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