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Bookshelf - Backlog

One of these days I'll get to reading all of these

  1. Children of Strife by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  2. Old Man's War by John Scalzi
  3. The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi
  4. The Last Colony by John Scalzi
  5. Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi
  6. The Human Division by John Scalzi
  7. The End of All Things by John Scalzi
  8. The Shattering Peace by John Scalzi
  9. Radicalized: Four Tales of Our Present Moment by Cory Doctorow
  10. Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
  11. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
  12. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
  13. Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut by Mike Mullane
  14. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
  15. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
  16. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
  17. The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
  18. Dune by Frank Herbert
  19. Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
  20. Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
  21. God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
  22. Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
  23. Chapterhouse: Dune by Frank Herbert
  24. Halo: Cryptum by Greg Bear
  25. Halo: Primordium by Greg Bear
  26. Halo: Silentium by Greg Bear
  27. Halo: The Fall of Reach by Eric Nylund
  28. Halo: The Flood by William C. Dietz
  29. Halo: First Strike by Eric Nylund
  30. Halo: Ghosts of Onyx by Eric Nylund
  31. Halo: The Cole Protocol by Tobias Buckell
  32. Halo: Envoy by Tobias Buckell
  33. Halo: Glasslands by Karen Traviss
  34. Halo: The Thursday War by Karen Traviss
  35. Halo: Mortal Dictata by Karen Traviss
  36. Halo: New Blood by Matt Forbeck
  37. Halo: Bad Blood by Matt Forbeck
  38. Halo: Last Light by Troy Denning
  39. Halo: Retribution by Troy Denning
  40. Halo: Divine Wind by Troy Denning
  41. Halo: Smoke and Shadow by Kelly Gay
  42. Halo: Renegades by Kelly Gay
  43. Halo: Point of Light by Kelly Gay
  44. Halo: Silent Storm by Troy Denning
  45. Halo: Oblivion by Troy Denning
  46. Halo: Shadows of Reach by Troy Denning
  47. Halo: Outcasts by Troy Denning
  48. Halo: Battle Born by Cassandra Rose Clarke
  49. Halo: Meridian Divide by Cassandra Rose Clarke
  50. Halo: Contact Harvest by Joseph Staten
  51. Halo: Broken Circle by John Shirley
  52. Halo: Hunters in the Dark by Scott Brick
  53. Halo: Legacy of Onyx by Matt Forbeck
  54. Halo: The Rubicon Protocol by Kelly Gay
  55. Halo: Saint’s Testimony by Frank O’Connor
  56. Halo: Shadow of Intent by Joseph Staten
  57. Halo: Evolutions by Steve Downes, Holter Graham, Frank O’Connor, & Jen Taylor
  58. Halo: Fractions by Scott Brick
  59. Conflicted Scars: An Average Player’s Journey to the NHL by Justin Davis
  60. Outland by Dennis E Taylor
  61. String Them Up by William Sterling
  62. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
  63. The Strange by Nathan Ballingrud
  64. Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
  65. To a Fungus Unknown by William C. Tracy
  66. Of Mycelium and Men by William C. Tracy
  67. The Dead Run by Adam Mansbach
  68. The God Engines by John Scalzi
  69. Generation Ship by Michael Mammay
  70. These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs
  71. Foundry by Eliot Peper
  72. Future Value: The Battle for Baseball’s Soul and How Teams Will Find the Next Superstar by Eric Longenhagen & Kiley McDaniel
  73. The Lazarus Heist: From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea’s Global Cyber War by Geoff White
  74. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  75. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
  76. The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow
  77. The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
  78. The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run--Or Ruin--An Economy by Tim Harford
  79. Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford
  80. Scandal on the South Side: The 1919 Chicago White Sox by Jacob Pomrenke
  81. A Promised Land by Barack Obama
  82. The Last Policeman by Ben H Winters
  83. Countdown City by Ben H Winters
  84. World of Trouble by Ben H Winters
  85. Liberty’s Daughter by Naomi Kritzer
  86. Refractions by MV Melcer
  87. The War that Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 by Margaret MacMillan
  88. The Age of the Strongman by Gideon Rachman
  89. Tracers in the Dark by Andy Greenberg
  90. Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II by Evan Thomas
  91. The Alchemist by Paolo Bacigalupi
  92. Arcanum 101 by Mercedes Lackey
  93. Angel’s Ink by Jocelyn Drake
  94. I Am Spock by Leonard Nimoy
  95. The Revolution That Wasn’t: GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors by Spencer Jakab
  96. Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism by Glory M. Liu
  97. Permanent Record by Ed Snowden
  98. Limitless by Jeanna Smialek
  99. The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes by Zachary D. Carter
  100. Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems by Martin Kleppmann
  101. Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design by Robert Martin
  102. Assemblers of Infinity by Doug Beason & Kevin J. Anderson
  103. Beasts of Tabat by Cat Rambo
  104. Bleeding Violet by Dia Reeves
  105. Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times by Mark Leibovich
  106. Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon by William D. Cohan
  107. Budayeen Nights by George A Effinger
  108. By the Blood of Heroes by Joseph Nassise
  109. On Her Majesty’s Behalf by Joseph Nassise
  110. Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison
  111. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell
  112. The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World by Jeff Goodell
  113. Busting Vegas by Ben Mezrich
  114. These Are the Plunderers by Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner
  115. The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character by Samuel Noah Kramer
  116. Artemis by Andy Weir
  117. Drumbeats by Kevin J. Anderson & Neal Peart
  118. Encounter with Tiber by Buzz Aldrin & John Barnes
  119. The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold
  120. Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation by John Ehle
  121. The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups by William J. Bernstein
  122. The Dark Lady: A Romance of the Far Future by Mike Resnick
  123. The Executioness by Paolo Bacigalupi
  124. Freehold by William C. Dietz
  125. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
  126. For Profit by William Magnison
  127. Refactoring by Martin Fowler
  128. Direct: The Rise of the Middleman Economy and the Power of Going to the Source by Kathryn Judge
  129. The Godmakers by Frank Herbert
  130. The Golden Queen by David Farland
  131. The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War by Nicholas Mulder
  132. Code Complete by Steve McConnell
  133. This Mortal Coil: A History of Death by Andrew Doig
  134. The Predator’s Ball by Connie Bruck
  135. The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze by Laura Shin
  136. Move Fast: How Facebook Builds Software by Jeff Meyerson
  137. The Healer’s War by Elizabeth Anne Scarborough
  138. I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
  139. Invasion by Mercedes Lackey
  140. World Divided by Mercedes Lackey
  141. Revolution by Mercedes Lackey
  142. Collision by Mercedes Lackey
  143. Avalanche by Mercedes Lackey
  144. Free Market: The History of an Idea by Jacob Stoll
  145. The Siege of Loyalty House by Jessie Childs
  146. Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy and the Way to Renew Our Broken System by Raymond Baker
  147. Clean Code by Robert Martin
  148. The Pragmatic Programmer by Andre Hunt, David Thomas
  149. Jumper by Stephen Gould
  150. Justice and Her Brothers by Virginia Hamilton
  151. Dustland by Virginia Hamilton
  152. The Gathering by Virginia Hamilton
  153. The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze
  154. There’s Nothing Micro About a Billion Women: Making Finance Work for Women by Mary Ellen Iskenderian
  155. Inventor of the Future by Alec Nevala-Lee
  156. The Power Law by Sebastian Mallaby
  157. There are No Accidents by Jessie Singer
  158. The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle
  159. Lifeline by Kevin J. Anderson & Doug Beason
  160. Machine of Death by Ryan North
  161. 21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to Covid-19 by Ben Bernanke
  162. The White Wall: How Big Finance Bankrupts Black America by Emily Flitter
  163. Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze
  164. The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931 by Adam Tooze
  165. The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Helibroner
  166. Map of Bones by James Rollins
  167. Mogworld by Yahtzee Croshaw
  168. Mythology 101 by Jody Lynn Nye
  169. Mythworld: The Festival of Bones by James A. Owen
  170. Cracking the Coding Interview by Gayle Laakmann McDowell
  171. Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane by Paul Auster
  172. How to Be a Woman Online by Nina Jankowicz
  173. An Introduction to Fantasy by Matthew Sangster
  174. Us History in 15 Foods by Anna Zeide & Laura A. Belmonte
  175. Life is Hard by Kieran Setiya
  176. Ocean by Brian Herbert & Jan Herbert
  177. Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey
  178. Second Paradigm by Peter J. Wacks
  179. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as If Your Life Depended on It by Chris Voss & Tahl Raz
  180. Why Does The Stock Market Go Up?: Everything You Should Have Been Taught About Investing In School, But Weren't by Brian Feroldi
  181. The Missing Billionaires: A Guide to Better Financial Decisions by Victor Haghani & James White
  182. Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
  183. Song of Kali by Dan Simmons
  184. Spellsinger by Alan Dean Foster
  185. Once a Marine; The Memoirs of General A.A. Vandegrift Commandant of the U.S. Marines in WWII by A.A. Vandergrift
  186. Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
  187. The Sword & Sorcery Anthology by Robert E. Howard
  188. The Time of the Dark by Barbara Hambly
  189. The Walls of Air by Barbara Hambly
  190. The Armies of Daylight by Barbara Hambly
  191. Mother of Winter by Barbara Hambly
  192. Icefalcon’s Quest by Barbara Hambly
  193. Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale by Holly Black
  194. Twinmaker by Sean Williams
  195. Uglies by Scott Westerfield
  196. Veiled Alliances by Kevin J. Anderson
  197. ViraVax by Bill Ransom
  198. Whack Job by Mike Baron
  199. The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho
  200. Wizard’s First Rule by Terry Goodkind
  201. Stone of Tears by Terry Goodkind
  202. Blood of the Fold by Terry Goodkind
  203. Temple of the Winds by Terry Goodkind
  204. Soul of the Fire by Terry Goodkind
  205. Faith of the Fallen by Terry Goodkind
  206. The Pillars of Creation by Terry Goodkind
  207. Naked Empire by Terry Goodkind
  208. Chainfire by Terry Goodkind
  209. Phantom by Terry Goodkind
  210. Confessor by Terry Goodkind
  211. The Omen Machine by Terry Goodkind
  212. The Third Kingdom by Terry Goodkind
  213. Severed Souls by Terry Goodkind
  214. Warheart by Terry Goodkind
  215. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
  216. Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
  217. Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo
  218. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
  219. Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
  220. Attack Surface by Cory Doctorow
  221. Canadian Miracle by Cory Doctorow
  222. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
  223. Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow
  224. For the Win by Cory Doctorow
  225. Lawful Interception by Cory Doctorow
  226. Makers by Cory Doctorow
  227. Party Discipline by Cory Doctorow
  228. Rapture of the Nerds by Cory Doctorow
  229. Someone Comes to Town Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow
  230. Colossus by Ryan Leslie
  231. The Everything War: Amazon's Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power by Dana Mattioli
  232. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
  233. Timeline by Michael Crichton
  234. Next by Michael Crichton
  235. Disclosure by Michael Crichton
  236. Airframe by Michael Crichton
  237. Baron: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry by Austin Frerick
  238. The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America by Mehrsa Baradaran
  239. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz
  240. Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality in a Counterfeit Culture by Alice Sherwood
  241. Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization by Kenneth Harl
  242. Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality by Angus Deaton
  243. The Forge of Christendom: The End of Days and the Epic Rise of the West by Tom Holland
  244. Freedom's Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science by Audra J Wolfe
  245. Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer
  246. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
  247. Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters by Serhii Plokhy
  248. Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America's Future by Stephen Kinzer
  249. Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret Worl by Stephen Kinzer
  250. The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy
  251. Glass Houses by Madeline Ashby
  252. Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves by Nicola Twilley
  253. The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805 by Richard Zaks
  254. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
  255. The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel
  256. Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut’s Journeys by Michael Collins
  257. Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--And How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari
  258. What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
  259. How to Kill an Asteroid: The Real Science of Planetary Defense by Robin George Andrews
  260. Turing's Vision: The Birth of Computer Science by Chris Bernhardt
  261. Ghost Empire by Richard Fidler
  262. Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization by Lars Brownworth
  263. A History of the Ottoman Empire by Douglas A. Howard
  264. Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company by Andrew S. Grove
  265. Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend by Larry Tye
  266. Rinsed: From Cartels to Crypto: How the Tech Industry Washes Money for the World's Deadliest Crooks by Geoff White
  267. How Not to Invest: The ideas, numbers, and behaviors that destroy wealth - and how to avoid them by Barry Ritholtz
  268. Decline and Fall of the American Republic by Bruce Ackerman
  269. Conclave by Richard Harris
  270. Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
  271. Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace by Matthew C. Klein & Michael Pettis
  272. Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II by Keith Lowe
  273. Paris After the Liberation 1944-1949 by Artemis Cooper & Antony Beevor
  274. The Audit of War: The Illusion and Reality of Britain as a Great Nation by Correlli Barnett
  275. The Simple Path to Wealth by Jl Collins
  276. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoë Schlanger
  277. How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle by Ray Dalio
  278. Mellon vs. Churchill: The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War by Jill Eicher
  279. House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company by Eva Dou
  280. AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference by Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor
  281. Why Trust Matters: An Economist's Guide to the Ties That Bind Us by Benjamin Ho
  282. Salvagia by Tim Chawaga
  283. The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America—and How to Undo His Legacy by David Gelles
  284. The Motley Fool Investment Guide: How the Fools Beat Wall Street's Wise Men and How You Can Too by Tom Gardner & David Gardner
  285. Motley Fool Million Dollar Portfolio: How to Build and Grow a Panic-Proof Investment Portfolio by David Gardner & Tom Gardner
  286. Rule Breaker Investing: How to Pick the Best Stocks of the Future and Build Lasting Wealth by David Gardner
  287. How Life Works: A User's Guide to the New Biology by Philip Ball
  288. Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes by Eamon Duffy
  289. Vicars of Christ: A History of the Popes by Charles A Coulombe
  290. American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback by Seth Wickersham
  291. World Eaters: How Venture Capital is Cannibalizing the Economy by Catherine Bracy
  292. The Corporation in the 21st Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told about Business Is Wrong by John Kay
  293. Allies at War: How the Struggles Between the Allied Powers Shaped the War and the World by Tim Bouverie
  294. An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi
  295. How to Think Like Socrates: Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life in the Modern World by Donald J. Robertson
  296. The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
  297. The Ship of Death by Kyle Winkler
  298. The Subtle Art of Folding Space by John Chu
  299. #Selfcare by Annalee Newitz
  300. All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
  301. As Good As New by Charlie Jane Anders
  302. Clover by Charlie Jane Anders
  303. Victories Greater Than Death by Charlie Jane Anders
  304. Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak by Charlie Jane Anders
  305. Promises Stronger Than Darkness by Charlie Jane Anders
  306. Even Greater Mistakes by Charlie Jane Anders
  307. If You Take My Meaning by Charlie Jane Anders
  308. Intestate by Charlie Jane Anders
  309. Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times By Making Up Stories by Charlie Jane Anders
  310. Old Media by Annalee Newitz
  311. Six Months, Three Days by Charlie Jane Anders
  312. The Cartography of Sudden Death by Charlie Jane Anders
  313. The Fermi Paradox is Our Business Model by Charlie Jane Anders
  314. The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz
  315. Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders
  316. Autonomous by Annalee Newitz
  317. The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
  318. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
  319. Democracy Without Journalism?: Confronting the Misinformation Society by Viktor Pickard
  320. No Man's Land by Richard K. Morgan
  321. Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State by Byron Tau
  322. Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove
  323. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
  324. A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
  325. Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
  326. The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
  327. On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) by Solvej Balle
  328. On the Calculation of Volume (Book II) by Solvej Balle
  329. On the Calculation of Volume (Book III) by Solvej Balle
  330. On the Calculation of Volume (Book IV) by Solvej Balle
  331. On the Calculation of Volume (Book V) by Solvej Balle
  332. An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth by Anna Moschovakis
  333. The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
  334. Discovering Cyrus: The Persian Conqueror Astride the Ancient World by Reza Zaghamee
  335. The Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources from the Achaemenid Period by Amélie Kuhrt
  336. Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance by Cindy Cohn