An ongoing list of books I've read dating back to 2015.
"*" = Currently reading
"-" = Completed
"x" = Cancelled/Shelved
2025
* "Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife" by Bart D. Ehrman
- "False Start: How the New Browns Were Set Up to Fail" by Terry Pluto
- "A Fan's Notes" by Frederick Exley
- "A Fan's Guide to Understanding the NFL Draft" by Bruce Irons
- "Cosmopolis" by Don DeLillo
- "The Maniac" by Benjamin Labatut
- "The Invincible" by Stanisław Lem
2024
- "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert M. Pirsig
- "Neuromancer" by William Gibson
x "Commodore: The Amiga Years" by Brian Bagnall
- "Cult of the Dead Cow" by Joseph Menn
- "Shorefall (The Founders Trilogy)" by Robert Jackson Bennett
- "Elder Race" by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- "Slow Productivity" by Cal Newport
- "Time and the Soul" by Jacob Needleman
- "Otherland" by Tad Williams (highlights)
2023
- "Doom Guy: Life in First Person" by John Romero
- "Sid Meier's Memoire!: A Life in Computer Games" by Sid Meier
- "The Dispossessed" by Ursula K. Le Guin
- "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
- "Men At War" by Luke Turner
- "Alienated America" by Timothy P. Carney
- "Low Tech Life" by Jose Briones
- "Ultra-Processed People" by Chris van Tulleken
- "Parable of the Sower" by Octavia E. Butler
- "Commodore: A Company On The Edge" by Brian Bagnall
- "Electronic Dreams" by Tom Lean
- "Open" by Rod Canion
2022
- "A Guide to the Good Life" by William B. Irvine
- "Stop Reading the News" by Rolf Dobelli
- "All Joy and No Fun" by Jennifer Senior
- "Shadowplayers: The Rise and Fall of Factory Records" by James Nice
- "Three-Body Problem" by Cixin Liu
- "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
- "Coming Up For Air" by George Orwell
- "Ubik" by Philip K. Dick
- "Valis" by Philip K. Dick
- "The Soundscape" by R. Murray Schafer
- "The Obelisk Gate" by N.K. Jemisin
- "The Fifth Season" by N.K. Jemisin
- "The Cook" by Harry Kressing
2021
- "Misquoting Jesus" by Bart D. Ehrman
- "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson
- "This is Your Mind on Plants" by Michael Pollan
- "The Experience of Insight" by Joseph Goldstein
- "Educated" by Tara Westover
- "Age of Anxiety" by Alan Watts
- "The Factory" by Hiroko Oyamada
- "The Changeling" by Kenzaburo Oe
- "No Longer Human" by Osamu Dazai
- "The Bodhisattva Way" by Santideva
- "The Zen Teachings of the Bodhidharma
- "Dreaming in Code" by Scott Rosenberg
- "Wherever You Go, There You Are" by Jon Kabat-Zinn
- "The Way of Zen" by Alan Watts
- "Blood-Soaked Buddha/Hard Earth Pascal" by Noah Cicero
- "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins
2020
I'm missing my list for 2020, what a year, am I right?
- "Ocean of Sound" by David Toop
- "Mona-Lisa Overdrive" by William Gibson
- "Count Zeron" by William Gibson
- "Neuromancer" by William Gibson
- "Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger
- "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair
2019
- "The Broom of the System" by David Foster Wallace
- "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" by Lain Reid
- "The Illusion of Immortality" by Corliss Lamont
- "The One Device" by Brian Merchant
- "Why We Make Things and Why It Matters" by Peter Korn
- "Shop Class as Soul Craft" by Matthew B. Crawford
- "Coders" by Clive Thompson
- "Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus" by Douglas Rushkoff
- "In the Beginning... was the Command Line" by Neal Stephenson
- "Program or be Programmed" by Douglas Rushkoff
- "Team Human" by Douglas Rushkoff
- "The Coddling of the American Mind" by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
- "The Doors of Perception" by Aldous Huxley
- "Free Will" by Sam Harris
- "Waking Up" by Same Harris
- "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau
- "Digital Minimalism" by Cal Newport
- "All Minus One: John Stuart Mill's Ideas on Free Speech Jonathan Haidt
- "The American Scholar" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "Semiosis" by Sue Burke
- "Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy)" by Robert Jackson Bennett
2018
- "A Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor E. Frankl
- "A Personal Matter" by Kenzaburo Oe
- "All Families are Psychotic" by Douglas Coupland
- "Broad Band" by Claire L. Evans
- "Bullshit Jobs: A Theory" by David Graeber
- "Console Wars" by Blake J. Harris
- "Horrible made up dialog but great bits on the feud and
history of Nintendo and Sega
- "Creative Selection" by Ken Kocienda
- "Deep Work" by Cal Newport
- "Enlightenment Now" by Steven Pinker
- "Free for All" by Peter Wayner
- "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture" by Douglas Coupland
- "Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are" by John Kaag
- "Masters of Doom" by Jake Kushner (This was a riot!)
- "On the Shortness of Life" by Seneca
- "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century" by Timothy Snyder
- "Royal City, Vol 1 & 2" by Jeff Lemire
- "Small Fry" by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
- "So Good They Can't Ignore You" by Cal Newport
- "Sunburst: The Ascent of Sun Microsystems" by Mark Hall
- "The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games" by Jesper Juul
- "Walden Two" by B.F. Skinner
- "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau
- "Where Good Ideas Come From" by Steven Johnson
- "Fire & Fury: Inside the Trump White House" by Michael Wolff
2017
- "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow" by Yuval Noah Harari
- "Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels" by Kenzaburō Ōe
- "The Grid: Electrical Infrastructure for a New Era" by Gretchen Bakke
- "Git Commit Murder" by Michael Warren Lucas
- "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson
- "The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body" by Frances Ashcroft
- "The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True" by Richard Dawkins
- "Winesburg, Ohio" by Sherwood Anderson
- "The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World" by Andrea Wulf
- "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- "Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda" by Noam Chomsky
- "The Princess Diarist" by Carrie Fisher
- "Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
- "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
- "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis" by J.D. Vance
- "Free As In Freedom" by Sam Williams
- "Showstopper!" by G. Pascal Zachary
- "Your Memory: How It Works and How to Improve It" by Kenneth L. Higbee
2016
- "Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire" by James Wallace
- "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
- "Fast Forward" by James Lardner
- "The Making of Karateka" by Jordan Mechner
- "Dealers of Lightning" by Michael A. Hiltzik
- "Out of print... I wish I had kept my copy.
- "What the Dormouse Said" by John Markoff
- "Popkiss: The Life and Afterlife of Sarah Records" by Michael White
- "Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation" by Bill Nye
2015
- "Heat" by Bill Buford
- "Godless" by Dan Barker
- "Deconverted: A Journey from Religion to Reason" by Seth Andrews
- "Area 51" by Annie Jacobsen
- "Great Jones Street" by Don DeLillo
- "Blood Beneath My Feet" by Joseph Scott Morgan
- "The Cuckoo's Egg" by Clifford Stoll
- "The Art of Intrusion" by Kevin D. Mitnick
