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2023
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- The Return of Fitzroy Angursell, by Victoria Goddard (2020, fantasy). Oh my goodness, I loved this....
- Anxious People, by Fredrik Backman (2019, fiction). I read this for book group. It’s a little batty....
- The Great Divorce, by C. S. Lewis (1945, fantasy). Reread. In fact, according to my log I’ve read it...
- Losing the Long Game, by Philip Gordon (2020, nonfiction). A review of U.S. attempts at regime chang...
- Memories of Ice, by Steven Erikson (2001, fantasy). Very long (around 1,400 pages) but oh so good. T...
- The Girl Beneath the Sea, by Andrew Mayne (2020, thriller). Enjoyed it. Looking forward to reading t...
- The Secret History, by Donna Tartt (1992). I’d say this is dark academia, though there’s not actuall...
- What Moves the Dead, by T. Kingfisher (2022). A creepy novella based on Poe’s story “The Fall of the...
- Ways of Being, by James Bridle (2022). Wow, what a fascinating book. Loved it. It’s nominally about...
- Cage of Souls, by Adrian Tchaikovsky (2019). I’d heard good things about this, and for me it deliver...
- The Nine Tailors, by Dorothy Sayers (1934). I read this for book group. Sure learned a lot about bel...
- Avid Reader, by Robert Gottlieb (2016). A fun read, with plenty of publishing history. Gottlieb edit...
- Leadership, by Doris Kearns Goodwin (2018). Loved it. So, so good. It’s a study of leadership (no su...
- The Devil You Know, by K. J. Parker (2016). Novella. In the same vein as some of his other novellas...
- Sex Educated: Letters from a Latter-day Saint Therapist to Her Younger Self, by Bonnie Young (2023)....
- Three Parts Dead, by Max Gladstone (2012). First in the Craft sequence. I liked the legal aspect (an...
- Let’s Talk about Race and Priesthood, by W. Paul Reeve (2023). I think every member of the Church sh...
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- Recent nonfiction reads The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt, by Toby Wilkinson. While it admittedly t...
- Recent nonfiction reads The Soul of a New Machine, by Tracy Kidder. Really good! I especially enjoye...
- Recent nonfiction reads The Rules We Break, by Eric Zimmerman. A fun exploration into game design th...
- Minor prefatory note: I’ve updated the reading page with a slight redesign and (for 2022 reads) the...
2022
- Robert A. Caro’s The Power Broker is finally available as an ebook! (On the Kindle store, anyway. I...
- Grief hit a little bit harder the past few weeks and made reading more difficult. Recent nonfiction...
- Recent nonfiction reads Karachi Vice, by Samira Shackle, about contemporary Pakistan. Really good, l...
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2019
- Recent reads: Good to Great, by Jim Collins. I enjoyed this much more than I thought I would (having...
- Recent reads: Digital Minimalism, by Cal Newport. My favorite parts were the bits on solitude and on...
- Recent reads: Prisoners of Geography, by Tim Marshall. This was my first foray into geopolitics, and...