The Dispossesd
In Progress
Books
These are only categorized chronologically and not by subject or
genre. I haven't implemented a rating system other than, if it
says DNF underneath...
I should probably come up with a flag for books I thought were
truly awful.
Gravity’s Rainbow
In Progress
Something in the Woods Loves You
In Progress
Hell Yeah or No: What’s Worth Doing
In Progress
The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1001 Best Albums
In Progress
The Long Ships
In Progress
The American Canon: Literary Genius from Emerson to Pynchon
In Progress
Lonesome Dove
In Progress
In Ascension
On Deck
Moby Dick
On Deck
Valis
On Deck
The Forty Day of Musa Dagh
On Deck
Chocky
June 10, 2025
The Crying of Lot 49
June 8, 2025
The Scarlet Letter: A Romance
May 30, 2025
disremembering
May 11, 2025
All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries 1
April 15, 2025
Changing Planes
February 13, 2025
Death of a Salesman
February 7, 2025
Letters to a Young Poet
January 19, 2025
Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur
October 20, 2024
Git For Humans
September 23, 2024
East of Eden
August 25, 2024
Tao Te Ching: A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way
June 13, 2024
In Pharaoh’s Army: Memories of the Lost War
June 4, 2024
Empire of Silence: The Sun Eater: Book One
June 1, 2024
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
May 25, 2024
The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins
May 3, 2024
Flowers For Algernon
May 1, 2024
Stoner
April 9, 2024
Roadside Picnic
March 9, 2024
Children of Time
March 2, 2024
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
February 11, 2024
Solaris
January 25, 2024
Shadow & Claw: The Book of the New Sun 1-2
January 18, 2024
Red Rising
January 6, 2024
Hyperion
November 25, 2023
Lessons in Chemistry
November 12, 2023
We Who Are About To…
October 29, 2023
Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
February 28, 2022
Bear
February 28, 2022
Blue Horses: Poems
September 25, 2021
Rowing Faster: Serious Training for Serious Rowers
September 20, 2021
Evidence: Poems
September 20, 2021
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
August 26, 2021
Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results
July 6, 2021
Harrow the Ninth: Locked Tomb 2
June 18, 2021
Postcolonial Love Poem
June 17, 2021
Gideon the Ninth: Locked Tomb 1
June 5, 2021
How to Take Smart Notes
May 20, 2021
Klara and the Sun
May 19, 2021
The Overstory
April 25, 2021
Something Wicked This Way Comes
April 8, 2021
Dancing at the Rascal Fair
April 7, 2021
The Peace of Wild Things
April 4, 2021
The Cosmic Purr: Poems
April 3, 2021
Gasoline
April 3, 2021
Angle of Repose
March 31, 2021
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
March 19, 2021
The Phantom Tollbooth
March 16, 2021
The Best of Saki: Selected wtih an Introduction by Graham Greene
March 16, 2021
A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems
March 15, 2021
House Made of Dawn
March 15, 2021
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
January 15, 2021
The Captive Mind
January 12, 2021
Farewell, My Lovely
November 10, 2020
The Big Sleep
November 1, 2020
A Gentleman in Moscow
August 12, 2020
The Fifth Risk
July 27, 2020
The Boy From the Woods
July 24, 2020
Foundation
June 10, 2020
How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency
June 9, 2020
Rising From the Plains
June 7, 2020
To a God Unknown
May 25, 2020
In Suspect Terrain
May 13, 2020
Desert Solitaire
April 26, 2020
Basin and Range
April 8, 2020
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
March 7, 2020
Wuthering Heights
March 5, 2020
Holy the Firm
March 2, 2020
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
February 21, 2020
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
February 18, 2020
Walden and Civil Disobedience
February 8, 2020
A Canticle for Leibowitz
January 4, 2020
Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan
September 19, 2019
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self Delusion
August 30, 2019
The Silent World
August 12, 2019
Radical Atheism: Derrida and the Time of Life
August 11, 2019
On Democracy
August 9, 2019
Fall, or Dodge in Hell
August 3, 2019
Climate Justice: Hop, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future
July 7, 2019
This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
July 6, 2019
Future Home of the Living God
June 20, 2019
Goin’ to Kansas City
June 10, 2019
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
June 10, 2019
Living the Secular Life
May 30, 2019
Falter: has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
April 28, 2019
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
March 1, 2019
The Sun Temple
September 9, 2018
The Destiny Thief: Essays on Writing, Writers and Life
August 17, 2018
The Odyssey
July 26, 2018
The Giver
July 3, 2018
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
June 2, 2018
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
May 14, 2018
Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
April 23, 2018
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Persons Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
April 20, 2018
Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview
April 20, 2018
1984
February 1, 2018
The Age of Reason
November 14, 2017
The Gunslinger: The Dark Tower 1
November 2, 2017
The Imperfect Environmentalist: A Practical Guide to Clearing Your Body, Detoxing Your Home, and Saving the Earth (Without Losing Your Mind)
September 22, 2017
The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For
September 2, 2017
Leaving the Atocha Station
August 28, 2017
At the Foundling Hospital: Poems
August 28, 2017
Ergonomics of Worry: Poems
August 28, 2017
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
August 28, 2017
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memior
August 28, 2017
Killing Floor
August 28, 2017
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street
August 28, 2017
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
August 28, 2017
A Gift From the Sea
August 28, 2017
Stuart Little
August 28, 2017
The Rain in Portugal: Poems
August 28, 2017
Rethink: The Surprising History of New Ideas
August 28, 2017
White Egrets: Poems
August 28, 2017
Fast: Poems
August 19, 2017
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
August 15, 2017
Fahrenheit 451
August 15, 2017
Do I Make Myself Clear?: Why Writing Well Matters
August 12, 2017
Check These Out: One Librarian’s Catalog of the 200 Coolest, Best, and Most Important Books You’ll Ever Read
August 5, 2017
The Last Great Walk: The True Story of a 1909 Walk from New York to San Francisco, and Why it Matters Today
August 4, 2017
Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times
August 1, 2017
Tears We Cannot Stop
July 31, 2017
Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
July 24, 2017
Monkey: Folk Novel of China
July 10, 2017
Huē 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
July 3, 2017
SASS for Web Designers
June 26, 2017
The Importance of Living
June 19, 2017
Man’s Search for Meaning
June 19, 2017
Wonder
May 9, 2017
Books for Living
May 6, 2017
Norse Mythology
February 14, 2017
A Reliable Wife
February 1, 2017
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
September 8, 2016
The Coloring Book: A Comedian Soves Race Relations in America
April 26, 2016
Space Music
April 17, 2016
The Portable Atheist
April 16, 2016
Between the World and Me
March 27, 2016
Seveneves
January 1, 2016
The Varieties of Religious Experience
August 5, 2015
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Olympics
January 1, 2015
The Road
January 1, 2014
A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There
The Human Machine
When We Cease to Understand the World
God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
All the Pretty Horses
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
The Great Gatsby
Dune
What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation
On the Road
The Subterraneans
In Defense of Elitism: Why I’m Better Than You, and You are Better Than Someone Who Didn’t Buy This Book
Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention—And How to Think Deeply Again
All the Names
Aurora
Upstream: Selected Essays
The Killer Angels
Anathem
Snow Crash
The Social Organism: A Radical Understanding of Social Media to Transform Your Business and Life
Blindsight
Stretch: Unlock the Power of Less and Achieve More Than You Ever Imagined
Neuromancer
Brideshead Revisited
DNF