Reading List
Reading time: 17 min
I generally strive for a book per week, but this is by no means a steadfast goal. For a list of series and their status, check the bottom of this page.
Works in Progress
To keep the page somewhat manageable, I’ve collapsed the lists by years:
2024 15
- Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan - The Night Eternal
- AT Greenblatt - Waystation City
- Norman Boutin - Empress Theresa
- Grace Chan - Death by Water
- Cordwainer Smith - The Rediscovery of Man
- J G Ballard - The Drowned World
- Ursula K Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness
- Raiff Taranday - How to Pass as Human
- Theodore Sturgeon - More Than Human
- Frederik Pohl - Jem
- Sheri S Tepper - Grass
- VC Andrews - Seeds of Yesterday
- Hal Clement - Mission of Gravity
- Anna Zumbro - The Hidden Forests of Earth and Mars
- Arthur C Clarke - A Fall of Moondust
2023 51
- Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel
- Ursula K Le Guin - The Dispossessed
- Brian Aldiss - Non-Stop
- Michael Lewis - The Premonition
- Paolo Bacigalupi - Ship Breaker
- Paolo Bacigalupi - The Drowned Cities
- Clifford D Simak - Way Station
- Paolo Bacigalupi - The Alchemist and The Executioness
- Paolo Bacigalupi - Tool of War
- Paolo Bacigalupi - The Windup Girl
- Robert Silverberg - Downward to the Earth
- George R Stewart - Earth Abides
- Ward Moore - Bring the Jubilee
- Philip K Dick - Time Out of Joint
- Kurt Vonnegut - DP
- Yahtzee Croshaw - Existentially Challenged
- John Scalzi - Travel by Bullet
- Annalee Newitz - The Terraformers
- Keith Roberts - Pavane
- Walter Tevis - Mockingbird
- Philip K Dick - The Simulacra
- Gregory Marlow - The Destination Star
- Karen Osborne - An Equal Share of the Bone
- Gene Wolfe - The Fifth Head of Cerberus
- Paolo Bacigalupi - Softer
- Paolo Bacigalupi - Pocketful of Dharma
- Paolo Bacigalupi - Yellow Card Man
- Paolo Bacigalupi - The Fluted Girl
- Paolo Bacigalupi - The Pasho
- VC Andrews - Flowers in the Attic
- John Scalzi - Fuzzy Nation
- Kim Stanley Robinson - Icehenge
- Paolo Bacigalupi - Pop Squad
- John Scalzi - Agent to the Stars
- Paolo Bacigalupi - The Tamarisk Hunter
- John Scalzi - The God Engines
- Arthur C Clarke - The City and the Stars
- H G Wells - The First Men in the Moon
- VC Andrews - Petals on the Wind
- Frederik Pohl - The Annals of the Heechee
- Frederik Pohl - The Boy Who Would Live Forever
- Wendy Nikel - Driftwood in the Sea of Time
- Hugh Howey - Wool
- VC Andrews - If There Be Thorns
- Simon Kewin - #buttonsinweirdplaces
- Ian R MacLeod - Sin Eater
- Cameron Fischer - The Retcon Man
- Hugh Howey - Shift
- Hugh Howey - Dust
- D Thomas Minton - Carbon Zero
- Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan - The Fall
2022 57
- Tade Thompson - Rosewater
- Tobias Buckell - The Placement Agency
- Sarah Gailey - Drones to Ploughshares
- Terry Pratchett - Night Watch
- Terry Pratchett - The Wee Free Men
- Pat Cadigan - The Final Performance of the Amazing Ralphie
- Terry Pratchett - Monstrous Regiment
- Terry Pratchett - A Hat Full of Sky
- Mary Robinette Kowal - The Relentless Moon
- Terry Pratchett - Going Postal
- Terry Pratchett - Thud!
- Stephen King - Afterlife
- Terry Pratchett - Wintersmith
- Terry Pratchett - Unseen Academicals
- Terry Pratchett - Making Money
- Terry Pratchett - I Shall Wear Midnight
- Terry Pratchett - Snuff
- Terry Pratchett - Raising Steam
- Terry Pratchett - The Shepherd's Crown
- Jeff VanderMeer - Authority
- Jeff VanderMeer - Acceptance
- Kim Stanley Robinson - New York 2140
- Paolo Bacigalupi - Pump Six
- Paolo Bacigalupi - The People of Sand and Slag
- Jim Butcher - Storm Front
- Kim Stanley Robinson - The Ministry for the Future
- Tade Thompson - The Rosewater Insurrection
- Stanisław Lem - The Cyberiad
- Adrian Tchaikovsky - Firewalkers
- John Scalzi - Lock In
- John Scalzi - Unlocked
- David Wong - Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits
- John Scalzi - Head On
- John Scalzi - Murder by Other Means
- John Scalzi - The Human Division
- John Scalzi - The Kaiju Preservation Society
- John Scalzi - The End of All Things
- David Wong - Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick
- Philip K Dick - Colony
- Paolo Bacigalupi - The Water Knife
- Jared Diamond - Collapse
- Roger Zelazny - Lord of Light
- C C Finlay - Time Bomb Time
- Paolo Bacigalupi - The Calorie Man
- Neal Stephenson - Seveneves
- Liu Cixin - The Three-Body Problem
- Liu Cixin - The Dark Forest
- Liu Cixin - Death's End
- Robert Silverberg - Dying Inside
- Tade Thompson - The Rosewater Redemption
- Alfred Bester - The Demolished Man
- James Blish - A Case of Conscience
- Beau Miles - The Backyard Adventurer
- Stephen Graham Jones - I Was a Teenage Space Jockey
- Kim Fu - #ClimbingNation
- Bob Mortimer - The Satsuma Complex
- Samuel R Delaney - Nova
2021 62
- Edgar Rice Burroughs - A Princess of Mars
- Bill Hammack - Fatal Flight
- Madeleine L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
- Jo Nesbø - Headhunters
- Michael Wall - Out There
- Yahtzee Croshaw - Differently Morphous
- Jessica Bruder - Nomadland
- David Graeber - Bullshit Jobs
- Terry Pratchett - The Last Hero
- Terry Bisson - Bears Discover Fire, and Other Stories
- Terry Pratchett - The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
- Albert-László Barabási - Bursts
- Stephen King - 1408
- John Twelve Hawks - The Traveler
- Mira Grant - Parasite
- Mary Robinette Kowal - The Fated Sky
- Tsugumi Ohba - Death Note Volume 3
- Monica Hughes - Devil on My Back
- Esther Friesner - A Birthday
- Martha Wells - Network Effect
- Mira Grant - Symbiont
- Mary Robinette Kowal - The Lady Astronaut of Mars
- Seanan McGuire - Sparrow Hill Road
- V E Schwab - Vicious
- Stephen King - The Colorado Kid
- V E Schwab - Vengeful
- Barry J Hutchison - Dial D for Deadman
- Connie Willis - At the Realto
- Barry J Hutchison - Dead Inside
- Mira Grant - Chimera
- August Marion - Vegetablemen in Peanut Town
- Martha Wells - Fugitive Telemetry
- Barry J Hutchison - Dead in the Water
- Andy Weir - Project Hail Mary
- Ernest Cline - Armada
- Isaac Asimov - Foundation
- Isaac Asimov - Foundation and Empire
- Isaac Asimov - Second Foundation
- Samuel R Delany - Babel-17
- James S A Corey - Leviathan Wakes
- James S A Corey - Caliban's War
- Richard Ayoade - The Grip of Film
- Lynne Martin - Home Sweet Anywhere
- James S A Corey - Abaddon's Gate
- James S A Corey - Cibola Burn
- James S A Corey - Nemesis Games
- James S A Corey - Babylon's Ashes
- James S A Corey - Persepolis Rising
- James S A Corey - Tiamat's Wrath
- James S A Corey - Drive
- James S A Corey - The Churn
- James S A Corey - The Expanse Origins
- James S A Corey - Gods of Risk
- James S A Corey - The Vital Abyss
- James S A Corey - Strange Dogs
- Ray Bradbury - A Sound of Thunder
- Frank Herbert - Dune
- Bob Mortimer - And Away...
- James S A Corey - The Butcher of Anderson Station
- James S A Corey - The Last Flight of the Cassandra
- James S A Corey - Leviathan Falls
- James S A Corey - Auberon
2020 42
- Iain M Banks - The Player of Games
- Iain M Banks - The State of the Art
- Robert Harris - The Fear Index
- Iain M Banks - Use of Weapons
- Junji Ito - Frankenstein
- John Scalzi - Zoe's Tale
- Junji Ito - Smashed
- Peter Watts - Blindsight
- Philip K Dick - Confessions of a Crap Artist
- Tsugumi Ohba - Death Note Volume 1
- Philip Reeve - Infernal Devices
- Tsugumi Ohba - Death Note Volume 2
- Robert A Heinlein - Have Space Suit, Will Travel
- China Miéville - Embassytown
- Erlend Loe - Naiv.Super.
- Junji Ito - Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu
- Martha Wells - Compulsory
- Stephen King - Secret Window, Secret Garden
- Yahtzee Croshaw - Mogworld
- David Wong - What the Hell Did I Just Read
- George R R Martin - Nightflyers
- George R R Martin - Override
- George R R Martin - Weekend in a War Zone
- George R R Martin - And Seven Times Never Kill Man
- George R R Martin - Nor the Many-Colored Fires of a Star Ring
- George R R Martin - A Song for Lya
- Peter Watts - The Things
- Terry Pratchett - The Truth
- Stephen King - Gwendy's Button Box
- Stephen King - The Music Room
- Philip Reeve - A Darkling Plain
- Dennis E Taylor - We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
- Stephen King - Elevation
- Stephen King - Laurie
- Dennis E Taylor - For We Are Many
- Dennis E Taylor - All These Worlds
- John Steakley - Armor
- Richard Ayoade - Ayoade on Top
- John Scalzi - The Last Emperox
- Dennis E Taylor - Heaven's River
- Ernest Cline - Ready Player Two
- MT Anderson - Feed
2019 59
- Adam Mansbach - Go the Fuck to Sleep
- Philip Reeve - Predator's Gold
- Terry Pratchett - Hogfather
- Junji Ito - Fixed Face
- Stephen King - The Jaunt
- Stephen King - End of Watch
- Junji Ito - Tomie
- Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House
- John Scalzi - The Ghost Brigades
- Terry Pratchett - Jingo
- Adam Mansbach - You Have to Fucking Eat
- MK England - The Disasters
- John Scalzi - The Last Colony
- Oliver Langmead - Dark Star
- Warren Ellis - Trees
- Ann Leckie - Ancillary Justice
- Gary Taubes - Why We Get Fat
- Drew Magary - The Postmortal
- Junji Ito - Near Miss
- Junji Ito - Meet Again
- John Scalzi - The Other Large Thing
- Junji Ito - Shiver
- John Scalzi - The Collapsing Empire
- Dilwyn Horvat - Operation Titan
- Matthew P Walker - Why We Sleep
- Stephen King - Rage
- Kim Stanley Robinson - Blue Mars
- John Scalzi - The Consuming Fire
- Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation
- Terry Pratchett - Thief of Time
- Terry Pratchett - The Last Continent
- Terry Pratchett - Carpe Jugulum
- Naoki Urasawa - Pluto 1
- Naoki Urasawa - Pluto 2
- Terry Pratchett - The Fifth Elephant
- Neil Gaiman - American Gods
- Martha Wells - All Systems Red
- Naoki Urasawa - Pluto 3
- Martha Wells - Artificial Condition
- Martha Wells - Rogue Protocol
- Martha Wells - Exit Strategy
- Naoki Urasawa - Pluto 4
- Yuval Noah Harari - Homo Deus
- Naoki Urasawa - Pluto 5
- Stephen King - Cell
- Stephen King - The Long Walk
- Naoki Urasawa - Pluto 6
- Ryan North - Machine of Death
- Stephen King - The Shining
- Naoki Urasawa - Pluto 7
- Naoki Urasawa - Pluto 8
- Mary Robinette Kowal - The Calculating Stars
- Mary Robinette Kowal - We Interrupt This Broadcast
- Stephen King - Doctor Sleep
- Yahtzee Croshaw - Will Destroy the Galaxy for Cash
- Iain M Banks - Consider Phlebas
- Philip Pullman - Northern Lights
- Philip Pullman - The Subtle Knife
- Philip Pullman - The Amber Spyglass
2018 49
- Andrew Weir - Artemis
- Terry Pratchett - The Colour of Magic
- Terry Pratchett - The Light Fantastic
- Terry Pratchett - Equal Rites
- Terry Pratchett - Mort
- Terry Pratchett - Sourcery
- Terry Pratchett - Wyrd Sisters
- Charles Forsman - The End of the Fucking World
- Terry Pratchett - Pyramids
- Terry Pratchett - Guards! Guards!
- Terry Pratchett - Eric
- Terry Pratchett - Moving Pictures
- Manu Saadia - Trekonomics The Economics of Star Trek
- Terry Pratchett - Reaper Man
- Tim Marshall - Prisoners of Geography
- Terry Pratchett - Witches Abroad
- Yuval Noah Harari - Sapiens
- Alan Moore - Batman The Killing Joke
- Terry Pratchett - Death and What Comes Next
- Terry Pratchett - Small Gods
- Stephen King - Finders Keepers
- Neal Shusterman - Unwind
- Sam Harris - Wake Up A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
- Terry Pratchett - Lords and Ladies
- Terry Pratchett - Theatre of Cruelty
- Terry Pratchett - Men at Arms
- Stephen King - The Langoliers
- Jon Nielson - Look
- Terry Pratchett - Troll Bridge
- Terry Pratchett - Soul Music
- Terry Pratchett - Interesting Times
- Hitoshi Iwaaki - Parasyte
- Junji Ito - The Enigma of Amigara Fault
- One - Onepunch-Man 1
- Terry Pratchett - Maskerade
- Junji Ito - Uzumaki
- Yahtzee Croshaw - Jam
- Jeff VanderMeer - Annihilation
- Anthony Horowitz - Oblivion
- Joe Haldeman - More Than the Sum of His Parts
- Kim Stanley Robinson - Red Mars
- Junju Ito - Children of the Earth
- Orson Scott Card - Speaker for the Dead
- Terry Pratchett - Feet of Clay
- Robert Silverberg - The Book of Skulls
- Junji Ito - Gyo
- Gillian Flynn - The Grownup
- Kim Stanley Robinson - Green Mars
- Philip Reeve - Mortal Engines
2017 38
- David Wolman - The End of Money
- John Scalzi - The Dispatcher
- Patrick Ness - A Monster Calls
- Suzanne Collins - Mockingjay
- John Temple - American Pain
- Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games
- John Scalzi - Redshirts
- Yahtzee Croshaw - Will Save the Galaxy for Food
- John P Logsdon - Starliner
- Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle
- Albert Camus - The Stranger
- Alan Weisman - The World Without Us
- Anu Partanen - The Nordic Theory of Everything
- Anthony Horowitz - Necropolis
- Michel Faber - Under the Skin
- Ben Goldacre - Bad Science
- Blake Crouch - Wayward
- Blake Crouch - Pines
- Blake Crouch - The Last Town
- J K Rowling - The Philosophers Stone
- J K Rowling - The Chamber of Secrets
- J K Rowling - The Prisoner of Azkaban
- Michael Chabon - The Yiddish Policemens Union
- Arthur C Clarke - The Fountains of Paradise
- Stephen King - Mr Mercedes
- J K Rowling - The Goblet of Fire
- J K Rowling - The Order of the Phoenix
- J K Rowling - The Half-Blood Prince
- Philip K Dick - The Impossible Planet
- Philip K Dick - The Hood Maker
- J K Rowling - The Deathly Hallows
- Philip K Dick - The Commuter
- Alfred Bester - The Stars My Destination
- Louis Sachar - Holes
- Arthur C Clarke - Childhood's End
- Andy Weir - The Egg
- Stephen King - Misery
- John Scalzi - Old Man's War
2016 52
- José Saramago - Blindness
- Philip K Dick - Vulcans Hammer
- Philip K Dick - Paycheck
- Daryl Gregory - Afterparty
- Warren Ellis - Gun Machine
- Ward Moore - Greener Than You Think
- Greg Sestero & Tom Bissell - The Disaster Artist
- H P Lovecraft - The Shunned House
- Philip K Dick - Our Friends From Frolix 8
- Anthony Horowitz - Ravens Gate
- Philip K Dick - Clans of the Alphane Moon
- Matt Haig - The Humans
- Spider Robinson - The Callahan Chronicles
- H G Wells - The Time Machine
- Paula Hawkins - The Girl on the Train
- Cormack McCarthy - No Country for Old Men
- Philip K Dick - Lies, Inc.
- Kurt Vonnegut - Cats Cradle
- Philip K Dick - Nick and the Glimmung
- Philip K Dick - The Game Players of Titan
- Randall Munroe - What If?
- Philip K Dick - Counter Clock World
- Philip K Dick - Dr Futurity
- Kim Stanley Robinson - Aurora
- Philip K Dick - VALIS
- J G Ballard - High-Rise
- Anthony Horowitz - Evil Star
- Greg Bear - Hull Zero Three
- Gregory Benford - Timescape
- Philip K Dick - The Divine Invasion
- Philip K Dick - The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
- Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
- Walter M Miller - A Canticle for Leibowitz
- Olaf Stapledon - Star Maker
- Orson Scott Card - Enders Game
- Frederik Pohl - Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
- H P Lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness
- William Shatner - TekWar
- Warren Ellis - Crooked Little Vein
- F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
- Fredrik Backman - A Man Called Ove
- Maurice Sendak - Where the Wild Things Are
- Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl
- Timothy Leary - The Psychedelic Experience
- Grant Naylor - Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers
- Grant Naylor - Better Than Life
- Grant Naylor - Last Human
- Grant Naylor - Backwards
- Frederik Pohl - Heechee Rendezvous
- Suzanne Collins - Catching Fire
- Anthony Horowitz - Nightrise
- Ray Bradbury - The Martian Chronicles
2015 54
- Michael Crichton - The Andromeda Strain
- George Orwell - Animal Farm
- Ursula K Le Guin - The Lathe of Heaven
- Carl Sagan - Contact
- Richard Matheson - I Am Legend
- Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
- Louis Theroux - The Call of the Weird
- Kurt Vonnegut - Sirens of Titan
- Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon
- Lewis Caroll - Alice in Wonderland
- Olaf Stapledon - The Last and First Men
- Arkady & Boris Strugatsky - Roadside Picnic
- H P Lovecraft - The Shadow Over Innsmouth
- Philip K Dick - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
- Andrew Weir - The Martian
- Frederik Pohl - Gateway
- Philip K Dick - Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
- Douglas Adams - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
- John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
- H G Wells - The War of the Worlds
- Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis
- Joe Haldeman - The Forever War
- H G Wells - The Invisible Man
- Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
- Philip K Dick - Dr Bloodmoney
- Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting
- Frederik Pohl - Man Plus
- Greg Bear - Eon
- John Wyndham - Day of the Triffids
- Arthur C Clarke - 2001 A Space Odyssey
- Philip K Dick - Now Wait for Last Year
- Arthur C Clarke - Rendezvous with Rama
- Cormac McCarthy - The Road
- Richard Matheson - The Shrinking Man
- David Wong - John Dies at the End
- Frederik Pohl - The Space Merchants
- Greg Bear - Blood Music
- David Wong - This Book is Full of Spiders
- Charles Stross - A Colder War
- Philip K Dick - The Cosmic Puppets
- Robert A Heinlein - Starship Troopers
- Stephen King - Under the Dome
- Philip K Dick - A Maze of Death
- Ernest Cline - Ready Player One
- Philip K Dick - The Penultimate Truth
- Poul Anderson - Tau Zero
- Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan - The Strain
- Hunter S Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho
- Robert A Heinlein - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- Cormac McCarthy - The Sunset Limited
- Lois Lowry - The Giver
- Steven Gould - Jumper
- Hiroshi Sakurazaka - All You Need is Kill
2014 12
- John Brunner - Stand on Zanzibar
- Philip K Dick - Ubik
- Philip K Dick - The Man in the High Castle
- Philip K Dick - We Can Remember It For You Wholesale
- Philip K Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
- Philip K Dick - A Scanner Darkly
- Philip K Dick - Martian Time Slip
- Philip K Dick - Galactic Pot Healer
- Harlan Ellison - I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
- Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
- Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception
- Max Brooks - World War Z
Book Series
Work in Progress 11
- Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - 1/6
- Frederik Pohl - Heechee - 5/6
- Iain M Banks - The Culture - 4/10
- Isaac Asimov - Foundation - 3/7
- Jim Butcher - The Dresden Files - 1/17
- Monica Hughes - Arc One - 1/2
- Neal Shusterman - The Unwind dystology - 1/6
- Orson Scott Card - Ender saga - 2/6
- Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games - 3/4
- VC Andrews - Dollanganger series - 4/5
- Various - SF Masterworks - 62/73
Completed 33
- Anthony Horowitz - The Power of Five - 5/5
- Barry J Hutchison - Dan Deadman - 3/3
- Blake Crouch - The Wayward Pines trilogy - 3/3
- David Wong - John and Dave series - 3/3
- David Wong - Zoey Ashe series - 2/2
- Dennis E Taylor - Bobiverse Series - 4/4
- Ernest Cline - Ready Player One series - 2/2
- Grant Naylor - Red Dwarf - 4/4
- Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan - The Strain - 3/3
- Hugh Howey - Silo - 3/3
- J K Rowling - Harry Potter - 7/7
- James S A Corey - The Expanse - 9/9
- James S A Corey - The Expanse Novellas - 9/9
- Jeff VanderMeer - Southern Reach Trilogy - 3/3
- John Scalzi - Lock In Universe - 3/3
- John Scalzi - Old Man's War - 6/6
- John Scalzi - The Dispatcher series - 3/3
- John Scalzi - The Interdependency - 3/3
- Kim Stanley Robinson - The Mars trilogy - 3/3
- Liu Cixin - Remembrance of Earth's Past - 3/3
- Martha Wells - The Murderbot Diaries - 6/6
- Mary Robinette Kowal - Lady Astronaut - 4/4
- Mira Grant - Parasitology - 3/3
- Paolo Bacigalupi - Ship Breaker Trilogy - 3/3
- Philip K Dick - VALIS trilogy - 3/3
- Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials - 3/3
- Philip Reeve - Mortal Engines Quartet - 4/4
- Stephen King - Bill Hodges Trilogy - 3/3
- Stephen King - The Shining - 2/2
- Tade Thompson - The Wormwood Trilogy - 3/3
- Terry Pratchett - Discworld - 41/41
- V E Schwab - Villains - 2/2
- Yahtzee Croshaw - The DEDA Files - 2/2
Abandoned 2
- Ann Leckie - Imperial Radch trilogy - 1/3
- John Twelve Hawks - The Fourth Realm Trilogy - 1/3