Books I've Read
You can learn a great deal about a person's core personality by the ordered list of books they've read, so here's mine. I keep a section of my diary where I write these down, so it's mostly accurate.
It includes only books I've actually finished. DNF books are stored in another section of my diary.
Textbooks and references, which I don't 'finish' in the traditional sense, are not recorded here. I have not yet developed a theory of recorded media which can accurately handle the idea of a partially-referenced book at different time periods.. some kind of referene log theory will need to be built..
2014
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| WWW - Wake | Robert J. Sawyer |
| WWW - Watch | Robert J. Sawyer |
| WWW - Wonder | Robert J. Sawyer |
| Beyond Heaven's River | Greg Bear |
| The Strain Triology - The Strain | Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan |
| Orphans of the Sky | Robert A. Heinlein |
| Brain Wave | Poul Anderson |
| The Last Unicorn | Peter S. Beagle |
| Backwoods | Sara Reinke |
| The Dead Boys | Jonathan Curwen |
| Dark Aeons | Z.M. Wilmot |
| The Science of Fear | |
| Solaris | Stanislaw Lem |
| In the Shadows | Rebecca Rogers |
| The Cyberiad | Stanislaw Lem |
| Dastardly Deeds of Horror and Mayhem | D.K. Ryan |
| Cosmos | Carl Sagan |
| The Frail Ocean | Wesley Marx |
| The Earth and its Oceans | Duxbury |
| The Ages of Gaia | James Lovelock |
| The Biology of Plants | |
| The Wold of Night | |
| Methods of Logic | Quine |
| Principles of Mathematical Logic | Hilbert |
| A First Course in Formal Language Theory | |
| The Best Mysteries of Isaac Asimov | Isaac Asimov |
| Structural Introduction to Chemistry | Harris E.T. |
| Emergence | Stephen Johnson |
| The Strain Trilogy - The Fall | Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan |
| Chronicles of the Necromancer - The Summoner | Gail Z Martin |
| The Time Machine and the Invisible Man | H.G. Wells |
| Binary | Michael Crichton |
| Flashforward | Robert J. Sawyer |
| A Canticle for Leibowitz | Walter M. Miller, Jr. |
| Ringworld | Larry Niven |
| The Strain Triology - The Night Eternal | Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan |
| Pandemonium | Warren Fahy |
| Time's Eye | Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter |
| State of Fear | Michael Crichton |
| Scientific Paranormal Investigation | Benjamin Radford |
| Chronicles of the Necromancer - The Blood King | Gail Z Martin |
| Peace of Earth | Stanislaw Lem |
| Complexity: A Guided Tour | Melanie Mitchell |
| The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway |
| Cause of Death | Patricia Cornwell |
| Why does E = MC2? | Brian Cox |
| A History of Science - Volume 1 | Edward Huntington |
2015
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| The Elegant Universe | Brian Greene |
| Prey | Michael Crichton |
| The Standard Model, The Unsung Triumph of Modern Physics | Roert Oerter |
| Chaos | James Gleick |
| The 37th Mandala | Marc Laidlaw |
| Our Mathematical Universe | Max Tegmark |
| The Book of Nothing | John D. Barrow |
| Seize the Night | Dean Koontz |
| Calculating God | Robert J. Sawyer |
| Micro | Michael Crichton |
| Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson |
| Consider Phlebas | Iain M. Banks |
| The Ringworld Engineers | Larry Niven |
| The Ringworld Throne | Larry Niven |
| Jurassic Park | Michael Crichton |
| The Beginning of Infinity | |
| Paranormality | |
| The Story of Phi | |
| By the Light of the Moon | Dean Koontz |
| The Lost World | Michael Crichton |
| The Wave | Susan Casey |
| The Dark Half | Stephen King |
| Night Shift | Stephen King |
| Signal to Noise | Eric S. Nylund |
| Darwin's Children | Greg Bear |
| The Taking | Dean Koontz |
| Wizard at Large | Terry Brooks |
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley |
| The Edge of Physics | |
| Blind Descent | Nevada Barr |
| Against a Dark Background | Iain M. Banks |
| The Right Hand of Evil | John Saul |
| Fear Nothing | Dean Koontz |
| Everything's Eventual | Stephen King |
2016
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| The Linux Security HOWTO | |
| The Deep | Nick Cutter |
| The Circle | Dave Eggers |
| Axiomatic | Greg Egan |
| Lectures on Elementary Mathematics | Lagrange |
| Luminous | Greg Egan |
| Stories of Your Life and Others | Ted Chiang |
| Intensity | Dean Koontz |
| Dreamcatcher | Stephen King |
| Asimov's Magazine July 2016 | |
| Harry Potter and the Cursed Child | |
| ANALOG SF&F magazine July/August 2016 | |
| Like Death | Tim Waggoner |
| The Brain - The Last Frontier | Richard M. Restak |
| Annihilation | Jeff Vendermeer |
| Symmetry and the Monster | Mark Ronan |
| Others | James Herbert |
| Singularity Sky | Charles Stross |
2017
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| A Universe From Nothing | Lawrence Krauss |
| Time Odyssey - Sunstorm | Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter |
| Creative Thinkering | Michael Michalko |
| The Wardstone Chronicles - Revenge of the Witch | |
| Nudge | Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein |
| The Supernaturalists | Eoin Colfer |
| Ghost From the Grand Banks | Arthur C. Clarke |
| Demon Seed | Dean Koontz |
2018
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Fragment | Warren Fahy |
| Sphere | Michael Crichton |
| Influx | Daniel Suarez |
| Timescape | Gregory Benford |
| End of an Era | Robert J. Sawyer |
| The Andromeda Strain | Michael Crichton |
| Hominids | Robert J. Sawyer |
| Humans | Robert J. Sawyer |
| Rendezvous with Rama | Arthur C. Clarke |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | Arthur C. Clarke |
| Accelerando | Charles Stross |
| Foundation | Isaac Asimov |
| Numbers Rule Your World | Kaiser Fung |
2019
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Frameshift | Robert J. Sawyer |
| Mindscan | Robert J. Sawyer |
| Battle Angel Alita - Official Movie Novelization | Pat Cadigan |
2020
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| The Currents of Space | Isaac Asimov |
| Glasshouse | Charles Stross |
2021
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Coalescent | Stephen Baxter |
| Exultant | Stephen Baxter |
| A Different Universe | Robert B. Laughlin |
| The New Silk Roads | Peter Frankopan |
| The Three Body Problem | Cixin Liu |
| The Dark Forest | Cixin Liu |
2022
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Spellslinger | Sebastien de Castell |
| The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity | Douglas Murray |
| Until the End of Time | Brian Greene |
| The Hollow Ones | Guillermo Del Toro, Chuck Hogan |
| Breaking Boundaries - The Science of Our Planet | Johan Rockstrom, Owen Gaffney |
| The Animal Manifesto: Six Reasons for Expanding Our Compassion Footprint | Marc Bekoff |
| Feminism: A Very Short Introduction | |
| Analytic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction | |
| The End of Animal Farming | Jacy Reese |
| Logic - A Very Short Introduction | Graham Priest |
| Environmental Ethics - A Very Short Introduction | Robin Attfield |
2023
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress | Michael Specter |
| BlindSight | Peter Watts |
| The Gods Themselves | Isaac Asimov |
| Silent Earth - Averting the Insect Apocalypse | Dave Goulson |
| BLAME! | |
| Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals | Roanne Van Voorst |
| Going Postal | Terry Pratchett |
| The Extended Mind - The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain | Annie Murphy Paul |
| Symmetry | Marcus Du Sautoy |
| Myst - The Book of Atrus | |
| Let the Right One In | John Ajvide Lindqvist |
| Rollback | Robert J. Sawyer |
| Leech | Hiron Ennes |
| The World Inside | Robert Silverberg |
| Camouflage | Joe Haldeman |
2024
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Darkfall | Dean Koontz |
| Animal Liberation Now | Peter Singer |
| Ship of Magic | Robin Hobb |
| Love and Math | Edward Frenkel |
| The Joy of Less, A Minimalist Living Guide | Francine Jay |
| Casino Royale | Ian Fleming |
| Good Omens | Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman |
| Less is More | Jason Hickel |
| The Reality Bubble | Ziya Tong |
| The Troop | Nick Cutter |
| It's Elemental: The Hidden Chemistry in Everything | Kate Biberdorf |
| The Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson |
2025
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| The Case Against Reality | Donald Hoffman |
| Her Soul to Take | Harley Laroux |
| Limitarianism: The Cast against extreme wealth | Ingrid Robeyns |
| The Comfort Crisis | Michael Easter |
| Other Minds: The Octopus, The Sea, And the Deep Origins of Consciousness | Peter Godfrey-Smith |
| The Uploaded | Robert J. Sawyer |
| Monstrous Regiment | Terry Pratchett |
| Heaven Official's Blessing #1 | Mo Xiang Tong Xiu |
| Purr: The Science of Making Your Cat Happy | Zazie Todd |
| Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, … | Jordan Ellenberg |
| Quantum Night | Robert J. Sawyer |
| Murtagh | Christpher Paolini |
| Harvest and Sowing | Alexander Grothendieck |