My Bookshelf - To Read

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

Last Updated: June 29, 2025

Backlog Count: 295

• Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces by Radley Balko
• The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
• The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
• The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson
• Whisper Down the Lane by Clay McLeod Chapman
• Ghost Eaters by Clay McLeod Chapman
• Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by Clay McLeod Chapman
• Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings
• Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 by Max Hastings
• Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
• Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations by Alton Brown
• Wheel of Infinite by Martha Wells
• Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
• Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech by Brian Merchant
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
• Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut by Mike Mullane
• Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
• Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
• The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
• Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
• God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
• Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
• Chapterhouse: Dune by Frank Herbert
• Halo: Cryptum by Greg Bear
• Halo: Primordium by Greg Bear
• Halo: Silentium by Greg Bear
• Halo: The Fall of Reach by Eric Nylund
• Halo: The Flood by William C. Dietz
• Halo: First Strike by Eric Nylund
• Halo: Ghosts of Onyx by Eric Nylund
• Halo: The Cole Protocol by Tobias Buckell
• Halo: Envoy by Tobias Buckell
• Halo: Glasslands by Karen Traviss
• Halo: The Thursday War by Karen Traviss
• Halo: Mortal Dictata by Karen Traviss
• Halo: New Blood by Matt Forbeck
• Halo: Bad Blood by Matt Forbeck
• Halo: Last Light by Troy Denning
• Halo: Retribution by Troy Denning
• Halo: Divine Wind by Troy Denning
• Halo: Smoke and Shadow by Kelly Gay
• Halo: Renegades by Kelly Gay
• Halo: Point of Light by Kelly Gay
• Halo: Silent Storm by Troy Denning
• Halo: Oblivion by Troy Denning
• Halo: Shadows of Reach by Troy Denning
• Halo: Outcasts by Troy Denning
• Halo: Battle Born by Cassandra Rose Clarke
• Halo: Meridian Divide by Cassandra Rose Clarke
• Halo: Contact Harvest by Joseph Staten
• Halo: Broken Circle by John Shirley
• Halo: Hunters in the Dark by Scott Brick
• Halo: Legacy of Onyx by Matt Forbeck
• Halo: The Rubicon Protocol by Kelly Gay
• Halo: Saint’s Testimony by Frank O’Connor
• Halo: Shadow of Intent by Joseph Staten
• Halo: Evolutions by Steve Downes, Holter Graham, Frank O’Connor, & Jen Taylor
• Halo: Fractions by Scott Brick
• Conflicted Scars: An Average Player’s Journey to the NHL by Justin Davis
• Outland by Dennis E Taylor
• String Them Up by William Sterling
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• The Strange by Nathan Ballingrud
• Altered Carbon by Richard K. Martin
• To a Fungus Unknown by William C. Tracy
• Of Mycelium and Men by William C. Tracy
• The Dead Run by Adam Mansbach
• The God Engines by John Scalzi
• Generation Ship by Michael Mammay
• These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs
• Foundry by Eliot Peper
• Future Value: The Battle for Baseball’s Soul and How Teams Will Find the Next Superstar by Eric Longenhagen & Kiley McDaniel
• The Lazarus Heist: From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea’s Global Cyber War by Geoff White
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
• The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow
• The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
• The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run--Or Ruin--An Economy by Tim Harford
• Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford
• Scandal on the South Side: The 1919 Chicago White Sox by Jacob Pomrenke
• A Promised Land by Barack Obama
• The Last Policeman by Ben H Winters
• Countdown City by Ben H Winters
• World of Trouble by Ben H Winters
• Liberty’s Daughter by Naomi Kritzer
• Refractions by MV Melcer
• The War that Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 by Margaret MacMillan
• Chip War by Chris Miller
• The Age of the Strongman by Gideon Rachman
• Tracers in the Dark by Andy Greenberg
• Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II by Evan Thomas
• The Alchemist by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Arcanum 101 by Mercedes Lackey
• Angel’s Ink by Jocelyn Drake
• I Am Spock by Leonard Nimoy
• The Revolution That Wasn’t: GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors by Spencer Jakab
• Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism by Glory M. Liu
• Permanent Record by Ed Snowden
• Limitless by Jeanna Smialek
• The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes by Zachary D. Carter
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems by Martin Kleppmann
• Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design by Robert Martin
• Assemblers of Infinity by Doug Beason & Kevin J. Anderson
• Beasts of Tabat by Cat Rambo
• Bleeding Violet by Dia Reeves
• Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times by Mark Leibovich
• Power Failure by William Cohan
• Budayeen Nights by George A Effinger
• By the Blood of Heroes by Joseph Nassise
• On Her Majesty’s Behalf by Joseph Nassise
• Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison
• Under Alien Skies by Phil Plait
• The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell
• The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World by Jeff Goodell
• Busting Vegas by Ben Mezrich
• These Are the Plunderers by Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner
• The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character by Samuel Noah Kramer
• Artemis by Andy Weir
• Drumbeats by Kevin J. Anderson & Neal Peart
• Encounter with Tiber by Buzz Aldrin & John Barnes
• The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold
• Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation by John Ehle
• The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups by William J. Bernstein
• Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World by Bradley Hope & Tom Wright
• The Dark Lady: A Romance of the Far Future by Mike Resnick
• The Executioness by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Freehold by William C. Dietz
• The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
• For Profit by William Magnison
• Refactoring by Martin Fowler
• Direct: The Rise of the Middleman Economy and the Power of Going to the Source by Kathryn Judge
• The Godmakers by Frank Herbert
• The Golden Queen by David Farland
• The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War by Nicholas Mulder
• Code Complete by Steve McConnell
• This Mortal Coil: A History of Death by Andrew Doig
• The Predator’s Ball by Connie Bruck
• The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze by Laura Shin
• Move Fast: How Facebook Builds Software by Jeff Meyerson
• The Healer’s War by Elizabeth Anne Scarborough
• I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
• Invasion by Mercedes Lackey
• World Divided by Mercedes Lackey
• Revolution by Mercedes Lackey
• Collision by Mercedes Lackey
• Avalanche by Mercedes Lackey
• Free Market: The History of an Idea by Jacob Stoll
• The Siege of Loyalty House by Jessie Childs
• Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy and the Way to Renew Our Broken System by Raymond Baker
• Clean Code by Robert Martin
• The Pragmatic Programmer by Andre Hunt, David Thomas
• Jumper by Stephen Gould
• Justice and Her Brothers by Virginia Hamilton
• Dustland by Virginia Hamilton
• The Gathering by Virginia Hamilton
• The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze
• There’s Nothing Micro About a Billion Women: Making Finance Work for Women by Mary Ellen Iskenderian
• Inventor of the Future by Alec Nevala-Lee
• The Power Law by Sebastian Mallaby
• There are No Accidents by Jessie Singer
• The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle
• Lifeline by Kevin J. Anderson & Doug Beason
• Lovecraft’s Monsters by Neil Gaiman
• Machine of Death by Ryan North
• 21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to Covid-19 by Ben Bernanke
• The White Wall: How Big Finance Bankrupts Black America by Emily Flitter
• Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze
• The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931 by Adam Tooze
• The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Helibroner
• Map of Bones by James Rollins
• Mogworld by Yahtzee Croshaw
• Mythology 101 by Jody Lynn Nye
• Mythworld: The Festival of Bones by James A. Owen
• Cracking the Coding Interview by Gayle Laakmann McDowell
• Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane by Paul Auster
• How to Be a Woman Online by Nina Jankowicz
• An Introduction to Fantasy by Matthew Sangster
• Us History in 15 Foods by Anna Zeide & Laura A. Belmonte
• Life is Hard by Kieran Setiya
• Ocean by Brian Herbert & Jan Herbert
• Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey
• Second Paradigm by Peter J. Wacks
• Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as If Your Life Depended on It by Chris Voss & Tahl Raz
• Just Keep Buying: Proven ways to save money and build your wealth by Nick Maggiulli
• Why Does The Stock Market Go Up?: Everything You Should Have Been Taught About Investing In School, But Weren't by Brian Feroldi
• The Missing Billionaires: A Guide to Better Financial Decisions by Victor Haghani & James White
• Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
• Song of Kali by Dan Simmons
• Spellsinger by Alan Dean Foster
• Once a Marine; The Memoirs of General A.A. Vandegrift Commandant of the U.S. Marines in WWII by A.A. Vandergrift
• Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
• The Sword & Sorcery Anthology by Robert E. Howard
• The Time of the Dark by Barbara Hambly
• The Walls of Air by Barbara Hambly
• The Armies of Daylight by Barbara Hambly
• Mother of Winter by Barbara Hambly
• Icefalcon’s Quest by Barbara Hambly
• Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale by Holly Black
• Twinmaker by Sean Williams
• Uglies by Scott Westerfield
• Veiled Alliances by Kevin J. Anderson
• ViraVax by Bill Ransom
• Whack Job by Mike Baron
• The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho
• Wizard’s First Rule by Terry Goodkind
• Stone of Tears by Terry Goodkind
• Blood of the Fold by Terry Goodkind
• Temple of the Winds by Terry Goodkind
• Soul of the Fire by Terry Goodkind
• Faith of the Fallen by Terry Goodkind
• The Pillars of Creation by Terry Goodkind
• Naked Empire by Terry Goodkind
• Chainfire by Terry Goodkind
• Phantom by Terry Goodkind
• Confessor by Terry Goodkind
• The Omen Machine by Terry Goodkind
• The Third Kingdom by Terry Goodkind
• Severed Souls by Terry Goodkind
• Warheart by Terry Goodkind
• Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
• Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
• Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo
• Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
• Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
• Attack Surface by Cory Doctorow
• Canadian Miracle by Cory Doctorow
• Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
• Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow
• For the Win by Cory Doctorow
• Lawful Interception by Cory Doctorow
• Makers by Cory Doctorow
• Party Discipline by Cory Doctorow
• Radicalized: Four Tales of Our Present Moment by Cory Doctorow
• Rapture of the Nerds by Cory Doctorow
• Someone Comes to Town Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow
• Colossus by Ryan Leslie
• The Everything War: Amazon's Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power by Dana Mattioli
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• Down with the System: A Memoir (of Sorts) by Serj Tankian
• Timeline by Michael Crichton
• Next by Michael Crichton
• Disclosure by Michael Crichton
• Airframe by Michael Crichton
• Baron: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry by Austin Frerick
• The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America by Mehrsa Baradaran
• When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz
• Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality in a Counterfeit Culture by Alice Sherwood
• Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization by Kenneth Harl
• Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality by Angus Deaton
• The Forge of Christendom: The End of Days and the Epic Rise of the West by Tom Holland
• Freedom's Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science by Audra J Wolfe
• Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer
• Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
• Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters by Serhii Plokhy
• Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America's Future by Stephen Kinzer
• Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret Worl by Stephen Kinzer
• The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy
• Glass Houses by Madeline Ashby
• Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves by Nicola Twilley
• The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805 by Richard Zaks
• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel
• Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut’s Journeys by Michael Collins
• Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--And How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari
• Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist by Liz Pelly
• What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
• How to Kill an Asteroid: The Real Science of Planetary Defense by Robin George Andrews
• Turing's Vision: The Birth of Computer Science by Chris Bernhardt
• Ghost Empire by Richard Fidler
• Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization by Lars Brownworth
• A History of the Ottoman Empire by Douglas A. Howard
• Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company by Andrew S. Grove
• Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend by Larry Tye
• Rinsed: From Cartels to Crypto: How the Tech Industry Washes Money for the World's Deadliest Crooks by Geoff White
• How Not to Invest: The ideas, numbers, and behaviors that destroy wealth - and how to avoid them by Barry Ritholtz
• Decline and Fall of the American Republic by Bruce Ackerman
• Conclave by Richard Harris
• Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
• Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace by Matthew C. Klein & Michael Pettis
• Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare by Edward Fishman
• Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II by Keith Lowe
• Paris After the Liberation 1944-1949 by Artemis Cooper & Antony Beevor
• The Audit of War: The Illusion and Reality of Britain as a Great Nation by Correlli Barnett
• Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider's View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead by Kenneth Rogoff
• A Physical Education: How I Escaped Diet Culture and Gained the Power of Lifting by Casey Johnston
• The Simple Path to Wealth by Jl Collins
• The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoë Schlanger
• How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle by Ray Dalio
• Mellon vs. Churchill: The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War by Jill Eicher
• House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company by Eva Dou