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
Non-Fiction
- "Tools for Conviviality", Ivan Illich
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
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
- "Walkaway", Cory Doctorow
- "Permutation City", Greg Egan
- "The Great Passage", Shion Miura
- "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
2015
Fiction
- "Seveneves", Neal Stephenson
2014
Fiction
- "The Peripheral", William Gibson