Reading
Books I’ve read, newest to oldest. Fiction is marked with a . I’m always open to recommendations. Also, at the end of this page there are links to other similar reading lists.
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2022
January 2022
- An Essay on Typography
- The Cubans
- The Making of Prince of Persia
- Ecclesiastical History of the English People
- Rogue Protocol
- A Desolation Called Peace
- The Golden Thread
2021
December 2021
- Artificial Condition
- How to Rule an Empire and Get Away With It
- There Is No Antimemetics Division
- All Systems Red
- Duplex
- Working
- The Last Graduate
- Spy Handler
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Press Reset
November 2021
- Flying on the Inside
- The Last Shadow
- The Dragon Republic
- Responsible JavaScript
- Flexible Typesetting
- Several Short Sentences About Writing
- Merchants of Doubt
October 2021
- Historia Calamitatum
- How to Live
- Italic
- The Riddle of the Labyrinth
- Type Tricks
- Blood River
- Radical Candor
- The Golden Secrets of Lettering
- In Progress
- Foundation
- Cursed
- Giambattista Bodoni
- Under the Pendulum Sun
September 2021
- Seahenge
- An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth
- The Midnight Library
- Sidewinders
- Twenty Bits I Learned About Making Fonts
- Sitting Pretty
- This Is What America Looks Like
- The Pragmatic Programmer
- Tower Dog
- The Once and Future Witches
August 2021
- The Lies of Locke Lamora
- Daily Rituals: Women at Work
- Permanent Record
- Cicero
- A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
- Fated
- The Day of the Triffids
- Creativity, Inc.
July 2021
- Knight’s Shadow
- Broad Band
- Yours in Truth
- Or What You Will
- Jade City
- Billion Dollar Loser
- The Aleppo Codex
June 2021
- Project Hail Mary
- How to Do Nothing
- Madam Secretary
- Before They Are Hanged
May 2021
- A Disciple’s Life
- Cryptonomicon
- The Song Machine
- The Buried Giant
- Shimmerdark
- Genius
- Skysworn
April 2021
- Borne
- Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
- The City of Brass
- Eyes in the Sky
- Underground
- Exhalation
- Creative Selection
March 2021
- Benjamin Franklin
- Ceremony
- The Bone Shard Daughter
- Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
- How Asia Works
- Harrow the Ninth
- The Ten Books of Architecture
February 2021
- Mirror Dance
- Coretta
- Babylon’s Ashes
- Borders of Infinity
- On the Shoulders of Titans
- How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day
January 2021
- The Firsts
- Seven at Sea
- The Gameshouse
- The Ghost Map
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
- Killer Dungeon
2020
December 2020
- The Road
- Stalling for Time
- Midnight Riot
- The Humans
- She Said
- Grinding It Out
- Longitude
- Radicalized
- A Deadly Education
- Limited Wish
- How to Think
November 2020
- The Ride of a Lifetime
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- Battle Ground
- Obama: An Oral History
- Piranesi
- World War Z
October 2020
- Half a Soul
- Blood, Sweat, and Pixels
- We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
- The Black Company
- The Physics of the Dead
- How to Stop Time
- Peace Talks
- The Dream Machine
September 2020
- The Last Days of Socrates
- The Crossing Places
- The Poppy War
- Currently
- Fear
- Diaspora
August 2020
- Silas Marner
- Eminent Victorians
- This Is How You Lose the Time War
- Middlegame
- The Substance of Civilization
- Saints, volume 1
- Letters from a Shipwreck in the Sea of Suns & Moons
- Servant of the Underworld
July 2020
- Stories of Your Life and Others
- Nightmare Keep
- The Great Successor
- A Wizard of Earthsea
- Extraordinary Lives
- Semiosis
- The Everything Store
- The Butchering Art
- Gideon the Ninth
June 2020
- Perennial Seller
- Divine Signatures
- Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
- What You Should Know About Politics…But Don’t
- The Thread That Binds the Bones
- Blackflame
- The Borgias
- And Then There Were None
- The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
- Finish
- Master Assassins
- How Will You Measure Your Life?
May 2020
- Angler
- Struck by Genius
- A Memory Called Empire
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- Attachments
- The Art of Possibility
- Red Sister
- Catch and Kill
- I Contain Multitudes
April 2020
- Blade’s Edge
- Blood of Heirs
- Bad Blood
- Cortés & Montezuma
- Along the Razor’s Edge
- The Road to Unfreedom
- The Lore of Prometheus
- The Lost 116 Pages
- Fantasyland
March 2020
- Reaper Man
- Fortune’s Fool
- Senlin Ascends
- The Northern Caves
- Being Mortal
- The Fifth Season
- When Books Went to War
- Turning Pro
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January
February 2020
- True Grit
- Minimum Wage Magic
- Drift
- The Blade Itself
- Just Mercy
- Poke the Box
- American Kingpin
- The Sword of Kaigen
January 2020
- False Step
- Cat’s Cradle
- Pinpoint
- Ultralearning
- The Bright Hour
- Traitor’s Blade
- Educated
- The Remains of the Day
- Rosemary and Rue
- A Craftsman’s Legacy
2019
December 2019
- Brothers in Arms
- How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method
- Lost and Found
- The Bear and the Nightingale
- Recursion
- Persuadable
- Becoming Superman
- The Worlds of Medieval Europe
- Molly’s Game
November 2019
- Indistractable
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
- AI Superpowers
- Lab Girl
- The Raven Boys
- Children of Blood and Bone
- Good to Great
October 2019
- Atomic Habits
- Quiet
- Solomon’s Seal
- The Light Between Worlds
- Dark Money
- Dear Writer, You Need to Quit
- Of Mice and Men
- A Savage Place
- After Dark
- Range
September 2019
- The Rook
- The Revenge of Analog
- The Tiger
August 2019
- Soulsmith
- Six of Crows
- The Hive
- Digital Minimalism
- 12 Strong
July 2019
- Aching God
- Isaac’s Storm
- Ego Is the Enemy
- The World as It Is
June 2019
- Crimes Against Magic
- Wyrd Sisters
- Prisoners of Geography
- The Palace Job
May 2019
- Story Trumps Structure
- Death March
- When Breath Becomes Air
- Tubes
- Children of Time
April 2019
- The Crimson Queen
- The Unicode Cookbook for Linguists
- Coders
- Moon Shot
- One Word Kill
- Into the Labyrinth
- The Traitor Baru Cormorant
March 2019
- Touch
- Word by Word
- Vicious
February 2019
- The Big Roads
- In Distant Lands
- The Last Wish
- Dawn
- Harmony Black
- 11/22/63
January 2019
- Bébé Day by Day
- Hooked
- Unsouled
- The Steerswoman
2018
December 2018
- Nemesis Games
- Cetaganda
- The Shining
November 2018
- Edible
- Red Notice
- Flash Boys
- The Light Fantastic
October 2018
- Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman
- Children of the Fleet
September 2018
- The Gatekeepers
- Cyberstorm
- The Lost City of the Monkey God
- The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
August 2018
- Dark Matter
- Unsong
- Russian Roulette
- Narconomics
July 2018
- Argo
- The Billion Dollar Spy
- Black Flags
- The Midwich Cuckoos
June 2018
- Sufficiently Advanced Magic
- The Body Builders
- Skin Game
- Cold Days
May 2018
- Annihilation
- Grokking Algorithms
- Ghost Story
- Changes
- They Mostly Come Out at Night
- Turn Coat
- Leadership and Self-Deception
- Small Favor
April 2018
- Pirate Hunters
- Deep Undercover
- Sphere
- Cibola Burn
- The Bible Tells Me So
March 2018
- White Night
- Proven Guilty
- Abaddon’s Gate
- The Obstacle Is the Way
- Dead Beat
- An Economist Gets Lunch
February 2018
- Blood Rites
- Early Autumn
- Caliban’s War
January 2018
- Language of the Spirit
- A Fever in Salem
- Death Masks
- Soonish
- The Time Traveler’s Wife
- Carol Twombly
- That We May Be One
- Super Structure
2017
December 2017
- Looking for Rachel Wallace
- Pyramids
- Summer Knight
- The League of Frightened Men
- The Judas Goat
- Edgedancer
- The Vor Game
- The Mountains of Mourning
- Promised Land
November 2017
- Jurassic Park
- 1776
- Shop Class as Soulcraft
- Time Travelers Never Die
- The Devil and Sherlock Holmes
- Changes in Languages
- Casino
October 2017
- An Introduction to the Book of Abraham
- Picture This
- Fer-de-Lance
- Mortal Stakes
- Grave Peril
- The Bone House
- So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed
- Criminal
September 2017
- The Psychopath Test
- Shoe Dog
- Worm
- Equal Rites
- Working Stiff
August 2017
- Shaken Faith Syndrome
- Taco USA
July 2017
- The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
- Shadow
- Use of Weapons
- How to Create Typefaces
- The Exorcist
- Shakespeare: The World as Stage
- Over Your Dead Body
June 2017
- Legion: Skin Deep
- Ones and Zeroes
- The Color of Magic
- The Emperor of Scent
May 2017
- Fight Club
April 2017
- The Wee Free Men
- Chanson de Geste
- The Chronoliths
- Bonk
- The Dark Net
- Starship: Pirate
- Alone
- Ra
March 2017
- Where Are the Children?
- One for the Money
- Mort
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
February 2017
- Killing Floor
- A is for Alibi
January 2017
- Deadlock
- Think
- God Save the Child
- Bowl of Heaven
- 1491
2016
December 2016
- Indemnity Only
- Hamilton’s Curse
- Consider the Lobster
- The Godwulf Manuscript
- Starship Troopers
- Infected
- The Braindead Megaphone
- Crosstalk
November 2016
- Lincoln’s Dreams
- Destiny Disrupted
- Secret Gardens
- The Dark Forest
- Night Watch
October 2016
- The Cassandra Project
- The Girl on the Train
- The Pattern on the Stone
- The Warrior’s Apprentice
- Hallucinations
- Black Unicorn
September 2016
- The Swarm
- What’s So Great About Christianity
- The Engines of God
August 2016
- Voices of Vision
- Inventology
- The Rights of the Reader
- The Knights of the Cornerstone
- The Checklist Manifesto
- The Toaster Project
- Triggers
- The Anubis Gates
July 2016
- Bluescreen
- Roadside Picnic
- Cold as Ice
June 2016
- Free as in Freedom
- Unruly Places
- Schooling the Prophet
- Shady Characters
- Extreme Medicine
- Lost Fleet: Fearless
May 2016
- The Left Hand of Darkness
- Ready Player One
- Blindsight
- Willful Child
- Mythago Wood
April 2016
- Counterpunch
- Fool Moon
- Unforgettable
March 2016
- The Quantum Thief
- The Girl with All the Gifts
- The Dorito Effect
- Revelation Space
- Storm Front
- Calamity
February 2016
- The Magician’s Land
- Planted
- The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
- The Bands of Mourning
January 2016
- Invisible Ink
- The Fall of Hyperion
- What If?
- A Talent for War
2015
December 2015
- Childhood’s End
- Gatefather
- How Fiction Works
November 2015
- Evolving Faith
- The Magician King
- Among Others
- Old Testament and Related Studies
- Hyperion
- Mission of Gravity
October 2015
- The Devil’s Only Friend
- Darwinia
- Late Antiquity: A Very Short Introduction
- Shadows of Self
- Rough Stone Rolling
- The Silence of the Lambs
- The Magicians
September 2015
- The Viper on the Hearth
- A Head Full of Ghosts
- His Majesty’s Dragon
- Red Dragon
- Wyrms
- While Europe Slept
August 2015
- Marrow
- Nanotech
- Tau Zero
July 2015
- Salvador
- Barrayar
- The Forever War
- Every Day
- Immortals
- Illegal Alien
June 2015
- Life in a Medieval City
- Shocked
- Biography: A Very Short Introduction
- Escape from Earth
- City of Brick and Shadow
- 13 Steps Down
- The Bridge at Andau
- Shards of Honor
- Millstone City
May 2015
- The Spy Who Stayed Out in the Cold
- Eternal Man
- The Town
- The Book of Oz Cooper
- The Abolition of Man
- The Three-Body Problem
- Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction
- Gateway
- The Best Interface Is No Interface
- America Alone
April 2015
- Sun of Suns
- The Crucible of Doubt
- Pushing Ice
- Carrie
- Lamentation
- Brain
- Do No Harm
March 2015
- Making Money
- The Golem and the Jinni
- Under the Dome
- Do the Work
- This Is Not a Game
- The Onion Girl
February 2015
- Visitors
- Firefight
January 2015
- Lost Fleet: Dauntless
- Ship of Magic
- Letters to a Young Mormon
- The Goliath Stone
- WWW: Wake
2014
December 2014
- Cleopatra 7.2
- Steal Across the Sky
- Starship: Mutiny
November 2014
- Gone Girl
- Eater
October 2014
- Darwin’s Radio
- Hull Zero Three
- The One-Eyed Man
September 2014
- Stuff Matters
- The Martian
- Deadhouse Gates
August 2014
- Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers
- Batman: Earth One
- Batman: The Killing Joke
- Tyrannosaur Canyon
July 2014
- Incandescence
- Mindhunter
June 2014
- How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Earth Awakens
- Trespassing on Einstein’s Lawn
- Batman: Hush
- Songmaster
- Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
May 2014
- The Time Machine
- Doomsday Book
April 2014
- The Stars My Destination
- Count to a Trillion
- The 4% Universe
- The Mote in God’s Eye
March 2014
- Words of Radiance
February 2014
- Lovelock
- Curious Minds
- Lies My Teacher Told Me
January 2014
- Rubicon
- Food Rules
- Dispirited
- Leviathan Wakes
- The Dragon Reborn
2013
December 2013
- The Master and Margarita
October 2013
- The Shadow of the Torturer
- Steelheart
- Gardens of the Moon
September 2013
- A Fire Upon the Deep
August 2013
- The Way of Kings
July 2013
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane
- Kiln People
June 2013
- Wild Seed
- Masters of Doom
- Earth Afire
- The Rithmatist
- The God Who Weeps
May 2013
- Going Postal
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
- Ender’s Game
- Assassin’s Quest
April 2013
- The Gate Thief
- Royal Assassin
March 2013
- An Introduction to the History of Printing Types
- Axis
- The Stroke Theory of Writing
- Assassin’s Apprentice
- Three Days to Never
February 2013
- A Short Stay in Hell
- Spin
- The Goblin Mirror
January 2013
- The Worthing Saga
- Second Foundation
- Foundation and Empire
2012
December 2012
- The Great Hunt
- The Joy of X
November 2012
- Mindstorms
- Foundation
- The Emperor’s Soul
- Legion
- Ruins
- The Dragonbone Chair
October 2012
- Arts and Inspiration
- Feedback
September 2012
- The Hollow City
- The Eye of the World
- Earth Unaware
- Elantris
August 2012
- Foreigner
- How to Read Bridges
- Warbreaker
July 2012
- A Night of Blacker Darkness
- Treason
- Artists’ Techniques and Materials
- Dreams and Wishes
- The Emperor of All Maladies
- Jhereg
- Beowulf
- Sarah, Plain and Tall
- The Crystal City
June 2012
- Maphead
- Tuesdays at the Castle
- Curveball
- Heartfire
- The Year 1000
- An Anthropologist on Mars
May 2012
- The Spying Heart
- The Great Gilly Hopkins
- The White Horse King
- Alvin Journeyman
April 2012
- Worlds of Childhood
- Partials
- The Idea Factory
March 2012
- Prentice Alvin
- Red Prophet
- Shadows in Flight
- Seventh Son
- Shadow of the Giant
February 2012
- Shadow Puppets
- Generative Art
- Stonefather
January 2012
- Shadow of the Hegemon
- Divergent
- Soap making: Self-sufficiency
- The Alloy of Law
- Great Tales from English History 2
2011
December 2011
- Prospero’s Children
- Wild Robert
- When You Reach Me
- A Stir of Bones
- Wonderstruck
November 2011
- Rot & Ruin
- Variant
October 2011
- The Christian Imagination
- Eifelheim
- The Wise Man’s Fear
September 2011
- Well of Ascension
- The Hero of Ages
August 2011
- Mistborn
- Expressive Anatomy for Comics and Narrative
- The Name of the Wind
July 2011
- Half Magic
- Zen in the Art of Writing
- Color and Light
June 2011
- The Monstrumologist
- An Abundance of the Heart
- Sean Griswold’s Head
- A Lion and a Lamb
- Pastwatch
May 2011
- Smiles to Go
- Temple and Cosmos
- Lettering & Type
- Notes from the Midnight Driver
- White Cat
- After Ever After
- Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie
- War of Gifts
- Okay for Now
April 2011
- The Dark and Hollow Places
- Invasive Procedures
- I Don’t Want to Kill You
- The Lost Gate
March 2011
- Letters to Malcolm
- The Candymakers
- The Phantom Tollbooth
- Show & Tell
February 2011
- The Poisoner’s Handbook
- Arthur Rackham
- Stradivari’s Genius
- Packing for Mars
January 2011
- Learning All the Time
- The Man Who Deciphered Linear B
- Holes
- The Gardener
- Spook
- The Ring of Solomon
- Pathfinder
2010
December 2010
- Matched
- Stiff
- The Dark Side of Nowhere
- Mr. Monster
- Antsy Does Time
- The Magic Circle
- Homebody
November 2010
- Darth Bane: Path of Destruction
- The Schwa Was Here
- Bruiser
October 2010
- Beauty
- My Double Life
- Catalyst
- The Young Merlin Trilogy
- The Chosen One
September 2010
- Mockingjay
August 2010
- Incarceron
- My Fair Godmother
July 2010
- The Dead-Tossed Waves
- William Caxton & His Work
- For the Win
- Hidden Empire
- Detail in Typography
June 2010
- Web Form Design
May 2010
- It’s a Mall World After All
- Fame, Glory, and Other Things On My To-Do List
- Just One Wish
- The Angel of Death
- All’s Fair in Love, War, and High School
- Specials
- The Christopher Killer
- Playing the Field
April 2010
- Treasure Box
- The Killer’s Cousin
- If You Want to Write
- Full Tilt
- Leviathan
March 2010
- Secrets to Drawing Realistic Faces
February 2010
- Outliers
- Tribes
- The Tale of Despereaux
- The Sea of Monsters
- The Bourne Identity
- I Am Not a Serial Killer
January 2010
- The Forest of Hands and Teeth
- The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner’s Dilemma
- The View from Saturday
- The Lightning Thief
2009
December 2009
- The Book Thief
- Enchantment
- Pretties
- The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
- Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
November 2009
- Complications
July 2009
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
- Catching Fire
- Ender in Exile
- Things As They Really Are
June 2009
- Everlost
- The Mysterious Benedict Society
- The Wednesday Wars
- City of Ashes
- Wings
May 2009
- Unwind
- The War of Art
- City of Bones
- The Thief
April 2009
- Uglies
- Jellicoe Road
- Bright Blue Miracle
- J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
- Beginnings, Middles & Ends
- The Revolution: A Manifesto
March 2009
- Inside Job
- The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
- On Directing Film
- Clever Maids
- Little Brother
- Death by Meeting
February 2009
- CONTENT
- Crossworld
- Reading the OED
January 2009
- The Game
- Amusing Ourselves to Death
- Magic Street
2008
December 2008
- Conversations with Screenwriters
- The Hunger Games
- And There Was Light
- Love, Stargirl
- The Graveyard Book
- Passage
November 2008
- The Creative Habit
- Prey
- Don’t Make Me Think
- The Ten Commandments of Typography
October 2008
- Stargirl
- To Infinity and Beyond
- The Pixar Touch
September 2008
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret
- Art and Fear
- As Long As I Have You
- Conversations with Mormon Authors
- Bird by Bird
August 2008
- Ptolemy’s Gate
July 2008
- A Voyage to Arcturus
- Mummy’s the Word
June 2008
- The Golem’s Eye
- Every Book Its Reader
May 2008
- American Born Chinese
- The Amulet of Samarkand
- Wit
- The Arm of the Starfish
- The Kite Runner
- The Lord’s Question
March 2008
- Book of a Thousand Days
- Madeleine L’Engle: Herself
- The Perilous Gard
February 2008
- Light in the Wilderness
- Princess Academy
- Enna Burning
January 2008
- The Goose Girl
- To Say Nothing of the Dog
- The Sacrament
2007
December 2007
- Empire
- 84, Charing Cross Road
- Dogsbody
- The Princess Bride
- A Grief Observed
November 2007
- Red Prophet
- The Sherwood Ring
- Bellwether
- Rules of Engagement
- The Thirteenth Tale
October 2007
- Doomsday Book
September 2007
- Archer’s Goon
August 2007
- When We Meet Again
- Seventh Son
- The Prisoner of Zenda
- The Hero and the Crown
July 2007
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Castle in the Air
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
June 2007
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
- Peter and the Starcatchers
- Children of the Mind
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull
May 2007
- Principles of Three-Dimensional Computer Graphics
- Persuasion
- Xenocide
- First Meetings
- Speaker for the Dead
- A Sense of Wonder
- Shadow of the Giant
- Mixed Magics
April 2007
- Passage to Zarahemla
- Shadow Puppets
- Shadow of the Hegemon
- The Ratvolution Will Not Be Televised
- Ender’s Shadow
March 2007
- Nighthogs
- The Wand in the Word
- To Catch a Falling Star
- Sgt Piggy’s Lonely Hearts Club Comic
- Matte Painting
- BLTs Taste So Darn Good
- Fire and Hemlock
- Bridge to Terabithia
- All the Pretty Horses
- Eight Days of Luke
- The Complete Animation Course
February 2007
- Hexwood
January 2007
- And the Earth Did Not Devour Him
- Far from Home
- The Great Gatsby
- Conrad’s Fate
- One More River to Cross
- Yekl
- Witch Week
- The Magicians of Caprona
- Laws of Simplicity
2006
December 2006
- Prince Caspian
- Howl’s Moving Castle
- Understanding Comics
- The Lives of Christopher Chant
- Charmed Life
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- Blink
- The Magician’s Nephew
- Here, There Be Dragons
- Since You Were Away
- Till We Have Faces
- Shadowlands
- Brittany
November 2006
- Phantastes
- A Grief Observed
- Rumors of War
- A Whole New Mind
- War in Heaven
- An Experiment in Criticism
- Fablehaven
- The Four Loves
- The Last Battle
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
October 2006
- The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book
- Perelandra
- Sam
- Alone, Together
- Charly
- The Silver Chair
- Miracles
- The Understudy
September 2006
- Visual Explanations
- Mere Christianity
- Envisioning Information
- The Gammage Cup
- Michael Graves
- The Abolition of Man
- The Great Divorce
- Thinking with Type
- Coraline
August 2006
- Wanting More
- Rachel and Leah
- Jane Eyre
- Heir to the Empire
July 2006
- A Return to Modesty
- Rebekah
- Silver on the Tree
- The Spirit of Writing
- A Storyteller in Zion
- Death Comes for the Archbishop
- Sarah
- The Grey King
- The Writer’s Mentor
June 2006
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- The Screwtape Letters
- Angels Don’t Knock
- A Heart Like His
- All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
- Through the Looking-Glass
- I Kissed Dating Goodbye
- Uncommon Genius
May 2006
- This Is My God
March 2006
- Alice in Wonderland
- Arm the Children
- To Draw Closer to God
February 2006
- The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life
January 2006
- The Great Divorce
- Lenten Lands
2005
December 2005
- Till We Have Faces
- Designing from Both Sides of the Screen
- The Christmas Box Miracle
- That Hideous Strength
- User Interface Design for Programmers
- The Crafty Art of Playmaking
October 2005
- The Boggart
- The Island of Lost Maps
- Greenwitch
- Dreams and Wishes
September 2005
- Lemony Snicket: The Bad Beginning
- Reading the Map of Knowledge
- Book Business
August 2005
- Illustrator CS Most Wanted
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Mathematicians Are People, Too, vol. 1
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- The Giver
July 2005
- Great Literature and the Good Life
- Writing Down the Bones
- Worlds of Childhood
- The Art of 3-D Computer Animation
- The Alchemist
- The Scarlet Letter
- Illustrating Children’s Books
May 2005
- The Richest Man in Babylon
- Used and Rare
April 2005
- To the Treasures of Babylon
2004
December 2004
- Bonds That Make Us Free
- Of the Making of Books
- The Case for Legibility
- The Dark Is Rising
- Over Sea, Under Stone
September 2004
- Out of the Silent Planet
2002
August 2002
- Jesus the Christ
July 2002
- Two Years in God’s Mormon Army
- Simple Etiquette in Thailand
June 2002
- Kilmeny of the Orchard
- The Ball and the Cross
- Anne of Avonlea
- Anne of Green Gables
May 2002
- Across China
- Sunshine for the LDS Missionary Soul
- Strong Poison
- Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons
- A Brief History of Time
- The Story of the Treasure Seekers
- Culture Shock: Thailand
- Culture for Missionaries: Thailand
- Prepare with Honor
April 2002
- Wuthering Heights
- Love
- A Grief Observed
- The Magic Mountain
- Caesar’s Gallic War, Book One (Latin)
- Missionaries to Match Our Message
- What I Wish I’d Known Before…
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
March 2002
- Anna Karenina
- The Wild Duck
- Goethe’s Key to Faust
- Goethe’s Faust: A Critical Reading
February 2002
- Faust
- How to Learn a Foreign Language
- Caesar as a Man of Letters
- The Sorrows of Young Werther
January 2002
- Candide
- An Experiment in Criticism
- Forgotten Scripts
- A Winter’s Tale
- A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
- King Lear
- Don Quixote
2001
December 2001
- Silver on the Tree
- Discourses of Brigham Young
- Letters to an American Lady
- Serve With Honor
- The Grey King
- Latin Syntax
- Language Myths
- The Scholar-Adventurers
- The Irish Language
- Greenwitch
November 2001
- The Ruby in the Smoke
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
- Six Weeks Preparation for Reading Caesar
- Looking for Angels
- The Book of Enoch
- Standing for Something
- Enoch the Prophet
- The Dark Is Rising
- A Guide to the Joseph Smith Papyri
October 2001
- Language in Thought and Action
- The Holy Grail
- The Figure of Arthur
- Over Sea, Under Stone
- King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
- In Search of Our Ancestors
September 2001
- A Swiftly Tilting Planet
- The Man Who Was Thursday
August 2001
- Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith
- Mere Christianity
July 2001
- Antigone
- Oedipus at Colonus
- The Life and Works of Escher
- The Story of the Amulet
- Read and Grow Rich
- As You Like It
- Heretics
- Mathematicians Are People, Too, vol. 2
- Mathematicians Are People, Too, vol. 1
- The Naked Sun
- Essays in the Art of Writing
- The Phoenix and the Carpet
June 2001
- Ozma of Oz
- The Caves of Steel
- The Canterbury Tales
- Language: The Basics
- Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior
- Pride and Prejudice
- Beowulf
- The Wood Beyond the World
- The Hobbit
- Meno
May 2001
- Ion
- The Apology
- The Story of the Dictionary
- On Writing Well
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Within Reach
- Essays in Little
- The Innocence of Father Brown
- King Solomon’s Mines
April 2001
- The Holy Temple
- Five Children and It
- My Lost Mexico
- Lords of the Elves and Eldils
- From Homer to Joyce
- Foundation
- Teach Yourself Beginner’s Latin
- The Journey Beyond Life, vol. 1
- The Comedy of Errors
- The Merchant of Venice
March 2001
- The Marvelous Land of Oz
- Candide
- Letters on Literature
- The Princess and Curdie
- The Book of Literary Lists
- The Children on the Hill
- The Day Boy and the Night Girl
- The Shadows
- A Wind in the Door
February 2001
- Twenty and Ten
- The Giant’s Heart
- The Light Princess
- The Portent
- The Golden Key
- Phantastes
- The Story of the Trapp Family Singers
- The Jungle
- At Home With Books
- The Inklings
- The Princess and the Goblin
- On Fairy-Stories
January 2001
- Used and Rare
- A Light in the Storm
- Zadig
- For the Love of Books
- The Federalist Papers
- The Screwtape Letters
- Letters to Children
- Novus Ordo Seclorum
2000
December 2000
- The Delights of Reading
- The C. S. Lewis Hoax
- A Wrinkle in Time
- That Hideous Strength
- Learning All the Time
- Perelandra
November 2000
- Superlearning
- Dune
- Many Are Called But Few Are Chosen
- Out of the Silent Planet
- One Tattered Angel
October 2000
- The Great Divorce
Other reading lists like this one
- Frank Chimero used to have one (which inspired this page) but now does annual posts on his blog
- Marielle Foster