I try to write reviews of every book I read, to help me retain and synthesize information better. Sometimes I write reviews of things that are not books too.

Recaps of some favorites by year: 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018.

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• Does Anything Really Matter?
• On What Matters, volume 3
• The Righteous Mind
• OFF
• Mina the Hollower
• Children of Strife
• World War Z
• Liberation Day
• Katabasis
• Fine Structure
• You Were Never Really Here
• A Parade of Horribles
• This Inevitable Ruin
• The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
• The Butcher's Masquerade
• The Gate of the Feral Gods
• The Evolution of Everything
• Limbo
• ElecHead
• Splasher
• Alan Wake
• Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
• Schild's Ladder
• Valuable Humans in Transit
• Slay the Princess: The Pristine Cut
• Portal 2
• Creaks
• Öoo
• Change of Heart
• Sense and Sensibility
• The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
• Carl's Doomsday Scenario
• Dungeon Crawler Carl
• Raising Hare
• 20XX
• Season: A Letter to the Future
• Nine Sols
• The Little Liar
• There Is No Antimimetics Division
• Heart the Lover
• Where the Axe is Buried
• Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow
• Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees
• Slow Gods
• The Name of the Rose
• Being Realistic About Reasons
• The Geopolitics of Shaming
• Easy Delivery Co.
• Giant Days
• I See You've Called In Dead
• Warbreaker
• We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
• The Tusks of Extinction
• Midnight Timetable
• The Best American Short Stories 2025
• Dispatch
• Hades 2
• On What Matters, volume 2
• Why Nations Fail
• If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
• Empire of AI
• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Rejection
• Jesusland
• Harlan Ellison's Greatest Hits
• Careless People
• Hum
• The Algebraist
• Tress of the Emerald Sea
• Annihilation
• Permafrost
• The Joy of Clojure, 2nd ed.
• How to Count Animals, more or less
• Ubik
• Portalmania
• Knowledge, Reality, and Value
• Moral Ambition
• Original Sin
• Everything Is Predictable
• The Well of Ascension
• The Hero of Ages
• The Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory
• Annie Bot
• Rendezvous with Rama
• They Came from SW19
• Transition
• Clojure for the Brave and True
• Read Write Own
• Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress
• Abundance
• The Way of Kings
• Some Desperate Glory
• Science Fictions
• Against a Dark Background
• Alien Clay
• Introduction to Probability
• AI Engineering
• Summerland
• Walking to Aldebaran
• The Bees
• Light
• Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)
• Echopraxia
• Dead Aid
• Debt: The First 5,000 Years
• A Mind for Numbers
• Saturation Point
• Lost Connections
• Starfish
• The Methods of Ethics
• Progressive Myths
• I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom
• The Year of Magical Thinking
• We Have Never Been Woke
• War With the Newts
• The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind
• Eon
• The War of Art
• Eight Perfect Murders
• Lords of Uncreation
• Ways of Being
• Machine of Death
• A Republic, If You Can Keep It
• The Last Murder at the End of the World
• Eyes of the Void
• Unsong
• Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 2
• Fuzz
• On What Matters, volume 1
• Shards of Earth
• The Moral Landscape
• Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 1
• The Mysteries
• Algorithm Design
• The Metabarons
• The Politics Industry
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
• The Hell of Good Intentions
• The World Wasn’t Ready for You
• Infomocracy
• The Anxious Generation
• Deep Utopia
• A City on Mars
• The Annotated Turing
• The Science of Trust
• Glasshouse
• Fluke
• On a Sunbeam
• Devolution
• Limitarianism
• Rose/House
• Nuclear War: A Scenario
• Rationality
• The Culture: The Drawings
• Out There Screaming
• Flash Boys
• Echo of Worlds
• Life 3.0
• Station Eleven
• Effective Altruism and the Human Mind
• What We Owe to Each Other
• 80,000 Hours
• An Immense World
• The End of Race Politics
• Compassion, By the Pound
• Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women, Volume 2
• The Lynching
• Book Lovers
• Disillusioned
• AI 2041
• Kindred
• We Are Satellites
• Algorithms (DPV)
• Waste Tide
• The Golden Ticket
• Outlive
• Iron Council
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
• The Time Traveler’s Almanac
• We Won’t Be Here Tomorrow
• The Last Devil to Die
• Spin
• The Freeze-Frame Revolution
• Brain Wave
• How to Not Die Alone
• Doomsday Book
• Axiomatic
• The Rust Programming Language
• Race After Technology
• The Buddhist and the Ethicist
• The Scar
• The Memory Librarian
• The Master and His Emissary
• The Bullet That Missed
• Sinopticon
• Logic Beach: Part 1
• Beggars in Spain
• System Collapse
• Perdido Street Station
• The Man Who Died Twice
• Dragon’s Egg
• Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult
• Pseudoscience in Therapy
• Justice for Animals
• Packing for Mars
• The Word for World is Forest
• Going Infinite
• The Sources of Normativity
• A Canticle for Leibowitz
• Children of Memory
• The Second Mountain
• The Thursday Murder Club
• The Kaiju Preservation Society
• The Tyrant Baru Cormorant
• Utilitarianism: For & Against
• The Strategy of Conflict
• The Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief
• The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
• Power to the Public
• Open Borders
• A Deadly Education
• Infinity Gate
• The Myth of Sisyphus
• City of Illusions
• Politics is for Power
• Network Science
• Planet of Exile
• Rocannon's World
• Galápagos
• Beyond Death
• The Monster Baru Cormorant
• Utilitarianism
• Animal Liberation Now
• Watership Down
• I'd Like To Say Sorry, But There's No One To Say Sorry To
• Instantiation
• The Traitor Baru Cormorant
• The Theoretical Minimum
• How Sex Changed the Internet
• Parfit (biography)
• Entanglements
• Authentic Happiness
• The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does
• Seek You
• Poverty, by America
• Slouching Towards Utopia
• The Destroyer of Worlds
• The Uninhabitable Earth
• Wow, No Thank You.
• The Tango of Ethics
• The Terraformers
• Portable Magic
• Amp It Up
• Sweet in Tooth and Claw
• Life is Hard
• Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness
• Ways of Hearing
• The Mountain in the Sea
• The Devil and the Dark Water
• The Urge
• Strangers Drowning
• Klara and the Sun
• Future Tense Fiction
• The Feeling of Value
• Tender is the Flesh
• Starry Messenger
• The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
• Sea of Tranquility
• Lagoon
• Crying in H Mart
• The Left Hand of Darkness
• In Order to Live
• Seven Empty Houses
• What We Know About Climate Change
• They Both Die at the End
• Friendship in the Age of Loneliness
• Nona the Ninth
• Portfolios of the Poor
• Red Mars
• Persepolis
• Bliss Montage
• Elder Race
• The Spare Man
• The Status Game
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
• Shuna's Journey
• A Short Stay in Hell
• Pachinko
• The Story of More
• Brain on Fire
• Ejaculate Responsibly
• Platonic
• The Constant Rabbit
• Best American Science and Nature Writing 2022
• The Long Earth
• The Best Short Stories 2022: The O. Henry Prize Winners
• Nives
• Saving Us
• Good Morning, Midnight
• Leech
• Dispatches from Moments of Calm
• Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women (1958-1963)
• Light from Uncommon Stars
• The Psychology of Money
• The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
• A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
• Urban Creatures
• Thinking 101
• The Displaced
• The Precipice
• Life Ceremony
• The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book
• The Only Good Indians
• Gambling on God
• Tomorrow's Parties
• To Be Taught, if Fortunate
• What We Owe the Future
• The Death of Murat Idrissi
• A Half-Built Garden
• The Hole
• In the Between
• The Age of Em
• We Had to Remove This Post
• The Factory
• How to Focus
• Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction
• Lexicon
• How to Be Perfect
• Cultish
• Readymade Bodhisattva
• Slippery Creatures
• The Darkness Outside Us
• The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
• Record of a Spaceborn Few
• A Closed and Common Orbit
• Machine Learning (Mitchell)
• Reality Is Broken
• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
• The Genetic Lottery
• The Ministry for the Future
• Gone Girl
• A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear
• Sitting Pretty
• Elasticsearch: The Definitive Guide
• Gods of Jade and Shadow
• Children of Ruin
• Logicomix
• The Echo Wife
• Otherlands
• 88 Names
• The Lonely Hearts Hotel
• They Called Us Enemy
• Minor Feelings
• A Psalm for the Wild-Built
• Don't Panic
• Better Never to Have Been
• Fiasco
• The Cuckoo's Egg
• Pathological Altruism
• Use of Weapons
• The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks
• Tales of Pirx the Pilot
• Surface Detail
• Ethics in the Real World
• Shaman
• Every Cradle is a Grave
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
• Engineering a Compiler
• The Cyberiad
• Nudge
• Roadside Picnic
• The Karamazov Brothers
• Eifelheim
• Absolution Gap
• Redemption Ark
• Ethan of Athos
• Revelation Space
• The Alignment Problem
• The Water Knife
• Something Deeply Hidden
• Fugitive Telemetry
• The Birthday of the World and Other Stories
• Invincible Compendium 1
• Dark Matter
• 1Q84
• Project Hail Mary
• The Space Between Worlds
• Wherever Seeds May Fall
• A Desolation Called Peace
• Dreams of Distant Shores
• A Memory Called Empire
• Hatchet
• Moral Uncertainty
• Convenience Store Woman
• Born a Crime
• Earthlings
• Harrow the Ninth
• Altered Carbon
• The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
• The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
• The Causal Angel
• The Fractal Prince
• The Quantum Thief
• The Boys Omnibuses
• Troublemaker
• Parable of the Talents
• The Scout Mindset
• Parable of the Sower
• Special Topics in Calamity Physics
• Matter
• The Doors of Eden
• Look to Windward
• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
• Trouble on Triton
• The Complete Maus
• Suffering-Focused Ethics
• The Turn of the Screw
• Consider Phlebas
• Inversions
• Mating in Captivity
• Excession
• White Noise
• Silently and Very Fast
• When the Air Hits Your Brain
• The State of the Art
• The Power and the Glory
• Come Tumbling Down
• Reasons to Stay Alive
• Network Effect
• The Hydrogen Sonata
• In an Absent Dream
• The C Programming Language
• Exit Strategy
• Beneath the Sugar Sky
• The Player of Games
• Rogue Protocol
• Down Among the Sticks and Bones
• Every Heart a Doorway
• Sinners in the Presence of a Loving God
• All Systems Red
• The Midnight Library
• The End of Night
• The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
• Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
• Ink & Sigil
• An Autobiography
• The Wind's Twelve Quarters
• The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929-1964
• Blood Child, and Other Stories
• Mexican Gothic
• Meditations
• An Unkindness of Ghosts
• Waking Up
• Daydreams of Angels
• The Diary of a Young Girl
• I'll Be Gone in the Dark
• Stephen Hawking
• Solutions and Other Problems
• Piranesi
• Midnight Robber
• Permutation City
• A Crack in Creation
• The Old Way
• Monday's Not Coming
• Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
• Working in Public
• Philosophy of Language
• Dog on It
• The AI Does Not Hate You
• Ammonite
• Mouthful of Birds
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
• This Is How You Lose the Time War
• The Character of Consciousness
• Blindsight
• Illusionism
• The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
• The View from Nowhere
• Jagannath
• Reading Metaphysics
• In the Night Garden
• Radical Acceptance
• Map and Territory
• The Constitution of Liberty
• The Republic
• Gideon the Ninth
• Regarding the Pain of Others
• Embassytown
• Radiator Days
• Essentialism
• The Renaissance Soul
• Range
• Oryx and Crake
• Educated
• Talking to Strangers
• An Excess Male
• Range
• Lovecraft Country
• Flight, Vol. 1
• Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
• Fall or, Dodge in Hell
• The Handmaid's Tale
• Giant Days, Vol. 2
• The Elegant Universe
• Exhalation
• Infinite Powers
• The Renaissance Soul
• Red Rising
• Paper Towns
• Midlife
• East of West, Vol. 1
• Stumptown, Vol. 1
• Meaning in Life and Why It Matters
• American Vampire, Vol. 1
• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
• Giant Days, Vol. 1
• Billions & Billions
• The Big Picture
• The Strangest Man
• Political Liberalism
• Death's End
• Semiosis
• John Dies at the End
• Saga, Volume 9
• The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
• Six Wakes
• Up Jumps the Devil
• How Long 'til Black Future Month?
• The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
• How to Fix a Broken Heart
• New York 2140
• The Dialogues
• French Milk
• Diaspora
• The Stranger
• Let the Right One In
• Circe
• Time Out of Joint
• Free Riding
• The King of Kings County
• Frankenstein
• The Genius of Birds
• Low, Vol. 4
• Paper Girls, Vol. 1
• Low, Vol. 1
• Here
• Imagine Wanting Only This
• The Sun Also Rises
• Space Opera
• Stuff Matters
• Snotgirl, Vol. 2
• Life on Mars
• Patience
• The Dark Forest
• Paradiso Volume 1
• Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems
• The Happiness Hypothesis
• A Coney Island of the Mind
• I Wrote This For You
• Children of Time
• The Golem and the Jinni
• The Order of Time
• Coma
• Cold Mountain Poems
• Walden
• The City & the City
• The Book of Strange New Things
• Through the Woods
• The Atrocity Archives
• No Time to Spare
• The Fifth Season
• Daily Rituals
• Into Thin Air
• The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog
• Beat the Reaper
• The Emperor's Blades
• Sisters in Law
• Letters from a Stoic
• Orsinian Tales
• The Old Country
• Two Hundred Years of American Communes
• Between the World and Me
• Children of the Night
• A Wrinkle in Time
• A Winter Haunting
• Wolf in White Van
• From a Buick 8
• Irrational Exuberance
• Generation Wealth
• Snotgirl, Vol. 1
• Reincarnation Blues
• The Farthest Shore
• The Ends of the World
• The Tombs of Atuan
• The Dispossessed
• Illuminae
• Invisible Planets
• The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
• Spoils
• I Am Legend
• All the Birds in the Sky
• Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself
• The Collapsing Empire
• Yummy
• Summer of Night
• When Breath Becomes Air
• Rights Talk
• Saga, Volume 7
• A.D.
• The Sandman
• The Rules Do Not Apply
• The Devourers
• Norse Mythology
• The Haunting of Hill House
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle
• Law Professors
• The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
• Trump
• To Say Nothing of the Dog
• Labyrinths
• Binti
• Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids
• Hey Nostradamus!
• The Lathe of Heaven
• The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
• Stories of Your Life and Others
• Among Others
• The Girl with All the Gifts
• Racism in Kansas City
• The Incal
• The Sparrow
• The Dark Tower
• The Three-Body Problem
• Practical Demonkeeping
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
• The Internet Of Garbage
• Trust Me, I'm Lying
• Within a Budding Grove
• Descartes' Error
• Sword & Citadel
• A Random Walk Down Wall Street
• Capital in the Twenty-First Century
• Eating Animals
• Slaughterhouse
• Anarchy, State, and Utopia
• The Existence of God
• Atlas Shrugged
• Infinite Jest
• The Creationists
• The Great Gatsby
• Cloud Atlas
• Copper
• Lying
• The Children of the Sky
• A Deepness in the Sky
• A Fire Upon the Deep
• A Clockwork Orange
• Lolita
• Journey through Genius
• How Historians Work
• The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Modern Scholar)
• The Anglo-Saxon World
• God Wills It
• A Distant Mirror
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
• Religion and the Decline of Magic