# Books I've read (for books I've read more than once, dates refer to the most recent reading, not the first) ## 2024 ### Fiction * "Hearth Stories, Issue 1", Multiple Authors * "Hearth Stories, Issue 2", Multiple Authors * "The L-shaped Room", Lynne Reid Banks * "The Jewels of Aptor", Samuel R. Delany * "Walkaway", Cory Doctorow ### Non-Fiction * "Silent Spring", Rachel Carson * "The Kon-Tiki Expedition", Thor Heyerdahl (shortened and simplified) * "Tools for Conviviality", Ivan Illich * "A Short History of Progress", Ronald Wright ## 2023 ### Fiction * "The Monkey Wrench Gang", Edward Abbey (finished in Jan 2024 but read majority Dec 2023) * "Distress", Greg Egan * "Austral", Paul McAuley * "The Elephant Vanishes", Haruki Murakami * "Distraction", Bruce Sterling ### Non-Fiction * "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness: Notes from a Secret Journal (Vox Clamantis in Deserto)", Edward Abbey * "The Starship and the Canoe", Kenneth Brower * "The Lonely Sea and the Sky", Francis Chichester * "The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah", Masanobu Fukuoka * "Think Like a Mountain", Aldo Leopold * "We Belong to Gaia", James Lovelock * "West with the Night", Beryl Markham * "What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry", John Markoff * "Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet", George Monbiot * "The Uninhabitable Earth", David Wallace-Wells ## 2022 ### Fiction * "The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy", Douglas Adams * "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe", Douglas Adams * "Burning Chrome", William Gibson * "Neuromancer", William Gibson * "The Worlds of Frank Herbert", Frank Herbert * "Cancer Ward", Alexander Solzhenitsyn * "Termination Shock", Neal Stephenson ### Non-Fiction * "Desert Solitaire", Edward Abbey * "Whole Earth Discipline", Stewart Brand * "Kodoku: Sailing alone across the Pacific", Kenichi Horie * "Cape Horn: The Logical Route", Bernard Moitessier * "The Greatest Aventure", Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones * "My Adventurous Life", Dick Smith ## 2021 ### Fiction * "Professor Spindlebrock's Little Blue Book of Traveling Spells", Joseph Lyman * "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World", Haruki Murakami * "Killing Comendatore", Haruki Murakami * "The Big U", Neal Stephenson * "Zodiac", Neal Stephenson * "A Good Old-Fashioned Future", Bruce Sterling * "Crystal Express", Bruce Sterling * "Globalhead", Bruce Sterling * "Heavy Weather", Bruce Sterling ### Non-Fiction * "A World of My Own: The first ever non-stop solo round the world voyage", Robin Knox-Johnston ## 2020 ### Fiction * "Agency", William Gibson * "Spook Country", William Gibson * "Perihelion Summer", Greg Egan * "Zeitgeist", Bruce Sterling * "Dhalgren", Samuel R. Delany ### Non-Fiction * "A Sand Country Almanac", Aldo Leopold * "The Long Way", Bernard Moitessier ## 2019 ### Fiction * "Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology", Assorted Authors * "Record of a Spaceborn Few", Becky Chambers * "The Man in the High Castle", Philip K Dick * "A Farewell to Arms": Ernest Hemmingway * "Fall, or Dodge in Hell": Neal Stephenson * "The Feed", Nick Clark Windo ## 2018 ### Fiction * "Oryx and Crake", Margaret Atwood * "The Circle", Dave Eggers * "Chapterhouse Dune", Frank Herbert * "The Postmortal", Drew Magary * "Logan's Run", William F. Nolan & George Clayton Johnson * "Fight Club", Chuck Palahniuk * "The Artificial Kid", Bruce Sterling ### Non-Fiction * "Last Flight of the Pigeon", Simon Clode * "Just Ride", Grant Petersen ## 2017 ### Fiction * "The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet", Becky Chambers * "A Closed and Common Orbit", Becky Chambers * "Permutation City", Greg Egan * "The Great Passage", Shion Miura * "The First Circle", Alexander Solzhenitsyn * "We", Yevgeny Zamyatin ### Non-Fiction * "Less is Enough: On Architecture and Asceticism", Pier Vittorio Aureli * "Down and Out in Paris and London", George Orwell * "The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things", Bruce Sterling * "Civil Disobedience", Henry David Thoreau ## Some time between around 2010 and 2016... ### Fiction * "The Doubt Factory", Paolo Bacigalupi * "The Windup Girl", Paolo Bacigalupi * "2001: A Space Odyssey", Arthur C. Clarke * "Nova", Samuel R. Delany * "For the Win", Cory Doctorow * "Diaspora", Greg Egan * "The Great Gatsby", F. Scott Fitzgerald * "The Peripheral", William Gibson * "Dune", Frank Herbert * "Dune Messiah", Frank Herbert * "Children of Dune", Frank Herbert * "God Emperor of Dune", Frank Herbert * "The Old Man and the Sea", Ernest Hemmingway * "Altered Carbon", Richard K. Morgan * "Black Man", Richard K. Morgan * "The Future is Japanese", Multiple Authors * "IQ84", Haruki Murakami * "Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore", Robin Sloan * "Diamond Age", Neal Stephenson * "REAMDE", Neal Stephenson * "Seveneves", Neal Stephenson * "The Caryatids", Bruce Sterling * "Islands in the Net", Bruce Sterling ### Non-Fiction * "Commodore: A Company on the Edge", Brian Bagnall * "Making Things", Bruce Sterling * "Walden", Henry David Thoreau