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Books read

2023

  • Kill Orbit, Joel Dane
  • Burn Cycle, Joel Dane
  • Cry Pilot, Joel Dane
  • Lincoln Highway, Amor Towles
  • Chip Wars

2022

  • You Sexy Thing, Cat Rambo
  • Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi
  • A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers.
  • How to Stop Time, Matt Haig. Fun quick read.
  • Millionaire Teacher, Andrew Hallum. Super useful. More accessible than the Vicki Robbins book.
  • Redshirts, John Scalzi. Funny.
  • Klara & the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro. Seen this on a bunch of lists, gave it a go. It was meh ok.
  • The Scavenger Door, S. Palmer
  • Driving the Deep, S. Palmer
  • The Finder, S. Palmer

2021

  • How to Decide, Annie Duke
  • How to Raise Kids Kids Who Aren't Assholes, Melinda Wenner Moyer
  • Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir. No surprise, this was awesome. Audiobook really well done.
  • Ready Player Two, Ernest Cline. Pleasantly surprised by this one. Really good extrapolation on where VR and virtual worlds might take humans.
  • The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts, Shane Parrish. Need to give it a second read.
  • Your Money or Your Life, Vicki Robins
  • Make Time, Excellent book. Typically not impressed with books like this, but lots of really practical advice.
  • Minority Leader, Stacey Abrams. Great book. Lady will probably be president someday.
  • Storyworthy, Matthew Dicks - Really recommend his "homework for life" idea, if you find your pandemic days are starting to blur together.

Books read in 2020

  • Basketball, A Love Story: Lots of good stories about the history of the NBA. A long read, but way cool.
  • The Day the World Came to Town: The book the musical 'Come from Away' is based on. It's alright.
  • Deep Work: Useful ideas, but a difficult read to slog through, and not especially new ideas if you read the internet often.
  • Evil Under the Sun, Agatha Christie: Never read Agatha Christie before, and chose something early. Wanted a bit of escapism from covid19.
  • A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles: Really enjoyed this.
  • Hope Never Dies, Andrew Shaeffer
  • Send More Tourists, the Last Ones Were Delicious, Tracey Waddleton - Written by a girl from home. Pretty neat little book; fun to read familiar scenes.

Books read in 2019

Trying to read a little more regularly this year. Below is a list of books read. And some not read.

  • Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow - Decent, but I believe it's a translation and thus somewhat rough prose. Some great insights, so worth pushing through, but not as good as I expected.
  • The Feather Thief: A strange account of an obsessive fly fisher who burgles a museum for rare feathers. Trippy story. Great little read.
  • The Blue Zones Solution: Eating Like the World's Healthiest People - One of the most informative books I've ever read. Underscores a lot of the conclusions I've come towards regarding my own diet (mostly plant based, not a whole lot of meat).
  • The Sleep Solution: Why Your Sleep is Broken and How to Fix it - I sleep ok, but you can always sleep better, right? Some great information here, definitely worth a read.
  • All Systems Red - The first installment of The MurderBot Diaries. As good as the title sounds. Quick, super fun.
  • You Think It, I'll Say It - Solid short story collection. Hope to read more female authors.
  • A Memory Called Empire - An interesting science fiction book, with a clever premise on the inheritance of memory.
  • Hot Sauce! Techniques for Making Signature Hot Sauces -- Not so much recipes for making hot sauces, as I'd hoped, but recipes using hot sauces. Disappointing, but some good stuff in there.
  • The Hate You Give - Saw somewhere after reading that this is supposedly teen fiction. Still pretty great though.
  • Artificial Condition - The second in the Murderbot Diaries, also way cool.
  • Company of One
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