Reading

In progress

• Orbital by Samantha Harvey
• Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (translated by Ursula K. Le Guin)
• God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning by Meghan O'Gieblyn
• How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen by Joanna Faber and Julie King
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter

  2026

• The Odyssey by Emily Wilson
• City of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin

  2025

• The Citadel of the Autarch by Gene Wolfe
• Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter by Tom Bissell
• The Sword of the Lictor by Gene Wolfe
• The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe
• The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
• Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
• The Fall of Hyperion By Dan Simmons
• Hyperion By Dan Simmons
• Planet of Exile by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Rocannon's World by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Artemis by Andy Weir
• The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
• Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson
• The Mercy of Gods by James S. A. Corey
• The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
• Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
• The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
• The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
• The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Watership Down by Richard Adams
• West with the Night by Beryl Markham
• When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut

2024

• The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
• James by Percival Everett
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• The Nobel Lecture by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro
• Martyr! by Keveh Akbar
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty
• Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
• Dare to Lead by Brené Brown
• North Woods by Daniel Mason
• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
• The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Mountain and the Sea by Ray Nayler
• Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin
• How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell

  2023

• Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
• The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
• Roadside Picnic by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
• A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
• The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
• A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

2022

• The Birth Partner by Penny Simkin with Katie Rohs
• Neuromancer by William Gibson
• Game Programming Design Patterns by Robery Nystrom
• Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
• You're Paid What You're Worth by Jake Rosenfeld
• This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (plagiarizing Mary Hallock Foote)
• The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
• The Backyard Adventurer by Beau Miles
• The Vegetable Gardener's Bible by Edward C. Smith
• Less by Andrew Sean Greer
• A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by Various Authors

Before

• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
• Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
• Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
• Twelve Tomorrows by Various Authors
• The Redemption of Time by Baoshu
• Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• The Making of Prince of Persia by Jordan Mechner
• The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• The Good Life Lab by Wendy Jehanara Tremayne
• The Art of Fermentation by Sandor Katz
• Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
• The Overstory by Richard Powers
• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
• A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Principles by Roy Dalio (trash book, do not read)
• Working by Robert Caro
• My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
• Foundation by Isaac Asimov
• Circe by Madeline Miller
• Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
• The Knight & The Wizard by Gene Wolfe
• Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
• Ball Lightning by Liu Cixin
• High Rise by J. G. Ballard (not recommended)
• Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve (not recommended)
• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
• Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
• Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward