Reading List
This is every book I can remember having ever read. Included with some are the years in which I remember reading them. A thumbs up means I recommend it, and a thumbs down means I recommend skipping it.
You can do a neat trick with such a list. You can copy and paste its contents into an LLM and ask it to make recommendations based off the books you've already read.
Make sure you ask for an analysis of what kinds of books you have already read to pre-load its context1, or it will reliably recommend Ursula K. Le Guin2.
- Autobiography of A Scientist, The
- Candide, or, Optimism by Voltaire
- Woman In The Dunes, The by KΕbΕ Abe
- Life, The Universe, And Everything by Douglas Adams
- Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The by Douglas Adams
- Restaurant At The End of The Universe, The by Douglas Adams
- How To Take Smart Notes by SΓΆnke Ahrens (2021)
- Tau Zero by Poul Anderson (2025)
- Forward The Foundation by Isaac Asimov (2022)
- Foundation And Earth by Isaac Asimov (2018)
- Foundation And Empire by Isaac Asimov (2020)
- Foundation by Isaac Asimov (2020) π
- Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov (2018)
- I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (2019)
- Pebble In The Sky by Isaac Asimov
- Prelude To Foundation by Isaac Asimov (2020)
- Robots And Empire by Isaac Asimov (2020)
- Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov
- Caves of Steel, The by Isaac Asimov
- Currents of Space, The by Isaac Asimov
- Naked Sun, The by Isaac Asimov
- Robots of Dawn, The by Isaac Asimov
- Stars, Like Dust, The by Isaac Asimov
- Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger (2023)
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Eighth Grade Bites by Heather Brewer
- Eleventh Grade Burns by Heather Brewer
- Ninth Grade Slays by Heather Brewer
- Tenth Grade Bleeds by Heather Brewer
- Twelfth Grade Kills by Heather Brewer
- Days of Rage by Bryan Burrough (2019)
- Characters And Viewpoint by Orson Scott Card (2021)
- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (2017)
- How To Write Science Fiction And Fantasy by Orson Scott Card (2021)
- Speaker For The Dead by Orson Scott Card (2017)
- Hero: The Enduring Myth that Makes Us Human, The by Lee Child π
- 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke π
- 2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke
- 2061: Odyssey Three by Arthur C. Clarke
- 3001: The Final Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
- Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (2017)
- Alchemist, The by Paulo Coelho
- Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
- Artemis Fowl - The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer (2018)
- Artemis Fowl And The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer (2018)
- Artemis Fowl And The Atlantis Complex by Eoin Colfer (2019)
- Artemis Fowl And The Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer (2018)
- Artemis Fowl And The Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer (2018)
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (2020)
- Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
- A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick π
- Galactic Pot-Healer by Philip K. Dick (2019)
- Man In The High Castle, The by Philip K. Dick
- Minority Report, The by Philip K. Dick
- Little Brother. by Cory Doctorow
- Complete Sherlock Holmes, The by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Shaman, His Symbols And His Healing Power, The by Nevill Drury π
- Tomorrow Code, The by Brian Falkner
- Don't Send a Resume by Jeffrey J. Fox (2025) π
- Sky of Red Poppies by Zohreh Ghahremani
- Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
- Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference, The by Malcolm Gladwell
- Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
- Tunnels by Roderick Gordon, Brian Williams
- Complete Fairy Tales of The Brothers Grimm, The by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (2016)
- Boron Letters, The by Gary C. Halbert
- Old Man And The Sea, The by Ernest Hemingway
- Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
- Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert (?) (2024)
- Dune by Frank Herbert (?) (2024) π
- God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert (?) (2024)
- Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert (?) (2024)
- Dune: Chapterhouse by Frank Herbert (2024)
- Half Way Home by Hugh Howey
- Sand by Hugh Howey (2020)
- Wool by Hugh Howey
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks
- The Disposessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (2025)
- Teamwork: What Must Go Right, What Can Go Wrong by Carl E. Larson, Frank M. J. LaFasto (2020)
- To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Out of The Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
- Perelandra by C.S. Lewis
- That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
- Death's End by Cixin Liu (2022)
- Dark Forest, The by Cixin Liu
- Three-Body Problem, The by Cixin Liu
- Prince, The by NiccolΓ² Machiavelli
- Scattered Minds by Gabor MatΓ© (2024) π
- Captain Vorpatril's Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold (2021)
- Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold (2021)
- Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold (2021)
- Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold (2021)
- Gentleman Jole And The Red Queen by Lois McMaster Bujold (2021)
- Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold (2021)
- Miles Errant by Lois McMaster Bujold (2021)
- Miles In Love by Lois McMaster Bujold (2021)
- Miles, Mystery & Mayhem by Lois McMaster Bujold (2021)
- Cordelia's Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold (2021)
- Vor Game, The by Lois McMaster Bujold π
- Young Miles by Lois McMaster Bujold
- Crucible: A Play In 4 Acts, The by Arthur Miller
- Plague And Fire: Battling Black Death And The 1900 Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown by James C. Mohr (2019) π
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (2021)
- What Every Body Is Saying by Joe Navarro
- A Gift from Earth by Larry Niven (2020)
- A Hole In Space by Larry Niven (2021)
- Betrayer of Worlds by Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner (2017) (2024) π
- Convergent Series by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle (2017)
- Fate of Worlds: Return from the Ringworld by Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner (2017) (2024)
- Fleet of Worlds by Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner (?) (2024)
- Juggler of Worlds by Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner (?) (2024)
- Limits by Larry Niven
- Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle π
- Neutron Star by Larry Niven (2020)
- Protector by Larry Niven (2017) (2024)
- Ringworld Engineers, The by Larry Niven (?) (2024)
- Ringworld Throne, The by Larry Niven (?) (2024)
- Ringworld by Larry Niven (?) (2024) π
- Ringworld's Children by Larry Niven (?) (2024)
- Tales of Known Space by Larry Niven (2017)
- World of Ptavvs by Larry Niven
- Animal Farm by George Orwell π
- Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
- Hatchet by Gary Paulsen π
- Thud! A Novel of Discworld by Terry Pratchett
- Night Watch by Terry Pratchett (2025)
- Name of The Wind, The by Patrick Rothfuss
- Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two, The by Patrick Rothfuss (2020)
- How To Write A Good Advertisement: A Short Course In Copywriting by Victor O. Schwab
- Endymion by Dan Simmons π
- Hyperion by Dan Simmons (2021)
- Fall of Hyperion, The by Dan Simmons π
- Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
- Grapes of Wrath, The by John Steinbeck
- Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck
- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift π
- Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2019)
- Hobbit, or, There And Back Again, The by J.R.R. Tolkien
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole π
- A Connecticut Yankee At King Arthurs Court by Mark Twain π
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Prince And The Pauper, The by Mark Twain
- Roughing It by Mark Twain (2020) π
- Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The by Mark Twain
- God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or, Pearls Before Swine by Kurt Vonnegut
- Slaughterhouse-Five: or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death by Kurt Vonnegut
- Invisible Man, The by H.G. Wells
- Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
- Cashvertising by Drew Eric Whitman (2021)
- Day of The Triffids, The by John Wyndham