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