Reading

I've read a book each week for over a decade and listed each here.

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

53 Books in 2025

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Fiction

  1. Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi
  2. Consuming Fire by John Scalzi
  3. Last Emperox by John Scalzi
  4. Rivers of London by Aaron Aaronovitch
  5. Babel by R. F. Kuang
  6. The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
  7. The Queen of Atticus by Megan Whalen Turner
  8. The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
  9. A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner
  10. Thick as Thieves by Megan Whalen Turner
  11. Return if the Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
  12. Moira's Pen by Megan Whalen Turner
  13. Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
  14. Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao
  15. Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erickson
  16. Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio
  17. The Lesser Devil by Christopher Ruocchio
  18. Howling Dark by Christopher Ruocchio
  19. Queen Amid Ashes by Christopher Ruocchio
  20. Demon in White by Christopher Ruocchio
  21. Kingdoms of Death by Christopher Ruocchio
  22. Ashes of Man by Christopher Ruocchio
  23. The Dregs of Empire by Christopher Ruocchio
  24. The Fangs of Oannos by Christopher Ruocchio
  25. Disquiet Gods by Christopher Ruocchio
  26. Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Fairies by Heather Fawcett
  27. Emily Wilde's Maps of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett
  28. Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
  29. Crystal Rain by Tobias S Buckell
  30. Ragamuffin by Tobias S Buckell
  31. Sly Mongoose by Tobias S Buckell
  32. The Apocalypse Ocean by Tobias S Buckell
  33. The Outside by Ada Hoffman
  34. The Fallen by Ada Hoffman
  35. The Infinite by Ada Hoffman
  36. The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu
  37. The Wall of Storms by Ken Liu
  38. The Veiled Thrown by Ken Liu
  39. Speaking Bones by Ken Liu
  40. The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams
  41. That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You by Elyse Myers
  42. Jade Shards by Fonda Lee
  43. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
  44. A Witches Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna
  45. Recipes for an Unexpected Afterlife by Deston J Mundon
  46. Brigands and Breadknives by Travis Baldree
  47. The Stone of Farewell by Tad Williams
  48. Date Night on Union Station by E M Foner
  49. Alien Night on Union Station by E M Foner
  50. High Priest on Union Station by E M Foner
  51. Spy Night on Union Station by E M Foner
  52. Carnival on Union Station by E M Foner
  53. To Green Angel Tower by Tad Williams

53 Books in 2024

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A Year of Fiction

  1. The Tyrant's Law by Daniel Abraham
  2. The Widow's House by Daniel Abraham
  3. The Spider's War by Daniel Abraham
  4. This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
  5. System Collapse by Martha Wells
  6. Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
  7. Bookshops and Bondedust by Travis Baldree
  8. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
  9. Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
  10. Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  11. Ball Lightening by Cixin Liu
  12. Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
  13. The Burning God by R F Kuang
  14. Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
  15. Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
  16. Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
  17. Storm Front by Jim Butcher
  18. Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
  19. Grave Peril by Jim Butcher
  20. Summer Knight by Jim Butcher
  21. Death Masks by Jim Butcher
  22. Blood Rites by Jim Butcher
  23. Dead Beat by Jim Butcher
  24. Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher
  25. White Night by Jim Butcher
  26. Small Favor by Jim Butcher
  27. Turn Coat by Jim Butcher
  28. Changes by Jim Butcher
  29. Side Jobs by Jim Butcher
  30. Ghost Story by Jim Butcher
  31. Cold Days by Jim Butcher
  32. Shadowed Souls by Jim Butcher and Kerrie L Hughes
  33. Skin Game by Jim Butcher
  34. Brief Cases by Jim Butcher
  35. Peace Talks by Jim Butcher
  36. Battle Ground by Jim Butcher
  37. The Law by Jim Butcher
  38. The Sword of Kaigen by M L Wang
  39. All Friends are Necessary by Tomas Moniz
  40. Trust by Hernan Diaz
  41. Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
  42. Rise of the Ranger by Philip C Quaintrell
  43. Empire of Dirt by Philip C Quaintrell
  44. Relic of the Gods by Philip C Quaintrell
  45. The Fall of Neverdark by Philip C Quaintrell
  46. Kingdom of Bones by Philip C Quaintrell
  47. Age of the King by Philip C Quaintrell
  48. The Knights of Erador by Philip C Quaintrell
  49. Last of the Dragorn by Philip C Quaintrell
  50. A Clash of Fates by Philip C Quaintrell
  51. Leviathan by Philip C Quaintrell
  52. Light Bringer by Pierce Brown
  53. Wind of Truth by Brandon Sanderson

53 Books in 2023

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Fiction

  1. Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire
  2. Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
  3. Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie
  4. Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie
  5. A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
  6. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
  7. The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
  8. The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin
  9. Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin
  10. Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
  11. The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin
  12. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
  13. The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
  14. The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison
  15. The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison
  16. The Assassin's Blade by Sarah J. Maas
  17. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
  18. Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas
  19. Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas
  20. Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas
  21. Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas
  22. Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas
  23. Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas
  24. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
  25. A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
  26. A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
  27. A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
  28. A Court of Silver Frames by Sarah J. Maas
  29. We are Legion (We are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor
  30. For We are Many by Dennis E. Taylor
  31. All These Worlds by Dennis E. Taylor
  32. Heaven's River by Dennis E. Taylor
  33. Outland by Dennis E. Taylor
  34. Earthside by Dennis E. Taylor
  35. Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton
  36. Salvation Lost by Peter F. Hamilton
  37. The Saints of Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton
  38. Mammoths at the Gates by Nghi Vo
  39. City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff Vandermeer
  40. Shriek by Jeff Vandermeer
  41. Finch by Jeff Vandermeer
  42. Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell
  43. Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell
  44. Witch King by Martha Wells
  45. The Dragon's Path by Daniel Abraham
  46. The King's Blood by Daniel Abraham

Non-Fiction

  1. Hello Grief: I'll Be Right with You by Alessandra Olanow
  2. How to Not Always Be Working by Marlee Grace
  3. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
  4. The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
  5. Happiness Is Overrated by Cuong Lu
  6. Bi by Julia Shaw

Poetry

  1. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive by Katie Farris

53 Books in 2022

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Fiction

  1. The Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan
  2. A Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan
  3. The Path of Daggers by Robert Jordan
  4. Winters Heart by Robert Jordan
  5. Crossroads of Twilight by Robert Jordan
  6. Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan
  7. The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson
  8. Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson
  9. A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson
  10. New Spring by Robert Jordan
  11. The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
  12. Neuromancer by William Gibson
  13. Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
  14. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
  15. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
  16. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  17. The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson
  18. Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson
  19. The Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson
  20. Impact Winter by Travis Beacham
  21. A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark
  22. Dawnshard by Brandon Sanderson
  23. A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
  24. A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
  25. Dawn by Octavia E. Butler
  26. Adulthood Rites by Octavia E. Butler
  27. Imago by Octavia E. Butler
  28. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
  29. A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
  30. Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
  31. The Galaxy and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
  32. The Lost Metal by Brandon Sanderson
  33. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  34. A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers
  35. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
  36. The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
  37. When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo
  38. Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo
  39. Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
  40. Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire
  41. Beneath the Sugary Sky by Seanan McGuire
  42. In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire
  43. Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire
  44. Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire
  45. Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire
  46. The Expert System's Brother by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  47. The Expert System's Champion by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Non-Fiction

  1. That All Shall Be Saved by David Bentley Hart
  2. The Way of Chuang Tzu by Thomas Merton
  3. Things My Sun Needs to Know about the World by Fredrik Backman
  4. Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach
  5. The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou

Poetry

  1. Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans

53 Books in 2021

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Fiction

  1. The Girl in Red by Christina Henry
  2. The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
  3. High Country by Nevada Barr
  4. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
  5. Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller
  6. Giovani's Room by James Baldwin
  7. Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
  8. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
  9. Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri
  10. The Brightsiders by Jen Wilde
  11. Dark Age by Pierce Brown
  12. Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
  13. The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
  14. Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
  15. All Systems Red by Martha Wells
  16. Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
  17. Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
  18. Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
  19. Network Effect by Martha Wells
  20. Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
  21. Edgedancer by Brandon Sanderson
  22. Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson
  23. The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
  24. The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan
  25. The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan
  26. The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan
  27. The Fires of Heaven by Robert Jordan
  28. The Scarlett Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
  29. Gilgamesh by translated by Stephen Mitchell
  30. Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  31. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Non-Fiction

  1. The Most Beautiful Thing I've Seen by Lisa Gungor
  2. Lost in Thought by Zena Hitz
  3. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
  4. The Gay Agenda by Ashley Molesso and Chessie Needham
  5. Why I Write by George Orwell
  6. Six Impossible Things by John Gribbin
  7. Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
  8. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Poetry

  1. Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara
  2. Honeybee by Trista Mateer
  3. Violent Bent Backwards Over Grass by Lana Del Rey
  4. Love Her Wild by Atticus
  5. Gmorning. Gnight! by Lin-Manuel Miranda
  6. Helium by Rudy Francisco
  7. Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
  8. Egghead by Bo Burnham
  9. I Would Leave Me If I Could by Halsey
  10. All Along You Were Blooming by Morgan Harper Nichols
  11. The Strength in Our Scars by Bianca Sparacino
  12. Clarity and Connection by Yung Pueblo
  13. The Poems of T. S. Eliot by T. S. Eliot
  14. 1x1 by E E Cummings

53 Books in 2020

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Fiction

  1. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
  2. The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
  3. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  4. Perelandra by C. S. Lewis
  5. 2001 by Arthur C. Clarke
  6. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
  7. Candide by Voltaire
  8. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  9. Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
  10. The Grownup by Gillian Flynn
  11. And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman
  12. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman
  13. Hell Divers 4: Wolves by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
  14. Hell Divers 3: Deliverance by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
  15. Hell Divers 2: Ghosts by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
  16. Hell Divers by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
  17. Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
  18. Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov
  19. Forward the Foundation by Isaac Asimov
  20. Foundation by Isaac Asimov
  21. Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
  22. Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov
  23. Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov
  24. Foundation and Earth by Isaac Asimov
  25. Petals to the Metal by The McElroys
  26. Micromegas by Voltaire
  27. Entanglements by Rae Armantrout
  28. How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang
  29. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
  30. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  31. The Dragon Republic by R. F. Kuang
  32. The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang

Non-Fiction

  1. Good Strategy/Bad Strategy by Richard P. Rumelt
  2. Executing Grace by Shane Claiborne
  3. The Practice by Seth Godin
  4. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
  5. Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou
  6. Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now by Maya Angelou
  7. Liminal Thinking by Dave Gray, Richard Saul Wurman
  8. Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
  9. A Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
  10. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
  11. Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
  12. I'm Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
  13. Always Day One by Alex Kantrowitz
  14. Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
  15. Seriously... I'm Kidding by Ellen DeGeneres
  16. The Sin of Certainty by Peter Enns
  17. Atomic Habits by James Clear
  18. A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis

Poetry

  1. At Blackwater Pond by Mary Oliver
  2. And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
  3. Bhagavad Gita by translated by Stephen Mitchell

53 Books in 2019

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Fiction

  1. Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones
  2. Murder on the Rockport Limited! by The McElroys
  3. My Antonia by Willa Cather
  4. The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal
  5. The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
  6. Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
  7. The Girl Who Reads on the Metro by Christine Féret-Fleury
  8. Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
  9. Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
  10. The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
  11. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
  12. Here There Be Gerblins by The McErloy's
  13. Jade War by Fonda Lee
  14. Jade City by Fonda Lee
  15. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
  16. Emma by Jane Austin
  17. The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
  18. Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson
  19. Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson

Non-Fiction

  1. South and West by Joan Didion
  2. Beyond Religion by Dalai Lama
  3. The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
  4. I Contain Multitudes by Ed Young
  5. The Coming Storm by Michael Lewis
  6. This: Becoming Free by Michael Gungor
  7. Illustration: What's the Point? by Mouni Feddag
  8. Inspired by Rachel Held Evans
  9. He Held Radical Light by Christian Wiman
  10. Searching for Sunday by Rachel Held Evans
  11. Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell
  12. Faith Unraveled by Rachel Held Evans
  13. Jesus Wants to Save Christians by Rob Bell and Don Golden
  14. How to Be Here by Rob Bell
  15. Finding God in the Waves by Mike McHargue
  16. Love Wins by Rob Bell
  17. The Zimzum of Love by Rob and Kristen Bell
  18. Sex God by Rob Bell
  19. What We Talk About When We Talk About God by Rob Bell
  20. The Universal Christ by Richard Rohr
  21. Everybody Always by Bob Goff
  22. What Is the Bible? by Rob Bell
  23. Disunity in Christ by Christina Cleveland
  24. Emotionally Healthy Spirituality by Peter Scazzero

Poetry

  1. Tao Te Ching by translated by Stephen Mitchell
  2. A Thousand Morning by Mary Oliver
  3. Hermosa by Yesika Salgado
  4. Elemental Haiku by Mary Soon Lee
  5. Second Childhood by Fanny Howe
  6. Fiends Fell by Tom Picard
  7. Love Poems for Married People by John Kenney
  8. Senryu Poems of the People by calligraphy and illustration by J. C. Brown
  9. Corazón by Yesika Salgado
  10. The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry

53 Books in 2018

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Fiction

  1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  2. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
  3. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
  4. A Little Life by Hanya Yanahihara
  5. The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
  6. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
  7. The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss
  8. The Chemist by Stephenie Meyer
  9. The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
  10. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
  11. Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey
  12. Artemis by Andy Weir
  13. Iron Gold by Pierce Brown
  14. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
  15. Binti: The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor
  16. Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor
  17. Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
  18. Death's End by Cixin Liu
  19. The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
  20. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
  21. The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
  22. Mistborn: The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson
  23. Mistborn: The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
  24. Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

Non-Fiction

  1. Evicted by Matthew Desmond
  2. Surprised by Hope by N. T. Wright
  3. Inspired by Marty Cagan
  4. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
  5. Paddle Your Own Canoe by Nick Offerman
  6. How was Venice Built? by Giovanni Distefano
  7. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
  8. Paul: a Biography by N.T. Wright
  9. Devotion (Why I Write) by Patti Smith
  10. It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried and David Hansson
  11. Planet Funny by Ken Jennings
  12. The Prodigal Prophet by Timothy Keller
  13. Letters to the Church by Francis Chan
  14. Chaos Monkey by Antonio Garcia Martinez
  15. Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda
  16. The Art of Reading by Damon Young
  17. 300 Arguments by Sarah Manguso
  18. Gratitude by Oliver Sacks
  19. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
  20. Bossypants by Tina Fey
  21. Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
  22. Competing Against Luck by Clayton M. Christensen
  23. GRIT by Angela Duckworth
  24. Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown
  25. In the Plex by Steven Levy
  26. Every Good Endeavor by Timothy Keller

Poetry

  1. The Trouble with Poetry by Billy Colins
  2. Geography III: Poems by Elizabeth Bishop
  3. Venture of the Infinite Man by Pablo Nerudo

53 Books in 2017

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Fiction

  1. The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide
  2. Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card
  3. Xenocide by Orson Scott Card
  4. Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
  5. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
  6. Chapterhouse: Dune by Frank Herbert
  7. You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann
  8. The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan
  9. The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin
  10. Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
  11. God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
  12. Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
  13. Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
  14. Dune by Frank Herbert
  15. Red Rising by Pierce Brown
  16. Golden Son by Pierce Brown
  17. Morning Star by Pierce Brown
  18. Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
  19. The Circle by Dave Eggers
  20. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J. K. Rowling
  21. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
  22. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
  23. Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
  24. Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
  25. Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer
  26. The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
  27. The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin

Non-Fiction

  1. Sprint by Jake Knapp
  2. The Snowball by Alice Schroeder
  3. The Moustache Grower's Guide by Lucien Edwards
  4. The Wizard of Menlo Park by Randall E. Stross
  5. The Grid by Gretchen Bakke, Ph.D.
  6. Shanzhai: Deconstruction in Chinese by Byung-Chul Han
  7. The Drunkard's Walk by Leanord Mlodinow
  8. Degas and His Model by Alice Michel
  9. We Gon' Be Alright by Jeff Chang
  10. Creating Magic by Lee Cockerell
  11. The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
  12. Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling
  13. Rolling Rocks Downhill by Clarke Ching
  14. The God Who Is There by Francis Schaeffer
  15. Just Kids by Patti Smith
  16. M Train by Patti Smith
  17. Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
  18. On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
  19. How Google Works by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle
  20. Originals by Adam Grant
  21. Smarter Faster Better by Charles Duhigg
  22. Making Sense of God by Timothy Keller
  23. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
  24. Cradle to Cradle by Michael Braungart, William McDonough
  25. How We Learn by Benedict Carey

Poetry

  1. Felicity: Poems by Mary Oliver

53 Books from 2016

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Fiction

  1. Oblivion by David Foster Wallace
  2. Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
  3. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
  4. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  5. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkein
  6. The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkein
  7. The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkein
  8. The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkein
  9. The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Carey
  10. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  11. Home: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
  12. Lila: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
  13. Housekeeping: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
  14. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling
  15. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
  16. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
  17. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
  18. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
  19. Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
  20. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
  21. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J. K. Rowling
  22. Tinkers by Paul Harding
  23. The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
  24. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Non-Fiction

  1. Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
  2. The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferris
  3. Algorithms to Live By by Tom Griffiths and Brian Christia
  4. Every Riven Thing by Christian Wiman
  5. Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance
  6. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  7. Create Now! by Marlo Johnson
  8. Envelope Poems by Emily Dickenson
  9. Big Magic by Elisabeth Gilbert
  10. Between You and Me by Mary Norris
  11. A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis
  12. Your Inner Critic is a Big Jerk by Danielle Krystal
  13. Kissinger by Walter Isaacson
  14. The Everything Store by Brad Stone
  15. Creativity, Inc. by Amy Wallace and Ed Catmull
  16. Alibaba by Duncan Clark
  17. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
  18. Zero to One by Peter Theil
  19. David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell
  20. The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee
  21. The Virgin Way by Richard Branson
  22. The Data Warehouse Toolkit by Ralph Kimball and Margy Ross
  23. Mastering Data Warehouse Design by C. Imhoff, N. Galemmo, J. Geiger
  24. I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
  25. The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
  26. The Problem of Pain by C. S. Lewis
  27. My Bright Abyss by Christian Wiman
  28. Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  29. Relativity by Albert Einstein