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Books I’ve read, newest to oldest. Year of publication is in parentheses. It hopefully goes without saying, but liking a book doesn’t mean I approve of or agree with everything in it. Slightly longer reviews can generally be found under the #recent-reads tag on my blog.

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2023 — 55 books

September 2023

  • Down Among the Sticks and Bones — Seanan McGuire (2017, fiction)
    Novella. Liked the dark fairy-tale atmosphere.
  • Spelunky — Derek Yu (2016, nonfiction)
    Enjoyed it more than I expected to. Made me want to write a roguelike.
  • Whalefall — Daniel Kraus (2023, fiction)
    Whew. More intense than I usually go for.
  • Breath — James Nestor (2020, nonfiction)
    Learned a handful of useful breathing techniques. Worth reading.
  • Eve Bites Back — Anna Beer (2022, nonfiction)
    Liked it, especially learning about women writers I’d never heard of.
  • The Gone World — Tom Sweterlitsch (2018, fiction)
    Liked the science fiction ideas. A bit dark and earthy for me, though.

August 2023

  • Blood Over Bright Haven — M. L. Wang (2023, fiction)
    So good! Really, really liked it.
  • In the Woods — Tana French (2007, fiction)
    Really liked it. Page-turner, great writing.
  • How Big Things Get Done — Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner (2023, nonfiction)
    Pretty good, some great points here.
  • When the Heavens Went on Sale — Ashlee Vance (2023, nonfiction)
    Loved it! Enthralling. Ate it up.
  • The Black God’s Drums — P. Djèlí Clark (2018, fiction)
    Novella. Really liked the world. Not sure if the ending worked for me. Probably being overly picky here.

July 2023

  • Indigenous Continent — Pekka Hämäläinen (2022, nonfiction)
    Good! Learned a lot. An important book.
  • The Will of the Many — James Islington (2023, fiction)
    Loved it! One of my favorite fantasy reads in a while.
  • No Filter — Sarah Frier (2020, nonfiction)
    An interesting history of Instagram. Seemed well balanced.
  • The Tipping Point — Malcolm Gladwell (2000, nonfiction)
    Some interesting ideas and anecdotes, though I don’t know I agree with the conclusions.
  • Yellowface — R. F. Kuang (2023, fiction)
    Whew. I wouldn’t say it’s a pleasant read, but it was compelling.

June 2023

  • Stargazy Pie — Victoria Goddard (2016, fiction)
    Liked it. Darker than I expected. Some earthy bits.
  • Convictions — John Kroger (2008, nonfiction)
    Really liked it. Especially the mafia, 9/11, and Enron parts.
  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society — Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows (2008, fiction)
    So, so good. Loved it.
  • Draft No. 4 — John McPhee (2017, nonfiction)
    Enjoyed it.
  • All This Will Be Yours — Adrian Tchaikovsky (2021, fiction)
    Novella. A little silly but some interesting ideas.
  • Paladin of Souls — Lois McMaster Bujold (2003, fiction)
    Liked it a lot, especially the religious aspects. Bujold continues to be one of my favorite writers.

May 2023

  • Shareware Heroes — Richard Moss (2022, nonfiction)
    Nostalgia from my childhood. No idea if it’s interesting to someone who didn’t live through it.
  • Caste — Isabel Wilkerson (2020, nonfiction)
    Really good. Important book. I hate caste systems.
  • The Diamond Age — Neal Stephenson (1995, fiction)
    Liked it less than his others. A few icky bits. Still enjoyed the voice, though.
  • The Invisible Kingdom — Meghan O’Rourke (2022, nonfiction)
    Whew. Important, even if it’s often sad.
  • The River of Doubt — Candice Millard (2005, nonfiction)
    Loved it! Really, really good.
  • Stealing from the Saracens — Diana Darke (2020, nonfiction)
    A bit slow going, but I’m glad I read it and I learned a lot.
  • The Dispossessed — Ursula K. Le Guin (1974, fiction)
    Anthropologically interesting, but overall I didn’t really like it.
  • Small Miracles — Olivia Atwater (2022, fiction)
    Liked the cozy vibes, super readable, yet the story didn’t really click for me.

April 2023

  • The Goblin Emperor — Katherine Addison (2014, fiction)
    Loved it, want more.
  • Size-specific Adjustments to Type Designs — Tim Ahrens & Shoko Mugikura (2014, nonfiction)
    Some great type specimens.
  • All the President’s Men — Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward (1974, nonfiction)
    Really liked it, ate it up.
  • Moon Over Soho — Ben Aaronovitch (2011, fiction)
    Second in the Rivers of London series. Some earthy bits, but other than that I liked it enough to keep reading the series.
  • Best Served Cold — Joe Abercrombie (2009, fiction)
    Whew, that was brutal. Loads of content warnings. Compelling writing, though.
  • James Patterson — James Patterson (2022, nonfiction)
    Autobiography. Not as much about writing as I’d hoped, but still entertaining and an easy read.

March 2023

  • First — Evan Thomas (2019, nonfiction)
    Really liked this bio of Sandra Day O’Connor, learned a lot about SCOTUS.
  • Taken — Benedict Jacka (2012, fiction)
    Enjoyed it.
  • Red Famine — Anne Applebaum (2017, nonfiction)
    Good, though the last third is super sad.
  • A Prayer for the Crown-Shy — Becky Chambers (2022, fiction)
    Novella. Cozy. Liked most of it.
  • Chatter — Ethan Kross (2021, nonfiction)
    Good! Several useful tools for dealing with your inner voice.
  • The Player of Games — Iain M. Banks (1988, fiction)
    Generally liked it, though one section was gross.
  • Saints, volume 3 — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (2022, nonfiction)
    Loved it, learned a lot.
  • The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt — Toby Wilkinson (2010, nonfiction)
    Good. Took me a while to read it, though.

February 2023

  • Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro (2005, fiction)
    Didn’t really care for it.
  • The Justice of Kings — Richard Swan (2022, fiction)
    Really liked it, very much up my alley.
  • In Praise of Slowness — Carl Honoré (2005, nonfiction)
    Could have been shorter but worth reading.
  • Slaughterhouse-Five — Kurt Vonnegut (1969, fiction)
    I…didn’t really like it.
  • The Soul of a New Machine — Tracy Kidder (1981, nonfiction)
    Really good! Especially enjoyed the technical details.
  • The Handmaid’s Tale — Margaret Atwood (1985, fiction)
    Well crafted, good prose, readable. But also uncomfortable and heavy and sad.

January 2023

  • The Perfectionists — Simon Winchester (2018, nonfiction)
    So good! Fascinating throughout.
  • Memory — Lois McMaster Bujold (1996, fiction)
    Really liked it, looking forward to phase 2 of Miles’s career.
  • The Lord of Stariel — A. J. Lancaster (2018, fiction)
    Liked it.
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow — Gabrielle Zevin (2022, fiction)
    Good, especially the characterization and game dev parts.
  • The Rules We Break — Eric Zimmerman (2022, nonfiction)
    Fun exploration of game design.

2022 — 100 books

December 2022

  • Extra Life — Steven Johnson (2021, nonfiction)
    Really good! Highly recommended.
  • Ogres — Adrian Tchaikovsky (2022, fiction)
    Novella. Really liked it, probably my favorite of his so far.
  • The Law — Jim Butcher (2022, fiction)
    Novella. Very much a Dresden Files story. Liked it.
  • The Expert System’s Champion — Adrian Tchaikovsky (2021, fiction)
    Novella. An interesting sequel. Enjoyed it.
  • Inside Man — K. J. Parker (2021, fiction)
    Novella. Enjoyed it.
  • The Mountain in the Sea — Ray Nayler (2022, fiction)
    Good, liked it.
  • I Wish I’d Been There — Byron Hollinshead (2007, nonfiction)
    Really enjoyed it, made me want to read more American history.
  • Petty Treasons — Victoria Goddard (2021, fiction)
    Novella. Liked it, nice to revisit the world.
  • A Mirror Mended — Alix E. Harrow (2022, fiction)
    Novella. Liked the variations and folktaleishness.
  • The Ballad of Black Tom — Victor LaValle (2016, fiction)
    Novella. Good, liked it (though the ending was a bit graphic).
  • Human Errors — Nathan H. Lents (2018, nonfiction)
    Fascinating, really liked it.
  • The Expert System’s Brother — Adrian Tchaikovsky (2018, fiction)
    Novella. Enjoyed it.

November 2022

  • Chokepoint Capitalism — Rebecca Giblin & Cory Doctorow (2022, nonfiction)
    Good, recommended.
  • Terry Pratchett — Rob Wilkins (2022, nonfiction)
    Liked it a lot. The end was sad, of course.
  • The Golden Enclaves — Naomi Novik (2022, fiction)
    Didn’t like it as much as the first two, but some parts were interesting.
  • Out of the Software Crisis — Baldur Bjarnason (2022, nonfiction)
    A few interesting ideas.
  • The Anna Karenina Fix — Viv Groskop (2022, nonfiction)
    Liked it. Made me want to read more Russian lit.
  • Snow Crash — Neal Stephenson (2003, fiction)
    Generally liked it, though some parts were cringey.

October 2022

  • How the Word Is Passed — Clint Smith (2021, nonfiction)
    Really good, strongly recommended.
  • Nona the Ninth — Tamsyn Muir (2022, fiction)
    Bonkers (I didn’t know what was happening most of the time) but the voice is great.
  • Karachi Vice — Samira Shackle (2021, nonfiction)
    Really good, learned a lot about Pakistan.
  • The Paper Menagerie — Ken Liu (2016, fiction)
    Liked it. Learned about lots of tragic Asian history.

September 2022

  • Babel — R. F. Kuang (2022, fiction)
    Liked it a lot, especially the argument against colonialism.
  • Northanger Abbey — Jane Austen (1817, fiction)
    Funny at first but then not so much.
  • The Infiltrator — Robert Mazur (2009, nonfiction)
    Intense.

August 2022

  • Foundryside — Robert Jackson Bennett (2018, fiction)
    Liked most of it, especially the programming-style magic.
  • The Castle of Otranto — Horace Walpole (1764, fiction)
    Kind of boring and silly.
  • In the Land of Invented Languages — Arika Okrent (2010, nonfiction)
    Really liked it.
  • Here Is Real Magic — Nate Staniforth (2018, nonfiction)
    Enjoyed it.
  • Clementine — Sonia Purnell (2015, nonfiction)
    Good but a bit exhausting (wars, bad parenting).
  • A Practical Guide to Conquering the World — K. J. Parker (2022, fiction)
    Okay but not as good as the first two.
  • The Hands of the Emperor — Victoria Goddard (2019, fiction)
    Loved it, bought all her books.
  • The Case Against the Sexual Revolution — Louise Perry (2022, nonfiction)
    Good. Graphic, though.
  • The Plantagenets — Dan Jones (2013, nonfiction)
    Really good, glad I read it.
  • On Reading — Nick Parker (2020, nonfiction)
    Short. Enjoyed it.
  • The Sixth Extinction — Elizabeth Kolbert (2014, nonfiction)
    So good, highly recommended.
  • Ninth House — Leigh Bardugo (2019, fiction)
    Good, though dark and rough.
  • Attention Factory — Matthew Brennan (2020, nonfiction)
    Didn’t really like it, not sure why I finished it.

July 2022

  • The Left-Handed Booksellers of London — Garth Nix (2020, fiction)
    Enjoyed it.
  • The Wizard of Lies — Diana B. Henriques (2011, nonfiction)
    Good, learned a lot about finance.
  • A New Foreign Policy — Jeffrey D. Sachs (2020, nonfiction)
    Good, though a bit dry at times.
  • Prosper’s Demon — K. J. Parker (2020, fiction)
    Novella. Liked it.
  • Upgrade — Blake Crouch (2022, fiction)
    So-so, but I did like the end more.
  • Disability Visibility — Alice Wong (2020, nonfiction)
    Some of the essays really resonated with my experience with my back.
  • Devolution — Max Brooks (2020, fiction)
    Liked it, though it’s quite violent.
  • The Sudden Appearance of Hope — Claire North (2016, fiction)
    Liked it more than Touch, not as much as Harry August.
  • Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World — Philip Matyszak (2020, nonfiction)
    Good, learned a lot.

June 2022

  • The Invention of Nature — Andrea Wulf (2015, nonfiction)
    Loved it. So good.
  • Sourdough — Robin Sloan (2017, fiction)
    Really liked it.
  • The Last Witness — K. J. Parker (2015, fiction)
    Novella. Quite good.
  • Wakers — Orson Scott Card (2022, fiction)
    Liked it, though the scatological humor wasn’t great.
  • Diamond Dogs — Alastair Reynolds (2020, fiction)
    Novella. A bit too bleak for me.
  • Black Sun — Rebecca Roanhorse (2020, fiction)
    Liked it, looking forward to the next.

May 2022

  • Fugitive Telemetry — Martha Wells (2021, fiction)
    Novella. Enjoyed it as usual.
  • The Imaginary Corpse — Tyler Hayes (2019, fiction)
    Weird but good. Liked it.
  • The Last Nomad — Shugri Said Salh (2021, nonfiction)
    Good! More intense than I expected.
  • Building Ligatures — TypeTogether (2022, nonfiction)
    Good, but not as much about type as I’d hoped.
  • All Our Wrong Todays — Elan Mastai (2017, fiction)
    Really good time travel story.
  • This Changes Everything — Naomi Klein (2014, nonfiction)
    So good. This book changed me.
  • A Spindle Splintered — Alix E. Harrow (2021, fiction)
    Loved it.
  • A Warning to the Curious — M. R. James (1925, fiction)
    So-so.
  • A Psalm for the Wild-Built — Becky Chambers (2021, fiction)
    Novella. Better than I thought it would be. I’m down with philosophical books.
  • Binti — Nnedi Okorafor (2015, fiction)
    Novella. Really liked it! More Afrofuturism, please.
  • Every Heart a Doorway — Seanan McGuire (2016, fiction)
    Novella. More interesting than I thought it would be.
  • The Curse of Chalion — Lois McMaster Bujold (2001, fiction)
    Loved it! Really good.
  • The Puzzler — A. J. Jacobs (2022, nonfiction)
    Enjoyed it. Lightweight.
  • Scotland’s Merlin — Tim Clarkson (2019, nonfiction)
    Good, though occasionally repetitive/dull.
  • The End Is Always Near — Dan Carlin (2019, nonfiction)
    Good, learned a lot.
  • Zodiac — Neal Stephenson (1988, fiction)
    Liked it a lot.

April 2022

  • Vita Nostra — Marina & Sergey Dyachenko (2007, fiction)
    Weird book. Don’t know if I liked it.
  • Saints, volume 2 — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (2020, nonfiction)
    Loved it.
  • The Last American Aristocrat — David S. Brown (2020, nonfiction)
    Good. Slow going, but glad I read it.
  • Network Effect — Martha Wells (2020, fiction)
    Really liked it.
  • The Library at Mount Char — Scott Hawkins (2015, fiction)
    Such a bizarre book. Liked it.
  • China in Ten Words — Yu Hua (2011, nonfiction)
    Good, though a bit weird and not what I expected.

March 2022

  • On All Fronts — Clarissa Ward (2020, nonfiction)
    Good, liked it.
  • Elder Race — Adrian Tchaikovsky (2021, fiction)
    Novella. Good, enjoyed it.
  • Stretching the Heavens — Terryl L. Givens (2021, nonfiction)
    Really good! Sad, too.
  • The Empress of Salt and Fortune — Nghi Vo (2020, fiction)
    Novella. Good, liked it.
  • Last Argument of Kings — Joe Abercrombie (2008, fiction)
    Great writing. Lots of content warnings, though.
  • My Broken Language — Quiara Alegría Hudes (2021, nonfiction)
    Good, glad I read it.
  • Parable of the Sower — Octavia E. Butler (1993, fiction)
    Whew, stressful. But good.

February 2022

  • Riot Baby — Tochi Onyebuchi (2020, fiction)
    Novella. Good, though earthy and angry.
  • The Haunting of Tram Car 015 — P. Djèlí Clark (2019, fiction)
    Novella. Good, I liked it.
  • In the Camps — Darren Byler (2021, nonfiction)
    Ugh, concentration camps are awful. The stories were worth reading.
  • The Dawn of Everything — David Graeber & David Wengrow (2021, nonfiction)
    So good! Important book, highly recommended.
  • A Collection of Sacred Hymns — Emma Smith (1835, nonfiction)
  • The Echo Wife — Sarah Gailey (2021, fiction)
    Whew, this one wasn’t my thing (abusive relationships are hard reading).
  • Klara and the Sun — Kazuo Ishiguro (2021, fiction)
    Good, I think? Liked his other books more.

January 2022

  • Dealers of Lightning — Michael Hiltzig (1999, nonfiction)
    Quite good, right up my alley.
  • Ring Shout — P. Djèlí Clark (2020, fiction)
    Novella. Really good! Fresh and original.
  • Typographic Firsts — John Boardley (2021, nonfiction)
    Good, lots of cool innovations.
  • Exit Strategy — Martha Wells (2018, fiction)
    Novella. Fun.
  • An Essay on Typography — Eric Gill (1931, nonfiction)
    Liked it. More political than expected.
  • The Cubans — Anthony DePalma (2020, nonfiction)
    Really good! Riveting and sad.
  • The Making of Prince of Persia — Jordan Mechner (2010, nonfiction)
    Good, liked it.
  • Ecclesiastical History of the English People — Bede (731, nonfiction)
    Glad I read it. Lots about Easter being celebrated on the wrong date.
  • Rogue Protocol — Martha Wells (2018, fiction)
    Novella. Good, liked it.
  • A Desolation Called Peace — Arkady Martine (2021, fiction)
    Good, generally liked it.
  • The Golden Thread — Kassia St. Clair (2019, nonfiction)
    Fascinating, really liked it.

2021 — 92 books

December 2021

  • Artificial Condition — Martha Wells (fiction)
  • How to Rule an Empire and Get Away With It — K. J. Parker (fiction)
  • There Is No Antimemetics Division — Sam Hughes (fiction)
  • All Systems Red — Martha Wells (fiction)
  • Duplex — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • Working — Robert A. Caro (nonfiction)
  • The Last Graduate — Naomi Novik (fiction)
  • Spy Handler — Victor Cherkashin (nonfiction)
  • Killers of the Flower Moon — David Grann (nonfiction)
  • Press Reset — Jason Schreier (nonfiction)

November 2021

  • Flying on the Inside — Rachel Gotto (nonfiction)
  • The Last Shadow — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • The Dragon Republic — R. F. Kuang (fiction)
  • Responsible JavaScript — Jeremy Wagner (nonfiction)
  • Flexible Typesetting — Tim Brown (nonfiction)
  • Several Short Sentences About Writing — Verlyn Klinkenborg (nonfiction)
  • Merchants of Doubt — Naomi Oreskes & Erik Conway (nonfiction)

October 2021

  • Historia Calamitatum — Peter Abélard (nonfiction)
  • How to Live — Derek Sivers (nonfiction)
  • Italic — Hendrik Weber (nonfiction)
  • The Riddle of the Labyrinth — Margalit Fox (nonfiction)
  • Type Tricks — Sofie Beier (nonfiction)
  • Blood River — Tim Butcher (nonfiction)
  • Radical Candor — Kim Scott (nonfiction)
  • The Golden Secrets of Lettering — Martina Flor (nonfiction)
  • In Progress — Jessica Hische (nonfiction)
  • Foundation — Isaac Asimov (fiction)
  • Cursed — Benedict Jacka (fiction)
  • Giambattista Bodoni — Valerie Lester (nonfiction)
  • Under the Pendulum Sun — Jeannette Ng (fiction)

September 2021

  • Seahenge — Francis Pryor (nonfiction)
  • An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth — Chris Hadfield (nonfiction)
  • The Midnight Library — Matt Haig (fiction)
  • Sidewinders — Robert V. S. Redick (fiction)
  • Twenty Bits I Learned About Making Fonts — Dan Cederholm (nonfiction)
  • Sitting Pretty — Rebekah Taussig (nonfiction)
  • This Is What America Looks Like — Ilhan Omar (nonfiction)
  • The Pragmatic Programmer — Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas (nonfiction)
  • Tower Dog — Doug Delaney (nonfiction)
  • The Once and Future Witches — Alix E. Harrow (fiction)

August 2021

  • The Lies of Locke Lamora — Scott Lynch (fiction)
  • Daily Rituals: Women at Work — Mason Currey (nonfiction)
  • Permanent Record — Edward Snowden (nonfiction)
  • Cicero — Anthony Everitt (nonfiction)
  • A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking — T. Kingfisher (fiction)
  • Fated — Benedict Jacka (fiction)
  • The Day of the Triffids — John Wyndham (fiction)
  • Creativity, Inc. — Ed Catmull (nonfiction)

July 2021

  • Knight’s Shadow — Sebastien de Castell (fiction)
  • Broad Band — Claire L. Evans (nonfiction)
  • Yours in Truth — Jeff Himmelman (nonfiction)
  • Or What You Will — Jo Walton (fiction)
  • Jade City — Fonda Lee (fiction)
  • Billion Dollar Loser — Reeves Wiedeman (nonfiction)
  • The Aleppo Codex — Matti Friedman (nonfiction)

June 2021

  • Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir (fiction)
  • How to Do Nothing — Jenny Odell (nonfiction)
  • Madam Secretary — Madeleine Albright (nonfiction)
  • Before They Are Hanged — Joe Abercrombie (fiction)

May 2021

  • A Disciple’s Life — Bruce C. Hafen (nonfiction)
  • Cryptonomicon — Neal Stephenson (fiction)
  • The Song Machine — John Seabrook (nonfiction)
  • The Buried Giant — Kazuo Ishiguro (fiction)
  • Shimmerdark — Sarah Mensinga (fiction)
  • Genius — James Gleick (nonfiction)
  • Skysworn — Will Wight (fiction)

April 2021

  • Borne — Jeff VanderMeer (fiction)
  • Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore — Robin Sloan (fiction)
  • The City of Brass — S. A. Chakraborty (fiction)
  • Eyes in the Sky — Arthur Holland Michel (nonfiction)
  • Underground — Will Hunt (nonfiction)
  • Exhalation — Ted Chiang (fiction)
  • Creative Selection — Ken Kocienda (nonfiction)

March 2021

  • Benjamin Franklin — Walter Isaacson (nonfiction)
  • Ceremony — Robert B. Parker (fiction)
  • The Bone Shard Daughter — Andrea Stewart (fiction)
  • Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City — K. J. Parker (fiction)
  • How Asia Works — Joe Studwell (nonfiction)
  • Harrow the Ninth — Tamsyn Muir (fiction)
  • The Ten Books of Architecture — Vitruvius, tr. Morris Hicky Morgan (nonfiction)

February 2021

  • Mirror Dance — Lois McMaster Bujold (fiction)
  • Coretta — Coretta Scott King (nonfiction)
  • Babylon’s Ashes — James S. A. Corey (fiction)
  • Borders of Infinity — Lois McMaster Bujold (fiction)
  • On the Shoulders of Titans — Andrew Rowe (fiction)
  • How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day — Arnold Bennett (nonfiction)

January 2021

  • The Firsts — Jennifer Steinhauer (nonfiction)
  • Seven at Sea — Erik & Emily Orton (nonfiction)
  • The Gameshouse — Claire North (fiction)
  • The Ghost Map — Steven Johnson (nonfiction)
  • The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind — William Kamkwamba (nonfiction)
  • Killer Dungeon — Phil Tucker (fiction)

2020 — 105 books

December 2020

  • The Road — Cormac McCarthy (fiction)
  • Stalling for Time — Gary Noesner (nonfiction)
  • Midnight Riot — Ben Aaronovitch (fiction)
  • The Humans — Matt Haig (fiction)
  • She Said — Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey (nonfiction)
  • Grinding It Out — Ray Kroc (nonfiction)
  • Longitude — Dava Sobel (nonfiction)
  • Radicalized — Cory Doctorow (fiction)
  • A Deadly Education — Naomi Novik (fiction)
  • Limited Wish — Mark Lawrence (fiction)
  • How to Think — Alan Jacobs (nonfiction)

November 2020

  • The Ride of a Lifetime — Robert Iger (nonfiction)
  • Behind the Beautiful Forevers — Katherine Boo (nonfiction)
  • Battle Ground — Jim Butcher (fiction)
  • Obama: An Oral History — Brian Abrams (nonfiction)
  • Piranesi — Susannah Clarke (fiction)
  • World War Z — Max Brooks (fiction)

October 2020

  • Half a Soul — Olivia Atwater (fiction)
  • Blood, Sweat, and Pixels — Jason Schreier (nonfiction)
  • We Are Legion (We Are Bob) — Dennis E. Taylor (fiction)
  • The Black Company — Glen Cook (fiction)
  • The Physics of the Dead — Luke Smitherd (fiction)
  • How to Stop Time — Matt Haig (fiction)
  • Peace Talks — Jim Butcher (fiction)
  • The Dream Machine — M. Mitchell Waldrop (nonfiction)

September 2020

  • The Last Days of Socrates — Plato (nonfiction)
  • The Crossing Places — Elly Griffiths (fiction)
  • The Poppy War — R. F. Kuang (fiction)
  • Currently — Sarah Mensinga (fiction)
  • Fear — Bob Woodward (nonfiction)
  • Diaspora — Greg Egan (fiction)

August 2020

  • Silas Marner — George Eliot (fiction)
  • Eminent Victorians — Lytton Strachey (nonfiction)
  • This Is How You Lose the Time War — Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (fiction)
  • Middlegame — Seanan McGuire (fiction)
  • The Substance of Civilization — Stephen L. Sass (nonfiction)
  • Saints, volume 1 — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (nonfiction)
  • Letters from a Shipwreck in the Sea of Suns & Moons — Raymond St. Elmo (fiction)
  • Servant of the Underworld — Aliette de Bodard (fiction)

July 2020

  • Stories of Your Life and Others — Ted Chiang (fiction)
  • Nightmare Keep — Phil Tucker (fiction)
  • The Great Successor — Anna Fifield (nonfiction)
  • A Wizard of Earthsea — Ursula K. Le Guin (fiction)
  • Extraordinary Lives — William Zinsser (nonfiction)
  • Semiosis — Sue Burke (fiction)
  • The Everything Store — Brad Stone (nonfiction)
  • The Butchering Art — Lindsey Fitzharris (nonfiction)
  • Gideon the Ninth — Tamsyn Muir (fiction)

June 2020

  • Perennial Seller — Ryan Holiday (nonfiction)
  • Divine Signatures — Gerald N. Lund (nonfiction)
  • Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow — Jessica Townsend (fiction)
  • What You Should Know About Politics…But Don’t — Jessamyn Conrad (nonfiction)
  • The Thread That Binds the Bones — Nina Kiriki Hoffman (fiction)
  • Blackflame — Will Wight (fiction)
  • The Borgias — G. J. Meyer (nonfiction)
  • And Then There Were None — Agatha Christie (fiction)
  • The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle — Stuart Turton (fiction)
  • Finish — Jon Acuff (nonfiction)
  • Master Assassins — Robert V. S. Redick (fiction)
  • How Will You Measure Your Life? — Clayton M. Christensen (nonfiction)

May 2020

  • Angler — Barton Gellman (nonfiction)
  • Struck by Genius — Jason Padgett (nonfiction)
  • A Memory Called Empire — Arkady Martine (fiction)
  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd — Agatha Christie (fiction)
  • Attachments — Rainbow Rowell (fiction)
  • The Art of Possibility — Rosamund Stone Zander (nonfiction)
  • Red Sister — Mark Lawrence (fiction)
  • Catch and Kill — Ronan Farrow (nonfiction)
  • I Contain Multitudes — Ed Yong (nonfiction)

April 2020

  • Blade’s Edge — Virginia McClain (fiction)
  • Blood of Heirs — Alicia Wanstall-Burke (fiction)
  • Bad Blood — John Carreyrou (nonfiction)
  • Cortés & Montezuma — Maurice Collis (nonfiction)
  • Along the Razor’s Edge — Rob J. Hayes (fiction)
  • The Road to Unfreedom — Timothy Snyder (nonfiction)
  • The Lore of Prometheus — Graham Austin-King (fiction)
  • The Lost 116 Pages — Don Bradley (nonfiction)
  • Fantasyland — Kurt Andersen (nonfiction)

March 2020

  • Reaper Man — Terry Pratchett (fiction)
  • Fortune’s Fool — Angela Boord (fiction)
  • Senlin Ascends — Josiah Bancroft (fiction)
  • The Northern Caves — Nostalgebraist (fiction)
  • Being Mortal — Atul Gawande (nonfiction)
  • The Fifth Season — N. K. Jemisin (fiction)
  • When Books Went to War — Molly Guptill Manning (nonfiction)
  • Turning Pro — Steven Pressfield (nonfiction)
  • The Ten Thousand Doors of January — Alix E. Harrow (fiction)

February 2020

  • True Grit — Charles Portis (fiction)
  • Minimum Wage Magic — Rachel Aaron (fiction)
  • Drift — Rachel Maddow (nonfiction)
  • The Blade Itself — Joe Abercrombie (fiction)
  • Just Mercy — Bryan Stevenson (nonfiction)
  • Poke the Box — Seth Godin (nonfiction)
  • American Kingpin — Nick Bilton (nonfiction)
  • The Sword of Kaigen — M. L. Wang (fiction)

January 2020

  • False Step — Victoria Helen Stone (fiction)
  • Cat’s Cradle — Kurt Vonnegut (fiction)
  • Pinpoint — Greg Milner (nonfiction)
  • Ultralearning — Scott Young (nonfiction)
  • The Bright Hour — Nina Riggs (nonfiction)
  • Traitor’s Blade — Sebastien de Castell (fiction)
  • Educated — Tara Westover (nonfiction)
  • The Remains of the Day — Kazuo Ishiguro (fiction)
  • Rosemary and Rue — Seanan McGuire (fiction)
  • A Craftsman’s Legacy — Eric Gorges (nonfiction)

2019 — 67 books

December 2019

  • Brothers in Arms — Lois McMaster Bujold (fiction)
  • How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method — Randy Ingermanson (nonfiction)
  • Lost and Found — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • The Bear and the Nightingale — Katherine Arden (fiction)
  • Recursion — Blake Crouch (fiction)
  • Persuadable — Al Pittampalli (nonfiction)
  • Becoming Superman — J. Michael Straczynski (nonfiction)
  • The Worlds of Medieval Europe — Clifford R. Backman (nonfiction)
  • Molly’s Game — Molly Bloom (nonfiction)

November 2019

  • Indistractable — Nir Eyal (nonfiction)
  • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes — Caitlin Doughty (nonfiction)
  • AI Superpowers — Kai-Fu Lee (nonfiction)
  • Lab Girl — Hope Jahren (nonfiction)
  • The Raven Boys — Maggie Stiefvater (fiction)
  • Children of Blood and Bone — Tomi Adeyemi (fiction)
  • Good to Great — Jim Collins (nonfiction)

October 2019

  • Atomic Habits — James Clear (nonfiction)
  • Quiet — Susan Cain (nonfiction)
  • Solomon’s Seal — Skyla Dawn Cameron (fiction)
  • The Light Between Worlds — Laura E. Weymouth (fiction)
  • Dark Money — Jane Mayer (nonfiction)
  • Dear Writer, You Need to Quit — Becca Syme (nonfiction)
  • Of Mice and Men — John Steinbeck (fiction)
  • A Savage Place — Robert B. Parker (fiction)
  • After Dark — Haruki Murakami (fiction)
  • Range — David Epstein (nonfiction)

September 2019

  • The Rook — Daniel O’Malley (fiction)
  • The Revenge of Analog — David Sax (nonfiction)
  • The Tiger — John Vaillant (nonfiction)

August 2019

  • Soulsmith — Will Wight (fiction)
  • Six of Crows — Leigh Bardugo (fiction)
  • The Hive — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • Digital Minimalism — Cal Newport (nonfiction)
  • 12 Strong — Doug Stanton (nonfiction)

July 2019

  • Aching God — Mike Shel (fiction)
  • Isaac’s Storm — Erik Larson (nonfiction)
  • Ego Is the Enemy — Ryan Holiday (nonfiction)
  • The World as It Is — Ben Rhodes (nonfiction)

June 2019

  • Crimes Against Magic — Steve McHugh (fiction)
  • Wyrd Sisters — Terry Pratchett (fiction)
  • Prisoners of Geography — Tim Marshall (nonfiction)
  • The Palace Job — Patrick Weekes (fiction)

May 2019

  • Story Trumps Structure — Steven James (nonfiction)
  • Death March — Phil Tucker (fiction)
  • When Breath Becomes Air — Paul Kalanithi (nonfiction)
  • Tubes — Andrew Blum (nonfiction)
  • Children of Time — Adrian Tchaikovsky (fiction)

April 2019

  • The Crimson Queen — Alec Hutson (fiction)
  • The Unicode Cookbook for Linguists — Steven Moran (nonfiction)
  • Coders — Clive Thompson (nonfiction)
  • Moon Shot — Jay Barbree (nonfiction)
  • One Word Kill — Mark Lawrence (fiction)
  • Into the Labyrinth — John Bierce (fiction)
  • The Traitor Baru Cormorant — Seth Dickinson (fiction)

March 2019

  • Touch — Claire North (fiction)
  • Word by Word — Kory Stamper (nonfiction)
  • Vicious — V. E. Schwab (fiction)

February 2019

  • The Big Roads — Earl Swift (nonfiction)
  • In Distant Lands — Lars Brownworth (nonfiction)
  • The Last Wish — Andrzej Sapkowski (fiction)
  • Dawn — Octavia Butler (fiction)
  • Harmony Black — Craig Schaefer (fiction)
  • 11/22/63 — Stephen King (fiction)

January 2019

  • Bébé Day by Day — Pamela Druckerman (nonfiction)
  • Hooked — Nir Eyal (nonfiction)
  • Unsouled — Will Wight (fiction)
  • The Steerswoman — Rosemary Kirstein (fiction)

2018 — 55 books

December 2018

  • Nemesis Games — James S. A. Corey (fiction)
  • Cetaganda — Lois McMaster Bujold (fiction)
  • The Shining — Stephen King (fiction)

November 2018

  • Edible — Daniella Martin (nonfiction)
  • Red Notice — Bill Browder (nonfiction)
  • Flash Boys — Michael Lewis (nonfiction)
  • The Light Fantastic — Terry Pratchett (fiction)

October 2018

  • Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman — Richard Feynman (nonfiction)
  • Children of the Fleet — Orson Scott Card (fiction)

September 2018

  • The Gatekeepers — Chris Whipple (nonfiction)
  • Cyberstorm — Matthew Mather (fiction)
  • The Lost City of the Monkey God — Douglas Preston (nonfiction)
  • The Forgotten Beasts of Eld — Patricia McKillip (fiction)

August 2018

  • Dark Matter — Blake Crouch (fiction)
  • Unsong — Scott Alexander (fiction)
  • Russian Roulette — Michael Isikoff (nonfiction)
  • Narconomics — Tom Wainwright (nonfiction)

July 2018

  • Argo — Antonio Mendez (nonfiction)
  • The Billion Dollar Spy — David E. Hoffman (nonfiction)
  • Black Flags — Joby Warrick (nonfiction)
  • The Midwich Cuckoos — John Wyndham (fiction)

June 2018

  • Sufficiently Advanced Magic — Andrew Rowe (fiction)
  • The Body Builders — Adam Piore (nonfiction)
  • Skin Game — Jim Butcher (fiction)
  • Cold Days — Jim Butcher (fiction)

May 2018

  • Annihilation — Jeff VanderMeer (fiction)
  • Grokking Algorithms — Aditya Y. Bhargava (nonfiction)
  • Ghost Story — Jim Butcher (fiction)
  • Changes — Jim Butcher (fiction)
  • They Mostly Come Out at Night — Benedict Patrick (fiction)
  • Turn Coat — Jim Butcher (fiction)
  • Leadership and Self-Deception — Arbinger Institute (nonfiction)
  • Small Favor — Jim Butcher (fiction)

April 2018

  • Pirate Hunters — Robert Kurson (nonfiction)
  • Deep Undercover — Jack Barsky (nonfiction)
  • Sphere — Michael Crichton (fiction)
  • Cibola Burn — James S. A. Corey (fiction)
  • The Bible Tells Me So — Peter Enns (nonfiction)

March 2018

  • White Night — Jim Butcher (fiction)
  • Proven Guilty — Jim Butcher (fiction)
  • Abaddon’s Gate — James S. A. Corey (fiction)
  • The Obstacle Is the Way — Ryan Holiday (nonfiction)
  • Dead Beat — Jim Butcher (fiction)
  • An Economist Gets Lunch — Tyler Cowen (nonfiction)

February 2018

  • Blood Rites — Jim Butcher (fiction)
  • Early Autumn — Robert B. Parker (fiction)
  • Caliban’s War — James S. A. Corey (fiction)

January 2018

  • Language of the Spirit — Jan Swafford (nonfiction)
  • A Fever in Salem — Laurie Winn Carlson (nonfiction)
  • Death Masks — Jim Butcher (fiction)
  • Soonish — Kelly Weinersmith (nonfiction)
  • The Time Traveler’s Wife — Audrey Niffenegger (fiction)
  • Carol Twombly — Nancy Stock-Allen (nonfiction)
  • That We May Be One — Tom Christofferson (nonfiction)
  • Super Structure — James Scott Bell (nonfiction)

2017 — 62 books

December 2017

  • Looking for Rachel Wallace — Robert B. Parker (fiction)
  • Pyramids — Terry Pratchett (fiction)
  • Summer Knight — Jim Butcher (fiction)
  • The League of Frightened Men — Rex Stout (fiction)
  • The Judas Goat — Robert B. Parker (fiction)
  • Edgedancer — Brandon Sanderson (fiction)
  • The Vor Game — Lois McMaster Bujold (fiction)
  • The Mountains of Mourning — Lois McMaster Bujold (fiction)
  • Promised Land — Robert B. Parker (fiction)

November 2017

  • Jurassic Park — Michael Crichton (fiction)
  • 1776 — David McCullough (nonfiction)
  • Shop Class as Soulcraft — Matthew B. Crawford (nonfiction)
  • Time Travelers Never Die — Jack McDevitt (fiction)
  • The Devil and Sherlock Holmes — David Grann (nonfiction)
  • Changes in Languages — Brian D. Stubbs (nonfiction)
  • Casino — Nicholas Pileggi (nonfiction)

October 2017

  • An Introduction to the Book of Abraham — John Gee (nonfiction)
  • Picture This — Molly Bang (nonfiction)
  • Fer-de-Lance — Rex Stout (fiction)
  • Mortal Stakes — Robert B. Parker (fiction)
  • Grave Peril — Jim Butcher (fiction)
  • The Bone House — Brian Freeman (fiction)
  • So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed — Jon Ronson (nonfiction)
  • Criminal — Karin Slaughter (fiction)

September 2017

  • The Psychopath Test — Jon Ronson (nonfiction)
  • Shoe Dog — Phil Knight (nonfiction)
  • Worm — Wildbow (fiction)
  • Equal Rites — Terry Pratchett (fiction)
  • Working Stiff — Judy Melinek (nonfiction)

August 2017

  • Shaken Faith Syndrome — Michael R. Ash (nonfiction)
  • Taco USA — Gustavo Arellano (nonfiction)

July 2017

  • The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August — Claire North (fiction)
  • Shadow — K. J. Parker (fiction)
  • Use of Weapons — Iain M. Banks (fiction)
  • How to Create Typefaces — Cristóbal Henestrosa (nonfiction)
  • The Exorcist — William Blatty (fiction)
  • Shakespeare: The World as Stage — Bill Bryson (nonfiction)
  • Over Your Dead Body — Dan Wells (fiction)

June 2017

  • Legion: Skin Deep — Brandon Sanderson (fiction)
  • Ones and Zeroes — Dan Wells (fiction)
  • The Color of Magic — Terry Pratchett (fiction)
  • The Emperor of Scent — Chandler Burr (nonfiction)

May 2017

  • Fight Club — Chuck Palahniuk (fiction)

April 2017

  • The Wee Free Men — Terry Pratchett (fiction)
  • Chanson de Geste — LVDB (fiction)
  • The Chronoliths — Robert Charles Wilson (fiction)
  • Bonk — Mary Roach (nonfiction)
  • The Dark Net — Jamie Bartlett (nonfiction)
  • Starship: Pirate — Mike Resnick (fiction)
  • Alone — Lisa Gardner (fiction)
  • Ra — Sam Hughes (fiction)

March 2017

  • Where Are the Children? — Mary Higgins Clark (fiction)
  • One for the Money — Janet Evanovich (fiction)
  • Mort — Terry Pratchett (fiction)
  • Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality — Eliezer Yudkowsky (fiction)

February 2017

  • Killing Floor — Lee Child (fiction)
  • A is for Alibi — Sue Grafton (fiction)

January 2017

  • Deadlock — Sara Paretsky (fiction)
  • Think — Simon Blackburn (nonfiction)
  • God Save the Child — Robert B. Parker (fiction)
  • Bowl of Heaven — Gregory Benford (fiction)
  • 1491 — Charles C. Mann (nonfiction)

2016 — 61 books

December 2016

  • Indemnity Only — Sara Paretsky (fiction)
  • Hamilton’s Curse — Thomas DiLorenzo (nonfiction)
  • Consider the Lobster — David Foster Wallace (nonfiction)
  • The Godwulf Manuscript — Robert B. Parker (fiction)
  • Starship Troopers — Robert A. Heinlein (fiction)
  • Infected — Scott Sigler (fiction)
  • The Braindead Megaphone — George Saunders (nonfiction)
  • Crosstalk — Connie Willis (fiction)

November 2016

  • Lincoln’s Dreams — Connie Willis (fiction)
  • Destiny Disrupted — Tamim Ansary (nonfiction)
  • Secret Gardens — Humphrey Carpenter (nonfiction)
  • The Dark Forest — Cixin Liu (fiction)
  • Night Watch — Terry Pratchett (fiction)

October 2016

  • The Cassandra Project — Jack McDevitt (fiction)
  • The Girl on the Train — Paula Hawkins (fiction)
  • The Pattern on the Stone — W. Daniel Hillis (nonfiction)
  • The Warrior’s Apprentice — Lois McMaster Bujold (fiction)
  • Hallucinations — Oliver Sacks (nonfiction)
  • Black Unicorn — Tanith Lee (fiction)

September 2016

  • The Swarm — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • What’s So Great About Christianity — Dinesh D’Souza (nonfiction)
  • The Engines of God — Jack McDevitt (fiction)

August 2016

  • Voices of Vision — Jayme Lynn Blaschke (nonfiction)
  • Inventology — Pagan Kennedy (nonfiction)
  • The Rights of the Reader — Daniel Pennac (nonfiction)
  • The Knights of the Cornerstone — James P. Blaylock (fiction)
  • The Checklist Manifesto — Atul Gawande (nonfiction)
  • The Toaster Project — Thomas Thwaites (nonfiction)
  • Triggers — Robert J. Sawyer (fiction)
  • The Anubis Gates — Tim Powers (fiction)

July 2016

  • Bluescreen — Dan Wells (fiction)
  • Roadside Picnic — Arkady Strugatsky (fiction)
  • Cold as Ice — Charles Sheffield (fiction)

June 2016

  • Free as in Freedom — Sam Williams (nonfiction)
  • Unruly Places — Alastair Bonnett (nonfiction)
  • Schooling the Prophet — Gerald E. Smith (nonfiction)
  • Shady Characters — Keith Houston (nonfiction)
  • Extreme Medicine — Kevin Fong (nonfiction)
  • Lost Fleet: Fearless — Jack Campbell (fiction)

May 2016

  • The Left Hand of Darkness — Ursula K. LeGuin (fiction)
  • Ready Player One — Ernest Cline (fiction)
  • Blindsight — Peter Watts (fiction)
  • Willful Child — Steven Erikson (fiction)
  • Mythago Wood — Robert Holdstock (fiction)

April 2016

  • Counterpunch — Fred Smeijers (nonfiction)
  • Fool Moon — Jim Butcher (fiction)
  • Unforgettable — Eric James Stone (fiction)

March 2016

  • The Quantum Thief — Hannu Rajaniemi (fiction)
  • The Girl with All the Gifts — M. R. Carey (fiction)
  • The Dorito Effect — Mark Schatzker (nonfiction)
  • Revelation Space — Alastair Reynolds (fiction)
  • Storm Front — Jim Butcher (fiction)
  • Calamity — Brandon Sanderson (fiction)

February 2016

  • The Magician’s Land — Lev Grossman (fiction)
  • Planted — Patrick Q. Mason (nonfiction)
  • The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction — Alan Jacobs (nonfiction)
  • The Bands of Mourning — Brandon Sanderson (fiction)

January 2016

  • Invisible Ink — Brian McDonald (nonfiction)
  • The Fall of Hyperion — Dan Simmons (fiction)
  • What If? — Randall Munroe (nonfiction)
  • A Talent for War — Jack McDevitt (fiction)

2015 — 70 books

December 2015

  • Childhood’s End — Arthur C. Clarke (fiction)
  • Gatefather — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • How Fiction Works — James Wood (nonfiction)

November 2015

  • Evolving Faith — Steven L. Peck (nonfiction)
  • The Magician King — Lev Grossman (fiction)
  • Among Others — Jo Walton (fiction)
  • Old Testament and Related Studies — Hugh Nibley (nonfiction)
  • Hyperion — Dan Simmons (fiction)
  • Mission of Gravity — Hal Clement (fiction)

October 2015

  • The Devil’s Only Friend — Dan Wells (fiction)
  • Darwinia — Robert Charles Wilson (fiction)
  • Late Antiquity: A Very Short Introduction — Gillian Clark (nonfiction)
  • Shadows of Self — Brandon Sanderson (fiction)
  • Rough Stone Rolling — Richard L. Bushman (nonfiction)
  • The Silence of the Lambs — Thomas Harris (fiction)
  • The Magicians — Lev Grossman (fiction)

September 2015

  • The Viper on the Hearth — Terryl Givens (nonfiction)
  • A Head Full of Ghosts — Paul Tremblay (fiction)
  • His Majesty’s Dragon — Naomi Novik (fiction)
  • Red Dragon — Thomas Harris (fiction)
  • Wyrms — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • While Europe Slept — Bruce Bawer (nonfiction)

August 2015

  • Marrow — Robert Reed (fiction)
  • Nanotech — Jack Dann (fiction)
  • Tau Zero — Poul Anderson (fiction)

July 2015

  • Salvador — Margaret Blair Young (fiction)
  • Barrayar — Lois McMaster Bujold (fiction)
  • The Forever War — Joe Haldeman (fiction)
  • Every Day — David Levithan (fiction)
  • Immortals — Jack Dann (fiction)
  • Illegal Alien — Robert J. Sawyer (fiction)

June 2015

  • Life in a Medieval City — Joseph Gies (nonfiction)
  • Shocked — David Casarett (nonfiction)
  • Biography: A Very Short Introduction — Hermione Lee (nonfiction)
  • Escape from Earth — Jack Dann (fiction)
  • City of Brick and Shadow — Tim Wirkus (fiction)
  • 13 Steps Down — Ruth Rendell (fiction)
  • The Bridge at Andau — James Michener (nonfiction)
  • Shards of Honor — Lois McMaster Bujold (fiction)
  • Millstone City — S.P. Bailey (fiction)

May 2015

  • The Spy Who Stayed Out in the Cold — Adrian Havill (nonfiction)
  • Eternal Man — Truman Madsen (nonfiction)
  • The Town — Bentley Little (fiction)
  • The Book of Oz Cooper — Society of Typographic Arts (nonfiction)
  • The Abolition of Man — C. S. Lewis (nonfiction)
  • The Three-Body Problem — Cixin Liu (fiction)
  • Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction — Paul Bahn (nonfiction)
  • Gateway — Frederik Pohl (fiction)
  • The Best Interface Is No Interface — Golden Krishna (nonfiction)
  • America Alone — Mark Steyn (nonfiction)

April 2015

  • Sun of Suns — Karl Schroeder (fiction)
  • The Crucible of Doubt — Terryl Givens (nonfiction)
  • Pushing Ice — Alastair Reynolds (fiction)
  • Carrie — Stephen King (fiction)
  • Lamentation — Ken Scholes (fiction)
  • Brain — Robin Cook (fiction)
  • Do No Harm — Henry Marsh (nonfiction)

March 2015

  • Making Money — Terry Pratchett (fiction)
  • The Golem and the Jinni — Helene Wecker (fiction)
  • Under the Dome — Stephen King (fiction)
  • Do the Work — Steven Pressfield (nonfiction)
  • This Is Not a Game — Walter Jon Williams (fiction)
  • The Onion Girl — Charles de Lint (fiction)

February 2015

  • Visitors — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • Firefight — Brandon Sanderson (fiction)

January 2015

  • Lost Fleet: Dauntless — Jack Campbell (fiction)
  • Ship of Magic — Robin Hobb (fiction)
  • Letters to a Young Mormon — Adam Miller (nonfiction)
  • The Goliath Stone — Larry Niven (fiction)
  • WWW: Wake — Robert J. Sawyer (fiction)

2014 — 38 books

December 2014

  • Cleopatra 7.2 — Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (fiction)
  • Steal Across the Sky — Nancy Kress (fiction)
  • Starship: Mutiny — Mike Resnick (fiction)

November 2014

  • Gone Girl — Gillian Flynn (fiction)
  • Eater — Gregory Benford (fiction)

October 2014

  • Darwin’s Radio — Greg Bear (fiction)
  • Hull Zero Three — Greg Bear (fiction)
  • The One-Eyed Man — L. E. Modesitt, Jr. (fiction)

September 2014

  • Stuff Matters — Mark Miodownik (nonfiction)
  • The Martian — Andy Weir (fiction)
  • Deadhouse Gates — Steven Erikson (fiction)

August 2014

  • Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers — L. Sprague de Camp (nonfiction)
  • Batman: Earth One — Geoff Johns (fiction)
  • Batman: The Killing Joke — Alan Moore (fiction)
  • Tyrannosaur Canyon — Douglas Preston (fiction)

July 2014

  • Incandescence — Greg Egan (fiction)
  • Mindhunter — John E. Douglas (nonfiction)

June 2014

  • How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy — Orson Scott Card (nonfiction)
  • Earth Awakens — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • Trespassing on Einstein’s Lawn — Amanda Gefter (nonfiction)
  • Batman: Hush — Jeph Loeb (fiction)
  • Songmaster — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • Batman: The Dark Knight Returns — Frank Miller (fiction)

May 2014

  • The Time Machine — H. M. Wells (fiction)
  • Doomsday Book — Connie Willis (fiction)

April 2014

  • The Stars My Destination — Alfred Bester (fiction)
  • Count to a Trillion — John C. Wright (fiction)
  • The 4% Universe — Richard Panek (nonfiction)
  • The Mote in God’s Eye — Larry Niven (fiction)

March 2014

  • Words of Radiance — Brandon Sanderson (fiction)

February 2014

  • Lovelock — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • Curious Minds — John Brockman (nonfiction)
  • Lies My Teacher Told Me — James W. Loewen (nonfiction)

January 2014

  • Rubicon — Tom Holland (nonfiction)
  • Food Rules — Michael Pollan (nonfiction)
  • Dispirited — Luisa M. Perkins (fiction)
  • Leviathan Wakes — James S. A. Corey (fiction)
  • The Dragon Reborn — Robert Jordan (fiction)

2013 — 30 books

December 2013

  • The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov (fiction)

October 2013

  • The Shadow of the Torturer — Gene Wolfe (fiction)
  • Steelheart — Brandon Sanderson (fiction)
  • Gardens of the Moon — Steven Erikson (fiction)

September 2013

  • A Fire Upon the Deep — Vernor Vinge (fiction)

August 2013

  • The Way of Kings — Brandon Sanderson (fiction)

July 2013

  • The Ocean at the End of the Lane — Neil Gaiman (fiction)
  • Kiln People — David Brin (fiction)

June 2013

  • Wild Seed — Octavia Butler (fiction)
  • Masters of Doom — David Kushner (nonfiction)
  • Earth Afire — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • The Rithmatist — Brandon Sanderson (fiction)
  • The God Who Weeps — Terryl Givens (nonfiction)

May 2013

  • Going Postal — Terry Pratchett (fiction)
  • Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell — Susanna Clarke (fiction)
  • Ender’s Game — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • Assassin’s Quest — Robin Hobb (fiction)

April 2013

  • The Gate Thief — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • Royal Assassin — Robin Hobb (fiction)

March 2013

  • An Introduction to the History of Printing Types — Geoffrey Dowding (nonfiction)
  • Axis — Robert Charles Wilson (fiction)
  • The Stroke Theory of Writing — Gerrit Noordzij (nonfiction)
  • Assassin’s Apprentice — Robin Hobb (fiction)
  • Three Days to Never — Tim Powers (fiction)

February 2013

  • A Short Stay in Hell — Steven Peck (fiction)
  • Spin — Robert Charles Wilson (fiction)
  • The Goblin Mirror — C. J. Cherryh (fiction)

January 2013

  • The Worthing Saga — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • Second Foundation — Isaac Asimov (fiction)
  • Foundation and Empire — Isaac Asimov (fiction)

2012 — 52 books

December 2012

  • The Great Hunt — Robert Jordan (fiction)
  • The Joy of X — Steven H. Strogatz (nonfiction)

November 2012

  • Mindstorms — Seymour Papert (nonfiction)
  • Foundation — Isaac Asimov (fiction)
  • The Emperor’s Soul — Brandon Sanderson (fiction)
  • Legion — Brandon Sanderson (fiction)
  • Ruins — Dan Wells (fiction)
  • The Dragonbone Chair — Tad Williams (fiction)

October 2012

  • Arts and Inspiration — Steven P. Sondrup (nonfiction)
  • Feedback — Robison Wells (fiction)

September 2012

  • The Hollow City — Dan Wells (fiction)
  • The Eye of the World — Robert Jordan (fiction)
  • Earth Unaware — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • Elantris — Brandon Sanderson (fiction)

August 2012

  • Foreigner — C. J. Cherryh (fiction)
  • How to Read Bridges — Edward Denison (nonfiction)
  • Warbreaker — Brandon Sanderson (fiction)

July 2012

  • A Night of Blacker Darkness — Dan Wells (fiction)
  • Treason — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • Artists’ Techniques and Materials — Antonella Fuga (nonfiction)
  • Dreams and Wishes — Susan Cooper (nonfiction)
  • The Emperor of All Maladies — Siddhartha Mukherjee (nonfiction)
  • Jhereg — Steven Brust (fiction)
  • Beowulf — Anonymous (fiction)
  • Sarah, Plain and Tall — Patricia MacLachlan (fiction)
  • The Crystal City — Orson Scott Card (fiction)

June 2012

  • Maphead — Ken Jennings (nonfiction)
  • Tuesdays at the Castle — Jessica Day George (fiction)
  • Curveball — Jordan Sonnenblick (fiction)
  • Heartfire — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • The Year 1000 — Robert Lacey (nonfiction)
  • An Anthropologist on Mars — Oliver Sacks (nonfiction)

May 2012

  • The Spying Heart — Katherine Paterson (nonfiction)
  • The Great Gilly Hopkins — Katherine Paterson (fiction)
  • The White Horse King — Benjamin R. Merkle (nonfiction)
  • Alvin Journeyman — Orson Scott Card (fiction)

April 2012

  • Worlds of Childhood — William Zinsser (nonfiction)
  • Partials — Dan Wells (fiction)
  • The Idea Factory — Jon Gertner (nonfiction)

March 2012

  • Prentice Alvin — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • Red Prophet — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • Shadows in Flight — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • Seventh Son — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • Shadow of the Giant — Orson Scott Card (fiction)

February 2012

  • Shadow Puppets — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • Generative Art — Matt Pearson (nonfiction)
  • Stonefather — Orson Scott Card (fiction)

January 2012

  • Shadow of the Hegemon — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • Divergent — Veronica Roth (fiction)
  • Soap making: Self-sufficiency — Sarah Ade (nonfiction)
  • The Alloy of Law — Brandon Sanderson (fiction)
  • Great Tales from English History 2 — Robert Lacey (nonfiction)

2011 — 51 books

December 2011

  • Prospero’s Children — Jan Siegel (fiction)
  • Wild Robert — Diana Wynne Jones (fiction)
  • When You Reach Me — Rebecca Stead (fiction)
  • A Stir of Bones — Nina Kiriki Hoffman (fiction)
  • Wonderstruck — Brian Selznick (fiction)

November 2011

  • Rot & Ruin — Jonathan Maberry (fiction)
  • Variant — Robison Wells (fiction)

October 2011

  • The Christian Imagination — Leland Ryken (nonfiction)
  • Eifelheim — Michael Flynn (fiction)
  • The Wise Man’s Fear — Patrick Rothfuss (fiction)

September 2011

  • Well of Ascension — Brandon Sanderson (fiction)
  • The Hero of Ages — Brandon Sanderson (fiction)

August 2011

  • Mistborn — Brandon Sanderson (fiction)
  • Expressive Anatomy for Comics and Narrative — Wil Eisner (nonfiction)
  • The Name of the Wind — Patrick Rothfuss (fiction)

July 2011

  • Half Magic — Edward Eager (fiction)
  • Zen in the Art of Writing — Ray Bradbury (nonfiction)
  • Color and Light — James Gurney (nonfiction)

June 2011

  • The Monstrumologist — Rick Yancey (fiction)
  • An Abundance of the Heart — Arthur Henry King (nonfiction)
  • Sean Griswold’s Head — Lindsey Leavitt (fiction)
  • A Lion and a Lamb — Rand Packer (nonfiction)
  • Pastwatch — Orson Scott Card (fiction)

May 2011

  • Smiles to Go — Jerry Spinelli (fiction)
  • Temple and Cosmos — Hugh Nibley (nonfiction)
  • Lettering & Type — Bruce Willen (nonfiction)
  • Notes from the Midnight Driver — Jordan Sonnenblick (fiction)
  • White Cat — Holly Black (fiction)
  • After Ever After — Jordan Sonnenblick (fiction)
  • Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie — Jordan Sonnenblick (fiction)
  • War of Gifts — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • Okay for Now — Gary Schmidt (fiction)

April 2011

  • The Dark and Hollow Places — Carrie Ryan (fiction)
  • Invasive Procedures — Aaron Johnston (fiction)
  • I Don’t Want to Kill You — Dan Wells (fiction)
  • The Lost Gate — Orson Scott Card (fiction)

March 2011

  • Letters to Malcolm — C. S. Lewis (nonfiction)
  • The Candymakers — Wendy Mass (fiction)
  • The Phantom Tollbooth — Norton Juster (fiction)
  • Show & Tell — Dilys Evans (nonfiction)

February 2011

  • The Poisoner’s Handbook — Deborah Blum (nonfiction)
  • Arthur Rackham — David Larkin (nonfiction)
  • Stradivari’s Genius — Tony Faber (nonfiction)
  • Packing for Mars — Mary Roach (nonfiction)

January 2011

  • Learning All the Time — John Holt (nonfiction)
  • The Man Who Deciphered Linear B — Andrew Robinson (nonfiction)
  • Holes — Louis Sachar (fiction)
  • The Gardener — S. A. Bodeen (fiction)
  • Spook — Mary Roach (nonfiction)
  • The Ring of Solomon — Jonathan Stroud (fiction)
  • Pathfinder — Orson Scott Card (fiction)

2010 — 48 books

December 2010

  • Matched — Ally Condie (fiction)
  • Stiff — Mary Roach (nonfiction)
  • The Dark Side of Nowhere — Neal Shusterman (fiction)
  • Mr. Monster — Dan Wells (fiction)
  • Antsy Does Time — Neal Shusterman (fiction)
  • The Magic Circle — Donna Jo Napoli (fiction)
  • Homebody — Orson Scott Card (fiction)

November 2010

  • Darth Bane: Path of Destruction — Drew Karpyshyn (fiction)
  • The Schwa Was Here — Neal Shusterman (fiction)
  • Bruiser — Neal Shusterman (fiction)

October 2010

  • Beauty — Robin McKinley (fiction)
  • My Double Life — Janette Rallison (fiction)
  • Catalyst — Laurie Halse Anderson (fiction)
  • The Young Merlin Trilogy — Jane Yolen (fiction)
  • The Chosen One — Carol Lynch Williams (fiction)

September 2010

  • Mockingjay — Suzanne Collins (fiction)

August 2010

  • Incarceron — Catherine Fisher (fiction)
  • My Fair Godmother — Janette Rallison (fiction)

July 2010

  • The Dead-Tossed Waves — Carrie Ryan (fiction)
  • William Caxton & His Work — George Parker Winship (nonfiction)
  • For the Win — Cory Doctorow (fiction)
  • Hidden Empire — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • Detail in Typography — Jost Hochuli (nonfiction)

June 2010

  • Web Form Design — Luke Wroblewski (nonfiction)

May 2010

  • It’s a Mall World After All — Janette Rallison (fiction)
  • Fame, Glory, and Other Things On My To-Do List — Janette Rallison (fiction)
  • Just One Wish — Janette Rallison (fiction)
  • The Angel of Death — Alane Ferguson (fiction)
  • All’s Fair in Love, War, and High School — Janette Rallison (fiction)
  • Specials — Scott Westerfeld (fiction)
  • The Christopher Killer — Alane Ferguson (fiction)
  • Playing the Field — Janette Rallison (fiction)

April 2010

  • Treasure Box — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • The Killer’s Cousin — Nancy Werlin (fiction)
  • If You Want to Write — Brenda Ueland (nonfiction)
  • Full Tilt — Neal Shusterman (fiction)
  • Leviathan — Scott Westerfeld (fiction)

March 2010

  • Secrets to Drawing Realistic Faces — Carrie Stuart Parks (nonfiction)

February 2010

  • Outliers — Malcolm Gladwell (nonfiction)
  • Tribes — Seth Godin (nonfiction)
  • The Tale of Despereaux — Kate DiCamillo (fiction)
  • The Sea of Monsters — Rick Riordan (fiction)
  • The Bourne Identity — Robert Ludlum (fiction)
  • I Am Not a Serial Killer — Dan Wells (fiction)

January 2010

  • The Forest of Hands and Teeth — Carrie Ryan (fiction)
  • The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner’s Dilemma — Trenton Lee Stewart (fiction)
  • The View from Saturday — E. L. Konigsburg (fiction)
  • The Lightning Thief — Rick Riordan (fiction)

2009 — 37 books

December 2009

  • The Book Thief — Marcus Zusak (fiction)
  • Enchantment — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • Pretties — Scott Westerfeld (fiction)
  • The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey — Trenton Lee Stewart (fiction)
  • Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow — Jessica Day George (fiction)

November 2009

  • Complications — Atul Gawande (nonfiction)

July 2009

  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society — Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows (fiction)
  • Catching Fire — Suzanne Collins (fiction)
  • Ender in Exile — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • Things As They Really Are — Neal A. Maxwell (nonfiction)

June 2009

  • Everlost — Neal Shusterman (fiction)
  • The Mysterious Benedict Society — Trenton Lee Stewart (fiction)
  • The Wednesday Wars — Gary Schmidt (fiction)
  • City of Ashes — Cassandra Clare (fiction)
  • Wings — Aprilynne Pike (fiction)

May 2009

  • Unwind — Neal Shusterman (fiction)
  • The War of Art — Steven Pressfield (nonfiction)
  • City of Bones — Cassandra Clare (fiction)
  • The Thief — Megan Whalen Turner (fiction)

April 2009

  • Uglies — Scott Westerfeld (fiction)
  • Jellicoe Road — Melina Marchetta (fiction)
  • Bright Blue Miracle — Becca Wilhite (fiction)
  • J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century — T. A. Shippey (nonfiction)
  • Beginnings, Middles & Ends — Nancy Kress (nonfiction)
  • The Revolution: A Manifesto — Ron Paul (nonfiction)

March 2009

  • Inside Job — Connie Willis (fiction)
  • The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks — E. Lockhart (fiction)
  • On Directing Film — David Mamet (nonfiction)
  • Clever Maids — Valerie Paradiz (nonfiction)
  • Little Brother — Cory Doctorow (fiction)
  • Death by Meeting — Patrick Lencioni (nonfiction)

February 2009

  • CONTENT — Cory Doctorow (nonfiction)
  • Crossworld — Marc Romano (nonfiction)
  • Reading the OED — Ammon Shea (nonfiction)

January 2009

  • The Game — Diana Wynne Jones (fiction)
  • Amusing Ourselves to Death — Neil Postman (nonfiction)
  • Magic Street — Orson Scott Card (fiction)

2008 — 38 books

December 2008

  • Conversations with Screenwriters — Susan Katz (nonfiction)
  • The Hunger Games — Suzanne Collins (fiction)
  • And There Was Light — Jacques Lusseyran (nonfiction)
  • Love, Stargirl — Jerry Spinelli (fiction)
  • The Graveyard Book — Neil Gaiman (fiction)
  • Passage — Connie Willis (fiction)

November 2008

  • The Creative Habit — Twyla Tharp (nonfiction)
  • Prey — Michael Crichton (fiction)
  • Don’t Make Me Think — Steve Krug (nonfiction)
  • The Ten Commandments of Typography — Paul Felton (nonfiction)

October 2008

  • Stargirl — Jerry Spinelli (fiction)
  • To Infinity and Beyond — Karen Paik (nonfiction)
  • The Pixar Touch — David A. Price (nonfiction)

September 2008

  • The Invention of Hugo Cabret — Brian Selznick (fiction)
  • Art and Fear — David Bayles (nonfiction)
  • As Long As I Have You — Dean Hughes (fiction)
  • Conversations with Mormon Authors — Chris Bigelow (nonfiction)
  • Bird by Bird — Anne Lamott (nonfiction)

August 2008

  • Ptolemy’s Gate — Jonathan Stroud (fiction)

July 2008

  • A Voyage to Arcturus — David Lindsay (fiction)
  • Mummy’s the Word — Kerry Blair (fiction)

June 2008

  • The Golem’s Eye — Jonathan Stroud (fiction)
  • Every Book Its Reader — Nicholas Basbanes (nonfiction)

May 2008

  • American Born Chinese — Gene Luen Yang (fiction)
  • The Amulet of Samarkand — Jonathan Stroud (fiction)
  • Wit — Margaret Edson (fiction)
  • The Arm of the Starfish — Madeleine L’Engle (fiction)
  • The Kite Runner — Khaled Hosseini (fiction)
  • The Lord’s Question — Dennis Rasmussen (nonfiction)

March 2008

  • Book of a Thousand Days — Shannon Hale (fiction)
  • Madeleine L’Engle: Herself — Madeleine L’Engle (nonfiction)
  • The Perilous Gard — Elizabeth Marie Pope (fiction)

February 2008

  • Light in the Wilderness — M. Catherine Thomas (nonfiction)
  • Princess Academy — Shannon Hale (fiction)
  • Enna Burning — Shannon Hale (fiction)

January 2008

  • The Goose Girl — Shannon Hale (fiction)
  • To Say Nothing of the Dog — Connie Willis (fiction)
  • The Sacrament — Truman G. Madsen (nonfiction)

2007 — 58 books

December 2007

  • Empire — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • 84, Charing Cross Road — Helene Hanff (nonfiction)
  • Dogsbody — Diana Wynne Jones (fiction)
  • The Princess Bride — William Goldman (fiction)
  • A Grief Observed — C. S. Lewis (nonfiction)

November 2007

  • Red Prophet — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • The Sherwood Ring — Elizabeth Marie Pope (fiction)
  • Bellwether — Connie Willis (fiction)
  • Rules of Engagement — Stephanie Fowers (fiction)
  • The Thirteenth Tale — Diane Setterfield (fiction)

October 2007

  • Doomsday Book — Connie Willis (fiction)

September 2007

  • Archer’s Goon — Diana Wynne Jones (fiction)

August 2007

  • When We Meet Again — Dean Hughes (fiction)
  • Seventh Son — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • The Prisoner of Zenda — Anthony Hope (fiction)
  • The Hero and the Crown — Robin McKinley (fiction)

July 2007

  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — J. K. Rowling (fiction)
  • Castle in the Air — Diana Wynne Jones (fiction)
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban — J. K. Rowling (fiction)

June 2007

  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets — J. K. Rowling (fiction)
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone — J. K. Rowling (fiction)
  • Peter and the Starcatchers — Dave Barry (fiction)
  • Children of the Mind — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • Jonathan Livingston Seagull — Richard Bach (fiction)

May 2007

  • Principles of Three-Dimensional Computer Graphics — Michael O’Rourke (nonfiction)
  • Persuasion — Jane Austen (fiction)
  • Xenocide — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • First Meetings — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • Speaker for the Dead — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • A Sense of Wonder — Katherine Paterson (nonfiction)
  • Shadow of the Giant — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • Mixed Magics — Diana Wynne Jones (fiction)

April 2007

  • Passage to Zarahemla — Chris Heimerdinger (fiction)
  • Shadow Puppets — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • Shadow of the Hegemon — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • The Ratvolution Will Not Be Televised — Stephan Pastis (fiction)
  • Ender’s Shadow — Orson Scott Card (fiction)

March 2007

  • Nighthogs — Stephan Pastis (fiction)
  • The Wand in the Word — Leonard Marcus (nonfiction)
  • To Catch a Falling Star — Julie Wright (fiction)
  • Sgt Piggy’s Lonely Hearts Club Comic — Stephan Pastis (fiction)
  • Matte Painting — d’Artiste (nonfiction)
  • BLTs Taste So Darn Good — Stephan Pastis (fiction)
  • Fire and Hemlock — Diana Wynne Jones (fiction)
  • Bridge to Terabithia — Katherine Paterson (fiction)
  • All the Pretty Horses — Cormac McCarthy (fiction)
  • Eight Days of Luke — Diana Wynne Jones (fiction)
  • The Complete Animation Course — Chris Patmore (nonfiction)

February 2007

  • Hexwood — Diana Wynne Jones (fiction)

January 2007

  • And the Earth Did Not Devour Him — Tomas Rivera (fiction)
  • Far from Home — Dean Hughes (fiction)
  • The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald (fiction)
  • Conrad’s Fate — Diana Wynne Jones (fiction)
  • One More River to Cross — Margaret Blair Young (fiction)
  • Yekl — Abraham Cahan (fiction)
  • Witch Week — Diana Wynne Jones (fiction)
  • The Magicians of Caprona — Diana Wynne Jones (fiction)
  • Laws of Simplicity — John Maeda (nonfiction)

2006 — 68 books

December 2006

  • Prince Caspian — C. S. Lewis (fiction)
  • Howl’s Moving Castle — Diana Wynne Jones (fiction)
  • Understanding Comics — Scott McCloud (nonfiction)
  • The Lives of Christopher Chant — Diana Wynne Jones (fiction)
  • Charmed Life — Diana Wynne Jones (fiction)
  • The Importance of Being Earnest — Oscar Wilde (fiction)
  • Blink — Malcolm Gladwell (nonfiction)
  • The Magician’s Nephew — C. S. Lewis (fiction)
  • Here, There Be Dragons — James A. Owen (fiction)
  • Since You Were Away — Dean Hughes (fiction)
  • Till We Have Faces — C. S. Lewis (fiction)
  • Shadowlands — William Nicholson (fiction)
  • Brittany — Jack Weyland (fiction)

November 2006

  • Phantastes — George MacDonald (fiction)
  • A Grief Observed — C. S. Lewis (nonfiction)
  • Rumors of War — Dean Hughes (fiction)
  • A Whole New Mind — Daniel Pink (nonfiction)
  • War in Heaven — Charles Williams (fiction)
  • An Experiment in Criticism — C. S. Lewis (nonfiction)
  • Fablehaven — Brandon Mull (fiction)
  • The Four Loves — C. S. Lewis (nonfiction)
  • The Last Battle — C. S. Lewis (fiction)
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe — C. S. Lewis (fiction)

October 2006

  • The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book — Cher Threinen-Pendarvis (nonfiction)
  • Perelandra — C. S. Lewis (fiction)
  • Sam — Jack Weyland (fiction)
  • Alone, Together — Jack Weyland (fiction)
  • Charly — Jack Weyland (fiction)
  • The Silver Chair — C. S. Lewis (fiction)
  • Miracles — C. S. Lewis (nonfiction)
  • The Understudy — Jack Weyland (fiction)

September 2006

  • Visual Explanations — Edward Tufte (nonfiction)
  • Mere Christianity — C. S. Lewis (nonfiction)
  • Envisioning Information — Edward Tufte (nonfiction)
  • The Gammage Cup — Carol Kendall (fiction)
  • Michael Graves — Julie Iovine (nonfiction)
  • The Abolition of Man — C. S. Lewis (nonfiction)
  • The Great Divorce — C. S. Lewis (fiction)
  • Thinking with Type — Ellen Lupton (nonfiction)
  • Coraline — Neil Gaiman (fiction)

August 2006

  • Wanting More — Mark Chamberlain (nonfiction)
  • Rachel and Leah — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë (fiction)
  • Heir to the Empire — Timothy Zahn (fiction)

July 2006

  • A Return to Modesty — Wendy Shalit (nonfiction)
  • Rebekah — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • Silver on the Tree — Susan Cooper (fiction)
  • The Spirit of Writing — Mark Robert Waldman (nonfiction)
  • A Storyteller in Zion — Orson Scott Card (nonfiction)
  • Death Comes for the Archbishop — Willa Cather (fiction)
  • Sarah — Orson Scott Card (fiction)
  • The Grey King — Susan Cooper (fiction)
  • The Writer’s Mentor — Ian Jackman (nonfiction)

June 2006

  • The Restaurant at the End of the Universe — Douglas Adams (fiction)
  • The Screwtape Letters — C. S. Lewis (fiction)
  • Angels Don’t Knock — Dan Yates (fiction)
  • A Heart Like His — Virginia Pearce (fiction)
  • All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten — Robert Fulghum (nonfiction)
  • Through the Looking-Glass — Lewis Carroll (fiction)
  • I Kissed Dating Goodbye — Joshua Harris (nonfiction)
  • Uncommon Genius — Denise Shekerjian (nonfiction)

May 2006

  • This Is My God — Hermann Wouk (nonfiction)

March 2006

  • Alice in Wonderland — Lewis Carroll (fiction)
  • Arm the Children — Arthur Henry King (nonfiction)
  • To Draw Closer to God — Henry B. Eyring (nonfiction)

February 2006

  • The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life — Steve Leveen (nonfiction)

January 2006

  • The Great Divorce — C. S. Lewis (fiction)
  • Lenten Lands — Douglas Gresham (nonfiction)

2005 — 29 books

December 2005

  • Till We Have Faces — C. S. Lewis (fiction)
  • Designing from Both Sides of the Screen — Ellen Isaacs (nonfiction)
  • The Christmas Box Miracle — Richard Paul Evans (fiction)
  • That Hideous Strength — C. S. Lewis (fiction)
  • User Interface Design for Programmers — Joel Spolsky (nonfiction)
  • The Crafty Art of Playmaking — Alan Ayckbourn (nonfiction)

October 2005

  • The Boggart — Susan Cooper (fiction)
  • The Island of Lost Maps — Miles Harvey (nonfiction)
  • Greenwitch — Susan Cooper (fiction)
  • Dreams and Wishes — Susan Cooper (nonfiction)

September 2005

  • Lemony Snicket: The Bad Beginning — Lemony Snicket (fiction)
  • Reading the Map of Knowledge — Peter Michael Briscoe (nonfiction)
  • Book Business — Jason Epstein (nonfiction)

August 2005

  • Illustrator CS Most Wanted — Matt Kloskowski (nonfiction)
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince — J. K. Rowling (fiction)
  • Mathematicians Are People, Too, vol. 1 — Luetta Reimer (nonfiction)
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix — J. K. Rowling (fiction)
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire — J. K. Rowling (fiction)
  • The Giver — Lois Lowry (fiction)

July 2005

  • Great Literature and the Good Life — Sterling W. Sill (nonfiction)
  • Writing Down the Bones — Natalie Goldberg (nonfiction)
  • Worlds of Childhood — William Zinsser (nonfiction)
  • The Art of 3-D Computer Animation — Isaac Kerlow (nonfiction)
  • The Alchemist — Paulo Coelho (fiction)
  • The Scarlet Letter — Nathaniel Hawthorne (fiction)
  • Illustrating Children’s Books — Martin Salisbury (nonfiction)

May 2005

  • The Richest Man in Babylon — George Clason (nonfiction)
  • Used and Rare — Nancy Goldstone (nonfiction)

April 2005

  • To the Treasures of Babylon — George Clason (nonfiction)

2004 — 6 books

December 2004

  • Bonds That Make Us Free — C. Terry Warner (nonfiction)
  • Of the Making of Books — William Jovanovich (nonfiction)
  • The Case for Legibility — John Ryder (nonfiction)
  • The Dark Is Rising — Susan Cooper (fiction)
  • Over Sea, Under Stone — Susan Cooper (fiction)

September 2004

  • Out of the Silent Planet — C. S. Lewis (fiction)

2002 — 39 books

August 2002

  • Jesus the Christ — James Talmage (nonfiction)

July 2002

  • Two Years in God’s Mormon Army — Ross Palfreyman (nonfiction)
  • Simple Etiquette in Thailand — Derek Tonkin (nonfiction)

June 2002

  • Kilmeny of the Orchard — L. M. Montgomery (fiction)
  • The Ball and the Cross — G. K. Chesterton (fiction)
  • Anne of Avonlea — L. M. Montgomery (fiction)
  • Anne of Green Gables — L. M. Montgomery (fiction)

May 2002

  • Across China — Peter Jenkins (nonfiction)
  • Sunshine for the LDS Missionary Soul — Eagle Gate (nonfiction)
  • Strong Poison — Dorothy Sayers (fiction)
  • Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons — Bill Watterson (fiction)
  • A Brief History of Time — Stephen Hawking (nonfiction)
  • The Story of the Treasure Seekers — E. Nesbit (fiction)
  • Culture Shock: Thailand — Nanthapa Cooper (nonfiction)
  • Culture for Missionaries: Thailand — LDS LTM (nonfiction)
  • Prepare with Honor — Randy Bott (nonfiction)

April 2002

  • Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë (fiction)
  • Love — Leo Buscaglia (nonfiction)
  • A Grief Observed — C. S. Lewis (nonfiction)
  • The Magic Mountain — Thomas Mann (fiction)
  • Caesar’s Gallic War, Book One (Latin) — Caesar (nonfiction)
  • Missionaries to Match Our Message — Ezra Taft Benson (nonfiction)
  • What I Wish I’d Known Before… — John Bytheway (nonfiction)
  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — James Joyce (fiction)

March 2002

  • Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy (fiction)
  • The Wild Duck — Henrik Ibsen (fiction)
  • Goethe’s Key to Faust — William Page Andrews (nonfiction)
  • Goethe’s Faust: A Critical Reading — Liselotte Dieckmann (nonfiction)

February 2002

  • Faust — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (fiction)
  • How to Learn a Foreign Language — Graham Fuller (nonfiction)
  • Caesar as a Man of Letters — F. E. Adcock (nonfiction)
  • The Sorrows of Young Werther — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (fiction)

January 2002

  • Candide — Voltaire (fiction)
  • An Experiment in Criticism — C. S. Lewis (nonfiction)
  • Forgotten Scripts — Cyrus H. Gordon (nonfiction)
  • A Winter’s Tale — William Shakespeare (fiction)
  • A Marvelous Work and a Wonder — LeGrand Richards (nonfiction)
  • King Lear — William Shakespeare (fiction)
  • Don Quixote — Miguel Cervantes (fiction)

2001 — 99 books

December 2001

  • Silver on the Tree — Susan Cooper (fiction)
  • Discourses of Brigham Young — Brigham Young (nonfiction)
  • Letters to an American Lady — C. S. Lewis (nonfiction)
  • Serve With Honor — Randy Bott (nonfiction)
  • The Grey King — Susan Cooper (fiction)
  • Latin Syntax — W. Michael Wilson (nonfiction)
  • Language Myths — Laurie Bauer (nonfiction)
  • The Scholar-Adventurers — Richard Altick (nonfiction)
  • The Irish Language — David Greene (nonfiction)
  • Greenwitch — Susan Cooper (fiction)

November 2001

  • The Ruby in the Smoke — Philip Pullman (fiction)
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone — J. K. Rowling (fiction)
  • Six Weeks Preparation for Reading Caesar — James Whiton (nonfiction)
  • Looking for Angels — Steven P. Osborne (nonfiction)
  • The Book of Enoch — R. H. Charles (nonfiction)
  • Standing for Something — Gordon B. Hinckley (nonfiction)
  • Enoch the Prophet — Hugh Nibley (nonfiction)
  • The Dark Is Rising — Susan Cooper (fiction)
  • A Guide to the Joseph Smith Papyri — John Gee (nonfiction)

October 2001

  • Language in Thought and Action — S. I. Hayakawa (nonfiction)
  • The Holy Grail — Justin Griffin (nonfiction)
  • The Figure of Arthur — Charles Williams (nonfiction)
  • Over Sea, Under Stone — Susan Cooper (fiction)
  • King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table — Anne Berthelot (nonfiction)
  • In Search of Our Ancestors — Megan Smolenyak (nonfiction)

September 2001

  • A Swiftly Tilting Planet — Madeleine L’Engle (fiction)
  • The Man Who Was Thursday — G. K. Chesterton (fiction)

August 2001

  • Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith — Joseph Smith (nonfiction)
  • Mere Christianity — C. S. Lewis (nonfiction)

July 2001

  • Antigone — Sophocles (fiction)
  • Oedipus at Colonus — Sophocles (fiction)
  • The Life and Works of Escher — Miranda Fellows (nonfiction)
  • The Story of the Amulet — E. Nesbit (fiction)
  • Read and Grow Rich — Burke Hedges (nonfiction)
  • As You Like It — William Shakespeare (fiction)
  • Heretics — G. K. Chesterton (nonfiction)
  • Mathematicians Are People, Too, vol. 2 — Luetta Reimer (nonfiction)
  • Mathematicians Are People, Too, vol. 1 — Luetta Reimer (nonfiction)
  • The Naked Sun — Isaac Asimov (fiction)
  • Essays in the Art of Writing — Robert Louis Stevenson (nonfiction)
  • The Phoenix and the Carpet — E. Nesbit (fiction)

June 2001

  • Ozma of Oz — L. Frank Baum (fiction)
  • The Caves of Steel — Isaac Asimov (fiction)
  • The Canterbury Tales — Geoffrey Chaucer (fiction)
  • Language: The Basics — Larry Trask (nonfiction)
  • Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior — George Washington (nonfiction)
  • Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen (fiction)
  • Beowulf — Francis Barton Gummere (fiction)
  • The Wood Beyond the World — William Morris (fiction)
  • The Hobbit — J. R. R. Tolkien (fiction)
  • Meno — Plato (nonfiction)

May 2001

  • Ion — Plato (nonfiction)
  • The Apology — Plato (nonfiction)
  • The Story of the Dictionary — Robert Kraske (nonfiction)
  • On Writing Well — William Zinsser (nonfiction)
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams (fiction)
  • Within Reach — Robert Millet (nonfiction)
  • Essays in Little — Andrew Lang (nonfiction)
  • The Innocence of Father Brown — G. K. Chesterton (fiction)
  • King Solomon’s Mines — H. Rider Haggard (fiction)

April 2001

  • The Holy Temple — Boyd K. Packer (nonfiction)
  • Five Children and It — E. Nesbit (fiction)
  • My Lost Mexico — James Michener (nonfiction)
  • Lords of the Elves and Eldils — Richard Purtill (nonfiction)
  • From Homer to Joyce — J. Sherwood Weber (nonfiction)
  • Foundation — Isaac Asimov (fiction)
  • Teach Yourself Beginner’s Latin — G. D. A. Sharpley (nonfiction)
  • The Journey Beyond Life, vol. 1 — David R. Willmore (nonfiction)
  • The Comedy of Errors — William Shakespeare (fiction)
  • The Merchant of Venice — William Shakespeare (fiction)

March 2001

  • The Marvelous Land of Oz — L. Frank Baum (fiction)
  • Candide — Voltaire (fiction)
  • Letters on Literature — Andrew Lang (nonfiction)
  • The Princess and Curdie — George MacDonald (fiction)
  • The Book of Literary Lists — Nicholas Parsons (nonfiction)
  • The Children on the Hill — Michael Deakin (nonfiction)
  • The Day Boy and the Night Girl — George MacDonald (fiction)
  • The Shadows — George MacDonald (fiction)
  • A Wind in the Door — Madeleine L’Engle (fiction)

February 2001

  • Twenty and Ten — Claire Huchet Bishop (fiction)
  • The Giant’s Heart — George MacDonald (fiction)
  • The Light Princess — George MacDonald (fiction)
  • The Portent — George MacDonald (fiction)
  • The Golden Key — George MacDonald (fiction)
  • Phantastes — George MacDonald (fiction)
  • The Story of the Trapp Family Singers — Maria von Trapp (nonfiction)
  • The Jungle — Upton Sinclair (fiction)
  • At Home With Books — Estelle Ellis (nonfiction)
  • The Inklings — Humphrey Carpenter (nonfiction)
  • The Princess and the Goblin — George MacDonald (fiction)
  • On Fairy-Stories — J. R. R. Tolkien (nonfiction)

January 2001

  • Used and Rare — Nancy Goldstone (nonfiction)
  • A Light in the Storm — Chris Heimerdinger (fiction)
  • Zadig — Voltaire (fiction)
  • For the Love of Books — Ronald B. Shwartz (nonfiction)
  • The Federalist Papers — Alexander Hamilton (nonfiction)
  • The Screwtape Letters — C. S. Lewis (fiction)
  • Letters to Children — C. S. Lewis (nonfiction)
  • Novus Ordo Seclorum — Forrest McDonald (nonfiction)

2000 — 12 books

December 2000

  • The Delights of Reading — Otto L. Bettmann (nonfiction)
  • The C. S. Lewis Hoax — Kathryn Lindskoog (nonfiction)
  • A Wrinkle in Time — Madeleine L’Engle (fiction)
  • That Hideous Strength — C. S. Lewis (fiction)
  • Learning All the Time — John Holt (nonfiction)
  • Perelandra — C. S. Lewis (fiction)

November 2000

  • Superlearning — Nancy Ostrander (nonfiction)
  • Dune — Frank Herbert (fiction)
  • Many Are Called But Few Are Chosen — H. Verlan Andersen (nonfiction)
  • Out of the Silent Planet — C. S. Lewis (fiction)
  • One Tattered Angel — Brent Yorgason (fiction)

October 2000

  • The Great Divorce — C. S. Lewis (fiction)

Books more people should read

(In my opinion.) Listed alphabetically by title.

Favorite authors

Listed alphabetically by last name. I generally don’t add authors here unless I’ve read more than one thing by them.

Fiction

Nonfiction

Other reading lists

If you’re aware of any others, please send them to me.