Books I want to read (and why)
The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant
by Drew Hayes (2014)
added on 2020-06-25
With that title, can you resist? Topped the “Novel Featuring Vampires” of the 2019 /r/fantasy bingo.
The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova (2005)
added on 2020-06-24
“history and research while exploring museums, monasteries and libraries in Istanbul and Cold War Eastern Europe” via
Romanitas
by Sophia McDougall (2005)
added on 2020-06-24
Alternate History where Rome never fell, like Fatherland only Roman. via
The Magpie Lord
by K.J. Charles (2013)
added on 2020-06-24
Romance, mysterious curse, estate management: via the Oddly Specific Fantasy Recommendation Requests
Crooked
by Austin Grossman (2015)
added on 2020-06-24
Nixon as president fighting in the shadows against magic, via the Oddly Specific Fantasy Recommendation Summer
Boy of Fire and Earth
by Sami Shah (2016)
added on 2020-06-14
Recommended for its similarity to American Gods, only more raw and adult.
His Master’s Voice
by Stanisław Lem, Michael Kandel (1968)
added on 2020-06-07
Recommendation by @allamaraine in book Discord.
The 7 Secrets of the Prolific: The Definitive Guide to Overcoming Procrastination, Perfectionism, and Writer’s Block
by Hillary Rettig (2011)
added on 2020-06-07
The jml notes sounded interesting enough that I want to at least skim the book for helpful takes.
Unf*ck Your Habitat: You’re Better Than Your Mess
by Rachel Hoffman (2017)
added on 2020-06-07
Via David, seconded by Lisa, also discussed in book Discord
An Alien Heat
by Michael Moorcock (1972)
added on 2020-06-07
Lisa made this one sound extremely intriguing.
An Introduction to Japanese Society
by Yoshio Sugimoto (1997)
added on 2020-06-07
The Strategy of Conflict
by Thomas C. Schelling (1960)
added on 2020-06-06
David recommends it regularly, and it featured on Scholar’s Stage in an article on riots.
How You Stand, How You Move, How You Live: Learning the Alexander Technique to Explore Your Mind-Body Connection and Achieve Self-Mastery
by Missy Vineyard (2007)
added on 2020-05-27
Recommended by David as an addition/contrast to The Inner Game of Tennis after his rant
Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect
by Jonice Webb, Christine Musello (2012)
added on 2020-05-25
via Fiora
Voices: The Educational Formation Of Conscience
by Thomas F. Green (1999)
added on 2020-05-25
Recommended by Lisa and David, “if you’re interested in the question of how people learn morality at a practical level”
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
by Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel (2008)
added on 2020-05-24
My first Murakami.
City of Blades
by Robert Jackson Bennett (2016)
added on 2020-05-07
City of Stairs was fun, and in a surprising way. To live up to it, the second part will have to be very different.
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
by K.J. Parker (2019)
added on 2020-05-07
Badass title.
The Magician King
by Lev Grossman (2011)
added on 2020-05-05
The Magicians was partly good, partly depressing – if the good parts continue, it should be fun (otherwise I’ll drop the series).
Railsea
by China Miéville (2012)
added on 2020-05-01
Still haven’t read all of Miéville
Soulsmith
by Will Wight (2016)
added on 2020-04-30
Unsouled was fun, but I resented the cliffhanger ending. I expect a lot of escalation in this one, and I’m a sucker for stories like that.
The Door into Sunset
by Diane Duane (1992)
added on 2020-04-30
Still haven’t read all of Diane Duane. I like the Tale of the Five series tremendously so far, especially for the vivid/real characters.
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
by Mark Miodownik (2013)
added on 2020-03-08
Recommended by visa (thread).
Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain—and How it Changed the World
by Carl Zimmer (2003)
added on 2020-03-08
Mentioned in Intelligence.
The Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution
by Cailin O'Connor (2019)
added on 2020-02-18
Recommended by David: “I’ve previously not-really-joked that you can’t understand gender until you’ve read Thomas Schelling’s book about the game theory of nuclear war, “The Strategy of Conflict”. That joke is now deprecated in favour of a recommendation to read this book.”
The Butcher of Anderson Station
by James S.A. Corey (2011)
added on 2020-02-11
Having some of The Expanse to look forward to, even just novellas, is surprisingly nice.
The Wonder Engine
by T. Kingfisher (2018)
added on 2020-01-26
The first part was my first T. Kingfisher book, and I want more
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America’s Enemies
by Jason Fagone (2017)
added on 2020-01-07
Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity and Meaningful Work and Play
by James C. Scott (2012)
added on 2020-01-02
Permanent Record
by Edward Snowden (2019)
added on 2020-01-02
It feels more like a chore to read, despite people seemingly actually liking it
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
by Atul Gawande (2009)
added on 2019-11-27
I heard that the book is slightly worse than any more concise version, so I’ll probably just blaze through
The Song of Achilles
by Madeline Miller (2011)
added on 2019-11-24
Circe was okayish, this is the second chance I’m giving Miller before deciding that her access to myths doesn’t match mine.
The Gay Book of Days: An Evocatively Illustrated Who’s Who of Who Is, Was, May Have Been, Probably Was, and Almost Certainly Seems to Have Been Gay
by Martin Greif (1982)
added on 2019-11-21
Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
by James Mahaffey (2014)
added on 2019-11-15
Recommendation by David: ‘There’s also the chapter with the very reassuring title “The Military Almost Never Lost a Nuclear Weapon”’
Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose
by Francis-Noel Thomas (1994)
added on 2019-11-15
Stoker’s Wilde
by Steven Hopstaken (2019)
added on 2019-11-15
Can’t remember. Kristian, maybe? It was a strong personal rec
The Tethered Mage
by Melissa Caruso (2017)
added on 2019-11-15
David, I think?
The Tyranny Of Structurelessness
by Jo Freeman (1970)
added on 2019-11-15
Not sure, thought it came via book Discord.
Wider den Gehorsam
by Arno Gruen (2014)
added on 2019-10-22
A Shadow in Summer
by Daniel Abraham (2006)
added on 2019-10-12
Recommended by Rob and Jo Walton. Author is part of James S. A. Corey
The Clockmaker’s Daughter
by Kate Morton (2018)
added on 2019-10-07
Andy liked it
Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes In The Age Of The Machine
by Donald A. Norman (1993)
added on 2019-10-06
via Vicky who was very very into it
Two Serpents Rise
by Max Gladstone (2013)
added on 2019-10-05
Three Parts Dead was lots of fun, kind of like a more light-hearted Miéville
Middlegame
by Seanan McGuire (2019)
added on 2019-09-26
Last try of being into Seanan McGuire instead of being into an idea of her
Komarr
by Lois McMaster Bujold (1998)
added on 2019-08-07
I don’t want to read too fast because I don’t want to live in a world where I’ve read all of Miles.
The Hero of Ages
by Brandon Sanderson (2008)
added on 2019-07-15
Mistborn is not nearly as good as his newer stuff, but a nice diversion
The City in the Middle of the Night
by Charlie Jane Anders (2019)
added on 2019-07-15
Arm of the Sphinx
by Josiah Bancroft (2014)
added on 2019-07-07
Putting it off because the first part was good and also Kafka
Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do
by Studs Terkel (1974)
added on 2019-05-29
The Cloud Roads
by Martha Wells (2011)
added on 2019-05-10
Would be nice to see what Martha Wells does when she doesn’t go for easily relatable robots
The Scapegoat
by Daphne du Maurier (1957)
added on 2019-05-05
Enigma: The Battle for the Code
by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore (2000)
added on 2019-05-03
Probably via a spy
X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken
by Dermot Turing (2018)
added on 2019-05-03
I will probably choose one Enigma book and discard the others
Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park
by F.H. Hinsley (1993)
added on 2019-05-03
Prince of Fools
by Mark Lawrence (2014)
added on 2019-04-04
Mark Lawrence is reliably good entertainment
The Steel Seraglio
by Mike Carey (2012)
added on 2019-04-04
A Time of Dread
by John Gwynne (2018)
added on 2019-04-03
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez (1967)
added on 2019-04-02
Gotta start somewhere
Hero Forged
by Josh Erikson (2018)
added on 2019-04-01
Via reddit
Raven Stratagem
by Yoon Ha Lee (2017)
added on 2019-03-31
I may need to revisit the first part: I’m not sure if I liked it a fair amount, or if I don’t want to come near it again
The Black Tides of Heaven
by J.Y. Yang (2017)
added on 2019-03-17
Planetfall
by Emma Newman (2015)
added on 2019-03-09
Synners
by Pat Cadigan (1991)
added on 2019-03-09
Rec’d and introduced by Neil Gaiman
The Psychology of Time Travel
by Kate Mascarenhas (2018)
added on 2019-03-09
time travel maybe done well? Never going to give up hope.
The Invisible Library
by Genevieve Cogman (2015)
added on 2019-03-09
It says library.
Witch World
by Andre Norton (1963)
added on 2019-03-09
Prime Meridian
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (2017)
added on 2019-03-09
Elysium
by Jennifer Marie Brissett (2014)
added on 2019-03-09
Gemsigns
by Stephanie Saulter (2013)
added on 2019-03-09
A Deepness in the Sky
by Vernor Vinge (2000)
added on 2019-03-03
I’m overdue, but it’s so long, and I haven’t been in the mood for serious thought
The Book of Three
by Lloyd Alexander (1964)
added on 2019-02-19
how generic can you get? let’s find out
Flesh and Spirit
by Carol Berg (2007)
added on 2019-02-19
What Kings Ate and Wizards Drank
by Krista D. Ball (2012)
added on 2019-02-19
via reddit
Saga, Vol. 1
by Brian K. Vaughan (2012)
added on 2019-02-16
Snowspelled
by Stephanie Burgis (2017)
added on 2019-02-11
just for fun, probably via reddit
Ice
by Anna Kavan (1967)
added on 2019-02-07
old school cool
Dark Eden
by Chris Beckett (2012)
added on 2019-02-07
sounded like a lot of scifi fun
Strange Practice
by Vivian Shaw (2017)
added on 2019-02-04
Dr Greta Helsing, Andy liked it
Captive Prince
by C.S. Pacat (2013)
added on 2019-02-04
m/m fantasy romance, apparently?
Winter Tide
by Ruthanna Emrys (2017)
added on 2019-02-04
Rae and David and Jo Walton like it, must be good
Theory of Bastards
by Audrey Schulman (2018)
added on 2019-02-04
dark-ish but well-written scifi, or so people say
Pride and Prometheus
by John Kessel (2008)
added on 2019-02-04
Embers of War
by Gareth L. Powell (2018)
added on 2019-02-04
sentient ships
The Overstory
by Richard Powers (2018)
added on 2019-02-04
Should/would/could read some Richard Powers
Master of Sorrows
by Justin Travis Call (2019)
added on 2019-01-28
Academy’s warrior-thieves, dark big insidious evil inside you, forbidden magic, a forgotten heritage, and a secret deformity. Just ticking boxes.
Grass
by Sheri S. Tepper (1989)
added on 2019-01-28
classic, shoud read up on it when I’m in the mood for classics
Wildauge
by Katja Kettu (2011)
added on 2019-01-25
Strong rec from Benthor
Sir Thomas the Hesitant and the Table of Less Valued Knights
by Liam Perrin (2013)
added on 2019-01-23
short and delightful
Two Boys Kissing
by David Levithan (2013)
added on 2019-01-23
SSIA
The Day of the Triffids
by John Wyndham (1951)
added on 2019-01-17
Also mentioned in Among Others. Dark & classic. Liked by Kathy and Tim.
Echopraxia
by Peter Watts (2014)
added on 2019-01-14
Benthor. Doubling down on the vampire from Blindsight, horrifying thought. Need to re-visit Blindsight first.
A Study in Honor
by Claire O'Dell (2018)
added on 2019-01-14
The Winter Riddle
by Sam Hooker (2016)
added on 2019-01-14
fun for christmas
Tess of the Road
by Rachel Hartman (2018)
added on 2019-01-14
I expect this to be incredibly trope-y, but in a good way
The Gods of Men
by Barbara Kloss (2018)
added on 2018-12-10
Sounds like tropes, but apparently transcends them. Fantasy
Empire of Sand
by Tasha Suri (2018)
added on 2018-12-04
Multiple recs
Lies Sleeping
by Ben Aaronovitch (2018)
added on 2018-12-04
A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe
by Alex White (2018)
added on 2018-12-04
Look at the title.
Woman on the Edge of Time
by Marge Piercy (1976)
added on 2018-12-01
time travel equality/representation classic
The Prince of Cats
by Daniel E. Olesen (2018)
added on 2018-11-28
Middle East fantasy
The Lost Queen
by Signe Pike (2018)
added on 2018-11-26
The Only Harmless Great Thing
by Brooke Bolander (2018)
added on 2018-11-22
nebula, whimsical history patterning
Gnomon
by Nick Harkaway (2017)
added on 2018-11-20
Sweet Fruit, Sour Land
by Rebecca Ley (2018)
added on 2018-11-12
Master Assassins
by Robert V.S. Redick (2018)
added on 2018-11-05
Kings of Paradise
by Richard Nell (2017)
added on 2018-11-05
The Changeling
by Victor LaValle (2017)
added on 2018-11-04
Last Call
by Tim Powers (1992)
added on 2018-11-04
We Ride the Storm
by Devin Madson (2018)
added on 2018-11-03
The Ninth Rain
by Jen Williams (2017)
added on 2018-11-03
Europe in Autumn
by Dave Hutchinson (2014)
added on 2018-11-02
Titan
by John Varley (1979)
added on 2018-11-01
The Grey Bastards
by Jonathan French (2015)
added on 2018-10-28
Outlander
by Diana Gabaldon (1991)
added on 2018-10-25
Elric of Melniboné
by Michael Moorcock (1972)
added on 2018-10-25
It’s either this one or Dancers At The End of Time, which is jml’s favourite.
The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian
by Robert E. Howard (2002)
added on 2018-10-25
Dauntless
by Jack Campbell (2006)
added on 2018-10-22
Orconomics
by J. Zachary Pike (2014)
added on 2018-10-21
seconded via, topped the 2019 /r/fantasy bingo in “Self-Published SFF Novel”
The Immorality Clause
by Brian Parker
added on 2018-10-21
The Mechanical
by Ian Tregillis (2015)
added on 2018-10-20
NOS4A2
by Joe Hill (2013)
added on 2018-10-17
Stars Uncharted
by S.K. Dunstall (2018)
added on 2018-10-17
The Cyberiad
by Stanisław Lem (1965)
added on 2018-10-16
The Eye in the Pyramid
by Robert Shea (1975)
added on 2018-10-16
Accelerando
by Charles Stross (2005)
added on 2018-10-16
The Crystal Cave
by Mary Stewart (1970)
added on 2018-10-12
Interview with the Vampire
by Anne Rice (1976)
added on 2018-10-12
A Crucible of Souls
by Mitchell Hogan (2013)
added on 2018-10-09
Fated
by Benedict Jacka (2012)
added on 2018-10-07
The Praxis
by Walter Jon Williams (2002)
added on 2018-10-07
We Who Are About To…
by Joanna Russ (1976)
added on 2018-10-07
Valor’s Choice
by Tanya Huff (2000)
added on 2018-10-07
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot (2010)
added on 2018-10-06
The Innkeeper’s Song
by Peter S. Beagle (1993)
added on 2018-10-05
The Many-Coloured Land
by Julian May (1981)
added on 2018-10-05
Aching God
by Mike Shel (2018)
added on 2018-10-05
Something from the Nightside
by Simon R. Green (2003)
added on 2018-10-02
The Spymaster’s Lady
by Joanna Bourne (2008)
added on 2018-10-02
City of Lies
by Sam Hawke (2018)
added on 2018-10-02
Little Fuzzy
by H. Beam Piper (1962)
added on 2018-09-30
Watership Down
by Richard Adams (1972)
added on 2018-09-30
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy (2006)
added on 2018-09-30
Master and Commander
by Patrick O'Brian (1970)
added on 2018-09-30
Quarter Share
by Nathan Lowell (2007)
added on 2018-09-30
Lexicon
by Max Barry (2013)
added on 2018-09-30
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
by Bee Wilson (2012)
added on 2018-09-30
Waiting for the Flood
by Alexis Hall (2015)
added on 2018-09-29
Way Station
by Clifford D. Simak (1963)
added on 2018-09-29
Earth Abides
by George R. Stewart (1949)
added on 2018-09-29
Daughter of the Forest
by Juliet Marillier (1999)
added on 2018-09-28
From Under the Mountain
by C.M. Spivey (2016)
added on 2018-09-28
From Unseen Fire
by Cass Morris (2018)
added on 2018-09-28
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes
by Svante Pääbo (2014)
added on 2018-09-28
Daggerspell
by Katharine Kerr (1986)
added on 2018-09-28
City of Strife
by Claudie Arseneault (2017)
added on 2018-09-28
The Last Dragonlord
by Joanne Bertin (1998)
added on 2018-09-28
A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller Jr. (1959)
added on 2018-09-25
On this list since 2018, seconded by joXn
The Sword in the Stone
by T.H. White (1938)
added on 2018-09-25
Infomocracy
by Malka Ann Older (2016)
added on 2018-09-22
Lord Foul’s Bane
by Stephen R. Donaldson (1977)
added on 2018-09-22
Swords and Deviltry
by Fritz Leiber (1970)
added on 2018-09-21
Jade City
by Fonda Lee (2017)
added on 2018-09-21
Paternus: Rise of Gods
by Dyrk Ashton (2016)
added on 2018-09-21
The Novice
by Taran Matharu (2015)
added on 2018-09-21
They Mostly Come Out at Night
by Benedict Patrick (2016)
added on 2018-09-21
Hyped on /r/fantasy
The Mere Wife
by Maria Dahvana Headley (2018)
added on 2018-09-20
The Black Prism
by Brent Weeks (2010)
added on 2018-09-15
Carry On
by Rainbow Rowell (2015)
added on 2018-09-15
Nice Dragons Finish Last
by Rachel Aaron (2014)
added on 2018-09-15
Inda
by Sherwood Smith (2006)
added on 2018-09-15
The Bone Doll’s Twin
by Lynn Flewelling (2001)
added on 2018-09-15
Jhereg
by Steven Brust (1983)
added on 2018-09-15
The Last Wish
by Andrzej Sapkowski (1993)
added on 2018-09-15
Over Sea, Under Stone
by Susan Cooper (1965)
added on 2018-09-15
Sufficiently Advanced Magic
by Andrew Rowe (2017)
added on 2018-09-15
Heroes Die
by Matthew Woodring Stover (1998)
added on 2018-09-15
Homeland
by R.A. Salvatore (1990)
added on 2018-09-15
The Raven Boys
by Maggie Stiefvater (2012)
added on 2018-09-15
Twelve Kings in Sharakhai
by Bradley P. Beaulieu (2015)
added on 2018-09-15
Swordspoint
by Ellen Kushner (1987)
added on 2018-09-15
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
by Patricia A. McKillip (1974)
added on 2018-09-15
Arrows of the Queen
by Mercedes Lackey (1987)
added on 2018-09-15
Stiletto
by Daniel O'Malley (2016)
added on 2018-09-15
The Lions of Al-Rassan
by Guy Gavriel Kay (1995)
added on 2018-09-15
The Shadow of What Was Lost
by James Islington (2014)
added on 2018-09-15
Dragonflight
by Anne McCaffrey (1968)
added on 2018-09-15
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
by Claire North (2014)
added on 2018-09-15
The Dragonbone Chair
by Tad Williams (1988)
added on 2018-09-15
Kushiel’s Dart
by Jacqueline Carey (2001)
added on 2018-09-15
The Whitefire Crossing
by Courtney Schafer (2011)
added on 2018-09-15
War for the Oaks
by Emma Bull (1987)
added on 2018-09-12
The Dying Earth
by Jack Vance (1950)
added on 2018-09-12
The Thousand Names
by Django Wexler (2013)
added on 2018-09-12
Sundiver
by David Brin (1980)
added on 2018-09-12
The High Crusade
by Poul Anderson (1960)
added on 2018-09-12
More Than Human
by Theodore Sturgeon (1953)
added on 2018-09-12
The Mote in God’s Eye
by Larry Niven (1974)
added on 2018-09-12
Night of the Jabberwock
by Fredric Brown (1950)
added on 2018-09-12
Vita Nostra
by Marina Dyachenko (2007)
added on 2018-09-11
Ariel
by Steven R. Boyett (1983)
added on 2018-09-10
Zahrah the Windseeker
by Nnedi Okorafor (2005)
added on 2018-09-10
House of Suns
by Alastair Reynolds (2008)
added on 2018-09-06
Uncharted
by Kevin J. Anderson (2018)
added on 2018-09-05
Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr
by John Crowley (2017)
added on 2018-09-04
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
by Roger Williams (2006)
added on 2018-09-03
Spin State
by Chris Moriarty (2003)
added on 2018-09-03
London Falling
by Paul Cornell (2012)
added on 2018-09-03
Stand on Zanzibar
by John Brunner (1968)
added on 2018-09-03
Dreamsnake
by Vonda N. McIntyre (1978)
added on 2018-09-03
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
by Kate Wilhelm (1976)
added on 2018-09-03
The Time Machine
by H.G. Wells (1895)
added on 2018-09-03
The Golden Age
by John C. Wright (2002)
added on 2018-09-03
Dragonsbane
by Barbara Hambly (1985)
added on 2018-09-03
Radiomen
by Eleanor Lerman (2015)
added on 2018-09-03
Riddley Walker
by Russell Hoban (1980)
added on 2018-09-03
Sheepfarmer’s Daughter
by Elizabeth Moon (1988)
added on 2018-09-03
The Magic of Recluce
by L.E. Modesitt Jr. (1991)
added on 2018-09-03
Off to Be the Wizard
by Scott Meyer (2013)
added on 2018-09-03
Brat Farrar
by Josephine Tey (1949)
added on 2018-09-03
Star Maker
by Olaf Stapledon (1937)
added on 2018-08-28
Alif the Unseen
by G. Willow Wilson (2012)
added on 2018-08-28
Midnight Robber
by Nalo Hopkinson (2000)
added on 2018-08-28
Shadow Over Avalon
by C.N. Lesley (2013)
added on 2018-08-28
Spin
by Robert Charles Wilson (2005)
added on 2018-08-28
Updraft
by Fran Wilde (2015)
added on 2018-08-28
The Snow Queen
by Joan D. Vinge (1980)
added on 2018-08-28
Eon
by Greg Bear (1985)
added on 2018-08-28
Downbelow Station
by C.J. Cherryh (1981)
added on 2018-08-28
Bridge of Birds
by Barry Hughart (1984)
added on 2018-08-28
Archivist Wasp
by Nicole Kornher-Stace (2015)
added on 2018-08-27
The City of Brass
by S.A. Chakraborty (2017)
added on 2018-08-27
The Last Policeman
by Ben H. Winters (2012)
added on 2018-08-27
Unwind
by Neal Shusterman (2007)
added on 2018-08-27
Shōgun
by James Clavell (1946)
added on 2018-08-27
Soulless
by Gail Carriger (2009)
added on 2018-08-27
The Poppy War
by R.F. Kuang (2018)
added on 2018-08-27
I Am Legend
by Richard Matheson (1954)
added on 2018-08-27
The Lives of Tao
by Wesley Chu (2013)
added on 2018-08-27
The Soul of a New Machine
by Tracy Kidder (1981)
added on 2018-08-26
Mutineers’ Moon
by David Weber (1991)
added on 2018-08-25
Gateway
by Frederik Pohl (1977)
added on 2018-08-25
Prador Moon
by Neal Asher (2006)
added on 2018-08-25
We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
by Dennis E. Taylor (2016)
added on 2018-08-25
Ink and Bone
by Rachel Caine (2015)
added on 2018-08-21
Rosewater
by Tade Thompson (2017)
added on 2018-08-20
Dark Matter
by Blake Crouch (2016)
added on 2018-08-20
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by Steven D. Levitt (2005)
added on 2018-08-20
The Golem and the Jinni
by Helene Wecker (2013)
added on 2018-08-20
Promise of Blood
by Brian McClellan (2013)
added on 2018-08-20
Defying Hitler
by Sebastian Haffner (2000)
added on 2018-08-19
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World
by Andrea Wulf (2015)
added on 2018-08-19
The House with Chicken Legs
by Sophie Anderson (2018)
added on 2018-08-15
Children of Blood and Bone
by Tomi Adeyemi (2018)
added on 2018-08-15
Exit West
by Mohsin Hamid (2017)
added on 2018-08-15
The Art of War
by Sun Tzu (-500)
added on 2018-08-13
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers
by Geoffrey A. Moore (1991)
added on 2018-08-13
Nexus
by Ramez Naam (2012)
added on 2018-08-12
The Engines of God
by Jack McDevitt (1994)
added on 2018-08-12
Sea of Rust
by C. Robert Cargill (2017)
added on 2018-08-08
Second place in “Novel Featuring an AI Character” in 2019 /r/fantasy bingo.
Planetside
by Michael Mammay (2018)
added on 2018-08-07
The Collapsing Empire
by John Scalzi (2017)
added on 2018-08-07
Energy and Civilization: A History
by Vaclav Smil (2017)
added on 2018-08-07
The Vagrant
by Peter Newman (2015)
added on 2018-08-04
2001: A Space Odyssey
by Arthur C. Clarke (1968)
added on 2018-07-31
Borne
by Jeff VanderMeer (2017)
added on 2018-07-31
Sisyphean
by Dempow Torishima (2018)
added on 2018-07-24
Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook
by Christina Henry (2017)
added on 2018-07-24
Jeder stirbt für sich allein
by Hans Fallada (1947)
added on 2018-07-24
Titus Groan
by Mervyn Peake (1946)
added on 2018-07-24
Roadside Picnic
by Arkady Strugatsky (1972)
added on 2018-07-24
Deathless
by Catherynne M. Valente (2011)
added on 2018-07-23
The Martian Chronicles
by Ray Bradbury (1949)
added on 2018-07-23
Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood (2003)
added on 2018-07-23
Noumenon
by Marina J. Lostetter (2017)
added on 2018-07-23
His Majesty’s Dragon
by Naomi Novik (2006)
added on 2018-07-21
The Red: First Light
by Linda Nagata (2013)
added on 2018-07-12
The Quantum Thief
by Hannu Rajaniemi (2010)
added on 2018-07-12
Six of Crows
by Leigh Bardugo (2015)
added on 2018-07-04
Topped the 2019 /r/fantasy bingo in “A SFF Novel Featuring a Character With a Disability”
The Tough Guide to Fantasyland
by Diana Wynne Jones (1996)
added on 2018-07-04
The Crown Conspiracy
by Michael J. Sullivan (2008)
added on 2018-07-04
The Song of the Quarkbeast
by Jasper Fforde (2011)
added on 2018-07-04
The Timeless Way of Building
by Christopher W. Alexander (1978)
added on 2018-07-02
Street Freaks
by Terry Brooks (2018)
added on 2018-06-19
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
by Elinor Ostrom (1990)
added on 2018-06-10
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck (1952)
added on 2018-04-03
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
by Mark Manson (2016)
added on 2018-03-20
The Night Circus
by Erin Morgenstern (2011)
added on 2018-03-19
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
by Max Brooks (2006)
added on 2018-03-19
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
by Robert A. Heinlein (1966)
added on 2018-03-13
I really enjoyed Have Space Suit–Will Travel, and I hope that this more well-known Heinlein book will be similarly good. (Better? More adult? We’ll see …)
Houston, Houston, Do You Read?
by James Tiptree Jr. (1976)
added on 2018-03-13
Red Mars
by Kim Stanley Robinson (1992)
added on 2018-03-13
Pandora’s Star
by Peter F. Hamilton (2004)
added on 2018-03-07
The Inverted World
by Christopher Priest (1974)
added on 2018-02-19
Space Captain Smith
by Toby Frost (2008)
added on 2018-02-19
Mission of Gravity
by Hal Clement (1954)
added on 2018-02-19
Dangerous Visions
by Harlan Ellison (1967)
added on 2018-02-19
Lord of Light
by Roger Zelazny (1967)
added on 2018-02-19
Foundation
by Isaac Asimov (1951)
added on 2018-02-18
Blackout
by Marc Elsberg (2012)
added on 2018-02-13
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
by Alan Garner (1960)
added on 2018-01-29
Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories in Extreme Futures
by Elly Blue (2017)
added on 2018-01-27
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
by Sebastian Junger (1997)
added on 2017-11-21
The Screaming Staircase
by Jonathan Stroud (2013)
added on 2017-11-21
The Black Company
by Glen Cook (1984)
added on 2017-11-21
The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by John Joseph Adams (2009)
added on 2017-11-21
Magician: Apprentice
by Raymond E. Feist (1982)
added on 2017-11-21
jml: “Feist’s Magician is also a nerd power fantasy, but at least has some heart”
Anarchy in Action
by Colin Ward (1973)
added on 2017-11-20
On Anarchism
by Noam Chomsky (2005)
added on 2017-11-20
Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism
by Peter Marshall (1992)
added on 2017-11-20
The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas (2017)
added on 2017-11-15
The Red Knight
by Miles Cameron (2012)
added on 2017-11-15
Mycroft Holmes and the Adventure of the Desert Wind
by Janina Woods (2017)
added on 2017-11-15
Jurassic Park
by Michael Crichton (1990)
added on 2017-11-15
The Girl With All the Gifts
by M.R. Carey (2014)
added on 2017-08-16
Fortune’s Pawn
by Rachel Bach (2013)
added on 2017-07-17
Career of Evil
by Robert Galbraith (2015)
added on 2017-07-11
Saeculum
by Ursula Poznanski (2011)
added on 2017-02-01
Ship of Magic
by Robin Hobb (1998)
added on 2017-02-01
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
by Michael Chabon (2007)
added on 2017-02-01
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
by Carl Sagan (1994)
added on 2017-02-01
The Swarm
by Frank Schätzing (2004)
added on 2016-12-01
Welcome to Night Vale
by Joseph Fink (2015)
added on 2016-11-13
The Blue Sword
by Robin McKinley (1982)
added on 2016-10-05
Pawn of Prophecy
by David Eddings (1982)
added on 2016-10-05
Highly recommended, by Pornokitsch (“The Belgariad is my go to series whenever I’m sick”) among others
Wild Magic
by Tamora Pierce (1992)
added on 2016-10-05
Dance of the Photons: From Einstein to Quantum Teleportation
by Anton Zeilinger (2003)
added on 2016-10-05
The Fortunate Fall
by Raphael Carter (1996)
added on 2016-07-24
Changer
by Matt Gemmell (2016)
added on 2016-07-14
Wake of Vultures
by Lila Bowen (2015)
added on 2016-06-08
Libriomancer
by Jim C. Hines (2012)
added on 2016-06-08
Black Hat Jack
by Joe R. Lansdale (2014)
added on 2016-06-08
Altered Carbon
by Richard K. Morgan (2002)
added on 2016-06-08
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
by Laini Taylor (2011)
added on 2016-06-08
Legend
by David Gemmell (1984)
added on 2016-06-08
Ship Breaker
by Paolo Bacigalupi (2010)
added on 2016-06-08
Looking for Alaska
by John Green (2005)
added on 2016-06-07
Company Town
by Madeline Ashby (2016)
added on 2016-06-05
Fall of Giants
by Ken Follett (2010)
added on 2016-05-19
Wolf Brother
by Michelle Paver (2004)
added on 2016-05-19
House of Leaves
by Mark Z. Danielewski (2000)
added on 2016-05-19
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
by Salman Rushdie (1990)
added on 2016-05-19
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
by Mary Roach (2010)
added on 2016-05-19
Dealing with Dragons
by Patricia C. Wrede (1990)
added on 2016-05-19
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
by Barbara Demick (2009)
added on 2016-05-19
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
by Brian Selznick (2007)
added on 2016-05-19
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
by Oliver Sacks (1985)
added on 2016-05-18
The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest
by Ellen Datlow (2002)
added on 2016-05-18
The Starry Rift: Tales of New Tomorrows
by Jonathan Strahan (2008)
added on 2016-05-18
Nine Hundred Grandmothers
by R.A. Lafferty (1970)
added on 2016-05-18
A Darker Shade of Magic
by V.E. Schwab (2015)
added on 2016-05-14
George
by Alex Gino (2015)
added on 2016-05-11
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
by David Mitchell (2010)
added on 2016-05-11
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
by Hampton Sides (2014)
added on 2016-05-11
The Madness Season
by C.S. Friedman (1990)
added on 2016-05-11
The Sorcerer’s House
by Gene Wolfe (2010)
added on 2016-05-08
The Rapture of the Nerds
by Cory Doctorow (2012)
added on 2016-05-07
The Lost Years of Merlin
by T.A. Barron (1996)
added on 2016-05-03
The Magicians’ Guild
by Trudi Canavan (2001)
added on 2016-05-03
Camouflage
by Joe Haldeman (2004)
added on 2015-08-04
The Books of Magic
by Neil Gaiman (1993)
added on 2015-07-02
Onkel Dagobert – Sein Leben, seine Milliarden: Die Biografie von Don Rosa
by Don Rosa (2008)
added on 2015-06-28
The BFG
by Roald Dahl (1982)
added on 2015-06-28
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë (1847)
added on 2015-04-17
Joan of Arc
by Mark Twain (1896)
added on 2015-04-17
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
added on 2015-04-17
The Darkness That Comes Before
by R. Scott Bakker (2003)
added on 2015-04-17
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee (1960)
added on 2015-04-17
The Radetzky March
by Joseph Roth (1932)
added on 2015-04-08
The Blade Itself
by Joe Abercrombie (2006)
added on 2015-04-08