Bookshelf Connect with me on 📘 Hardcover → Currently Reading Hild by Nicola Griffith The Anglo-Saxon World by Nicholas J. Higham,Martin J. Ryan Stillness Flowing: The Life and Teachings of Ajahn Chah by Ajahn Jayasaro Read in 2026 The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke A Short History of London The Creation of a World Capital by Simon Jenkins The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar Using Power Well by Bob Williams The Devils by Joe Abercrombie Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert The Buried Giant: A novel (Vintage International) by Kazuo Ishiguro Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke A History of Britain: Volume 1 by Simon Schama Dolmenwood Player's Book by Gavin Norman Katabasis by R.F. Kuang A People’s History of Computing in the United States by Joy Lisi Rankin Orbital by Samantha Harvey Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson Read in 2025 House of the Rain King by Will Greatwich Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson The Wisdom of Crowds by Joe Abercrombie Ways of Being by James Bridle Black Powder War by Naomi Novik Satipaṭṭhāna: The Direct Path to Realization by Bhikkhu Anālayo Deep Work by Cal Newport Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers Eyes of the Void by Adrian Tchaikovsky continues a great series The AI Con by Emily M. Bender The Martian Contingency by Mary Robinette Kowal The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien The Trouble with Peace by Joe Abercrombie The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien The AI Mirror by Shannon Vallor Living Theravada by Brooke Schedneck White Road by Ivan Sigal Becoming Vancouver by Daniel Francis A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie The Dispossessed: A Novel by Ursula K. Le Guin What Abigail Did That Summer by Ben Aaronovitch Stone and Sky by Ben Aaronovitch Empire of AI by Karen Hao Awakening from the Daydream by David Nichtern Globalists by Quinn Slobodian Sharp Ends by Joe Abercrombie What Comes Before Mindfulness? — Right Effort and the Buddhist Path to Enlightenment by Ajahn Sona Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick Half a King by Joe Abercrombie What's Left by Malcolm Harris Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler The Fionavar Tapestry Trilogy by Guy Gavriel Kay Red Country by Joe Abercrombie History for Tomorrow by Roman Krznaric Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman The World After Gaza by Pankaj Mishra The Alchemy of Air by Thomas Hager The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie Read in 2024 The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality by Katharina Pistor Governable Spaces by Nathan Schneider Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1) by China Miéville The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1) by Patricia Highsmith Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree The Armageddon Protocol by Dan Moren A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers Babel by R The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera Approachable Open Source by Brian Muenzenmeyer The Company by Stephen Bown Buddhism by Dalai Lama Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates Slow Productivity by Cal Newport The Shortest History of Germany by James Hawes last argument of kings by Joe Abercrombie Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell Shards of Earth: the Final Architecture Book 1 by Adrian Tchaikovsky Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short) by Ruha Benjamin The Lathe Of Heaven by Ursula K Prophet Song by Paul Lynch Non-things by Byung-Chul Han Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth by Ingrid Robeyns The Blade Itself (The First Law #1) by Joe Abercrombie A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky Northern Ireland by Feargal Cochrane The Buddha's Teachings on Social and Communal Harmony by Bodhi Global Digital Data Governance: Polycentric Perspectives by Carolina Aguerre, Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn, Jan Aart Scholte His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik Okinawa by Susumu Higa Read in 2023 There is No Antimemetics Division by qntm Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software by Nadia Eghbal City of Stairs (The Divine Cities, #1) by Robert Jackson Bennett Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel Children of Time (Children of Time #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky The Tempus Project (Brigitte Sharp #2) by Antony Johnston Good Omens by Neil Gaiman The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber How Infrastructure Works by Deb Chachra A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys Istanbul by Thomas F. Madden Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy by Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman The Internet Con by Cory Doctorow The Life of the Buddha by Bhikkhu Nyanamoli Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree The Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse From Bakunin to Lacan by Saul Newman Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson Uprooted by Naomi Novik Dealers of Lightning by Michael A. Hiltzik Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy by Quinn Slobodian Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity and Meaningful Work and Play by James C. Scott Lifelode by Jo Walton Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard Red Team Blues: A Martin Hench Novel (The Martin Hench Novels) by Cory Doctorow Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber The Hidden Keys (Quincunx, #4) by André Alexis Kyoto: An Urban History of Japan's Premodern Capital by Matthew Stavros Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions) by Elinor Ostrom