Reading

Books: on balance, I'm for them. These are most of the ones I've read since 2007 or so. The star ratings correspond more closely to "how worth my time this felt" than "how good this is."

years

authors

[ titles ]

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking

Bantam Books
isbn 9780553380163
worldcat | bookshop

finished 18 Sep 2011

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain

Simon Schuster
isbn
worldcat | bookshop

finished 13 May 2008

A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway

Arrow Books
isbn 9780099910107
worldcat | bookshop

finished 03 Mar 2008

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers

Vintage
isbn 9780375725784
worldcat | bookshop

finished 13 Jul 2010

A Hero of Our Time
Mikhail Lermontov

Penguin Classics
isbn 9780140441765
worldcat | bookshop

finished 01 Feb 2008

Made me think about:

A History of Bangladesh
William van Schendel

Cambridge University Press
isbn 9781108473699
worldcat | bookshop

more info

finished 05 Nov 2023

I appreciated the thoughtful and de-colonizing approach the author took to Bangladesh’s complex cultural and geopolitical histories. more >>

A History of Rock Creek Park: Wilderness & Washington, D.C. (Landmarks)
Scott Einberger

The History Press
isbn 9781626195745
worldcat | bookshop

finished 14 Apr 2018

A Home for Mr. Easter
Brooke A. Allen

NBM Publishing
isbn 9781561635801
worldcat | bookshop

finished 20 Sep 2011

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Hanif Abdurraqib

Random House
isbn 9781984801203
worldcat | bookshop

finished 05 Apr 2025

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah

Sarah Crichton Books
isbn 9780374105235
worldcat | bookshop

finished 23 Apr 2007

A Man in Love
Karl Ove Knausgård

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
isbn
worldcat | bookshop

finished 16 Oct 2018

A Passage to India: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism
Betty Jay

Palgrave Macmillan
isbn 9781840460278
worldcat | bookshop

finished 12 May 2008

A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn

Harper Perennial
isbn 9780060838652
worldcat | bookshop

finished 15 Sep 2014

A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf

Penguin Books
isbn 9780141183534
worldcat | bookshop

finished 05 May 2008

A Savage Order: How the World's Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security
Rachel Kleinfeld

Brilliance Audio
isbn 9781978643215
worldcat | bookshop

finished 26 Aug 2019

A Scanner Darkly
Philip K. Dick

Mariner Books
isbn 9780547572178
worldcat | bookshop

finished 29 Dec 2017

A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Gilles Deleuze

University of Minnesota Press
isbn 9780816614028
worldcat | bookshop

finished 27 Mar 2010

A Visit From The Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan

Anchor Books
isbn 9780307477477
worldcat | bookshop

finished 14 Dec 2022

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Bill Bryson

Anchor Books
isbn 9780307279460
worldcat | bookshop

finished 07 Sep 2011

A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle #1)
Ursula K. Le Guin

Bantam Spectra
isbn 9780553383041
worldcat | bookshop

finished 22 Aug 2015

Absolution
Jeff VanderMeer

MCD
isbn 9780374616595
worldcat | bookshop

finished 20 Feb 2025

Acceptance (Southern Reach #3)
Jeff VanderMeer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
isbn 9780374104115
worldcat | bookshop

finished 04 Jul 2015

Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
Thomas Rid

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
isbn 9780374287269
worldcat | bookshop

finished 07 May 2023

Ada & Zangemann: A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream
Matthias Kirschner, Sandra Brandstätter (illus.)

No Starch Press
isbn 9781718503182
worldcat | bookshop

more info

finished 26 Dec 2022

I was lucky to get my hands on a physical copy of Ada & Zangemann: A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream, by Matthias Kirshner (President of Free Software Foundation Europe) and illustrator Sandra Brandstätter. It’s a lovely children’s book about the joy of tinkering, open and closed... more >>