistible Messaging for an Overwhelmed World – Sue Rice
- The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution – Walter Isaacson (audio)
2022
- Turtles All the Way Down – John Green
- The Peripheral – William Gibson (Paused)
- Discipline is Destiny – Ryan Holiday
- Dune: House Atreides – Brian Herbert (Paused)
- The Expectation Effect – David Robson
- Mentats of Dune – Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness – Eric Jorgenson
- Deep Work – Cal Newport (Audio)
- Sisterhood of Dune – Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
- Dune: The Battle of Corrin – Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
- On the Shortness of Life – Seneca
- Hi, I’m an Atheist!: What That Means and How to Talk About It with Others – David G. McAfee
- The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy, and Human Nature – Robert Greene (gave up, again)
- Parable of the Sower – Octavia Butler
- No Time to Spare – Ursula K. Le Guin
- Dune: The Machine Crusade – Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
- Building a Second Brain – Tiago Forte
- Courage is Calling – Ryan Holiday
- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones – James Clear
- The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse – Charlie Mackesy
- Dune: The Butlerian Jihad – Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
- Revolt in 2100 – Robert Heinlein
- Magic Burns (Kate Daniels, Book 2) – Ilona Andrews
- Magic Bites (Kate Daniels, Book 1) – Ilona Andrews
- Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals – Oliver Burkeman
- Steal Like an Artist – Austin Kleon (re-read)
- Everything I Know About Life I Learned from Powerpoint – Russell Davies
- The Empress of Salt and Fortune – Nghi Vo
- Your Head is a Houseboat: A Chaotic Guide to Mental Clarity – Campbell Walker
- Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes (DNF)
- Termination Shock: A Novel – Neal Stephenson
2021
- The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation – Thich Nhat Hanh
- This is How They Tell Me the World Ends – Nicole Perlroth
- Hell on $5 a Day – Greg Bulmash
- Second Foundation – Isaac Asimov
- Foundation and Empire – Isaac Asimov
- Foundation – Isaac Asimov
- The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t
- 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
- Paper & Blood: Book Two of the Ink & Sigil series
- Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day
- Numbers Don’t Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World
- The Moth Presents All These Wonders: True Stories About Facing the Unknown
- How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
- Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries Book 6)
- 90 Days of Daily Creative Motivation
- On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down
- How to Think like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education
- Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel
- Embracing the Unknown: Life Lessons from the Tibetan Book of the Dead
- Exit Strategy: The Murderbot Diaries
- Rogue Protocol: The Murderbot Diaries
- The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
- Artificial Condition: The Murderbot Diaries
- All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
- The Unstoppable Creative: Creative People Are Meant To Change The World
- The Elements of Eloquence: Secrets of the Perfect Turn of Phrase
- Show Your Work
- Messengers: Who We Listen To, Who We Don\’t, and Why
- The Victorian Internet
- Accidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content
- Damn Fine Story: Mastering the Tools of a Powerful Narrative
- “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman
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