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2024 Reading List

*(in reading order, including 3 re-reads (italics) - recommendations in bold)

Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver

Leave the World Behind - Rumaan Alam

The Passenger - Cormac McCarthy

Foundation - Isaac Asimov

The Wager - David Grann

A Deadly Education - Naomi Novik

Control Freak - Cliff Blizinski

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clark

Black Site - Dalton Fury

Red Rising - Pierece Brown

Mythos - Stephen Fry

Fairy Tale - Stephen King

The Fragile Threads of Power - V. E. Schwab

Say Nothing - Patrick Radden Keefe

Leviathan Wakes - James S. A. Corey

Tier One Wild - Dalton Fury

The Maid - Nita Prose

Full Assault Mode - Dalton Fury

One Killer Force - Dalton Fury

Golden Son - Pierce Brown

Caliban's War - James S. A. Corey

Executive Authority - Dalton Fury

101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think - Brianna West

Abaddon's Gate - James S. A. Corey

Poor Things - Alisdair Gray

This is Happiness - Niall Williams

Cibola Burn - James S. A. Corey

Nemesis Games - James S. A. Corey

Surviving to Drive - Guenther Steiner

Measure What Matters - John Doerr

Babylon's Ashes - James S. A. Corey

The Blade Itself - Joe Ambercrombie

Persepolis Rising - James S. A. Corey

Tiamat's Wrath - James S. A. Corey

Leviathan Falls - James S. A. Corey

Devolution - Max Brooks

The MANIAC - Benjamin Labatut

Slow Productivity - Cal Newport

Outlive - Peter Attia, MD

One Second After - William R. Forstchen

Kiss Me Like a Stranger - Gene Wilder

The Nightengale - Kristin Hannah

Tommorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrialle Zevin

Memory's Legion - James S. A. Corey

Disrupting the Game - Reggie Fils-Aime

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - Quentin Tarantino

Cinema Speculation - Quentin Tarantino

Roadside Picnic - Arkady & Boris Strugatsky

The Terminal List - Jack Carr

Intermission - Josh Jones

Fire & Blood - George R. R. Martin

Thinking In Systems - Donella H. Meadows

True Beleiver - Jack Carr

Stuff You Should Know - Josh Clark & Chuck Bryant

Einstein - Walter Isaacson

Slow Horses - Mick Herron

The Book of Elsewhere - Keanu Reeves & China Mieville

Dead Lions - Mick Herron

Real Tigers - Mick Herron

Midnight in Chernobyl - Adam Higginbotham

Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake

Dominion - Tom Holland

Band of Brothers - Stephen E. Ambrose

The Bright Sword - Lev Grossman

The Order of Time - Carlo Rovelli

The New Rules of War - Sean McFate

North Woods - Daniel Mason

Fatherland - Burkhard Bilger

Sid Meier's Memoir! - Sin Meier

Becoming a Video Game Designer - Daniel Noah Halpern

John Adams - David McCullough

Our Oriental Heritage - Will Durant

Spook Street - Mick Herron

London Rules - Mick Herron

The Age of Faith - Will Durant

The Renaissance - Will Durant

The Captive Mind - Czeslaw Milosz

The Art of Failure - Jesper Juul

Handmade Pixels - Jesper Juul

Monkey King - Wu Cheng'en

SPQR - Mary Beard

The Message - Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Gamer's Brain - Celia Hodent

Byzantium - Judith Herrin

Modern Times - Paul Johnson

Slough House - Mick Herron

Caesar and Christ - Will Durant

Joe Country - Mick Herron

Bad Actors - Mick Herron

The Mercy of Gods - James S. A. Corey

Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates

A Theory of Fun for Game Design - Raph Koster

Absolution - Jeff VanderMeer

Polostan - Neil Stephenson

The Water Dancer - Ta-Nahesi Coates

The City and Its Uncertain Walls - Haruki Murakami

The Life of Greece - Will Durant

Livesuit - James S. A. Corey

Play Nice - Jason Schrier

Tripped - Norman Ohler

Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy

How To Talk To Anyone - Leil Lowndes

Why Smart People Hurt - Eric Maisel

For Small Creatures Such As We - Sasha Sagan

The Art of Failure - Jesper Juul

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