Stuff I've Read

The Pentium Chronicles by Robert P. Colwell
9/3/2026 Review: 8/10

The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
8/27/2026 Review: 7/10

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
8/21/2026 Review: 8/10

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
8/18/2026 Review: 8/10

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabakov
8/12/2026 Review: 8/10

Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov
8/6/2026 Review: 8/10

Katabasis by R. F. Kuang
7/31/2026 Review: 7/10

Tom's Crossing by Mark Z. Danielewski
7/29/2026 Review: 6/10

Mao's Great Famine by Frank Dikotter
7/13/2026 Review: 5/10

A Luminous Republic by Andres Barba
7/7/2026 Review: 8/10

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
7/5/2026 Review: 6/10

Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin
7/2/2026 Review: 7/10

Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
6/17/2026 Review: 7/10

A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge
6/1/2026 Review: 9/10

The Universal Baseball Association, Inc. J. Henry Waugh, Prop. by Robert Coover
5/28/2026 Review: 8/10

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
4/7/2026 Review: 9/10

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
4/3/2026 Review: 7/10

Maxwell's Demon Entropy Information Computing by Harvey S Leff and Andrew F Rex
3/31/2026 Review: 7/10

Word Power Made Easy by Norman Lewis
3/21/2026 Review: 3/10

On Xijinping by Kevin Rudd
3/10/2026 Review: 8/10

Exhalation by Ted Chiang
2/6/2026 Review: 9/10

Stories Of Your Life And Others by Ted Chiang
1/7/2026 Review: 9/10

Why We Love Baseball by Joe Posnanski
1/4/2026 Review: 6/10

How a Game Lives by Jacob Geller
1/1/2026 Review: 8/10

Underland by Robert Macfarlane
12/26/2025 Review: 7/10

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
9/30/2025 Review: 9/10

Stalin Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 by Stephen Kotkin
9/24/2025 Review: 7/10

The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy by Christopher Lasch
9/2/2025 Review: 7/10

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
8/27/2025 Review: 8/10

The Boundless Sea by David Abulafia
8/26/2025 Review: 9/10

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
8/9/2025 Review: 9/10

The Epic of Gilgamesh by Andrew George
7/20/2025 Review: 7/10

Old Man's War by John Scalzi
7/10/2025 Review: 5/10

copaganda by Alec Karakatsanis
7/6/2025 Review: 9/10

Titan by John Varley
6/25/2025 Review: 6/10

Tower of Glass by Robert Silverberg
6/18/2025 Review: 6/10

Making Votes Count by Gary W. Cox
6/1/2025 Review: 7/10

Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson
5/21/2025 Review: 9/10

The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro
5/17/2025 Review: 9/10

Thinking Strategically by Avinash Dixit and Barry Nalebuff
5/8/2025 Review: 3/10

Saturday by Ian McEwan
5/2/2025 Review: 6/10

Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson
4/27/2025 Review: 8/10

Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson
4/5/2025 Review: 8/10

When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
3/24/2025 Review: 9/10

The Rings Of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
3/23/2025 Review: 6/10

Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
3/14/2025 Review: 9/10

Means of Ascent by Robert A. Caro
2/6/2025 Review: 9/10

Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson
1/29/2025 Review: 8/10

The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
1/13/2025 Review: 8/10

Truman by David McCullough
12/31/2024 Review: 8/10

Collected Stories of William Faulkner by William Faulkner
12/25/2024 Review: 7/10

The Avoidable War by Kevin Rudd
12/20/2024 Review: 8/10

The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro
11/15/2024 Review: 9/10

The Origins Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
4/21/2024 Review: 9/10

American Sonnets For My Past And Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes
4/15/2024 Review: 6/10

Origins of Human Communication by Michael Tomasello
3/30/2024 Review: 5/10

Eisenhower In War And Peace by Jean Edward Smith
12/30/2023 Review: 8/10

The Return of the King
12/27/2023 Review: 8/10

The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
12/25/2023 Review: 8/10

The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
12/22/2023 Review: 8/10

the mythical man-month by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
12/6/2023 Review: 6/10

He Who Drowned The World by Shelley Parker-Chan
11/26/2023 Review: 9/10

Making Money by Terry Pratchett
8/28/2023 Review: 8/10

Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed
7/16/2023 Review: 5/10

Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World by Catalina de Erauso translated by Michele Stepto and Gabriel Stepto
3/8/2023 Review: 5/10

Casataways by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca translated by Frances M. Lopez-Morillas
2/22/2023 Review: 7/10

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
2/19/2023 Review: 7/10

Forward the Foundation by Isaac Asimov
1/26/2023 Review: 4/10