Reading List

Here's my running reading list, newest to oldest (partially complete, will add more over time) Re-reads are in italics - Recommendations are in bold

Current: Empire of AI - Karen Hao

Past: The Dispossesed - Ursula K Le Guin
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
These Truths - Jill Lepore
Blindsight - Peter Watts Careless People - Sarah Wynn-Williams
Blood Music - Greg Bear
Big Dumb Eyes - Nate Bargatze
AI Engineering - Chip Huyen
The Utopia of Rules - David Graeber
The Fort Bragg Cartel - Seth Harp
America, América - Greg Grandin
I Am A Strange Loop - Douglas Hofstadter
City of Blades - Robert Jackson Bennett
City of Stairs - Robert Jackson Bennett
Deep Utopia - Nick Bostrom
Lights On - Annika Harris
Locklands - Robert Jackson Bennett
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurthy
Vigilance - Robert Jackson Bennett
Swann's Way - Marcel Proust
The Island at the Center of the World - Russell Shorto
Tinker Tailor Solider Spy - John Le Carre
Shorefall - Robert Jackson Bennett
The Plantagenets - Dan Jones
Plato's Republic
Things Become Other Things - Craig Mod
Foundryside - Robert Jackson Bennett
The River of Conciousness - Oliver Sacks
I Regrest Almost Everything - Keith McNally
The Message - Ta-Nahesi Coates
Concious - Annika Harris
Rogue Protocol - Martha Wells
Meet Me In The Bathroom - Lizzy Goodman
Good Game, No Rematch - Mike Drucker
Source Code - Bill Gates
The Holy Bible - Dale McConachie
Artificial Conditions - Martha Wells
All Systems Red - Martha Wells
A Drop of Corruption - Robert Jackson Bennett
A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine
The Tainted Cup - Robert Jackson Bennett
Death of the Author - Nnedi Okorafor
The Holy Qur'an
The Lincoln Highway - Amor Towles
The Dead - James Joyce
Every Man for Himself and God Against All - Werner Herzog
The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
Ulysses - James Joyce
Polostan - Neal Stephenson
Table For Two - Amor Towles
The Singularity Is Near - Ray Kurzweil
Altered Carbon - Richard K Morgan
The Art of Failure - Jesper Juul
Why Smart People Hurt - Eric Maisel
For Small Creatures Such As We - Sasha Sagan
How To Talk To Anyone - Leil Lowndes
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Tripped - Norman Ohler
The Water Dancer - Ta-Nahesi Coates
The City and Its Uncertain Walls - Haruki Murakami
Polostan - Neil Stephenson
Absolution - Jeff VanderMeer
A Theory of Fun for Game Design - Raph Koster
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Mercy of Gods - James S. A. Corey
Bad Actors - Mick Herron
Joe Country - Mick Herron
Caesar and Christ - Will Durant
Slough House - Mick Herron
Modern Times - Paul Johnson
Byzantium - Judith Herrin
The Gamer's Brain - Celia Hodent
SPQR - Mary Beard
Monkey King - Wu Cheng'en
Handmade Pixels - Jesper Juul
The Captive Mind - Czeslaw Milosz
The Renaissance - Will Durant
The Age of Faith - Will Durant
Our Oriental Heritage - Will Durant
John Adams - David McCullough
Becoming a Video Game Designer - Daniel Noah Halpern
Sid Meier's Memoir! - Sid Meier
North Woods - Daniel Mason
Fatherland - Burkhard Bilger
The Order of Time - Carlo Rovelli
The Bright Sword - Lev Grossman
Band of Brothers - Stephen E. Ambrose
Dominion - Tom Holland
Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
Midnight in Chernobyl - Adam Higginbotham
Real Tigers - Mick Herron
Dead Lions - Mick Herron
The Book of Elsewhere - Keanu Reeves & China Mieville
Slow Horses - Mick Herron
Einstein - Walter Isaacson
Stuff You Should Know - Josh Clark & Chuck Bryant
True Beleiver - Jack Carr
Thinking In Systems - Donella H. Meadows
Fire & Blood - George R. R. Martin
Intermission - Josh Jones
The Terminal List - Jack Carr
Roadside Picnic - Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
Cinema Speculation - Quentin Tarantino
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - Quentin Tarantino
Disrupting the Game - Reggie Fils-Aime
Memory's Legion - James S. A. Corey
Tommorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrialle Zevin
The Nightengale - Kristin Hannah
Kiss Me Like a Stranger - Gene Wilder
One Second After - William R. Forstchen
Outlive - Peter Attia, MD
Slow Productivity - Cal Newport
The MANIAC - Benjamin Labatut
Devolution - Max Brooks
Leviathan Falls - James S. A. Corey
Tiamat's Wrath - James S. A. Corey
Persepolis Rising - James S. A. Corey
The Blade Itself - Joe Ambercrombie
Babylon's Ashes - James S. A. Corey
Measure What Matters - John Doerr
Surviving to Drive - Guenther Steiner
Nemesis Games - James S. A. Corey
Cibola Burn - James S. A. Corey
This is Happiness - Niall Williams
Poor Things - Alisdair Gray
101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think - Brianna West
Abaddon's Gate - James S. A. Corey
Executive Authority - Dalton Fury
Golden Son - Pierce Brown
One Killer Force - Dalton Fury
Full Assault Mode - Dalton Fury
The Maid - Nita Prose
Tier One Wild - Dalton Fury
Leviathan Wakes - James S. A. Corey
Say Nothing - Patrick Radden Keefe
Caliban's War - James S. A. Corey
Fairy Tale - Stephen King
Mythos - Stephen Fry
Red Rising - Pierce Brown
Black Site - Dalton Fury
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clark
Control Freak - Cliff Blizinski
A Deadly Education - Naomi Novik
The Wager - David Grann
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
The Passenger - Cormac McCarthy
Leave the World Behind - Rumaan Alam
Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
-- Jan 2024
Intermission, Book 1 - Josh Jones
Dune - Frank Herbert
Homo Deus - Yuval Noah Harari
The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson
1493 - Charles C. Mann
I'd Like to Play Alone, Please - Tom Segura
Getting Gamers - Jamie Madigan
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William L. Shirer
When We Cease to Understand the World - Benjamin Labatut
Shook One - Charlamagne Tha God
This Will Be Funny Later - Jenny Pentland
Area X - Jeff VanderMeer
Press Reset - Jason Schreier
Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
Termination Shock - Neal Stephenson
My Body - Emily Ratajkowski
Powers and Thrones - Dan Jones
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows - Ai Weiwei
Jerusalem - Alan Moore
The Sandman: Act II - Neil Gaiman Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Org Design for Design Orgs - Peter Merholz
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - V. E. Schwab
The Pale King - David Foster Wallace
AMORALMAN - Derek DelGaudio
The Thousand Names - Django Wexler
Exhalation - Ted Chiang
Cubed - Erno Rubik
The Sandman - Neil Gaiman
How to Speak Machine - John Maeda
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
Neuromancer - William Gibson
White Fragility - Robin DiAngelo
Chop Wood Carry Water - Joshua Medcalf
Spook Country - William Gibson
Agency - William Gibson
Crowfall - Ed McDonald
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products - Nir Eyal
Recursion - Blake Crouch
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell - Neal Stephenson
Delta-v - Daniel Suarez
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
War of the Spark: Ravnica - Greg Weisman
Magic Is Dead - Ian Frisch
Ravencry - Ed McDonald
Rogues - George R. R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Gillian Flynn, Neil Gaiman
Summerland - Hannu Rajaniemi
Mortal Engines - Philip Reeve
Killing Commendatore - Haruki Murakami
Creative Selection - Ken Kocienda
The Chapo Guide to Revolution - Chapo Trap House
Blackwing - Ed McDonald
The Fractal Prince - Hannu Rajaniemi
The Causal Angel - Hannu Rajaniemi
The Quantum Thief - Hannu Rajaniemi
The Peripheral - William Gibson
The Recovering - Leslie Jamison
The Disaster Artist - Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell
Artemis - Andy Weir
Wizard - Marc J. Seifer
Refuge Recovery - Noah Levine
Gorilla and the Bird - Zack McDermott
Life 3.0 - Max Tegmark
Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris
Free Will - Sam Harris
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. - Neal Stephenson
Change Agent - Daniel Suarez
Pattern Recognition - William Gibson
The Slow Regard of Silent Things - Patrick Rothfuss
Blitzed - Norman Ohler
What Algorithms Want - Ed Finn
Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman
Burning Chrome - William Gibson
Mona Lisa Overdrive - William Gibson
Superintelligence - Nick Bostrom
How We Got to Now - Steven Johnson
The Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
Version Control - Dexter Palmer
The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
The Magicians - Lev Grossman
The Black Company - Glen Cook
The Last Days of New Paris - China Miéville
This Census-Taker - China Miéville
Necronomicon - H. P. Lovecraft
Soul of an Octopus - Sy Montgomery
London: A Short History of the Greatest City in the Western World - Robert Bucholz
The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu
Trigger Warning - Neil Gaiman
The Water Knife - Paolo Bacigalupi
Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Alan Dean Foster
A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge
Three Moments of an Explosion - China Miéville
Seveneves - Neal Stephenson
A Darker Shade of Magic - V. E. Schwab
Waking Up - Sam Harris
Zero History - William Gibson