I try to write reviews of every book I read, to help me retain and synthesize information better.

• Newest: War With the Newts (2024-12-15)
• Last 3 books I loved: Unsong, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The World Wasn’t Ready for You
• Last 3 books I disliked: Eon, The Metabarons, Starry Messenger
• Recaps of some favorites by year: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018
• Total reviews: 554

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• 1Q84
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
• 80,000 Hours
• 88 Names
• A Canticle for Leibowitz
• A City on Mars
• A Clockwork Orange
• A Closed and Common Orbit
• A Coney Island of the Mind
• A Crack in Creation
• A Deadly Education
• A Deepness in the Sky
• A Desolation Called Peace
• A Distant Mirror
• A Fire Upon the Deep
• A Half-Built Garden
• A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear
• A Memory Called Empire
• A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
• A Psalm for the Wild-Built
• A Random Walk Down Wall Street
• A Republic, If You Can Keep It
• A Short Stay in Hell
• A Winter Haunting
• A Wrinkle in Time
• A.D.
• AI 2041
• Absolution Gap
• Algorithm Design
• Algorithms (DPV)
• All Systems Red
• All the Birds in the Sky
• Altered Carbon
• Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself
• American Vampire, Vol. 1
• Ammonite
• Among Others
• Amp It Up
• An Autobiography
• An Excess Male
• An Immense World
• An Unkindness of Ghosts
• Anarchy, State, and Utopia
• Animal Liberation Now
• Atlas Shrugged
• Authentic Happiness
• Axiomatic
• Beat the Reaper
• Beggars in Spain
• Beneath the Sugar Sky
• Best American Science and Nature Writing 2022
• Better Never to Have Been
• Between the World and Me
• Beyond Death
• Billions & Billions
• Binti
• Blindsight
• Bliss Montage
• Blood Child, and Other Stories
• Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
• Book Lovers
• Born a Crime
• Brain Wave
• Brain on Fire
• Capital in the Twenty-First Century
• Children of Memory
• Children of Ruin
• Children of Time
• Children of the Night
• Circe
• City of Illusions
• Cloud Atlas
• Cold Mountain Poems
• Coma
• Come Tumbling Down
• Compassion, By the Pound
• Consider Phlebas
• Convenience Store Woman
• Copper
• Crying in H Mart
• Cultish
• Daily Rituals
• Dark Matter
• Daydreams of Angels
• Death's End
• Deep Utopia
• Descartes' Error
• Devolution
• Diaspora
• Disillusioned
• Dispatches from Moments of Calm
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
• Dog on It
• Don't Panic
• Doomsday Book
• Down Among the Sticks and Bones
• Dragon’s Egg
• Dreams of Distant Shores
• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
• Earthlings
• East of West, Vol. 1
• Eating Animals
• Echo of Worlds
• Educated
• Effective Altruism and the Human Mind
• Eifelheim
• Eight Perfect Murders
• Ejaculate Responsibly
• Elasticsearch: The Definitive Guide
• Elder Race
• Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
• Embassytown
• Engineering a Compiler
• Entanglements
• Eon
• Essentialism
• Ethan of Athos
• Ethics in the Real World
• Every Cradle is a Grave
• Every Heart a Doorway
• Excession
• Exhalation
• Exit Strategy
• Eyes of the Void
• Fall or, Dodge in Hell
• Fiasco
• Flash Boys
• Flight, Vol. 1
• Fluke
• Frankenstein
• Free Riding
• French Milk
• Friendship in the Age of Loneliness
• From a Buick 8
• Fugitive Telemetry
• Future Tense Fiction
• Fuzz
• Galápagos
• Gambling on God
• Generation Wealth
• Giant Days, Vol. 1
• Giant Days, Vol. 2
• Gideon the Ninth
• Glasshouse
• God Wills It
• Gods of Jade and Shadow
• Going Infinite
• Gone Girl
• Good Morning, Midnight
• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
• Harrow the Ninth
• Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 1
• Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 2
• Hatchet
• Here
• Hey Nostradamus!
• How Historians Work
• How Long 'til Black Future Month?
• How Sex Changed the Internet
• How to Be Perfect
• How to Fix a Broken Heart
• How to Focus
• How to Not Die Alone
• I Am Legend
• I Wrote This For You
• I'd Like To Say Sorry, But There's No One To Say Sorry To
• I'll Be Gone in the Dark
• Illuminae
• Illusionism
• Imagine Wanting Only This
• In Order to Live
• In an Absent Dream
• In the Between
• In the Night Garden
• Infinite Jest
• Infinite Powers
• Infinity Gate
• Infomocracy
• Ink & Sigil
• Instantiation
• Into Thin Air
• Inversions
• Invincible Compendium 1
• Invisible Planets
• Iron Council
• Irrational Exuberance
• Jagannath
• Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems
• John Dies at the End
• Journey through Genius
• Justice for Animals
• Kindred
• Klara and the Sun
• Labyrinths
• Lagoon
• Law Professors
• Leech
• Let the Right One In
• Letters from a Stoic
• Lexicon
• Life 3.0
• Life Ceremony
• Life is Hard
• Life on Mars
• Light from Uncommon Stars
• Limitarianism
• Logic Beach: Part 1
• Logicomix
• Lolita
• Look to Windward
• Lords of Uncreation
• Lovecraft Country
• Low, Vol. 1
• Low, Vol. 4
• Lying
• Machine Learning (Mitchell)
• Machine of Death
• Map and Territory
• Mating in Captivity
• Matter
• Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
• Meaning in Life and Why It Matters
• Meditations
• Mexican Gothic
• Midlife
• Midnight Robber
• Minor Feelings
• Monday's Not Coming
• Moral Uncertainty
• Mouthful of Birds
• Network Effect
• Network Science
• New York 2140
• Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness
• Nives
• No Time to Spare
• Nona the Ninth
• Norse Mythology
• Nuclear War: A Scenario
• Nudge
• On What Matters, volume 1
• On a Sunbeam
• Open Borders
• Orsinian Tales
• Oryx and Crake
• Otherlands
• Out There Screaming
• Outlive
• Pachinko
• Packing for Mars
• Paper Girls, Vol. 1
• Paper Towns
• Parable of the Sower
• Parable of the Talents
• Paradiso Volume 1
• Parfit (biography)
• Pathological Altruism
• Patience
• Perdido Street Station
• Permutation City
• Persepolis
• Philosophy of Language
• Piranesi
• Planet of Exile
• Platonic
• Political Liberalism
• Politics is for Power
• Portable Magic
• Portfolios of the Poor
• Poverty, by America
• Power to the Public
• Practical Demonkeeping
• Project Hail Mary
• Pseudoscience in Therapy
• Race After Technology
• Racism in Kansas City
• Radiator Days
• Radical Acceptance
• Range
• Range
• Rationality
• Reading Metaphysics
• Readymade Bodhisattva
• Reality Is Broken
• Reasons to Stay Alive
• Record of a Spaceborn Few
• Red Mars
• Red Rising
• Redemption Ark
• Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women (1958-1963)
• Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women, Volume 2
• Regarding the Pain of Others
• Reincarnation Blues
• Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction
• Religion and the Decline of Magic
• Revelation Space
• Rights Talk
• Roadside Picnic
• Rocannon's World
• Rogue Protocol
• Rose/House
• Saga, Volume 7
• Saga, Volume 9
• Saving Us
• Sea of Tranquility
• Seek You
• Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids
• Semiosis
• Seven Empty Houses
• Shaman
• Shards of Earth
• Shuna's Journey
• Silently and Very Fast
• Sinners in the Presence of a Loving God
• Sinopticon
• Sisters in Law
• Sitting Pretty
• Six Wakes
• Slaughterhouse
• Slippery Creatures
• Slouching Towards Utopia
• Snotgirl, Vol. 1
• Snotgirl, Vol. 2
• Solutions and Other Problems
• Something Deeply Hidden
• Space Opera
• Special Topics in Calamity Physics
• Spin
• Spoils
• Starry Messenger
• Station Eleven
• Stephen Hawking
• Stories of Your Life and Others
• Strangers Drowning
• Stuff Matters
• Stumptown, Vol. 1
• Suffering-Focused Ethics
• Summer of Night
• Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
• Surface Detail
• Sweet in Tooth and Claw
• Sword & Citadel
• System Collapse
• Tales of Pirx the Pilot
• Talking to Strangers
• Tender is the Flesh
• The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
• The AI Does Not Hate You
• The Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief
• The Age of Em
• The Alignment Problem
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
• The Anglo-Saxon World
• The Annotated Turing
• The Anxious Generation
• The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
• The Atrocity Archives
• The Best Short Stories 2022: The O. Henry Prize Winners
• The Big Picture
• The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
• The Birthday of the World and Other Stories
• The Book of Strange New Things
• The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog
• The Boys Omnibuses
• The Buddhist and the Ethicist
• The Bullet That Missed
• The C Programming Language
• The Causal Angel
• The Character of Consciousness
• The Children of the Sky
• The City & the City
• The Collapsing Empire
• The Complete Maus
• The Constant Rabbit
• The Constitution of Liberty
• The Creationists
• The Cuckoo's Egg
• The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks
• The Culture: The Drawings
• The Cyberiad
• The Dark Forest
• The Dark Tower
• The Darkness Outside Us
• The Death of Murat Idrissi
• The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Modern Scholar)
• The Destroyer of Worlds
• The Devil and the Dark Water
• The Devourers
• The Dialogues
• The Diary of a Young Girl
• The Displaced
• The Dispossessed
• The Doors of Eden
• The Echo Wife
• The Elegant Universe
• The Emperor's Blades
• The End of Night
• The End of Race Politics
• The Ends of the World
• The Existence of God
• The Factory
• The Farthest Shore
• The Feeling of Value
• The Fifth Season
• The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
• The Fractal Prince
• The Freeze-Frame Revolution
• The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
• The Genetic Lottery
• The Genius of Birds
• The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
• The Girl with All the Gifts
• The Golden Ticket
• The Golem and the Jinni
• The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does
• The Great Gatsby
• The Handmaid's Tale
• The Happiness Hypothesis
• The Haunting of Hill House
• The Hell of Good Intentions
• The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
• The Hole
• The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book
• The Hydrogen Sonata
• The Incal
• The Internet Of Garbage
• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
• The Kaiju Preservation Society
• The Karamazov Brothers
• The King of Kings County
• The Last Devil to Die
• The Last Murder at the End of the World
• The Lathe of Heaven
• The Left Hand of Darkness
• The Lonely Hearts Hotel
• The Long Earth
• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
• The Lynching
• The Man Who Died Twice
• The Master and His Emissary
• The Memory Librarian
• The Metabarons
• The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
• The Midnight Library
• The Ministry for the Future
• The Monster Baru Cormorant
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
• The Moral Landscape
• The Mountain in the Sea
• The Mysteries
• The Myth of Sisyphus
• The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind
• The Old Country
• The Old Way
• The Only Good Indians
• The Order of Time
• The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
• The Player of Games
• The Politics Industry
• The Power and the Glory
• The Precipice
• The Psychology of Money
• The Quantum Thief
• The Renaissance Soul
• The Renaissance Soul
• The Republic
• The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
• The Rules Do Not Apply
• The Rust Programming Language
• The Sandman
• The Scar
• The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929-1964
• The Science of Trust
• The Scout Mindset
• The Second Mountain
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
• The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
• The Sources of Normativity
• The Space Between Worlds
• The Spare Man
• The Sparrow
• The State of the Art
• The Status Game
• The Story of More
• The Stranger
• The Strangest Man
• The Strategy of Conflict
• The Sun Also Rises
• The Tango of Ethics
• The Terraformers
• The Theoretical Minimum
• The Three-Body Problem
• The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
• The Thursday Murder Club
• The Time Traveler’s Almanac
• The Tombs of Atuan
• The Traitor Baru Cormorant
• The Turn of the Screw
• The Tyrant Baru Cormorant
• The Uninhabitable Earth
• The Urge
• The View from Nowhere
• The War of Art
• The Water Knife
• The Wind's Twelve Quarters
• The Word for World is Forest
• The World Wasn’t Ready for You
• The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
• They Both Die at the End
• They Called Us Enemy
• Thinking 101
• This Is How You Lose the Time War
• Through the Woods
• Time Out of Joint
• To Be Taught, if Fortunate
• To Say Nothing of the Dog
• Tomorrow's Parties
• Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
• Trouble on Triton
• Troublemaker
• Trump
• Trust Me, I'm Lying
• Two Hundred Years of American Communes
• Unsong
• Up Jumps the Devil
• Urban Creatures
• Use of Weapons
• Utilitarianism
• Utilitarianism: For & Against
• Waking Up
• Walden
• War With the Newts
• Waste Tide
• Watership Down
• Ways of Being
• Ways of Hearing
• We Are Satellites
• We Had to Remove This Post
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle
• We Won’t Be Here Tomorrow
• What We Know About Climate Change
• What We Owe the Future
• What We Owe to Each Other
• When Breath Becomes Air
• When the Air Hits Your Brain
• Wherever Seeds May Fall
• White Noise
• Within a Budding Grove
• Wolf in White Van
• Working in Public
• Wow, No Thank You.
• Yummy