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For the curious, these are the books I’ve read. Reviews for some of them appear on my blog, but if you have a question or want my opinion on any specific title, feel free to contact me.

2023

The Forge of God by Greg Bear
The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe
Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany

2022

The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories edited by John L. Apostolou & Martin Greenberg
Broken Stars edited by Ken Liu
One-Punch Man, Volume 1 by ONE
The Labyrinth by Simon Stalenhag
Rabbits by Terry Miles
Elric of Melniboné: The Elric Saga Part 1 by Michael Moorcock
Dark Matter – A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora edited by Sheree R. Thomas

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2021

Accusing Mr. Darcy by Kelly Miller (audiobook)
A Quiet Rebellion: Posterity (Numoeath Series Book 3) by M.H. Thaung
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Testing the Ties That Bind by Mackenzie Littledale
The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
Buddhism Without Beliefs by Stephen Batchelor
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
The Electric State by Simon Stalenhag

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2020

Conservation of Shadows by Yoon Ha Lee
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura
Giraffes on Horseback Salad: The Strangest Movie Never Made by Josh Frank, Tim Heidecker, & Manuela Pertega
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
A Quiet Rebellion: Guilt (Numoeath series Book 1) by M.H. Thaung
Tiny Righteous Acts by Parker Bauman
Far and Away: A Prize Every Time by Neil Peart
Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
Lost Inside My Mind by Dawn Olmo (Poetry)
One-Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
Where Demons Dance by Emma Briedis
The Martian by Andy Weir
A Quiet Rebellion: Restitution by M.H. Thaung
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

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2019

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris
Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey
Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain (reread)
The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin
Starfish by Peter Watts
Maelstrom by Peter Watts
Behemoth by Peter Watts
Songs of a Dead Dreamer & Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti

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2018

Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
Damage by Josephine Hart
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
Wonderbook by Jeff Vandermeer
Smoke by Dan Vyleta
Roadshow: Landscape With Drums – A Concert Tour by Motorcycle by Neil Peart
Why Write? Collected Nonfiction: 1960 – 2013 by Philip Roth
Collected Stories by Raymond Carver
The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama & Howard C. Cutler
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

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2017

Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert (reread)
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
Inside Job by Connie Willis
Neuromancer by William Gibson (reread)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

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2016

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Embassy Town by China Mieville
Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings by Daniil Kharms
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
Shadow and Claw by Gene Wolfe
The Sword of the Lictor by Gene Wolfe
The Citadel of the Autarch by Gene Wolfe
Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima
The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison
City by Clifford D. Simak
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny (reread)
The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
Dune by Frank Herbert (reread)
Rage by Zygmunt Miloszweski

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2015

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Vengeance is Mine by Mickey Spillane
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (reread)
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
The Witches of Karres by James H. Schmitz
14 by Peter Clines
The Razor’s Edge by W Somerset Maugham
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (reread)
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams (reread)
Life, the a Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams (reread)
So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish by Douglas Adams (reread)
Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
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2014

Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
Slow Burn: Zero Day Book 1 by Bobby Adair
A Stainless Steel Rat is Born by Harry Harrison
I, The Jury by Mickey Spillane (reread)
Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
12/21 by Dustin Thomas
Hyperion by Dan Simmons (reread)
The Dark World by Henry Kuttner
Just A Geek by Wil Wheaton
The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons (reread)
My Gun Is Quickby Mickey Spillane
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Endymion by Dan Simmons (reread)
Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons (reread)
The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (reread)
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick
The Tibetan Book of the Dead translated by Gyurme Dorje
Dangerous Visions edited by Harlan Ellison

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