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Bookshelf - Backlog

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

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