Reading

I try to read every day, and my goal this year is 50 books (about 4 per month), or 15,000 pages. I try to read a wide variety of books, fiction and non-fiction, old and new, different genres, male and female authors, owned and borrowed, paper and ebook, and so on. But I keep coming back to SciFi and Fantasy.

Here is what I've read recently. Talk to me about any of them!

2026

A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare
48 pages
★★★☆☆

Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
70 pages
★★★☆☆

The Lord of the Rings Book I
J. R. R. Tolkien
219 pages
★★★★☆

Paul a un travail d'été
Michel Rabagliati
145 pages
★★★★★

Dear Ana
i.i.e. read by Angela Goethals
448 pages
★★★☆☆

Always Remember Your Name: A True Story of Family and Survival in Auschwitz
Andra & Tatiana Bucci translated by Ann Goldstein read by Gabrielle de Cuir
133 pages
★★★★☆

The Courage of Birds
Pete Dunne read by Madison Niederhauser
182 pages
★☆☆☆☆

Moby Dick
Herman Melville
730 pages
★★★★☆

La complicité des fjords
Victor Begin
184 pages
★★☆☆☆

2025

Simon the Fiddler
Paulette Jiles read by Grover Gardner
349 pages
★★★☆☆

The Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkien
357 pages
★★★☆☆

Isles of the Emberdark
Brandon Sanderson
419 pages
★★★★☆

Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
255 pages
★★★★☆

The Canadian Miracle
Cory Doctorow
12 pages
★★★★☆

The Life of Birds
David Attenborough
299 pages
★★☆☆☆

Breakaway: The PWHL and the Women Who Changed the Game
Karissa Donkin
221 pages
★★★☆☆

Ukkusiksalik: The People's Story
David F. Pelly
208 pages
★★☆☆☆

Gödel's Proof
Ernest Nagel and James R. Newman
100 pages
★★★☆☆

The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters
292 pages
★★★★☆

In a House of Lies
Ian Rankin read by James MacPherson
349 pages
★★★★☆

White Fang
Jack London
232 pages
★★★★☆

The Call of the Wild
Jack London
99 pages
★★★☆☆

The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
343 pages
★★★★★

Jeeves Stories
P. G. Wodehouse
577 pages
★★★☆☆

A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
461 pages
★★☆☆☆

$ git commit murder
Michael Warren Lucas
271 pages
★★★☆☆

A Memory of Light
Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
1147 pages
★★★★★

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Alfred Lansing
331 pages
★★★★☆

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Stieg Larsson
556 pages
★★★★☆

New Hampshire
Robert Frost
92 pages
★★☆☆☆

You Sexy Thing
Cat Rambo
233 pages
★★☆☆☆

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide
Douglas Adams
794 pages
★★★★★

Random in Death
J. D. Robb
357 pages
★★☆☆☆

Kinauvit?: What's Your Name?
Norma Dunning
152 pages
★★★☆☆

The Way the Crow Flies
Ann-Marie MacDonald
805 pages
★★★★☆

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
225 pages
★★★☆☆

Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas Hofstadter
705 pages
★★☆☆☆

Towers of Midnight
Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
1218 pages
★★★★☆

Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
228 pages
★★★★☆

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
131 pages
★★★☆☆

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
Cory Doctorow
359 pages
★★★☆☆

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
334 pages
★★★☆☆

All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
492 pages
★★★★★

The Sign of the Four
Arthur Conan Doyle
136 pages
★★★☆☆

2024

The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster
215 pages
★★★☆☆

Pirate Cinema
Cory Doctorow
323 pages
★★★★☆

The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
Neal Stephenson
497 pages
★★★☆☆

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Charles Yu
220 pages
★★☆☆☆

The Cactus League
Emily Nemens
269 pages
★★★☆☆

The Worst Journey in the World
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
811 pages
★★★★★

Long Chills and Case Dough
Brandon Sanderson
41 pages
★★★☆☆

The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Agatha Christie
204 pages
★★★★☆

The Gathering Storm
Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
1071 pages
★★★★☆

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie
245 pages
★★★★★

A Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle
142 pages
★★★☆☆

Red Rising
Pierce Brown
375 pages
★★★★☆

The End of Mr. Y
Scarlett Thomas
500 pages
★★★★☆

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
Brandon Sanderson
435 pages
★★★★☆

The Well of Lost Plots
Jasper Fforde
375 pages
★★★★☆

A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle
226 pages
★★★☆☆

Arctic Convoys: Bletchley Park and the War for the Seas
David Kenyon
268 pages
★★★☆☆

Turtles All the Way Down
John Green
286 pages
★★★★☆

Hazards of Time Travel
Joyce Carol Oates
299 pages
★★☆☆☆

American Dirt
Jeanine Cummins
378 pages
★★★★★

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Henry Grabar
284 pages
★★★☆☆

The Sunlit Man
Brandon Sanderson
433 pages
★★★☆☆

Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
507 pages
★★★★☆

Colossus: Bletchley Park's Greatest Secret
Paul Gannon
506 pages
★★★★☆

Sabriel
Garth Nix
491 pages
★★★☆☆

Lost in a Good Book
Jasper Fforde
399 pages
★★★★★

The Girl Who Played With Fire
Stieg Larsson
494 pages
★★★★☆

Trust
Hernan Diaz
366 pages
★★★☆☆

Enigma: The Battle for the Code
Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
353 pages
★★☆☆☆

2023

The Princess Bride
William Goldman
458 pages
★★★★☆

Neverwhere
Neil Gaiman
305 pages
★★★★☆

An Abundance of Katherines
John Green
224 pages
★★☆☆☆

This is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
198 pages
★★★★★

Good Omens
Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
394 pages
★★☆☆☆

Anathem
Neal Stephenson
932 pages
★★★★★

The Windup Girl
Paolo Bacigalupi
359 pages
★★★★☆

Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr
425 pages
★★★★★

The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
Katie Mack
215 pages
★★★☆☆

The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England
Brandon Sanderson
355 pages
★★★★☆

Knife of Dreams
Robert Jordan
836 pages
★★★☆☆

A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
Hank Green
449 pages
★★★★☆

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson
631 pages
★★★★★

Tress of the Emerald Sea
Brandon Sanderson
415 pages
★★★★☆

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Hank Green
327 pages
★★★★★

Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
557 pages
★★★★☆

2022

Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
Neal Stephenson
857 pages
★★★★★

The Eyre Affair
Jasper Fforde
374 pages
★★★★★

The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
Nicole Galland and Neal Stephenson
742 pages
★★★★★

Crossroads of Twilight
Robert Jordan
823 pages
★★★☆☆

The Hero of Ages
Brandon Sanderson
528 pages
★★★★★

Homeland
Cory Doctorow
324 pages
★★★☆☆